PORTLAND, Maine – The American Hockey League has announced its television broadcast package for the 2010 All-Star Classic. In Connecticut, viewers will be able to catch the action on the NHL Network, NESN or MSG.

The All-Star Skills Competition will be televised live starting at 8 p.m. on Mon., Jan. 18, on NESN and MSG. (The NHL Network will not televise the Skills Competition.) There also will be a replay at 11 p.m. on MSG.

The All-Star Game itself will be televised live the following evening, beginning at 6 p.m. on all three networks. MSG will re-broadcast the game at 11 p.m. that evening, while NESN will offer an encore showing on Wed., Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m.

This year’s AHL All-Star Classic will be played at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine. The Hartford Wolf Pack’s Corey Locke, currently the leading scorer in the AHL, and rookie defenseman Mark Katic of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, will skate for the Canadian All-Stars, while Hartford’s Bobby Sanguinetti will skate for the PlanetUSA All-Stars, consisting of players from the United States and Europe.

There will be no NHL All-Star Game this year due to the players’ participation in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver next month.