My sentiments exactly.

Thanks to Razor and his blog, I read Stu Hackel’s post on Slapshot about the play-by-play stylings of Versus and NBC.
However, when you see and hear a Versus game, and an NBC game as well, that standard is abandoned for nonstop conversation that too often ignores the game’s action. Most likely, that’s not the decision [...]

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The All-Star Game can come sit over by me.

I like the All-Star Game.
I’m going to have to take a sabbatical from reading surly bloggers and crusty columnists whining about EVERY. LITTLE. THING! SHUT UP!
It never fails. It is the same stuff as last year. And the year before. And from the same people. They bitch about the game from [...]

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I have an idea for the shootout.

The fan voting has started for the 2009 NHL All-Star game. As usual, there’s all kinds of hand-wringing about who deserves to be voted in and who doesn’t.
It gives me tired-head (to use a Ticket-coined phrase). Every single year, half the fans are mad about some player getting in that they didn’t think [...]

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All-Star Game = Fun.

That was a fun game!
It started out a little lopsided, but the West caught up the East and the competitiveness that makes kids become professional athletes started to bubble up. It came down to the last few seconds when Marc Savard scored to win it for the East.  Over the weekend full of player interviews and behind-the-scenes access [...]

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I like the All-Star Game. So there.

I feel like somebody needs to defend the All-Star Game event. Everywhere I go, it’s criticized for not being meaningful, not being competitive, not having hits, not having the right players, not being in the right town, not being on the right channel, not having the right superskills events, not having the right players in [...]

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SuperSkills recap.

Last year the All-Star Weekend was held in Dallas and I got to go to the SuperSkills competition. I was a little overly focused on Philippe Boucher the whole time, so I managed to enjoy it, but without really keeping up with what was going on (I watched it later on TiVo). The SuperSkills is [...]

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The All-Star Game needs more Stars.

James Mirtle has an idea that would put more Dallas Stars in the All-Star Game (accidentally). Instead of East vs. West, he suggests Matts vs. Mikes.
Knuble – M. Richards – Cammalleri
Ribeiro – Comrie – Ryder
Nylander – Modano – Samuelsson
Fisher – Sillinger – Grier
Commodore – Green
Lundin – Komisarek
Van Ryn – Mottau
Smith
Tellqvist
v.
Lombardi – Sundin – Stajan
Pettinger – [...]

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All-Star Weekend.

I love the All-Star Game. Love, love, love it. I look forward to it every year, because it’s a chance to see the personalities of the players. It’s also a chance to meet players from other teams and other conferences that I don’t know anything about. People criticize the game because it’s not competitive, but that’s [...]

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Stars miscellany.

• Junior Lessard was traded away to Tampa Bay today. He was traded for Dan Jancevski and the first thing I thought when I read about it was, “I thought we already had Jancevski.” For a split second, I thought our new GM team had traded for a player we already owned. I wasn’t too [...]

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A good commercial is worth watching.

I watched the Winter Classic on New Year’s Day, then three more hockey games after that and I must have seen this commercial 50 times. And it still makes me giggle.

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