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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
I think this thing smells.
Sure, John Scott is not a talented NHL player. He is a fringe player that fans decided would be hilarious to vote in. However, that was the process that the NHL uses in order to select players for the NHL All-Star game.
To try and dissuade Scott from attending the game is so hypocritical in my opinion, when there are legitimate NHL stars that don't want to go but that the NHL forces to attend.
I just feel sorry for Scott. It would have been a memorable experience for him - and probably a memorable experience for the fans (good or bad). He got voted in - it doesn't matter if it was 'real fans' or 'trolls who don't watch the NHL'. He was voted in through the NHL's process - the same process they enforce players to attend.
If the NHL wants to pick and choose which players should or shouldn't attend, then they should have just not had a fan vote and conducted a different process.
It makes this whole thing an even bigger farce than it normally is. Sure, lots of people are happy that a no-talent scrub goon is no longer attending, but that isn't the point in my eye. The point is the NHL is being so transparently hypocritical and has embarrassed themselves in how they handled this situation.
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Ironically, if the NHL actually embraced Scott's selection and laughed along with the joke, they could have used whole fiasco to market the All Star game itself, as well as the league.
No one, including John Scott, claims he deserves to be there based on talent, but he was voted in, legally, under the voting rules the NHL established.
So why not take advantage of this unexpected turn of events to use John Scott's experience to give the fans a players view of the All Star experience?
John Scott is Everyman. He may as well a rec hockey league player. He may as well be one of us. He's not an NHL All Star. He's an outsider.
I think it would have been awesome to view the whole All Star experience through his eyes NHL 24/7 style. Behind the Scenes. Inside Access.
So poorly handled by the NHL and possibly a missed opportunity to boot.