2027 NHL All-Star Goes Global
NHL, NHLPA Announce Major International Format Shake-Up for 2027 All-Star Weekend
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The NHL and NHLPA announced major format changes for the 2027 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend at UBS Arena on Feb. 5-6, keeping an international theme after two straight years without an All-Star Game due to the Olympics and the 4 Nations Face-Off. The All-Star Game will feature five teams (USA, Canada, Sweden, Finland, and a World team) in a 3-on-3 round-robin with 11-player rosters and five-minute games with no overtime or shootouts, using a 2-point win/1-point tie/0-point loss standings system. Each team will play four games on Friday, with the top two teams advancing to a 10-minute championship final on Saturday, and the winners earning a $2 million prize. The rosters will be set via an NHL and NHLPA-selected pool and a December fan vote, where fans pick eight players per team and the remaining three spots are chosen jointly by the league and players’ association. The Skills competition on Feb. 5 will also be revised, highlighting 10 young stars (ages 25 or younger) in eight events with each athlete taking part in four of six main challenges, followed by a shootout for the top performers and a final obstacle-course event. The NHL says the event will be televised on ABC and Sportsnet in Canada, with the Skills show airing on ESPN in the U.S. and Sportsnet in Canada.
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For each of the five teams, the league and NHLPA will jointly select the final three roster spots by position: “one forward, one defenseman and one goaltender.”
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The NHL provided the full Friday round-robin schedule of matchups (10 total games), including Game 1 “USA vs. Canada” and Game 10 “Canada vs. World team.”
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In the Skills competition, the “top four point accumulators” will advance to a Shootout where they will each face “one of four All-Star goaltenders.”
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The Skills winner will take home a $1 million (USD) prize, with the champion determined by “the highest cumulative score,” after the top two Shootout performers compete in the Obstacle Course Finale.
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The “Rest of World” team is described as including international players from countries outside the USA, Canada, Sweden and Finland, with one report specifically noting it includes players “(including Russia).”
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