COLUMBUS -- Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews felt a bit like an executive as he walked into a hotel conference room Saturday morning.
Confronted with a setup with six chairs and a television monitor showing what was essentially a draft board synched to the two laptop computers sitting on the side-by-side folding tables, Toews mustered a quick quip.
"In the war room, eh," he said.
Sort of, yeah.
Toews and his alternate captains, Ryan Getzlaf of the Anaheim Ducks and Rick Nash of the new York Rangers, sat across from Columbus Blue jackets forward Nick Foligno and his alternate captains, Chicago's Patrick Kane and Drew Doughty of the Los Angeles Kings, on Saturday morning to select their lineups for the 2015 Honda NHL All-Star Skills Competition which will take place Saturday night at Nationwide Arena (7 p.m. ET, NBCSN, CBC, TVA Sports).
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