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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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