It’s been awhile since I watched – I think the last time was when Kendall Coyne did the fastest skater and that’s all I remember from it.
The sharpshooter was cool, but I never understood the love for fastest skater or hardest shot. They could put literally any number they want on the clock and no one would ever have a clue. It’s just guys skating fast and shooting hard and they all look the same to me.
The Home Run Derby rocks.
There’s just a lack of emotion/personality being shown anymore…who could forget Roenick throwing a check and talking trash every allstar game, or Al Aifraite rocking the “skullet” and shooting 106+ mph, the intense competition to go 4 for 4 on the accuracy competition, etc…
Now they interview McDavid after fastest skater and it’s just a cliched monotone response…There’s some hope with the new guys like Zegras, Mathew Tkachuck, Jack Hughes so we’ll see….
I’ll be watching tonight to see if they can get Kirill to do an interview this year, last year’s refusal to do so while skating away was hilarious….
Seems to be a trend with all the cool guys you mention…
COUGH**americans**COUGH
Why are Canadian hockey players so boring?
Nice 1 goal 3 assist game for Marat Khusnudinov today and also set a new KHL record for assists in a season by someone 20yrs old or younger passing some player named Kaprizov… he has 37 points in 57 games sofar this season…if he could just grow a bit more!
1 more season in the KHL…
Lol, PK Subban interviews McDavid & MacKinnon about giving them nicknames…PK offers to call Conner, Mickey Mouse as one of the options, McDavid says he hates Mickey Mouse and doesn’t want that nickname….ESPN is owned by Disney….
This is off to a great start….
No Kirill in fastest skater and Wtf was that supposed be Mitch Marner? Ok I might shut this off now…
So far this is terrible. Please let TNT take over next year so at least there is some entertainment in the interviews. The whole props on the shootout vs just doing a sweet move is really dumb.
I watched about 10 minutes and changed.
This is a dumpster fire…. Kirill sits in line for 10 minutes only to go on a 3-0 and the female shoots it…
Now they go to a pre-taped event from earlier today… wtf are the fans doing in the arena during this??
I can’t believe one of the passers in the history of the accuracy shooting event have never caught a puck deflected off a pipe in their head/face… I remember seeing some close calls over the years…
Who thought hey let’s put Patrick Maroon and PK together to kill time.
Absolutely nothing makes sense with this Skills program… why would they put a carpet on the friggin putting green?
Why do I even care anymore lol? I’m done…
Now I remember why you guys watch that garbage. Gives you all another thing to complain about 
I watched just enough to not want to watch anymore.
6 year old who loves anything hockey couldn’t take it either.
I watched just enough to not want to watch anymore.
6 year old who loves anything hockey couldn’t take it either.
This was terrible. The worst. The NHL should be ashamed.
at least the disgust with this entire event is universal, NHL getting killed online….hopefully this and the terrible tv ratings report that recently came out forces some changes???? Lets hope
Lol, Kirill is the worst all-star game player…
Absolutely nothing makes sense with this Skills program… why would they put a carpet on the friggin putting green?
Why do I even care anymore lol? I’m done…
Probably because the golf course doesn’t want their green ruined.
They need to stop caring about improving the ratings. It’s an all star game, people don’t watch them, especially when they start messing with things and go out of the box. The only All Star Game that is remotely watched/is entertaining is the MLB and it’s because it’s a normal game and the players actually try.
This made me literally laugh out loud for some reason.
The nhl should make it an outdoor game and iust have the players throw there sticks in the middle and split the teams up like a game of pond hockey.
Well, the Wild are at least top4 in Scott Wheeler’s prospects ranking with the Blackhawks coming in 5th today…
Teams left:
Columbus
Detroit
Minnesota
New Jersey
Will Wallstedt & Rossi’s development and Ohgren/Yurov additions be enough to make them #1?
The nhl should make it an outdoor game and iust have the players throw there sticks in the middle and split the teams up like a game of pond hockey.
I like that idea. Even adds a little interesting twist to see who gets to play with who.
Horvat extended $8.5 x 8
I wonder what the Canucks best offer was? Pretty much everyone expected a contract like this…
wow, when you look at the Islanders payroll the next 3-7 years, its nothing but mostly expensive 30+ year olds that will just get older and older… Lou has buried that franchise…His quote afterwards of “It’s too much money, for too many years” instills a lot of confidence…
I know it’s not NHL or wild related but the NFL all star game was 10000 times better than what the NHL did.
I know it’s not NHL or wild related but the NFL all star game was 10000 times better than what the NHL did.
At least the NFL admits the Pro bowl was a joke, so now they play a kids flag football game that at least the athletes seem to have fun playing..I think the 3-3 format for the allstar game is more fun than playing 5 on 5 and they should just keep it, but the skills event is meant to showcase actual “skills” and the NHL has failed miserably at it the past 3-4 years… they need to get back to the plain jane skill events they were doing 5+ years ago…and for those who say THAT was boring, wtf did you think of the garbage we saw Friday night?
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>CaptainMusky wrote:</div>
I know it’s not NHL or wild related but the NFL all star game was 10000 times better than what the NHL did.At least the NFL admits the Pro bowl was a joke, so now they play a kids flag football game that at least the athletes seem to have fun playing..I think the 3-3 format for the allstar game is more fun than playing 5 on 5 and they should just keep it, but the skills event is meant to showcase actual “skills” and the NHL has failed miserably at it the past 3-4 years… they need to get back to the plain jane skill events they were doing 5+ years ago…and for those who say THAT was boring, wtf did you think of the garbage we saw Friday night?
The skills contest was miserable to watch.
How about this.
Fastest skater line up the contestants on the end wall and race to the other end.
Skating skills, have the skaters actually show of their skating skills
Stop starts, agility, backward skating, lateral movement.
Passing contest, bank passes, saucers, backhands, flips. But do it on the ice.
Dumba and Brodin are more entertaining during warm ups than what I saw.
What happened to the stick handling?
Agreed with all above – garbage product – watched 5 minutes then turned to a rerun of Last Man Standing.
The uniforms for the games were almost identical. They had problems passing to the othered team at first?!
At least I won’t have to allocate time in the future watching it.
I watched about five minutes of the All Star fiasco. This and other obvious reasons are why the NHL is circling the drain. Ratings are down over 20% from last year? Yeah I doubt the NHL can afford that. Now their ratings are going to drop even more. DirecTv Stream effectively cancelled me. Been a customer since day one with their streaming service. So had a couple buddies down for some beers in the garage and figured we’d have the skills competition on in the background. Turned on the tv and the DirecTv app asked if I wanted an update. Sure why not. After it updated and downloaded I had to resign back in. Could I remember my password? Of course not. No big deal create a new one and log in. No problem. Once I logged in I had every single channel DirecTv offers.
Great except it wouldn’t load any of them. None. Spent a hour and and half on the phone with DirecTv Saturday and apparently this is a problem with no solution. Their solution was to cancel my account and create a new one with one of their new packages. Problem is DirecTv packages no longer carries Bally Sports North so no Wild Or Twins games. My old package was grandfathered in. While I was on the phone with the guy trying to solve my problem he stated they are getting other calls with the same problem. So they are continuing to work on the problem. If they get it fixed they will notify me. I’m guessing there is no fix they want to sell you a new package. I get the app through Amazon Fire.
If they can’t fix it by the end of the billing cycle (the 16th) They will credit my account and cancel the subscription. I guess I’m fine with that I can use $80 extra bucks a month considering eggs are $5 a dozen in the is wonderful economy we have going. I was getting tired of chasing these hockey games all over the broadcast universe anyhow. Pretty easy to open the NHL app and check the score and just let it run in the background and or watch the condensed game the next day if something particularly exciting happens. So I’m guessing I’m not alone if this is happening with customers like me who have packages that have Bally Sports grandfathered in. If you get the DirecTv app I suggest not to update it if you want continued service.
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