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Jeff Skinner, the Carolina Hurricanes 18 year old rookie I’ve been blogging about all season, was officially named to the NHL All-Star Game roster about an hour ago! He’s the youngest player currently in the league and will be the youngest to ever play in the All-Star Game, too. The hockey mob I follow on Twitter has been throwing all these stats out since the announcement, but perhaps the most impressive is @drosennhl’s tweet: “Skinner has more goals than 9 of the forwards selected for the All-Star Game. He has more points than 4 of them.” If that stat and the way he’s played all season doesn’t show that he deserves the spot regardless of the fact that Raleigh is hosting, I don’t know what does. The only downside to this news is that now Eric Staal has to add Skinner in the mix of which player to pick first in the fantasy draft on Friday: Skinner, our goalie- Cam Ward, or his brother- Marc Staal. Dilemma!
Congrats to the young one!! Definitely recognition well-deserved :)
The official announcement
Link to Skinner’s goal videos on NHL.com if you want to peruse the greatness
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