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Now listen, some very big news this week, very upsetting news for guys like

Ken Campbell. Alex Ovechkin will not be participating in the all-star game because he is

Tired of participating in the all-star game, but also tired of how much hockey he's played in the last year, to which Ken Campbell said,

hey, quick fucking question, how can fucking hockey fans be fucking expected to fucking take the NHL's fucking all-star game seriously

if they can't when its own marquee fucking players like Alex Ovechkin treated as a

fucking minor,

a nuisance.

I just had invented a word a new-

I said a nuisance, but he said annoyance,

but I liked the word a nuisance.

I'm gonna pretend Ken went with a nuisance.

Did he say that shit when Sidney Crosby skipped all those all-star games or no?

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