Welcome to the 2015 NHL All-Star Game in Columbus, Ohio, home of the NHL’s Blue Jackets and birthplace of food criminal Guy Fieri.
This showcase of the world’s best hockey players (and other guys who have to be here since the NHL wants one representative from every team) has been two years in the making. Columbus was originally slated to host the All-Star Game in 2013, but the league’s third lockout in 18 years led to the cancellation of festivities.
There was no All-Star Game last year, either, as NHL players participated in the Sochi Olympics.
At long last, your tepid interest and lukewarm feelings about the NHL All-Star Game will be rewarded!
The 60th NHL All-Star Game is arguably the sixth-biggest hockey event in the nearly 15 years of Nationwide Arena, right behind the Blue Jackets’ first-ever five home postseason games and slightly ahead of the 2007 Draft, which saw Patrick Kane, James van Riemsdyk and Kyle Turris go 1-2-3.
The Blue Jackets took All-Star right wing Jakub Voracek with the seventh pick that year and turned him into 39 games of Jeff Carter, in case ...
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Complete Guide to the 2015 NHL All-Star Game
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