Man, I am convinced that anyone who has ever worked in whatever department in the NHL puts together these events has never had any fun in their entire life. Every year, the Skills Competition and the All-Star Game are slogs.
I didn’t mind them breaking up the events. It definitely did not build up any suspense like John Buccigross said/joked—for that to work, we’d actually have to care about them in the first place. However, it prevented, for me at least, the usual “God is this over yet?” I normally feel through the individual competitions.
Speaking of which, the golf one?