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He also knocked down star Patrick Kane, before the pair
feigned a fight. “(Kane) came right after me after he scored,”
Scott said. “He was like, ‘let’s go.’ It was fun." The
33-year-old Scott was voted Team Pacific captain as part of an
Internet campaign aimed at poking fun at the tough guy’s career.
He has only five goals in 285 career games and 542 penalty
minutes. The forward from Edmonton, Alberta has played in only
11 NHL games this season and was traded earlier this month from
the Arizona Coyotes to the Montreal Canadiens. He was promptly
demoted to Montreal's farm team in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Scott wrote in the Players Tribune magazine last week that the
NHL tried to dissuade him from participating in the All Star
game.
But NHL commissioner Gary Bettman remarked on Saturday that the
league only wanted to make sure Scott was comfortable with
playing in the game. “I got sick and tired of reading that I was
just a slow-footed goon and that I was here as a joke,” Scott
explained as to why he wrote the article. Scott earned $90,909
as part of an 11-way split with his teammates of the $1 million
prize money for the win, as well as a Honda Pilot as MVP.
Even though Anaheim Ducks forward Corey Perry scored the lone
goal in the final, the league named Scott MVP because he became
a popular choice with not only his teammates but also with the
crowd of 17,139. Every time Scott stepped onto the ice late in
the final, the fans chanted “M-V-P, M-V-P.” Teammates Brent
Burns, Mark Giordano and Joe Pavelski lifted Scott on their
shoulders after he was named MVP.
The "goon" enjoyed every moment.
(Reporting by Tim Wharnsby in Toronto; Editing by Andrew Both)
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