A Breakdown of the Final NHL All-Star Game Rosters

The 2023 NHL All-Star game is rapidly approaching, and the main rosters are set.

This will be the 61st All-Star game, with the skills competition taking place on February 3rd and the NHL All-Star game on February 4th. Both events will be held at the FLA arena in Sunrise, Florida, home of the Florida Panthers.

This season there will be 14 first-time All-Stars, while Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin will be playing in his seventh All-Star game, as this is his 13th selection.

Who has the advantage in this year’s NHL All-Star game?

Atlantic

• Nikita Kucherov (Tampa Bay Lightning)
• Dylan Larkin (Detroit Red Wings)
• Mitch Marner (Toronto Maple Leafs)
• Nick Suzuki (Montreal Canadians)
• Tage Thompson (Buffalo Sabres) *
• Brady Tkachuk (Ottawa Senators)
• Matthew Tkachuk (Florida Panthers)
• Linus Ullmark (Boston Bruins) *
• Auston Matthews (Toronto Maple Leafs)
• Andrei Vasilevskiy (Tampa Bay Lightning)
• David Pastrnak (Boston Bruins)

Metropolitan

• Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Penguins)
• Alex Ovechkin (Washington Capitals)
• Johnny Gaudreau (Columbus Blue Jackets)
• Kevin Hayes (Philadelphia Flyers) *
• Jack Hughes (New Jersey Devils)
• Brock Nelson (New York Islanders) *
• Igor Shesterkin (New York Rangers) *
• Andrei Svechnikov (Carolina Hurricanes) *
• Artemi Panarin (New York Rangers) *
• Adam Fox (New York Rangers) *
• Ilya Sorokin (New York Islanders) *

Central

• Seth Jones (Chicago Blackhawks)
• Kirill Kaprizov (Minnesota Wild)
• Clayton Keller (Arizona Coyotes)
• Cale Makar (Colorado Avalanche)
• Josh Morrissey (Winnipeg Jets) *
• Jason Robertson (Dallas Stars) *
• Juuse Saros (Nashville Predators)
• Vladimir Tarasenko (St. Louis Blues)
• Mikko Rantanen (Colorado Avalanche)
• Nathan MacKinnon (Colorado Avalanche)
• Connor Hellebuyck (Winnipeg Jets)

Pacific

• Matty Beniers (Seattle Kraken) *
• Kevin Fiala (Los Angeles Kings) *
• Nazem Kadri (Calgary Flames)
• Erik Karlsson (San Jose Sharks)
• Connor McDavid (Edmonton Oilers)
• Elias Pettersson (Vancouver Canucks)
• Troy Terry (Anaheim Ducks)
• Logan Thompson (Vegas Golden Knights) *
• Bo Horvat (Vancouver Canucks)
• Stuart Skinner (Edmonton Oilers)
• Leon Draisaitl (Edmonton Oilers)

*-Denotes first-time NHL All-Star

The main roster has been chosen, with one representative from each team. However, the 12 remaining players were determined by an online fan vote. The voting ended on January 17th and the results were revealed on January 19th.

This event should be fun for all first-timers at the event. We can expect something crazy from these young stars, as this is an offense-only event. The NHL skills event should also be something to see, with events and participants still to be revealed.

The event will likely bring in some celebrities for everyone to see as well, as well as be a conversation piece for the second half of the 2023 NHL season.