The 58th National Hockey League All-Star Game is coming to Raleigh around the last week of January, 2011, January 30th.

The game will be announced by Gary Bettman and Jim Rutherford tomorrow afternoon at 12:30pm on the south lawn of the RBC Center.

Discuss.

4/7/2010 7:51:29 PM

this entire area will be swarming with folks coming in for the festivities. i plan to park an RV in the lot and spend the weekend there.

4/7/2010 7:55:16 PM

I will be there.

4/7/2010 7:56:17 PM

Is this like the Pro-Bowl where the players don't give a fuck and play like little girls? Because I watched women's hockey, and it wasn't pretty

4/7/2010 8:40:26 PM

the game can get fun to watch in the final minutes if its close, otherwise its not much of a game. the skills competition is cool though.

[Edited on April 7, 2010 at 8:47 PM. Reason : it's better than the pro bowl]

4/7/2010 8:46:51 PM

how much do you think tickets for something like this will run?

4/7/2010 8:47:42 PM

Rendez-Vous '11: Finns vs. the World

4/7/2010 8:51:59 PM

Not only pricing for the ticket, but if you were to buy a ticket for the game does that also get you into the skills stuff on Saturday?

4/7/2010 8:54:38 PM

http://www.frumpzilla.com/frumpzilla_site/articles/raleigh-and-hurricanes-to-host-2011-nhl-all-star-game/

4/7/2010 9:00:13 PM

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"felt this needed its own thread cause it'll be big raleigh news come the time..."

Of course this needed its own thread!!! I haven't been this excited about a hockey event since I scored tickets to Game 7 against Edmonton. Granted, they are far from the same, but I've always wanted to go to an All-Star hockey game since I first started watching/playing hockey!

4/7/2010 11:50:31 PM

t-minus 24 minutes

4/8/2010 12:06:58 PM

anyone got an online feed of video?

4/8/2010 12:10:07 PM

it begins @ 12:30, you can watch it on WRAL online

4/8/2010 12:11:33 PM

for a link, http://www.WRALSportsFan.com according to their article

4/8/2010 12:13:46 PM

its official!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

4/8/2010 12:29:29 PM

Bettman, when reminding us that the Hurricanes have NC's only pro championship, snubbed the Tar Holes by conceding "I know all about Duke and NC State..."

4/8/2010 12:47:16 PM

Any word on when tickets go on sale?

4/8/2010 1:00:14 PM

^^ I think that was mainly because Duke just won, and then he was also sitting there looking at all the State logos on Carter-Finley and knowing they played there...

^ if they do it all it will be very limited to the public. STH are guaranteed a ticket, that's the only for sure way to get one...

4/8/2010 1:16:13 PM

I don't give a FUCK about hockey





but this is pretty cool regardless

A big dick moment for all of NC

4/8/2010 1:22:03 PM

damn WRAL WTF

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"Eric Staahl, captain of the Carolina Hurricanes"

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/hurricanes/image/7384004/

4/8/2010 1:32:46 PM

you can get on the general public wait list here: http://hurricanes.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=61883

Full-season and 26-game season-ticket holders are guaranteed tickets to the All-Star Game and Saturday night skills competition, although not necessarily in their regular season. Holders of 14-game packages can buy tickets to either the game or skills competition.

[Edited on April 8, 2010 at 1:56 PM. Reason : ]

4/8/2010 1:42:26 PM

^^Damn you beat me to it:

4/8/2010 8:52:51 PM

7/26/2010 1:38:30 PM

not long now, they announced some of the stuff that will be happening this morning:

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/8743387/

Three Doors Down will be doing a free concert on the 28th.

12/8/2010 12:10:16 PM

Definitely glad on the date this is all happening...it's all on my birthday weekend, and it happens to be my last weekend in Raleigh before I have to report to Fort Lee, VA.

Got my lower level ticket to the game already

12/8/2010 12:16:32 PM

id love to go to the game, but not $texas love to go

12/8/2010 12:21:40 PM

WTB: 2 tix for either day. let me know!

12/8/2010 12:27:28 PM

So let me get this right, there is no East v West this year in the all-star game? I don't follow hockey too closely, but I heard something about this on the radio

12/8/2010 12:43:10 PM

Captains (to be chosen later) are picking teams like a fantasy draft. They're trying to do something different from the usual East/West format.

12/8/2010 12:56:35 PM

HOW MUCH ARE TICKETS

12/12/2010 11:43:18 AM

$texas

[Edited on December 12, 2010 at 1:13 PM. Reason : especially if you aren't getting them from the team]

12/12/2010 1:13:17 PM

Anyone know any ticket information on the Skills Challenge night?

12/12/2010 1:47:17 PM

Just got my tickets dropped off by FedEx. WOO.

12/28/2010 3:49:10 PM

LaRose is ahead of Staal in the voting...

12/28/2010 4:02:23 PM

NEED TIX WILL PAY $TEXAS

12/28/2010 5:43:00 PM

My tickets should have been delivered by the time I get back to Raleigh from MD tomorrow

12/28/2010 6:18:11 PM

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"HOW MUCH ARE TICKETS"

As of right now, you cannot buy a ticket unless you're a 12, 26, or full season ticket holder. My guess is that there will be some stray tickets left over that STHs don't claim, so you'll probably be able to buy one then.

I think the Skills Challenge tickets were around $35-50 each, and ASG tickets were somewhere between $50-150. Those prices will probably go up a bit if any are released to the general public.

The problem is that the NHL claims a shit load of the tickets, so there's not a ton left over.

12/28/2010 6:20:56 PM

I'll be waiting for the hockey groupies on Fayetteville street....

12/28/2010 8:45:16 PM

i has tix and 3-4 left to sell (a friends) for vip parking skills comp and the game for the 305 section i believe. was gonna be 105 but company didnt have enough

12/28/2010 9:42:55 PM

What kind of money are you looking for?

12/28/2010 9:44:09 PM

Lower Level Skills: $80
Lower Level ASG: $180

[Edited on December 28, 2010 at 10:11 PM. Reason : parking $20]

12/28/2010 10:11:31 PM

1/3/2011 4:15:12 PM

better.

1/3/2011 4:22:31 PM

still probably no seats left for public for the game, i assume?

1/4/2011 4:15:26 AM

1/4/2011 8:01:56 AM

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"VERSUS will air All-Star Game Fantasy Draft It was something that had been promoted in a bit of a flash during recent VERSUS games, but a network spokesman confirmed to Puck the Media this afternoon that VERSUS will air the NHL’s All-Star Game Fantasy Draft on Friday, January 28th. It’ll mark a weekend of coverage, with VERSUS airing the unique fantasy draft on Friday, the Skills Competition on Saturday night, with the All-Star Game airing Sunday afternoon, do to the NFL Pro Bowl taking up primetime. VERSUS debuted a really impressive commercial for the classic featuring NHL players as superheroes during the Winter Classic. Not 100% on who will be airing the draft in Canada, but I’ve been told by a couple of people that TSN will air the event up north."

http://puckthemedia.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/exclusive-versus-will-air-all-star-game-fantasy-draft/

1/5/2011 12:22:05 PM

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"DO TO THE"

1/5/2011 12:27:01 PM

The ASG commercials definitely look like they digitally added in buildings to the Raleigh skyline to make it look like some sort of megacity.

1/6/2011 11:16:10 AM

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"THREE DOORS DOWN"

1/6/2011 11:48:51 AM

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"@NHLFischel: There is a bullding cleaning lady at this moment vacuuming the red carpets laid out on our floor that will be used at the All-Star Game."

1/6/2011 6:12:03 PM