Disagree with the dunk tank event being OK (it was trash). Disagree with the pitch and puck (I thought it was actually pretty good). Disagree with the tendy tandem event too (It was soo lame, they better not bring it back...)
My favorite part was actually when it ended. Accuracy challenge has an easy fix; add .25 seconds for a miss. That way you force the players to think about each shot rather than throwing pucks into the corners. One miss won't kill you but 4 would add a full second. Breakaway challenge needs to be special. My idea is two-fold: Finally get rid of the shootout in regular season and go to a ten minute 3 on 3 OT and allow ties. Then the breakaway challenge can be the penalty shot challenge and it will be special again; no need for overly long, cringe-inducing skits. The goalie shooting was cool, I thought. The surfboard thing was okay, but it was just a second accuracy challenge in the end. I didn't enjoy the golf thing, but I can't stand watching real golf either. Lastly, the production, as you noted, was terrible. They need to stop the skipping around from event to event. Just do one thing at a time. The skills competition is about showcasing skill in a lighthearted and fun way. There's just no need to try to gussy it up with cheesy skits. Let the skills and the hockey speak for itself.
@@edited1325 I would too, but the NHL decided people disliked free hockey in 2015. I guess some people disliked sudden death that went two hours later than normal. Presumably that wouldn't happen with 3 on 3 since the ice is so open.
I’m only going to say I’d say 10 minutes 3 on 3 and a shootout because ties need to be gone and stay that way lol and also would suck to have a long OT if you played the next day
Far and away, the biggest change that needs to happen is the breakaway challenge. It was fun to see the creativity and skill players had. Now it’s just a gimmick to see who can do the most family-friendly, uninspired skit while eventually maybe shooting the puck. It’s ridiculous. Zegras was great last year because even though it was still performative, it showcased his elite puck handling abilities. Also, bring back the elimination shootout. That was fun
Unwatchable. Imagine paying $ for this to see the "Star players" who don't even want to be there and you get to watch someone's kid with no skill score a goal....yeah....Sorry hate me if you want, but there's no place for that IMO. Do it at a charity event, but not here. It's been done before and its not cute. Never was. Same for being "inclusive" and having women hockey players. They aren't NHL players. No one paid to see that. It's also a slap in the face of someone deserving who didn't get voted (and probably glad they got to stay home). IF you wanna have the kids, let all the players kids play a 5 min game before the Zamboni clears the ice like they do at regular season games. Patrick Kane's superman started the cringe and it's gotten worse apparently. I don't wanna see a goalie not try to stop a puck from anyone.
A thing that I hated so much in the accuracy shooting challenge was how close Kadri was when he was agaisnt both competitions, I thought people would catch on but no. They just let him move on.
Let’s face it, the NHL isn’t targeting diehard hockey fans with the all star festivities. They’re trying to bring in new fans, especially kids. I just look at it as a chance for the players to relax from the grind of the season.
Nothing says let’s bring in new fans like an empty arena. Not everyone is smart enough to understand hockey. When I was in high school I had some classmates talk to me about hockey because I always had a Penguins hoodie or jersey on. They watched football, hockey should be fitting for them. I asked they why they don’t watch hockey. Every single goddamn time they say “it’s too confusing.” How do you understand football rules but hockey is just too hard for you? There’s nothing to know about it, put puck in net, you’ll learn the rules the more you watch. Let me explain the basic rules as simple as I can: Offside, player is across the blue line before the puck. Icing, player didn’t cross middle line before losing possession of puck. Goal, puck completely crosses the goal line. No goal, puck doesn’t completely cross the line. Is this really too hard to understand? Other information can be picked up if you just watch a game or 2. Seeing how people are reacting to Jagr passing Gretzky’s professional goal record (NOT JUST NHL GOALS) and Ovi getting close to the NHL goal record (WHA goals and assists/points are fucking irrelevant to the topic) I think even hockey fans are too dumb for hockey.
@@thicccheese4007 Good points all around. And the career goal record no one’s talking about (but should be) is regular season goals + playoff goals. Gretzky has 1016 (894 + 122), Ovi 884, Howe 869 and Jagr 844.
I loved the All-Star Skills Competition this year it was great to me it was entertaining from the players, commentators, and Festivities my favorite moments was the Splash Shot and the Golf Game the only time I disliked was that flipping back and forth in between competitions
I liked the splash shot I thought it was a lot of fun... my main issue on it was that I felt it should have been head to head as it was done the way it was to fill more airtime for no real reason.
More gravitas is required. Have big corporations give giant cheque to the charity of winning players choice in skills competition. Winning conference of all star game gets home ice advantage in Stanley Cup Final.
In the NBA, the slam dunk competition is fun but still requires a lot of skill. That's what the NHL needs to do for the breakaway competition. Showcase the skill of the player.
Needs to go back to the old school competitions and games. 3 periods,20 mins a period and east vs west. No 3 on 3 crap. Full 5 vs 5 line ups. This newer stuff is BORING
The only issue I have with your points is fastest skater. McDavid wasn’t a part of it because re requested to be a part of different events and didn’t want to do fastest skater. It’s different when a guy like chara and Webber did hardest shot every year since they couldn’t really compete in anything else. McDavid has so much skill I enjoyed watching him in a different event to showcase how talented he is.
McDavid would've won if Kadri had been behind the line. Kadri was shooting from the hash marks way in front of the line...so yeah he got 6 shots off in the time it to McDavid to shoot 4.
It seems like they keep adding players who don't want to be there, look at what happened with Ovi and how he "couldn't show" the last time he was invited. One solution is to keep the faces fresh but then you kinda lose the "best players in the league" angle. I hope they figure this out before it gets worse but we can only wait and see.
Turned off the allstar airing last year and repeated this year. Hockey is on ice and it’s a time for the all stars to show their skill without worrying about getting their head taken off. Last 2 years have been like watching a Dude Perfect video of rich misfits doing silly shit.
-passing and puck handling skills?? each player at a station. They took that away? -the goalie was a good idea but change it to. 1. miss net = breakaway. 2. hit board = 2 v 1 (off v def). 3 post = 1v2 4. in net= 2v2 -hardest shot . eh. no fun without chara -fastest skater go back to 3 tries each with women and goalies -add a fastest goalie pull challenge where the goalies have to sprint to the bench fastest. -add a 3 v 3 goalie game for fun -add a goalie shootout -add a goalie passing and puck handling challenge -add a referee skills section for fastest skater and even give them a stick. THIS NEEDS GROWTH BIG TIME I don't care if they turn it into a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday event. Give players, goalies, women pro players, referees/linesmen, and fans more to look forward to. This may want me to stop watching skills and only watch 3v3 tourney day, So boring. Why throw it together. Players may not want to be "chosen" next year. They will say "I will pass I need focus on my team and the playoffs."
About Crosby and 2 Ovis working together... I know it's considered awesome by many people, and it's good for you guys, but for me it was just disappointing. When I see two legends teaming up, I expect a good show. I want to see a confirmation of their amazing skills, because it's a freaking 'skills competition'.
Pretty much any part with the Tkachuks and the Happy Gilmore thing with Pastrnak made me cringe so hard I almost left my body. They just need to do away with All Star weekend in general.
I feel like the 2 new events were gonna be florida only. Since florida is known for golfing and surfing. So those 2 events will be different ones in Toronto. The breakaway challenge is always boring, it wasnt bad when they had the actual breakaway challenge with it, where they rotated through goalies to see how many they could stop. I just feel they need to keep changing up the game too, having north america vs world was always fun, east vs west aswell. I do feel part of the problem with all star anymore is lots of players not many care about or know are there now, specially outside of the super stars.
It's embarrassing to say that I'm an NHL fan when the league puts on an All Star event like this. I didn't mind the dunk challenge and I was ok with the pitch and puck. Breakaway challenge is cringeworthy. And honestly, the actual 3 on 3 could have been played by any player in the league. There really isn't anything All Star about it
Giving players a chance to have some fun is great and all, but the event itself was just awkward bro vibes from start to finish. And bringing in fans is good, too -- but forced gags and hockeyish challenges in shorts on sand probably won't hold them for long since it's ICE HOCKEY.
The biggest bust of the weekend was trying to make Pat Maroon an announcer. My major complaint game-wise was the lack of contrast in the uniform design. I know we were going with "Miami Vice" pastels, but jeez, guys-- when everyone is wearing black pants and socks, the jerseys need WAY more contrast.
That Boston Bruin Breakaway thing just represented the entire NHL thinking of what the All-star event would be. Little skill, they think its amazing, and its not that funny.
This event was a massive disappointment. The one thing that pissed me off was the golf commentator say winning a year of chipotle is better than the Stanley Cup. That should be a crime against humanity to even say that in the hockey community.
I watched the skills game. As I don't care to much for the actually all star game anymore. The 3 on 3 is boring as hell. Sadly....the skills challenge sucked. The jumping around caused was crazy. And the nicknames the announcers had for one another was quite lame and corny.
I used to love the Skills Game and All Star Game. This was like SNL and a circus combined. I know they are pushing Subban with both hands, but he is terrible. Maroon was equally awful. Go back to when the guys actually tried because of the bragging rights. Get rid of the 3 on 3. It just isn't real hockey in my opinion.
Good question. The Brain dead Disney fans? doubtful. LGBTQ+ Highly unlikely despite their constant woke pandering. Hockey players. Definitely not. Disney ruins everything they touch. Turned the once mighty ESPN into garbage with no personality.
they chose judges who know nothing about hockey, and know a lot about advertising their own brand, homie was holding up a cup with a logo on it everytime the cam was on em, also it was sloppy, no goalie in one of the breakaway challenges is whack, players we would like to see in the challenges are getting put in, all star weekend is becoming a joke.
There's been a false premise spread by players and certain media members over the last 15 or so years that the NHL has failed to promote the personality of the players, and that if only we gave these guys more microphones that they'd dazzle audiences with their charm. Well, this is the culmination of that hypothesis. It turns out, these modern players aren't nearly as interesting as they think they are. They're mostly just meatheads with inflated egos.
most boring event i've seen. Personally i hated the 3v3, i know this is a ''for fun'' thing. But the players did not even try, not at all. Dissapointment from start to finish. Please NHL what were you thinking.
I couldn’t even finish watching the skills competition, it was stupid corny and truly miserable . And for the love of all that is holy, take the damn microphone away from PK Subban. The 3v3 tourney is still entertaining but the unis were terrible and opposing teams looked too much alike.
Is it any wonder that the NHL'S #'s are down 27% during the regular season?? The sport is starting to slowly die. It's not fun to watch without hitting and fighting. And the Allstar Game is a good indication of this. No one watched.
I don't watch hockey looking for hitting and fighting. The best games are usually in the playoffs and there's rarely fighting. It's a physical sport, so yes, hitting is a part of it, but players don't need to take someone's head off or cause someone to be carried off on a stretcher to make it a good game. Sure a fight gets everyone's blood boiling, but honestly, there have been plenty of incredible games that didn't have any fighting and I didn't feel that those games were missing fisticuffs
@@davidgillies2623 You've obviously never played the game, or understand the nuances of the sport. And, the first round of the playoffs is always the best round for action for the following reason. When a bottom team plays a top team, the bottom team has nothing to lose so they play harder and tougher, with or without fighting.That's why the Leafs are always out in the first round of the playoffs. Leaf Management doesnt understand the game either. Fighting use to be a major component of the game as it kept everyone in check. If a team began to pour it on with goals into the opposing team, the opposing team would make sure the team scorers didn't get too "comfortable" on the ice. It made the game so much more interesting. And you made the point about how the fans get their blood boiling whenever (almost never) there is a fight. Its exciting. They live it. Hockey isn't exciting and more, except for the first round of the playoffs. Viewership numbers prove that. Young kids don't follow hockey, yet the NHL continues to market the game in that direction. And older men, like me, who use to watch just don't that much anymore. The NHL knows it. And they don't know what to do about it. Sad.
@Mark Hancock How do you expect anyone to read/listen to you when you rant like this? David makes the point that there's a lot more wrong going on in the NHL than there being fewer fights. Throughout your rambling reply, you said a lot of things, but you missed the fact that David wasn't saying you were wrong, but you answered as if. You say that hockey isn't exciting without fights. Here's an idea: is it possible that you just like to watch fights? Throughout all that you've said, fights seem to interest (or entertain?) you a lot more than the rest of the sport. That "old school" style of hockey isn't a viable way to win the cup anymore. I am not saying the NHL is doing well at all. Quite the contrary. Another way to look at what's wrong with the NHL right now is that, nowadays, the players are millionaires on long-term contracts; they don't fight anymore because THEY DON'T HAVE A REASON TO. PS. Don't dismiss someone's differing opinion by saying that they've "obviously never played the game, or understand the nuances of the sport". That's a coward's way of refuting arguments.
What was your favorite part of All Star Weekend?
The NHL is flying itself right into the ground with the little auto pilot warning voice screaming "PULL UP! PULL UP! PULL UP!"
the commercials
737 max MCAS be like:
Disagree with the dunk tank event being OK (it was trash). Disagree with the pitch and puck (I thought it was actually pretty good). Disagree with the tendy tandem event too (It was soo lame, they better not bring it back...)
Not watching it
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this opinion. I want to see world class skill, not a comedy-based improv skit on ice.
And the comedy didn’t even make sense.
My favorite part was actually when it ended. Accuracy challenge has an easy fix; add .25 seconds for a miss. That way you force the players to think about each shot rather than throwing pucks into the corners. One miss won't kill you but 4 would add a full second. Breakaway challenge needs to be special. My idea is two-fold: Finally get rid of the shootout in regular season and go to a ten minute 3 on 3 OT and allow ties. Then the breakaway challenge can be the penalty shot challenge and it will be special again; no need for overly long, cringe-inducing skits. The goalie shooting was cool, I thought. The surfboard thing was okay, but it was just a second accuracy challenge in the end. I didn't enjoy the golf thing, but I can't stand watching real golf either. Lastly, the production, as you noted, was terrible. They need to stop the skipping around from event to event. Just do one thing at a time. The skills competition is about showcasing skill in a lighthearted and fun way. There's just no need to try to gussy it up with cheesy skits. Let the skills and the hockey speak for itself.
I’d rather just have 3 on 3 until someone scores
@@edited1325 I would too, but the NHL decided people disliked free hockey in 2015. I guess some people disliked sudden death that went two hours later than normal. Presumably that wouldn't happen with 3 on 3 since the ice is so open.
I’m only going to say I’d say 10 minutes 3 on 3 and a shootout because ties need to be gone and stay that way lol and also would suck to have a long OT if you played the next day
Far and away, the biggest change that needs to happen is the breakaway challenge. It was fun to see the creativity and skill players had. Now it’s just a gimmick to see who can do the most family-friendly, uninspired skit while eventually maybe shooting the puck. It’s ridiculous. Zegras was great last year because even though it was still performative, it showcased his elite puck handling abilities. Also, bring back the elimination shootout. That was fun
Completely agree
Unwatchable. Imagine paying $ for this to see the "Star players" who don't even want to be there and you get to watch someone's kid with no skill score a goal....yeah....Sorry hate me if you want, but there's no place for that IMO. Do it at a charity event, but not here. It's been done before and its not cute. Never was. Same for being "inclusive" and having women hockey players. They aren't NHL players. No one paid to see that. It's also a slap in the face of someone deserving who didn't get voted (and probably glad they got to stay home).
IF you wanna have the kids, let all the players kids play a 5 min game before the Zamboni clears the ice like they do at regular season games. Patrick Kane's superman started the cringe and it's gotten worse apparently. I don't wanna see a goalie not try to stop a puck from anyone.
A thing that I hated so much in the accuracy shooting challenge was how close Kadri was when he was agaisnt both competitions, I thought people would catch on but no. They just let him move on.
It was so hard to watch. Just awful. I remember when the skills competition was truly a showcase of the players skill and ability.
even the 3v3 was pretty boring in my opinion
I thought it was a fun change for a couple years. But I’d honestly like to see it go back to East vs. West for a bit
Let’s face it, the NHL isn’t targeting diehard hockey fans with the all star festivities. They’re trying to bring in new fans, especially kids. I just look at it as a chance for the players to relax from the grind of the season.
The NHL wants diehard fans to just die at this point.
6 to 10 million a year ? Relax in the summer.
Nothing says let’s bring in new fans like an empty arena.
Not everyone is smart enough to understand hockey. When I was in high school I had some classmates talk to me about hockey because I always had a Penguins hoodie or jersey on. They watched football, hockey should be fitting for them. I asked they why they don’t watch hockey. Every single goddamn time they say “it’s too confusing.” How do you understand football rules but hockey is just too hard for you? There’s nothing to know about it, put puck in net, you’ll learn the rules the more you watch. Let me explain the basic rules as simple as I can:
Offside, player is across the blue line before the puck.
Icing, player didn’t cross middle line before losing possession of puck.
Goal, puck completely crosses the goal line.
No goal, puck doesn’t completely cross the line.
Is this really too hard to understand? Other information can be picked up if you just watch a game or 2.
Seeing how people are reacting to Jagr passing Gretzky’s professional goal record (NOT JUST NHL GOALS) and Ovi getting close to the NHL goal record (WHA goals and assists/points are fucking irrelevant to the topic) I think even hockey fans are too dumb for hockey.
@@thicccheese4007 Good points all around. And the career goal record no one’s talking about (but should be) is regular season goals + playoff goals. Gretzky has 1016 (894 + 122), Ovi 884, Howe 869 and Jagr 844.
Give Nick a year of timhortins
I loved the All-Star Skills Competition this year it was great to me it was entertaining from the players, commentators, and Festivities my favorite moments was the Splash Shot and the Golf Game the only time I disliked was that flipping back and forth in between competitions
I liked the splash shot I thought it was a lot of fun... my main issue on it was that I felt it should have been head to head as it was done the way it was to fill more airtime for no real reason.
More gravitas is required. Have big corporations give giant cheque to the charity of winning players choice in skills competition. Winning conference of all star game gets home ice advantage in Stanley Cup Final.
In the NBA, the slam dunk competition is fun but still requires a lot of skill. That's what the NHL needs to do for the breakaway competition. Showcase the skill of the player.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. There were still some interesting parts but it just didn’t have that flair that it once used to
I kinda hope they remove the 3v3 in the all star game and go back to 5v5 it wasnt been the same since its been 3v3.
1:53 LMFAO!!! Oof
Lots of the players seemed bored and unmotivated. I can’t blame them.
Needs to go back to the old school competitions and games. 3 periods,20 mins a period and east vs west. No 3 on 3 crap. Full 5 vs 5 line ups. This newer stuff is BORING
The only issue I have with your points is fastest skater. McDavid wasn’t a part of it because re requested to be a part of different events and didn’t want to do fastest skater. It’s different when a guy like chara and Webber did hardest shot every year since they couldn’t really compete in anything else. McDavid has so much skill I enjoyed watching him in a different event to showcase how talented he is.
I just figured it was safer for McDavid to not fall and ruin the incredible season he's having.
McDavid came out and said he didnt want to do the fastest skater he was bored of it and wanted to try something new
He could have done that an shot accuracy as well lol
@@karlosspades7293 why would one do something they don't want? Give others a chance
McDavid would've won if Kadri had been behind the line. Kadri was shooting from the hash marks way in front of the line...so yeah he got 6 shots off in the time it to McDavid to shoot 4.
It seems like they keep adding players who don't want to be there, look at what happened with Ovi and how he "couldn't show" the last time he was invited.
One solution is to keep the faces fresh but then you kinda lose the "best players in the league" angle.
I hope they figure this out before it gets worse but we can only wait and see.
Turned off the allstar airing last year and repeated this year. Hockey is on ice and it’s a time for the all stars to show their skill without worrying about getting their head taken off. Last 2 years have been like watching a Dude Perfect video of rich misfits doing silly shit.
Accurate
-passing and puck handling skills?? each player at a station. They took that away?
-the goalie was a good idea but change it to. 1. miss net = breakaway. 2. hit board = 2 v 1 (off v def). 3 post = 1v2 4. in net= 2v2
-hardest shot . eh. no fun without chara
-fastest skater go back to 3 tries each with women and goalies
-add a fastest goalie pull challenge where the goalies have to sprint to the bench fastest.
-add a 3 v 3 goalie game for fun
-add a goalie shootout
-add a goalie passing and puck handling challenge
-add a referee skills section for fastest skater and even give them a stick.
THIS NEEDS GROWTH BIG TIME I don't care if they turn it into a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday event. Give players, goalies, women pro players, referees/linesmen, and fans more to look forward to. This may want me to stop watching skills and only watch 3v3 tourney day, So boring. Why throw it together. Players may not want to be "chosen" next year. They will say "I will pass I need focus on my team and the playoffs."
About Crosby and 2 Ovis working together... I know it's considered awesome by many people, and it's good for you guys, but for me it was just disappointing. When I see two legends teaming up, I expect a good show. I want to see a confirmation of their amazing skills, because it's a freaking 'skills competition'.
Pretty much any part with the Tkachuks and the Happy Gilmore thing with Pastrnak made me cringe so hard I almost left my body. They just need to do away with All Star weekend in general.
I feel like the 2 new events were gonna be florida only. Since florida is known for golfing and surfing. So those 2 events will be different ones in Toronto. The breakaway challenge is always boring, it wasnt bad when they had the actual breakaway challenge with it, where they rotated through goalies to see how many they could stop. I just feel they need to keep changing up the game too, having north america vs world was always fun, east vs west aswell. I do feel part of the problem with all star anymore is lots of players not many care about or know are there now, specially outside of the super stars.
lmao nah bro who tf were those judges
It's embarrassing to say that I'm an NHL fan when the league puts on an All Star event like this. I didn't mind the dunk challenge and I was ok with the pitch and puck. Breakaway challenge is cringeworthy. And honestly, the actual 3 on 3 could have been played by any player in the league. There really isn't anything All Star about it
Giving players a chance to have some fun is great and all, but the event itself was just awkward bro vibes from start to finish. And bringing in fans is good, too -- but forced gags and hockeyish challenges in shorts on sand probably won't hold them for long since it's ICE HOCKEY.
Agreed. If you think you have to have these gimmicky challenges then you don't have faith in the actual game and talents of hockey.
Finally
Said it. Hate the
Breakaway silliness. It’s
Gone
Too far
The biggest bust of the weekend was trying to make Pat Maroon an announcer. My major complaint game-wise was the lack of contrast in the uniform design. I know we were going with "Miami Vice" pastels, but jeez, guys-- when everyone is wearing black pants and socks, the jerseys need WAY more contrast.
I think shesterkin didn’t shoot because he lost a rock paper scissors to Sorokin
I really want the east vs west back or drafting the players. When ovi wanted to be drafted last so could win a car
That Boston Bruin Breakaway thing just represented the entire NHL thinking of what the All-star event would be.
Little skill, they think its amazing, and its not that funny.
Idk man. i feel like it's not supposed to be taken to seriously and it's just a chanse for players to goof around. I enjoyed it.
How do they mess up so bad when they have the best players in the world on one ice. My friend went to the event I felt so bad for him
I would call it a circus, but circuses are actually entertaining....
Hectic, this is kinda out of nowhere but something you could do is stream Rangers games. I see lots of Hockey channels do it now so it would be cool.
I’m think about doing that for the playoffs
@@HecticHockey that would be cool
Sorokin didn’t know what the event was he didn’t understand. He thought it was just icing the puck
I was there. The only good part was the mascot game, which wasn't even brodcasted
And what was with those colors? Was it pride night?
I agree with everything, except you coming for Azarenka like that.
This event was a massive disappointment. The one thing that pissed me off was the golf commentator say winning a year of chipotle is better than the Stanley Cup. That should be a crime against humanity to even say that in the hockey community.
It’s time for Bettman to resign. The league should be embarrassed.
By far the worst I've seen. Embarassing.
Accuracy should of been sudden death. Let them keep on shooting until someone messes up
Pitch’n’puck was the most entertaining
The retro jerseys just made it worst imo. Most of the jerseys are hilariously bad
Th absolutely worst AllStar weekend I ever watched. Hours of my life I can't get back.
I watched the skills game. As I don't care to much for the actually all star game anymore. The 3 on 3 is boring as hell. Sadly....the skills challenge sucked. The jumping around caused was crazy. And the nicknames the announcers had for one another was quite lame and corny.
they should rename the all star game to "hockey stars play golf"
This whole thing can go away.
I used to love the Skills Game and All Star Game. This was like SNL and a circus combined.
I know they are pushing Subban with both hands, but he is terrible. Maroon was equally awful.
Go back to when the guys actually tried because of the bragging rights.
Get rid of the 3 on 3. It just isn't real hockey in my opinion.
Who is this suppose to attract?
Good question. The Brain dead Disney fans? doubtful. LGBTQ+ Highly unlikely despite their constant woke pandering. Hockey players. Definitely not. Disney ruins everything they touch. Turned the once mighty ESPN into garbage with no personality.
boomers who suffer from insomnia 😂
The whole weekend was a diaster....other than Connor breaking the targets in 9 seconds.
The NHL under Bettman has become a joke
I'm not a hockey fan but I always feel like the NHL tries too hard to appear fun and cool and it comes up being a bit cringe
they chose judges who know nothing about hockey, and know a lot about advertising their own brand, homie was holding up a cup with a logo on it everytime the cam was on em, also it was sloppy, no goalie in one of the breakaway challenges is whack, players we would like to see in the challenges are getting put in, all star weekend is becoming a joke.
There's been a false premise spread by players and certain media members over the last 15 or so years that the NHL has failed to promote the personality of the players, and that if only we gave these guys more microphones that they'd dazzle audiences with their charm. Well, this is the culmination of that hypothesis. It turns out, these modern players aren't nearly as interesting as they think they are. They're mostly just meatheads with inflated egos.
I agree.
It's becoming just a bunch of gimmicks, really unfortunate.
Happy Gilmore
Splash was in only because it's Florida
Larkin holds the fastest record
The AHL skills comp was better.
They tried to copy Vegas and it fell flat…
Nothing like watching a player shoot a puck at a surfboard. That's useful in real-life. The whole thing is a joke.
Ha, that was one thing I called out to folks on my adult rec league team over and over. Also asked myself What am I watching/what are they doing?
most boring event i've seen. Personally i hated the 3v3, i know this is a ''for fun'' thing. But the players did not even try, not at all. Dissapointment from start to finish. Please NHL what were you thinking.
Make it mean something rather than a bunch of overpaid 20 somethings pretending to be comedians
I couldn’t even finish watching the skills competition, it was stupid corny and truly miserable . And for the love of all that is holy, take the damn microphone away from PK Subban. The 3v3 tourney is still entertaining but the unis were terrible and opposing teams looked too much alike.
Get rid of all the lame gimmicks and bring it back to what it used to be.
Yeah it was awful. I like shootouts but take it seriously, lose the props already, including the KIDS, please lose the kids already
It was garbage
Just a clown show.
Not to worry. Look for the Leafs to lower the bar even more when they host the ASG next year in woke Toronto.
Total,clown show
Is it any wonder that the NHL'S #'s are down 27% during the regular season?? The sport is starting to slowly die. It's not fun to watch without hitting and fighting. And the Allstar Game is a good indication of this. No one watched.
I don't watch hockey looking for hitting and fighting. The best games are usually in the playoffs and there's rarely fighting. It's a physical sport, so yes, hitting is a part of it, but players don't need to take someone's head off or cause someone to be carried off on a stretcher to make it a good game. Sure a fight gets everyone's blood boiling, but honestly, there have been plenty of incredible games that didn't have any fighting and I didn't feel that those games were missing fisticuffs
@@davidgillies2623 You've obviously never played the game, or understand the nuances of the sport. And, the first round of the playoffs is always the best round for action for the following reason. When a bottom team plays a top team, the bottom team has nothing to lose so they play harder and tougher, with or without fighting.That's why the Leafs are always out in the first round of the playoffs. Leaf Management doesnt understand the game either. Fighting use to be a major component of the game as it kept everyone in check. If a team began to pour it on with goals into the opposing team, the opposing team would make sure the team scorers didn't get too "comfortable" on the ice. It made the game so much more interesting. And you made the point about how the fans get their blood boiling whenever (almost never) there is a fight. Its exciting. They live it. Hockey isn't exciting and more, except for the first round of the playoffs. Viewership numbers prove that. Young kids don't follow hockey, yet the NHL continues to market the game in that direction. And older men, like me, who use to watch just don't that much anymore. The NHL knows it. And they don't know what to do about it. Sad.
@Mark Hancock How do you expect anyone to read/listen to you when you rant like this? David makes the point that there's a lot more wrong going on in the NHL than there being fewer fights. Throughout your rambling reply, you said a lot of things, but you missed the fact that David wasn't saying you were wrong, but you answered as if.
You say that hockey isn't exciting without fights. Here's an idea: is it possible that you just like to watch fights? Throughout all that you've said, fights seem to interest (or entertain?) you a lot more than the rest of the sport.
That "old school" style of hockey isn't a viable way to win the cup anymore.
I am not saying the NHL is doing well at all. Quite the contrary. Another way to look at what's wrong with the NHL right now is that, nowadays, the players are millionaires on long-term contracts; they don't fight anymore because THEY DON'T HAVE A REASON TO.
PS. Don't dismiss someone's differing opinion by saying that they've "obviously never played the game, or understand the nuances of the sport". That's a coward's way of refuting arguments.
@@GeoffroiB Ahhh, another Frenchman who is against fighting. There's a surprise!! I was simply supporting my argument. I have that right.
@@markhancock6694 I'm not against it.
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Struggled with it for several years…haven’t watched it in 3 now and probably never will watch another one.