The Pacific Division underdogs beat the Atlantic Division on Sunday night to win the All-Star tournament. Scott was the captain of the Pacific Division team and played in the same threesome with Joe Pavelski and Brent Burns, his former teammates while with the Sharks.
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So thank you, John Scott, for bringing back the fun and excitement into the NHL All-Star game.
“[It was] better. These type of things, it’s really hard to put expectations on it. You don’t know what the speed’s going to be like”. You can’t write this stuff. He also had the game’s only hit, flattening Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane. However, the fans voted him in and the National Hockey League had a decision on their hands.
As MVP, Scott also gets a new Honda minivan, something he said he asked his temporary teammates to donate to him if they won. And even after the $1 million check was handed out, the mania surrounding Scott, and an event that won’t soon be forgotten, carried on.
Scott’s two daughters and his wife, pregnant with twins, were on hand to witness the dream weekend. “Yeah, nerve wracking, especially (since) Burnzie is such a spaz”.
“Just another moment from this weekend I can not believe”.
GOLDEN STARTERS: Central Division coach Lindy Ruff put four Nashville Predators on the ice when the puck dropped.
The campaign to elect him initially was a joke on the part of fans who stuffed the digital ballot box just to see what would happen in a three-on- three game to a 6-8, 275- pounder known mostly for his fighting skills. These All-Stars combined for 116 shots and 23 goals.
Pacific Division forward John Scott looks into the stands during the NHL hockey All-Star championship game against the Atlantic Division Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. More importantly, the players were thrilled to have Scott there. The winners of the first two games advanced to a third-period championship. Evgeny Kuznetsov (Alex Ovechkin’s replacement) and Jaromir Jagr added a couple more goals in the first ten minutes to even the score 2-2 heading into the second half of the game.
Fan pushback won out, and Scott repaid them with a pair of goals during Team Central’s 9-6 loss to Team Pacific. John Scott is a mountain of a man with a gentle soul and it showed. Controversy followed, with the Arizona Coyotes trading John Scott to the Montreal Canadiens, who promptly shifted him back down to the AHL.
John Scott had an experience at the 2016 NHL All-Star weekend that couldn’t have been better even if it was scripted.
With his team up 4-3, Scott scored a breakaway goal on goalie Devan Dubnyk.
“But I think he did an outstanding job standing up for himself, and standing up for his beliefs”. “We’d like to have the babies at home”. In it, Scott explained how he used hockey to help him get a degree in engineering at Michigan Tech, on the assumption that he had no future in the sport.
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By scrapping the traditional All-Star Game format in favor of a three-on-three tournament, the National Hockey League sent a jolt through the exhibition game, which has lacked excitement and interest in previous incarnations.
