Best-of 2024 NHL Mascot Showdown - NHL All-Star Weekend - Toronto

A Best-of compilation of the 4 days of friendly but fierce competition of the 2024 NHL Mascot Showdown that took place February 1-4 as part of the NHL Fan Fair during the NHL All-Star Weekend in Toronto.
Big kudos to the @NHL for celebrating their mascots and making them accessible to us fans like no other league! I truly had the time of my life among these beloved critters and felt like a 5 years old around them! Hope the 10th edition of the Showdown will be back for the 2026 All-Star Weekend!
Contents of this video:
00:00 Day 1: Dodgeball
02:03 Day 2: Breakaway Challenge - Mascot Skills Competition
04:52 Day 2: Slingshot Accuracy - Mascot Skills Competition
06:37 Day 2: Shooting Accuracy - Mascot Skills Competition
08:33 Day 2: Hardest Shot - Mascot Skills Competition
10:23 Day 2: Hoverboard Race - Mascot Skills Competition
13:47 Day 3: Street Hockey Game
18:47 Day 4: Musical Chairs & Most Valuable Mascot 2024 (Carlton the Bear of the Toronto Maple Leafs)
26:15 Best Public Interactions
Recorded, edited & uploaded by Reto Kurmann
Metro Toronto Convention Center - South Building, Toronto, ON - February 1-4, 2024
Special thanks to the @Florida Panthers mascot, Stanley C. Panther - who has been truly showing the magic of mascots to everyone over this weekend with him often hanging around longer than any others, delivering hundreds of smiles & hugs to children of all ages, who LOVED him so much. It made me shed a few happy tears how caring Stanley is, not only to me but to everyone who has the pleasure to meet & interact with him!
Since almost two decades, Stanley C. Panther has a very special place in my heart as he went great lengths to make sure to provide me with some extra magical moments. Back in 2006, I came from Switzerland to attend a Panthers game during my Florida vacation - and randomly met Stanley - without even knowing before that a mascot would be present. I had no idea about mascots as mascotting isn’t that big in my country. That random moment of meeting Stanley C. Panther would have a lasting impact on me. I was born with a birth defect called Congenital Varicella Syndrome that has relying me on a feeding tube. Up until 2014, this condition caused me to be bedridden for up to 150 days a year. During this time, after my 1st visit to a Panthers game, I began to research about Stanley C. Panther and mascots in general and found out what they do in the community. Watching Stanley’s heartwarming content that often had him visit little kids in hospitals, do charity work or attend birthday parties, helped me smile during a difficult and dark time of my life. That‘s why he‘s so special to me, that‘s why I‘m so thankful for what he does to me & others! Thank you so much, Stanley, for all these little magical moments, the joy and smiles you spread to me during this weekend! You are truly South Florida’s Coolest Cat! Let’s Go PANTHERS!
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[@IorekByrnison086]

This was.so fun to watch. Great video recap of the weekend. Thanks. Keep up the awesome job. And happy lunar new year.

[@darksonic627]

1:05 KO!!!

[@emily91303]

I feel proud 🥲 when Carlton won the hover board race twice.

[@KitwanaLion]

Credits to Gritty for "making" Carlton win;)

[@zachagett8209]

I play this game