NHL's 2023 All-Star Skills participants include a celebrity goalie you may have heard of

Sportsnet Staff @SportsnetFebruary 03, 2023 - 9:34am

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The NHL has announced the list of participants for the 2023 All-Star Skills taking place in sunny Florida on Friday at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on Sportsnet.

This year, the event has three new Florida-themed events.

In "Pitch 'n Puck," six players will play a par-4 with a combination of golf and hockey shots. "Splash Shot" will involve players shooting pucks at targets to dunk their opponents. The third new event, taking place indoors, is a goaltender shooting competition. The league started going outside for new skills competition ideas last year on the Las Vegas Strip.

But don't forget about the traditional skills, like fastest skater, hardest shot and accuracy shooting.

Among players participating, we've got a number from Canadian NHL teams: Mitch Marner (Breakaway Challenge), Connor Hellebuyck and Stuart Skinner (Tendy Tandem), Brady Tkachuk (Splash Shot), Nazem Kadri, Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid (Accuracy Shooting), Nick Suzuki (Pitch 'n Puck), and Josh Morrissey and Elias Pettersson (Hardest Shot).

Here's the full list of participants:

UPPER DECK NHL FASTEST SKATER

• Dylan Larkin, DET
• Kirill Kaprizov, MIN
• Cale Makar, COL
• Chandler Stephenson, VGK
• Andrei Svechnikov, CAR

GREAT CLIPS NHL BREAKAWAY CHALLENGE

• Celebrity goaltender: Roberto Luongo
• Mitchell Marner, TOR
• Alex Ovechkin, WSH/Sidney Crosby, PIT (teaming up)
• David Pastrnak, BOS
• Matthew Tkachuk, FLA

DISCOVER NHL TENDY TANDEM

Shooters: Alex Carpenter, Hilary Knight, Emily Clark, Rebecca Johnston, Sarah Nurse

• Connor Hellebuyck, WPG
• Juuse Saros, NSH
• Igor Shesterkin, NYR
• Stuart Skinner, EDM
• Ilya Sorokin, NYI
• Logan Thompson, VGK
• Linus Ullmark, BOS
• Andrei Vasilevskiy, TBL

ENTERPRISE NHL SPLASH SHOT

• Sidney Crosby, PIT
• Nathan MacKinnon, COL
• Mikko Rantanen, COL
• Cale Makar, COL
• Igor Shesterkin, NYR
• Adam Fox, NYR
• Brady Tkachuk, OTT
• Matthew Tkachuk, FLA

HONDA NHL ACCURACY SHOOTING

• Aleksander Barkov, FLA
• Leon Draisaitl, EDM
• Kevin Hayes, PHI
• Jack Hughes, NJD
• Nazem Kadri, CGY
• Nikita Kucherov, TBL
• Connor McDavid, EDM
• Brock Nelson, NYI
• Artemi Panarin, NYR
• Vladimir Tarasenko, STL

CHIPOTLE NHL PITCH 'n PUCK

• Johnny Gaudreau, CBJ
• Clayton Keller, ARI
• Jason Robertson, DAL
• Nick Suzuki, MTL

GEICO NHL HARDEST SHOT

• Rasmus Dahlin, BUF
• Seth Jones, CHI
• Josh Morrissey, WPG
• Alex Ovechkin, WSH
• Elias Pettersson, VAN

--With files from The Associated Press

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