Friday: NHL All-Star draft
The two captains, Jonathan Toews and Nick Foligno, were selected prior to this weekend. Toews had the help from his assistant captains, Ryan Getzlaf and Rick Nash, while Foligno was assisted by Patrick Kane and Drew Doughty. The highlights of the draft were definitely Ovi being Ovi and a surprise trade. Ovechkin went into the draft with big hopes...
...Only to be picked third to last by team Foligno to spoil his plans.
Ovi was brought utter comedy to the draft this year and fellow all-star gave us a hint as to why with this tweet the next day.
Ovi was still upset the next day.
Other than Ovi's antics, the only thing that stood out was the first ever NHL All-Star trade. The Seguin/Kessel saga continued when Team Foligno traded Tyler Seguin for Phil Kessel (fools)
Saturday: The Skills Competition
So with the teams chosen we moved onto the skills competition. The first challenge was fastest skater with Team Foligno sweeping the category 5-0. Tampa Bay's, Jonathan Drouin shined with the fastest time being 13.103 seconds. Ryan Johansen won the second event, the breakaway challenge, by catering to the hometown crowd. With his three shots he sported an Ohio State University football jersey, incorporated a young child in his second shot, and then with the help of his teammates broke out the flying V.
Needless to say he won the fan vote 44.3%. The third event was the accuracy shooting. The highlight of this event was watching Kane and Toews go head to head. Kane hit all four targets in the shortest amount of time 13. 529 seconds, beating fellow Blackhawk, Jonathan Toews, who completed the competition in 16.307 seconds.
Bros on bros on bros. I will never get over their bromance!
The fourth event was the challenge relay which included one timers, passing (mini nets), puck control relay, stick handling, and goalie goals. At the end of that Foligno's team lead 12-2. Event five was the hardest shot contest where no one came close to beating the five time champ Zdeno Chara until Shea Weber took his last shot. Weber won with a 108.5mph slapper. (Zdeno still holds the record with 108.8mph)
Last but not least was the three round timed shootout. (highlight gifs below)
The final tally was Team Toews:19 Team Foligno: 25
Sunday: The All-Star Game
If you blinked you could have missed a goal. Goals on goals on goals would be a quick recap of the game tonight. Team Toews beat Team Foligno 17-12 with help from just about everyone. Tavares and Vorachek both contributed hat tricks toward the 17 goals on Team Toews. Voracheck led the team with six points followed by Toews and Bergeron with five. Seguin set up Bergeron for a sweet tap in past Price and I had flashbacks to the good ole days.
I was just missing some nose face killah to complete the dream.
If the goals weren't enough for you, there was even a little scuffle to be had.
Good times had by all it seems. One day I'll make it to a NHL All-Star weekend, until then enjoy this gif of Jonathan Toews struggling to get on the bench.
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