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The 2024 NHL All-Star Weekend will take place Feb. 1-3, hosted by the Maple Leafs in Toronto.

The All-Star draft returned and took place on Thursday, with NHL stars as captains along with a celebrity co-captain. The four teams are: Team Matthews (Auston Matthews, Morgan Rielly, Justin Bieber); Team McDavid (Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Will Arnett); Team MacKinnon (Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Tate McRae); and Team Hughes (Quinn Hughes, Jack Hughes, Michael Bublé).

The All-Star skills competition will have a revamped format and will take place Friday, Feb. 2 (7 p.m. ET, ESPN and ESPN+). The All-Star Game will finish off the festivities on Saturday, Feb. 3 (3 p.m. ET, ABC and ESPN+).

The initial list of 32 All-Stars (one per team) was revealed on Jan. 4. An additional 12 players (eight skaters and four goalies) were voted in by fans at NHL.com/vote, and revealed on Jan. 13.

Note: Stats are through the games of Jan. 31.

2024 All-Stars Teams

Team Matthews

Celebrity captain Justin Bieber

Age: 26
GP: 46 | G: 40 | A: 18


Age: 29
GP: 47 | G: 7 | A: 33


Age: 27
GP: 47 | G: 23 | A: 38


Age: 26
GP: 47 | G: 20 | A: 33


Age: 25
Rec: 16-9-2 | GAA: 3.04 | SV%: .900


Age: 25
GP: 48 | G: 20 | A: 25


Age: 26
GP: 48 | G: 13 | A: 38


Age: 28
Rec: 19-12-1 | GAA: 2.86 | SV%: .899


Age: 29
GP: 51 | G: 24 | A: 27


Age: 26
GP: 50 | G: 18 | A: 25


Age: 30
GP: 49 | G: 15 | A: 31

Team McDavid

Celebrity captain Will Arnett

Age: 27
GP: 43 | G: 20 | A: 47


Age: 28
GP: 45 | G: 23 | A: 34


Age: 30
Rec: 23-9-3 | GAA: 2.20 | SV%: .924


Age: 27
GP: 49 | G: 33 | A: 39


Age: 23
GP: 48 | G: 13 | A: 25


Age: 24
GP: 49 | G: 17 | A: 35


Age: 28
GP: 49 | G: 37 | A: 25


Age: 35
Rec: 23-10-2 | GAA: 2.51 | SV%: .910


Age: 30
GP: 35 | G: 13 | A: 5


Age: 24
GP: 49 | G: 13 | A: 29


Age: 30
GP: 48 | G: 15 | A: 19

Team MacKinnon

Celebrity captain Tate McRae

Age: 28
GP: 49 | G: 31 | A: 53


Age: 25
GP: 44 | G: 12 | A: 46


Age: 36
GP: 46 | G: 27 | A: 23


Age: 27
Rec: 27-11-2 | GAA: 2.91 | SV%: .898


Age: 26
GP: 42 | G: 19 | A: 26


Age: 26
GP: 45 | G: 17 | A: 37


Age: 29
GP: 46 | G: 12 | A: 9


Age: 25
Rec: 16-3-7 | GAA: 2.30 | SV%: .924


Age: 26
GP: 50 | G: 22 | A: 20


Age: 29
GP: 49 | G: 9 | A: 23


Age: 28
GP: 50 | G: 13 | A: 27

Team Hughes

Celebrity captain Michael Bublé

Age: 24
GP: 49 | G: 12 | A: 50


Age: 22
GP: 32 | G: 15 | A: 30

Note: Jack Hughes will not play due to injury.


Age: 25
GP: 49 | G: 27 | A: 37


Age: 30
GP: 49 | G: 32 | A: 53


Age: 28
Rec: 26-8-1 | GAA: 2.44 | SV%: .920


Age: 27
GP: 31 | G: 18 | A: 11


Age: 24
GP: 47 | G: 22 | A: 19


Age: 25
GP: 47 | G: 19 | A: 31


Age: 36
Rec: 14-13-5 | GAA: 2.59 | SV%: .911


Age: 26
GP: 49 | G: 30 | A: 22


Age: 30
GP: 49 | G: 21 | A: 46


Age: 29
GP: 50 | G: 22 | A: 14

Injured players who will not participate

Age: 18
GP: 39 | G: 15 | A: 18


Age: 27
GP: 42 | G: 19 | A: 25

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Get ready for the all new NHL All-Star Skills challenge

Get a sneak peek at what the format of the new-look NHL All-Star Skills challenge looks like.

Unlike in years past, where every All-Star would compete in at least one event, the new format will see just 12 All-Stars duking it out in a series of eight events, with points earned for placement in each. The player who has the most points at the end will receive $1 million.

The participants this year are: David Pastrnak, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid, Mathew Barzal, Nikita Kucherov, Auston Matthews, William Nylander, Elias Pettersson, Quinn Hughes and J.T. Miller.

The events (and competitors) for the 2024 All-Star skills competition are:

  • Fastest skater (Nylander, Hughes, Makar, Barzal, McDavid)

  • Hardest shot (Matthews, Makar, Pastrnak, Miller, Pettersson)

  • Stickhandling (Hughes, McDavid, Pettersson, Kucherov, Draisaitl, MacKinnon, Pastrnak, Barzal, Nylander)

  • One-timers (Pettersson, MacKinnon, Draisaitl, Kucherov, Miller, Matthews, Barzal, Pastrnak)

  • Passing challenge (MacKinnon, Nylander, Makar, Barzal, Miller, Kucherov, Hughes, McDavid, Pettersson, Matthews, Draisaitl)

  • Accuracy shooting (Kucherov, Makar, McDavid, Hughes, Miller, Pastrnak, MacKinnon, Nylander, Draisaitl, Matthews)

  • The NHL shootout (top eight)

  • The NHL obstacle course (top six)

Each player chose four of the first six events in which to compete; the four lowest scoring players after those first six will be eliminated. For the shootout, the remaining eight players get to select which goalie they will shoot against (with the lowest score choosing first). The top six scores after that event move on to the final stage, the obstacle course, where point totals are doubled.

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San Jose State wide receiver Danny Scudero, the leading receiver in FBS this season, will enter the NCAA transfer portal when it opens in January, he announced Friday.

The 5-foot-9, 174-pound redshirt sophomore caught 88 passes for 1,291 yards and 10 touchdowns in his first season with the Spartans, becoming a semifinal for the Biletnikoff Award and earning first-team All-Mountain West honors.

Scudero is expected to be one of the more coveted wide receivers available when the transfer portal officially opens on Jan. 2 and has two more seasons of eligibility remaining.

Scudero spent two years at Sacramento State before transferring to San Jose State after the 2024 season. He broke out with 189 receiving yards to open the season against Central Michigan and surpassed 100 yards in five more games, including a career-high 215 and two touchdowns against Hawaii.

Scudero’s 88 receptions ranked fourth-most in FBS, and he leads all receivers this season with 16 catches of 30 or more yards.

The Spartans produced the No. 14 passing offense in FBS this season but went 3-9 in their second year under coach Ken Niumatalolo.

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North Carolina offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens and special teams coordinator Mike Priefer will not return next season, with the school announcing the departure of both assistants after a 4-8 season in Bill Belichick’s college coaching debut.

“We want to thank Coach Kitchens and Coach Priefer for their commitment and many contributions to our program and student-athletes,” Belichick said in a statement. “We wish them both nothing but the best in their future endeavors.”

North Carolina’s offense was one of the worst in the country, ranking 119th in the FBS in scoring (19.3 PPG) and 129th in total offense (288.8 YPG).

The Tar Heels had special teams issues coming down the stretch too, notably with Duke running a fake field goal to set up a late winning touchdown and NC State successfully running a fake punt for a first down the following week.

Kitchens, who served as Cleveland Browns coach in 2019, had been with the Tar Heels since 2023 and was the interim coach for their Fenway Bowl loss at the end of the 2024 season. Belichick was hired as the new head coach earlier that month.

Priefer was a longtime NFL special teams coach who followed Belichick to Chapel Hill but lasted just one season on the job.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Iowa State quarterback Rocco Becht underwent labrum surgery on his non-throwing shoulder Thursday, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel.

Becht played the majority of the season with a partial labrum tear and using a harness on the shoulder. He was diagnosed with the injury after the Cyclones’ loss to Cincinnati on Oct. 4. He also dealt with an AC sprain in his throwing shoulder late in the season, which he is recovering from.

Sources said Becht is expected to make a full recovery in the upcoming months as he weighs decisions about his future. The quarterback is expected to consider a return to Iowa State or entering the transfer portal.

Longtime Cyclones coach Matt Campbell left the school earlier this month to become Penn State‘s coach. The Cyclones hired Washington State‘s Jimmy Rogers as his replacement.

Becht, a junior this season, threw for 2,584 yards with 16 touchdowns and 9 interceptions. He has totaled 9,274 yards, 64 touchdowns and 27 interceptions in three-plus seasons at Iowa State.

Iowa State went 8-4 this season but opted not to play in a bowl game after Campbell’s departure.

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