Edited Mar. 26, 2021 at 3:59 p.m.. Reason: I’m an idiot.
Since now is around the point in the season of when the All-Star Game would normally happen, I’m going to put together what I would expect the teams would’ve been if there was an All-Star game. (I’m doing this based on merit though, not the name recognition the NHL used last year)
Also it was really tough to not just make the West Division team entirely out of Golden Knights and Avalanche players.
North Division
F
1. EDM - Connor McDavid
2. EDM - Leon Draisaitl
3. TOR - Mitch Marner
4. TOR - Auston Matthews
5. WPG - Mark Scheifele
6. WPG - Nikolaj Ehlers
7. CGY - Elias Lindholm
D
1. MTL - Jeff Petry
2. OTT - Thomas Chabot
G
1. EDM - Mike Smith
2. VAN - Thatcher Demko
HM: Kyle Connor, Tyson Barrie, Connor Hellebuyck
East Division
F
1. NYR - Artemi Panarin
2. BOS - David Pastrnak
3. BOS - Brad Marchand
4. PIT - Sidney Crosby
5. PHI - Sean Couturier
6. BUF - Sam Reinhart
D
1. WSH - John Carlson
2. NYR - Adam Fox
3. NJD - Ty Smith
G
1. NYR - Igor Shesterkin
2. NYI - Semyon Varlamov
HM: Nicklas Backstrom, Charlie McAvoy, Casey DeSmith
Central Division
F
1. CHI - Patrick Kane
2. FLA - Aleksander Barkov
3. FLA - Jonathan Huberdeau
4. CHI - Alex DeBrincat
5. DAL - Joe Pavelski
6. CBJ - Oliver Bjorkstrand
D
1. TBL - Victor Hedman
2. NSH - Roman Josi
3. CAR - Dougie Hamilton
G
1. TBL - Andrei Vasilevskiy
2. DET - Jonathan Bernier
HM: Steven Stamkos, Aaron Ekblad, Alex Nedeljkovic
West Division
F
1. VGK - Mark Stone
2. COL - Nathan MacKinnon
3. LAK - Anze Kopitar
4. STL - David Perron
5. SJS - Evander Kane
6. ANA - Max Comtois
D
1. COL - Samuel Girard
2. VGK - Shea Theodore
3. ARI - Jakob Chychrun
G
1. VGK - Marc-Andre Fleury
2. MIN - Kaapo Kahkonen
HM: Mikko Rantanen, Cale Makar, Philipp Grubauer