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I can't blame them. All-star games and skills competitions are just boring, in all sports. With the bye-week now a thing for every team, can we just move on from the all-star game?
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Could be worse... they could be hitting pucks down the fairway at a golf course...
Oops. Too late.
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BringTheReign
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I liked the dunk tank and the golf event. I liked the idea of the goalie + player combined shootout, but all the players just mailed it in.
I'll be honest though, I got a little teary-eyed seeing Sid and Ovi out there together as elder statesmen. I was in middle school when they broke into the league. It's been a privilege to see them both be elite as long as they have.
I'll be honest though, I got a little teary-eyed seeing Sid and Ovi out there together as elder statesmen. I was in middle school when they broke into the league. It's been a privilege to see them both be elite as long as they have.
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Steve Zissou
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Hard agree. Listened to ATKM this past week where they discussed reforming the all star weekend. I think watching them play darts, shuffleboard, and hit the driving range while pounding a few pints would be a vast improvement in a few different ways.
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not to just revisit the entire conversation... but the skills contest isn't showcasing actual skill, the game isn't an actual game and the attempts to showcase the players personalities rarely showcases their actual personalities.
So if you want to improve the event... pick one (or more) of those three things (skills, game, personality) and just come up with a way to... ya know... ACTUALLY showcase that thing or things.
The game seems to me to be the hardest because it's an exhibition game. Always has been always will be. Gimmicking up that game will only ever provide temporary interest. North America v The World, fantasy draft, 3 v 3... whatever it is by the third time around you're back to the fact that it's just an exhibition. It's not a real game. These guys make too much money and have too much on the line to risk anything in a goofy exhibition.
The skills? Well it's not really a showcase of skills as they manifest in the game so while it's easy to "care" about who has the hardest shot or skates the fastest... it's not actually refelctive of anything that translates to anything meaningful. And as long as Martin Frk draws breath somewhere out there we all know that the hardest shot is a farce.
As for the rest of the "skills" contests... the same rules about gimmicks applies to them as it does to the game.
So yea... just have the guys play anything other than hockey and let them be themselves. Put it on a slight delay and beg them no to say too many curse words and let us watch them play cornhole or beer pong.
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Just accept that the entire event was invented while television was in it's infancy and there were 6 teams in the NHL.
Much like the draft it's a thing who's time is long gone and nostalgia and the ability to monetize it is the only thing keeping it alive.
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I love your podcast, but I'll never understand your vendetta against the draft.
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Consider all the NFL teams that passed on Tom Brady five or six times.
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Pretty simple.I love your podcast, but I'll never understand your vendetta against the draft.
It penalizes fans and young players (and therefore the sports as a whole) while failing to accomplish it's alleged goals.
No further questions.
KingsFan7824
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This exactly. The all-star game had its reason for being, but there's no point anymore. The game used to have at least some mystique to it, because you rarely saw any of them play. There wasn't a ton of competition, maybe a little more when players didn't have such freedom of movement, so maybe conference pride meant something, but it was hey, wow, this Gretzky guy isn't just an urban legend. Now you can watch a McDavid highlight all day. What's another game that has no meaning?
The Tkachuk one was one of the most cringy thing I've ever seen. I tuned in just to see what event they are doing and it just so happens to be when the Tkachuk brothers walked on the beach onto the ice. Then everything went to sh*t after that.
LOL.
Steve Zissou
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Change the all star thing to something completely different, take the hockey out of it and do something different. Market the player’s personalities. Have the teams decide who goes. one year it’s a poker tournament, the next is golf, make it an east vs west softball game, a fishing tournament. I don’t know. But what it is now is crap
Bandit
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I can’t stand the game but I don’t want to see these guys playing poker either. Just get rid of it.
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If the CBA mandates a break, just don't play on a Sunday through almost an entire week and pick it up again the following Friday or Saturday night.
No one cares about the all-star game, most of all the players don't care. All-Star games were fun back in the day when a player could make a bonus that was probably 10% of his salary for playing on the winning team in an all-star game.
No one cares about the all-star game, most of all the players don't care. All-Star games were fun back in the day when a player could make a bonus that was probably 10% of his salary for playing on the winning team in an all-star game.
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It's very clear to me that the competition was staged for 'viral' clips rather than an event with flow.
If you just hopped on social media this morning and saw only the clip highlights, it looked fun as hell and full of personality
if you did like i did after and flipped on the DVR to see the fun, you're ready to puke.
There's gotta be a happy medium going forward--on one hand I applaud them for trying to adapt to new media a bit, on the other the production value for a live/continual event was a new low.
If you just hopped on social media this morning and saw only the clip highlights, it looked fun as hell and full of personality
if you did like i did after and flipped on the DVR to see the fun, you're ready to puke.
There's gotta be a happy medium going forward--on one hand I applaud them for trying to adapt to new media a bit, on the other the production value for a live/continual event was a new low.
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Yannetti confirmed on either Jesse's pod or KoTP that they were trying to trade back into the 1st round to draft a goalie that year. It was almost certainly Wallstedt. I'm glad they at least tried.
The Wild are going to pull off being contenders through their $15M cap penalty years with all these ELCs, and it's going to be pretty interesting to watch. I think them and Carolina are particularly fascinating given how they manage the cap.
That's a good way to look at it. I just hope it was fun for the fans who paid to go above all else. I hope some northeast fans got out of the wind chill to attend.
Steve Zissou
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Hence why I posted that. I think this is why this is a player I may follow for a bit, see how things shake out for them in the NHL, along with Stutzle.
During the draft I was also a huge proponent of trying to draft up to steal Wallstedt because he dropped at least a few spots. Like Kaliyev, I love a good draft day steal.
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