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2024 NHL All-Star skills: Favorite events, predictions, more

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After featuring a dunk tank in South Florida, and an accuracy contest within the spray of the Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas, the NHL elected to revamp its All-Star skills competition for the 2024 edition.

The league worked with Connor McDavid to bring the skills contest back to its roots as a test of actual on-ice hockey skills, resulting in a new grand-prix-style format with 12 skaters competing for a $1 million prize.

David Pastrnak, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Leon Draisaitl, McDavid, Mathew Barzal, Nikita Kucherov, Auston Matthews, William Nylander, Elias Pettersson, Quinn Hughes and J.