2011 NHL All-Star Game Rosters

Coming into this All-Star Draft, I was intrigued by the idea of this fantasy draft and interested to see it. After watching it, I hope the NHL uses this format for years to come. That was fascinating television. You had some of the best hockey players in the world being paraded around like 2nd graders on national television with a smarmy host trying to create conflict. TSN's James Duthie did an excellent job by the way. Not only did he need to fly by the seat of his pants with little time to adapt, but he succeeded and played the role the host needed to play to make this entertaining television. Anyway, here are the 2011 NHL All-Star teams.

Team Staal

F - Eric Staal
F - Ryan Kesler
F - Alexander Ovechkin
F - Daniel Sedin
F - Rick Nash
F - Patrick Sharp
F - Jeff Skinner
F - Claude Giroux
F - Corey Perry
F - Patrik Elias
F - David Backes
F - Paul Stastny

D - Mike Green
D - Zdeno Chara
D - Marc Staal
D - Dan Boyle
D - Kris Letang
D - Erik Karlsson

G - Cam Ward
G - Henrik Lundqvist
G - Carey Price

Team Staal Rookies

Logan Couture
Tyler Ennis
Michael Grabner
Jamie McBain
Tyler Seguin
P.K. Subban

Team Staal Coaches

Joel Quenneville and Mike Haviland

Team Lidstrom

F - Patrick Kane
F - Martin St. Louis
F - Steven Stamkos
F - Henrik Sedin
F - Danny Briere
F - Jonathan Toews
F - Brad Richards
F - Martin Havlat
F - Anze Kopitar
F - Matt Duchene
F - Loui Eriksson
F - Phil Kessel

D - Niklas Lidstrom
D - Duncan Keith
D - Shea Weber
D - Dustin Byfuglien
D - Keith Yandle
D - Brent Burns

G - Tim Thomas
G - Marc-Andre Fleury
G - Jonas Hiller

Team Lidstrom rookies

Evgeny Dadonov
Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Cam Fowler
Taylor Hall
Kevin Shattenkirk
Derek Stepan

Team Lidstrom coaches,

Peter Laviolette
Alain Vigneault

Even though my boy Giroux is on Team Staal, I think I have to root for Team Lidstrom in this one. They have my boys Laviolette and Briere, and overall, the team is slightly less douchier than Team Staal. Plus P.K. Subban ended up on the Staal rookie team. Even if Subban is not playing on Sunday, that fact alone makes me lean to Team Lidstrom.

SuperSkills competition tomorrow, and All-Star game on Sunday. This should be a pretty entertaining weekend of hockey, even if it is all just one big exhibition.