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But for Greg and Jeff, who are, you know, these hockey purists, they're like, yet again, the NHL is just changing things up to get more eyeballs on this game that, by this point, has just become a watered-down, half-speed joke of a game.

So the two of them, as many diehard hockey traditionalists do, go off on the NHL.

And eventually that leads them to talk about the other, what they see as the other really dumb thing about that year's All-Star game.

Fan voting.

Fan voting has long been a part of the game.

As a kid, there was nothing else better than grabbing a little punch card at a game and knocking out the little circles and trying to grab like 30 of them.

to make sure that, you know, Kirk Muller gets a spot in the All-Star game or whatever.

But over the years, the NHL had started reducing the number of players that could get voted in.

One year, they were even accused of turning off the vote when they didn't like where it was headed.

And anyway, this year, the NHL had limited the vote so much that the fans could only vote in four players, a captain for each division, the Pacific, the Central, the Atlantic, the Metropolitan.

But four players, all you could vote in.

That just seems to run counter to what the All-Star Game history tradition should be to what we really want with this All-Star Game, which is fan engagement at the end.

I just hope that everyone, that somehow a collective, and maybe we can lead the charge here on this one.

And at that point, they started thinking, what if we use the little voting power that we do have to mess with the All-Star Game?

We need someone in there who normally would not be in this game.

Like as a joke, we should vote somebody in who just does not belong.

Hmm.

And Greg's like, I like that thought.

Okay.

But who?