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Kyrou turned plenty of heads this weekend. “I’ve always kind of been like that, my whole life.” “You want to raise your level to whatever you’re doing,” he said. And in the Winter Classic barely a month ago, he had two goals and two assists in the frozen tundra of Target Field. A day earlier, he beat out Connor McDavid and Dylan Larkin to win the fastest skater event at the skills competition. Kyrou had two goals and three assists in a little more than 13 minutes of ice time during Saturday’s 3-on-3 All-Star tournament. “I was hoping they wouldn’t review it.”Īlex DeBrincat spent three seasons going up against Jordan Kyrou four times a year in the OHL, so he knew just how speedy, shifty, and skilled the 23-year-old Blues center is. “I kind of knew I was offside,” DeBrincat said. Then in the final, Alex DeBrincat had scored with the goalie pulled to bring the Central to within 5-4 of the Metropolitan. But unfortunately, we gave it back right away.” “I think actually Victor (Hedman) called it, said it was offside. But Alex DeBrincat scored moments later and the Central went on to win 8-5. The review briefly gave the Atlantic life, putting them back down one goal. “I wish I could say it came from me, but no, it came from upstairs,” Brunette said, later noting, “There’s no coaching” in an All-Star game. But Atlantic coach Andrew Brunette challenged that the play was offside, and sure enough, it was. Later in the game, Connor scored again to make it 7-5 Central. Replay confirmed it, so instead of it being 4-3 Atlantic, it was suddenly 4-3 Central. But on the previous sequence, the Central’s Kyle Connor had scored following up on Nazem Kadri’s shot off the crossbar. In the Central-Atlantic game, Victor Hedman scored to break a 3-3 tie. On Saturday, it was about taking them away in bunches, as three apparent goals were overturned upon replays. The All-Star Game is usually all about scoring goals in bunches. Who's the best American in the NHL right now?.NHL holding 2 new, outdoor skills contests.All-Star teams announced Auston Matthews, Alex Ovechkin, Connor McDavid voted captains.Alex Ovechkin enters COVID protocol, won't participate in All-Star Game.The Athletic's Mark Lazerus, Sean Shapiro and Jesse Granger are in Las Vegas, so stay with us all weekend for highlights, quotes, quips and commentary.
The real question, though: Who is the skating knight going to slay in the pregame show? With 28 of the league’s 29 mascots in town for by far the best event of the weekend (whither Harvey the Hound?), let's just let the fur fly. But it’s still a treat to watch combinations such as Connor McDavid and Mark Stone go up against Jonathan Huberdeau and Patrice Bergeron, and to watch the world’s best goaltenders flail hilariously as nobody plays any defense in front of them. The All-Star game itself tends to be anticlimactic, with the game’s best players half-heartedly trudging their way through three 20-minute, 3-on-3 mini-games. I still say the Las Vegas Hardways is an infinitely better name than the Golden Knights. (Side note: Interesting that now it’s OK to have some fun gambling tie-ins to the team in Vegas, when the NHL was dead set against it when coming up with a name for the team.
How about Auston Matthews taking a boat across the Bellagio fountains and firing pucks through the spray into five targets? How about the legendary Manon Rhéaume lining up against Trevor Zegras in the revived breakaway challenge? How about some convoluted event with oversized playing cards after which some lucky NHL player will be crowned the “Puck Shark”? ET) is more intriguing than the actual 3-on-3 tournament (Saturday at 3 p.m.), and there’ll be a few Vegas-y twists this time around. And while we might never again get anything as glorious as the drunken fantasy draft in Columbus back in 2015, this year’s edition of All-Star weekend on The Strip should provide us with more than a few memorable moments.įor most fans, the skills competition (Friday at 7:30 p.m. In a sport that all too often takes itself too seriously, the addition of Las Vegas has provided the NHL with a much-needed dose of ridiculousness.