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Stanley Cup playoff games keep playing overtime
Postseason overtimes last 20 minutes and repeat until someone scores Regular season games use a five-minute three-on-three overtime and then a shootout, but the playoffs have no shootout. A playoff game can run into multiple overtimes, and the longest in NHL history went to a sixth overtime in 1936. Playoff overtimes are played five a side. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Stanley Cup playoff games keep playing overtime: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Postseason overtimes last 20 minutes and repeat until someone scores. The figure is taken from National Hockey League, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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