Everyone leaves embarrassed and complaining – not the ideal scenario for what the league had intended.
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“Change is necessary”, Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. “Some (years) it’s hard to watch”. They’ve really done all they can to try to promote a better product by giving more of an incentive to top players to show up and perform. It’s hard watching when you know … the pace of the game isn’t even close to representative of how they normally play. “I think it’s exciting for the fans and the big thing this year with the 3-on-3 overtime and how people are talking about that and how exciting it is”, he said. The two Eastern Conference divisions (Atlantic, Metropolitan) and Western Conference divisions (Pacific, Central) will face off in a 20-minute, 3-on-3 game.
Fans will get to vote for one player from each division.
The game, which will take place in Nashville, Tenn., on January 31, will feature a 3-on-3 tournament format, with each division fielding a team of six forwards, three defensemen and two goaltenders.
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As has been the case with the Pro Bowl after similarly dismal displays, there’s been thoughts of getting rid of the All-Star Game all together, but Elliott was not on board with going that far. Too often, it looks like players just going through the motions out there, and it’s led to listless hockey.
The 2016 Honda National Hockey League All-Star Game will be a three-game tournament played in a 3-on-3 format with a prize pool of $1 million to be paid in its entirety to the tournament’s winning team.
“Wouldn’t hurt”, Toews said.
Daly said that there was initial hesitation from the NHLPA to tweak the All-Star Game, and it looked like the idea “wasn’t going to be thrown to the scrap heap, per se, (but) at one point in the process, I certainly felt like it was probably an aggressive ask to get it done in time for this year”. You can’t play entertaining football at half-pace either, and the NBA’s game has been average at best for years. As such, fielding is no different than a regular game, nor is base running, and so on.
Hockey played at full speed means collisions, and collisions mean injuries. Don’t forget that the 2013 All-Star Game was wiped out by the lockout and there was no game in 2014 due to the Olympics. And, all the guys are pretty competitive.
Here’s five key things to know about the new All-Star Weekend.
Another theory goes like this: Taking hitting and defence out of the five-on-five game leaves it short.
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According to the reports, the tournaments will be 3-on-3 – the same format the league adopted this season for overtime in an effort to create more open ice and increase scoring in the extra frame rather than deciding games in a shootout. Good to switch it up from where we are. “I think the eight goalies that get picked, it’s going to be like a death sentence”.
