Tate McRae has taken hockey by storm and will appear at the 2024 ...

Tate McRae has been making a name for herself in the music industry. Now her history in hockey and her embrace of sport has netted the 20-year-old singer/songwriter an invite to the 2024 NHL All-Star Game.

Saturday, McRae will serve as a celebrity co-captain for Team MacKinnon during the All-Star Game and will perform during the event’s second intermission.

So who is she?

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McRae, who hails from Calgary, Alberta, got her start as a competitive dancer and placed third in “So You Think You Can Dance?” in 2016. She trained at the prestigious Alberta Ballet, and placed third in the worlds largest student dance competition, the Grand Prix. Amid her dance career, McRae had a choreography YouTube channel, but when her camera broke and she lost dance footage, she decided up upload a videos of her singing, including this early one, which has over a million views.

Her first hit single started from a TikTok song titled “You Broke Me First,” which was blasted in the bedrooms of teenage girls all over America. The title was her first song to hit the charts, sitting as high as 17th on the Billboard Hot 100. McRae was 18 at the time of the release but has changed up the tone of her music from sad-girl to pop.

The artist is a textbook example of using social media to showcase talent, and YouTube and TikTok were core building blocks of her music career, where her success led her to release her second studio album “Think Later” in December. PopFiltr says her album had 677 million plays on December 24, following its December 8 release date.

Since then, hockey paraphernalia has worked its way into many of her photoshoots.

Her most recent album cover, where she is posed (incorrectly) wearing blue and white hockey pads with the lettering saying “Think Later.”

Hockey fans had much to say about the incorrect placement and wrong size of the pads, you would think someone would have caught that.

On her 2022 world tour, the Canuck famously (or infamously, depending on who you ask) wore a single hockey glove during every show.

“Everyone asks why I wear it on tour and in my music videos,” McRae said about the lone glove to W Magazine. “My family was a very motivated and sporty family, so hockey was a big deal to us. My brother plays hockey and I’m Canadian so I have to like it.”

Her brother, Tucker, plays on the Dartmouth’s mens hockey team, where he finished second on the team in blocked shots his freshman season in 2022-23. She appeared at one of his games in New Hampshire and was spotted cheering him on in late December.

The familial history and her love for hockey played a big role in her on stage choices.

“What we did was, on tour, I wore a single hockey glove, which some people did not like, and some people liked,” McRae added. “I thought it was cool.”

In the music video of her hit single “Greedy,” McRae is seen driving a Zamboni in an empty small hockey rink, supposedly an ode to her hometown. “Greedy” was McRae’s first song to hit Spotify’s Global Top-10 chart with over 662 million plays.

The singer was seen at a Calgary Flames game in December, where the team honored her homecoming by gifting her a “McRae” jersey. The number on the jersey was eight, which we wholeheartedly support.

McRae is the ex-girlfriend of Columbus Blue Jacket Cole Sillinger. The two separated in late 2023 and fans surmise that the break up may have played a part in her album cover. But Sillinger is a center, so the jury is out on that one.

McRae will get to showcase both her talent and her love for the sport at the All-Star game.

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“I’m so excited to be part of the 2024 All-Star weekend,” she said. “We’re going to have so much fun. See you there.”

We’ll be rooting her on, pads on the correct legs or not.

Read the NHL’s full press release below:

NHL All-Stars to Face Off on Feb. 3 at 3 p.m. ET on Sportsnet, CBC, ABC, ESPN+, TVA Sports

NEW YORK / TORONTO (Jan. 24, 2024) – Canadian multi-platinum singer-songwriter Tate McRae will headline the second intermission performance at the 2024 NHL® All-Star Game on Saturday, Feb. 3, the National Hockey League (NHL®) announced today. Her performance will be featured in the game broadcast airing at 3 p.m. ET. on Sportsnet, CBC and TVA Sports in Canada and ABC and ESPN+ in the United States.

As previously announced, McRae, whose single greedy hit No. 1 ten times over multiple weeks on SiriusXM’s Hits 1, will also serve as a celebrity captain for Team McKinnon, which will be captained by Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan McKinnon and Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar as assistant captain. McRae is one of four celebrity captains named for the NHL All-Star Game, along with global superstar Justin Bieber, Toronto-born actor Will Arnett, and Grammy Award-winning musician Michael Bublé.

The full lineup of NHL All-Star Game performers and additional NHL All-Star event details will be announced in the coming days. For full event information, visit NHL.com/AllStar and follow @NHL and @PR_NHL.

The Maple Leafs and the city of Toronto will host the 2024 NHL® All-Star Weekend, Feb. 1-3. The festivities include NHL All-Star Thursday on Feb. 1 featuring the Tim Hortons NHL All-Star Player Draft, the NHL Alumni Association Man of the Year, honouring the 1967 Toronto Maple Leafs, and the Canadian Tire PWHL 3-on-3 Showcase; the NHL All-Star Skills™ presented by DraftKings Sportsbook on Friday, Feb. 2 (7 p.m. ET, SN, TVAS, ESPN, ESPN+); and the Honda (U.S.) / Rogers (Canada) NHL® All-Star Game on Saturday, Feb. 3 (3 p.m. ET, SN, CBC, TVAS, ABC, ESPN+). Tickets to NHL All-Star Thursday are available here.

In addition, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre South Building will be the site of the 2024 Hyundai NHL Fan Fair™, the official fan festival of the 2024 NHL® All-Star Weekend, Feb. 1-4. Tickets are available for purchase at NHL.com/FanFair.

About Tate McRae:

Calgary native singer/songwriter/dancer Tate McRae has become the artist to watch with over 7.8 billion career streams, over 945 million video views, two #1 Top 40 hits and multiple #1 dance hits. She’s received accolades including nominations for two Billboard Music Awards, an MTV VMA Award, three People’s Choice Award, four iHeartRadio Music Awards and nine JUNO Awards among others. She’s been featured on Variety’s 2022 Power of Young Hollywood list, Billboard’s 21 Under 21 list for three consecutive years and Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for 2021, where she was the youngest musician on the list. Her #1 RIAA certified 3x Platinum single “you broke me first” has amassed over 2 billion streams since its release in 2020. McRae has toured the world and performed at various music festivals including Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Firefly, The Governor’s Ball, Austin City Limits and more.

McRae released her debut album in 2022, i used to think i could fly which landed at #1 on Spotify’s Global Top Albums Debut Chart, charted in the Top 10 in multiple countries upon release and has garnered over 1.5 billion streams to date. Her highly anticipated sophomore album THINK LATER debuted at #4 on Billboard’s album chart and has garnered over 1.3 billion streams worldwide. The hypnotic lead single “greedy” earned the star #1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart, Global Excl. US chart and Spotify’s Global chart, and hit #1 at Top 40 radio.