The most surprising thing I discovered during NHL All-Star Weekend wasn't Sidney Crosby's affinity for dunk tanks or that Montreal doesn't have a single Chipotle restaurant for Nick Suzuki to claim his year's supply of bowls and burritos. Although those were stunning in their own right -- man should not live on poutine alone.
No, it was that NHL players, by and large, do not want teams added to the Stanley Cup playoffs.
"Keep it at 16 teams. You have to make it really hard to make it," Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon told me.