Kinda reminds me of this a little bit:



EDIT: it's not working, but here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvpY3i-UcCg

Uhh, guys chill, I’ve only been away for a couple of hours and I have 23 notifications lol

Don’t know how that is possible 🤷‍♂️

Tell me this isn't a better format than the current all star game. Teams are set up with 9 skaters and 2 goalies. All skills events have 4 invitees, who are specialists in that event, and brings in younger players and/or guys on bad teams that aren't putting up the numbers to be all stars, but are still very talented. Every team has a player at the all star game weekend, even if they are only an invitee to the skills competition, which gives everyone an excuse to tune in to that, while also keeping the integrity of it being an actual all star game with the best players from every division, even if 4 of them are from the same team and a few teams don't have a representative. On game day, there are 5 games:

1. Pacific vs. Central
2. Alumni Game
3. Atlantic vs. Metropolitan
4. Canada Women's All Stars vs. USA Women's All Stars
5. Finals (winner of Games 1 and 3)

The Alumni Game would be the all stars from 25 years ago (arbitrarily chosen so that we get to kick off this new game with Gretzky involved lol). I think this would make for a better game day, as you have legitimately the best players in the league playing in 3 of the games, highlight the women's game with the all stars from the two premier women's hockey nations, and then have a throwback game in there for the older fans, and let the next generation see some of the guys they've only heard about. I also would not be opposed to having an all rookie team in some capacity (maybe have a game of rookies vs. specialists? Idk, not gonna worry about that for now, but that would be worth exploring imo, maybe if the alumni game sucks that could be a replacement). I selected players I thought would deserve to be there using my new format below.

Pacific:
Gaudreau-McDavid-Stone
Meier-Draisaitl-Pietrangelo
J.T. Miller-Terry-Q. Hughes
Markstrom / Demko

Central:
MacKinnon-Rantanen-Makar
J. Robertson-Kadri-Kaprizov
Connor-Kyrou-Josi
Saros / Hellebuyck

Atlantic:
Marchand-Matthews-McAvoy
Huberdeau-Stamkos-Hedman
Tavares-Batherson-Ekblad
Campbell / Vasilevskiy

Metropolitan:
Ovechkin-Kuznetsov-Kreider
Panarin-Aho-Fox
Guentzel-Crosby-Letang
Jarry / Andersen

Specialist Invitees:
Fastest Skater: Barzal, Larkin, Formenton, Dahlin
Hardest Shot: Chara, Carlson, Doughty, Chychrun
Whatever the skill event is: Zegras, Suzuki, J. Hughes, P. Kane
Accuracy Shooting: DeBrincat, Giroux, McCann, Laine
Save streak: Shesterkin, Bobrovsky, Gibson, Fleury

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Pitlick, from waivers to 1C.

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Don’t know how that is possible 🤷‍♂️

Sabres just scored the weirdest goal ever.

Never have I ever

I don't mind going back to the draft idea (I think it can be a funny half hour show kinda thing), but I don't think the NHL likes it. I'm also not opposed to it being 4 on 4 with 12 skaters per team, I think you could certainly justify an extra 3 skaters per division (any larger is probably too much though). If they increase the skaters per team, there's probably only 2-3 specialist invitees though so the skills doesn't take forever (unless you say not everybody gets to do a skills thing, which kinda sucks). I'm also all for celebrities being involved, but I don't think any of them are good at hockey lol. Like I'd take 60yo Gretzky over Justin Bieber any day, and he'd probably be the best celebrity, and Gretzky would be one of the older all stars from 25 years ago. I think they should just be more proactive in getting celebrities involved in off ice stuff (maybe announcing or demonstrating things idk, but make it cool to be at the NHL all star game for sure).

I like the idea of an alumni game. Or, as Devil1122 suggests, an alumni vs. celebrity game.

I also think that to solve the problem of the one-from-every-team vs best-players, they should just have more players. Which is also, I just realized, the same as what Devil1122 suggests.

Draft: NHL should like it. It could generate more views if its on ESPN or TNT.
Specialist players: If there are 14 players make it (per division) to the all star game, specialist invitees aren't really necessary but it wouldn't hurt to have them
Alumni vs Celebs: If there aren't enough celebs that can play hockey, then have a mix of celebs and NHL legends in a game (with a draft to decide the teams). Or have celebs coach the all star teams.

We’re losing 2-0 against Montreal and an AHL goalie.

I’m 2 seconds away from yeeting my jersey in my furnace.

Is it the Mooterus jersey. If it is don’t do it. It’s a sweet jersey

No it’s a regular Jamie Benn jersey.

Also I was being sarcastic, I wasted too much money on this to burn it. I’m just frustrated that this poverty transition is losing against a worse poverty franchise.