The Chicago Blackhawks are going through a rebuild so this regular season has been filled with a lot of losing. However, Seth Jones went to the 2023 NHL All-Star Game to represent them in South Florida. There are some highlights from his weekend playing with the best in the league.

It started in the NHL’s Skills Competition on Friday night. Seth Jones competed in the hardest shot event which was one of the events that were actually fun to watch (this night isn’t as fun as it once was). Unfortunately, Seth Jones didn’t have his best showing.

Elias Petterson of the Vancouver Canucks won the event (it is extremely rare for a forward to win this) with a shot that eclipsed 103 miles per hour. Jones didn’t even break 100 so he didn’t give himself a chance to beat Petterson.

When the game came around a day after, Jones and the Central Division started off hot. He scored a goal and had two assists in the Central Division’s big win over the Pacific Division.

The Chicago Blackhawks saw Seth Jones give a great effort this weekend.

His assist on the second goal scored by Clayton Keller of the Arizona Coyotes was truly sensational. Those are the kinds of passes that fans have come to know from Seth Jones but they look even prettier in All-Star Games.

They then had to sit for an hour and wait for the Metropolitan Division to take on the Atlantic Division and determine a winner. The Atlantic won the game so they advanced to play the Central.

The final game didn’t go quite as well for them though as they, despite a big-time comeback effort, fell to the Atlantic Division who won the All-Star Game for the first time ever. Jones and his teammate didn’t come out on top but it was a really good effort in the end.

Between watching Jones, amazing stuff from the Tkachuk brothers, a show from Crosby and Ovechkin, and much more, it was a weekend loaded with memories. Although the event planners need to find a way to improve again, hockey is amazing and deserves to be celebrated.

Now, Jones is going to come back to Chicago and try to be a part of the situation. There is going to be some losing in the second half but you always know that Seth Jones is going to play as well as he can. He did a great job representing the Hawks and Chicago at this event.

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