This weekend some of the NHL's best players* will be in Ottawa for the 2012 All-Star weekend.

The Skill Competitions (speed skating, accuracy shooting, hardest shot, etc.) are tomorrow at 4 pm PST, and the all-star game is Sunday at 1 pm PST. I will be watching both while eating a giant plate of nachos.

I'll be rooting for Predators' Shea Weber, Ryan Suter, and Craig Smith (Tootoo and Rinne were robbed!). Surely Weber will be one to watch in the hardest shot competition. Did you know that during the 2010 Winter Olympics Weber shot a puck so hard that it WENT THROUGH THE NET? Dude.

As for the all-star game, the roster was announced yesterday. It's Team Chara vs. Team Alfredsson. Alfredsson has the Sedins (gross), Scotty Hartnell, Shea Weber, and Henrik Lundqvist while Team Chara has Patrick Kane, Corey Perry, Ryan Suter, Evgeni Malkin, and goalie Timmy Thomas. (See the full line-ups here.)

It's tough to predict who'll win. Timmy Thomas is incredible, but the Sedins, Hartnell, and Weber will be hard to beat. I'm going to say Team Alfredsson. But just barely. Where do you stand, hockey fans? Let's find out with a Slog poll!

*Except for Ovechkin, who's not playing very well this season anyway.