A look at who is participating in what during the NHL All-Star skills competition

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We’re days away from the NHL All-Star game and today, the league announced who is participating in what during the Skills Competition.

Taking place Friday night at 7:30 p.m. est, the skills competition will surely be something to watch. This year, the league will have competitions for fastest skater, save streak, hardest shot, a breakaway challenge and an accuracy shooting event. It’s the first time since 2016 the breakaway competition was held — the same year since John Scott was hilariously named ASG MVP.

This year’s all-star game will also feature a few unique events this year.

First will be the fountain face-off set to take place on the Bellagio Fountains.

“Players will travel by boat to the ‘rink’ and are required to successfully shoot pucks into five targets in the least amount of time,” the league said. “Qualifying players move to the head-to-head final. Fountain spray and the breeze off The Strip will add to the challenge of this unprecedented… event.”

Jonathan Hubredeau, Claude Giroux, Jordan Eberle, Roman Josi, Nick Suzuki, Zach Werenski, Mark Stone and Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson will all participate.

Another new one will be the league shutting down part of Las Vegas Boulevard for the NHL 21 in ’22 event that will see players play Blackjack with a deck of oversized cards. Participants include Nazem Kadri, Auston Matthews, Joe Pavelski, Steven Stamkos, and Brady Tkachuk will take part in the event.

Here’s who will be participating in the remaining events:

Fastest Skater

Chris Kreider, NYR

Adrian Kempe, LAK

Kyle Connor, WPG

Evgeny Kuznetsov, WSH

Jordan Kyrou, STL

Dylan Larkin, DET

Cale Makar, COL

Connor McDavid, EDM

Save Streak

Jack Campbell, TOR

Andrei Vasilevskiy, TBL

Frederik Andersen, CAR

Tristan Jarry, PIT

Cam Talbot, MIN

Juuse Saros, NSH

Thatcher Demko, VAN

John Gibson, ANA

Hardest Shot

Adam Pelech, NYI

Timo Meier, SJS

Victor Hedman, TBL

Tom Wilson, WSH

Breakaway Challenge

Goalies: Manon Rhéaume & Wyatt Russell

Kirill Kaprizov, MIN

Trevor Zegras, ANA

Jack Hughes, NJD

Alex DeBrincat, CHI

Alex Pietrangelo, VGK

Accuracy shooting

Four passers, including Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson

Leon Draisaitl, EDM

Clayton Keller, ARI

Rasmus Dahlin, BUF

Sebastian Aho, CAR

Jake Guentzel, PIT

Troy Terry, ANA

Johnny Gaudreau, CGY

Patrice Bergeron, BOS

Jonathan Marchessault, VGK

Zach Laing is the Nation Network’s news director and senior columnist. He can be followed on Twitter at @zjlaing, or reached by email at zach@oilersnation.com.