The NHL announced the Skills Competition format for this year’s All-Star Game. This has always been our favorite part of ASG weekend, because there is lots of skating without helmets.
Lunchtime poll: Will Letang wears a helmet or not? He’d need a headband for sure but it’s a sin to cover up that hair. Maybe a baseball cap?
Exactly how I sleep on a plane.
The All-Star Skills Competition games are:
Bridgestone NHL Fastest Skater
Is a race! 6 players from each team compete in heats.
BlackBerry NHL Breakaway Challenge™
3 players from each team compete to deliver the most creative shootout attempt. They get 4 shots a piece and we get to vote via text.
McDonald’s NHL Accuracy Shooting™
Like Crosby’s puck pyramid and Ovi’s weird Russian dressing mess, six players per team will shoot at foam targets in the four corners of the goal.
G Series NHL Skills Challenge Relay™
New event and it’s a big one! 16 players from each team in four relays. Each skill must be completed before the team can move on to the next. Two relay groups per team.
- One-timer: shoot over an 8″ obstacle
- Passing: put a pass into each of 6 nets set up around the ice
- Puck control: Slalom cones while keeping the puck on the stick
- Stick handling: Keep the puck on the stick through a series of obstacles
- Accuracy shooting: Knock out four targets.
XM NHL Hardest Shot™
If you can’t figure this out, Chara gets to shoot at you.
Discover NHL Elimination Shootout™
Musical chairs for the shootout, like the Penguins have mastered. Only they make people grow mustaches and run to the top row of a football stadium. In this, it’s 1 point per goal and a lot of bragging rights for whoever makes it to the end. [Graphic from NHL.com]
We kinda hope Tanger and Tazer end up on opposite teams so they can showdown in the shootout challenge!
Mine. Mine. Mine.
The hardest shot? hum … I’d go for an Ovi-tanger sammy please.
oh and the weird Ovi Russian dressing mess was because they put a junior hockey goalie in net against the top NHL hockey players! They didn’t want to hurt him. DUMB IDEA NHL ALL STARS. That’s why they did what they did. FYI. 🙂
I’m confused Dawn – I was talking about the accuracy thing where he shoots the Russian nesting dolls full of dressing. What on Earth are you talking about?
oh I was talking about him wearing the sunglasses and hat and the Malkin thing. ;0
Haha, Russian dressing. I get it!
I just wanted to say that I was unable to finish the rest of the post after that picture of Letang… I was laughing to hard at first, thinking of him as cousin IT.. then I began swooning and passed out from hyperventilating. I’m alive again, thus the reason I am able to post, but I think I’m ready to pass out again after getting a peek of the picture again.