The NHL has announced the all-star assignments for Saturday’s 2017 Coors Light NHL All-Star Skills Competition™ in Los Angeles.
The all-stars from the Atlantic and Metropolitan Divisions will compete against the Pacific and Central Divisions throughout the night for points in the overall division vs. division competition, which will determine opponent and start time of their first game on Sunday.
Individual champions will also be crowned.
Each of the 44 All-Stars will compete in at least one of the six rounds of skill-based contests including:
- Gatorade NHL Skills Challenge Relay™
- Honda NHL Four Line Challenge™
- DraftKings NHL Accuracy Shooting™
- Bridgestone NHL Fastest Skater™
- Oscar Mayer NHL Hardest Shot™
- Discover NHL Shootout™
Gatorade NHL Skills Challenge Relay™
Central Division vs. Pacific Division
One Timers: Keith, Suter, Tarasenko vs. Pavelski, Kesler, Carter
Passer: MacKinnon vs. Horvat
Passing: Toews vs. Doughty
Puck Control: Seguin vs. Fowler
Stick-Handling: Kane vs. Gaudreau
Goalie Goals: Dubnyk vs. Smith
Atlantic Division vs. Metropolitan Division
One Timers: Karlsson, Trocheck, Okposo vs. S. Jones, Ovechkin, Simmonds
Passer: Hedman vs. McDonagh
Passing: Nielsen vs. Tavares
Puck Control: Marchand vs. Faulk
Stick-Handling: Matthews vs. Crosby
Goalie Goals Price vs. Holtby
Honda NHL Four Line Challenge™
Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central, Pacific
Shooter 1: Kucherov, McDonagh, Suter, Pavelski
Shooter 2: Karlsson, Simmonds, Seguin, Burns
Shooter 3: Trocheck, Hall, Subban, Kesler
Shooter 4: Weber, S. Jones, MacKinnon, Horvat
DraftKings NHL Accuracy Shooting™
Atlantic Division vs. Metropolitan Division
Okposo vs. Tavares
Matthews vs. Crosby
Central Division vs. Pacific Division
Laine vs. McDavid
Kane vs. Carter
Bridgestone NHL Fastest Skater™
Atlantic Division vs. Metropolitan Division
Marchand vs. Atkinson
Kucherov vs. Hall
Central Division vs. Pacific Division
Tarasenko vs. Horvat
MacKinnon vs. McDavid
Oscar Mayer NHL Hardest Shot™
Atlantic Division vs. Metropolitan Division
Hedman vs. S. Jones
Weber vs. Ovechkin
Central Division vs. Pacific Division
Laine vs. Burns
Subban vs. Doughty
Discover NHL Shootout™
Will be decided during event.
Nine skaters and two goaltenders from each of the top-scoring teams from the Eastern Conference and Western Conference will participate. Captains of respective teams will choose one additional skater from the other team in their conference to join.
The event will be broadcasted live across Canada on CBC at 7:00 p.m. ET.
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