Best on Best every year: Idea to get rid of the All-Star Game

[Zhamnov5GoalGame]

I think a rotation of Olympics & Best on Best (World Cup or whatever is great)
but...

If you do it EVERY YEAR it becomes less special.
Same if you only have an All Star Game once or twice in a 4-year cycle it becomes a little bit better (more tolerable).
All Star Games were awesome in the 80's/early 90's so it's not completely impossible to have a good one.
You just need the players to buy in.
If the players didn't BUY IN to the Four Nations event it would have sucked too.

 

[LaCarriere]

The 4 nations was great, but having a star on the cup champs go down, potentially into the playoffs, doesn't bode well for future negotiations. This is sort of why we've had such a long time without any best on best.

And Russia probably deserves to be there, I still don't know I feel about that. The players are being punished for something they aren't part of.

 

[LaCarriere]

All Star Games/Weeks are also big corporate and sponsorship gatherings where the NHL execs invite in a bunch of other billionaires and give each other reach-arounds.

Don't see it going away completely in the near future despite how much viewership drops and players are disinterested.

It will never go away. The ASG has minimal risk of injury and generates money. The league is pretty lax about not giving players a hard time if they opt to not attend.

If some big names go down at the Olympics we may see support vanish from the owners for more international tournaments.