2017 NHL All-Star Game
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| Staples Center, Los Angeles, California | |||
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| January 29, 2017 | |||
| Game one | Central All-Stars 3, Pacific All-Stars 10 | ||
| Game two | Metropolitan All-Stars 10, Atlantic All-Stars 6 | ||
| Game three | Pacific All-Stars 3, Metropolitan All-Stars 4 | ||
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The 62nd National Hockey League All-Star Game, also known as the 2017 NHL All-Star Game (for sponsorship reasons, the 2017 Honda NHL All-Star Game), was held at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, home of the Los Angeles Kings on January 29, 2017 at 12:30pm PT. This was the third time Los Angeles hosted the NHL All-Star Game and first time since 2002.
The Metropolitan All-Stars won the All-Star Game, which was in its second straight year of a four-team, 3-on-3, single elimination format, with one team representing each of the league's four divisions. Wayne Simmonds of the Philadelphia Flyers was named the Most Valuable Player, scoring three goals in two games, including the game-winning goal in the championship game.
The 2017 All-Star Game continued to use the 3-on-3 tournament format successfully introduced in 2016, in which teams representing each of the NHL's four divisions (the Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central, and Pacific) played in a single-elimination tournament, with each game consisting of two 10-minute halves played 3-on-3 and going directly to a shootout if tied after 20 minutes. The winning team, the Metropolitan All-Stars, split $1 million.
The 2017 NHL All-Star Skills Competition was held on January 28, 2017. As with 2016, the event featured the Skills Challenge Relay, accuracy shooting, fastest skater, hardest shot, and shootout challenges. For 2017, the breakaway competition was dropped and replaced by a new event, the Four Line Challenge, in which four shooters from each team took shots at the goal from various positions on the ice.
For the first time, the team that wins the Skills Competition will be given the right to select which team they will play during the main tournament, and whether they will play in the first or second semifinal.
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