Nhl all star draft

• USA TODAYs Kevin Allen and Mike Brehm were at the All-Star fantasy draft in Gatineau, Quebec, on Thursday night. Zdeno Chara and Daniel Alfredsson did the drafting . How the night went: 9:21 p.m.
(USA Today)
• Sporting News hockey team is trading emails during the 2012 NHL All-Star draft. Jesse: This is a TV event, so you would have thought that it would have been better TV.
(Sporting News)
• In order to implement the fantasy draft, the NHL had to ditch its traditional -- or at least one of its traditional -- formats: East vs. West.
(CNN Sports Illustrated)
• As the All-Stars gather in Ottawa for Thursday nights second annual Fantasy Draft (8 pm, NBC Sports Network), we asked SI.
(CNN Sports Illustrated)
• The NHL All-Star game is arguably the most anticipated event of the weekend. Though hockey is a sport many people in America choose not to follow, its really an amazing game.
(Bleacherreport.com)
• GATINEAU, Quebec -- For the second consecutive year, the NHL split up its All-Star roster not by Eastern and Western conferences, but by picking two captains and allowing them to choose the guys they want to play with on Sunday in Ottawa.
(Miami Herald)
• Dallas Stars center Jamie Benn won't lie. He was sweating it just a little when it was down to him and Sharks center Logan Couture. But he insisted he was also having fun with it.
(ESPN)
• Alfredsson and Chara, along with an alternate captain for each to be named later, will lead the team selection process during the 2012 Molson Canadian NHL All-Star Player Fantasy Draft on Thursday, Jan. 26 (8 p.m., ET, TSN, RDS, NBC Sports Network).
(NHL.com)
• GATINEAU, Quebec – Daniel Alfredsson stuck close to home – both his native Sweden and his adopted home of Ottawa – in making his selections in the NHL All-Star draft on Thursday night.
(Union-News & Sunday Republican)
• Coyotes defenseman Keith Yandle, who will appear in his second NHL All-Star Game on Sunday, was chosen in the 11th round of the draft Thursday night in Gatineau, Quebec by team captain Daniel Alfredsson of the Senators.
(AZCentral.com)