The NHL All-Star Skills Competition takes center stage Friday night in Toronto at Scotiabank Arena during All-Star Weekend. The event begins at 7 p.m. ET (ESPN, Sportsnet). Below, we analyze FanDuel Sportsbook’s lines around the NHL All-Star Skills Competition odds, and make our expert NHL picks and predictions.
We’ll focus on the 3 most entertaining events — Accuracy Shooting, Fastest Skater and Hardest Shot — and they’re easily the most popular betting markets, too. These 3 events have been around since the inception of the NHL All-Star Skills Competition in 1990 and are the contests that the fans seem to enjoy the most.
New York Islanders F Brock Nelson won the Accuracy Shooting competition last season by hitting 4 of 4 targets in a mere 12.419 seconds. Carolina Hurricanes RW Andrei Svechnikov took home the Fastest Skater trophy with a time of 13.699 seconds a year ago, and the Hardest Shot was won by Vancouver Canucks C Elias Pettersson, who recorded a 103.2 mph blast.
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