Storylines to follow at All-Star Game

— -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It's All-Star Sunday. Following the player draft and skills competition, it's time to get down to the meat and potatoes of All-Star weekend: the game.

Can't remember who is on whose team?

Can't take your eyes off the neon jerseys?

Still wondering what was in the plastic cups the players were drinking out of Friday night?

Read on for five storylines to follow Sunday. Game time is 5 p.m. ET.

1. Who will win the Phil Kessel-for- Tyler Seguin deal?

The two are inexorably linked, given the deal that sent Kessel to Toronto for the draft pick the Boston Bruins used to select Seguin with the second overall pick in 2010. If only Loui Eriksson, for whom Seguin was dealt in a trade with the Dallas Stars, was here. But we digress. It's hard to imagine two more polar opposites in terms of personalities, with Kessel painfully shy and Seguin outgoing to the extreme. But both possess some of the best raw goal-scoring skills in the game. Not sure who came up with the idea, but the in-draft trade of the two Friday night was a stroke of genius. At the risk of invoking a hockey cliché, this could be a deal that helps both teams. We'll predict this: Kessel (Team Foligno), who made a sort of All-Star history by being the first player to be chosen last, outpoints Seguin (Team Toews).

2. How will Alex Ovechkin react to the colossal disappointment of not being selected last in Friday's draft and not winning the free car that went with that (dis)honor?

As an aside, our favorite tweet of the weekend had to be Roberto Luongo's reference to Ovechkin's missing liver at the players' skate Saturday morning. But we digress. Again. The fact that Ovechkin slipped to almost the bottom of the draft (selected third-to-last) might turn out to be a bonus for Team Foligno, which ended up with the Russian star. At least it could be a bonus, assuming Ovechkin has recovered from Friday evening by the time the puck is dropped Sunday. For those keeping track at home, who gets more points, Ovechkin or countryman Vladimir Tarasenko?

3. How will the goalies fare without any defense being played?

It's an All-Star Game being played by millionaires, so there's not a lot of room for sympathy, but you still have to feel for the goalies in this competition. Blocked shots? Ha. Not going to happen. Forwards going all-out to get back to break up an odd-man rush? Not likely. An endless array of quality scoring chances from the league's most dangerous shooters? Take that to the bank. For us, we're excited to see how Brian Elliott fares. You have to hand it to the St. Louis Blues netminder, who was already on vacation in a tropical location when Sergei Bobrovsky was injured and Elliott was named as a replacement. That alone should earn him some good All-Star karma, which for a goalie would mean a goals-against average under 4.00 and a save percentage above .880.

4. Who will be the All-Star MVP? Does anyone care?

Actually, people do care. I recall many people feeling Rick Nash was jobbed when Eric Staal won the MVP in Atlanta in 2008. I was part of the voting process, and people were outraged. But I digress, as you knew I would. It's easy to suggest a guy such as Tarasenko, who this season has emerged as one of the game's most dynamic players, could pot four or five goals and end up with MVP honors. Or maybe it will be Jakub Voracek of the Philadelphia Flyers, the league's top point producer. But for us, we'd love to see a guy like Radim Vrbata have a big game. The unassuming Vancouver Canuck, the team's only representative, is having a banner season playing with Daniel Sedin and Henrik Sedin and seemed to be enjoying the trip to Columbus very much. Or how about Patrik Elias, the New Jersey Devils' only representative at the game who freely admits he doesn't feel he deserves to be here? How good would it be for Elias, at 38 the game's oldest participant, to take home a new vehicle for his troubles?

5. How will teammates fare playing against each other?

We wondered about Seguin and Kessel, but there are lots of other interconnections to ponder. There will be the competition between Chicago Blackhawks stars Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane -- both of whom had a hand in drafting their respective teams. Linemates Voracek and Claude Giroux ended up on opposite sides of the All-Star ledger, and you know Giroux, one of the game's topflight trash-talkers, will be giving it to his pal. Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook have spent many a night patrolling the Blackhawks blue line together as one of the game's top defensive duos. Now they are on opposite sides in Columbus. The easy money suggests Keith, the defending Norris Trophy winner as the game's best defenseman, would have an edge, but Seabrook has been having a strong season offensively with just two fewer points than Keith. Finally, which of the hometown boys, Nick Foligno or Ryan Johansen, will have the bigger day in front of the appreciative Columbus Blue Jackets fans?