Players complaining about the dry scrape
In an effort to have fewer games go to overtime, some genius over at the NHL decided to have teams switch ends after the third period, creating a longer trip to the bench for changes and having Zambonis give the ice a "dry scrape," which sounds like the worst thing you can get at your waxer but is just a faster way of cleaning the ice.
A "wet scrape," if you will, takes longer because time is needed to let the water freeze.
It takes about five minutes for the Zambonis to do their work, which is about how long it would take for them to clean the middle of the ice before shootouts. Under the new setup, there is no longer a break between overtime and the shootouts.
It hasn't had the desired effect as of yet, as five of six games to go beyond regulation have still gone to a shootout anyway.
But that's not the problem with the dry scrape after regulation for some players—it's that five minutes of standing around before the start of overtime is killing my favorite thing, momentum.
Here's Boston Bruins forward Chris Kelly complaining t ...
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