Atlantic Division<\/h2>\n
Jack Eichel<\/a><\/strong> – BUF For this exercise, I won’t be including guys who have decided to skip, so there will be no Carey Price<\/a> <\/strong>or Alex Ovechkin<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The new team looks like this:<\/p>\n Brayden Point<\/a> <\/strong>– TB On paper, any team with Stamkos, Kucherov, Tavares, and Matthews are going to be tough to beat. Marner and Point have the distinction of being world class players who are underrated because they play on the same team with those players. These players are just as good. Rielly should be on the All-Star team but fell victim to the NHL needing a player, Yandle, from the Florida\u00a0Panthers. Rielly is second in the league in defenseman points and should be a nominee for the Norris Trophy this summer.<\/p>\n Although hurt a lot this season, Andersen has had a great season in goal. If the NHL didn’t care about pleasing every fanbase or having representatives from each team, the Atlantic Division All-Stars would be completely comprised of Lightning and Maple Leafs players.<\/p>\n Sebastian Aho<\/a> – CAR The new team looks like this:<\/p>\n Phil Kessel<\/a><\/strong> – PIT Kessel and Tavares have the same amount of points, but Kessel is doing it in 50 fewer minutes of ice time. Lehner has had a strong season in New York, posting the best numbers (2.02 G.A.A. and .930 save percentage) of any goaltender who’s played more than 25 games. Holtby and Lundqvist make the team on recognition alone, as they haven’t exactly had All-Star caliber seasons up to this point. Backstrom should be an All-Star, but because Holtby and Carlson already made the team (and Ovechkin would have before him), he gets relegated to the reject team.<\/p>\n In the case of both teams, there are players who should have made the team and others who have no business being on the same list. Each team of rejects could hang with the other in a game of 3-on-3, but for the most part, the NHL got it right. It’s hard not including two of the best players under the age of 23 (Marner and Point). Makes you wish that the NHL brought back the Young Stars game.<\/p>\n If there is anybody not included on the list, feel free to comment below on why you feel they were snubbed and why they should have made at least the All-Star team of rejects.<\/p>\n With the 2019 NHL All-Star Game only a few days away (Jan. 26th, check your local listings), it is important to go over each selection and debate the validity of the pick. Should this player really have made it over this guy? Instead of going over the players individually, we decided it would be better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":23236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3854,220,2540,606,349,229,72],"class_list":["post-40500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-2019-nhl-all-star-game","tag-atlantic-division","tag-brayden-point","tag-eastern-conference","tag-metropolitan-division","tag-mitch-marner","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNikita Kucherov<\/a><\/strong> – TB
\nAuston Matthews<\/a><\/strong> – TOR
\nJeff Skinner<\/a><\/strong> – BUF
\nDavid Pastrnak<\/a> <\/strong>– BOS
\nSteven Stamkos<\/a><\/strong> – TB
\nJohn Tavares<\/a><\/strong> – TOR
\nThomas Chabot<\/a> – OTT
\nKeith Yandle<\/a><\/strong> – FLA
\nJimmy Howard<\/a> <\/strong>– DET
\nAndrei Vasilevskiy<\/a><\/strong> – TB<\/p>\n
\nMitch Marner<\/a><\/strong> – TOR
\nBrad Marchand<\/a> <\/strong>– BOS
\nMark Stone<\/a><\/strong> – OTT
\nMatt Duchene<\/a><\/strong> – OTT
\nDylan Larkin<\/a><\/strong> – DET
\nJonathan Huberdeau<\/a> <\/strong>– FLA
\nMorgan Rielly<\/a> <\/strong>– TOR
\nJeff Petry<\/a> <\/strong>– MTL
\nFrederik Andersen<\/a><\/strong> – TOR
\nCraig Anderson<\/a><\/strong> – OTT<\/p>\nMetropolitan Division<\/h2>\n
\nCam Atkinson<\/a> <\/strong>– CBJ
\nMathew Barzal<\/a> <\/strong>– NYI
\nSidney Crosby<\/a> – PIT
\nClaude Giroux<\/a> <\/strong>– PHI
\nTaylor Hall<\/a> <\/strong>– NJ
\nKris Letang<\/a><\/strong> – PIT
\nJohn Carlson<\/a> <\/strong>– WSH
\nSeth Jones<\/a><\/strong> – CBJ
\nBraden Holtby<\/a> <\/strong>– WSH
\nHenrik Lundqvist<\/a> <\/strong>– NYR<\/p>\n
\nArtemi Panarin<\/a><\/strong> – CBJ
\nEvgeni Malkin<\/a><\/strong> – PIT
\nJake Guentzel<\/a><\/strong> – PIT
\nNicklas Backstrom<\/a> <\/strong>– WSH
\nMika Zibanejad<\/a> <\/strong>– NYR
\nSean Couturier<\/a> <\/strong>– PHI
\nZach Werenski<\/a> <\/strong>– CBJ
\nDamon Severson<\/a><\/strong> – NJ
\nRobin Lehner<\/a> <\/strong>– NYI
\nSergei Bobrovsky<\/a><\/strong> – CBJ<\/p>\nThe Conclusion<\/h3>\n
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TORONTO, ON – FEBRUARY 10: Mitchell Marner #16 of the Toronto Maple Leafs skates against the Ottawa Senators during an NHL game at the Air Canada Centre on February 10, 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Maple Leafs defeated the Senators 6-3. (Photo by Claus Andersen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"