The Canucks could have six players, including Tocchet, appear at All-Star Weekend in Toronto.
Voting for the 2024 NHL All-Star Game is now closed, but Vancouver Canucks fans won’t know which Canucks will join Quinn Hughes in the All-Star Game until the voting results are announced on Saturday.
Four more players from the Canucks (JT Miller, Elias Pettersson, Brock Boeser and Thatcher Demko) could be included in the 12-man roster spots, giving the Canucks five players to qualify for the All-Star Game in a fan vote. be. This is the first time in franchise history that three or more players will appear in the All-Star Game.
But fans don’t have to wait until Saturday to find out the Canucks will be acquiring at least one more international player.
With a record of 28-11-3, the Canucks currently lead the Pacific Division in both points and scoring percentage. They are six points behind the Vegas Golden Knights, who have played the same number of games, and 11 points behind the Los Angeles Kings, who have four games remaining.
As Sportsnet’s Elliott Friedman pointed out, that means Rick Tocchet will be one of four head coaches in the NHL All-Star Game.
The coach for the All-Star Game is not chosen by just anyone, but by the head coach of the team with the highest scoring percentage in each division. Tocchet’s Canucks are in first place in the Pacific Division at the time of All-Star selection and will head to Toronto in early February for All-Star Weekend.
It’s a fitting honor at midseason. Odds-on favorites Winner of the Jack Adams Award as NHL Coach of the Year.
Tocchet led the Canucks to an incredible turnaround and helped elevate them from a mediocre team to a major league team. Other teams are now treating the game against the Canucks as a test, and more often than not, those teams are failing that test.
There are many factors to the Canucks’ resurgence, but coaching definitely plays a big role. The Canucks’ coaching staff is making the most of not only the team’s star players, but also its depth, and Tocchet deserves all the praise that comes his way.
