Re: All-Star Weekend (Toronto 2024)
Originally Posted by
2014olympicgold
There's got to be something that can be done to prevent Kucherov from doing what he did. That was horrible, but when you force someone to do something they don't want to do, especially Kucherov's personality, that will happen.
Honestly I don't get him. Wouldn't it be better to fake an injury and miss 1 game than to do all that traveling and time wasting?
I watched parts of each event, the draft was pretty weak. I do not blame the NHL, I blame the players, most NHL players have had any personality worked out of their public personna since they were 15 so these show your personality events usually end like this.
The skills competition was the best it has been in a while. The hockey decathlon was cool keeping the fans engaged from one event to another. Kucherov's performance was unfortunate, such a waste of a spot.
props to the NHL for putting up $1million to the skills winner. Yes these guys are all rich but that is still 10% of Kucheov's annual salary for 2 hours of effort.
I get why the NHL wanted him in the skills competition and maybe he thought he had no choice but if he was going to do that why not tell the NHL and have another young guy who gives a shit take his spot. Again, most guys will give effort due to pride and a shot at $1million.
The game is always going to be meh for me. It cannot be "worth" anything because the last thing any fan wants is their all-star getting hurt in an exhibition, which means low effort, which means no hitting, which means you lose what makes hockey compelling. The NHL does the best with what it has (a ton of stars not giving max effort). It's over and done, now back to the second half of a compelling NHL season.
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