Sixteen players are making their first trip to the All-Star Game this weekend. Meanwhile, it’s old hat for three others who have been voted to eight of the 10 games.
Here is a listed of the players, sorted by the number of years they’ve appeared in the All-Star Game:
8 Years
Erik Karlsson, Alex Pietrangelo, Steven Stamkos
7 Years
Claude Giroux, John Tavares
6 Years
Adam Henrique, Kris Letang, Milan Lucic, Tyler Myers
5 Years
Jamie Benn, Jordan Eberle
4 Years
John Carlson, Braden Holtby, Nazem Kadri, Ilya Kovalchuk, Tuukka Rask, Vadim Shipachyov
3 Years
Frederik Andersen Alexander Edler, Tyler Ennis, Evander Kane, Robin Lehner, Ryan O’Reilly, Alexander Salak,
2 Years
Andrey Bykov, Maxim Chudinov, Kevin Dallman, Filip Forsberg. Cam Fowler, Brendan Gallagher, Victor Hedman, Nick Leddy, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Thomas Powell, Brayden Schenn, Mark Stone
1 Year
Viktor Antipin, Par Arlbrandt, Zach Bogosian, Sean Couturier, Tomas Hertl, Niko Hovinen, Jacob Josefson, Torey Krug, Mikko Lehtonen, Connor McDavid, Sergei Mozyakin, Gustav Nyquist, Alexander Polunin, Alexander Radulov, Ossi Vaananen, Sami Vatanen
Trivia:
Four players have played in 7 of the 9 previous All-Star games. Which of the following has only appeared in 6?
- Erik Karlsson
- Alex Pietrangelo
- Evgeny Malkin
- Shea Weber
- Steven Stamkos
Answer: Shea Weber
