This was PAINFUL to watch... 

What were your thoughts on this years All Star Skill competition?

They got PK to do some in house interviewing because of his personality, but you could tell even he was struggling to make it sound exciting

I feel like it gets worse every year.

Remember when the Skills competition actually had SOMETHING to do with hockey? Those were the days.

John Tortorella “Oh, I don’t worry about that sh-” “The whole game, the whole weekend, I don’t even watch it. I think it’s turned into a… I’ll leave it at that. I really don’t care.”

It was brutal. Absolutely brutal to watch.

When I was watching the NFL skills competition water balloon toss, I was sure it couldn't get any worse. NHL proved me wrong.

The NHL annually humiliating themselves.

I felt like I was watching some crappy reality TV show instead of a hockey skills event.

Perfect analysis. This was rough to watch. Felt embarrassing just to watch

The NHL is like a cable provider. They are constantly trying to appease new fans, but don't give a shit about loyal , long time fans. That skills comp is embarrassing

Who thought giving a millionaire free chipotle was good idea in the first place lol. I get sponsors and whatever but they could've given him a jersey with a chipotle logo literally anything but giving fast food to a millionaire especially when there isn't chipotle in Montreal.

I really started feeling bad for the players (circus performers). I think if I were selected I’d fake an injury. Format has to go-

I caught that mcdavid 4-banger that was sweet!! Glad that was the highlight!! I’m just a couple years into following the NHL and 42. loving it more every day!

Glad you mentioned D Sedin ‘s 4/4 in 7 seconds he did that twice .

Why did they keep bouncing around so often and not stick with each full event? I thought my ESPN app was broken😂

The second hand embarrassment was so painful that I had to change the channel multiple times. What a fucking disgrace. The entire marketing team should be cleaned out top to bottom.

Mcdavid 100% accuracy in the accuracy shooting and still loses because someone else put more shots on net in a shorter amount of time

The tendy tandem felt like it was never gonna end

Not sure what happened, but Kaprizov was listed to compete in the fastest skater but didn't. Not sure if he had a chance, I just wanted to see the Wilds only player. That being said, the skills competition used to be the only reason to watch since the main game is always kind of boring since they don't want to get injured, understandably. Now they have completely gutted the skills comp. Snoozefest.

You think it was bad watch on TV? IMAGINE BEING THERE 😵‍💫

Welcome to the NHL presented by ESPN.

This all star stuff sucked this year. Actually it sucked for a while now

The breakaway competition was supposed to be super fun with all the stick handlings. They turned it into a kid show, unbelievable.

Kadri being accurate from the goalie crease

They really lamed it up this year… and the girls coming in to add to that inclusive touch

I normally really like the skills competition but this year I stopped watching after like an hour because I got so annoyed with the constant switching back and forth between events. The one major highlight for me was seeing Ovi jr's goal on Lou.

GET WOKE GO BROKE!

That whole thing was brutal to watch.

"Hey Igor, back into your net as much as possible so she scores for sure"

Bring back the all star draft like a few years ago when captains drafted their teams. They traded Tyler Sequin for Phil Kessel.

Mcdavid lost an accuracy competition in which he didn't miss a single shot but his opponent did 😂

It's been years since I've watched skills competitions and all-stars games, in every sport. I doesn't appear like I've missed anything.

The NHL already has a sinking ratings problem. They're not good at marketing for some reason. That's sad because so many of us love it.

I just think it should continue being a strictly NHL skill competition, this was just nonsense with players outside of NHL and not following rules/including best players in the actual event. Fun for kids I guess but there's a reason why the arena was half empty.

Didn’t think it could get any worse. Congrats

This and the NFL skills were both brutal.

My favorite part of the skills competition was the dunk tank challenge on the beach. The beach behind the targets wasn't roped off and you could see people walking by and panicking because of the pucks

Ovi Jr scores: Next man up: “you can’t hate on this, obviously” Dominic Hasek: “Hold my beer bro”

"We dont have a Chipotle in Montreal" bro, we dont have one in Canada period lol

You summarized the event to perfection... tough to watch.. good job

I'm glad Gordie Howe didn't see this.

The next logical step is to bring back the world cup of hockey.. as a golf tournament

in my opinion they should have had the bardown team for the skills comp interviews and spittin' chiclets for the golf portions of the skills comp. give nods to the already established media presences in hockey.

The whole thing was a clown show, with Subban as the ringmaster.

I thought McDavid was impressive for under 10 seconds, but Sedin made it in 7?!

Come to think of it, the only recent one with the 4 divisions All star game setup I actually enjoyed was when John Scott was in because of all the freedom in the fan vote and the whole story about how he got screwed by the NHL. Other than that year, every All Star game afterwards kept getting worse and worse.

Should've been a time penalty for missed shot in the accuracy competition.

Even the accuracy shot got unnatural when they put two nets on the line

I haven't watched the NHL ASG since they used to draft the teams. Thanks for the hilarious recap. Looking forward to more of your vids, now that i've subbed 👍

Im noticing this happening across all sports. The All-Star/Pro Bowls events and games themselves getting worse and worse over the years.

the goalie tandem challenge was actually kind of cool, but I think it missed a key feature of hockey that would've made it amazing, pacing. Half the fun of hockey especially going to watch games live it the pure speed of the game, I think if they have sped up that tendie tandem challenge it would've made for some actual action and not what felt like an eternity waiting for someone just to dish a puck down the boards because who knows. the rest of the event I think your video was an amazing summation, the golf was really fun to watch I love they went full golf channel with the broadcasters and everything, but spacing everything out like that, on top of the breakaway challenge clearly proving till be a disappointment after Pasternak threw a putter then tapped the puck in the net with another one, i couldn't be bothered to pay actual attention to the rest completely miss the entire hardest shot completion, while it was happening right Infront of my on one of my monitors. yesterday went from excited anticipation when the Marner video started playing, to disbelief, and disappointment as soon as the puck left his stick.

An awkward moment for me was...well, .... *Basically every interview or the fact that the reporters had to make things seem all WOW-like, even though it was all BS.* ... But aside from that, what was most awkward for one, was the moment all the golfer players had to take a stroll down to the final green whilst getting interviewed by this short Chum-Lee looking figure who stood inbetween them, but they all had to act in a way like it was a great vibe and that they were all jolly old friends, even though the format was super cringey. And then, there was the moment where Subban had to commentate the Tkachuks coming out for Matthews little shootout skit, I just felt the cringe in all that, and Subban was just *barely* holding it together, it was hard to keep my eyes on the TV and actually watch it, because it made me feel like my eyes were burning if I decided to focus.

At this point, my suggestion of having Team Ontario vs Team Quebec match at the all star game makes more sense than some of the trash they pulled here. The NHL needs to get back to the KISS principle.

i’m honestly just at a loss for words on how absolutely terrible the all-star events were this year… there’s no point having an all-star break at all if this is gonna be the quality of it.

That part with Shesterkin letting her score... Wow. Just wow. Gotta pander.

It was the worst. Especially when they said nurse finessed Igor

And the crowd goes mild

Gave up on All Star weekend years ago . Skills are what make it entertaining not presentation .

Still better than that “Awesome” Sarah Nurse shootout goal. 😂🤣🤪

Well, i bet the coverage done by social media is better than what was on tv. They should do more behind the scenes stuff. Anyway, hard to argue with your points.

I remember when the skills competition was about skill

That lady "beating" Shesterkin was a new low.

Everyone was pumped about the Sarah Nurse goal but you can tell Shisterkin didn't try to push off laterally.

I don't think I ever even saw a commercial promoting this at all....the golf thing would be a cool event to watch in its own really, but what they did to the rest of it, I'm kind of glad I missed it due to not even knowing it was on.

bring back Al Iafrate!

Brutaaaaaal. With Marner and Pasta acting like fools

I was literally saying of all this as I was watching it live. So glad someone pointed out this issue

Agreed -- great take. A shame the shootouts have been replaced with theatrics 😞 used to be the highlight of the weekend

No wonder why Auston Matthews extended his injury reserve time.

Watching the All Star game it was obvious that not one single player skating onto the ice during the intro wanted to be there lmao

i'm willing to be more people have watched this review of the skills competition then the actual competition.

I actually liked the golf part. I hope it comes back cuz it was entertaining

Seriously... who thought this pacing was REMOTELY a good idea? I'm honestly appalled.

Mitch clearly didn't want to score on Lou out of respect.

The NHL is actually turning into an version of Slap Shot 2. Unfortunately…but in real life. Not sure what is worse..the movie or the NHL’s latest pandering.

The bigger issue is the NHL going woke

The whole discussion about Pietrangelo winning the Breakaway thing last year was more fun to watch than this years skill comp...

ESPN’s NHL coverage is terrible compared to TNT

So I learned some secrets from a friend who works these (hes been dling this since around 2017-18 ish. To sum up what he told me, he said basically the nhl does not do these for profit (profit is a bonus if they ever get some out of these). They do these to satisfy corporate sponsors, both in exposure of their brand(s) or companies and in them ACTUALLY being there. A majority of that crowd were higher ups and employees of companies/organizations that are partners/sponsors with the league. Another good chunk in attendance were just personnel of respective teams media departments. Various writers, analysts, hosts,etc. He said the nhl could care less about the quality of the product or the number of people in attendance when it comes to all-star games. Thats why they have been pricy and hard for regular fans to go to.

I didn't think it was *that* bad. I expect all star weekend to be a stupid somewhat entertaining weekend and just a mid season coffee break. I still enjoyed the hardest shot, accuracy shooting and fastest skater competitions and just turned it off when that golf thing and surf board thing was happening and would check to see when it's over. Don't care for the breakaway challenge either but Pastrnak did get a bit of a laugh out of me though

gave me Caddyshack 2 level douche chills

Looked like McDavid was pissed after he lost to kadri

I love Patty maroon too but that was really embarrassing to watch

I love the gimmicks in breakaway challenges but it was better when it was like one player who did it. Not everything has to be staged, it's annoying.

. I was thinking the other day, there was a late 90s Allstar weekend where Lemieux and Jagr were both in attendance, it was that still before they started the North America vs World theme. And Jagr did a shootout on Roy where he dangled and stick handled till he was practically in the the net. It was smooth. I have never been able to find a copy of that (shout out to anyone who can find me footage!). Anyways, I kept thinking about it rest of the event and I remember the skills were a great addition, just a little something extra, but still hockey related. Now it's a complete circus and simply a cringe joke

Save streak was my favorite I’m upset it’s gone

Yup great summary was brutal to watch

Actually, what was worth it was watching Kadri beat McDavid in the shootout round 2! That and a skinny forward blast a 103mph slapper that made a bunch of D-men quake.

This is definetly run by some guys who think they know all the trends and secrets but are very out of touch

I remember really enjoying it the year they had it in St. Louis. This year, though, was just a bunch of boringness/cringe with some small sprinkles of good.

The All Star game used to show off how great these players are,but now it's turned into a game show and I hate the mini games concept. I know the previous games never had much hitting but at least it was an actual game.Of course today the most important thing for the NHL is to be politically correct rather than be entertaining.

It used to be an honor to make the allstar team now it’s just a chance to make an ass of yourself

People going crazy about the Sarah Nurse goal, but it doesn't take a genious to see that Shesterkin was giving it his...what, 5%?

I think that the all-star game needs a saucer pass contest, either the best or the longest

Bettman would tell you this was the best one ever and that no one made any complaints. 🙄

In 1987 the All Star Game was replaced by Rendez-vous ‘87. NHL all stars vs. Soviet Union. Imagine. It was a true celebration of hockey. 1990 was also a great all star weekend. The first ever skills competition and in my opinion, the best. NHL are overthinking the game way too much.

He does the Kucherov🤣 Nice👍

Was just talking how I used to enjoy seeing all these players do the skill competitions as a kid, Paul Kariya in fastest skater was always a favorite of mine. But now it's just a big circus. Don't know if it's always been that way but being a kid I was oblivious to it but I don't even watch anymore. Catch the highlights and call it good

I can just picture it. One of these new fans takes their kid to see a hockey game and the kid looks up at his dad with tears streaming down his face and bawls "Where are the clowns?"