Get your votes in for the 2009 All-Star Game

by FrankD on Nov 12, 2008 1:10 PM EST in News

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Loyal Penguins fan,

Here is your mission - should you choose to accept. Visit vote.nhl.com and tally up your votes for Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Marc-Andre Fleury. You may also nominate an additional forward and two defensemen for a total of three (3) forwards, two (2) defensemen and one (1) goalie.

You'll notice a hesitation on defensemen. Both Ryan Whitney and Sergei Gonchar are listed as picks for the Eastern Conference. No sense in knocking loyalty here, so let's do something about it. You will notice at the bottom of the form that you may write in two votes. Even if the guys are healthy by January (likely for Whit, highly doubtful for Gonch), it's unfair to say they earned their presence there and it's likely they'd feel the same way. Therefore, I elect all readers, members and friends of Pensburgh to write in Kris Letang and Alex Goligoski. Maybe their numbers don't match up like other defensemen, and maybe they aren't as popular as their predecessors (yet), but if two injured Penguins are going to have their place on the ballot than the least we can do is replace them with healthy guys who can represent the team.

From there you may also vote for the Western Conference and gauge your picks based on reputation, folk lore or their sensitivity towards the Penguins during inter-conference games (I prefer the latter).

Rinse and repeat as often as you see fit.

Get votin'.

Props to Mirtle for the heads up.

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I’m going to have to vote in the middle of the night or something ‘cuz site is so slow that Allstar game will have come and gone before i’m able to vote.

by AngelaMc on Nov 12, 2008 1:56 PM EST reply actions

That’s the surge of voters heeding my words…of course.

Or it’s probably just busy or something.

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by FrankD on Nov 12, 2008 2:00 PM EST up reply actions

FYI to spammers – if you’re going to post crap here, the least you can do is e-mail me and I’ll gladly add you to the blog roll.

Not that you’ll read this response anyways.

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by FrankD on Nov 12, 2008 6:36 PM EST reply actions

Saw the leaderboard

This leaderboard is retarded.

Geno and Sid are so far behind in the East…

by Alighieri on Nov 13, 2008 4:11 AM EST reply actions

I know, it’s ridiculous. I think other teams (like…Montreal?) got the memo long before anyone else.

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by FrankD on Nov 13, 2008 5:25 AM EST up reply actions

Now that you mentioned it

Yeah… Too many Montreal players. Hell, Tanguay isn’t even having anything close to an all star year.

Then again we also have Gonchar on the leaderboard. Hopefully people see the light of day and put Letang and Goligoski in consideration.

I’ll be doing my part

by Alighieri on Nov 13, 2008 8:55 AM EST reply actions

salutes well done.

The Habs currently have the top six slots – SIX? You can’t tell me that they actually have six all-stars on that team. Kovalev is ranked higher than Ovechkin, Crosby and Malkin. In fact he has more votes than all three combined.

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by FrankD on Nov 13, 2008 9:01 AM EST up reply actions