Vancouver's Brock Boeser Wins the NHL's All-Star Weekend

Published on 28-Jan-2018 by Alan Adamsson

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Vancouver's Brock Boeser Wins the NHL's All-Star Weekend

There's probably nothing like arriving in Tampa as the league's least-known All-Star and walking away with loads of goodies.

Being tucked away in Vancouver amidst another middling Canucks season doesn't do all that much for recognition, but the Pacific Division's seen enough of rookie Brock Boeser to know he's the real deal.

Even when he's part of what's gotta be the NHL's version of the Snow Patrol.

 

Maybe that's why the Pacific won the $1million championship prize.

Those duds put those dudes in perfect camouflage.

Apparently, some history-buff designer must've figured if it worked for the Finns in World War II when real bullets were involved ...

 

The NHL's been productively creative in configuring their All-Star format to make it competitively viable.

After all, it's tough to emulate the game that this event's celebrating when most of the physical contact is removed.

 

For the most part, though, they've done it by emphasizing speed.

And the $1million winner-take-all being dangled.

 

Dazzling stuff abounds in that clip, but gotta love one of the NHL's career villains -- Brad Marchand, who fittingly played this game while under regular-season suspension -- offering a mime for turtling.

It's a technique dude's perfected to the max.

Still, justice is usually served by the players themselves.

 

This was the weekend to be Boeser, though.

 

Dude's on a $925,000 salary this season, so picking up an extra $550,000 plus the car -- valued at around $40,000 -- was definitely worth the trip.

 

 

Odds are Boeser will be back.

Often.

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