John Scott, who was traded to the Montreal Canadiens two weeks ago and subsequently sent down to the American Hockey League, is preparing for his first NHL All-Star Game as captain of the Pacific Division. On Thursday, he opened up about how the league tried to persuade him from participating in the event this weekend.
In a first-person article on The Players' Tribune website (Warning: Link contains profanity), Scott described his journey from being an obscure defenseman to one of the sport's most talked-about athletes as a result of being pressured by the NHL to give up his spot after he appeared in just 11 games and scored one goal for the Arizona Coyotes:
...I’m not some random person off the street, and I didn’t win a golden ticket to “play hockey with the stars.” I won an internet fan vote, sure. And at some point, without question, it was a joke. It might even finish as a joke. But it didn’t start as one. It started with a very small pool, out of a very small pool, out of the very, very smallest pool of hockey players in the world: NHLers. That was the vote. A fan vote, an internet ...
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John Scott Comments on NHL’s Handling of All-Star Spot
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