2012 NHL All-Star Game: Avs' Gabriel Landeskog Takes Part In Skills Competition, Completes Avs' All-Star Weekend

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2012 NHL Skills Competition: Gabriel Landeskog, Team Chara Lose Skills Challenge Relay

The 2012 NHL Skills Competition has drawn to a close and the curtain has dropped for the lone All-Star from the Colorado Avalanche, rookie Gabriel Landeskog. The 19-year-old Landeskog participated in Event 4, the Skills Challenge Relay.

Landeskog filled the role of the stick handler in the Relay 1, the slowest relay of the day, finishing at a 2:45 mark. The results from Event 4 were as follows:

Team Chara

Relay 1: 2:45

Relay 3: 2:14

Team Alfredsson

Relay 2: 2:28

Relay 4: 2:08*

*Winning relay

With the victory, Team Alfredsson boosted their lead to 6-9, eventually winning by a total score of 12-21.

The NHL All-Star weekend continues on Sunday with the NHL All-Star game, set for a 4:00 PM ET puck drop.

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2012 NHL Skills Competition: TV Schedule, Announcers And More

The Colorado Avalanche do not have a representative for Sunday night's 2012 NHL All Star Game, but rookie LW Gabriel Landeskog has been selected as one of the rookies to participate on Zdeno Chara's Team during the 2012 NHL Skills Competition on Saturday night. Landeskog -- Colorado's first-round pick (No. 2 overall) in the 2011 Early Draft -- is one of 12 NHL rookies who received an invitation to participate in the Molson Canadian NHL All-Star Skills Competition and will compete in the G Series NHL Skills Challenge Relay.

The event requires that two rookies participate, and the talented Landeskog is responsible for the stick handling portion of the race. Here is a look at the other players who will join in his relay team and their individual responsibilities:

G Series NHL Skills Challenge Relay

One-timer passer: Ryan Suter
One-timer right-handed: Dennis Wideman
One-timer right-handed: Jarome Iginla
One-timer right-handed: Joffrey Lupul
Passing accuracy: Patrick Kane
Puck control: Pavel Datsyuk
Stick handling: Gabriel Landeskog
Target shooter: Marian Gaborik
One-timer passer: Jordan Eberle
One-timer left-handed: Dion Phaneuf
One-timer left-handed: Zdeno Chara
One-timer left-handed: Jamie Benn
Passing accuracy: Kimmo Timonen
Puck control: Raphael Diaz
Stick handling: Evgeni Malkin
Target shooter: Phil Kessel

A complete list of events and players for the 2012 NHL Skills Competition is available here.

Here is the remaining schedule for the 2012 NHL All-Star weekend:

• Saturday, Jan. 28: All-Star Skills Competition -- 5 PM MT, NBC Sports Network
• Sunday, Jan. 29: NHL All-Star Game -- 2 PM MT, NBC Sports Network

The Skills Competition will be announced by Dave Strader (play-by-play) and Eddie Olczyk (analyst), who will be joined by Pierre McGuire and Jeremy Roenick as on-ice reporting and player interviews. Liam McHugh, Mike Milbury and Keith Jones are the NBC Sports studio analysts for the event.

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2012 NHL All Star Game: Colorado's Gabriel Landeskog Lands On Team Chara

The Colorado Avalanche won't be represented in the 2012 NHL All Star Game, but rookie Gabriel Landeskog has been selected as one of the rookies to participate with Team Chara in the weekend's events. Both teams were drafted for the game on Thursday night by their respective captains, and six rookies apiece are selected for each team as well.

Landeskog, 19, was the second overall pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft by the Avalanche. He has 10 goals and 16 assists so far this season in 51 games with Colorado. He's fifth on the team in goals scored and fourth in points.

While the players selected in the normal phase of the draft compete in the actual All Star Game itself, the rookies will not be competing. Instead Landeskog will be among the rookies participating in the All Star Skills Challenge. Other rookies on Team Chara include Buffalo's Luke Adam, Montreal's Raphael Diaz, Ottawa's Colin Greening, Vancouver's Cory Hodgson and Columbus' Ryan Johansen.

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2012 NHL All-Star Game: Avalanche Fail To Earn A Selection, But Landeskog Gets Skills Competition Invite

Colorado's first-round pick Gabriel Landeskog is one of 12 NHL rookies who received an invitation to participate in the Molson Canadian NHL All-Star Skills Competition during All-Star weekend in Ottawa, Canada.