NHL’s Best of the Best Gets Its 2026 Badge

The league has rolled out its first and second All-Star teams, and that always says more than the shiny plaque on the wall. These lists are part honor roll, part subtle message to the rest of the room about who really drove the season and who got left standing by the door. In NHL land, the voting never happens in a vacuum, and the final cut usually tells you plenty about how the league’s power brokers saw the year.