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Nick Suzuki exposes another fail from the All-Star Skills competition.
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Nick Suzuki exposes another fail from the All-Star Skills competition.

Suzuki spills the beans.

Jonathan Larivee

Nick Suzuki is spilling the beans, but they won't be beans from Chipotle.

The National Hockey League has been hammered with a deluge of criticism following their incredibly underwhelming All-Star Skills competition on Friday and it doesn't sounds like the league is going to be hearing the end of this one for a long time to come.

The event has been widely panned as a total failure by fans, pundits, and even former NHL players, and quite frankly it's hard to blame any of the critics. Not only was the event itself rather boring, but we are now hearing about how there are logistical failures that made the event all that much more lackluster for the players involved.

Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki was a featured participant in the skills competition on Friday, participating in what was a very dull golf-themed event that was called the Pitch ‘n Puck." Suzuki would go on to win the event and he won a pretty nice prize for doing so, a year's worth of free food from restaurant chain "Chipotle."

That sounds great on paper, but Suzuki would go on to reveal that the prize was actually largely useless to him given that Chipotle doesn't have a presence in all of the cities where the NHL operates, a list that of course just happens to include Montreal, Quebec, where Suzuki currently plays for the Canadiens.

"We don’t have a Chipotle in Montreal," revealed Suzuki after winning the event.

In fact a quick bit of research would appear to indicate that there isn't a single Chipotle location in the entire province of Quebec, which means that Suzuki will have to travel quite a bit if he wants to make good on his year's worth of free food. This was of course a major oversight by the National Hockey League, but fans in Quebec won't be the least bit surprised to learn that their province has once again been overlooked by the NHL given the treatment Quebec City has received from the league over the years.