NHL Skills Competition 2019 live stream: Time, TV schedule, and how to watch online

Individual talent is on display during NHL All-Star weekend, beginning on Friday night with the NHL skills competition in San Jose.

Hockey’s brightest stars will showcase their abilities in six unique events — Fastest Skater, Premier Passer, Puck Control, Accuracy Shooting, Save Streak, and Hardest Shot. The winner of each event pockets $25,000.

Television coverage starts at 9:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN, with Sportsnet, CBC and TVA Sports televising the skills competition in Canada.

The simplest of all six competitions might be the most fun, with eight players timed for one full lap around the rink. The fastest time wins.

Three skills are at play here — a breakout pass, with a skater getting up to 10 tries to successfully make three passes to a moving target; passes into four different mini nets; and directed passing to targets that light up every three seconds. Fastest time to complete the course wins.

All 36 skaters take their shots at the goalies in this competition in shootout formation, with goalies facing an opposing division. The longest streak of saves during the event wins.

For the shooters, this is the most involved competition, with three skills on display during this event — stickhandling a puck through 10 pucks in a straight line, controlling a puck through eight zig-zagged cones, and shooting a puck through gates. Fastest time to complete the course wins.

Four skaters get two shots with a puck 30 feet from the goal, with the highest recorded speed (by MPH) declared the winner. Only shots on goal are counted, and players can get an extra attempt for either a radar malfunction (on a goal) or a broken stick.

Each contestant tries to hit five different targets while positioned 25 feet from the goal, with each open target lit up for three seconds in random intervals. The winner will hit all five targets in the shortest time.