Tomorrows NHL All Star Game

Tomorrow night Atlanta will host NHL's 56th All Star Game. Tune in at 5pm Central time

on Versus. On the Western Conference I'm going to be watching for Marian Gaborik from the Minnesota Wild making his second All Star appearance and Paul Stastny from the Colorado Avalanche making his first. The West should be strong with 4 Detroit players, three of whom fans voted in to play in the starting line up. The Western Conference coaching staff will be made up of Head coach, Mike Babcock, Detroit and Assistant coach, Ron Wilson, San Jose

The National Hockey League All-Star Game is an exhibition hockey game that traditionally marks the midway point of the National Hockey League's regular season, with many of the league's star players playing against each other. The starting lineup for the two teams, including the starting goaltender, is voted on by fans, while the remainder of the teams' rosters are chosen by the NHL's Hockey Operations Department in consultation with the teams' General Managers. The coaches for the two All-Star Game teams are typically the head coaches of the teams that, at the time of the All-Star Game roster announcements, are leading their respective conferences in point percentage (i.e. fraction of points obtained out of total possible points).