full pads too

Some of the best ice you’ll ever skate on. Even though it’s outdoor, it still has refrigerant like a normal indoor rink.

Getting extra practice in. 😄

Legend

Agreed, no one cares and criticism of either guy won’t go very far in any type of hockey circle

NHL: Let's put on an event where we showcase the best players! NHL fans: Why should the best players show up?

😂😂😂 right?! Sid is going to go down as one of the greatest ever and they are mad he wasn’t at some clown 🤡 show! Funny thing is he was working on his craft to get better!! Sid wants rings not being drafted by Justin Bieber 😂!

@@WuRuiDe I know right! I try to remember the point of it is to grow the game, hold an affordable event for kids and families, but at the same time you just worry about players getting injured and costing themselves mental and physical rest. It’s good for new players’ resume to negotiate contacts as a “2-time all star” or whatever but apart from that, just get back to the games and leave these guys alone haha.

Nah, with Kuch, either show up and try or just don't come. I have no problem with guys skipping, but showing up just to fuck the dog out there is lame. How many kids in the crowd came to the All Star Skills Comp to see their fave player Kuch light it up and then had to watch him suck all the dicks instead?

If this comment gets 1,000 likes we should sign a petition.

naw we need Pierre. We already have a Mascot for PM right now

@@deecee2174 Quite the choice we have. Justine the feminist, and the cross eyed contact kid "Along Came Polly". We are doomed.

@@deecee2174 I hate Trudeau, but the conservatives want to privatize our healthcare and sold us out to China (or tried their hardest to) when Harper was in power. Canada has no good options for leadership.

@@AcidFlash123 Better than Claus's puppet blackface.

Yeah it's not a game anymore, just boring

@@lamborghinicentenario2497 agreed 💯💯💯

This is all all star games. Still fun to watch if I happen to be watching TV

Knights beat the Oilers

Connor McGreedy more like (love his skills but donate your million in price money at least to charity or so, they’re all multimillionaires just having an endorsement weekend anyway). So sad really.

lol shutup Dudes given more to charities than you ever will. Oh no, he was asked by the commisioner for his thoughts! God forbid he give them! (You're an idiot). So sad really. @@__ink__

@@__ink__ how do you know he wont - are you his accountant?? Inky McSalty much

Edmontonians were calling him that even before his 1st NHL game. It's hilarious I know

the NHL repeatedly makes the exact same mistake of thinking that NHL players naturally have charisma and experience with working a crowd that will make them fun to see in settings like this. They just don't. They're incredible media trained. You could see that during the draft, where the hosts were trying to start some banter but they'd default to cookie cutter media friendly answers that were "safe". The NHL has a few big personalities but expecting all of them to put on a show like its the WWE is ridiculous

I think they made the right choice in regards to the players in front of massive crowds by giving each team a celebrity captain. Buble and Arnett really carried the draft. I think they should build on this by bringing comedians and personalities like them to off set the rigidness of a lot of nhl players.

I used to love hockey, I barely watch it anymore ever since the league went super woke. The NHL just doesn’t feel the same as it did in my childhood in the early 2000’s

@@dragonkingsports cope harder, no one ever grows up and thinks "this thing from my childhood is still exactly the same and just as wonderful hooray!"

All all star games, to me, are done for 3 groups of people, kids, casual, and new fans.

I think MLB is better than the rest of them! Can't really play baseball half heartily though

@@csolivais1979 100%

the mlb is solid

Yup

That's a low bar. It's all bad.

Last year was a pile of dog sh*t so its not impressive

I didn't watch last year, but the still shots shown here make me glad I didn't.

Still trash.

Nah

If anything that break should be over the holidays

A lot of people home watching sports on TV over Christmas and New Year’s. Better to stick it in January or February.

you are hired

So would it just be two teams instead of four?

Yeah, all-star games in the 80's and early to mid 90's were competitive when it was east vs west. Players cared enough to try back then. There were still no body checking or big slapshots (once in a while, there were), but at least everyone was skating and trying. In yesterday's game where Team Hughes vs Team Matthews, Boeser noticeably didn't even try to skate. Guy skated like an 80 year old man. He's not the fastest skater, but he's not that slow. It seems like he just didn't want to get hurt and barely tried. Miller wasn't much better. At least Hughes was trying.

​@@baiqi44Agree about the time period you mentioned, just a normal skills competition, the okd timer's game & a normal east vs west. It was fun without the gimmicky lameness.

@@baiqi44 The last NHL all-star game I saw where it looked like they were even half trying was probably around 1978. They used to actually have All-Star games with realistic hockey scores like 4-3, but that was 40-50 years ago.

I agree, and take it back to the fan voting per conference. This four team one period each crap is so terrible. And all these washed up celebrity crap is pointless

That's a good point.

Yeah, but heroes lol, its a little bit exagered.

100%. When I was a kid, I loved All Star games for all sports. Now I don't really care. I still watched a fair bit, but it's totally different to root for your favorite players as a kid.

@@XxKidnoffxX not in the slightest. Heroes is a very accurate term to use. If you played hockey growing up the best players in the NHL were your heroes. they were the people you looked up to and wanted to be one. Kids all over the world wear their jerseys like their favourite players, get their sticks and tape them like their favourite players and model the way they play after the. Heroes is a dead on accurate term

This was the first all star game I said he’s as I Just got into hockey about two Months ago . I was beyond confused lol!

Lmao, fair point

Well, in a similar fashion that watching a train wreck is entertaining…

@@DeannaGilbert616Train wreck is horrible but will still end up on the news

"McDavid is good at hockey" isn't news. "Kucherov is an asshole" is news.

@@KS-xk2sono it’s not it’s been his personality forever, and I’m a bolt fan and we love him for it

Nah, East vs West was pretty good. I wanna say in 04, they were playing their asses off and it evem went to OT. But for the most part, you're right.

But pretty stupid having only 12 people participate in the skills. And I don’t like he format. I’d much rather see all the fastest guys compete against each other in fastest skater. And all the heaviest shooters compete against each other for hardest shot, etc. Not just a measly 12 guys total. Edit: And only SEVEN teams were represented by those twelves players. You’re only allowing 7 of 32 fanbase to get excited about the skills comp. Pretty weak if you ask me.

@@DizzyDez613 No one's going to claim it was perfectly conceptualized or executed but it was a lot better than anything we've seen in at least 5 years. It's a model that they can build on going forward.

@@DizzyDez613 They had that in the early 90's (at least for the hardest shot). Not sure why they stopped doing it. The players who registered the hardest shots in the league actually got invited to the skills competition on all-star weekend to compete in the hardest shot. They weren't always the star players who competed. But of course, Al Macinnis ended up winning a lot of those because he truly did have one of the hardest shots in the league at the time and he also happened to be a star player.

​@@DizzyDez613Players choose if they want to participate or not. And thats the problem with Kucherov, he said yes and took 1 spot, but didnt even try...

Huh

Its a weak and tired talking point--wings didn't get any calls for the hacks on G's hands, Walman went down after reaching for Brady's stick, and to top it off Timmy got his skate clipped when trying to dodge passed the defender. Like, take your bad calls with your no calls and be a grown up about it already lol

@@anhi399 calm down there guy. I’m just adding context as to why Lalonde was extra pissed and animated. It is what it is though.

Earned my respect in that moment.

Its not much

I don't know, man. Everyone is criticising Kuch but that's how he acts all the time. That's who he is. The only time he showed any level of emotion was after winning the Cup.

he was definitely drunk

Nope. Just hated participating in silliness. @@user-uc5cm3qp8x

Kids these days are raised soft, first minor setback and theircworld crumbles.

Didn't know Lucic was a kid but ok Maybe they're just realizing its better to deal with problems now instead of turning to pills/booze/gambling/whatever and ending up like a lot of bankrupt ex-pros ?

@@tt128556Hell yeah! In my day we solved problems like real men - violence, booze addiction, coke, and the inevitable slide into failing relationships, homelessness, and self-deletion like real men!

Agree... and or over Barzal too. Those 3 guys were what, 2 or 3 points higher than Matthews and Matthews only won it because he's in Toronto, which means rigged. A lot of people might've bet money on Debrincat, Forsberg or Barzal for MVP and this is completely unfair for those people. Thought the NHL was all about fairness. How could they let the hometown people pick the MVP?

As a Leafs fan, this made me lol

me neither in decades, I hate 3 on 3 hockey so I saved myself a lot of misery..if it ever becomes a relevant game again like it used to be years ago and not just a circus? I might then watch..but I doubt it lol

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The Prince of Wales v Campbell Conference, when divisions had names, Patrick, Norris, Adams, Smythe hockey was unique.

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