Buzzing About The All-Star Game (See What We Did There?)

Another All-Star Game has come and gone, and as much as the NHL would like us to believe that Ovie was the star of the show, and as much as Chara attempted to prove the league wrong, we believe the true winner of the weekend was Stinger. Katebits brought some fabulous pictures of him [...]

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2009 NHL All Star Game Open Thread

The 2009 NHL Superskills was surprisingly fun (thanks to Chara, not Ovechkin, of course), so we have high hopes for the All Star game proper to not suck 100%. Join us in an open thread as we take in the sights and sounds of the mid-season classic on ice.

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118 Reasons We Love The All-Star Game (Give Or Take A Few)

Inspired by Patty (in Dallas)’s kind words for the All-Star Game we now present to you our reasons why we aren’t joining the ranks of whiners and complainers trying to kill the midseason classic buzz.
1. The Superskills and All-Star Game bring out the very best in mic’ed up players. Between Marty Turco, Manny [...]

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A Pollyanna Retrospective On A Season That Sucked: Day 4

Okay, we had been in the throes of a week-long rundown of things we liked about this past regular season before getting distracted by America’s Next Top Model, but we’ve got one very important point that we’d like to mention. In a season that was full of the dreadfully dull and the bitterly bleak, [...]

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All-Star Winners and Losers

So we’ve pretty much ignored all the post All-Star Weekend media coverage today, because it always makes us feel so very low to hear the bitching about how “meaningless” the game is, and to listen to the hockey media yammering on about what changes could be made to make the game “matter” more. You [...]

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All-Star Sunday

WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Can you feel the excitement? Can you feel the star power? Can you? Can you? Because it’s ALL-STAR TIME! Doc’s intro, singling out the biggest and brightest names, is hilariously short of actual big and bright names. It’s like he’s saying, “Come see the high-scoring Ovechkin, the [...]

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All-Star Red Carpet Review

We are sure you’re wondering what our take on the red carpet footage before yesterday’s SuperSkills festivities was. Well, after considerable TiVo delay, we’ve decided to zap through the presentation from NHL Network, and we’re happy to share our purely fangirl-riffic take on the be-suited players in all their All-Star finery.
– Okay, we were [...]

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