Scott may have provided the feel-good story of the weekend, but for sheer entertainment value the undoubted victor was P.K. Subban.
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The 3-on-3 format was a victor, with the players enjoying the extra space to show off their skills.
Scott scored 47 seconds into the Pacific’s 9-6 victory over the Central. They’re paid to fight.
The unlikely hero, the everyman had won. Scott reached all the way down to the ice and scooped the shavings with his right mitt to celebrate his first goal in style, which Islanders captain John Tavares particularly loved.
Scott scored the Pacific’s first goal on a tip-in just 47 seconds into the second mini-game during a tournament featuring the league’s four divisions. Joining me on the line to talk about this is Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo Sports. Scott’s helmet from the All-Star Game is on its way to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. Hopefully they keep the game plan intact for next year’s festivities in Los Angeles. He was traded to the Montreal Canadiens and he is now with the Canadiens’ AHL affiliate in Newfoundland.
While Patrice Bergeron wasn’t present at Monday’s Bruins practice to chat about his NHL All-Star weekend experience, it was still one of the topics of the day after the B’s players skated following five days off for All-Star break. Will fans ever say, you know, we don’t have to give them so much of our money, we could figure out something else to do with our time and resources, at least for the short period of time that would be enough to get their attention? Explain how the league dealt with this and reacted to it.
It wouldn’t be the first time the city has honoured an athlete for their character and actions off the ice. They didn’t reveal the vote totals after the voting. Unfortunately the National Hockey League had no choice but to let him participate.
But it goes beyond that.
John Scott had a transformative weekend at the NHL All-Star Game, and he hopes it might help him land another job in or out of the game. And that was his breaking point. The game would be played as a 3-on-3 tournament between divisional teams, likely due to the intense popularity of the 3-on-3 format of overtime play in regular games.
MCEVERS: Tell me what to do. He was never supposed to land in the All-Star game. “I think he would have popped him with one good one and sent him down”. So not only was there an enforcer in the NHL All-Star game. Yet, I found myself flipping back to the National Hockey League to see how the game was playing out. According to a press release from NBCSN, viewership of this year’s NHL All-Star Game (5:03-8:27 p.m. ET) from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., was up 34% vs. last season’s game (1.194 million) in Columbus.
WYSHYNSKI: Because it wasn’t planned, and they don’t roll with the punches very well, this league.
And fans chanting for him to be named MVP after an initial list of three finalists on the video board did not include him.
MCEVERS: That’s Greg Wyshynski.
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Marc Thiessen writes a weekly column for The Post on foreign and domestic policy and contributes to the PostPartisan blog. I was having a blast and I was just watching it on TV.
