OTTAWA - Patrick Kane's Superman cape and Zdeno Chara's blistering slap shot wasn't enough to beat Daniel Alfredsson and his team stocked with hometown favorites in the NHL All-Star skills competition Saturday night.

Team Alfredsson beat Team Chara 21-12, easily clinching the victory in the final-round shootout challenge. Alfredsson had one of his team's 10 shootout goals in outscoring Chara 10-3.

That was enough to get the hometown crowd on its feet, cheering on a Senators-stocked team that Alfredsson selected in the draft Thursday night.

"They can have as many showmanship points as they want, but they had some funny moments," Alfredsson said. "Obviously, the Chara slap shot was pretty spectacular, but I think we were steady. A lot of guys came through big for us. The goalies were really good in the shootout for us and it feels good to win it. It doesn't mean a whole lot, but still, you want to win."

Chara did break his own skills competition record for hardest shot with a blast at 108.8 mph. That bettered the mark of 105.9 he set in Raleigh last year.

"It's hard to believe," Calgary captain Jarome Iginla said. "I remember Al Iafrate was at 103 or something and that was a huge one. I remember I was so thrilled to break 100 once, 'Man!' We talk amongst us and when we break 100, we're all pretty happy. But now it doesn't even look that hard with 108."

The two teams will now face off today (1 p.m., NBCSP) in the All-Star game.

Chara gave his team a shot - literally and physically - by helping his team to a 3-2 win in the fifth round of the competition, cutting Alfredsson's lead to 11-9.

"I tried to do my best. Obviously I wanted to do it over here as well. I had great years in Ottawa and I'm happy I could do it," Chara said in an interview broadcast over the video scoreboard, which drew plenty of applause. Chara spent four seasons with the Senators before signing with the Bruins in 2006.

All four of Chara's shots actually bettered the record he set last year as well as his closest opponent, Team Alfredsson defenseman Shea Weber, whose best was 106 mph.

"It's a record that will be extremely hard for anybody else to beat - maybe himself," Alfredsson said.

Entertaining as the competition was for the soldout house, it was competing with troubling news regarding Sidney Crosby's status shortly after the event began. The Penguins announced that Crosby had a neck injury, which had fully healed, in addition to a concussion after he visited a doctor in California.

General manager Ray Shero said he was "optimistic" Crosby will play again this season after being limited to eight games.

Kane, the Blackhawks forward and Team Chara member, provided the entertainment value in the breakaway challenge. He wore Clark Kent glasses and had teammate Marian Hossa tie a Superman cape around his neck for Kane's second attempt. Kane's scored on his first shot, diving chest-first to the ice and using his left hand to glove the puck across to his stick to tap it in.