This program is from the 3rd annual Western Hockey League All Star game played on Tuesday January 12, 1960 at the Edmonton Gardens in Edmonton, Alberta. The format for the game again pitted the Coast All-Stars vs the Prairie All Stars.

The following commentary is offered under the player line-up by Don Fleming of the Edmonton Journal:

"The only thing about this All-Star game I'm afraid of is the coaching." This was Bud Poile's comment to a breathless world when he was asked how long the coast's domination of the western League classic might be expected to continue. He swallowed his pride when only one Flyer made the first team...Chuck Holmes at right wing. Even the fact that just Boomer MacPherson on defence and Don Poile on left wing were appointed to the supporting cast, failed to draw a rise out of the flyers' bossman. Nevertheless, you may draw your own conclusions from his recent observation that Denny Riggin belonged to his own personal all-time stars who played under - his tutelage. This put the Kincardine Kid ahead of a gent by the name of Glenn Hall, twice voted the top netminder in the National League. Still Poile's only official comment voiced his skepticism that the Prairie club was strong enough in the pilot-house to make it stick this time. It just so happens that it is his long-time adversary (and briefly a major league team-mate at New York) Gus Kyle who is calling the shots out of the home box on this occasion. El Gusso had the foresight to keep his club in the championship hunt longer then anybody else on the prairies last year. So his appointment as the prairies' coach was an automatic thing. For the record, once ensuring that their chief would be taking over the Gardens on All-Star night, the Stamps didn't win a game against the Totems. In a way, this comes close to being a rematch of the playoff final. Seattle will be supplying most of the talent up front for the coast club, while the Stampeders swallowed up most of the prairie nominations. As if this wouldn't be incentive enough for Kyle to be bent on avenging the previous two All-Star losses for the prairies, Poile's misgivings should be the clincher.

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