* The 2016 Honda NHL All-Star Game will be a three-game tournament played in a 3-on-3 format with a prize pool of $1 million to be paid in its entirety to the tournament's winning team. * The tournament will feature four teams, one team representing each NHL Division: the Pacific, Central, Metropolitan and Atlantic. * Each team will be made up of 11 players: six forwards, three defensemen and two goaltenders. * The 2016 NHL All-Star Fan Vote will allow fans to vote for one All-Star player from each Division, without regard to position. The top vote-getter from each Division will be named NHL All-Stars, as well as Captain of his respective team. * The remaining 40 NHL All-Stars will be named by the NHL Hockey Operations Department for a total of 44 All-Star players, with at least one player selected from each NHL team. * The 2016 Honda All-Star Skills Competition™ returns to a matchup between the Eastern Conference and Western Conference All-Stars on Saturday evening, with the winning conference earning the right to select when their semi-final matchup will be played; first or second on Sunday. * Each game in the three-game, 3-on-3 2016 Honda NHL All-Star Tournament will be 20 minutes in length. * Teams will change ends at the 10-minute mark of each game. Games that are tied after 20 minutes will be decided by a shootout. * The Central Division All-Stars will face the Pacific Division All-Stars and the Atlantic Division All-Stars will face the Metropolitan Division All-Stars in the two Semi-Final games. * The winners of each Semi-Final game will play each other in the All-Star Game Final to determine the overall tournament champion. * The four division-leading NHL coaches (best points percentage following the completion of games on Jan. 9, 2016) will be named coaches for each of the four All-Star teams
I don't think I ever switched the channel away from a sporting event as quickly as I did yesterday after I saw 45 seconds of this all-star thingy (still long enough to see 3 goals mind). What an eye sore! To think some people probably dished-out a couple hundred dollars to watch this garbage...
Hawks fan here, living in Nashville as a season ticket holder, I paid roughly 350 total for Skills Comp and the 3v3 event, skills was great, would have preferred it to go longer, or more events. I enjoyed the 3v3 event, it was probably way better live than it was on TV.