McDavid, Kucherov Head NHL’s First All-Star Team

The league’s top honor list puts two of the sport’s biggest engines front and center, and nobody in the room is pretending that’s surprising. Connor McDavid and Nikita Kucherov are still forcing the rest of the NHL to chase their pace, their skill, and their nightly habit of making defensemen look one step behind. The deeper question is what this says about how the league is being shaped right now, because the usual suspects keep showing up for a reason.