Pass of Fail: KHL's Longest Shot All-Star Game skills competition

For the sheer surrealism of it, last weekend's KHL All-Star Game and skills competition could be our favorite hockey thing of 2011. Team Jagr defeating Team Yashin in a defensive battle, 18-16. The questionable (and controversial) "world record" in the hardest shot competition. And, of course, Chris Simon winning the shot accuracy competition and giving Larry Brooks the line of the weekend: "Must have been the practice on Ryan Hollweg's head." But the strangest thing in the KHL skills competition may have been a new event called "Longest Shot". (Why they didn't opt for "Extreme Dump and Chase" we don't know; maybe there isn't a Russian phrase for it.) In it, players fired the puck down the boards from the neutral zone, around the dasher and behind the net, out of the zone and back down the ice in an attempt to outdistance the other competitors. Also, the arena sound guy played the "wobbly saw" noise as the puc...