The Florida Panthers will host the 2021 NHL All-Star weekend.
An official announcement released Friday stated that next year's festivities are heading to the BB&T Center in Sunrise.
South Florida also will be the home of the Super Bowl on Feb. 2 and next year's college football national championship.
This will be the second time the Panthers will host the event and the fourth time it will be in Florida. The Panthers hosted the 2003 All-Star Game, while the Tampa Bay Lightning hosted hockey's midseason classic in 1999 and 2018.
This year's All-Star festivities will be held this weekend at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, with the Skills Competition taking place Friday and the 64th NHL All-Star Game on Saturday. It will consist of a three-game tournament, played in a 3-on-3 format, featuring four teams, one for each NHL division.
Panthers forward Jonathan Huberdeau, the team's leading scorer with 18 goals and 46 assists, will be making his first All-Star appearance in Saturday's game as the team's lone representative. He will also participate in the Skills Competition the night before.
Huberdeau has been dominant in his eighth season with the franchise. The Panthers' first-round pick in 2011, Huberdeau ranks in the NHL's top-10 for both points (seventh) and assists (fourth) this season.
The longest-tenured player on the Panthers' roster, Huberdeau is one of just 10 players in franchise history to play in over 500 regular-season games. With 423 career points, he recently surpassed Olli Jokinen (419) for the most in franchise history. Huberdeau also is the Panthers' career leader in assists (280) and sixth in goals (143).
Huberdeau (64 points) became the second-fastest player in Panthers history to reach the 50-point mark (38 games) this season _ trailing only Hall of Famer Pavel Bure (34 games, 1999-00).
The streaking Panthers (27-16-5) have won six of their last seven games and 12 of 16 to move into third place in the Atlantic Division.
