Kane will be Blackhawks' lone representative in NHL All-Star Game
Patrick Kane will be the Chicago Blackhawks' lone representative in the NHL All-Star Game, which will be played in Tampa on Jan. 28.
It will be Kane's seventh all-star appearance. Kane has 18 goals and 27 assists to rank 13th in the league with 45 points. He posted a career-best 4-assist, 5-point game in the Hawks' 8-2 win over Ottawa on Tuesday.
Hawks captain Jonathan Toews, defenseman Duncan Keith and goalie Corey Crawford did not make the team. Toews (14G, 17A) is a four-time all-star. Crawford has the third-best save percentage (.929) in the NHL, but he has been on injured reserve for two weeks with an upper-body injury with no timetable for return. Keith, a four-time all-star, has yet to score a goal this season.
For the third straight year, the NHL will play a 3-on-3 tournament-style All-Star Game in which the Pacific Division plays the Central Division, and the Metropolitan Division plays the Atlantic Division. The winners face off in the championship game.
Fans voted for the captains and they will be Predators defenseman P.K. Subban (Central), Edmonton's Connor McDavid (Pacific), Washington's Alex Ovechkin (Metro) and Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos (Atlantic). The coaches are Nashville's Peter Laviolette (Central), Vegas' Gerard Gallant (Pacific), Washington's Barry Trotz (Metro) and Tampa Bay's Jon Cooper (Atlantic).
NHL all-stars
Here's a look at the complete roster for the 2018 NHL All-Star Game on Jan. 28 at Amalie Arena in Tampa. The skills competition will take place on Jan. 27.
<b>Atlantic Division (all-star appearance)</b>F Aleksander Barkov, FLA (1st)
F Jack Eichel, BUF (1st)
F Nikita Kucherov, TBL (2nd)
F Brad Marchand, BOS (2nd)
F Auston Matthews, TOR (2nd)
F Steven Stamkos, TBL* (5th)
D Mike Green, DET (2nd)
D Victor Hedman, TBL (2nd)
D Erik Karlsson, OTT (5th)
G Carey Price, MTL (6th)
G Andrei Vasilevskiy, TBL (1st)
Coach: Jon Cooper, TBL (1st)
<b>Metropolitan Division</b>F Josh Bailey, NYI (1st)
F Sidney Crosby, PIT (3rd)
F Claude Giroux, PHI (5th)
F Taylor Hall, NJD (3rd)
F Alex Ovechkin, WSH* (7th)
F John Tavares, NYI (5th)
D Noah Hanifin, CAR (1st)
D Seth Jones, CBJ (2nd)
D Kris Letang, PIT (4th)
G Braden Holtby, WSH (3rd)
G Henrik Lundqvist, NYR (4th)
Coach: Barry Trotz, WSH (3rd)
<b>Central Division</b>F Patrick Kane, HAWKS (7th)
F Nathan MacKinnon, COL (2nd)
F Brayden Schenn, STL (1st)
F Tyler Seguin, DAL (5th)
F Eric Staal, MIN (5th)
F Blake Wheeler, WPG (1st)
D John Klingberg, DAL (1st)
D Alex Pietrangelo, STL (1st)
D P.K. Subban, NSH* (3rd)
G Connor Hellebuyck, WPG (1st)
G Pekka Rinne, NSH (2nd)
Coach: Peter Laviolette, NSH (3rd)
<b>Pacific Division</b>F Brock Boeser, VAN (1st)
F Johnny Gaudreau, CGY (4th)
F Anze Kopitar, LAK (4th)
F Connor McDavid, EDM* (2nd)
F James Neal, VGK (3rd)
F Rickard Rakell, ANA (1st)
D Brent Burns, SJS (5th)
D Drew Doughty, LAK (4th)
D Oliver Ekman-Larsson, ARI (2nd)
G Marc-Andre Fleury, VGK (3rd)
G Jonathan Quick, LAK (3rd)
Coach: Gerard Gallant, VGK (2nd)
* Denotes fan-elected captain
Source: NHL.com