DevilNurn Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=543059 Kind of hard to understand immediately, but basically it's this: fans will choose a team of 6 All-stars: 3 forwards 2 defensemen 1 goalie (instead of a team for the east and a team for the west) The remaining 36 players will be chosen by the NHL and NHLPA (as usual). All 42 players then vote on 2 captains. The captains then choose their teams. I think it's going to be interesting...perhaps balancing out the fact that the Eastern Conferences is kind of stacked in terms of #1 team all stars (Ovechkin, Crosby, maybe Chara as D). And it'll be interesting to see who the captains are and how they choose. However, just adds another layer of depth to a game that does not matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie McKraut Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Nifty. What will the names be and uniforms look like I wonder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilinLA Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 So after the Canadiens and Leaf players fill out the Top 6 by fan ballot what happens? Does Bettman get to veto any Devil players? What happens if precious Cindy doesn't get in over some second-line Habs favorite? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devil Fan Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 None of the Devils deserves to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyrsuck26 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 interesting......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satans Hockey Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 So are the teams going to have stupid names like most fantasy teams have? and will these be on the jerseys? Horrible idea. They should just cancel this sh!t. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin226 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 But if the players don't even really take the game all that seriously, why does it matter if one team is stacked? I bet that since these teams will be random players and not representing any conference, they will sell the naming rights.. the Versus All-Stars against the XM All-Stars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moj8681 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 So are the teams going to have stupid names like most fantasy teams have? and will these be on the jerseys? Horrible idea. They should just cancel this sh!t. My guess is there is a "home" and "away" NHL shield jersey. It would be nice if the captains get to choose a charity their team will play for. It would at least bring SOME meaning to the game. Especially if it's something like, for every goal scored by Team 1, Team 2 will have to donate X amount of dollars to Team 1's charity, and vice versa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils731 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 (edited) I'm guessing Kovy is our one and only this year, considering Zach will be out forever. I hope Tao gets picked to the Young-Stars team. No more youngstars game by one of the real reporters tweet. I just forget which guy said it. Edit: Reading the link, it looks like the rookies will have their own section of the super skills event but won't have a game. Edited November 10, 2010 by Devils731 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grcenter47 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 maybe they will bring back the lighted puck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 My guess is there is a "home" and "away" NHL shield jersey. It would be nice if the captains get to choose a charity their team will play for. It would at least bring SOME meaning to the game. Especially if it's something like, for every goal scored by Team 1, Team 2 will have to donate X amount of dollars to Team 1's charity, and vice versa. That'd be not so great - every time a goalie stopped a shot, you could accuse him of not caring for [insert cause]. On the flip side, it would be downright awesome if they could work Dan Ellis in there. I think it'd just be best if the teams paid "themselves". Y'know, 100k per goal, team A scores 5 and thus donates 500k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revan Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 I really like the idea. Every time the voting for the All-Star Game starts, I have to force myself to vote. I simply don't care. This is going to be much more interesting and let's face it: everybody loves fantasy drafts. Plus, they had to finally shake the formula up a bit to gather any kind of interest from fans. I'm for it. I didn't plan to watch the ASG this year, but this thing just made me curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRASHER Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 I like the idea... and you head it here first...I'm sure this name will be passed around...it's the billion dollar pick-up game... but it's a great idea and a legit way to make this game interesting without some dumb home-ice advantage concept.....NHL gets this one right.... even though it's team ovie vs team cindy and I see some bad mock-twilight marketing for this one coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrydevil Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Is this innovation or desperation? At any rate, it won't make me watch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moj8681 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 That'd be not so great - every time a goalie stopped a shot, you could accuse him of not caring for [insert cause]. On the flip side, it would be downright awesome if they could work Dan Ellis in there. I think it'd just be best if the teams paid "themselves". Y'know, 100k per goal, team A scores 5 and thus donates 500k. Ooooh. Good point. But its really fun to find more reasons to hate Lundqvist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devil Fan Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 The all-stars should feature all the goons in the NHL and see which player ended up with the honor of Captain Goon. This event should boost ratings because of the potential bench-clearing brawls. Eastern Goons: Orr, Leblond, Peters, McGrattan, Neil, Carcillo, Avery, Hordichuk, Shelley, Brown (Tor), King, Rupp, Cooke, Asham, godard, Prust, Boulton, Eager Western Goons: Tootoo, Rypien, Ott, Jackman, McIntyre (Edm), Ivanas, Parros, Bissonnette, Barch, Stortini, Belak, Janssen, Alberts, Crombeen So, we have a total of 32 goons and we split them up and each side can ice 16 goons playing 4-on-4 hockey. I think netminders such as Lalime, Dipietro, Roloson, and Miller can play because they've seen brawls before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimaira_Devil_#9 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Ahhh so the Captains pick who they want on each of their teams playground style, i like this idea!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinn01 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 I like this idea. Itll change things up a little bit. This year I guess will be a trial year for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devs3cups Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 None of the Devils deserves to go. Yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devlman Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 (edited) I wouldve liked to have seen Ovy and Crosby on the same line. If anything, this new format makes the game even less meaningful. At least before it was for conference rights. Edited November 10, 2010 by devlman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRASHER Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 If anything, this new format makes the game even less meaningful. At least before it was for conference rights. Can you really name ANYONE who cared about that??? Not even in baseball when AL and NL sorta meant something did that matter..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeCups Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 I think Marty may get picked out of respect.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilNurn Posted November 11, 2010 Author Share Posted November 11, 2010 Can you really name ANYONE who cared about that??? Not even in baseball when AL and NL sorta meant something did that matter..... What are conference rights anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott O Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 As of 12/28/10, these are the voting results - official draft pool to be announced January 11th. Forwards (Top 24 make it) 1. Sidney Crosby - 523,822 2. Jonathan Toews - 308,192 3. Evgeni Malkin - 289,878 4. Steven Stamkos - 269,917 5. Patrick Kane - 231,589 6. Michael Cammalleri - 228,021 7. Alex Ovechkin - 219,566 8. Mike Richards - 207,340 9. Claude Giroux - 206,323 (write in vote) 10. Tomas Plekanec - 196,398 (write in vote) 11. Pavel Datsyuk - 191,737 12. Danny Briere - 184,866 13. Marian Hossa - 180,532 14. Brian Gionta - 173,356 15. Sean Avery - 161,182 16. Henrik Zetterberg - 150,576 17. Chad LaRose - 117,920 (write in vote) 18. Eric Staal - 114,254 19. Johan Franzen - 112,388 20. Jeff Carter - 105,631 21. Patrick Sharp - 99,501 (write in vote) 22. Nicklas Backstrom - 92,039 23. Alexander Semin - 78,003 24. Henrik Sedin - 72,639 ----------------------------------------------- 25. Daniel Sedin - 71,970 26. Martin St Louis - 61,041 27. Marian Gaborik - 55,967 28. Anze Kopitar - 53,698 29. Phil Kessel - 48,115 30. Jeff Skinner - 47,473 (write in vote) Defense (Top 12 make it) 1. Kris Letang - 391,525 (write in vote) 2. Duncan Keith - 303,638 3. Chris Pronger - 266,479 4. Nicklas Lidstrom - 260,171 5. Kimmo Timonen - 215,243 6. Brent Seabrook - 197,246 7. P.K. Subban - 185,469 (write in vote) 8. Drew Doughty - 149,920 9. Dustin Byfuglien - 149,126 10. Paul Martin - 146,398 11. Brian Rafalski - 135,837 12. Mike Green - 132,607 ----------------------------------------------- 13. Zdeno Chara - 100,488 14. Marc Staal - 86,600 15. Andrei Markov - 71,352 16. Dan Boyle - 70,334 Goaltenders (Top 6 make it) 1. Marc-Andre Fleury - 311,623 2. Carey Price - 309,598 (write in vote) 3. Sergei Bobrovsky - 237,575 (write in vote) 4. Tim Thomas - 139,182 5. Jaroslav Halak - 117,151 6. Jimmy Howard - 116,503 (write in vote) ----------------------------------------------- 7. Ryan Miller - 94,206 8. Cam Ward - 76,594 9. Henrik Lundqvist - 67,450 10. Roberto Luongo - 67,375 11. Jonathan Quick - 64,906 12. Antti Niemi - 48,801 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinn01 Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Wow not a single Devil. Why am I not surprised? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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