All-Star squads announced

The teams have been named for the Season 13 All-Star which will be held this weekend in Zurich.

While Cup champion Berlin and defending regular season champ Helsinki led the way with 6 and 5 all-stars respectively, the biggest story out of the GM voting was that Copenhagen’s “second-line” right winger edged the Tridents’ top line RW in the voting. Jean-Gabriel Pageau (46 points this season and +25 at 17 minutes per game) topped all Northern Conference right wings in the voting and right behind him was Marko Dano (41 points, -6, 24 TOI). The closest race for a starting all-star position came at the other wing for the Northern Conference. Tomas Hertl of Oslo and Belfast’s Ondrej Palat both earned 47 voting points. (Votes were weighted: for example, a 1st place vote earned 5, points, a 2nd place vote earned 4, etc.) But Palat had more first place votes and was named starter by the commissioner. Minsk’s Aaron Ekblad led all defensemen in votes, while Berlin winger Vadim Shipachyov was the top vote-getter among forwards. Sixteen of the league’s 24 general managers submitted ballots.

Tyler Seguin (left) and Ken Kuusk will be captains during the all-star game.

Veteran defenseman Ken Kuusk of Paris was named captain of the Southern Conference team, and Tyler Seguin of Oslo is captain of the Northern Conference team.

Fans in the host city will have two Zurich Lions to cheer for in the game. Jacob Trouba finished third in Southern Conference voting on defense and left wing Alexander Polunin was second only to Lisbon’s Max Domi.

There are five players who were elevated to the team by the commissioner in order to get every team represented. Each bumped out a player who actually earned more votes.

The plan is to get the Skills Competition in today and actual all-star game played Sunday night.

Here are the Season 13 EURO League All-Stars. Players on the team are in black text, with the remainder of the voting totals shown in gray.

Northern Conference

Goalies

Karri Ramo, Helsinki (29 points); Alexander Salak, Belfast (28); Matt Murray, Oslo ( 15);

Robin Lehner, Minsk (10); Alex Nedeljkovic, Dublin (7); Jakub Kovar, Edinburgh (4); Andres De La Garma, Copenhagen (3); Braden Holtby, Stockholm (1)

Defensemen

Aaron Ekblad, Minsk (105); Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Dublin (67); Nerius Alisauskas, Helsinki (51); Shayne Gostisbehere, St. Petersburg (50); Zach Bogosian, Helsinki (29); Seth Jones, Copenhagen (26); Michael Del Zotto, London (9), Jared Cowen, Edinburgh (7)

Darnell Nurse, Moscow (20); Zach Werenski, Oslo (18); Matt Dumba, Helsinki (13); Hampus Lindholm, Dublin (9); Drew Doughty, Copenhagen (8); Brenden Dillon, London (7); Alex Pietrangelo, Belfast (7); Viktor Antipin, Oslo (6); John Klingberg, St. Petersburg (5); T.J. Brennan, St. Petersburg (3); Dougie Hamilton, Copenhagen (2); Maxim Chudinov, Minsk (1); Eric Gelinas, Stockholm (1)

Center

Tyler Seguin, Oslo (67); Auston Matthews, Copenhagen (47); Nathan MacKinnon, Belfast (32); Ryan Johansen, Moscow (18); Jack Eichel, Stockholm (11)

Matt Duchene, Dublin (17); Bo Horvat, Minsk (10); Dominik Lakatos, London (9); Connor McDavid, Oslo (7); David Backes, Moscow (5); Sean Couturier, Belfast, (4); Nardo Nagtzaam, London (4); Jonathan Huberdeau, Dublin (2); Sidney Crosby, Gothenburg (2); Sam Bennett, Helsinki (2)

Left Wing

Ondrej Palat, Belfast (47); Tomas Hertl, Oslo (47); Kyle Connor, Helsinki (44); Johnny Gaudreau, Copenhagen (32); Brendan Gallagher, Helsinki (21);

Boone Jenner, Copenhagen (17); Gabriel Landeskog, Belfast (15); Olli Palola, Gothenburg (5); Nazem Kadri, Dublin (5); Luke Adam, Stockholm (3); Chris Kreider, Oslo (3); Petr Vrana, Minsk (1)

Right Wing

J-G Pageau, Copenhagen (56); Marko Dano, Copenhagen (52); William Nylander, Dublin (36); Patrik Laine, St. Petersburg (31); Jordan Eberle, Gothenburg (10);

Taylor Hall, Helsinki (27); Mitch Marner, Belfast (11); Steven Stamkos, St. Petersburg (5); Gabriel Bourque, Oslo (3); Brock Boeser, Helsinki (3); Mikko Lehtonen, Moscow (2); Niklas Danielsson, Oslo (2); Patric Hornquist, Gothenburg (2)

Southern Conference

Goalies

Calvin Pickard, Berlin (36); Nico Hovinen, Madrid (26); Chris Driedger, Bern (16);

Andrew Hammond, Milan (8); Andrey Vasilevskiy, Prague (5); Carey Price, Paris (4); John Gibson, Zurich (1)

Defensemen

Ken Kuusk, Paris (78); Sami Vatanen, Lisbon (73); Jacob Trouba, Zurich (61); Morgan Rielly, Berlin (47); Staffan Kronwall, Berlin (29); Colton Parayko, Geneva (28); Cale Makar, Munich (24); Vladimir Roth, Prague (19);

John Carlson, Bern (14); Ivan Provorov, Paris (13); Charlie McAvoy, Zurich (12); Justin Faulk, Zurich (10); Torey Krug, Prague (9); Kevin Shattenkirk, Athens (7); Danny Dekeyser, Milan (5); Erik Karlsson, Paris (4); Shea Weber, Berlin (2); Justin Schultz, Athens (2), Josh Morrissey, Milan (1)

Center

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Berlin (57); Jeff Skinner, Madrid (55); John Tavares, Lisbon (39); Tyler Johnson, Milan (22); Logan Couture, Athens (18);

Mark Scheifele, Prague (12); Claude Giroux, Paris (11); Nico Hischier, (7); Ryan Strome, Zurich (6); Martin Ruzicka, Geneva (5); Mika Zibanejad, Bern (3); Aleksander Barkov, Berlin (2)

Left Wing

Max Domi, Lisbon (67); Alexander Polunin, Zurich, (37); Evander Kane, Madrid, (33); Eliezer Sherbatov, Berlin (30); Alex Galchenyuk, Prague (27);

Andrey Bykov, Bern (13); Filip Forsberg, Munich (12); Evgeni Solomonov, Paris (11); Matthew Tkachuk, Milan (4); Nail Yakupov, Prague (2); Dylan Larkin, Geneva (1); Andre Burakovsky, Athens (1); Jake Debrusk, Zurich (1); Jamie Benn, Bratislava (1)

Right Wing

Vadim Shipachyov, Berlin (73); Kyle Palmieri, Madrid (43); Jimmie Ericsson, Prague (35); Kristian Kuusela, Bern (25); Zemgus Girgensons, Bratislava (2);

Par Arlbrandt (22); Clayton Keller, Munich (16); Mark Stone, Bern (12); Tyler Toffoli, Zurich (3); Evgeni Dadanov, Athens (3); Valeri Nichushkin, Geneva (3)