The new and improved version of the glorified exhibition game in the middle of the season has seen a few changes this year courtesy of Gary Bettman's new puppet Brendan Shannahan.
Back in the old days...like 2 years ago...the East and West put together the top money makers, I mean "stars" from their conference for a fun filled weekend of making Crosby and Ovy look good. This year however, the powers that be decided to make an overhaul or 2. From what I saw on the NHL Network the fans still get to pick 6 players by casting votes and the NHL front office gets to pick the other 36 or however many players are left. But this year comes with a big twist...no more East and West.
This year the two captains (I wonder who those will be) get to pick the teams they want...pond hockey style. Personally I'd love to see the multimillionaires throw their sticks at center ice and have a ref throw them to each side but Hockey Operations decided that the captains get to conduct a "live draft" right there on the ice. I think it'll be great to see who gets picked first and who gets picked last...just to bring back that old crappy feeling people like me got when they got picked last for pickup football or hockey, which I'm assuming none of the leagues top snipers had to deal with as a kid.
I say for shits and gigs they pick 2 enforcers from the East and West and have them beat the living shit out of eachother during the second period or something like that. I don't know about you guys but I got tired of seeing the goalies getting raped by letting in like 20 goals a game. Some rough stuff from the league's premiere enforcers would definitely make the game a ton more interesting, but that's probably the Broad Street Bully in me talking.
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