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NHL All-Star Skills Competition assignments set

NHL All-Star Game stays with 3-on-3 tournament format

NEW YORK - As the countdown to the 2017 Honda NHL® All-Star Weekend, continues, the National Hockey League (NHL®) announced today that the 2017 Honda NHL® All-Star Game will return to a 3-on-3 All-Star Tournament among the NHL's most talented star players from each division. The 3-on-3 format, which debuted last year, will divide the NHL All-Star Game into three 20-minute games, with star players from each NHL division making up the four All-Star teams: Pacific, Central, Atlantic, and Metropolitan.

The 2017 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend will include the 2017 Coors Light NHL All-Star Skills Competition™ on Saturday, Jan. 28, where each NHL division's All-Star team will compete for the right to select both their first opponent and when their 2017 Honda NHL® All-Star Game semi-final matchup will be played; first or second on Sunday, Jan. 29. The winners of each semi-final game will face off in a winner-take-all $1 million matchup.

1 posted on 01/28/2017 8:49:47 AM PST by airborne
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2 posted on 01/28/2017 8:51:17 AM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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2017 NHL All-Star Game rosters

Central vs. Pacific - 3:30 PM on NBC, CBC, SN, TVAS

Metropolitan vs. Atlantic - 4:30 PM on NBC, CBC, SN, TVAS


7 posted on 01/29/2017 7:05:14 AM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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Skills competition was great. Wifey & me both watched. We are looking forward to the 3 on 3 today. 3 on 3 sounds like a menage a trois trois.


8 posted on 01/29/2017 10:51:27 AM PST by certrtwngnut (Hey snowflake. You want a safe place go to a gun range.)
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