NHL All-Star weekend

By: Cristina Hauerstein

The long lasting tradition of an All-Star weekend in the NHL is coming up and fans are getting excited over their favorite players going to it and all the activites to come.

This year's All-Star weekend is going to be hosted at Sunrise, Florida, home to the Florida Panthers. The event will take place from February 3rd to the 4th. The skills competitions will take place on the 3rd while the 4th will host the offical All-Star game, a competiton between both East and West Conferences.

The games will be played by a handful of fan and NHL selected players like Connor McDavid and Cale Makar. The competition will be composed by: Splash shot, Pitch 'n' puck, tendy tandem, Fastest Skater, Hardest shot, Breakaway challenge and Accuracy shooting. All of those you can read more on ESPN with their article called NHL All-Star game 2023: Rosters, schedule, how to watch by ESPN staff. Many of these games are classics and fan favorites like the "hardest shot" one that has been easily dominated by Victor Hedman in the past. The games can be watched on ESPN and ESPN+ at 7pm/ET.

The teams for Sunday have been divided in two, as the two conferences. Metropolitan and Atlantic division compete against the Central and Pacific division. This game can be watched on ABC and ESPN+ at 3pm/ET.

Below, you will see the full roster, information you can also find on the NHL website and ESPN.

METROPOLITAN

• Sidney Crosby

• Johnny Gaurdreau

• Kevin Hayes

• Jack Hughes

• Brock Nelson

• Alex Ovechkin

• Artemi Panarin (Fan picked)

• Andrei Svechnikov

• Adam Fox (Fan picked)

• Igor Shesterkin

• Ilya Sorokin (Fan picked)

ATLANTIC

• Aleksander Barkov (Replaced Auston Matthews due to injury)

• Nikita Kucherov

• Dylan Larkin

• Mitchell Marner

• David Pastrnak (Fan picked)

• Nick Suzuki

• Tage Thompson

• Brady Tkachuk

• Andrei Vasilesvkiy (Fan picked)

• Linus Ullmark

CENTRAL

• Kirill Kaprizov

• Clayton Keller

• Nathan MacKinnon (Fan picked)

• Mikko Rantanen (Fan picked)

• Jason Robertson

• Vladimir Tarasenko

• Seth Jones

• Cale Makar

• Josh Morrissey

• Connor Hellebuyck (Fan picked)

• Juuse Saros

PACIFIC

• Matty Beniers

• Leon Draisaitl (Fan picked)

• Kevin Fiala

• Bo Horvat (Fan picked)

• Nazem Kadri

• Connor McDavid

• Elias Pettersson

• Troy Kelly

• Erik Karlsson

• Stuart Skinner (Fan picked)

• Logan Thompson

During the skill competition, whoever wins, will earn 30K (per game).

We are experiencing a season of extremely skilled players and those of who are breaking either franchise records and NHL records all in one. It's going to be one exciting All-Star weekend, and we can't wait for it to come.

Here are a few questions we want you to answer:

• Who do you expect to win each game?

• Which team has the skill to win the All-Star game?

• Any guesses on surprise guests or unexpected plays?