The Toronto Maple Leafs forward elected to skate after missing practice on Wednesday. Mitch Marner was selected to his second-ever NHL All-Star Game, the league announced on Thursday. The 25-year-old has 14 goals and 43 points through the first 38 games of the 2022-23 regular season. He set a franchise record for consecutive games with at least one point at 23, smashing the record of 18 that was jointly held by Darryl Sittler and Ed Olczyk. "It's cool, a couple of things you dream of in this league (is) winning that Stanley Cup and trying to get to the All-Star Game," Marner said after his team's 5-1 loss to the Seattle Kraken on Thursday. "It's a cool accomplishment, but it wouldn't have happened without a lot of these guys in this room." The NHL announced an initial list of 32 players headed to next month's All-Star game to be played in South Florida during the first intermission of ESPN's broadcast of the Washington Capitals game against the Columbus Blue Jackets. Under a new format, the NHL department of hockey operations selected one player per team in each division (including one goalie), making up the initial eight-man rosters for each division. The three remaining players per division (two skaters, one goalie), will be selected as part of an online vote, which also includes a Twitter component where people can tweet in their selection. Voting begins at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday and runs through Jan.17
