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Originally Posted by N-E-B
The NHL was pandering to the hometown crowd in San Jose. Karlsson shouldn’t have been there.
Then they let the fans pick the last spot, and since fans as a whole are generally morons they voted in Draisaitl instead of Gio.
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Yup, and Doughty was there ahead of Gio because they needed someone from the Kings.
The stupid thing is that not only did they not need to put Karlsson in the game to pander to the hometown fans because there were already 2 Sharks in the game, but Karlsson was hurt at the time and easily could have backed out to let Gio have the spot. Karlsson didn't play in a regular game for a full month from January 16 to February 16, but decided to play in the All-Star Game.