The NHL Never Wanted This To Happen

The NHL Never Wanted This To Happen

See this guy right here this is John Scott a 68 260lb enforcer who’s racked up a whopping 11 points in parts of his eight seasons in the NHL despite that statline he somehow finds himself captain of the Pacific Division in the 2016 NHL allstar game this wasn’t

Supposed to happen but when NHL fans created a movement to turn a journeyman enforcer to an NHL Allstar it had the potential to create a moment that hockey fans would never Forget the enforcer the player responsible for dropping the myths and making sure he keeps everyone on the other team in check while protecting his teammates as the game gets progressively faster the NHL has seen a steep decline of pure enforcers however one of the few remaining enforcers in the NHL during 2016

Was none other than John Scott himself other than jumping Phil kessle in an NHL preseason game and causing a full-blown brawl John Scott was just another enforcer in the NHL who was slowly being phased out of the game Scott spent most of his time in and out of NHL lineups

For Seven Seasons literally fighting for a job playing for five different teams in that spin he never played more than 56 games in a season and when he was in the lineup the guy barely a averaged 7 Minutes of ice time when the 2015 2016 season rolled around the NHL was taking

Another step in becoming a league dominated by speed and skill some kid named Conor McDavid went first overall probably a bust but the NHL continued to implement rule changes aimed at increasing scoring by implementing three on- three overtime combined that with the rise of advanced analytics becoming

A key tool for organizations to build their team the direction of the league meant that John Scott was pretty much on his way out however the rebuilding Arizona Coyotes needed a vet with some toughness and so they signed a 32-year-old to a one-year deal so for

Him to make the All-Star game he potted 50 goals in the first 40 games and carried the Arizona Coyotes to first place just kidding now what really happened was to be expected by the time January rolled around Scott got healthy scratched most nights and only ended up

Playing in 11 games however in early November Sports Net’s Jeff Merrick joked on the Merrick and washinsky podcast that it would be funny to see Scott in the All-Star games new 3 on3 format this is because leading into the 2016 NHL allstar game the league introduced a new

Fan voting format where fans could vote their favorite players to participate in the All-Star Game the player with the most votes from each division would serve as the captain for their respective team fans were allowed to vote for anyone even a 32-year-old enforcer with a 11 career points so

That’s exactly what they did what started as a joke on a podcast quickly snowballed into a movement with an overwhelming amount of support on Twitter and Reddit John Scott had received more votes than any player in the league by the time the voting polls closed that made it official a

32-year-old enforcer was going to the all-star game and it would make for great marketing for the NHL except that’s not how the NHL saw it at all the league had said it would provide weekly updates on the voting they had done so in previous years but once Scott took

Over the top spot the update stopped David po who was the GM of the All-Star host Nashville Predators at the time told Yahoo in December that Scott making the team would be with all due respect not appropriate situation Scott appreciated the humor of the movement and while he was happy about the support

He told reporters that he didn’t think he deserved to be voted in and he hoped he wouldn’t be as the voting continued Scott admitted later in his players Tribune that the NHL tried to convince him to drop out of the All-Star game they told him bluntly that this wasn’t a

Game for him and that he should probably put a stop to the movement while questioning whether or not this would be a moment that his kids would be proud of that pissed off John Scott even more and it meant that there was no stopping the John Scott Allstar movement when it was

All said and done the four captains were yur yogger Alex oetkin Patrick Kane and John Scott the 32-year-old enforcer who already hit the waiver wire three times that season was going to the All-Star Game everything was set but with just a little over 2 weeks before the All-Star

Game the Arizona Coyotes traded John Scott to the Montreal Canadians immediately after the trade the Canadians sent Scott down to the AHL to St John’s the timing of this trade instantly created speculation as to if this was all orchestrated by the na HL tsn’s Bob McKenzie reported that the

Deal was likely to keep Scott of the All-Star game which if we’re being honest I mean come on do the Montreal Canadians really need a 68 enforcer with 11 career points probably not of course this caused outrage for many fans online and led to the movement of #f free joh

Scott in an event that was supposed to be put on for the fans entertainment the NHL was doing everything they could to stop this from happening but despite their efforts John Scott was going to the all-star game and what would follow would be one of the most memorable

All-Star moments in NHL history after competing in the hardest shot competition and channeling his inner grety in the Breakaway challenge John Scott would ultimately steal the show in the Three on-3 Tournament is Daryl cter coach of this team said that everybody wanted to have at least one shift with John Scott and

There is a Goal and John Scott will get a standing ovation we are talking about how Bren Burns and Joe pavelski former teammates and now Scott puts Kane on his wallet in on a breakway save made by Reene oh my it’s Scott and Kane well Scott chirped him before Kane went right after him after he got steamrolled in the neutral that’s awesome listen to the crowd traffic still they feverishly battle Carlson there two seconds and one got to shoot back hands one on goal and

Saved by Gibson and the Pacific has won after being begged to drop out of the All-Star Game and nearly getting screwed out of a great Moment by the league themselves John Scott gave NHL fans one of the greatest All-Star performances of all time scoring two goals getting in the scrap with the

Greatest American Born player in NHL history and winning the entire tournament NHL fans gave John Scott a moment he would never forget and he returned the favor a 32-year-old enforcer who had a grand total of 11 career points was about to officially become an NHL allstar

MVP the 16 Honda NHL allstar MVP scored two goals in the tournament and wins as a right in candidate John [Applause] Scott

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In 2016, NHL fans got the opportunity to vote WHOEVER they wanted into the NHL All-Star Game. That would lead them to vote in enforcer John Scott. What would happen next would go down as one of the greatest moments in NHL all star game history.

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