It is a dumb rule, but it is pretty much a necessary dumb rule because the players continually begged out for increasingly minor issues. As meaningless as the game itself is, the ASG is a money generating event that has a material impact on league-wide player salaries. The least they could do is show up. Toews, however, is going to suffer for the attitudes of his peers. So perhaps the NHLPA should be the target of ire here, not the NHL.
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