NHL To Announce New Mini-Game Format For '16 All-Star Game

The NHL today will announce a "3-on-3 mini-game format" for the All-Star Game in Nashville this season, as the NHLPA “recently signed off on that new format.” The fantasy draft format is believed to be "dead," replaced by "four divisional teams" featuring 9-10 skaters plus goalies for each team. The two Eastern Conference squads would “play a 20-minute mini-game,” with the same in the Western Conference, and the two winners would face each other “in another 20-minute mini-game.” There is “expected to be a large cash incentive for the winning 10 or 12 players that are on that team” (“Insider Trading,” TSN, 11/17).