I never thought we would hear such candor about league bias from a sitting coach.

I noticed neither McArdle nor Sestito dropped down for the write in ballot online (atleast they didn't when I tried) so I decided to try texting votes for Mitch Fritz (who was at 37 and dropped down on write in candidates for me), I voted twice for him manually, online, and about 30ish times for him through text. That was well over an hour ago and so far it looks like the 2 online votes have counted but none of the text votes have.

I know people say it takes a long time for the votes to count so I'm not jumping to any conclussions yet, but I have a feeling something very wrong is going on with the voting.

I noticed neither McArdle nor Sestito dropped down for the write in ballot online (atleast they didn't when I tried) so I decided to try texting votes for Mitch Fritz (who was at 37 and dropped down on write in candidates for me), I voted twice for him manually, online, and about 30ish times for him through text. That was well over an hour ago and so far it looks like the 2 online votes have counted but none of the text votes have.

I know people say it takes a long time for the votes to count so I'm not jumping to any conclussions yet, but I have a feeling something very wrong is going on with the voting.

Carbos awesome for that. Sticking up for the fans and players and bashing the NHL all in one sentence!

Another solution, the Habs just have to be 1st in the East when the voting ends and carbo will be the selected coach. He can then have any hab he wants on the team

Same, good for him.

Sooo, I guess our fans cheat, and Pitts fans are just passionate.
Just look at how the west is doing, their voting is much closer





Now THAT'S INCENTIVE

Sestito STILL at 7 votes. Someone really needs to ask the league whats going on. Are my THOUSANDS of Habs votes via text not being counted either?

I'd love for someone to ask Bettman on his call in XM Radio show why our (my) text votes aren't being registered.

exactly

The league was quick to take away our votes, because of ballot box stuffing, but why isn't the same happening to the Penguins....ugh this getting out of hand. If Price gets knocked out by Fleury there is a big problem! Fleury is not playing better then Price is this season...

I tried complaining through the "contact us" thing on nhl.com, not that I expect any results but it's extremely frustrating that I've wasted to many texts that aren't even counting. Maybe if enough of us send emails complaining it will make a difference...

its not about that when fans are calling the shots

Complaining wont have any impact, the League seems happy that the Pens are taking the lead

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=397061

Well I've basically conceded defeat to Malkin and Sid, but the idea of MAF passing Price disgusts me.

I can't stand MAF... we NEED to hold them off guys. I think a lot of people have stopped voting.

lol. i get why crosby can get up there cause i'm sure people outside of pens fans are voting for him but its annoying. i mean i thought it was kind of abnoxious for us to vote all of our players, but then again the all star game is in montreal so why not? i guess they're still angry that they lost to detroit

well the good thing is i started voting more! lol (i had only voted once previously now i do it every once in a while)

I think so too. I havent stopped but I admit that when you're not even sure they're counting your votes anymore, it's kinda hard to stay motivated

I can't believe that we let up and now the pens are in front. Must be all the protest from tsn analysts like bob "no life" mckenzie and the rest who were promoting anti-habs starting all the line ups.

I'M STILL VOTING MY A** OFF

Keep going guys. keep the page open at work, and to all your co-workers, we're not that far behind, just like they came back, we can come back. I make my co workers vote at least once an hour. KEEP IT GOING

I have been voting, but I don't see a difference

Total crap. I'm getting pissed that two players that haven't touched ice this season are gonna catch up.

lol
the guys from radio-canada are just talking about all of the pens going up and how the pens are using scripts (that can add about 30 votes a minute i think) but the nhl is doing nothing, they showed numbers, mostly on today from 12:15 to 20:15 pm and how the pens went up from 18 000 votes, and how the NHL does nothing about it contrary to what they did earlier about Habs votes.

and honestly, I think the NHL didnt want all the habs there
now will all the pens make it? Even Gonchar who didnt play a game yet?

definitely looks like they are turning a blind eye to the whole mess involving their marketing darlings.
But one thing I have yet to understand is if the Penguins are using some sort of script (not even sure what that is) why are habs fans not simply doing the same? We easily have more fans than the penguins and could easily get more of these scripts going.

Ask them why the Nhl wouldnt be counting your votes, Why doesnt your vote count?

You are ashamed that such conduct is taking place in the NHL, and you are thinking about canceling your season tickets because of this

If anyone finds any more information about these scripts, let me know.

A point of view from Philadelphia:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/91508-r...ar-voting-fraud

That guy is an idiot:

I stopped reading when I saw this:

Price isn't doing amazing statistically, but far, far from "terrible". At no point in the season has he had a GAA over 3 or a Save Percentage under .900, not even close.

As well, saying "Kovalev is doing fairly well" in the context he does ignores the fact that when the lists were put together Koivu and Tanguay were creaming him, and even at the time of writing, Koivu is having a better season.

Perhaps I should have quoted only the second half of that text

1. Get Firefox
2. Install Greasemonkey: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
3. Install this script: http://www.gotdooced.com/nhl.user.js
4. Go to http://ca.fanballoting.nhl.com/vote - Make sure you have an account an everything.
5. Do whatever(Sleep, go to work...)
6. ???
7. Profit!

Thanks for this TOmzilla. WIll this work again or will they discount them?

All I have to say is that if MA Fleury catches up to Price who has a 91,215 lead over him the NHL is a joke...There is no way that MA should catch Price unless there is some cheating going on.

Well when I went to bed at around 10-11 the lead was 110,000 for Price. They must be doing a lot of through the night voting

I think it's very obvious they're cheating, but how?

OK, I think its time for us to start cheating,

Someone pm me how we go about it,

Ill do it right now

My guess is it is schoolkids organized, punching 10-20 "PENGUINS" votes in texting on unlimited texting plans. Massive votes hit from 3-4pm to midnight. The only way to combat that is to overwhelm the same way with even more students (Hab fans) doing same with "CANADIENS". I have no idea, but I expect limitless texting plans are in higher proliferation in the U.S. giving fans there an advantage re: the count of participants.

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Oh, and "Bleacher Reports" are just fans like us writing up their own "stories" -- I don't read them.

I could do that all day, i have unlimited but i still think it could be charged to my bill...

KHL All-Star Game fan voting:

Each team has two goalies, six defenders and nine forwards.

Team Yashin (Russia)

Goalies - Alexander Eremenko (Salavat Yulaev Ufa ) - 10,973; Georgi Gelashvili (Traktor Chelyabinsk) - 3,934; Maksim Sokolov (Metallurg Chelyabinsk) - 2,915

Defensemen - Konstantin Korneev (CSKA Moscow ) - 9,177; Igor Schadilov (Salavat Yulaev Ufa ) - 8,932; Vitaly Proshkin (Salavat Yulaev Ufa ) - 5,978; Ilya Nikulin (Ak Bars Kazan ) - 5,964

Forwards - Alexander Radulov (Salavat Yulaev Ufa ) - 16,060; Alexei Morozov (Ak Bars Kazan ) - 14,781; Alexander Perezhogin (Salavat Yulaev Ufa ) - 12,913; Daris Zaripov (Ak Bars Kazan ) - 8,132

Team Jagr (rest of World)

Goalies - Ray Emery (Atlant Mytishchi) - 11,370; Robert Esche ( SKA St. Petersburg ) - 10,237; Rostislav Stana (Severstal Cherepovets) 2,928

Defensemen - Ben Clymer (Dynamo Minsk ) - 11,594; Kevin Dallman (Barys Astana) - 10,604; Raymond Giroux ( SKA St. Petersburg ) - 7,653; Magnus Johansson (Atlant Mytishchi) 6,915

Forwards - Alexei Kalyuzhny (Dynamo Moscow ) - 14,929; Jan Marek (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) - 13,958; Oleg Antonenko (HC MVD); Pavel Brendl (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod ) - 11,850

According to the KHL, "Andrei Nikolishin (Traktor Chelyabinsk ) and Alexei Kudashov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) have already been named to Team Yashin, while Marcel Hossa (Dynamo Riga) and Jakub Klepis (Avangard Omsk) have been selected to Team Jagr, and are not subject to the fan voting process."

well if it through the night the penguins fans have either hired an army of vampires or more likely are using a computer program which runs while they rest their little party-crashing heads.

Malkin has 673105 right now, he had 650000 just 2 hours ago....

Now that i think about it , it is entirely possible for all of these votes by pitsburgh without cheating. I just voted about 30 times in the past 20 min for the canadiens on my cell phone. Now imagine thousands of people doing that at same time.

Don't give the troll any attention. It's what he wants. Ignore it.

thank you


also quoting a post that clearly breaks the forum rules can earn you a warning as well. If you see someone trolling, no matter how much you want to put them in their place just send the mods a message and we will deal with it.

At this point the only reason to vote for most of our players is to make them play another game, because its clearly the perfect punishment for a group of players that don't even wanna play their own games

Yep keep on voting because our players so deserve to be at the allstar game

Fleury is less than 80 000 votes behind Price now. It was less than a week ago that he was over 110 000 votes behind. Fleury is definitely going to catch Price at this rate.

Which is why we need to kick up the voting folks.. Clearly we care here on this forum but its not enough people.

Start face book groups invite everyone.

Start Myspace pages.

Make threads on HFboards and all the other boards

Call the Team990 call in shows and all the other call in shows and keep it on everyones mines.

Look if we lose out to Crosby and Malkin thats fine they should be starters anyway. But Carey Price is better then Flurey hands down and its BS if Flurey wins.

We need to Keep Carey Price in the All Star Game!

You guys want to reward Canadiens players because they keep losing? It is like giving your dog a treat every time he poops on your carpet. The team will probably think they are doing a good job and won't improve their game. These players are a complete waste of Gillette's 59 M$.

Not saying I disagree with you (I feel the same "frustration" ), but none of the team's current situation is Price's fault, he costs s measely $850K/year, and I think he belongs at the All-Star game myself (maybe not # 1), but certainly Fleury is not #1 either.

Kovalev, Tanguay, Komisarek -- yeah, you've got a point. The plan was the team was to be doing well, all 6 guys were to be playing to their potential, and the fans would vote them to start -- all to celebrate the Club and the 100th Anniversary year.

The plan's coming apart in the wash.

Boycotting the vote once again.

Perhaps I will vote for Koivu, Price, and Markov, but I feel no requirement to vote for the other Habs on the ballot at this time.

Y not

Kovalev + tanguay deserve it alot more

Then komi + Koivu + Price, who are all injured and probaby wont be playing for the next lil while

umm.. komi is supposed to start playing again this week

the gap between price and fleury is nearing 70,000. He's coming on strong.

Sopposed too doesnt mean much of anything

Point is he is still injured, and has been for weeks now

How does someone sitting in the press box, deserve a vote over someone giving it there blood + seat every night?

Just vote for them all

If Fleury catches up to Price I will start a riot

just replying to your 'wont be playing for the next lil while'

anyway, voting for all 6 habs has more to do with the game being in montreal and the centennial celebrations than it has to do with derserve/dont deserve thing

and the pens blitz has nothing to do with deserve/dont deserve either