McDavid, Kucherov Head NHL's All-Star Teams

Connor McDavid and Nikita Kucherov are front and center on the NHL’s all-star teams, which is the league’s polite way of admitting the obvious. When those two are rolling, everybody else is playing for second gear, and voters had no real escape hatch here. This kind of recognition usually follows a season where the superstars did what superstars are supposed to do - tilt the ice and make every shift feel personal. The names are familiar, but the message is still loud.