My best madden analysis...
Whoever wins the third, wins the game...because it's tied right now, and if one team scores more goals than the other at the end of the game they win. Now if they both score the same amount of goals, then they tie, but they don't win. That's not a win because they didn't score more goals. North Dakota, they were winning, but then Minnesota scored a goal to tie it at two. Before that goal, the Sioux were winning, but the Gophers tied it. So if the Gophers score more than the Sioux, they'll win. But if the Sioux score more than the Gophers, they'll win. Otherwise it's tied, so whoever wins the third. Now, if Brett Favre played hockey, i'm pretty sure that he would be on the team that would score more goals in the third period. He's a leader, and...he'd lead the team to a win. He'd win the third period, and if you win the third, you win the game.
That was, of course, the abridged version.