1994 National Hockey League All-Star Game
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Date | January 22, 1994 | |||||||||||||||
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Arena | Madison Square Garden | |||||||||||||||
City | New York City | |||||||||||||||
MVP | Mike Richter (NY Rangers) | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 18,200 | |||||||||||||||
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The 1994 National Hockey League All-Star Game was held in Madison Square Garden in New York City, home of the New York Rangers, on January 22, 1994.
It was the 45th All-Star Game held in NHL history and the first to be rebranded under the year the game was held rather than the edition title.
Super Skills Competition
The Western Conference would win the Skills Competition for the second straight season. In the individual events Al Iafrate won the Hardest Shot event for the second straight season, while both John Vanbiesbrouck and Patrick Roy would share the Goaltenders Competition victory. In addition, the Puck Control Relay event would be introduced as part of the individual competition with its first winner being Russ Courtnall.
Individual Event winners
- Puck Control Relay – Russ Courtnall (Dallas Stars)
- Fastest Skater – Sergei Fedorov (Detroit Red Wings) – 13.525 seconds
- Accuracy Shooting - Brendan Shanahan (St. Louis Blues) – 4 hits, 5 shots
- Hardest Shot – Al Iafrate (Washington Capitals) – 102.7 mph
- Goaltenders Competition – John Vanbiesbrouck (Florida Panthers)/Patrick Roy (Montreal Canadiens) – 4 GA, 16 shots
The game
A capacity crowd saw Ottawa Senators' rookie Alexei Yashin score with 3:42 left in the third period, to give the Eastern Conference a 9–8 victory. The Western Conference were leading 8–6 in the third period, until Quebec Nordiques' centre Joe Sakic scored his first All-Star Game goal to cut the lead to 8–7. Florida Panthers' centre Bob Kudelski then scored with 6:01 left to tie the game at 8–8, before Yashin would score the eventual game-winner. New York Rangers' goaltender Mike Richter was named All-Star MVP after he saved 19 of 21 shots in the second period, including three saves on breakaways by sniper Pavel Bure. Kudelski was added onto the Eastern Conference lineup due to injuries to Mario Lemieux, who along with Ed Belfour were the highest-profile players among the several players on the rosters who were unable to play due to injury. (Curtis Joseph was the only injured player who played in this game.)
Other first time All-Stars in New York included all three Western Conference goaltenders—the
Uniforms
The 1994 All-Star Game saw the most radical departure from All-Star uniform design since the star-laden
The NHL All-Star shield, an orange version of the NHL logo with five black sticks forming the outline of a white star, had been worn on the left shoulder of the uniform since
This uniform design would continue to be used through the 1997 All-Star Game, with one minor change - the names and sleeve numbers on the Eastern jerseys would be changed from black to white. These uniforms would also provide the inspiration for the Dallas Stars to redesign their uniforms later in the decade, introducing their green version as a third jersey in 1997 and adding a white version in 1999.
Summary
Western Conference | Eastern Conference | |
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Final score | 8 | 9 |
Scoring summary |
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Penalties |
none |
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Shots on goal | 17–21–8–46 | 19–18–19–56 |
Win/Loss | L - Curtis Joseph | W - John Vanbiesbrouck |
- Referee: Bill McCreary
- Linesmen: Gord Broseker, Pat Dapuzzo
- Television: NBC, CBC
Rosters
National Anthem
The American national anthem was sung by Taylor Dayne.
Notes
- ^ Jaromir Jagr was voted as a starter, but was not able to play due to injury. Mark Messier was his replacement in the starting lineup.
- ^ Mark Howe was originally selected by the commissioner, but was not able to play due to injury. Joe Mullen was his replacement.