Like many people, I have better things to do than to watch an All-Star Game or a skills competition. With the NHL (that's the National Hockey League for some of y'all) having its All-Star Game (vote for Sid and Geno, the commercials keep telling me) in a month or two, the league announced that it will change up its All-Star Weekend.
Puck Daddy, the best hockey blog on the Internets, has more.
The Skills Competition will now be an individual event with winners of each skill being awarded a crystal trophy. Players will no longer be forced to participate in a certain events for their conference.Fans will also get to see two shootouts. The first being a single-elimination event against NHL goalies and the second will see the return of the "trick shot" competition, which won't feature NHL goaltenders but possibly those from the Canadian University ranks. Hopefully this year's "trick shot" contest will feature players other than Alexander Ovechkin (who is already confirmed for the event) who perform, you know, actual trick shots instead of most of what we saw in Atlanta last year.
We like the idea of seeing a real shootout contest, but we're gonna be quite disappointed when this superstar won't be in the All-Star Game.
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