If no results appear, use Enter to do a full site search. Stream Games. This is another way for us to celebrate with our fans. He added that the Blue Jackets have found a way to increase attendance by percent despite being in the middle of a season that has fallen short of expectations after an aggressive offseason. Columbus is last in the NHL with 32 points.
However, they submitted a bid to host the All-Star Game in , or roughly 18 months ago. One of the key facets to getting the NHL to bring the All-Star Game into the market was to finalize the re-structuring of their lease arrangement with the local government.
The whole city will take hold of the support of it. We'll do that all in the arena district, which is just a phenomenal place. Visitors will be able to many times walk to the events, and if there is any kind of commuting it's a short distance. In fact, the coaches' kids actually got to take part in the game in a unique way. Our boys ended up doing that. Philadelphia defenseman Kimmo Timonen had his year-old son, Samuel, in the locker room with him after the game, and Timonen's parents had flown in from Finland.
I'm sure he's going to remember that for a long time. How about fitting more of the players, especially the ones who might likely go later in the proceedings, with microphones. We've actually had some fun times the last couple of years, asking players to interview each other for ESPN. And given how tough goalies have it at these events, they should be rewarded with controlling all of the picking -- just to change things up a bit.
Still, the kick-off event has now become the signature event of the whole proceedings. Whether that's a good thing or not is up for debate.
Great sense of humor and extremely thoughtful. The classy Ottawa captain has been the face of the franchise for years and it was nice to see the warm relationship between the fans and the player on display. This could be Alfredsson's final season but even if it's not, no doubt these will be special memories for him. It did make us pine for Teemu Selanne and Nicklas Lidstrom , both of whom are nearing the end of their careers but weren't on hand for the weekend's festivities, even though their level of play suggested that they should have been selected.
Fans might get lucky if both return next year and we see them in Columbus. When you get that chance, you kind of hope for them to be kind of an A-hole to you, I guess, so it makes you hate them even more on the ice, but they turn out to be awesome guys. Like, 'Wow, this guy is a good guy even though you hate him on the ice. I'm going to try and hit him every chance I get, and I'm sure he's going to do the same to me.
We didn't like that Washington's Alex Ovechkin used the occasion of his three-game suspension to duck out, even though he had been selected to come. The fans in Ottawa missed out on seeing one of the game's highest-profile players, and that's unfortunate. But in the end, why bother to have a guy who doesn't want to be at the event when there are lots of guys for whom being selected fulfills a dream. Hartnell's ticket to Ottawa was punched when Ovechkin declined to attend but the winger sure made the most of his moment in the All-Star sun.
Just had a great time, lots of smiles. A million passes. A thousand goals. Goalies thrown to the wolves. But we're pretty Zen about it now.
It is what it is. So, it would seem, are the players. It's to show the fans another side of the guys and have fun. I think everyone in the crowd today had fun.
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