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Do you think it is fair to decide the winner of a soccer or hockey championship
match, in tournaments or playoffs, with a shootout?
Name: Nolan Stoqua Name: Kael Cameron
Grade: Gr. 4 Grade: Gr. 7
School: Long Sault Public School School: Le Relais
I think deciding a winner with a I do not believe it’s fair for a hockey
shootout would be appropriate in or soccer championship matchup to be
the regular season because it adds decided by a shootout. In order to win
excitement to the game. It’s a play a hockey or soccer game it takes team
that rarely happens, and everyone’s effort. Shootouts only require individual
attention is on the two players. But, in effort. Anything can happen in a shootout
the playoffs or a championship game, it and it doesn’t necessarily work out that the
wbetter team wins. Shootouts can be very
isn’t appropriate to use a shootout to decide
difficult for the goaltender because the shooter has a lot of time
a winner. In the playoffs it should just be overtime, even if to plan where they want to place their shot. In game-play, the
it goes till 2 am! A shootout in championship games doesn’t shooter doesn’t have as much time to think and plan their shot. A
necessarily decide who the best team is because in a shootout,
championship matchup should always be decided with overtime
it just comes down to the shooters and the goalie. play in order to determine the true winner of the game.
Name: Mia Quesnel Name: Kaye Fraser
Grade: Gr. 4 Grade: Gr. 8
School: Ste. Lucie School: Char-Lan DHS
I don’t feel shootouts are a fair way to
It isn’t right to use a shootout to decide a winner determine a winner of a game. It’s not fair for
because sports like hockey or soccer are the loser because they have been beaten, but
team games. When you start playing a not by being outplayed in the sport. They’ve
hockey or soccer game, you start as a been beaten in a different competition – a
shootout. This happened to me this past winter
team, and if you start the game as a team,
you should end it as a team. If you end up in the finals of a big hockey tournament in Kanata.
W e lost in shootouts, but I think if we had more time
tying a game and you go into a shootout, it ruins the to play, we could have won. Also, hockey and soccer are team
whole definition of playing as a team and becomes an individual sports and are definitely not about individual players. Shootouts are unfair
game. I recommend that teams should play overtime until someone because individual players can win it or lose it for a whole team. I also
scores a goal. This way, win or lose everyone gets to play. It is know that it is overly stressful being in a shootout. You have the pressure
not fair to put all the pressure on either the shooter or the goalie to of winning for all of your teammates on your shoulders. There should
decide the outcome of a team game. never be shootouts to decide if a team is the winner or loser.
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