41st National Hockey League All-Star Game - The Heroes of Hockey

The Heroes of Hockey

The Heroes of Hockey game is a shortened two-period game between the Wales and Campbell alumni - unusual as many of the players invited to play predate the creation of the Wales and Campbell conferences. It would turn out that this was the only time Wales and Campbell alumni would face off - future editions of games had the home team's alumnus facing the "best of the rest", akin to the All-Star Game format of old.

Among the notable absences of this game, however, was Gordie Howe, who had proposed a similar idea four years earlier in Hartford, but was rebuked by the league.