Metro Division wins 2022 NHL All-Star Game; Giroux takes MVP

After hours of goals, goal songs, some reviews, and Machine Gun Kelly, the Metropolitan Division beat the Central Division to win the 2022 NHL All-Star Game. Flyers veteran (and future trade deadline MVP?) Claude Giroux won the All-Star Game MVP.

Click here for all the highlights, results, and Trevor Zegras-ness of the 2022 NHL All-Star Skills competition.

Here’s a rundown of all three games.

Tom Wilson continued to generate heel heat during 2022 NHL All-Star weekend by scoring the opening goal. The true highlight was Claude Giroux dancing through the notoriously lax defense to score an impressive one:

oh my claude. #NHLAllStar | @28CGiroux pic.twitter.com/ftOocPjvWJ

— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) February 5, 2022

Naturally, as Giroux dangled early and often during the NHL All-Star Game, people made plenty of jokes about the Flyers veteran auditioning for a future trade.

The Metro used the Flyers’ goal song, which inspires a question: why not just rotate goal songs? Oh well.

Evgeny Kuznetsov bonding with Patrice Bergeron‘s kids may have been the best highlight of them all.

Kuzy & Bergeron’s kids so cute! pic.twitter.com/t4ccogK3io

— CapsWoman (@capswmn) February 5, 2022

Anyway, the Metropolitan Division beat the Pacific 6-4 in the first game.

The Metropolitan Division takes game one and will play in the final!

Whose performance makes them the early frontrunner for the @Honda #NHLAllStar MVP?

— NHL (@NHL) February 5, 2022

Perhaps everyone was, uh, not quite 100 percent to start the games?

How in the world was the 2022 NHL All-Star Game not sponsored by Pedialyte and Sloppy "Breakfast" at the Waffle House? https://t.co/2BRjWNsxJO

— James O'Brien