Sports | NHL skills fest bombs as a TV spectacle

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NHL Morning Papers (Monday Edition)
Published 1/28/2008 by Richard Pollock at IllegalCurve.com
... Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star bashes the NHL Skills Competition. (Writer's note: This article raises many of the same points that Illegal Curve's Andrew M. brought up in his ...

The Ice Sheet: All-Star Wrap-Up
Published 1/28/2008 by Eric McErlain at FanHouse
... Garrioch isn't the only observer who thinks the skills competition laid an egg, while others are wondering out loud whether or not the sort of hot dogging required to make the event come to life ...

Shanoff's Wake-Up Call: Super Bowl Media Daze
Published 1/29/2008 at The Sporting Blog
... for the weekend itself, the biggest news going in revolved around who wasn't coming, namely, the game's league-designated messiah, Sidney Crosby, still nursing a high ankle sprain that will keep him on the shelf for 6-8 weeks while causing endless agita for league executives. Despite such an omen, commissioner Gary Bettman decided to press on regardless. The revamped skills competition on Saturday -- inexplicably guest-starring NBA Hall of Famer, Dominique Wilkins -- appeared to need even more revamping, with only Washington's Alex Ovechkin seeming to ...