Canada and Sweden traded chances back and forth, skating up and down the ice for 3-on-3 overtime that provided dazzling entertainment in the opener of the 4 Nations Face-Off. By the time Mitch Marner scored the winner for Canada,

There is a total lack of consensus amongst players about whether or not to institute such a change for the 82-game regular season, where the overtime format has long been a talking point.

Each team will play three tournament games in a traditional round-robin format in order to accumulate points in the standings. During the first part of the tournament, teams earn three points for a regulation win, two points for an overtime win, one point for an overtime loss, and no points for a regulation loss.