All four of Tarasenko’s points came in the semifinal against the Pacific Division before the Central lost to the Atlantic in the final. Tarasenko was the only player in the final that did not record either a shot attempt or a point.

Tarasenko, who is in the final year of his eight-year contract in St. Louis, was playing in his fourth All-Star Game and first since 2017. This season, he has 10 goals and 19 assists, and he recently returned from a hand injury that forced him to miss three weeks.

In both games (played for 20 minutes at 3-on-3), Tarasenko played with St. Louis native and Coyotes forward Clayton Keller plus Chicago defenseman Seth Jones.

Tarasenko’s goal against the Pacific came on the rush and a feed from Keller. Tarasenko tied for the Central lead with four points with four other players.

Tarasenko also participated in the shooting accuracy competition Friday night, popping all four corner targets in 25.062 seconds. He finished seventh out of the 10 contestants.

When the Blues return to action on Feb. 11 against the Coyotes, Tarasenko could be playing his final 10 games in a Blues sweater ahead of the March 3 trade deadline. After entering the All-Star break on a five-game losing streak, the Blues’ playoff prospects dimmed considerably, increasing the likelihood that Tarasenko could be on the move to a contending team in the next month.

“As for (any) trade, you need to talk to Doug Armstrong about this,” Tarasenko said to The Post-Dispatch last week. “He’s the one who has the answers. He knows more than I do.”

Tarasenko has played all 11 seasons of his NHL in St. Louis and is fifth in franchise history in both goals (262) and points (553).

A Tkachuk affairIt was almost impossible to separate St. Louis natives Matthew and Brady Tkachuk throughout the weekend in Sunrise, as the two played on the Atlantic Division team together, with Matthew representing Florida and Brady representing Ottawa.

They played on the same line together (joined by Panthers teammate Aleksander Barkov) during both the semifinal against the Metropolitan Division and the final against the Central. They were the 11th set of brothers to be All-Star teammates and also became the fourth set of brothers to factor in on the same goal and the first since Henrik and Daniel Sedin in 2012.

Matthew finished with four goals and three assists as he won Most Valuable Player honors, and Brady had one goal and four assists.

“I didn’t think it would last the whole day here, but our chemistry was dwindling here at the end,” Matthew told ESPN after the game. “I think we were a little tired. It was great to play with him and Barky, two guys I really wanted to play with.”

During the skills competition Friday, the Tkachuk brothers teamed up in two events.

On the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in Fort Lauderdale Beach, the two were teammates in Splash Shot, a shooting competition in which players had to hit six surfboard targets and a final one to dunk their opponent into a tank. They lost in the first round to Rangers teammates Adam Fox and Igor Shesterkin, as Matthew got dunked.

Matthew was also the final participant in the Breakaway Challenge on Friday night, a freestyle shootout competition in which costumes and style points matter. The Tkachuks wore tropical shirts, shorts and bucket hats.

As Matthew summoned a lifeguard (Barkov), a goaltender (Hall of Famer Roberto Luongo) and Miami Dolphins lineman Christian Wilkins, Brady sat in a lawn chair in the left circle. For his attempt, Matthew juggled the puck into his bucket hat and slapped it past a swimming Luongo into the net.

The Tkachuk family had a suite at FLA Live Arena for both Friday’s skill competition and Saturday’s game.

Pat Maroon joins the funFormer Blues forward and Oakville native Pat Maroon joined the ESPN broadcast during Friday night’s skills competition, serving as a reporter behind the bench. Maroon, now a member of the Lightning, has won three Stanley Cups, including in 2019 with the Blues.

“This is the closest thing to an All-Star Game that I’ll get to,” Maroon joked on the broadcast.

Maroon, 34, has one more season remaining on his contract with Tampa Bay.

Also, former Blues assistant coach Jim Montgomery, now the Bruins head coach, coached the Atlantic Division to its first All-Star win.

And former Blues forward Tage Thompson missed the game due to an upper-body injury. Thompson has 34 goals and 34 assists in 50 games for Buffalo this season.