Matthews leads own team past Team McDavid to win 2024 NHL All-Star Game
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Auston Matthews, the captain, had two goals and an assist to win Most Valuable Player. Mitchell Marner scored, and Morgan Rielly and William Nylander each had an assist.
Clayton Keller, Mathew Barzal and Alex DeBrincat each had a goal and two assists. Igor Shesterkin gave up three goals on 11 shots for Team Matthews in the first period and Jake Oettinger stopped eight of nine shots in the second.
Team Matthews will split the $1 million that goes to the winning team.
Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists, Boone Jenner, Tomas Hertl and David Pastrnak scored for Team McDavid. Sergei Bobrovsky allowed three goals on 13 shots in the first period, and Connor Hellebuyck stopped seven of 10 shots in the second.
Keller gave Team Matthews a 1-0 lead at 2:19 of the first, chipping in a cross-crease pass from Matthews.
Jenner tied it 1-1, scoring for Team McDavid at 5:08 with a bardown shot from the top of the right face-off circle.
Marner gave Team Matthews the 2-1 lead at 7:11 by poking in the puck that was loose in the crease after Nylander’s shot went through Bobrovsky’s five-hole but stopped in the blue paint.
The teams then combined for three goals in 18 seconds.
Pastrnak scored with a low shot from the right hash marks to make it 2-2 at 8:08, and Matthews scored off the face-off five seconds later to give his team a 3-2 lead at 8:13.
Draisaitl answered 13 seconds later to make it 3-3 at 8:26.
Filip Forsberg gave Team Matthews a 4-3 lead at 1:06 of the second with a snap shot from the right circle inside the right post.
Matthews made it 5-3 at 4:59 with a one-timer into the top right corner of the net off a 2-on-1 with Keller.
DeBrincat scored into the empty net at 8:09 to make it 6-3, but Hertl scored a 4-on-3 goal for Team McDavid at 8:34 to cut it to 6-4.
Barzal scored off a 2-on-0 with DeBrincat at 8:54 for the 7-4 final.