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darthma · 01-28-2016, 09:07 PM

I still like the ASG. I still put it on the DVR. It's tolerable if you can skip through the commercials.

I remember a time when the stats ticker on guys came through, and one of the accolades would be '6-time all-star'. Nowadays, it seems like no one cares. I mean, I was young when the ASG felt like it meant something.

As a kid, playing street hockey we'd have 'all-star skills' every now and then. It was a blast! Shootout. Hardest shot. Accuracy. Rapid Fire.

The challenge with the ASG is that the format keeps changing every year. Once upon a time, it was the only time of the year you could see a lot of shootouts. Now, we get those every 3rd game. And then we get 3on3 OT now too in regular season play. So, it seems like the ASG is just chasing the 'regular' NHL games. It's an arms race, and it gets more and more gimmicky each year. If things continue like this, I wonder if we'll have judges ruling on how 'awesome' a shootout goal was in regular season games.

Or... we could go back to a time when a tie was just a tie, there was no loser point, and you waited for the all-star game to see shootouts. And 0.500 actually meant something.

01-28-2016, 09:07 PM	#34
darthma Scoring Winger Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Down by the sea, where the watermelons grow, back to my home, I dare not go... Exp:	I still like the ASG. I still put it on the DVR. It's tolerable if you can skip through the commercials. I remember a time when the stats ticker on guys came through, and one of the accolades would be '6-time all-star'. Nowadays, it seems like no one cares. I mean, I was young when the ASG felt like it meant something. As a kid, playing street hockey we'd have 'all-star skills' every now and then. It was a blast! Shootout. Hardest shot. Accuracy. Rapid Fire. The challenge with the ASG is that the format keeps changing every year. Once upon a time, it was the only time of the year you could see a lot of shootouts. Now, we get those every 3rd game. And then we get 3on3 OT now too in regular season play. So, it seems like the ASG is just chasing the 'regular' NHL games. It's an arms race, and it gets more and more gimmicky each year. If things continue like this, I wonder if we'll have judges ruling on how 'awesome' a shootout goal was in regular season games. Or... we could go back to a time when a tie was just a tie, there was no loser point, and you waited for the all-star game to see shootouts. And 0.500 actually meant something.