Skaters<\/p>\n
Connor Bedard<\/a>,\u00a0F, Chicago Blackhawks Not to say this was an easy assignment, but the three of us agreed on eight of the nine skaters, with the ninth spot \u2013 which went to Hagel \u2013 up for debate (more on that in a second). This is a dream team with veteran mainstays McDavid, MacKinnon and Crosby leading the way, joined by budding superstars in Celebrini and Bedard and all-world defenseman Makar. Schaefer is on the team, and not because the event is in his home arena, but because the defenseman is an electrifying talent and one of the faces of the next generation of stars. Marner, coming off a tour de force in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and Hagel round out the team. Hagel won in a tiebreaker over Winnipeg Jets forward Mark Scheifele and Toronto Maple Leafs rookie Gavin McKenna, the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. The Hagel spot could change as the season goes on, especially if McKenna lives up to the hype, but it\u2019s hard to see the other eight spots changing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skaters Connor Bedard,\u00a0F, Chicago BlackhawksMacklin Celebrini, F, San Jose SharksSidney Crosby, F, Pittsburgh PenguinsBrandon Hagel,\u00a0F, Tampa Bay LightningNathan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-783975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Macklin Celebrini<\/a>, F, San Jose Sharks
Sidney Crosby<\/a>, F, Pittsburgh Penguins
Brandon Hagel<\/a>,\u00a0F, Tampa Bay Lightning
Nathan MacKinnon<\/a>,\u00a0F, Colorado Avalanche
Mitch Marner<\/a>, F, Vegas Golden Knights
Cale Makar<\/a>, D, Colorado Avalanche
Connor McDavid<\/a>,\u00a0F, Edmonton Oilers
Matthew Schaefer<\/a>, D, New York Islanders<\/p>\n