Kane finished first among all players in the Central Division, while Jagr, who will turn 44 in February, topped the Atlantic.
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Scott was suspended twice last season with the Sharks, including a four-game ban in late December for his role in a fight with Anaheim’s Tim Jackman.
John Scott, he of 285 career games, 11 points and 542 penalty minutes, has been voted by the fans as a captain of the 2016 NHL All-Star Game in Nashville, the league announced Saturday.
The NHL All-Star Skills Competition will be on January 30, with the NHL All-Star Game on January 31.
“It’s one of those things where I don’t want to be a joke, I don’t want to be an embarrassment, I don’t want to kind of embarrass the game in that way”, Scott said before the Coyotes faced the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.
The John Scott movement has succeeded. Scott’s inclusion was part of a ultimately successful fan-driven campaign to elect the enforcer, who has been waived by Arizona three times this season.
The other captains will be Jaromir Jagr, Patrick Kane and Alex Ovechkin. The push to get the lumbering 118 kilo (260 pounds) Scott into the three-on-three went viral and the result is that Scott, who scored jst one goal in his first five NHL seasons, will line up as a team captain alongside Kane, who leads the league in scoring with 56 points.
But the game is for the fans, and the National Hockey League could do little to interfere with their wishes. Jagr is one of the game’s elder statesmen, Ovechkin one of its best players, and Kane is the NHL’s points leader.
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The remaining 40 players for the four All-Star rosters, which consists of six forwards, three defensemen and two goaltenders per team, will be determined by the NHL Hockey Operations Department and announced on Wednesday, Jan. 6. The Panthers forward has now made 13 All-Star teams so far in his career, and has 11 goals and 15 assists this season.
