Allentown, PA – The American Hockey League has announced that defenseman Christian Kyrou has been selected to participate in the AHL All-Star Classic. Forward Denver Barkey is currently up with the Philadelphia Flyers and will be unable to participate.<\/p>\n
The 2026 AHL All-Star Classic, presented by BMO, will take place February 10-11 in Rockford, Ill.<\/p>\n
Kyrou, 22, stormed onto the scene since arriving to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms from the Texas Stars in a trade for Samu Tuomaala. The creative, puck-moving blueliner has racked up 24 points in 34 games with the Phantoms scoring seven goals with 17 assists. He racked up 1-6-7 in a five-game streak immediately upon his arrival. And has another five-game point streak currently ongoing having recorded 2-6-8 in the stretch including his second-career three-point game last Saturday against Bridgeport.<\/p>\n
Kyrou rates third on the team in scoring and is 11th among all AHL defensemen while rating fourth among blueliners in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
Christian Kyrou follows in the footsteps of his older brother, Jordan Kyrou, who played in the 2019 AHL All-Star Classic as a member of the San Antonio Rampage. Jordan Kyrou is now a forward with the St. Louis Blues where he has played in 462 career games.<\/p>\n
The 2026 AHL All-Star Skills Competition on Tuesday, Feb. 10 will pit the All-Stars from the two Eastern Conference divisions against those from the two Western Conference divisions in seven skills events. In the 2026 AHL All-Star Challenge on Wednesday, Feb. 11, the four teams will participate in a 3-on-3, round-robin tournament featuring six games of eight minutes each.<\/p>\n
Via the Phantoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allentown, PA – The American Hockey League has announced that defenseman Christian Kyrou has been selected to participate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5112],"tags":[3690,41307,1468,5,4,1467,56,5205],"class_list":{"0":"post-444140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-american-hockey-league","9":"tag-christian-kyrou","10":"tag-flyers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","15":"tag-philadelphiaflyers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116009293845000274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}