NHL All-Star Skills Competition 2024: Results, Winners, Highlights and Reaction

Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid is the winner of the 2024 All-Star Skills Competition.

McDavid took first place in the fastest skater, stick handling, accuracy shooting and obstacle course events Friday night to win the $1 million prize.

Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar finished the competition in second place, with the Toronto Maple Leafs' Auston Matthews and William Nylander close behind. The New York Islanders' Mat Barzal came in fifth.

The Vancouver Canucks' J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson, Colorado Avalanche's Nathan MacKinnon, Boston Bruins' David Pastrnak and Oilers' Leon Draisaitl rounded out the top ten, followed by the Canucks' Quinn Hughes and Tampa Bay Lightning's Nikita Kucherov.

If you couldn't tune in Friday night, here's a recap of the eight events that led to McDavid's victory.

Fastenal NHL Fastest Skater

1. Connor McDavid: 13.408 seconds
2. Mathew Barzal: 13.519 seconds
3. Quinn Hughes: 14.088 seconds
4. Cale Makar: 14.089 seconds
5. William Nylander: 14.164 seconds

McDavid's 13.408-second lap around the rink marked the fourth time in his career he has won the challenge, making this first victory an easy bet for hockey fans.

The Oilers star hit a cone but still edged out Mat Barzal for the fastest time on the ice.

He did not, however, beat the record of 13.175 seconds Barzal set at the event in 2020.

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Tim Hortons NHL One Timers

Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby and injured Chicago Blackhawks rookie Connor Bedard, who has not played since suffering a fractured jaw on Jan. 5, were passers for this event.

1. Nathan MacKinnon, from Bedard: 23 points
2. David Pastrnak, from Bedard: 22 points
3. Leon Draisaitl, from Crosby: 22 points
4. Elias Pettersson, from Crosby: 20 points
5. Nikita Kucherov, from Crosby: 19 points
6. J.T Miller, from Crosby: 18 points
7. Mathew Barzal, from Bedard: 17 points
8. Auston Matthews, from Crosby: 15 points

A video review was needed to determine this one after Pastrnak originally declared the winner.

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Scotiabank NHL Passing Challenge

1. Elias Pettersson: 25 points
2. Cale Makar: 23 points
3. Mathew Barzal: 21 points
4. Auston Matthews: 19 points
5. William Nylander: 16 points
6. Quinn Hughes: 15 points
7. Nathan MacKinnon: 13 points
8. Connor McDavid: 12 points
9. Leon Draisaitl: 12 points
10. J.T. Miller: 7 points
11. Nikita Kucherov: 5 points 

The challenge involved skaters slowly circling the rink and aiming the puck at targets. It was not the most thrilling event of the night for fans.

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Rogers NHL Hardest Shot

1. Cale Makar, Colorado Avalanche: 102.5 mph
   
2. J.T. Miller, Vancouver Canucks: 102.3 mph
   
3. Elias Pettersson, Vancouver Canucks: 98.4 mph
   
4. Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs: 96.22 mph
5. David Pastrnak, Boston Bruins: 95.27 mph

Makar is the first player in Avalanche and Nordiques franchise history to win the competition, according to NHL PR. Auston Matthews was impressed with Makar's 102.5 miles-per-hour blast.

Meanwhile, all Canucks center J.T. Miller cared about was shooting faster than teammate Elias Pettersson. He succeeded by hitting a 102.3 mph blast over Pettersson's 98.4 mph shot.

"Made my night. That's worth a million bucks to me," Miller said about beating Pettersson, per NHL.com's Dan Rosen and Bill Price.

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Upper Deck NHL Stick Handling

1. Connor McDavid: 25.755
2. Mathew Barzal: 26.929
3. William Nylander: 27.272
4. Nathan MacKinnon: 27.715
5. Leon Draisaitl: 28.677
6. Quinn Hughes: 29.038
7. Elias Pettersson: 29.526 (wiped out)
8. David Pastrnak: 38.488
9. Nikita Kucherov: 44.178

The Toronto crowd was not impressed with Nikita Kucherov's effort in the event:

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Cheetos NHL Accuracy Shooting

PWHL players Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull, as well as former Maple Leafs Steve Thomas and Doug Gilmour, were passers for this event.

1. Connor McDavid: 9.158 seconds
2. Auston Matthews: 9.341 seconds
3. J.T. Miller: 13.587 seconds
4. William Nylander: 14.099 seconds
5. Quinn Hughes: 14.815 seconds
6. Nathan MacKinnon: 15.958 seconds
7. Nikita Kucheov: 16.46 seconds
8. Cale Makar: 19.069 seconds
9. David Pastrnak: 19.67 seconds
10. Leon Draisaitl: 46.089 seconds

It was not lost on the fans present in Toronto that Pastrnak finished the event in 19.67 seconds. That's a number Leafs fans know well as the last year the team won the Stanley Cup.

Draisaitl, Pastrnak, Hughes and Kucherov were eliminated from the skills competition following the event.

In other news, McDavid was handed a giant bag of Cheetos, and Bedard chatted with a player he grew up watching.

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Honda/Hyundai One-On-One

The Los Angeles Kings' Cam Talbot, Vancouver Canucks' Thatcher Demko, Boston Bruins' Jeremy Swayman, New York Rangers' Igor Shesterkin, Winnipeg Jets' Connor Hellebuyck, Dallas Stars' Jake Oettinger, Colorado Avalanche's Alexandar Georgiev and Florida Panthers' Sergei Bobrovsky were goaltenders for this event.

1. William Nylander vs. Talbot: 9 points
2. Auston Matthew vs. Demko: 7 points
3. J.T Miller vs. Swayman: 6 points
4. Mathew Barzal vs. Shesterkin: 6 points
5. Cale Maker vs. Hellebuyck: 4 points
6. Elias Pettersson vs. Oettinger: 3 points
7. Connor McDavid vs. Georgiev: 3 points
8. Nathan MacKinnon vs. Bobrovsky: 2 points

For this event, players had to choose one goaltender to take shots against for 60 seconds. Nylander won after saying he had selected Kings goaltender Cam Talbot "because he's standing right in front of me."

Bobrovsky then earned $100,000 for holding MacKinnon to just two points.

Pettersson and MacKinnon were eliminated following the event.

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Pepsi Obstacle Course

1. Connor McDavid: 40.606 seconds
2. Cale Makar: 43.435 seconds
3. Auston Matthews: 47.271 seconds
4. William Nyander: 49.065 seconds
5. J.T Miller: 49.351 seconds
6. Matthew Barzal: 1 minute 16 seconds

The obstacle course involved puck-handling, shooting at tiny nets and slaloming through a set of inflatable cans in what was arguably the toughest event of the night.

McDavid cleared the course in under 41 seconds to take home the overall prize after helping the NHL design the format of the 2024 competition.

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The 2024 NHL All-Star game will take place with four teams battling in a three-on-three format beginning 3 p.m. ET Saturday at Scotiabank Arena.