NHL All-Star game is a complete joke

 

The NHL All-Star game is one of the most useless concepts ever devised by a human being.  It is a complete waste of time and energy.  The players move at less than half speed and they don’t touch each other.  There is no defence, no checking and definitely no rough stuff.  It is like watching paint dry.

Back in the sixties and seventies there would be fights between players during the game.  And the intensity was almost the same as during the regular season.  But in the last while the game has devolved into a corporate promotional event.  The sport has been taken out of it.  It is all about advertising.  There really is no use for this game.

It does raise some revenue for charity which is good.  But watching those players skate around at 35% and not going into the corners is very funny, and I would say quite disgusting.  The Ice Capades are more dangerous than this sorry excuse for a professional sports game.

And the format for the picking of teams is asinine.  Whoever thought this one up should be deported to Nunavut. During the 2010-2011 season, the NHL announced a change to the way the teams were selected, modeled after drafts in fantasy sports. The conference vs conference (East vs West) approach was replaced by a player draft, conducted by the All-Star players themselves, to determine the rosters for each team. The captains for each team now select players from a combined pool of both fan balloting and the NHL Hockey Operations Department. The change in format was a joint effort by the League and the National Hockey League Players Association.

And the brain trust that thought up this years game entertainment brought in a Homie from the Hood to Rap during the second intermission.  This Hip Hopper was from some giant U.S. city.  The game this year was held in Ottawa.  Tickets for the game were too expensive for young Rap fans.  So this guy was Rapping to white middle-aged suburbanites.  Go figure.