{"id":786485,"date":"2026-07-27T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786485\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T02:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:00:24","slug":"kucherov-ovechkin-part-of-1st-projected-world-roster-for-2027-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786485\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucherov, Ovechkin part of 1st projected World roster for 2027 All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skaters<\/p>\n

Leon Draisaitl<\/a>, F, Edmonton Oilers\u00a0
Nico Hischier<\/a>, F, New Jersey Devils\u00a0
Kirill Kaprizov<\/a>, F, Minnesota Wild\u00a0
Nikita Kucherov<\/a>, F, Tampa Bay Lightning\u00a0
Martin Necas<\/a>, F, Colorado Avalanche\u00a0
Alex Ovechkin<\/a>, F, Washington Capitals\u00a0
Artemi Panarin<\/a>, F, Los Angeles Kings\u00a0
David Pastrnak<\/a>, F, Boston Bruins\u00a0
Juraj Slafkovsky<\/a>, F, Montreal Canadiens\u00a0<\/p>\n

Who needs defensemen? Not this team. Sure, there are some who could have qualified. Germany’s Moritz Seider<\/a>\u00a0of the Detroit Red Wings and Switzerland’s Roman Josi of the Nashville Predators received votes. Not enough, though. Not with this elite group of forwards that is headlined by Kucherov, who won the Hart Trophy voted as the League’s most valuable player to his team last season. The native of Maykop, Russia, was eighth in goals (44), second in assists (86) and second in points (130). His countryman, Kaprizov, was tied for fourth in goals (45). Kucherov, the duo of Necas (100) and Pastrnak (100) from Czechia, and Draisaitl of Germany (97), were in the top-10 in scoring. Kaprizov (89) was 14th and Panarin, also from Russia, was 21st with 84 points. Slafkovsky, from Slovakia, scored 30 goals for the first time in his career. Ovechkin, a Moscow native, scored 32 to give him an NHL-record 929 and counting. Hischier, from Switzerland, and Ovechkin are captains of their respective NHL teams. All told, this group of nine skaters accounted for 803 points (309 goals, 494 assists) last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skaters Leon Draisaitl, F, Edmonton Oilers\u00a0Nico Hischier, F, New Jersey Devils\u00a0Kirill Kaprizov, F, Minnesota Wild\u00a0Nikita Kucherov, F, Tampa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-786485","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\/786485","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=786485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}