If there has been any benefit to the league's schedule being thrown off cadence these last two years, it's that we haven't had to lament the NHL All-Star Game in quite some time.
What was once an exciting weekend for fans, sponsors, broadcast partners, and previously-gung-ho participants has devolved over the decades into something that just cannot manage to be meaningful beyond the market in which its staged.
There is no shortage of reasons why the NHL All-Star weekend isn't what it once was, including something just as basic — or vague — as the way in which the wind now blows.