Crosby, McDavid, Subban and Price are voted NHL All-Star captains
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby (87) skates in the second period of a game against the Carolina Hurricanes on Dec. 28.
Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers — the player widely touted to succeed Crosby as the face of the NHL — won fan balloting for the Jan. 29 All-Star Game at Staples Center and will be the captains of their respective divisions, the NHL announced on Tuesday.
Crosby got the most votes in the Metropolitan Division and McDavid topped the Pacific Division. Defenseman P.K. Subban of the Nashville Predators led the Central Division voting, and goaltender Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens topped the voting in the Atlantic Division. The league did not release vote totals.
The All-Star Game was awarded to Los Angeles as part of the Kings’ celebration of their 50th anniversary of entering the NHL. It will feature the same format as the 2016 event in Nashville, which won praise for being more entertaining and intense than most All-Star Games turn out to be.
Instead of one messy, no-hit game, there will be a three-on-three tournament featuring players from the two divisions in the Eastern Conference (the Atlantic and Metropolitan) playing each other, and the two divisions in the Western Conference (Central and Pacific) playing each other in 20-minute games. The winners of those games will advance to the finale. Each division’s team will have six forwards, three defensemen and two goaltenders.
Los Angeles has been the site of two previous NHL All-Star games, in 1981 at the Forum and in 2002 at Staples Center.
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