Explain please what "overtime" is?

Question

Explain please what "overtime" is?

Answer 1

Overtime is when the players are paid extra for more work.

Answer 2

Overtime occurs when the two teams are tied at the end of regulation. In the regular season, overtime last 5 minutes, and if no one has scored, the game is sent to overtime. But in the playoffs overtime lasts until someone scores.

Answer 3

It's when I work a bit more and get paid one and half times my regular hourly wage...That's means I'm rocking $13.50 an hour when I work overtime! Sweet!

Answer 4

After three 20 minute periods, it the game is still tied, they go into "overtime". It's called overtime, because the game is going over the regulation time allotted,

Answer 5

Overtime is the period after 60 minutes of the game who ever scores in the five minutes of overtime they win the game the team who loses gets a point because it was in overtime And the team who wins gets 2 points.

Answer 6

If a game is tied at the end of the first 60 minutes, they play 5 more in the regualr season before going to a shootout if it's needed. During overtime, the first team to score wins. In the playoffs, there is no shootout, it's overtime in 20 minute periods until somebody scores.

Answer 7

when the game ends in a tie and you play and extra period in the regular season for 5 minutes, then a shootout, or in the playoffs, until someone scores.

Answer 8

Overtime is when your at the end of the third period and it's a tie game. overtime is just like an extra period in the game but the first team to score in overtime wins

Answer 9

overtime is when the scores are tied after 1 hour

you play for another 20 minutes and the first team to score wins the game

Answer 10

when the game is tied after regular play (3 periods) it goes into sudden death overtime where first goal ends the game then it can go to a shootout

Answer 11

if the teams are tied after the game end then they go into 5 minutes of 4 players vs four players in the regular season which is followed by a shootout(3 shooters per team and then the next goal wins).  In the playoffs its just a full 20 minute overtime period and if they are still tied they have another intermision and then after that they play another period and so on until somebody scores.

Answer 12

overtime is the extra time after the first three periods to decide the winner of the game. it is like "next goal wins" or "sudden death"