I think a number of you are severely underestimating the potential of this moment.
We've had campaigns for undeserving seventh defensemen like Rory Fitzpatrick, Latvia got Girgensons in, Jon Scott is famous as well.
What all of those things had in common was that people generally liked all those characters. Jon Scott won MVP, FFS.
I cannot recall a fan selected player ever being voted in out of spite. In any sport. To send a player to the All Star game, ahead of their own franchise winger, to force him to be on the same team as his most hated foe for a day is an all time troll job. They'll talk about that for fifty years. It'll overshadow his Hall of Fame induction.
Why would we not do that?
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