The NHL All- Star weekend was held in St. Louis at the Enterprise Center, home of the St. Louis Blues, this past weekend (January 24-26). The winner of the 2020 NHL All-Star game was the Pacific Division with a final score of 5-4, in a very close, fun and entertaining game. The MVP of the game was David Pastrnak of the Boston Bruins. He was the first Bruins player to win the MVP in the All-Star game since 2001. He won the MVP due to an excellent game and fan voting online, via Twitter on the NHL Twitter page. The All-Star weekend was filled from Friday-Saturday. The Enterprise Center is a great location for the All-Star game due to the fact that it holds nearly 20,000 people, and is home to one of the best teams in the NHL the St. Louis Blues! On Friday night the Skills Competition took place holding 6 main events. The events included “Fastest Skater”, “Save Streak”, “Accuracy Shooting”, “Hardest Shot”, “Shooting Stars”, and finally “Elite women’s 3-on-3”. The winner of “Fastest Skater” was from the New York Islanders, Mathew Barzal the 22 year old, he had a ridiculous time of just 13.175 seconds. The winner of “Save Streak” was from the hometown team, Jordan Binnington, the Canadian had 10 saves. The winner of the “Accuracy Shooting” was from the Carolina Hurricanes, Jaccob Slavin, with a time of 9.505 seconds. The winner of “Hardest Shot”, Shea Weber of the Montreal Canadiens, clocking in at 106.5 mph . The winner from the most watched event, “Shooting Stars”, was none other than the Chicago Blackhawks superstar, Patrick Kane. He won in a tie breaker accumulating 22 points. The 3-on-3 winner for the women was team Canada, with a final score of 2-1. The Canadian goalie, Ann-Renne Desbiens had an unbelievable performance making a total of 15 saves. Desbiens is 25 years old and played at the University of Wisconsin. The NHL has roughly 30 more games until post season.
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