45th National Hockey League All-Star Game

The 45th National Hockey League All-Star Game was held in New York City, New York on January 22, 1994.

Super Skills Competition

The Western Conference would win the Skills Competition for the second straight season. In the individual events Al Iafrate won the Hardest Shot event for the second straight season, while both John Vanbiesbrouck and Patrick Roy would share the Goaltenders Competition victory. In addition, the Puck Control Relay event would be introduced as part of the individual competition with its first winner being Russ Courtnall.

Individual Event winners

Puck Control Relay - Russ Courtnall (Dallas Stars)
Fastest Skater - Sergei Fedorov (Detroit Red Wings) - 13.525 seconds
Accuracy Shooting - Brendan Shanahan (St. Louis Blues) - 4 hits, 5 shots
Hardest Shot - Al Iafrate (Washington Capitals) - 102.7 mph
Goaltenders Competition - John Vanbiesbrouck (Florida Panthers)/Patrick Roy (Montreal Canadiens) - 4 GA, 16 shots

The Game

A capacity crowd saw Ottawa Senators' rookie Alexei Yashin score with 3:42 left in the third period, to give the Eastern Conference a 9–8 victory. The Western Conference were leading 8–6 in the third period, until Quebec Nordiques' centre Joe Sakic scored his first All-Star Game goal to cut the lead to 8–7. Then Florida Panthers' centre Bob Kudelski scored with 6:01 left to tie the game at 8–8, before Yashin would score the eventual game-winner. New York Rangers' goaltender Mike Richter was named All-Star M.V.P. after he turned away 19-of-21 shots in the second period.

Boxscore

	Western Conference	Eastern Conference
Final Score	8	9
Head Coach	Barry Melrose (Los Angeles Kings)	Jacques Demers (Montreal Canadiens)
Honorary Captain	Gordie Howe	Rod Gilbert
Lineup	Starting Lineup: 7 - D Chris Chelios (Chicago Blackhawks,alternate) 77 - D Paul Coffey (Detroit Red Wings,alternate) 10 - RW Pavel Bure (Vancouver Canucks) 16 - RW Brett Hull (St. Louis Blues) 29 - G Felix Potvin (Toronto Maple Leafs) 99 - C Wayne Gretzky (Los Angeles Kings, Captain) Commissioner's Selection: 18 - RW Dave Taylor (Los Angeles Kings,alternate) Reserves: 2 - D Al MacInnis (Calgary Flames) 4 - D Rob Blake (Los Angeles Kings) 5 - D Alexei Kasatonov (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim) 6 - D Sandis Ozolinsh (San Jose Sharks) 9 - LW Shayne Corson (Edmonton Oilers) 13 - RW Teemu Selanne (Winnipeg Jets) 14 - LW Dave Andreychuk (Toronto Maple Leafs) 19 - LW Brendan Shanahan (St. Louis Blues) 25 - C Joe Nieuwendyk (Calgary Flames) 26 - RW Russ Courtnall (Dallas Stars) 27 - C Jeremy Roenick (Chicago Blackhawks) 31 - G Curtis Joseph (St. Louis Blues) 32 - G Arturs Irbe (San Jose Sharks) 91 - C Sergei Fedorov (Detroit Red Wings) 93 - C Doug Gilmour (Toronto Maple Leafs)	Starting Lineup: 2 - D Brian Leetch (New York Rangers) 11 - C Mark Messier (New York Rangers, Captain) 33 - G Patrick Roy (Montreal Canadiens) 77 - D Ray Bourque (Boston Bruins,alternate) 88 - C Eric Lindros (Philadelphia Flyers) 89 - RW Alexander Mogilny (Buffalo Sabres) Commissioner's Selection: 7 - RW Joe Mullen (Pittsburgh Penguins) Reserves: 3 - D Garry Galley (Philadelphia Flyers) 4 - D Scott Stevens (New Jersey Devils) 8 - RW Mark Recchi (Philadelphia Flyers) 9 - LW Adam Graves (New York Rangers) 10 - LW Geoff Sanderson (Hartford Whalers) 12 - C Adam Oates (Boston Bruins) 17 - C Pierre Turgeon (New York Islanders) 18 - C Joe Sakic (Quebec Nordiques) 19 - C Brian Bradley (Tampa Bay Lightning) 34 - D Al Iafrate (Washington Capitals) 20 - C Alexei Yashin (Ottawa Senators) 22 - C Bob Kudelski (Florida Panthers) 55 - D Larry Murphy (Pittsburgh Penguins,alternate) 34 - G John Vanbiesbrouck (Florida Panthers) 35 - G Mike Richter (New York Rangers)
Scoring Summary	Roenick (Nieuwendyk, Blake), 7:31 1st Fedorov (Bure, Ozolinsh), 10:20 1st Shanahan (Gretzky, Hull), 13:21 1st Andreychuk (MacInnis, Fedorov), 15:10 1st Coffey (Andreychuk, Gilmour), 12:36 2nd Ozolinsh (Taylor, Roenick), 14:39 2nd Ozolinsh (Bure), 0:55 3rd Shanahan (Gretzky, Chelios), 7:40 3rd	Kudelski (Turgeon, Bourque), 9:46 1st Lindros (unassisted), 11:00 1st Yashin (Sakic, Turgeon), 14:29 1st Stevens (Oates, Sanderson), 10:37 2nd Messier (Mullen, Graves), 15:05 2nd Mullen (Graves, Messier), 1:28 3rd Sakic (Turgeon, Stevens), 10:41 3rd Kudelski (Messier), 13:59 3rd Yashin (Sakic, Turgeon), 16:18 3rd (GWG)
Penalties	none	none
Shots on Goal	17–21–8–46	19–18–19–56
Win/Loss	L - Curtis Joseph	W - John Vanbiesbrouck

Referee: Bill McCreary
Linesmen: Gord Broseker, Pat Dapuzzo
Television: NBC

45th National Hockey League All-Star Game

Super Skills Competition

Individual Event winners

The Game

Boxscore

Notes

See also