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Weekend of the 2024 NHL All-Star Game: Live streaming, television, draft, skills competition, rosters

The NHL All-Star Game returns to Toronto for the first time since 2000, featuring a more traditional look. This year’s skills competition on Friday will focus on fundamental skills like shooting, skating, passing, breakaways, and stickhandling, abandoning the unconventional events of the past. The 12-player contest offers a winner-takes-all prize of $1 million.

On Saturday, the All-Star Game will continue as a four-team, 3-on-3 tournament, but with a return to the captain’s draft format last seen in 2015. The draft to choose teams is scheduled for Thursday.

  • NHL All-Star Game events take place from Thursday, Feb. 1, to Saturday, Feb. 3, at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena.
  • Captains select teams in the All-Star draft at 6 p.m. ET on Thursday. The skills competition airs at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, and the 3-on-3 NHL All-Star Game is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET on Saturday.
  • Watch the All-Star draft on ESPN2, the skills competition on ESPN, and the All-Star Game on ABC.
  • Livestream the events on ESPN+, and they are also available on streaming services carrying ESPN and ABC.
  • Four teams for the NHL All-Star Game include Team Hughes, Team Matthews, Team MacKinnon, and Team McDavid.
  • Each team features prominent players with celebrity captains like Michael Bublé, Justin Bieber, Tate McRae, and Will Arnett.
  • Coaches for the teams are Rick Tocchet, Jim Montgomery, Rick Bowness, and Peter Laviolette.
  • The competition format remains a four-team, 3-on-3 tournament, with captains choosing teams in a draft, a return to the 2015 format.

The participants in the NHL All-Star Skills Competition will include players such as Pastrnak from the Bruins, MacKinnon and Makar from the Avalanche, Draisaitl and McDavid from the Oilers, Barzal replacing the injured Jack Hughes from the Islanders, Kucherov from the Lightning, Matthews and Nylander from the Maple Leafs, and Pettersson, Quinn Hughes, and Miller from the Canucks.

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The competition format involves 12 skaters participating in four out of six events: fastest skater, hardest shot, stickhandling, one-timers, passing challenge, and accuracy shooting. Points are awarded to the winners of each event, with the top eight skaters advancing to a shootout challenge. The remaining six then compete in an obstacle course, with points doubled. The skater with the most points at the end of the night receives a $1 million prize.

Hockey live scores, Schedule, and Results.

The assignments for the skills competition events are as follows:

  • Fastest skater: Nylander, Hughes, Makar, Barzal, McDavid
  • One-timers: Pettersson, MacKinnon, Draisaitl, Kucherov, Miller, Matthews, Barzal, Pastrnak
  • Passing challenge: MacKinnon, Nylander, Makar, Barzal, Miller, Kucherov, Hughes, McDavid, Pettersson, Matthews, Draisaitl
  • Hardest shot: Matthews, Makar, Pastrnak, Miller, Pettersson
  • Stickhandling: Hughes, McDavid, Pettersson, Kucherov, Draisaitl, MacKinnon, Pastrnak, Barzal, Nylander
  • Accuracy: Kucherov, Makar, McDavid, Hughes, Miller, Pastrnak, MacKinnon, Nylander, Draisaitl, Matthews

The NHL All-Star Game will feature Team MacKinnon against Team McDavid in the first 20-minute three-on-three game, followed by Team Hughes versus Team Matthews in the second game. The teams will switch sides and goalies at the 10-minute mark, with tie games decided by shootouts. The winners of the two games will face off in the finale for a winner-take-all $1 million prize.

The coaches for the NHL All-Star Game are Laviolette, Montgomery, Bowness, and Tocchet. They were selected based on leading their respective divisions in winning percentage at the halfway point of the season. Laviolette is coaching for the fourth time, while Montgomery and Tocchet are coaching for the second time, and Bowness is making his All-Star coaching debut.

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