Quote: Originally Posted by Kreskin
What it is is a bunch of guys floating around doing less than they doing daily during a light skate. I haven't seen the ratings from this game but TV viewership of NHL allstar games has been declining for years. For the simple reason that very few people find them entertaining.
no floating at all, and the attendence was the highest ever, according to bettman.
that so called floating is faster than you could go with an outboard attached to
your butt. lol
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[QUOTE=JLM;1375883]I think in this day and age Talloola the game is going to be what the majority think it should be and want it to be. Having said that it think it would be a much better game if the fighting was taken out. I think the fighting really just appeals to simple minds (like Cherry's) and has nothing to do with hockey or skills and yet influences the outcome of the game. How many debillitating injuries are caused by fighting and how much does it shorten the average career? While I admit Tiger Williams was a pretty fair hockey player, most of the goons like Semenko and the little Italian goon who played for TO a few years back, were no more hockey players than my amputee grandmother.
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that is what it is now, what the majority want.
I don't mind the 'odd' fight, hate the staged ones. The danger in the game are the hits or colitions
at a high rate of speed (because players are the fastest they have ever been), while hitting the boards.
The concussions are the worrysome part at the moment. The blind hits to the head have now been rules in
at penalties and suspensions, so they are allready declining.
They now have to address the other head shots, and figure out how to differentiate between accidents and
intentionals, so it seems they will figure out something there.
I have not seen players end their careers or have serious injuries from fights, I guess it must have
happened at some point, but fights are not the danger of the game.
The all-star game has been played for years and years, and the same whining has happened every year,
and we will hear it again next year, but happily the the celebrations will continue every year, with
the game, possibility with different formats, but it will cntinue, as it is enjoyed by many, especially
the thousands who are 'THERE' where it is played.
Also, the players love it too, it gives them a break 1/2 way thru the season.
I watched the AHL all star game tonight, exactly the same kin of game the NHL had, the place was full,
they have 10,000 in their building (full house), screaming fans, who are having fun, cheering and clapping
for those all stars on the ice. It is climax to a 2 day celebration, same as the NHL.
Good for them, people having a good time, sure nothing wrong with that, if they didn't enjoy it, the
building would be empty.
The AHL are all the affiliate teams of the NHL, (like the manitoba moose.)
sergai sherokov was playing in the game, representing the moose.
they play an east vs west format
