NHL gets caught in lie about All Star Game attendance

To continue with the controversy, there is a dispute with what was advertised in regard to records with attendance and on-air attendance shown.

This is what Bettman's NHL is going with for the attendance record for the All-Star Weekend, which is generous, especially when every available photos shows otherwise.

However, as seen above it looks all the diehard NHL fans wanting to see an mediocre All-Star Game product got lost at the beach? Taylor Haase, Jeremy Filosa and others documented on Twitter evidence to the contrary.

It looks like Auston Matthews and Tage Thompson made the smart move to forego the pageantry and bad Happy Gilmore skits on-ice. The attempt to fudge the attendance numbers is just another way that the sport may be profitable again, but the people in Sunrise weren't having it and after watching the Breakaway Competition, I don't blame them.

P.K. Subban in all his earnest attempts to make it entertaining failed to do so and that's saying something.