Mitch Marner will once again be one of the players representing the Toronto Maple Leafs at NHL All-Star Weekend.
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The 25-year-old, along with one player from each of the other 31 NHL teams, was selected on Thursday night by the NHL to travel to Florida for the All-Star festivities. The announcement came in the first intermission of the Washington Capitals and Columbus Blue Jackets game.
Marner is having an incredible season and he&#8217;s on pace to have a career year. Through 38 games this year, the 25-year-old has 14 goals and 29 assists for 43 points.
This will be Marner&#8217;s second appearance at All-Star weekend. He&#8217;s been chosen once since he entered the NHL and it was back in 2020.
The 25-year-old most recently set a new Maple Leafs record for most consecutive games with a point. His 23-straight games on the scoresheet for Toronto is the most in the team&#8217;s history since Eddie Olczyk&#8217;s 18-straight games with a point back in 1990.
South Florida has hosted All-Star Weekend once before 20 years ago in 2003, and there were no Maple Leafs players at the event. Florida was actually supposed to host the All-Star festivities in 2021, though COVID-19 had other plans for it.
Both the All-Star Game and All-Star Skills Competition will be held at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Florida on February 4th and 5th.
The NHL is taking a different approach this year when it comes to choosing who will be an All-Star. 32 players, one from each team, will be picked on Thursday night, as I previously said. There will then be a vote to decide the three remaining players in each division.
Votes will be tallied online &#8212; and for the first time on Twitter &#8212; from January 12th to January 14th at 11:59PM ET. If you&#8217;d like to vote for a player on Twitter, make sure to use the hashtag &#8220;#NHLAllStarVote&#8221;, plus the player&#8217;s full name or Twitter handle.
Do not just tweet a player&#8217;s last name because the vote will not be tallied. The NHL will announce the final three players for each division on January 19th.
The All-Star Game will consist of four teams, the Atlantic, Metropolitan, Pacific, and Central divisions playing 3-on-3. The teams will compete in a single elimination tournament and there will be 11 players on each divisional team.
In Canada, you can watch the All-Star Festivities on Sportsnet. The All-Star Skills Competition will air on Friday, February 3rd at 7PM ET while the All-Star Game will be played on the following day, Saturday, February 4th at 3PM ET.

Mitch Marner will once again be one of the players representing the Toronto Maple Leafs at NHL All-Star Weekend.

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The 25-year-old, along with one player from each of the other 31 NHL teams, was selected on Thursday night by the NHL to travel to Florida for the All-Star festivities. The announcement came in the first intermission of the Washington Capitals and Columbus Blue Jackets game.

Marner is having an incredible season and he's on pace to have a career year. Through 38 games this year, the 25-year-old has 14 goals and 29 assists for 43 points.

This will be Marner's second appearance at All-Star weekend. He's been chosen once since he entered the NHL and it was back in 2020.

The 25-year-old most recently set a new Maple Leafs record for most consecutive games with a point. His 23-straight games on the scoresheet for Toronto is the most in the team's history since Eddie Olczyk's 18-straight games with a point back in 1990.

South Florida has hosted All-Star Weekend once before 20 years ago in 2003, and there were no Maple Leafs players at the event. Florida was actually supposed to host the All-Star festivities in 2021, though COVID-19 had other plans for it.

Both the All-Star Game and All-Star Skills Competition will be held at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Florida on February 4th and 5th.

The NHL is taking a different approach this year when it comes to choosing who will be an All-Star. 32 players, one from each team, will be picked on Thursday night, as I previously said. There will then be a vote to decide the three remaining players in each division.

Votes will be tallied online -- and for the first time on Twitter -- from January 12th to January 14th at 11:59PM ET. If you'd like to vote for a player on Twitter, make sure to use the hashtag "#NHLAllStarVote", plus the player's full name or Twitter handle.

Do not just tweet a player's last name because the vote will not be tallied. The NHL will announce the final three players for each division on January 19th.

The All-Star Game will consist of four teams, the Atlantic, Metropolitan, Pacific, and Central divisions playing 3-on-3. The teams will compete in a single elimination tournament and there will be 11 players on each divisional team.

In Canada, you can watch the All-Star Festivities on Sportsnet. The All-Star Skills Competition will air on Friday, February 3rd at 7PM ET while the All-Star Game will be played on the following day, Saturday, February 4th at 3PM ET.

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