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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 took place Friday, won by Connor McDavid. The All-Star Game on Saturday was won by Team Matthews, 7-4 over Team McDavid. Matthews took home the MVP, with two goals and an assist in the final.

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.

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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

Details on the skills competition

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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 were: 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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Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder Oneil Cruz accepted an invitation on Tuesday to compete in Monday’s Home Run Derby in Atlanta.

Cruz is the fifth player to commit to the competition, held one day before the All-Star Game. The others are Ronald Acuna Jr. of the Atlanta Braves, Cal Raleigh of the Seattle Mariners, James Wood of the Washington Nationals and Byron Buxton of the Minnesota Twins.

Cruz, 26, is known for having a powerful bat and regularly delivers some of the hardest-hit homers in the sport. His home run May 25 at home against the Milwaukee Brewers had an exit velocity of 122.9 mph and was the hardest hit homer in the 10-year Statcast era.

But Cruz has never hit more than 21 in a season, and that was in 2024. He’s on track to set a new high this year and has 15 in 80 games.

Cruz has 55 career homers in 324 games with the Pirates.

Cruz will be the first Pittsburgh player to participate in the Derby since Josh Bell in 2019. Other Pirates to be part of the event were Bobby Bonilla (1990), Barry Bonds (1992), Jason Bay (2005), Andrew McCutchen (2012) and Pedro Alvarez (2013).

Overall, Cruz is batting just .203 this season but leads the National League with 28 steals.

Among the players to turn down an invite to the eight-player field are two-time champion Pete Alonso of the New York Mets, Kyle Schwarber of the Philadelphia Phillies and 2024 runner-up Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals.

Defending champion Teoscar Hernandez of the Los Angeles Dodgers recently turned down a spot as a consideration to nagging injuries.

Top power threats Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees and Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers also are expected to skip the event.

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New York Yankees All-Star Jazz Chisholm Jr., after making 28 starts in a row at third base, is moving back to second base starting with Tuesday’s game against the Seattle Mariners, manager Aaron Boone said.

Boone confirmed the change on the “Talkin’ Yanks” podcast on Tuesday.

Chisholm, who is batting .245 with 15 home runs, 38 RBIs and 10 steals in 59 games, has recently been bothered by soreness in his right shoulder, which he said is an issue only on throws.

He said he prefers to play second base and prepared in the offseason to exclusively play in that spot before injuries played havoc with Boone’s lineup card, starting with Chisholm’s oblique injury in May.

Third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera went down with a season-ending ankle injury on May 12.

DJ LeMahieu manned second base while Chisholm was at third, but Boone has a better glove option in Oswald Peraza, a utility man with a stronger arm plus defensive skills across the infield.

LeMahieu, 36, is batting .266 with two home runs and 12 RBIs this season.

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The Chicago White Sox reinstated outfielder Luis Robert Jr. (hamstring) from the 10-day injured list Tuesday.

Robert, 27, has struggled this season through career lows in batting average (.185), on-base percentage (.270) and slugging percentage (.313). Through 73 games, he has amassed just 16 extra-base hits (eight doubles, eight home runs) in 285 plate appearances.

He does have 22 stolen bases in 28 attempts and is just one shy of his career- high in steals.

In a corresponding move, the White Sox optioned infielder Tristan Gray to Triple-A Charlotte. Gray was just recalled before Monday night’s game but did not play.

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