ASGs Thread

[devilsblood]

I watched for about 2 minutes, saw 4 goals and turned it off.

 

[Patrik26]

I've never heard of Bebe Rexha, but good god is her azz ginormous. Like, freakishly large.

It looks like they took a skinny, good looking girl's upper body, and put it on the lower body of a fat person.

Sorta like a bowling pin.

 

[Devils Dominion]

I've never heard of Bebe Rexha, but good god is her azz ginormous. Like, freakishly large.

It looks like they took a skinny, good looking girl's upper body, and put it on the lower body of a fat person.

 

[My3Sons]

Barzal is highly elite.

As opposed to meh elite or average elite?

 

[Devils Dominion]

As opposed to meh elite or average elite?

One of the best players in the league

NYb truly hit the lottery

 

[My3Sons]

One of the best players in the league

NYb truly hit the lottery

Barzal is a good example of the uncertainty of drafting huh school seniors and projecting how they will perform as grown men. It’s not as if the professional scouts saw him as can’t miss.

 

[BenedictGomez]

When I first started watching hockey in 91 I thought the all star competition and game were the greatest. I still think they're fun, though I don't even remember when they're on half the time. As I got older I was surprised how low an opinion people have towards all star games in every sport.

This matches my experience as well. When I was little I looked forward to it and thought it was awesome.

I'm not sure what percentage of it is, "I was a kid", versus "the games have gotten much worse" over the years, I'd guess 40:60. There's no doubt the games, even though high scoring, were more competitive. Sometimes there would be crazy high scores, but often they were 6-4 or 9-7, but it felt like decent hockey. Yes, there was a drop in defense a bit and no checking, but it's gotten to the point where defense is intentionally not played.

 

[Devils Dominion]

Barzal is a good example of the uncertainty of drafting huh school seniors and projecting how they will perform as grown men. It’s not as if the professional scouts saw him as can’t miss.

I remember reading an article from around March 2015 that said Barzal was a Top-3 pick of he didn't injure his knee prior to that season.

 

[MartyOwns]

the problem with the ASG is that there is no hitting (and rightly so, hitting would be super awkward in that setting). so you’re taking away a fundamental part of hockey, which is bad enough...but the end result is players half heartedly swinging their sticks around in feeble attempts to poke check the puck. the whole thing looks unnatural and insincere

 

[My3Sons]

I remember reading an article from around March 2015 that said Barzal was a Top-3 pick of he didn't injure his knee prior to that season.

Sure but he went 15 or 16? And the Bruins passed on him three times. I’m not suggesting he was a nobody but he wasn’t an obvious pick to the pro scouts. Some liked him but some didn’t for whatever reason.

 

[MadDevil]

One of the best players in the league

NYb truly hit the lottery

Meh. I'd rather have Griffin Reinhart.

 

[None Shall Pass]

To be honest, this is the first year in many that I actually watched the entire ASG (Skills competition and the actual game), and it was fun. You need to go into it knowing it's all for a laugh and to make kids smile and sponsors happy. Then you appreciate the silliness more - the hotdogging plays and goalies trying dumb saves and everything.

My favorite moment was during the game last night was when they brought up how you could vote for the game's MVP, and Doc just started ranting that they couldn't write people in (He wanted Letang IIRC), and started saying that he was "powerless to do anything about it" and started blaming "the people above us". I was cracking up.

 

[JrFischer54]

This matches my experience as well. When I was little I looked forward to it and thought it was awesome.

I'm not sure what percentage of it is, "I was a kid", versus "the games have gotten much worse" over the years, I'd guess 40:60. There's no doubt the games, even though high scoring, were more competitive. Sometimes there would be crazy high scores, but often they were 6-4 or 9-7, but it felt like decent hockey. Yes, there was a drop in defense a bit and no checking, but it's gotten to the point where defense is intentionally not played.

I'm in the same boat and honestly i think everyone is/was. As a kid i couldn't wait to see the skills competition and thought it was amazing. as i got older? it got more boring and stupid and then pointless. the question i want to know is what did the "adults" think back then? did they think it was as great and fun and exciting? or were they too like this is stupid boring and pointless? my guess is it was probably fun to everyone since back then? middle of winter? there really wasn't much going on in tv and in life. now? kids playing all types of sports 7 days a week and different times. they should just do away with the all star game but it makes too much money somehow