There is less than a month left, and Price is up 72, 817 but at the rate Fleury is getting votes I wouldn't be suprised if he passes Price within the next week.

Fleury is so awful again this season, though, isn't he? How can he be catching up!?

Its the people that vote.


Heck we could vote obyrne in if we realy wanted too

No we couldn't.

Seriously though, if Fleury surpasses Price because of the Pittsburgh fans voting, no one can give us heck about trying to get all of our players there. Fleury is awful, and has always been awful, except for last year's post-season run.

Come on Habs fans, lets get voting. Fleury is less than 70k behind Price. We can't allow him to take over the lead. Gonchar and Whitney aren't far behind Marky and Komy either. Not bad for being hurt I guess. GO vote Habs GO.

Umm...guys Fleury has been injured for a while now...so I don't know what you guys are talking about as in him being awful this year...he's been out for over a month's time or something like that.

With that said, he's a pretty good goalie, but Price by far deserves to go over him.



gonchar and whitney aren't even eligible to play in the all star game this year. they won't have played enough games. which leads me to ask, woudl Fleury have had enough games under his belt by jan 2nd?

This all-star voting is a joke....
we get docked votes because we use bots...
I think it's quite obvious that the pens fans are using scripts and bots...there is no way they caught up to us that quickly...

but i like how the nhl now embraces it and likes that the pens are leading..

Fleury has played 13 games, and Pittsburgh has 8 games left before January 2nd, so unless Fleury plays 7-of-8 which is unlikely, he is NOT ELIGIBLE!

The 20 games rule does NOT apply for established NHL'ers. A few weeks ago, the RDS guys asked the powers that be because of Komisarek's situation. They were told and reported that this 'rule' is in place to ensure that only NHL players are voted in, not rookies who have been sent down to junior or the minors by the time all is said and done.

Also, some VP in the Pens organisation explains that they e-mailed their fans (forum members and members of other distribution lists they may have) asking them to text vote for the Pens players. They also ran ads everywhere and had segments on radio stations. Unlimited texting packages are not as widely spread in Canada as they are in the US. Add that to the fact that you can easily vote for all six players without the one vote per minute constraint, text messaging explains in good part the truckloads of votes received by Cindy & Co.


Soooooooo.... if you can text, get at it! Unfortunately, I cant so I still throw in what has become an insignificant number of votes via the website.

Thanks, CRB. Here appears to be an outline of the matter to which you speak:
http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/...l-star-vote/?hp

Problem is that I have unlimited text and I've been voting that way, but have a feeling they haven't been counting them.

I have the same problem...I have been voting by text messaging a lot as I to have unlimited but I have a feeling that it is not being counted.

grrrrr, this is so silly, the fan base that we have voting over and over and over, there is no way that the penguins are ahead like they are... there is something fishy going on here, because I bet we have twice as many votes as it shows

imho, i understand what they're supposedly trying to prevent but established nhler or not it's silly to be eligible for the all star game when either you haven't played a single game in the season because of injury or you decided to saunter in after christmas because you felt like it (ahem neidermeyer) - and that should go for the voting panel as well as the fans.

for those of you texting: why do you think they're not being counted?

i hope we're planning a late-december push because it's really getting away from us now.

i can't text either and the online voting feels very ineffective.

This whole all-star voting thing is a joke, plain and simple... 2 injured defenseman almost being voted in? A goalie playing like crap almost getting voted in?? I have no issue if Crosby or Malkin make it in, they deserve it... If any of the Habs forwards get in it'll be a joke... Crosby, Ovechkin, Malkin, Markov, ______, Price all desrve to be in if you ask me... Streit, Kuba, Green top the east under Markov for points... plain and simple, this is a huge joke... The reason i left komisarek out is because his style of play usually doesnt get in the all-star game... although i do think he is the best defenseman for his style

seriously I voted through the websites and the count doesn't update even after the time alloted for it to be updated.


The NHL controls this, it's not the fans

the recatcha code I got today made me thought of mats sundin

Found this on the Penguins forum .... interesting angle:
http://msgboard.pittsburghpenguins.com/ind...p;#entry1505253

This allstar voting is crap like Carbo said the NHL should look into like they did for the Montreal votes with no hesitation, so why not do it for Pittsburgh because they are Americans no doubt...I honestly vote approximetly 40 to 50 times a day no joke all for Montreal and then you see a guy like Crosby which is a cry baby get like almost 300,000 in one day and no investigation being done....Face it folks the NHL don't want to see the anadiens there why because its being played in Montreal...As far as I'M concerned after last night's officiating screw the NHL AND THE OFFICIALS

revolt vs the nhl!

I agree we should revolt against the NHL AND hopefully come Thursday game in Montreal that the fans will revolt against the ref's too and make them feel like EDIT or at least have sign that say OFFICIALS SUCK

It will never happen however I would laugh immensely if no one showed up for the All Star game or Pittsburgh was booed horrendously. The latter is a possibility however the former would really be a shot at the NHL, letting them know we have ways of dealing with bias as well and it is costly.

That is interesting.

What's even more interesting is at the bottom of that page, one of the Moderators of the board is insulting the person that gave that viewpoint. Looks like someone can't deal with a little opposition.

But c'mon guys, lets keep voting! We have to keep our boys in the game!

LoL


http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/...l-star-vote/?hp

Blame the phone companies for not giving us unlkimited txt msgs'

Imagine if Rogers or bell Said unlimited txt msg's for the next 24 hrs

We would spike right back up

LOL

Whats the number to txt?

And what do we txt again?

Can't see it happening, unless Hab fans get access to unlimited free texting. By next week, it will be all Pens, except for the the third place forward. "PENGUINS" only means five Penguins, not six.

Actually, not a bad idea at all.

If the Canadian cellular service companies turned it on for a week, the Hab fans would (IMO) quicklly have the Hab players re-take the leads. This is in fact a disparate technological-based result (Pens > Habs).

Only way the Pens players aren't going to have 5 of the 6 positions -- can't "out vote" with simply more fans when the voting pace is on the order of 5 or 10 or 20 to 1. . I know I haven't bothered clicking a vote on-line in a week or so, and I don't have unlimited free texting.

I hope the NHL eliminates the fan voting next season. The only two Habs that really deserve to be on the starting roster are Andrei Markov (and maybe Price). Koivu should be there, but perhaps not on the starting roster. Ovechkin, Lacavlier, Crosby, Malkin... Those are the forwards who are the best in the East. Not Tanguay and Kovalev.

hi everybody...( first post !! ) i've been following the all star debate since it started, and voting for the boys like crazy.

it was obvious that the difference was txt messaging. imo, there was not much of a chance for penguin fans to out-vote us using the nhl web site.

( it's too slow)

however, yesterday, i noticed that yahoo has a text message option, (free !!!) and it is unlimited !!

being pretty much computer illiterate, i could not get it to work. it was asking for some routing, or browser info that i did not understand.

i'm hoping that some of the faithful hab fans can check it out. if it works the way i think it does, and we can get the word out,

it would be sweet if we could turn this thing around. it may give us access to un-limited txt messaging. keeping my fingers crossed !!!

just to clarify my post above,

it's yahoo mail i was refering to,

and the claim is that you can send text messages from yahoo mail, to a phone number.

i'm assuming that means both land line or cell phone.

they also claim that only the recipient would pay txt message fee for a message that YOU sent.

and i believe it claims that you would not pay to receive a txt message ( incomming )

hope this helps !!

Whats the txt number + what do we txt for the whole team again?

81812 and I'm not sure if you text canadiens or habs...I'd guess canadiens.

the text number would be the one the nhl is asking people to use when they text in to vote.

i'm not sure what exactly it is . all i did ( i have a yahoo e-mail acct. ) was try to set up yahoo's text message service.

i was not successful, thats why i'm asking you all for help. my suggestion wuold be to sign up for a yahoo acct. and see if you can get the

text option to work, and spread the word to the faithful, if it works !!!

wow. that's very interesting. the conspiracy continues.

from the forum admin:

Just a reminder to everyone that you can also vote by text message. You can either send the player's last name to 81812 or, even easier - simply text CANADIENS to 81812 to vote for all six at the same time. (Standard text messaging rates apply).

Have a look, and see if this answers things for you / gets the job done:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1351959/send..._email_account/

That video is helpful, but wouldn't work here. We would need a 10 digit phone number to be able to send out our votes via our email adress.

Yeah, the NHL is never going to accept text messages that they themslves have to pay for.

thanks innis for the link,.... i watched, i tried, i failed !!!


thanks bud for the link,... i watched, i tried, i failed, and now i know why i failed !!!


likewise, thanks fooligan, should have known bettman was too cheap to allow that. !!

Looks like U.S. based test-message-voting is becoming de rigeur:

• 'HAWKS' (Kane, Toews, Campbell) moving on up
• 'DUCKS' (Getzlaf, Niedermeyer, Pronger, Giguere) moving on up

I am not expecting any Canadian-based team player to survive, except maybe a Hab forward, as 'CAPS' and 'BRUINS' don't appear to have the fan base in the U.S. I recognize that Luongo's injury is not helping him, but I do think the central story is that the "texting story" is out now.

I don't imagine those managing the ballot process ever contemplated that Canadians don't have the same access as Americans to unlimited free texting, nor considered (or cared) that texting is considerably more efficient than browser clicking.

I wouldn't bother browser clicking anymore -- it is like racing your jalopy against a Ferrari.

I don't think Gonchar is even eligible to play, He won't have twenty games under his belt by Jan 2. Komasarek might be in the same boat.

my votes from the website don't seem to increase the count anymore....

it has already been established that the 20 game rule only applies to rookies. Established NHLs don't even need to play one game in order to play in the All Star Game.

Just checked the numbers once again and it looks like Fleury is only a little more than 40,000 votes behind Price now.

BOOOOOO!!!!!!

Right now, we're losing faith. We're not voting because we feel its hopeless or with how our team has been performing, we don't feel like our guys deserve to go. However, ulimately right now, we are proud Habs fans being shown up by loser Penguins fans. We cannot let this happen. We cannot let the abomination known as "MAF" bump our golden boy from his rightful place as Eastern Starting Goaltender. We have lost enough. As it is chances are that our inspirational leader, Cap'n Saks won't make it. We have taken enough abuse. Time to fight back... at the polls!
Follow my lead. Change your text packs to unlimited and spam, spam, spam!
10 votes at a time! Thousands of times per day!

Take it from my man P. Diddy.... VOTE OR DIE SUCKAAAAAAAAS!!!

"To be eligible for the 2009 All-Star team, a player must have played 20 games by January 2, 2009"
you have to play 20 in order to play.

That rule is only in place so that rookies or those who are briefly called up cannot play though. This has already been explained by NHL personnel.

LoL,

is that dedication or what!

This is garbage ive been voting on my phone endlessly over the past few days and i just checked the leaders and its absolute GARBAGE!

i just saw the homepage and i feel obliged to vote every second of my life.
lets bring the pain!!!

Must... get.. unlimited.. texting!
I think I'll borrow my friend's phone and just keep texting since she has unlimited.

I think voting would definitely make school less boring. During all subjects I would text, and if the teacher tried to take my phone away I would say "You can't take my phone away, it's against my religion (Habs religion) to take away my phone and prevent me from letting my favourite players lead in votes! You wouldn't want to make the Hockey Gods angry, WOULD YOU?!"