We all know who the starting 6 All-Stars will be. Here is my crack at figuring out who the other 58 or so players in attendance will be.
I have included 24 forwards, 12 defensemen and 6 goalies, along with 12 rookies, who last year participated in the skills competition. I have also ensured that each club has representation in the weekend. It was not an easy task as the representation factor made it difficult to leave some players off.
Here are my choices, along with a few that were left off the list but could easily be added:
FORWARDS
Teemu Selanne (ANH)
Tyler Seguin (BOS)
Jason Pominville, Thomas Vanek (BUF)
Jarome Iginla (CGY)
Eric Staal (CAR)
Jonathan Toews, Marian Hossa (CHI)
Jamie Benn (DAL)
Pavel Datsyuk (DET)
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (EDM)
Kris Versteeg (FLA)
Mikko Koivu (MIN)
John Tavares (NYI)
Marian Gaborik (NYR)
*Daniel Alfredsson, *Jason Spezza, *Milan Michalek (OTT)
Claude Giroux (PHI)
Evgeni Malkin (PIT)
Steven Stamkos (TBL)
Phil Kessel (TOR)
Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin (VAN)
Nick Backstrom (WAS)
Close but not quite: Jeff Skinner, Rick Nash, Jordan Eberle, Patrick Elias, James Neal, Joffrey Lupul, Anze Kopitar
DEFENSEMEN
Zdeno Chara (BOS)
Duncan Keith (CHI)
Nick Lidstrom (DET)
Brian Campbell (FLA)
Shea Weber (NSH)
*Erik Karlsson (OTT)
Keith Yandle (PHX)
*Dion Phaneuf (TOR)
Dan Boyle (SJ)
Alex Edler (VAN)
Dennis Wideman (WSH)
Dustin Byfuglien (WPG)
Close but not quite: Jason Garrison, Michael Del Zotto, Kimmo Timonen, Kris Letang
GOALIES
Tim Thomas (BOS)
Jonathan Quick (LA)
Carey Price (MTL)
Henrik Lundqvist (NYR)
Brian Elliott (STL)
Roberto Luongo (VAN)
Close but not quite: Jimmy Howard, Pekka Rinne
ROOKIES
Luke Adam (BUF)
Gabriel Landeskog (COL)
Ryan Johansen (CBJ)
Nick Johnson (MIN)
Raphael Diaz (MTL)
Craig Smith (NSH)
Adam Henrique, Adam Larssen (NJD)
Jared Cowen, Colin Greening (OTT)
Sean Couturier, Matt Read (PHI)
Cody Hodgson (VAN)