On Monday evening, the NHL announced some details for this season’s All-Star Weekend in Toronto. And guess what’s coming back? The player draft!
The All-Star Weekend is becoming a three-day event, beginning with NHL All-Star Thursday on Feb. 1. During that evening, “celebrities will be paired with captains, who will pick the teams for the NHL All-Star Game.” So we’re going back to pick-up game style drafting — I LOVE IT!
According to the league’s release, the NHL will once again select one player to represent each of the 32 teams for the NHL All-Star Game. The NHL All-Star Fan Vote will return in January, which will select 12 more players to complete the rosters.
The All-Star Skills will take place on Friday, Feb. 2 and the All-Star Game is on Saturday, Feb. 3. For those wondering, my birthday is that Sunday (winks at bosses to send me to the weekend… hint hint).
According to the , a few other fun events will also take place on the Thursday evening. “The NHL Alumni Association will announce its Man of the Year in a tribute to the 1967 Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto’s last Stanley Cup team. The Professional Women’s Hockey League will play a 3-on-3 game.”
I did find this one piece from the news interesting as🅘 well regarding the Man of the Year award from the Players Association.
The NHL Alumni present the Keith Magnuson Man of the Year award annually to the former NHL player who has applied the intangibles of perseverance, commitment and teamwork developed through the game into a successful post-career transition. This time, they will do it in a ceremony called the NHL Alum🌱ni Man of the Year, Honoring the ’67 Maple Leafs.
