New to NHL

New to hockey,

Was wondering why it seems like home team always win in OT? It's not every match but a very high % from the small sample size I've seen so far.

I understand both teams get points in OT but is seems like the away team doesn't try very hard. 

 Maybe the away team is content more with a point away from home

@Cuno144

 Cuno, first off ,welcome to the Frozen Pond 

 A quick check of this years #'s and at this point we have played 86 games, resulting in 21 games going to OT/SO. (24.4%)

14 of those games were won by the Home team (66.7%)

Now ,I don't know if this is 'normal' as it is a VERY small sample . GL

I didn’t want to dig too deep for such a question but I looked at -250 and greater home favorites for the past 6 years

439-129-133(87-46) so 77% wins in regulation while 65% of the time home teams won in OT so the winning percentage always goes down for the favorite in OT which would confirm my suspicion not to mention the drop in the line from the start of the game to the start of OT. This is also why when you choose to bet a “tie no bet” rather than ml the line is higher for the favorite because they know that a sudden death 3v3 gives the dog a better chance of winning than at the start of the game. 

ok moving onto big home dogs that are +200 or greater  40-85-33(11-22) this shows the home team wins about 32% in reg and 33% for OT games so this is a smaller sample size but shows that home teams that are very big dogs lose in OT at the same rate that they lose in regulation.

Thus the home team’s advantage is relative to how big a favorite or dog they are. 

Ok this season so far the sample size has been very small and it's nearly automatic the home team will take it in OT