Phightins

As is Weber (with 4 assists).

Jesus Christ, Lidstrom is a +7 so far.

Wow, 3 Doors Down? When did I travel back to 1999?

Concussion. No Malkin either. Kind of refreshing to see other great players actually get face time.

Pretty cool that the players' kids are on the bench.

I am not going to lie, I thought it was pretty cool. The Anthem, though....gah. Versus on the whole sucks, though. One of the 4 or 5 biggest events of the year for the league, and it is stuck on this POS network.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g96/philsphan1210/Picture1-42.png

Not sure why we are posting this in the ASG thread, but this is my favorite Pronger moment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJBBaOTDMcg As for the second video, whatever makes you feel better about how that season eventually ended .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MCXEHA4yzU This was great also.

I like Brian Burke as a person for what he's trying to do in his son's honor, but he is a very overrated GM. He stole Chris Pronger from Edmonton and he drafted the Sedins in Vancouver. Otherwise, he did nothing with the Canucks, inherited an otherwise great team in Anaheim, and has done an abysmal job in Toronto. As for the skills competition tonight, I was entertained. Looked like a great crowd in Raleigh. Awesome to see hockey catching on in a southern market as it has there in the past few years. Also, NHL take note: it is possible to have an entertaining product without your biggest star. With the exception of the horrendous Versus production value, it was solid.

Citi Field will supposedly host the 2013 All Star Game.

The "Red Carpet Show" on NHL Network right now is seriously the most awkward/uncomfortable television I have ever seen.

They aren't playing in the actual game. As far as I know, they are just participating in the skills contest tonight. To be honest, I am not completely sure how this is going to work (the skills contest). I get the feeling that the league is making up rules on the fly. I guess we will find out tonight.

Updated with everything.

And Derek Stepan is on the team Staal rookie team (editing the rookie teams into that post now, BTW).

Updated with captains and alternate captains.

Game is at 4 on Sunday. Rookie skills competition tomorrow night. Rosters drafted tonight: http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g96/philsphan1210/Picture2-10.png The draft was pretty cool, but kind of awkward.

Lol KG is such a dirty POS.

Yeah all 50 of us were pretty pissed. Most of the idiots were more concerned with getting on the Carlton-Cam than the actual game. But yes, lets chalk this up under "are you [expletive]ing kidding me". Right next to both Washington games and the Orlando game last week.

Going tonight woo.

FYI he also lost $80 on this game (which explains that one post).

"Diesel"s Facebook page right now (getting worse by the minute)... http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g96/philsphan1210/Picture1-41.png http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g96/philsphan1210/Picture2-9.png http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g96/philsphan1210/Picture3-2.png

Pretty amazing, eh? For a guy who gets [expletive] on so much by fans and media.

Early thought is that Moustakas, Pineda, Hellickson and Taillon are too low. I do not have Insider so I couldn't see his reasoning, though. Also nice to see 5 Phillies listed, although they are all pretty far off from the Majors (with the exception of Brown obviously). The one thing that I actually take Keith Law's word for every year.

The Sixers bench is good. Really really good.