2000 NHL All-Star Game

**The 2000 NHL All-Star Game** was the 50th All-Star Game in the National Hockey League (NHL) which took place on February 6, 2000, at Air Canada Centre in Toronto (home to the Toronto Maple Leafs).

The All-Star week festivities saw the Canadian Hockey League Top Prospects Game played on February 2, 2000 and an exhibition game between the Canadian and American women's national teams on February 3, 2000.

The Heroes of Hockey game and the Skills Competition were held on February 5, 2000. It is to note that the opening face-off for the Heroes of Hockey game were Ted Lindsay and Fleming Mackell, (two players who played in the 1st All-Star Game).

The week also was a good sendoff for Wayne Gretzky, who had retired the previous season. His #99 was raised to the rafters, despite him never playing for the hometown Toronto Maple Leafs, as a show of his number's league-wide retirement.

Gretzky also made it clear that he would not partake in any oldtimer or Heroes of Hockey game unless it was held in Edmonton (a statement that was realized with the 2003 Heritage Classic three years later).

## Uniforms

Since 1951, the NHL had mandated that one team in each game must wear a white jersey to contrast with the other team's dark jersey. The only exceptions to this point had been when a team opted to wear gold in lieu of white; however, for the 2000 All-Star Game, the NHL opted to experiment with a color-vs.-color format with uniforms by CCM.

The North American All-Stars were clad in a navy blue uniform with white shoulders and sleeves, and the wishbone collar design previously introduced by Nike while the World All-Stars wore red with white shoulders & sleeves, and a faux polo-style collar; however, the goaltenders wore white jerseys with their teams' primary colors on the shoulders and sleeves.

Both teams featured a white stripe across the chest (team color in the case of the goalies), with the NHL shield appearing on the player's left side, and the uniform number placed below it.

The World team also featured names below the numbers on the back instead of above the numbers, which would normally be considered a violation of the NHL's uniform code (which requires the player's name to be above the back number). The names and numbers were rendered in the Handel Gothic typeface.

The uniform design would be reused for the next All-Star Game, with the Toronto All-Star Game and NHL 2000 patches replaced with the Colorado All-Star patch.

## Super Skills Competition

In the Skills Competition, the World All-Stars would win their third-straight skills competition. In the individual events, the Boston Bruins' Ray Bourque and Florida Panthers' Viktor Kozlov shared the Accuracy Shot event (which was Bourque's seventh victory in the event).

In addition, the St. Louis Blues' Al MacInnis won his fourth-straight Hardest Shot event, which was also his sixth all-time victory in the event, and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim's Paul Kariya would win his second-straight Puck Control Relay event.

### Individual event winners

* Puck Control Relay: Paul Kariya (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim)
* Fastest Skater: Sami Kapanen (Carolina Hurricanes) - 13.649 seconds
* Accuracy Shooting: Ray Bourque (Boston Bruins)/ Viktor Kozlov (Florida Panthers) - 4 hits, 5 shots
* Hardest Shot: Al MacInnis (St. Louis Blues) - 100.1 mph
* Goaltenders Competition: Mike Richter (New York Rangers) - 2 GA, 16 shots

## The Game

The Florida Panthers' Pavel Bure and his brother, the Calgary Flames' Valeri Bure, combined for six points (Pavel 3–1–4, Valeri 0–2–2) to lead the World All-Stars to their first All-Star Game victory over the North American All-Stars.

Valeri would assist on two of Pavel's three goals to become the first brother combination to set up a goal, since the 1956 NHL All-Star Game when Maurice & Henri Richard hooked up for an All-Star goal.

Pavel Bure would become the first Russian-born player to win All-Star MVP honors.

### Boxscore

 Lineup
* 4 - Template:Flagicon D Rob Blake (Los Angeles Kings)
* 9 - Template:Flagicon LW Paul Kariya (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim)
* 14 - Template:Flagicon LW Brendan Shanahan (Detroit Red Wings)
* 19 - Template:Flagicon C Steve Yzerman (Detroit Red Wings)
* 31 - Template:Flagicon G Curtis Joseph (Toronto Maple Leafs)
* 44 - Template:Flagicon D Chris Pronger (St. Louis Blues)

**Commissioner's selection**:
* 11 - Template:Flagicon C Mark Messier (Vancouver Canucks)

**Reserves**:
* 2 - Template:Flagicon D Al MacInnis (St. Louis Blues)
* 3 - Template:Flagicon D Scott Stevens (New Jersey Devils)
* 6 - Template:Flagicon D Phil Housley (Calgary Flames)
* 8 - Template:Flagicon RW Mark Recchi (Philadelphia Flyers)
* 10 - Template:Flagicon RW Tony Amonte (Chicago Blackhawks)
* 13 - Template:Flagicon LW Owen Nolan (San Jose Sharks)
* 15 - Template:Flagicon LW Ray Whitney (Florida Panthers)Template:Ref
* 16 - Template:Flagicon LW John LeClair (Philadelphia Flyers)
* 23 - Template:Flagicon C Scott Gomez (New Jersey Devils)
* 24 - Template:Flagicon D Chris Chelios (Detroit Red Wings)
* 27 - Template:Flagicon C Mike Modano (Dallas Stars)
* 30 - Template:Flagicon G Martin Brodeur (New Jersey Devils)
* 35 - Template:Flagicon G Mike Richter (New York Rangers)
* 37 - Template:Flagicon D Eric Desjardins (Philadelphia Flyers)
* 77 - Template:Flagicon D Ray Bourque (Boston Bruins) - (**C**)
* 88 - Template:Flagicon C Eric Lindros (Philadelphia Flyers)
* 91 - Template:Flagicon C Joe Sakic (Colorado Avalanche)
* 97 - Template:Flagicon C Jeremy Roenick (Phoenix Coyotes)
* 1 - Template:Flagicon G Roman Turek (St. Louis Blues)
* 5 - Template:Flagicon D Nicklas Lidstrom (Detroit Red Wings) - (**C**)
* 8 - Template:Flagicon RW Teemu Selanne (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim)
* 13 - Template:Flagicon C Mats Sundin (Toronto Maple Leafs)
* 18 - Template:Flagicon D Sandis Ozolinsh (Colorado Avalanche)
* 68 - Template:Flagicon RW Jaromir Jagr (Pittsburgh Penguins)

**Reserves**:
* 2 - Template:Flagicon D Petr Buzek (Atlanta Thrashers)
* 10 - Template:Flagicon LW Pavel Bure (Florida Panthers)
* 14 - Template:Flagicon C Radek Bonk (Ottawa Senators)
* 20 - Template:Flagicon LW Valeri Bure (Calgary Flames)
* 22 - Template:Flagicon RW Milan Hejduk (Colorado Avalanche)
* 23 - Template:Flagicon D Petr Svoboda (Tampa Bay Lightning)
* 24 - Template:Flagicon LW Sami Kapanen (Carolina Hurricanes)
* 25 - Template:Flagicon RW Viktor Kozlov (Florida Panthers)
* 26 - Template:Flagicon LW Martin Rucinsky (Montreal Canadiens)
* 27 - Template:Flagicon D Teppo Numminen (Phoenix Coyotes)
* 28 - Template:Flagicon RW Mariusz Czerkawski (New York Islanders)
* 29 - Template:Flagicon LW Patrik Elias (New Jersey Devils)
* 35 - Template:Flagicon G Tommy Salo (Edmonton Oilers)
* 36 - Template:Flagicon D Dmitry Yushkevich (Toronto Maple Leafs)
* 37 - Template:Flagicon G Olaf Kolzig (Washington Capitals)
* 38 - Template:Flagicon RW Pavol Demitra (St. Louis Blues)
* 56 - Template:Flagicon D Sergei Zubov (Dallas Stars)
 Scoring summary
* Roenick (Modano) 19:30 first
* Amonte (Modano, Bourque) 12:14 second
* Whitney (Desjardins, Messier) 17:08 second
* Jagr (Rucinsky) 10:50 first
* Yushkevich (Kozlov, P. Bure) 14:35 first
* P. Bure (V. Bure) 0:33 second
* P. Bure 2 (V. Bure, Kozlov) 8:38 second (GWG)
* Demitra (Hejduk, Elias) 8:52 third
* P. Bure 3 (Lidstrom, Kozlov) 9:31 third
* Satan (Czerkawski, Bonk) 10:51 third
 Penalties
 Shots on goal

* Referees: Kerry Fraser & Don Koharski
* Linesmen: Gerard Gauthier & Ray Scapinello
* Television: ABC, CBC & SRC