Who will make the All-Star Teams?

[Wayne Primeau]

Each team will have 6 forwards, 3 defensemen, and 2 goalies. Each NHL team must be represented.

My picks:

Atlantic

F - Steven Stamkos (Tampa Bay)
F - Nikita Kucherov (Tampa Bay)
F - Auston Matthews (Toronto)
F - Aleksander Barkov (Florida)
F - Jack Eichel (Buffalo)
F - Dylan Larkin (Detroit)
First injury replacements: Vincent Trocheck (Florida); Evander Kane (Buffalo); David Pastrnak (Boston)

D - Erik Karlsson (Ottawa)
D - Shea Weber (Montreal)
D - Charlie McAvoy (Boston)
First injury replacements: Victor Hedman (Tampa Bay); Morgan Rielly (Toronto)

G - Andrei Vasilevskiy (Tampa Bay)
G - Fredrik Andersen (Toronto)
First injury replacement: Carey Price (Montreal)

Metropolitan

F - Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh)
F - Phil Kessel (Pittsburgh)
F - Jakub Voracek (Philadelphia)
F - John Tavares (NY Islanders)
F - Alex Ovechkin (Washington)
F - Taylor Hall (New Jersey)
First injury replacements: Claude Giroux (Philadelphia); Anders Lee (NY Islanders); Evgeni Malkin (Pittsburgh)

D - Nick Leddy (NY Islanders)
D - Kevin Shattenkirk (NY Rangers)
D - Justin Faulk (Carolina)
First injury replacements: Will Butcher (New Jersey); Zach Werenski (Columbus)

G - Sergei Bobrovsky (Columbus)
G - Braden Holtby (Washington)
First injury replacement: Cory Schneider (New Jersey)

Central

F - Nathan MacKinnon (Colorado)
F - Brayden Schenn (St. Louis)
F - Jaden Schwartz (St. Louis)
F - Blake Wheeler (Winnipeg)
F - Filip Forsberg (Nashville)
F - Patrick Kane (Chicago)
First injury replacements: Mark Scheifele (Winnipeg); Vladimir Tarasenko (St. Louis); Tyler Seguin (Dallas)

D - John Klingberg (Dallas)
D - Jared Spurgeon (Minnesota)
D - P.K. Subban (Nashville)
First injury replacements: Alex Pietrangelo (St. Louis); Roman Josi (Nashville)

G - Pekka Rinne (Nashville)
G - Connor Hellebuyck (Winnipeg)
First injury replacement: Jake Allen (St. Louis)

Pacific

F - Johnny Gaudreau (Calgary)
F - Sean Monahan (Calgary)
F - Connor McDavid (Edmonton)
F - Anze Kopitar (Los Angeles)
F - Brock Boeser (Vancouver)
F - James Neal (Vegas)
First injury replacements: Clayton Keller (Arizona); William Karlsson (Vegas); Jonathan Marchessault (Vegas)

D - Drew Doughty (Los Angeles)
D - Brandon Montour (Anaheim)
D - Oliver Ekman-Larsson (Arizona)
First injury replacements: Jake Muzzin (Los Angeles); Mark Giordano (Calgary)

G - Jonathan Quick (Los Angeles)
G - Martin Jones (San Jose)
First injury replacement: Mike Smith (Calgary)

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[Hockeyholic]

Just have a three day break, name first team all stars, no game.

 

[Bedards Dad]

Just have a three day break, name first team all stars, no game.

You aren't forced to watch it.

 

[Viqsi]

I really like how the OP's Metro team features only one player from the top team in the division.

 

[pucku33]

I really like how the OP's Metro team features only one player from the top team in the division.

There seemed to be a few odd entries (pro-flames for some reason?):

Giordano as a replacement? 11 points and a -1 from a team that is 4th worst in GA in the conference is not good enough to be an all-star, or even an alternative. Nate Schmidt's 14 points and +5 on a team with a much worse roster is way more deserving.

Hate the guy but Dustin Brown (26 points, leads all fwds in +/-) is having an amazing comeback season and also deserves it, but who to take out? That one is tough.

Bit of a stretch but Markstrom over Smith. Roster strength was a big factor for me as the Flames have a much better roster and again are 4th worst in GA. Why would the starting goalie of the 4th worst GA be an all-star? Vegas and their rotation of minor league goalies have a better GA.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

There seemed to be a few odd entries (pro-flames for some reason?):

Giordano as a replacement? 11 points and a -1 from a team that is 4th worst in GA in the conference is not good enough to be an all-star, or even an alternative. Nate Schmidt's 14 points and +5 on a team with a much worse roster is way more deserving.

Hate the guy but Dustin Brown (26 points, leads all fwds in +/-) is having an amazing comeback season and also deserves it, but who to take out? That one is tough.

Bit of a stretch but Markstrom over Smith. Roster strength was a big factor for me as the Flames have a much better roster and again are 4th worst in GA. Why would the starting goalie of the 4th worst GA be an all-star? Vegas and their rotation of minor league goalies have a better GA.

Because points and +/- is everything? Giordano takes some of the hardest comp in the league and is shelled with Dzone starts, all while posting elite relative numbers. Vegas has been very lucky thus far, eventually it seems they'll fall back to Earth.

 

[SDBondra]

Kuznetsov probably won’t make it but he should and he would be a ton of fun to watch 3 v 3. So many good players in the Metro won’t make it.

 

[robbieberns]

Faulk making it would be purely on the back of his name. He’s been average at best all year.

 

[Wayne Primeau]

Faulk making it would be purely on the back of his name. He’s been average at best all year.

Someone needed to make it from Carolina, and it wasn't gonna be a forward. So it was between Faulk and Hanifin.

 

[Viqsi]

Someone needed to make it from Carolina, and it wasn't gonna be a forward. So it was between Faulk and Hanifin.

I know Slavin's having a rough year, but not that rough.

 

[maacoshark]

You aren't forced to watch it.

And I don't. I enjoy the skills competition. But the games are terrible.

 

[maacoshark]

Kuznetsov probably won’t make it but he should and he would be a ton of fun to watch 3 v 3. So many good players in the Metro won’t make it.

That is one of the reasons the all-star game is a joke.

 

[maacoshark]

Just have a three day break, name first team all stars, no game.

I agree.

 

[ViktorBaeArvidsson]

I just really want Barkov to make the All-Star game. Dude needs to get out of Florida to get some recognition around the league. So much talent ruined by god-awful management.

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

I just hope they bring back DJ Snoopadelic...

 

[Habs10025]

I really like how the OP's Metro team features only one player from the top team in the division.

If the league wants they can leave Crosby out of the meaningless game . Pittsburgh should request they do that Crosby ,Kessel , Malkin would rather the rest its no honor being selected to play in that game.

 

[The Macho King]

They really should do away with the "one from each team" rule.