Bored is a good word for it. It seemed like everyone involved from players to fans were thoroughly bored. The crowd was dead and I don't blame them. The biggest hit of the night was the woman who sang O Canada hitting the deck as she attempted to get off the ice. It was also the most entertaining moment of the night too.
The problem started early though as everyone took to the ice in their new ReeboKling jerseys looking about as comfortable as men trying to skate in a three piece suit. Did anyone else notice the almost complete lack of arm movement by all players and the general sense of uncomfortableness and overly rigid posture on every player in those things?
Though better than the skills comp this was still a hack job by Versus, I couldn't stand watching the marvel that was the rail cam anymore after about midway in the second. If I wasn't easting dinner at the time I wouldn't have even stayed tuned
that long, once I got finished I was playing EHM and watching the game at the same time
I had to turn it off after they thoroughly embarrassed themselves when they had to figure out live that they were broadcasting the commentators into Turco's mask when they were only supposed to be interviewing him. Nice work by the tech crew there. "Maybe we should be quiet when they are in your end then." and Turco replies "Nah, keep going, I'll get used to it." and eventually has the ref pull the cord for the speaker out so he isn't driven mad and then replace it when he's to again tlak to the broadcast guys.
Speaking of a lack of silence... sports announcers in general have to learn to let the sports they are covering speak for themselves instead of talking over them, not to mention stuffing the urge to make everything "a great story" and every play a "great play". I fully expect that sometimes even they are saying to themselves afterwords "Wow, even >I< don't believe what I just said." The perfect example was that while I was watching they
twice referred to what a great story Yannic Perreault is. No, he's a great example of players that shouldn't be in All-Star games.
Ed Jovonovski was there so there was no need to have yet another Coyote considering they are one of the worst teams in the league. Twice referring to him as a "great story" since he wasn't good enough for anyone but Phoenix to even give him a second look for 1/3 of the season and his being at the all-star game doesn't make him a "great story". He didn't
overcome anything, he simply went from unemployed to employed and put up okay stats for a team that's a mess.
And how much more of a sham does the "Mark Messier Cold-FX Leadership Award" have to show itself to be than to give the award to Crosby so they can talk him up during the All-Star Game? Transparent much?? The focus they heaped upon Crosby and Ovechkin was embarrassing to the point of saying "Every other player that was named to this team and every player in the history of hockey? They all suck compared to these two kids." The whole thing was a freakin disgrace.
Now I'll actually tune into the ASG tonight because I want to see the goalie masks they designed for the troops too. 
