Tonight (Friday) at 7 p.m. on ESPN, 12 of the NHL’s best players (or, 10 plus J.T. Miller and Mathew Barzal) take the ice for new format of the Skills Competition.
The players are:
Connor McDavid
William Nylander
Quinn Hughes
Cale Makar
Mathew Barzal
Elias Pettersson
Nathan MacKinnon
Leon Draisaitl
Nikita Kucherov
J.T. Miller
Auston Matthews
David Pastrnak
Each will compete in four of the first six events: Fastenal NHL Fastest Skater, Rogers NHL Hardest Shot, Upper Deck NHL Stick Handling, Tim Hortons NHL One Timers, Scotiabank NHL Passing Challenge and Cheetos NHL Accuracy Shooting.
The top eight will advance to the Honday/Hyundai NHL One-on-One, which will involve each player picking an All-Star goalie to compete against.
The top six after that will advance to the Pepsi NHL Obstacle Course. The event winner will receive $1 million.
On Saturday at 3 p.m. on ABC, there will be the usual 4 team, 3v3 tournament, featuring 20 minute games. A difference this year is the draft returned. The Columbus Blue Jackets representative, Boone Jenner, was chosen by McDavid’s team:
Team McDavid (coach Peter Laviolette)
Connor McDavid, EDM
Leon Draisaitl, EDM
Connor Hellebuyck, WPG
David Pastrnak, BOS
Rasmus Dahlin, BUF
Robert Thomas, STL
Sam Reinhart, FLA
Sergei Bobrovsky, FLA
Boone Jenner, CBJ
Nick Suzuki, MTL
Tomas Hertl, SJS
Full rosters can be found here.