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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Totally agree with the above but the NHL has let the all-star game go beyond a pointless joke. Fans now are actually wrecking it which doesn't mean the fans are wrong, it means the league has lost it's way. It's a protest vote.
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The players have treated the ASG like a joke for years - so much so that the NHL tried suspending players who decided to simply pass on it entirely. This year, the league has itself embraced the joke by going to 3 on 3. The fans, in turn, are treating it with the same level of reverence and respect as the league and players are.
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After the Fitzpatrick vote, many fans of other sports could have copied and voted an 11th man scrub into the NBA all-star game. But they didn't because even they thought it was so stupid.
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I'm sure NBA fans will copycat soon enough.
Baseball's vote this past season was a complete gong show. So much so that MLB unilaterally threw out over 50 million votes (or more) just to stop Kansas City from voting a Royals player to every spot in the starting line-up.