NHL Announces All-Star Skills Competitors

The NHL All-Star Skills Competition is scheduled for this evening, and though Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon have both pulled out due to illness and injury there are still an incredible amount of talented players taking part. Most notable however may be the final entrant in the fastest skater competition: Kendall Coyne. A member of the US Women’s National Team, Coyne will take MacKinnon’s place after the Colorado Avalanche forward suffered a foot injury this week. The Olympic gold medalist is known for her speed and posted a 14.226 yesterday during event testing according to Emily Kaplan of ESPN. Though that wouldn’t have been enough to dethrone Connor McDavid last year, it would have put her ahead of Zach Werenski, Noah Hanifin and Josh Bailey in the competition. We’ll see what Coyne can do tonight, along with the rest of the competitors:

Fastest Skater:

Cam Atkinson, Columbus Blue Jackets

Mathew Barzal, New York Islanders

Jack Eichel, Buffalo Sabres

Miro Heiskanen, Dallas Stars

Clayton Keller, Arizona Coyotes

Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers

Elias Pettersson, Vancouver Canucks

Kendall Coyne, U.S. Women’s National Team

Puck Control:

Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary Flames

Claude Giroux, Philadelphia Flyers

Patrick Kane, Chicago Blackhawks

Gabriel Landeskog, Colorado Avalanche

Elias Pettersson, Vancouver Canucks

Mark Scheifele, Winnipeg Jets

Jeff Skinner, Buffalo Sabres

John Tavares, Toronto Maple Leafs

Save Streak:

Devan Dubnyk, Minnesota Wild

Marc-Andre Fleury, Vegas Golden Knights

John Gibson, Anaheim Ducks

Braden Holtby, Washington Capitals

Jimmy Howard, Detroit Red Wings

Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers

Pekka Rinne, Nashville Predators

Andrei Vasilevskiy, Tampa Bay Lightning

Premier Passer:

Sebastian Aho, Carolina Hurricanes

Thomas Chabot, Ottawa Senators

Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton Oilers

Roman Josi, Nashville Predators

Erik Karlsson, San Jose Sharks

Ryan O’Reilly, St. Louis Blues

Mikko Rantanen, Colorado Avalanche

Keith Yandle, Florida Panthers

Hardest Shot:

Brent Burns, San Jose Sharks

John Carlson, Washington Capitals

Seth Jones, Columbus Blue Jackets

Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay Lightning

Accuracy Shooting:

Drew Doughty, Los Angeles Kings

Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay Lightning

Kris Letang, Pittsburgh Penguins

Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs

Kyle Palmieri, New Jersey Devils

David Pastrnak, Boston Bruins

Joe Pavelski, San Jose Sharks

Blake Wheeler, Winnipeg Jets