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Originally Posted by Joborule
I don't believe there's any gain for the NHL in having him there.
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I disagree. There's still a significant amount of buzz about having him voted in. I mean about as much as you can get people to care about the NHL All-Star game in the first place. There's discussion, it's water cooler talk and the NHL wanted to people to get online to vote. Whether it was the 1.5M votes for Girgensons from Latvia last year, or the Fitzpatrick joke-campaign in 2007, these fan-votes have been going on for a decade now and the NHL is, maybe not actively but certainly passively, encouraging it.
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Originally Posted by Joborule
It would be the quality of play that should bring more viewers, which has been an issue.
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It's an All-Star game, you wont get that quality of play when players aren't going 100% anyways.