2023 National Hockey League All-Star Game

Did You Know?

• The Truly Hard Seltzer NHL All-Star Beach Festival was held at Fort Lauderdale Beach Park from February 2 to 4.
• Fall Out Boy performed during the second intermission of the All-Star Game.
• The All-Star Game was broadcast in the United States on ABC and streamed on ESPN+.

History

The NHL originally awarded Sunrise the 2021 All-Star Game on January 24, 2020; the city had previously hosted in 2003. On October 22, 2020, the league postponed the 2020–21 game due to the COVID-19 pandemic, citing uncertainty about fan attendance. On June 28, 2021, the 2022 game was given to Las Vegas instead. Florida was confirmed as the 2023 host on February 4, 2022.

Skills Competition

The NHL All-Star Skills Competition took place on February 3. Four regular events returned: Fastest Skater, Hardest Shot, Breakaway Challenge, and Accuracy Shooting. Andrei Svechnikov won Fastest Skater (13.699 seconds), Elias Pettersson won Hardest Shot (103.2 mph), Sidney Crosby, Alexander Ovechkin, and Sergei Ovechkin won the Breakaway Challenge, and Brock Nelson won Accuracy Shooting (12.419 seconds). A new goaltender competition, Tendy Tandem, replaced the Save Streak event; each division's two goalies participated, with one shooting and the other facing a breakaway shootout that included members of the Canadian and American women's national teams. Sarah Nurse of Team Canada scored against Igor Shesterkin. The Central Division tandem of Connor Hellebuyck and Juuse Saros won with 13 points.

Rosters

Player selection involved two stages: on January 5, the league's Department of Hockey Operations chose 32 players (one per team), and fan vote from January 5 to 17 added 12 more (three per division). Head coaches were announced on January 11, based on the highest points percentage through that date: Rod Brind'Amour (Metropolitan), Jim Montgomery (Atlantic), Peter DeBoer (Central), and Bruce Cassidy (Pacific). Three players were replaced due to injury: Auston Matthews, Tage Thompson, and Matty Beniers.