Posted on 01/28/2017 8:49:47 AM PST by airborne
NHL All-Star Game stays with 3-on-3 tournament format
NEW YORK - As the countdown to the 2017 Honda NHL® All-Star Weekend, continues, the National Hockey League (NHL®) announced today that the 2017 Honda NHL® All-Star Game will return to a 3-on-3 All-Star Tournament among the NHL's most talented star players from each division. The 3-on-3 format, which debuted last year, will divide the NHL All-Star Game into three 20-minute games, with star players from each NHL division making up the four All-Star teams: Pacific, Central, Atlantic, and Metropolitan.
The 2017 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend will include the 2017 Coors Light NHL All-Star Skills Competition on Saturday, Jan. 28, where each NHL division's All-Star team will compete for the right to select both their first opponent and when their 2017 Honda NHL® All-Star Game semi-final matchup will be played; first or second on Sunday, Jan. 29. The winners of each semi-final game will face off in a winner-take-all $1 million matchup.
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Should be an awesome weekend
I’m so bummed it’s all here in my city and I can’t go!!! Will be watching the Feats of Strength today, so fun. One of my favorite times of the season. And 3 on 3 is gonna be awesome tomorrow.
Excellent. Jumbo Joe was snubbed. Go Sharks!
I will have to check with my son to see if he is going to watch this instead of work on his VW. I don’t have anything but the basic channels, so I can’t watch a lot of the stuff I like.
Hockey rocks!
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Skills competition was great. Wifey & me both watched. We are looking forward to the 3 on 3 today. 3 on 3 sounds like a menage a trois trois.
I picked the Central to win the opener, the Metro to win the other semi and then Crosby’s Metropolitan team wins the finals.
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