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Here’s a trip down Memory Lane: a compilation of clips from 1990’s All-Star Weekend in Pittsburgh, the first time the All-Star ceremonies were expanded to a whole weekend. Watch in amazement as Al Iafrate wins the hardest shot contest! Check out Mike Gartner’s win in the fastest skater event! (Kevin Hatcher was the Capitals’ lone representative in the game.) Still, it’s fun to see all those fine mullets. And you can’t go wrong with any production that uses a star wipe.

Despite several token comments about other players in the first couple of minutes, the recap quickly turns into a Mario Lemieux love-fest (with a few nods to Wayne Gretzky). One can imagine that if Sidney Crosby was playing this weekend, some of the glowing comments (i.e. Pittsburgh’s “favorite son” and “prodigious Penguin”) spoken about Lemieux would have been applied to Crosby as well. The more things change, the more they stay the same.