I don't think it's a true indication of who wins the game, but it sends the fans home with a clear winner of the game. A shootout is all about the fans.
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The problem with that is every time I've ever done that in my career it's been a low-scoring game and when I've thought it (would be) a low-scoring game it was a shootout. Going in, on the surface you might think that, but I don't think there's any way to accurately predict it. All we're anxious to do is find a way to score one more than they have. That's all we care about.
Opponents would have you believe the law would change Missouri into a Wild West shootout. I've got advice for those critics Leave deception to the Hollywood filmmakers.
I do like the centre-ice stuff when there's not the hooking and holding. I like that the trap is out. But we have to have a little sense in the other end. We just can't have players with clear sailing. We have to have a little battle in front of the net. That's my problem. The fans like it, though. They like the shootout and I like the shootout, I like the tag-up rule. All in all, it's good.
The shootout is going to provide very valuable points. If you don't take them seriously, you're going to be behind the game. We've talked about that since Day 1 of training camp.
Our confidence is coming back and that's a big part of our (winning streak). The shootout is like the lottery -- you never know.
I am very much looking forward to it. I am very familiar with this type of format from playing in Ryder Cup competition before. I have played this competition with Arnold before when we played in the Shark Shootout. When Greg Norman had his first couple of Franklin Templeton Shark Shootouts we had a straight, pure, alternate-shot format in one of the rounds, so I understand it and there is strategy. But it also offers opportunities for you to be the hero. At any one time, your partner might not hit a great shot or he could hit a great shot you can make the hero putt or make the hero recovery.
We want to be able to go into the shootout with confidence. We don't want to abuse it. We want using Courtney in the shootout to be our back-up plan.
He is a guy you can't discount here, ... Right off the bat, we know that he is a highlight reel sometimes. He is a very deceptive skater and is deceptive on the attack. Maybe we end up carrying him if we have three lines that are going to be logging lots of time. Maybe we have a specialty sort of a situation where we consider keeping him for the power play and shootout opportunities.
To us, the Ford versus Chevy race is a remnant of the old Big Three mind-set. We're managing our business to emerge a winner in the Big Six shootout, and it means looking farther east than Jefferson Avenue to measure ourselves.
Man, that was intense, ... I didn't expect that I would have to pedal it right there, but I didn't want to give up that 100,000 without fighting for it. I wish everyone could experience that rush because then they'd know why we do what we do. It's just great to win the Budweiser Shootout and get 100,000, 50 cases of beer, and a ride with the Clydesdales.
I knew that the only way that he would be taken down just because of his attitude, his demeanor that night. I figured it was going to be either him committing suicide, suicide by cop or just as it actually was with the shootout.
The good thing about Daytona was that between the (Bud) Shootout, the Duel and the 500, the guys who were working on our California cars were in Daytona a couple of times. We were all able to get together and talk and know where we were with everything. We were able to communicate one-on-one about some of the issues that we've had in getting these cars ready for California.
This was the first time since Southern Illinois a victory at the Great Alaska Shootout in November I think Monmouth basketball put 40 minutes together.
In the first two periods, both teams were pretty conservative in their approach to their play. There weren't a lot of chances for either side. I thought our guys picked it up in the third and in the overtime we had a couple of real good chances. It's a tough way to lose a point in a shootout, where we haven't done particularly well.
Doug didn't put points up immediately when he came. He played fine. He didn't play at the level he was capable of, but he factored in some games. He scored a shootout goal to help us win in Boston. But now in the last four games, he's back to the level of player he was in St. Louis. Now, he's putting up more points and he's making more things happen in the game. Clearly, there was an adjustment period, but he's pretty much through it.