It’s the All-Star weekend in the NHL and some of the best players in the world are all gathered at the Enterprise Center, home of the 2019 Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues. The 3 on 3 mini-tournament will take place on Saturday but tonight is the most anticipated and interesting event of the weekend: the Skills’ Competition.

And the Montreal Canadiens are sending one of the best to represent them in team captain Shea Weber. Known for his big shot across the NHL, Weber is built for the hardest shots’ competition and tonight will be his time to shine. He will be gunning for his fourth hardest shots’ title, which would place him third all-time since the event was introduced back in 1990.

Since that time, 11 players have won the hardest shot All-Star competition. The event has been dominated by defensemen, with only three forwards ever winning it. The record for the hardest shot belongs to Zdeno Chara, who registered 108.8 mph on the radar gun back in 2012. But the ultimate hardest shooter is Al MacInnis, who has won it seven times!

NAME	NUMBER OF TIMES WINNING
Al MacInnis	7
Zdeno Chara	5
Al Iafrate	3
Shea Weber	3
Dave Manson	1
Fredrik Modin	1
Sergei Fedorov	1
Sheldon Souray	1
Adrian Aucoin	1
Alexander Ovechkin	1
John Carlson	1

And these men can bring it! Chara has four of the seven hardest shots recorded while Weber has recorded two of the top three best shots, both registering over 108 mph. As a matter of fact, Weber has three of the top four hardest shots ever recorded at the All-Star game as back in 2016, his second best was 107.8 mph.

Year	Name	Speed (mph)
2012	Zdeno Chara	108.8
2015	Shea Weber	108.5
2016	Shea Weber	108.1 – 107.8 (gala shot)
2009	Zdeno Chara	105.2
1993	Al Iafrate	105.2
2011	Zdeno Chara	105.0
2008	Zdeno Chara	103.1
2017	Shea Weber	102,8
2019	John Carlson	102.8
1994	Al Iafrate	102.7
2004	Sheldon Souray Adrian Aucoin	102.2
2001	Fredrik Modin	102.1
2002	Sergei Fedorov	101.5
2018	Alexander Ovechkin	101.3
1998	Al MacInnis	100.4
2007	Zdeno Chara	100.4
2000	Al MacInnis	100.1
1997	Al MacInnis	98.9
2003	Al MacInnis	98.9
1999	Al MacInnis	98.5
1996	Dave Manson	98.0
1990	Al Iafrate	96.0
1991	Al MacInnis	94.0
1992	Al MacInnis	93.0

You know what’s most amazing? The Al’s (Iafrate and MacInnis) did it with wooden sticks! Wouldn’t it be great to see today’s participants having to use a wooden stick for one of their three attempts? It would provide us with a better idea of the difference in velocity between the new sticks versus the old style ones.

The full line-up of participants to all events can be found on NHL.com. It all starts at 8:00 pm ET. Go Shea Go!