It's Hockey so I will be watching. Would rather this than an all star game which is typically the worst presentation of hokey time wasting crap ever. I'd rather watch karaoke Yoko Ono.
- glove_was_stuck

You'd rather watch Yoko Ono Karaoke than McDavid flying around the ice? Or the best players in the league playing 3v3? Even drunk Kucherov on his phone was entertaining.

I really don't understand why people speak this way.

It seems like the NHL is trying to best the NBA’s gimmick in-season tournament with this. Hard pass.

I'm not interested in it, at all.
I'm interested in best-on-best. The corrupt world politics prevents that.

It seems like the NHL is trying to best the NBA’s gimmick in-season tournament with this. Hard pass.
- Sublime55

This is just a warm up for their larger international hockey goals.

The plan is to go:

2026 Olympics
2027 All-Star Game
2028 World Cup
2029 All-Star Game
2030 Olympics
2031 All-Star Game
2032 World Cup...

You'd rather watch Yoko Ono Karaoke than McDavid flying around the ice? Or the best players in the league playing 3v3? Even drunk Kucherov on his phone was entertaining.

I really don't understand why people speak this way.
- JLO961

Yes. I would. I'd rather watch McDavid flying around the ice in a competition he's engaged in. I wasn't entertained by Manny Ramirez on his (frank)ing phone so why I would l be Kucherov? 3v3 is great when they're engaged.

I used to love the skills competition too but that has become even cheesier than NHL awards show. It's unwatchable.

This is just a warm up for their larger international hockey goals.

The plan is to go:

2026 Olympics
2027 All-Star Game
2028 World Cup
2029 All-Star Game
2030 Olympics
2031 All-Star Game
2032 World Cup...
- BINGO!

Huh…welp, good luck to them. The sense I get across all the major sports is that they’re all trying everything to invigorate the all-star game format. Just my take, but it seems the all-star game concept is a bit of relic to the 80s and 90s when it was still a novelty.