NHL Cancels 2026 All Star Game; Will Hold a "Kickoff" Event Instead at UBS Arena

[The Gr8 Dane]

Full contact mascot game

 

[rojac]

Maybe they'll do something like a game between the Canada and US Olympic teams.

 

[ThePlanet]

Olympics and World Cup on four-year rotations. All-Star games every other year.

 

[BB79]

Full contact mascot game

Would be wild if inside those mascot costumes were NHLers but we didn't know who

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

Retired players v. CHLers

 

[Satans Hockey]

East vs West mascot game.

I would unironically watch this.

They have been doing these types of things for awhile now during all star weekends...

 

[VaporTrail]

Dance competition!

Don't give the NHL any ideas

 

[3074326]

Don't give the NHL any ideas

More people would watch than an ASG

 

[andora]

nobody gets hurt during the All-star game, and it's for kids

So are the olympics you heartless troll

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Put two All Star Teams on the ice. Each player wins $100,000 if his team wins.

There is one un-disclosed player on each team who is the Traitor. The Traitor wins his team’s entire pot of incentive money if they lose.

The Traitor can only sabotage his team by making conventional hockey plays (i.e. dumb passes, inaccurate shots, missed assignments… but not shots at his own goalie).

Each team is allowed to do whatever they want to the player they suspect to be the Traitor. They can refuse to pass the puck to him. They can refuse to allow him on the ice. They can hit him. They can fight him.

Twist: neither team actually has a Traitor.

I like it. Let's go with that

 

[ThirdPeriodTurtle]

Put two All Star Teams on the ice. Each player wins $100,000 if his team wins.

There is one un-disclosed player on each team who is the Traitor. The Traitor wins his team’s entire pot of incentive money if they lose.

The Traitor can only sabotage his team by making conventional hockey plays (i.e. dumb passes, inaccurate shots, missed assignments… but not shots at his own goalie).

Each team is allowed to do whatever they want to the player they suspect to be the Traitor. They can refuse to pass the puck to him. They can refuse to allow him on the ice. They can hit him. They can fight him.

Twist: neither team actually has a Traitor.

This but with the mascots, and add something where some fringe NHL/AHL players can sub for the mascots, and they get to vote out the Traitor between games.

If it was safe to use actual star players inside the mascots, that could make some interesting character/skill combos... Marchand as the Rat, etc.

 

[Section 104]

Olympic hockey is okay but it can’t compare to curling.Or the WJC. Just spare me the nitwits like A J Mlecko who say Olympic athletes represent you. No, they represent themselves only.