All-Star Weekend 2012 Thread

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I'll start: Alex Ovchokin allegedly released a statement, bizarrely worded to mock Tim Thomas for having the nerve to skip the trip to meet The Dear Leader, expressing some prepubescent petulance with Brendan Shanahan suspending him, and going after Gary Bettman. The NHL reportedly put it up on its web site before suddenly waking up and taking it down, but this one web site claims to have made a screen capture of it during the "seconds" it was up. No copy & paste, so see it at http://www.twackle.com/sitebar?url=h...s-statement%2F

Note: As with anything found online...this could be completely fake, but it's entertaining. What will be very real is my total delight in enjoying an All-Star Weekend without the jerk's obnoxious showboating...we get enough of the hot-dog crap just sitting through the games. Sorry, Li'oo Awex.

Team draft tonight 8pm, NBCSN (formerly Vs., formerly OLN)