The NHL will as soon as once more tweak its All-Star Recreation format by bringing again the participant draft, stretching the festivities throughout three days, and prominently that includes gamers from the newly-formed PWHL, the league introduced on Monday.
All-Star captains haven’t chosen their teammates since 2015; this time, celebrities might be available to assist them decide their crew from a pool of the sport’s brightest stars.
The Tim Hortons NHL All-Star Participant Draft will happen on Feb. 1 from the Scotiabank Area in Toronto as a part of the NHL’s inaugural “All-Star Thursday.” 4 league-selected captains will select their All-Star lineups for a 3-on-3 match, which is able to wrap up the weekend on Saturday, Feb. 3.
All-Star Thursday may also function 3-on-3 hockey from the gamers of the PWHL, a newly fashioned ladies’s hockey league that includes stars like Hilary Knight and Taylor Heise. The PWHL doesn’t start play till January and can get the chance to showcase the most effective the ladies’s sport has to supply early in its inaugural season.
After Thursday’s draft, PWHL showdown, and a ceremony from the NHL Alumni Affiliation honoring its Man of the Yr (in addition to the 1967 Stanley Cup Champion Toronto Maple Leafs), Friday’s All-Star Expertise Competitors and the 3-on-3 match will spherical out the weekend.
The most recent shakeup of the NHL’s All-Star Weekend comes after a disjointed 2023 version from South Florida rife with skits, weird Miami Vice allusions, and loads of Roberto Luongo. If Monday’s announcement is something to go on, the league is bringing out the massive weapons to make sure Toronto’s first All-Star Weekend since 2000 goes extra easily.
