Many people look forward to All Star weekend not just for the game itself, but also for the skills competition. What many people don't realize, is that due to time constraints several other events have been removed from the skills competition, luckily the DGS SuperSpies have found the list of events that were scrapped.
The Event: Bad Contract Roulette
How It Worked: A roulette wheel would be placed and each captain would try to stick his opponent with the contracts of terrible players like Ville Leino and Scott Gomez
Reason for Taking It Out: AHL players like Matt Walker and Wade Redden aren't allowed at the NHL All Star Game.
The Event: Dodge The Elbows
How It Worked: Players would skate around the ice dodging obstacles like Chris Pronger's left elbow and Matt Cooke's right forearm while attempting to handle the puck
Reason for Taking It Out: Matt Cooke seems to have cleaned up his act and Chris Pronger has gone the way of Marc Savard.
The Event: Diving Competition
How It Worked: All Stars would make like Summer Olympians and do a diving competition, complete with judges and everything
Reason for Taking It Out: Every single season, the Sedins would win.
The Event: Big Eats
How It Worked: A buffet would be laid out, and each team would see who could consume more food in the allotted team
Reason for Taking It Out: A small problem arose, Martin Brodeur is no longer an All Star goalie capable of challenging Tim Thomas.
The Event: ECHL Future Stars Game
How It Worked: A group of ECHL players would get to play giving hope to teams who employ Steve Mason and Brett Lebda that maybe some better players would arrive.
Reason for Taking It Out: Anchorage, Alaska; Elmira, New York; Trenton, NJ and Gwinnett Georgia are all considered better places to live than Columbus, Ohio.
Even though these events are gone, one still remains. During the actual All-Star Game we can watch players perform the 2 following events-
1: Play More Defense Than Mike Green
2: Loaf around the Neutral Zone more than Alex Kovalev
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, August 15, 2011
NHL Oops Moments
You know that moment you have when you realize something wasn't what it seemed? Like when people mistake me for Danny Briere (happened twice now). It's happened quite a bit around the NHL recently and we have a list of those moments compiled here.
The Event- Martin St Louis wears the new Lightning jerseys to a promotional event at a Tampa area sports store.
The Reaction- A little kid yells out, "LOOK, MOMMY, A SMURF!!!!!!!" (This is followed by kids asking Marty to sign their Disney movies...and parents wondering who that paid actor is...)
The Event- Danny Briere walks into a local coffee shop in South Jersey
The Reaction-The barista instantly says, "Your usual, DGS?"
The Event- Jaromir Jagr and Max Talbot sign with the Flyers.
The Reaction-Chris Pronger laughs maniacally as he reveals he stole the Penguins contract offers and replaced them with a Flyers offer instead.
The Event- The Rangers sign a UFA player.
The Reaction- Glen Sather still doesn't know who keeps adding extra years "0s" to each contract.
The Event- Wade Redden waived and assigned to AHL Hartford.
The Reaction- The Whale apparently were under the impression that they were getting an NHL send down, not an ECHL call up.
The Event- The Bruins execute a line change during the playoffs.
The Reaction- Paul Holmgren counted out the men, there's too many...oh god... GAGNE!
The Event- Eklund reports a trade rumor as e5
The Reaction- Crickets
The Event- David Poile asks for "Brent" in a trade with the Maple Leafs
The Reaction- Brian Burke hand writes the trade fax with "Brett" in it and makes sure to send Lebda to the Predators.
(Note: We have no proof about this, but it's the only logical explanation as to why anyone would ever trade FOR Brett Lebda)
The Event- A Sedin asks a linesman about a call during a stoppage prompting the linesman to say, "Well, Dan..."
The Reaction- "uhh...I'm Henrik"
The Event- Garth Snow jokingly says he intends to reacquire Roloson because of his playoffs successes.
The Reaction- In a "Milbury Moment" Snow acquires Brian Rolston instead.
The Event- Martin St Louis wears the new Lightning jerseys to a promotional event at a Tampa area sports store.
The Reaction- A little kid yells out, "LOOK, MOMMY, A SMURF!!!!!!!" (This is followed by kids asking Marty to sign their Disney movies...and parents wondering who that paid actor is...)
The Event- Danny Briere walks into a local coffee shop in South Jersey
The Reaction-The barista instantly says, "Your usual, DGS?"
The Event- Jaromir Jagr and Max Talbot sign with the Flyers.
The Reaction-Chris Pronger laughs maniacally as he reveals he stole the Penguins contract offers and replaced them with a Flyers offer instead.
The Event- The Rangers sign a UFA player.
The Reaction- Glen Sather still doesn't know who keeps adding extra years "0s" to each contract.
The Event- Wade Redden waived and assigned to AHL Hartford.
The Reaction- The Whale apparently were under the impression that they were getting an NHL send down, not an ECHL call up.
The Event- The Bruins execute a line change during the playoffs.
The Reaction- Paul Holmgren counted out the men, there's too many...oh god... GAGNE!
The Event- Eklund reports a trade rumor as e5
The Reaction- Crickets
The Event- David Poile asks for "Brent" in a trade with the Maple Leafs
The Reaction- Brian Burke hand writes the trade fax with "Brett" in it and makes sure to send Lebda to the Predators.
(Note: We have no proof about this, but it's the only logical explanation as to why anyone would ever trade FOR Brett Lebda)
The Event- A Sedin asks a linesman about a call during a stoppage prompting the linesman to say, "Well, Dan..."
The Reaction- "uhh...I'm Henrik"
The Event- Garth Snow jokingly says he intends to reacquire Roloson because of his playoffs successes.
The Reaction- In a "Milbury Moment" Snow acquires Brian Rolston instead.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
DGS Podcast Episode 1: Caity Kauffman
ITS HERE! THE PODCAST IS HERE!
Listen here separately
Guest: Caity Kauffman
Find her:
Website: www.CaityKauffman.com
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/CaityKauffman
Quick facts:
She's a reporter for FGCU sports
She's covered the Florida Jr Everblades and does their PR.
Quick outline:
ECHL life
We talked Winter Classic both 2011 and 2012 (Article we referenced)
Junior Hockey in Florida (this involved us feeling old)
Some Hockey Trivia
DGS Podcast Contest:
Email me the correct answer to the question for a prize.
DownGoesSpezza@Gmail.com
The prize is a Bauer 4500 White Hockey helmet (size small).
Question: DGS says one untrue fact about himself during the podcast, what is it?
Listen here separately
Guest: Caity Kauffman
Find her:
Website: www.CaityKauffman.com
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/CaityKauffman
Quick facts:
She's a reporter for FGCU sports
She's covered the Florida Jr Everblades and does their PR.
Quick outline:
ECHL life
We talked Winter Classic both 2011 and 2012 (Article we referenced)
Junior Hockey in Florida (this involved us feeling old)
Some Hockey Trivia
DGS Podcast Contest:
Email me the correct answer to the question for a prize.
DownGoesSpezza@Gmail.com
The prize is a Bauer 4500 White Hockey helmet (size small).
Question: DGS says one untrue fact about himself during the podcast, what is it?
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