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NHLPA wants to end All-Star Game
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09:05 AM ET 01.22 | If the NHL Players Association has its way, we may soon see the end of the NHL All-Star Game as an annual event. he union, you see, has a grander plan, one in which an annual break in the NHL season would take place every February, and depending on the year it would be filled by the Olympics, a World Cup, an all-star game or perhaps a spectacular hockey convention. "It would be a win for everybody," said former NHL goaltender and broadcaster Glenn Healy, now the NHLPA's director of player affairs. "We've got to sell the game." Part of the selling of the game, to the union, is the World Cup of Hockey, which took place in 1996 and 2004, and is now tentatively scheduled for 2011. Healy says the players are "overwhelmingly" in favor of having a World Cup, and the union would prefer that it took place in February of 2011, rather than in the August/September slot in which the Canada Cup, and then the World Cup, has taken place.
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I agree. It's stupid. And so is the skills competition. Period. World Cup would be cool though.
BlueJacket
Powell, OH
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I'm all for the World Cup and the Olympics. Don't know about the "spectacular hockey convention" though.
LGP: Stanley Cup…
Six Burgh, PA
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They should have long ago. It is a joke. All major sports all-star games are horrible with the exception of MLB, simply because it is easy to play an entertaining non-contact sport with actual ramifications for the winner (WS home field advantage). Asking pro hockey players to smash each other in a meaningless game is stupid and outdated.
Give the players the all-star status and a short break to rejuvenate themselves and get back to the real games.
joec
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At least this years ASG is in Montreal instead of Atlanta. That was a joke last year.
DurkDiggler
Iron City, PA
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Figured the had to get one in there before the Team moves or folds Durk.
The All-Star game was a bust ever since the glowing fox puck game...4 Habs to the first team is another joke and proves how meaningless All-Star selection has become.
Now if they can only start working on getting rid of that other silly exhibition that tends to follow the 5 minute OT period...
Baun-ded=PUCKHEAD
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Right on, NHLPA. Hopefully they can take Sata... errr, Bettman and make him believe that this is a good idea. The All-Star Game is stupid. I do disagree with BlueJacket, though. I happen to enjoy the skills competition.
wtnelson = Big Chief
Fort Collins , CO
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the allstar game is a joke.... even the voting for the allstars has gotten out of hand.... at the end of the year name the allstars.... dont let fans vote on it either... we know what happens there.... i love the idea of the world/canada cup tourney but im sure gms and owners wouldnt go with the idea.... take their best players and place them against each other in a full contact tourney where injuries would be more likely to happen.... i cant recall a player ever being injured in the allstar game.... but more then a few have been in the olympics and tourneys...
sensfan
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I probably haven't watched an all star game of any shape or form since I was 25?? Never understood the need for a love in. It's all faux anyway and when you take the edge off hockey it's called figure skating.
I'm also not entirely happy with a mid season break. The season is already way too long. If they shortened the season maybe but to take 2 weeks off for a World Cup and then still play till mid-June is silly. The playoffs get stretched out because everybody is tired. Why make them play more?
And the Limpic dream should be canned as well. That's just a glorified All Star game anyway. Hockey is all about the NHL playoffs. The lustre has gone off international friendlies.
Hank Kingsley
Port Alberni, BC
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That glowing puck scheme pretty much ruined the NHL in the U.S.A. as far as I'm concerned. If you had no clue about the sport, and saw that they had to have a some "high-tech" glowing gizmo of a puck on the ice, just so you could follow where the action is, why bother watching? D@MN YOU FOX NETWORK!
MoReeselovestheSENS
Ottawa, ON
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I too like the skills competition.
LGP: Stanley Cup…
Six Burgh, PA
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Agreed!! That thing was a freakin joke.
LGP: Stanley Cup…
Six Burgh, PA
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Good it's boring. Just have the skills and young stars competition.
OtherOne81
Red Dawn, CT
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Now there will be no Red Wings other than Babcock, so you know this game's a joke. At least make it an afternoon game on Sunday when there is nothing else on. All-Star Game on Versus? Alright, whatever.
santapig
Kansas City , MO
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end it but keep young stars game and skills competition.
OtherOne81
Red Dawn, CT
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I HATE YOU MAKE ME LOOK SO STUPID
OtherOne81
Red Dawn, CT
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If they must play one, make it the Winter Classsic ...all weekend; Skills, YoungStars, and my request:
Bettman as Pinata
Spiny Norman
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Excellent plan Spiny...especially the pinata.
LGP: Stanley Cup…
Six Burgh, PA
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sounds like a great idea, the all star game is nothing special, the world cup sounds like a much better idea
SouthSideHitMan
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the wings have the cup, what does it matter how many all stars they have?
SouthSideHitMan
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All-star game? - Bad.
World Cup of Hockey? - Good
Skills Competition? - Maybe, if there is nothing better to do and if they sharpen up the definitions of the skills.
Hockey Convention? - Bad. (But do I get to wear my WingNut cap?)
Appleseed
Detroit, MI
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