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| oilfan94 wrote on Thu, 02 February 2023 15:00 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Thu, 02 February 2023 16:47 |
The Allstar weekend can never be good. What makes hockey great is the speed of the players, the physicality and the guys putting their bodies on the line for their team. No player is going to be playing down blocking shots or trying to hammer guy and risk being injured in an All Star game. All it will be is what it used to be, 5 guys on the ice over passing, doing everything they can to not get in a way of a puck or a shot or trying to get hurt.
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I have wondered with the all-star game, when did it lose it's value? I feel like it had value in the 80s and into the 90s, but sometime in the 00s it had a huge drop off. Maybe it was just my perception of it as I got older, but the last one I remember being fun at all was 2004, and by 2007 it just didn't matter at all anymore. Or did requiring each team to have at least 1 person there cause it to lose it's value? Thinking of Petr Buzek at the 2000 all-star game. Really though, is this just an event for kids to watch and the rest of us don't care about as we get older and increasingly grumpy?
NHL should switch back to the 5 on 5 east vs west format though. I also thought for a while that they should do this after the season ended (like the pro-bowl) but unless you start hosting the game in Hawaii then you are definitely not getting any players to go, and even then I am not sure how many Euro players you can convince to fly across the world in the middle of vacation for a game when they are out of practice. What I would prefer is for them to do it like baseball, and whichever conference wins gets home ice advantage in the Stanley Cup Final. GIve the game some kind of meaning.
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The value of the all star game to fans started to fade with cable tv and died with the modern (post-smart phone) internet. In the old games we got one Toronto or Montreal game on Saturday, one game mid-week on ITV, and maybe three minutes of league highlights on the nightly news. Now if a junior B player does something cool there's a good chance you'll get to see it within 24 hours and if you don't it's still on the internet somewhere. The all star game now simply has nothing to draw my eyes to it. I can see any game I want, I can find any play I want, I can follow any player I want. I don't need to see a made for TV advertising special.
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By: oilfan94 on Thu, 02 February 2023 10:11 |
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By: NetBOG on Thu, 02 February 2023 11:11 |
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By: oilfan94 on Thu, 02 February 2023 13:06 |
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By: oilfan94 on Thu, 02 February 2023 15:00 |
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By: Adam on Thu, 02 February 2023 15:10 |
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By: Kr55 on Thu, 02 February 2023 21:48 |
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By: Kr55 on Sun, 05 February 2023 10:03 |
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