Golden Knights Stephenson To Be In Fastest Skater Challenge, Thompson Tendy Tandem

The National Hockey League has announced the official contestants for the seven events at tomorrow's NHL All-Star Skills Competition in Sunrise, Florida. Two members of the Vegas Golden Knights, Logan Thompson, and Chandler Stephenson will compete in events.

Stephenson will compete in the NHL's Fastest Skater event, a pretty self-explanatory event. He will be going up against Dylan Larkin (DET), Kirill Kaprizov (MIN), Cale Makar (COL), and Andrei Svechnikov (CAR). No Connor McDavid, for some reason.

Each player will take a lap around FLA Live Arena in an effort to be the fastest around the rink. The NHL record was set in 2016 by Larkin as he raced to a 13.172-second lap in Nashville, TN.

Thompson will be competing in a new event, the NHL Tendy Tandem, where goaltenders will shoot at one another.

Here are the official rules, per the NHL.

"Eight goaltenders will participate in this event, with one goalie from each division designated the shooting goalie and one the in-net goalie. The shooting goalies will earn points based on the accuracy of their shots at the net, and the in-net goalies will face rushes of three, two, or one player(s), based on the number of points earned by the shooting goalie in their tandem."

Competing in this event alongside Thompson will be, Connor Hellebuyck (WPG), Juuse Saros (NSH), Igor Shesterkin (NYR), Stuart Skinner (EDM), Ilya Sorokin (NYI), Linus Ullmark (BOS), and Andrei Vasilevskiy (TBL). Women's hockey players Alex Carpenter, Hilary Knight, Emily Clark, Rebecca Johnston, and Sarah Nurse will also be a part of the event as shooters.

Thompson could also be a part of the Breakaway Challenge, where select shooters will try and score on breakaways.

Mitch Marner (TOR), Alex Ovechkin (WSH), Sidney Crosby (PIT), David Pastrnak (BOS), and Matthew Tkachuk (FLA), will be the contestants of this event, and Florida Panthers legend Roberto Luongo will strap up the pads one more time for this event.

Day one of the NHL All-Star Game will begin at 4:00 p.m. on Friday.