I looked it up. I read it was lengthened from 17 to 18 minutes and intermission activities were shortened from 5 minutes to 4 minutes in order to let the ice dry a little more, back in 2013.
I'm not here much. I would watch most of the Red Wings playoffs games that were on television during the 30 or so year consecutive play off run, and I would try to watch other games when they were on national television like I'm doing tonight.
But they're not on national TV that much nowadays.
True. I use a streaming service with a VPN so they think I'm from Detroit, well Lansing, so I get Fox Sports Detroit. So fortunately I get to watch most games.