 Each Asia League Ice Hockey regulation game is an ice hockey game played between two teams and is 60 minutes long . The game comprises three 20 @-@ minute periods separated by two 15 minute intermissions . While some teams have television broadcast contracts , they do not take television time @-@ outs like the NHL . At the end of the 60 minute game , the team with the most goals wins . If the game is tied at the end of 60 minutes , the teams play an overtime period . Overtime is five minutes , with four skaters on each team . If the game remains tied after five minutes , then the teams partake in a three player shoot @-@ out , until one team comes out ahead . Prior to the 2008 – 09 season these games ended in a tie with no shoot @-@ out . In a playoff game the league doesn 't use the shoot @-@ out and instead the teams play continual overtime periods of 20 minutes until one team scores . 
