When three-on-three overtime was introduced to the NHL in the 2015-16 season, it was helter-skelter, it was chaotic and it was spectacular.

“Oh, me and Kaner were wheeling,” Artemi Panarin said with a huge smile on his face in referencing then-Chicago teammate Patrick Kane. “Two-on-one…two-on-one…two-on-one.

“It’s not like that anymore.”

It’s not like that around the NHL anymore after coaches and players alike recognized that possession was paramount.