1. Milestones +3

3. West should absolutely build defenseman pairs of rivals. Using the existing teammates is something you should do in an IIHF run where you happen to have SHL teammates on your squad, especially if those teammates played together a lot during the past SHL season. That would give you an advantage over your opposition and make it more likely you win matchups of those two players, familiar with each other's game, over two randos who haven't played together before. This is not the IIHF; this is the All Star Game. Mix it up. Encourage flashy bullshit. Get those two arch-rivals who dropped the gloves three times last season to play on the same pair and show the world how they do. Who knows, maybe they'll get into it and cook up a really crazy trick play for the fans. Or maybe they genuinely hate each other and will both try to puck-hog at each other's expense. There's only one way to find out! We're here to have fun; being a sweat about your defensive pairs is counter to the spirit of the event.
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4. Despite me being the other goalie on the team, Justin Time should get the starting nod for the West. This season was absurdly brutal for goalies across the league. The save percentage milestone for this season being below 900 should tell you everything you need to know: everyone got shelled and there were only three exceptions. Two of those were in the East, so Grzegorz got the All Star nod despite a deeply mediocre season for the West. Justin rocked out a 908 in a season where that put him in the top three. He starts. In the East, just go by order of save percentage: Denebor Milasch starts, Rebecca Montaigne backup. West still has better goalies. 
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8 TPE total