Let me guess! You probably had no clue that the NHL All Star game was on last night? Don't feel bad, I bet you nobody else knew either. I have no idea what the ratings were like, however I can guarantee that nobody was or is watching. All Star games are brutal, the players don't care which means the fans absolutely don't care and it results in everybody just wishing real games were being played instead.

But I have a way that can change all that, yes that's right, I have a way that will get people to watch the NHL All Star game and it has nothing to do with the "glow puck" either.

Before I give you greatest All Star idea ever, I have to admit it's not actually mine. Wings play by play man Ken Kal was the first person that I heard mention this and I must say that it is GENIUS!

During an intermission of a Wings game at the Joe, Ken and I were talking about Detroit's representatives in the annual midway point game. The Wings had Pavel Datsyuk and Jimmy Howard playing and that is when he dropped it on me. Ken's thought is that the All Star game should pit the defending Stanly Cup Champion against the rest of the All Stars. How amazing is that?

Think about it for a moment before you laugh out loud. The league has tried every other option so why not? Right? There has been East Vs West, North Vs. South, North America Vs. the World and now it's the draft, which frankly I am already bored with, and that idea is just on its second year. It's time for another change already.

The way I see it, the league has one more All Star game before the 2014 Olympics, so why not try something new and see if it works? If it does, bring it back in 2015, if it doesn't move on and nobody will even remember that the idea might have been a disaster.

The one thing I know about athletes is once that hey the ice, field or court they can't help but to compete. Fans all the time talk about how a team should tank a game or a season to get a top draft choice, but the players don't think that way. No matter the caliber of action, players play all out, except in an All Star game of course where everything just turns to jokes and nobody caring. But if you put actual competition back in the game then everything changes!

Let's say the Wings won the cup this season and when the All Star game rolled around next year, the NHL implemented this awesome new rule? All of a sudden we would get a dynamic on the ice where the Wings would be motivated to beat every other best player in the game while the All Stars would NOT want to lose to a team that is not fully consisted of the best in the game. Both sides would be motivated to play well and win. DEFENSE might actually be played! Bragging rights for both sides would actually mean something. Everybody involved would take it serious!

Can you imagine a battle of the 4th lines? Let's say that Holmstrom, Emmerton and Abdelkader go against Giroux, Hossa and one of the Sedin's! Sure Detroit's line might be dominated, but it sure would be fun to watch. Think of how many shots Jimmy Howard would face or how Henrik Zetterberg and Nick Lidstrom would have a chance to shut down the All Star's top line of maybe a Crosby, Stamos and Ovechkin. It would be GREAT!

Competition and motivation at an All Star game while both sides could still have fun. Phenomenal, right?

So what do you think? Would you watch?

I say implement this plan next All Star game and let's see what happens? Who knows, maybe the other leagues would take note and use this idea with their games as well. It could only make the contests better!

Or the NHL could just bring back the "Glow Puck" and I guess that would make me happy as well!