NHL All-Star team
The NHL All-Star teams were first named at the end of the 1930–31 NHL season, to honor the best performers over the season at each position.
Representatives of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association vote for the all-star team at the end of the regular season.
The career leaders in selections are Gordie Howe, named to a total of 21 all-star teams, all with the Detroit Red Wings, and Ray Bourque, named to a total of 19 all-star teams over the course of his 21-season career with the Boston Bruins and Colorado Avalanche. Alexander Ovechkin is the only player in history to be named to both all-star teams in the same season because of a voting error.
Teams
1930s
1940s
:First All-Star team
Dave Kerr
Coach: Paul Thompson
Second All-Star team
Frank Brimsek
Coach: Frank Boucher
:
First All-Star team
Sweeney Schriner • Bill Cowley • Bryan Hextall
Dit Clapper • Wally Stanowski
Turk Broda
Coach: Cooney Weiland
Second All-Star team
Woody Dumart • Syl Apps • Bobby Bauer
Earl Seibert • Ott Heller
Frank Brimsek
Coach: Dick Irvin
:
First All-Star team
Lynn Patrick • Syl Apps • Bryan Hextall
Earl Seibert • Tommy Anderson
Frank Brimsek
Coach: Frank Boucher
Second All-Star team
Turk Broda
Coach: Paul Thompson
:
First All-Star team
Doug Bentley • Bill Cowley • Lorne Carr
Earl Seibert • Jack Stewart
Johnny Mowers
Coach: Jack Adams
Second All-Star team
Lynn Patrick • Syl Apps • Bryan Hextall
Frank Brimsek
Coach: Art Ross
:
First All-Star team
Doug Bentley • Bill Cowley • Lorne Carr
Earl Seibert • Babe Pratt
Coach: Dick Irvin
Second All-Star team
Émile Bouchard • Dit Clapper
Paul Bibeault
Coach: Hap Day
:
First All-Star team
Toe Blake • Elmer Lach • Maurice Richard
Émile Bouchard • Bill Hollett
Bill Durnan
Coach: Dick Irvin
Second All-Star team
Syd Howe • Bill Cowley • Bill Mosienko
Glen Harmon • Babe Pratt
Mike Karakas
Coach: Jack Adams
:
First All-Star team
Gaye Stewart • Max Bentley • Maurice Richard
Jack Crawford • Émile Bouchard
Bill Durnan
Coach: Dick Irvin
Second All-Star team
Toe Blake • Elmer Lach • Bill Mosienko
Ken Reardon • Jack Stewart
Frank Brimsek
Coach: Johnny Gottselig
:
First All-Star team
Doug Bentley • Milt Schmidt • Maurice Richard
Ken Reardon • Émile Bouchard
Bill Durnan
Second All-Star team
Woody Dumart • Max Bentley • Bobby Bauer
Jack Stewart • Bill Quackenbush
Frank Brimsek
:
First All-Star team
Ted Lindsay • Elmer Lach • Maurice Richard
Bill Quackenbush • Jack Stewart
Turk Broda
Second All-Star team
Gaye Stewart • Buddy O'Connor • Bud Poile
Ken Reardon • Neil Colville
Frank Brimsek
:
First All-Star team
Roy Conacher • Sid Abel • Maurice Richard
Bill Quackenbush • Jack Stewart
Bill Durnan
Second All-Star team
Ted Lindsay • Doug Bentley • Gordie Howe
Glen Harmon • Ken Reardon
Chuck Rayner
1950s
:First All-Star team
Ted Lindsay • Sid Abel • Maurice Richard
Gus Mortson • Ken Reardon
Bill Durnan
Second All-Star team
Tony Leswick • Ted Kennedy • Gordie Howe
Chuck Rayner
:
First All-Star team
Ted Lindsay • Milt Schmidt • Gordie Howe
Red Kelly • Bill Quackenbush
Terry Sawchuk
Second All-Star team
Sid Smith • Sid Abel & Ted Kennedy • Maurice Richard
Jimmy Thomson • Leo Reise Jr.
Chuck Rayner
:
First All-Star team
Ted Lindsay • Elmer Lach • Gordie Howe
Red Kelly • Doug Harvey
Terry Sawchuk
Second All-Star team
Sid Smith • Milt Schmidt • Maurice Richard
Hy Buller • Jimmy Thomson
Jim Henry
:
First All-Star team
Ted Lindsay • Fleming Mackell • Gordie Howe
Red Kelly • Doug Harvey
Terry Sawchuk
Second All-Star team
Bert Olmstead • Alex Delvecchio • Maurice Richard
Bill Quackenbush • Bill Gadsby
Gerry McNeil
:
First All-Star team
Ted Lindsay • Ken Mosdell • Gordie Howe
Red Kelly • Doug Harvey
Harry Lumley
Second All-Star team
Ed Sandford • Ted Kennedy • Maurice Richard
Bill Gadsby • Tim Horton
Terry Sawchuk
:
First All-Star team
Sid Smith • Jean Béliveau • Maurice Richard
Doug Harvey • Red Kelly
Harry Lumley
Second All-Star team
Danny Lewicki • Ken Mosdell • Bernie Geoffrion
Terry Sawchuk
:
First All-Star team
Ted Lindsay • Jean Béliveau • Maurice Richard
Doug Harvey • Bill Gadsby
Jacques Plante
Second All-Star team
Bert Olmstead • Tod Sloan • Gordie Howe
Red Kelly • Tom Johnson
:
First All-Star team
Ted Lindsay • Jean Béliveau • Gordie Howe
Doug Harvey • Red Kelly
Glenn Hall
Second All-Star team
Réal Chevrefils • Ed Litzenberger • Maurice Richard
Fern Flaman • Bill Gadsby
Jacques Plante
:
First All-Star team
Dickie Moore • Henri Richard • Gordie Howe
Doug Harvey • Bill Gadsby
Glenn Hall
Second All-Star team
Camille Henry • Jean Béliveau • Andy Bathgate
Fern Flaman • Marcel Pronovost
Jacques Plante
:
First All-Star team
Dickie Moore • Jean Béliveau • Andy Bathgate
Tom Johnson • Bill Gadsby
Jacques Plante
Second All-Star team
Alex Delvecchio • Henri Richard • Gordie Howe
Marcel Pronovost • Doug Harvey
Terry Sawchuk
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
First team leaders by position
The following is a list of the most selected first team all-stars by position.Centres:
- Wayne Gretzky, 8 times
- Jean Béliveau, 6 times
- Phil Esposito, 6 times
- Stan Mikita, 6 times
- Mario Lemieux, 5 times
- Bobby Hull, 10 times
- Ted Lindsay, 8 times
- Alexander Ovechkin, 8 times
- Luc Robitaille, 5 times
- Busher Jackson, 4 times
- Gordie Howe, 12 times
- Maurice Richard, 8 times
- Jaromír Jágr, 7 times
- Guy Lafleur, 6 times
- Mike Bossy, 5 times
- Ray Bourque, 13 times
- Doug Harvey, 10 times
- Nicklas Lidström, 10 times
- Bobby Orr, 8 times
- Eddie Shore, 7 times
- Glenn Hall, 7 times
- Dominik Hašek, 6 times
- Bill Durnan, 6 times
- Ken Dryden, 5 times
- Patrick Roy, 4 times