You can't pick your family, you can't pick your nose, but you can pick your All-Star Team.No meaningful hockey for the next few days. This is the time of year where the NHL holds its annual All-Star game. As a kid, I was always stoked fot the All-Star Game. I got to see all the hockey superstars in one place, entertaining me with scores like 15-13. All-Star games are never defensive battles. But now that I'm older, the All-Star game has lost its lustre for me. I need to watch hockey that MEANS something. I need to watch hockey with 2 pts on the line. I don't wanna watch a buncha millionaires half heartedly skate up n down the ice making 3 more passes than they ought to. The only thing remotely keeping me interested this year, is the All-Star Fantasy Draft. This is where the captains of each team (Zedeno Chara, Daniel Alfredson) choose their teammates. This is fun because it brings back memories of grade school where you prayed you weren't the last chosen for california kickball. This is how the NHL describes it
A coin toss will decide first pick, with Alfredsson and Chara, joined by their assistant captains, alternately drafting the 38 remaining All-Stars through 19 rounds. Each team will consist of three goaltenders, six defensemen and 12 forwards. To ensure that the final draft picks are true selections and not simply predetermined due to position requirements, each team's three goalies must be picked by the end of Round 10 and each team's six defensemen must be picked by the conclusion of Round 15. The 12 Rookies participating in the 2012 Molson Canadian NHL All-Star Skills Competition will be divided by the National Hockey League into two groups of six. At the completion of the 15th round of the 2012 Molson Canadian NHL All-Star Player Fantasy Draft, one NHL Rookie will be selected to choose which All-Star team his group will join for the skills competition. The NHL Foundation and the NHLPA Goals & Dreams fund each will donate $10,000 on behalf of the All-Star selected with the final pick of the Draft to the grassroots hockey program of his choice.
Fun right? But the best part will be in Round 15, when there will be one player left sitting. Last year it was the Leafs Phil Kessel, who got a car for being embarrassed on international television. I'm hoping it'll be Phil again this year. Stupid Leaf.
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