{"id":396984,"date":"2023-02-05T00:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T05:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=396984"},"modified":"2023-02-05T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T13:38:28","slug":"tkachuk-brothers-lead-atlantic-to-victory-in-three-on-three-format","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tkachuk-brothers-lead-atlantic-to-victory-in-three-on-three-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Tkachuk brothers lead Atlantic to first win in three-on-three format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tkachuk brothers led the way in helping the Atlantic Division win the 2023 Honda NHL All-Star Game with a 7-5 victory against the Central Division in front of a sellout crowd of 19,250 at FLA Live Arena.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6 CHAMPIONS \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Division is crowned champion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLAllStar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NHLAllStar<\/a> Game with a 7-5 victory over the Central Division! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/88L03dOCaD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/88L03dOCaD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1622014043820007424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Florida Panthers forward Mattew Tkachuk, who was named the MVP, had a goal and an assist in the final after getting three goals and two assists in a 10-6 win against the Metropolitan Division in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>His brother, Ottawa Senators forward Brady Tkachuk, finished with five points (one goal, four assists), including getting a goal and three assists in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ll never forget, this whole four or five days of being here together,&#8221; Brady Tkachuk said. &#8220;Usually at this time of the year we&#8217;re so busy hunkering down, focused on our respective seasons. It&#8217;s nice to take a break from that and just be together and have the number of people we had here. It was amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Division&#8217;s players, along with coach Jim Montgomery, will split a $1 million prize by virtue of their victory.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Larkin had a hat trick in the final, Mitchell Marner had three assists, and Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist for the Atlantic, which won the All-Star Game for the first time since the NHL adopted the current format in 2016 (lost previous three).<\/p>\n<p>Linus Ullmark stopped all six shots he faced in the first period, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 11 saves in the second.<\/p>\n<p>The 11 players on the Atlantic&#8217;s roster will split the $1 million prize for winning the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>The Central, which won 6-4 against the Pacific Division in the first semifinal, has lost all three of its final appearances under the current format.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  id=\"_ytid_95902\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x4yaItdRcEU?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/x4yaItdRcEU\/maxresdefault.jpg\" title=\"\"><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tkachuk brothers led the way in helping the Atlantic Division win the 2023 Honda NHL All-Star Game with a 7-5 victory against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":396985,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17033],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Mattew Tkachuk was named All-Star Game MVP","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/396984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/396984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396984"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=396984"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=396984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}