All Star Skillz Competition

[joelfink]

I was wondering how they decide which players do which comp.
I think Anze would have done better in the shoot out elimination or the free style comp. than the fastest skater comp. Anybody know how this is done???

[NewCastle]

This is the NHL.
Kings don't get any respect.

[TooCool]

The coaches were behind the bench, but I highly doubt they would pick who does what.

I had no idea how it was done. I don't even recall Rick Nash doing anything tonight.

[NewCastle]

No offense to Anze, but of the different contests, I would put him in all other competitions over the fastest skater one.

that free style shootout was rather disappointing. i guess not all the players got the memo on what you could attempt.

[gescom]

the fastest skater competition was absolutely retarded.

[Byatch1979]

I think that the freestyle competition will get better if they keep it (and I hope they do), but send a memo to Nabokov that the goalies shouldn't be allowed to leave the crease and poke check. Everything else that was new sucked. I want to see the old relay comp and the new speed comp was horrible. All in all, the production values were terrible and I don't think that the whole thing was the showcase that the NHL wanted or desperately needed. Like Phaneuf in the slap shot competition, or Datsyuk in the deeks, this was less than impressive.

[Kopitar11Fan]

I loved watching the Young-Stars game.
But I agree that Anze should've been in the free-style or shootout comp. He would've been awesome in those.

[Crusader Knight]

The production crew was infact horrible, and the breakout out contest will improve over time just like the slam dunk competition.

I think they could and should improve the fastest skater competition in the style of Olympic speed skating where you have two lanes side by side, each lane has one skater and half way through the race you switch lanes

[Toothless]

It was nice seeing Anze for 4.6 seconds though [/sarc].

[super_miki]

Overall I was disappointed with the skills competition and the young guns game this year. Most of the new additions/changes were really lame and there seemed to be a lot of technical glitches in the production to top it all off.

I really like the idea of the free style shoot out thing they did at the end, but the players need to be more creative! Hopefully they do keep it for next year though, cause like others have said, it should improve as more players get a feel for it.

But overall tonight, really disappointing!

[PolarBear1]

Originally Posted by gescom

the fastest skater competition was absolutely retarded.

What the hell was that all about anyway?

Was the league afraid someone was going to blow a tire and get injured doing just one lap around the rink?

It's not like they haven't done it before.

Somewhere, Mike Gartner was probably laughing his ass off.

[FootKnight]

I was pretty damn disappointed in the skills competition. The breakaway thing at the end could have been cool if all the players understood what they were allowed to do and Nabakov stayed in the ****ing net.

The 3 on 3 Young Stars game wasn't very good either. It was OK, but I liked last years a lot more. It didn't help that the dumbasses at Versus were showing replays while play was still in progress either. Also, I never want to see 5 minutes of 3 on 3 after overtime, that would suck ass.