John Scott > NHL

Hey Everyone!

Recently, there has been controversy with the National Hockey League (NHL) and the 2016 All-Star game.

The NHL decided to have a fan vote to name Captains of each division (Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central, Pacific) so that fans can get an opportunity to give their ideas on who should be in the All-Star game and be the captains.

So the winners of the vote are as followed:
Atlantic Division - Jaromir Jagr of the Florida Panthers
Metropolitan Division - Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals
Central Division - Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks
Pacific Division - John Scott of the Arizona Coyotes (at the time of voting)

At the time of voting? What does that mean? I'm going to get to that. So as you see, there are four names that are listed which is corrected but apparently only three of them deserve it. Jagr, Ovechkin, and Kane are the three that deserve it. I mean, yes I agree they do and I'll admit I didn't necessarily know who John Scott was when they named him but he's deserving too.

Well there were a lot of people who didn't believe it. So it became a funny thing. Like people were making jokes about him being in it. Making memes. There were other things as well so it was kind of becoming like a mockery or however you would like to call it.

But apparently even at the beginning of the votes when John Scott was in the lead that he didn't want to be in the All-Star so to stop voting or whatever but fans didn't listen and continued voting. (Jagr did the same thing but of course, fans weren't going to listen to him.) But anyways, even though he didn't necessarily want to be in it - he started coming around to the though of it especially when his family started telling him that he has to do it. That it'll be fun.

But there's just one problem. He can't take part in it anymore. Why? Because the Coyotes traded him away to Montreal Canadiens and they sent him down to the AHL (minor league for hockey) making him illegible to participate.

This created an uproar!

Most of the fans and writers of NHL has come together because it's not right even if he originally shouldn't have been voted in (he wasn't that great) but that shouldn't have mattered. He was voted in. He should be able to play.

And he or the fans had no say in whether he should take part in the game or not.

John Scott was previously asked by both NHL and Arizona Coyotes to bow out of NHL All-Star Game. He refused. Trade likely takes care of that

— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) January 15, 2016

If that's the case, then why was there a fan vote in the first place?? If you're not going to let the players that were voted in to play. If you don't like how the fan vote came out then change it next year and don't give us one. Don't ruin a guy's one chance to take part in something that he may not get a chance to do again.

This is a sad time for the NHL and it's not great for the league. I already heard that there are a lot of people who are not going to watch the game because of this because they support John Scott and the fan voting. There are many writers who support John Scott and are asking the NHL change the mistake they made because that's what it was. A mistake.

As you can tell by the title of this, I am also in support of John Scott because it's only right that he gets a chance to take part in this. For his career. For his family.

If you support John Scott and want to tell the NHL that they are wrong and they need to let him play the game, you can go SIGN THE PETITION that someone made up. It already has more than 4,000 signatures. Let's keep it going and see if NHL listens to its fans. (There's also a #FreeJohnScott campaign on Twitter than you can take part of as well.)

What do you think of this controversy? Do you think John Scott should play in the All-Star Game? Are you going to watch the game whether he's in or not?

Until Next Time

CGoerlich <3