Jad Abumrad

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So we are live.

This story really begins on the podcast that I did with a gentleman by the name of Jeff Merrick.

Basically a couple of hockey writers.

Just shooting the breeze on hockey.

Well, you know what industry we're in?

We're in the hockey industry.

And as you know, the hockey industry is about making money, making new fans, turning heads.

Okay, so this is November 2015, just a few months before the NHL's, you know, big mid-season spectacle.

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The all-star game.

There is a sense that I have about this game that's worrisome.

So, this year, yet again, the NHL, for the 100th time in the last 15 years, was changing the format of the All-Star Game.

Hockey's typically five on five.

Three on three, however, is supposed to be like, you know, way more action, a lot more scoring, a lot more fun.

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.