The 2016 NHL All-Star weekend is in the books, and there were plenty of highlights from Nashville:
- The skills competition on Saturday saw Detroit’s Dylan Larkin, the first Red Wing rookie all-star since Steve Yzerman, break the full-rink speed skating record, which Mike Gartner had held for twenty years. Nashville’s Shea Weber, no fan of Larkin’s team, blew the competition out of the water to repeat as the winner of the hardest shot competition, although his 108.1 MPH blast was .7 MPH off of Zdeno Chara’s record.
- Saturday also featured the Breakaway Challenge, a fast-break event executed more in the style of the NBA’s slam-dunk contest, but mostly goofier: