NHL All-star game tonight, East or West? Options

[Kleerance]

East or west?

I'll set my bet on East. A lot of young talent. Brodeur as goalie and Ovechkin/Crosby up front.....

My tip 5-3 to to the East Conf.

[pezking]

I thought it was Wednesday?!?! I'll have to double check my schedule.

I think East will take it... Western Conference has dominated for years now but finally the East has majority of the players w/the most points, etc. Crosby and Ovechkin playing together will be like Lemieux and Gretzky. BTW, did you guys see the new jerseys? Pretty sleek... no more wool, 100% synthetic.

[Barkmann]

Hmmmm I say the West going to win!!!!

[Bargod]

It is wednesday. Tonite is skillz comp. I'll be bartending both nites near the AAC. Hopefully it will bring a good crowd. Saturday morning was the kick off with celebrity crap going on and "test your slapshot" type things. It was in the parking lot of the arena. It rained and was in the low '30's. LOL! Hopefully everything else will go smoothly.

Weren't they doing it N. America v. World for a while?

[pezking]

Yeah, N. America vs the World was introduced before the Olympics years ago... I wasn't a huge fan. Atleast you have some kind of control what side you're playing w/when it's East vs West, changing teams and all that. Still going to say East has it... Broduer, Ovechkin, Heatly, Crosby, Lecavalier, Hossa, Briere... just too bad no Jagr this go around. Only guy on the West that is consitantly putting in goals this season is Selanne. Next guy on the scoring list that's playing in the All Star game is Bill Guerin who is in 30th place in goals scored. Yep, N. America should dominate this game... better goalies too. I know Loungo is streaking, but to start him over Kiprusoff and Turco is mad. Broduer eats Luongo for breakfast.

[Genocide Junkie]

You mean they still play hockey?

[|$aucy|]

The skills competition is awesome. Everyone needs to watch.
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Go eastern all stars (captained by Mr. Shanahan)

[Shifty]

Everyone knows our beloved Ryan Smyth is going to win the hardest shot contest.
That 60 mph slapper is unbeatable.

Young stars game is tonight along with the skills comp. The Allstar game is Wednesday night.

Classic comment from a buddy I was discussing the hardest shot competition with. I asked him if he thought Jim Hughson's man-love Dion Phaneuf would win the hardest shot contest (for those of you who don't watch HNIC Jim Hughson is one of the CBC morons who is in love with the Calgary Flames)
He replied that Jim Hughson would have the hardest shot once Phaneuf took to the ice.

Anyhoo, since the All star game is all about offense with little consideration given to D I'd have to go with the East on this one

[pezking]

Speaking of hardest shots, I miss Al Iafrate.

[|$aucy|]

MacInnis > Iafrate

[pezking]

Damn, I thought Iafrate still held that record?

*more*

Who has the world's fastest slapshot?

Officially the fastest slapshot belongs to Chad Kilger who managed an icy 106.6 mph on December 3rd, 2006 during the Toronto Maple Leafs skills competition.

Unofficially Bobby Hull is said to have let one rip that reached a chilling 118.3 mph.

*even more*

At the yearly NHL all-star "hardest shot" skill competition, the winning slapshot typically propels the puck at around 100 miles per hour (160 kilometres per hour). Al Iafrate holds the record during an NHL All-Star skills competition at 105.2 mph. The hardest slap shot on record is 106.6 mph set by Chad Kilger on December 3rd, 2006 during the Toronto Maple Leafs skills competition.

This post has been edited by pezking: 01/23/07 6:10pm

[|$aucy|]

I think Boucher and Chara each hit 100 mph tonight, but nothing near Iafrate's or Kilger's records. Pretty entertaining competition, especially with all the shootouts.

[Bargod]

I'm in the "Wharehouse Restaurant District" less than a quarter mile from the arena. This area has been dying over the last 5 years. There are people from all over the world at this event (a fellow bartender has tickets to all the events and told me about all the people in attendence).

I had very little business. A couple of reporters, a couple of fans...
God, this part of town is cursed.
I saw all the cars in the lots before getting to work. I know the hotels are packed...

I got friggan NADA!

Seriously. Me and the other top bartender usurped this nite. We went out of our way to make sure nobody but us got all the HUGE amnts of money that would be in town.

NOTHING!!!

Suck Pile all the way.

Sigh...

[pezking]

That's sucks BG.. hope you guys can pick up more business tonight.

I thought the young stars game was so entertaining. The 4-4 format is really good and it was just goal after goal after goal. The skills challenge was a bit yawn... I like the shootouts and the offense zone 3 vs keeper... although the latter seemed a bit boring cause they didn't seem to be trying too hard. The final shootout was great when Crosby and Selanne kept shooting back to back. Crosby has a gift that I'm sure we've seen 20% of so far in two seasons, he's amazing.

[Kleerance]

12-9 to the West......O'boy. Brodeur let in 6 goals...Must have had a bed day

I guess Barkmann was the only one who guessed right in this one