NHL All-Star Weekend

NHL All-Star weekend is action filled with all the best hockey players in the league. This year it was hosted in the home arena of last year’s Stanley Cup Champions, the St. Louis Blues. There was plenty of action for the fans that travelled to St. Louis to see, this included live concerts downtown, the skills competition, and most importantly the all-star game. The skills competition took place inside the arena. This competition contains multiple tasks including the fastest skater, goalie save streak, accuracy shooting, hardest shot, shooting stars, and the women’s three on three competition. Barzal of the the New York Islanders won the fastest skater by the time of 13.175 seconds, Binnington the goalie of the St. Louis Blues won the save streak by making 10 saves, and Slavin of the Carolina Hurricanes won the accuracy shooting by the time of 9.505 seconds. The results from the hardest shot and shooting stars include Weber from the Montreal Canadians with a shot speed of 106.5 miles per hour and Kane from the Chicago Blackhawks winning off a tiebreaker at 22 points with Marner of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The night of January 25, 2020 Green Day was live downtown for all the fans to go watch and have a good time and take their minds off hockey for some time. The concert was then followed by the all-star game inside the Enterprise Center. This game caps off a great weekend of NHL stars from all around the world. The game ended in the Pacific conference capping off a five to four victory over the Atlantic conference in the game with a goal from Tomas Hertl with 2:36 remaining in the game and David Pastarnak was named the games most valuable player. The all-star weekend as a whole brings hockey fans together to enjoy the sport they love watching with other avid fans. It is an action packed weekend with plenty of events to attend not always pertaining to the sport of hockey and then the skills competition and all-star game to cap off an incredible atmosphere for the hockey world. People come together whether they root for the same team or not and enjoy a great hockey focused weekend. It should be a goal for every die hard hockey fan to attend an NHL All-Star Weekend.