NHL enacts John Scott All Star voting rule

[Poe969]

It would be awesome if Wideman made the ASG just to see the reaction by the refs.

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by Poe969

It would be awesome if Wideman made the ASG just to see the reaction by the refs.

Ooooh, and then for the skills competition, he could bring out a mannequin in a ref's jersey and then give it the People's Elbow in the middle of his breakaway attempt.

[Jetfire]

This will change nothing. People will just vote another underdog who can stay at the NHL level for a full season. Deryk Engelland or Matt Stajan anyone? That would be a once in a lifetime experience for a hard working lesser known player like that and their families lol.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Jetfire

This will change nothing. People will just vote another underdog who can stay at the NHL level for a full season. Deryk Engelland or Matt Stajan anyone? That would be a once in a lifetime experience for a hard working lesser known player like that and their families lol.

That's better than total useless bum-turned hero John Scott, at least.

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by Jetfire

This will change nothing. People will just vote another underdog who can stay at the NHL level for a full season. Deryk Engelland or Matt Stajan anyone? That would be a once in a lifetime experience for a hard working lesser known player like that and their families lol.

Matt Stajan! Yes!

Someone start a campaign with his face plastered on Matt Damon movie posters.

[btimbit]

Stajan

That one I could get behind

[Resolute 14]

How about no?

I would really rather nobody on the Flames was associated with a lame copycat attempt.

[Jetfire]

Lame copycat attempt? Fans have literally always voted for a random unlikely player as long as they've had these goofy fan votes, right back to Rory Fitzpatrick getting more votes than Lidstrom. They obviously don't always get voted in, but it's just silly fun. Believe me, I don't think they should even have a fan vote in the first place, and I'm not even saying go for a Flames guy necessarily, just someone not hugely famous.

The all star game -should- be the best of the best, but the league doesn't want that, they want this all-inclusive thing where every team gets a guy there which is silly, so I find no harm in simply voting for an unlikely guy to have a nice weekend, as simple as that.

[Resolute 14]

Vote for Rory and the John Scott vote were the only ones of significance. We succeeded last year. I absolutely loved that Scott got in, but trying to repeat it would be little more than Edmonton's "copper kilometer" vs. the Red Mile - a very lame ripoff of a far better event.

[GirlySports]

Nhl cant keep a good thing.

Like team North America

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Wideman's made the game in Merritt, BC? What level of hockey is that?

[FanIn80]

I quite like the direction the All-Star Game took last year. It seemed like the whole thing was somewhat competitive and the final game was actually (dare I say it) exciting. Jon Scott was a nice story line, but I get what they're trying to do and I will always be excited about watching the best players in the world actually compete against each other.

There is also another thing that hasn't been mentioned, and that is "All-Star Appearances" is a stat recorded, and used, by the Hockey Hall of Fame. I can't for the life of me understand why people treat it so lightly. When I'm looking at players from before my time, and I see that they played in 8 consecutive all-star games, that tells me more about their career than just their goals and assists. It tells me that they were legit all-star for a lengthy and consistent portion of their career. There are things you can extrapolate from that. If I see someone else with similar goals and assists, but they were only an all-star two or three times, it tells me that the two players are not comparable. Why is that? Did one play in higher-scoring era where scoring that many goals wasn't nearly as impressive? Were both players 30-goal scorers during the same era, but one was a Sean Monahan type who just drove the net and the other was a Johnny Gaudreau who would beat out four defenders before scoring, and thus had a bigger impact on the people watching the games?

Being voted to play in an All-Star game is a legit thing that typically doesn't pay a lot of dividends until much further down the road (outside of contract negotiations), but it's still a very important stat that can help future generations understand a player's true impact during their career. It's not surprising to me at all that the NHL (and I'd bet also the NHLPA) wants to protect it.

[goodyear]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

Ooooh, and then for the skills competition, he could bring out a mannequin in a ref's jersey and then give it the People's Elbow in the middle of his breakaway attempt.

Challenge accepted. Wideman is such a crowd pleaser. All the refs know him.

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[CroFlames]

http://www.tsn.ca/talent/five-all-st...scott-1.621541

How about write-in Matt Cullen? The guys played 1307 games in the NHL and never had an all star appearnce. Call it the life time achievement award.

The Workhorse: Matt Cullen (Pittsburgh). Retired defenceman Luke Richardson is the only player in NHL history to appear in more games than Cullen (1,307) without being named to an All-Star Game. Now 40, Cullen has been in the league since the year Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews were born (1997). Cullen is also the third-oldest active player behind Jaromir Jagr and Shane Doan; those two players have been All-Stars a combined 15 times already. Let’s change it up and award a little longevity from a player who helped the Penguins to their fourth Stanley Cup last June.

[FanIn80]

Comparing the fact Matt Cullen has never played in the all-star game to the fact that Jagr and Doan have been there fifteen times combined is one of the stupidest things I'll probably read all day today.

[N-E-B]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

Comparing the fact Matt Cullen has never played in the all-star game to the fact that Jagr and Doan have been there fifteen times combined is one of the stupidest things I'll probably read all day today.

Stupidity seems to be the standard now at TSN. What an awful network. Such a shame, only two or three years ago they were the premier sports network.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

Comparing the fact Matt Cullen has never played in the all-star game to the fact that Jagr and Doan have been there fifteen times combined is one of the stupidest things I'll probably read all day today.

There is always something dumber:

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[MarkGio]

I tried to vote for legit players and the website wanted me to sign in and register and all that, so I just said that hell with it. Let the trolls who have no time on their hands make my decisions for me

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by MarkGio

I tried to vote for legit players and the website wanted me to sign in and register and all that, so I just said that hell with it. Let the trolls who have no time on their hands make my decisions for me

But the sanctity of the All Star game(s)?!?!?!

[Freeway]

I'm voting for Chad Johnson.