The NHL released the rosters for this year’s All-Star game in Tampa Bay, leading to an inevitable onslaught of discussion over who missed out and who didn’t deserve to go. The event will take place on January 27-28th. The full rosters can be found below:
Atlantic Division:
F Steven Stamkos – Tampa Bay Lightning (captain)
F Nikita Kucherov – Tampa Bay Lightning
F Auston Matthews – Toronto Maple Leafs
F Aleksander Barkov – Florida Panthers
F Brad Marchand – Boston Bruins
F Jack Eichel – Buffalo Sabres
D Victor Hedman – Tampa Bay Lightning
D Erik Karlsson – Ottawa Senators
D Mike Green – Detroit Red Wings
G Andrei Vasilevskiy – Tampa Bay Lightning
G Carey Price – Montreal Canadiens
Head Coach: Jon Cooper
Metropolitan Division:
F Alex Ovechkin – Washington Capitals (captain)
F Taylor Hall – New Jersey Devils
F Sidney Crosby – Pittsburgh Penguins
F Josh Bailey – New York Islanders
F John Tavares – New York Islanders
F Claude Giroux – Philadelphia Flyers
D Seth Jones – Columbus Blue Jackets
D Noah Hanifin – Carolina Hurricanes
D Kris Letang – Pittsburgh Penguins
G Henrik Lundqvist – New York Rangers
G Braden Holtby – Washington Capitals
Head Coach: Barry Trotz
Central Division:
F Patrick Kane – Chicago Blackhawks
F Nathan MacKinnon – Colorado Avalanche
F Blake Wheeler – Winnipeg Jets
F Brayden Schenn – St. Louis Blues
F Eric Staal – Minnesota Wild
F Tyler Seguin – Dallas Stars
D P.K. Subban – Nashville Predators (captain)
D Alex Pietrangelo – St. Louis Blues
D John Klingberg – Dallas Stars
G Pekka Rinne – Nashville Predators
G Connor Hellebuyck – Winnipeg Jets
Head Coach: Peter Laviolette
Pacific Division:
F Connor McDavid – Edmonton Oilers (captain)
F Johnny Gaudreau – Calgary Flames
F Brock Boeser – Vancouver Canucks
F James Neal – Vegas Golden Knights
F Rickard Rakell – Anaheim Ducks
F Anze Kopitar – Los Angeles Kings
D Drew Doughty – Los Angeles Kings
D Brent Burns – San Jose Sharks
D Oliver Ekman-Larsson – Arizona Coyotes
G Jonathan Quick – Los Angeles Kings
G Marc-Andre Fleury – Vegas Golden Knights
Head Coach: Gerard Gallant
This is just getting sillier by the year. I get it, you need to market the game by making sure the stars are playing. In turn, players like Sean Couturier get shafted.
Tell me about it! They should take the best players from each team and put em in a line! Can you imagine a 1st line of all TB players and a 2nd line of Matthews, Marner and Nylander of Toronto?! Metro would wipe the floor with all other division rivals right there!
King Henrik deserves it! He has been great this year and is the reason the Rangers are even in it.
Tuukka god robbed… Price in by name alone.
Preach!
I think he got in because A) at least one player from every team has to be in the game ( you know get people watching)
B) who else from Montreal deserves to go?
Taylor Hall – Edmonton Oilers!
I swear that wasn’t done on purpose.
Wtf Taylor Hall is on New Jersey
Voracek leads the NHL in assists and he won’t be there
No kessel??
Letang has been awful, so naturally he’s an all star.
Letang should not be on the team and with trotz as the coach your guaranteed a first round loss for the Metro.
Tons of snubs and a couple of guys getting in on name alone. I mean no what format is used, there are bound to be snubs, but I think the format should be changed. 6 forwards, 3 defensemen, 2 goalies is not enough. I understand the 3-on-3 format is meant to create more space on th
Submitted somehow before I could finish. But the 3-on-3 is meant to create more space on the ice and consequently more scoring. To keep the excitement just go to a 4-on-4 format. 3 goalies, 6 defensemen, 8-10 forwards. This way you get to keep the stars that the NHL insists on throwing in there even if they are having bad seasons but also actually get another couple of players who do deserve to get in.
How the hell does Price make it over Andersen ?
Price is only there cause Montreal has to have a player I guess that’s a team of losers not any all stars this year
Where is Pastrnam
Pastrnak should’ve got in instead of Eichel
Pretty sure that every team is supposed to get one player in. Can’t take Eichel out without replacing him with another Sabres player.
Still Evander Kane is better than Eichel
Lol no he’s not.
This season he is more all star worthy than Eichel
Eichel has more points than Kane. Eichel has as many points as Pastrnak. So if Pastrnak is worthy, Eichel is worthy.
Eichel has a bad +\-
+\- is such a team stat. You can’t judge a guy and claim he’s good/bad just solely because of his +\- . I mean Sidney Crosby has a -11, but are you going to tell me he’s bad? For comparison sake, Evander Kane has a better plus/minus than Crosby, so are you implying Kane is having a better year? I don’t like Crosby but I know Crosby’s -11 isn’t only his fault.
Mark stone?
A worthy candidate and probable snub, but who would you take out of that forward group to put him in? Each team needs one representative so you put in Stone (who is deserving), you likely have to take Karlsson out. The problem is the NHL needs their stars and biggest names in the game, so certain guys are bound to get left out in favor of a bigger name.
As a sens fan, I believe Stone is way more deserving than Karlsson. I’m not really liking this format, since it seems the bigger names are chosen instead of the correct player. William Karlsson is another huge snub
Where’s Vincent Trocheck?