The NHL All-Star weekend will see two new events in the skills competition Saturday. The new events focus on passing and goaltending.
Patrick Kane is the lone representative for the Chicago Blackhawks at this year’s All-Star festivities.
We’ll have previews and game threads for the skills competition and the All-Star game tournament this weekend.
HAWKS
**RECAP: DeBrincat’s hometown hat trick leads Hawks to snap 4-game skid (SCH)
**Former Hawk of the Week: Steve Sullivan (SCH)
**Hawks head into All-Star break with sudden surge of optimism (Chicago Sun Times)
**Behind the Save: Did he have that? The stoppability of goals against Hawks (The Athletic)
**Keith’s goal drought adds to mounting frustration (Chicago Sun Times)
CENTRAL DIVISION
**At 95 years young, deep-rooted Blues fan gets Hall of Fame treatment at her first game (The Athletic)
**Blues lose Paajarvi on waivers to Ottawa (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
**Blues’ Pietrangelo finally gets his due as an All-Star (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
**Predators fan mistakenly flies to Nashville for away game SBN)
**Preds Top 25 Under 25 revisited (On The Forecheck)
**Subban’s defensive play for Preds worthy of All-Star recognition (The Tennessean)
**Avs reassign Warsofsky, Greer, Toninato to AHL (Mile High Hockey)
**Kiszla: Who’s the unsung hero that has brought Avs back from the dead? (The Denver Post)
NHL
*Most baffling All-Stars of the past decade (SBN)
**Werenski replaces Jones as Blue Jackets All-Star representative (Jackets Cannon)
**Dahlin unanimous No. 1 in first 2018 mock draft (NHL.com)
**Rangers plan to be major sellers at trade deadline, per report (SBN)
**Mirtle: Why the Lightning’s Jeff Vinik is the best owner in the NHL (The Athletic)
**Canucks rookie Brock Boeser faced excruciating hardship on road to ‘perfect spot’ in the NHL (The Athletic)
HOCKEY WORLD
**Pronman: Standouts from CHL, CJHL, USHL top prospect games (The Athletic)
**Mittelstadt leads No. 13 Minnesota over No. 1 Notre Dame in OT (South Bend Tribune)
**No. 9 Minnesota-Duluth beat No. 5 St. Cloud State, continue climb up NCHC ladder (Duluth News Tribune)
**Messner’s power-play goal breaks tie, leads No. 19 UNO past No. 12 Western Michigan (Omaha World Herald)
**Late goal helps No. 11 North Dakota tie No. 4 Denver (Grand Forks Herald)