The National Hockey League All-Star Game (French: Match des ??toiles de la Ligue Nationale de Hockey) is an exhibition hockey baseball game that is traditionally held during the regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL), with many of the League’s celebrity players playing against each other. Each group plays with four players. The Game’s earnings benefit the pension fund of these gamers.
The NHL All-Star Game, held in late January or early February, marks the emblematic halfway point from the regular season, though not the mathematical halfway point that, for many seasons, is usually a couple of months earlier. Since 2007, it’s held in late January.From 1947 to 1968, the All-Star Game primarily saw the preceding season’s Stanley Cup champions take on a team of All-Stars from the other clubs. There were two exceptions during this time: The 1951 and 1952 games instead featured two teams of All-Star players, one consisting of players on American-based teams and another with players comprising gamers around Canadian-based teams.
Beginning in 1969, the arrangement was geographic with the Wales/Eastern Conference All-Stars playing the Campbell/Western Conference All-Stars, in which the”first group”, or beginning line, such as the starting goaltender, voted by fans, while the remainder of the teams’ rosters are picked from the NHL’s Hockey Operations Department in consultation with the groups’ general managers. Since 1996, the head coaches for both All-Star teams are the coaches of the two teams that are leading their individual conferences in point percentage (i.e. percent of points obtained from total possible points). Ahead policy observed the two head coaches who appeared in the previous year’s Stanley Cup Finals training the All-Star teams. [3]
The 1998 All-Star Game was held in the very same year as the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, providing the NHL to show its players from all over the world. To this extent, the NHL had the All-Star teams include a group of North Americans playing with a group of stars from the rest of the world. [4] The North America vs. World All-Star format lasted throughout the 2002 Game, the Identical year since the 2002 Winter Olympics, before reverting to the Eastern vs. Western Conference format in 2003.
During the 2010–11 season, the NHL announced a change to the way the teams were selected, modeled after drafts in fantasy sports. The conference vs. conference (i.e. East vs. West) strategy was substituted by a player draft performed by the All-Star players themselves to determine the rosters for every team. The captains for each team today select players from a joint pool of both fan balloting and the NHL Hockey Operations Department. The change in structure was a joint effort by the League and the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA). [5] This arrangement continued through the 2015 game.
The All-Star Game is preceded by the NHL All-Star Skills Contest, a contest showing the various talents of the all-stars. Beginning in 2007, the All-Star weekend also featured the NHL YoungStars Game, an exhibition match only featuring rookies,[6] playing slightly modified rules. In 2011 this game was removed in favor of getting the rookies compete in the skills competition.
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