Jad Abumrad

For guys like Greg Wyshynski and Jeff Merrick, voting John Scott into the All-Star Game was not just a hilarious joke about a big guy who couldn't skate, but it was also a big fat middle finger to the hockey establishment.

So I'll just do the whole, the big points.

Do it, do it.

I was, we were on the road and we were on the bus heading to a game or a pregame skate.

It was December 2015.

John was playing for the Arizona Coyotes.

And a guy on my team, Anders Lindbeck, our goalie, he was sitting beside me and he's like, hey, you're in, it was like 56th place or something, you know, of the fan voting.

And I was like, oh, you know, that's great.

People think it's a joke.

They're going to vote for me a little bit.

And it was nothing serious.

So that's how I first heard of it on the bus.

So we go to the rink, we do our skate.

Literally after the skate, he checks his phone again and he's like, holy cow, man, you're like top 25.

It happened that fast.

And then the next day I was top five.

And then like the day after that, I was number one.

It was unbelievable how quickly it grew.

John Scott, number one.

The number one vote getter among all players in the NHL.