pretty wild as well, i think there was about 12 or 13 players, that exceeded jagers record totals from a few years ago,
all from the east....hahaha

Alright I stopped haha

those pesky penguin fans.

I went on the Pens forum and one member said at 20h34 that Price was leading by 13 000. Last time I checked the update, he was leading by 17 000 so I hope we managed to keep our lead. good job everyone

http://www.rds.ca/canadien/chroniques/266283.html


4 habs on the starting lineup!

Price by a small margin


hope it'll stay like that!

We did awesome with what resources we had and the time we had to do it. Hats off to all the Habs fans around the globe for participating in this aggrevating, stressfull, finger bleeding, exciting fan ballot.

good job everyone...props to you all!

And did we make it?



Is there any official total being released?

Or whats the deal?

Near the end the balloting site kept timing out on me @_@

there hasnt been any official announcement but that's what RDS wrote. It's great to see our guys made it!!! good job everyone you were absolutely amazing all the way through this infernal voting episode

for all of you posting songs of celebration...nothing beats this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4db7FDsTQI...feature=related

We might have lost the game, but we won a huge battle lol

I votd only once, but to those of you who put your time into it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogKUx_q7ig

4 habs out of 6...not too shabby.

Not too bad. Wish Koivu would of made it, but at least the Pens fans only managed to get in the two players who actually deserve to be there (assuming the results become official: we'll see at 1:30 tomorrow)

LoL

After watching the game tonight, does komi really deserve to be in the allstar game

Michael Komisarek D 19:16 0 0 -2

He finished the game with a -2

He brings 0 offense to the table, and he is still bit rusty after being injrued for the majority of the season....

Whats he going to do in the allstar game? Hes not going to score, hes not going to hit anyone?

Maybe he could hit Lucic/Kessel if they're in

and no he doesn't deserve to be in, the only Hab deserving is Markov.

does it even matter? no one does anything in those games anyway. the fact is this is our all star game, its montreal's centennial, therefore we deserve to be well represented.

I understand that... that was what i was thinking @ the time of voting 1 million times... LoL

but that all being said, a goalie doesnt matter, but a d, if he has 0 offensive abilities ala komi he really doesnt deserve to be therre..

It will be comical if Komi tries a Savardian spinorama

Im sorry but I beg to differ.

An argument can easily be made for Price as a Starter - and Kovalev as one of the 16 forwards (although he shouldnt be a starter).

I agree Komi shouldnt be there, but if the Pens fans hadnt pushed through 2 guys who havent even combined for 6 games this year, I would have happily voted for one of the more deserving dmen in the east.

Ryan Miller should be the unquestioned starter IMO and as good as Kovy played last year, I'd say 1% chance he would be put in as a reserve.

Are you talking about 16-10-4, 18th ranked sv%, 19th ranked GAA, Ryan Miller? If so, I fail to see how he could be the unquestioned starter. He's hardly been a standout this year.

As far as Kovalev goes, I think its a fair to say that last year was taken account when balloting was announced. Based on Kovalev's performance last year I don't think its an enormous stretch to imagine him a reserve. Many were outraged when he was snubbed last year.

Markov deserves to be there, probably as a starter, certainly as a reserve

Kovalev does not deserve to be a starter. Based on this season he does not deserve to be a reserve either, but when you take last season into account (which they often do: especially considering guys with great starts like Tim Thomas were snubbed from the nomination list) it's not so bad: last season he should have gotten a reserve spot.

Price deserves to be there certainly as a reserve, possibly as a starter. The argument for him deserving to start is strengthened by Thomas not being on the ballot. Price is top 10 in both save percentage and GAA in the league, and the players beating him tend to be in the West or former backups having a strong stretch of games (who are not on the ballot, and tend to not get picked anyways, since 20 games rarely makes someone an All-Star)

Komisarek does not deserve to be a starter, but as a reserve is more interesting. I'd say no based on this year, but last year he was probably the top physical dman in the league. No, he doesn't generate offense, but the hits and blocked shot stats are worth something. He may not be the best "fit" in terms of being fun to watch, but that has rarely bee the qualifying factor: you pick the best players and I think it's arguable that he is one of the 6 best dmen in the East. Scott Stevens went most years despite not generating much offense and no hitting at the All-Star game.

Either him or Mike Smith, but Miller is actually on a playoff-vying team which asides from Vanek, is nearly solely due to him.

He has maintained a 2.58 and a .912 despite one of the poorest defenses in the league, their quality is around 20% worse than the average team, comparables are Gerber (2.66 .908), Legace (3.30 .887) and Kipprusoff (2.82 and .901).

The ballots probably did that because there was little to no basis on this year due to the small sample of games, lets say he wasn't voted in, with 3 Habs already in and 1 per team rule, you think Kessel, Semin, Gange etc. are sitting for Kovalev?? Fat chance

Did the full lineup was announced yet? They could still invite the other two just to please the crowd!

It's not like someone watch it in the United State anyway, if i remember correctly last year the women softball championship got way more ratings than the NHL All Star game in the US.

Thats because its on freaking Verus instead of NBC.

I wait for 2011-2012, the year the NHL will (hopefully) finally break free in the states!!

You are changing your argument now - thats the whole point. You said only markov deserved to be there - and what many of us are saying is that you can argue several habs deserve to be there - maybe they wouldnt be selected and maybe they dont deserve to be starters- but that was never your initial post.

And im not even going to dignify calling Ryan Miller the "unquestioned starter"...wow, talk about "out there".

will be interesting to see if RDS is right...

Miller the starter ? Ha ! That would be a terrible, terrible joke. He shouldn't even be in the All-star game as one of the other two goalies. He's been ordinary on an ordinary team.

The only players on the Sabres lineup who deserve to be considered are Vanek and Roy. Vanek would be the logical choice, as he's a more flashy player than Roy.

But Miller ? What a joke.

I for one think that the Allstar game should be a reward game. Rewarding players on winning teams, who play a team game and system. I know i will probably get flamed for this, but i would like to see the top 10 teams from each conference be represented in the game, making the bottom 5 in each conference miss out.

I think it should go back to the way it was years ago where it was the home team against the rest of the league...

ahhh...the dawn of a new day.....
fresh cup of coffee at the ready.....
lets see, what to do ? what to do.....
oh yeah, check to see if that game last night was was just a hallucination, yeah thats it !
curses...foiled again !! i'm starting to hate jersey, like the leafs & bruins !!!!!
okay, i'll check the latest updates on the nhl all-star voting ... yeah thats the ticket.....
hey...who pulled the plug on the voting ????? heavens to mergetroid, this stinks.
ok. check game thread for tonight's game. sunday afternoon ??? what ????
hey, i'm looking for a ledge to jump off of here !!!
if anyone knows of any random allstar contests out there that could use an experienced and dedicated voter,
please PM me. i'm starting to get the shakes here from withdrawl. life is devoid of all meaning now.

but seriously, great job by one and all, we'll have to see how we made out with carey,
but if he does not make it, it won't be from lack of effort. that was a great line from komi last night about his dad,
being too busy voting to attend the game. haahaa

Was it not the stanely cup champion against the rest of the league. Hmmmmm not sure maybe both

So when will it be official?

"Starting lineups will be announced exclusively on NHL.com, Saturday, Jan. 3 at 1:30 p.m. ET."

I dont think i can wait that long

The home team vs the nhl best players, that would be intense.


Me neither

MMW: Mike komisarek will get a goal in all star game.

i was thinking how funny it would be if for what ever reason he had one hell of a game. I was thinking like one goal and 3 assists...

ya it was the previous cup winners

Yo, I wish they would just release the lineups now...I want to know for sure that we got our 4 guys in and that the NHL did not screw us over.

yeah after all that work, the wait is tough.

All star selections or not, I am proud of our guys. Good first half of the year. Let's keep it going!

where is it, I can't find a link anywhere...

We did it!

http://www.nhl.com/ice/newsindex.htm?location=/allstar/2009

"Four Canadiens were voted to start the game -- forward Alexei Kovalev, defensemen Andrei Markov and Mike Komisarek, and goaltender Carey Price."

per nhl.com


WAY TO GO GUYS!!!!!

i hope the other 2 get booed

amazing! price, markov, komo, and kovy!

gunna be one hell of a game!

wooooooooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooo

way to go......hope carey stones 'em in the first period, and quiets down some of those pens fans !!!!