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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Wed Nov 18, 2015, 03:29 PM Nov 2015

NHL All-Star Game scraps format, is now 3-on-3 divisional tournament

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/nhl-all-star-game-scraps-format--is-now-3-on-3-divisional-tournament-025040619.html

It’s been long rumored that the NHL All-Star Game was going to undergo its every-few-years makeover, with a 3-on-3 format being implemented next January in Nashville.

Well, the details are spilling out courtesy of TSN’s Bob McKenzie, and the NHL is basically blowing up the current framework of the All-Star Game. No more fantasy teams with individual captains. No more all-star fantasy draft....

“There’s going to be a 3-on-3 mini-game format for the All-Star Game. The National Hockey League Players Association recently signed off on that format, and the expectation is that the League will be making some sort of formal announcement about it tomorrow.

"What we believe to be the case is that the fantasy draft will be dead. Instead, there will be four divisional teams – nine or 10 skaters apiece, a couple of goaltenders. The two teams in the Eastern Conference would play a 20-minute mini-game. The two teams in the Western Conference would play a 20-minute mini-game. And then you would have the two winners play a 20-minute mini-game.”