All-Star Game Starters Announced

[RGM81]

Looks like the Penguins fans were bound and determined to dethrone Canadiens fans as the #1 ballot box stuffers in the NHL...and they succeeded.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=548341

Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang and Marc-Andre Fleury of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Jonathan Toews and Duncan Keith of the Chicago Blackhawks are the six players selected as NHL® All-Stars via 2011 NHL All-Star Fan Balloting presented by XM, the National Hockey League announced today. Each is scheduled to appear in the 2011 NHL All-Star Game presented by Discover as well as the Honda NHL SuperSkills® in Raleigh (Jan. 29-30).

At the close of the 2011 NHL All-Star Fan Balloting presented by XM at 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, more than 14.3 million total votes were registered. Crosby was the top-voted player with 635,509 total votes and first forward named to the 2011 All-Star Team; Chicago's Toews tallied 407,676 total votes and Crosby's Pittsburgh teammate Malkin tallied 376,887 to round out the top three forwards. Pittsburgh's Letang was the top-voted defenseman with 477,960 total votes; he will be joined by fellow defenseman Duncan Keith of Chicago who received 382,162 votes. Pittsburgh's Marc-Andre Fleury is the first goaltender named to the 2011 All-Star team with a total of 426,305 votes.

[flemingc04]

I think this year's All-Star Game should be interesting. Crosby completely deserved top spot. I like how they switched up the format but I feel bad for the guy who gets picked in the draft though. I'm surprised Stamkos didnt break the top but Malkin did.

On another note, that article was kind of confusing to read with all of the sponsored events like the "NHL All-Star Player Fantasy Draft enabled by Cisco". I am all for sponsorship, but I think they need to trim down the names of these things. Talk about a mouth full.