Here’s the break down:

Both games were away games. Both games went into double overtime. Both games ended in a shootout. Both games technically count as a tie for the teams due to league rules. Our team won the shootout, but technically tied both games.Coming up with a headline that was catchy, but not misleading proved to be difficult. We thought cleverly inserting the words ‘Win’ or ‘Won’ could be interesting.

Two of a kind

But we thought it might get confusing or ignored.

So, how would you have titled this story? This is a tabloid sized newspaper so it favors shorter headlines.

The local newspaper ran the story with the headline “Twice as Nice”.

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