How long does a hockeygame last?

Answer 1

Sixty minutes. A hockey game consists of three twenty-minute periods. If the score is tied at the end of the third period, the teams play a five-minute sudden-death overtime period. If neither teams score in the overtime, the game ends as a tie. In the playoffs, games cannot end in a tie. So instead of a five-minute overtime, a playoff game has an extra 20-minute sudden-death overtime period. If neither team scores, then there is another 20-minute overtime, and so on, until someone scores. There was a Detroit-Montreal game in 1956 that went to the sixth overtime, finally ending at 176 minutes 30 seconds--almost as long as three ordinary games! Detroit scored in the sixth overtime to win the game 1-0. Hockey is a stop time game. That means that the timing clock is stopped, each time the refferee blows his whistle to stop play, for a penalty, an injury, or when a goal is scored. The offcial time keeper has two stop watches that are the offcial method of keeping the games time.