At the NHL All-Star Skills Competition last night, the NHL repeated a trick from last year where they partially included four women hockey players in the event.
The four, Canada’s Rebecca Johnston and Renata Fast, and the USA duo of Kendall Coyne Schofield and Brianna Decker, were originally meant to “demonstrate” the skills event. That is, they go out and do the exact same thing the NHL players are about to do in the exact same way, with a clock running, but it doesn’t count.
Who cares? Well, the winner of these skills events gets a cheque for $25,000.