Darren Drager at TSN says the NHL All-Star weekend will have a different look next month in Montreal.He says the Young Stars game will now plot NHL rookies against NHL sophomores in the hope of raising the competitive level of the game.
Drager also notes that the traditional East versus West format has been scrapped for NBA-type individual competitions including two versions of the shootout, one a single knockout variation using NHL goaltenders, while the second is designed strictly for showmanship using Canadian University goalies.
...hey why not, the old format wasn't drawing any TV viewership, so a change might be good.
...hopefully the players come up with better trick shots than last year because, with the exception of Alex Ovechkin, the 2007 free style shootout was terrible.
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