from Roger Snow at VegasInc (Roger Snow is a senior vice president for Scientific Games),

If the National. Hockey League is open-minded enough to bring. Major. League sports to Las Vegas, then perhaps it. Also. Has. The foresight to. Make the game more entertaining. For. The average. Fan.

How?

By. Stopping. All. The. Stopping.

Have you sat through an NHL game lately? There are more pauses than a William Shatner soliloquy and more restarts than a 100-meter dash at the Impatient Disorder Olympics. The average regular-season contest lasts 2 hours, 20 minutes, not including overtimes. Or shootouts. Or national anthems. Or scouring the rink afterwards to collect missing teeth.

Between the opening faceoff to the final horn, the whistle will blow and play will halt at least 80 times. The main culprits are penalties and infractions and intermissions and pucks flying out of the rink and into the stands.

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