The attendance looked bad enough, but the actual skills-competition event was quite worse to the point where some players refused to participate in the event that they were assigned.
Some events were even trending throughout social media due to rule changes and the one that stuck out the most was the accuracy shooting competition. The accuracy shooting competition has always been about who has the best accuracy but this year it was about who can break the NHL's foam targets the fastest, rather than who is most accurate.
Connor McDavid took 8 shots throughout his accuracy shooting competition challenges and he did not miss a single shot, shooting 8/8 but still failing to lose.
One fan even noticed Connor McDavid was cheated, and he analyzed it below:
As he mentions it sure isn't the olympics, but the NHL still takes the All-Star game seriously. There was penalties called, coaches challenges were made and more, but the regulation for the accuracy shooting competition was cheated on McDavid's behalf.
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FEVRIER 5 | 104 ANSWERS Video Proof Revealed That Nazem Kadri Cheated to Beat Connor McDavid During Accuracy Shooting Competition Should McDavid have been the accuracy shooting competition winner? | ||
Yes | 88 | 84.6 % |
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