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Originally Posted by Ped
Does anyone remember the year (or maybe more than one year) when the skills competition was made up of the winners of the individual teams' skills competitions? Like the five hardest shooters from those individual competitions, so players who normally wouldn't be at an all-star game were there.
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If the NHL truly cared about the fans caring about the all-star game, this would be done every year. Make the skills competition worth $$$ for the winners and have each team hold a mandatory skills competition where ticket are no more than $10.00. The winners from all teams go. 32 teams, easy bracket. Many of the events could have 2, some even four (shot accuracy), groups of players going at once.
The all-start game is nothing more than a schmooze-fest where players are pawns in trying to bring in more HRR. Which is fine, but quit selling it as an even for fans. It is not even close!