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Post by Krang7 on Jan 22, 2007 16:42:48 GMT -3
What's a bigger load of bull is Niedermayer getting voted in by the fans and then choosing not to play........... although he doesn't plan on missing any regular season games. Things like that are what make the all-star game a joke............. so we decided to have a little fun with it and try to vote Rory in. Wouldn't be any less of a disgrace than countless other things that happen in the ASG every year. And it's become pretty much accepted that the NHL tampered with the voting results............ the East somehow managed to finish with about 50,000 more total votes than the West............ even though the NHL supposedly only accepted ballots that were completed in full for both conferences. Hmmmmm, those 50 000 votes that disappeared............ I wonder who they were for? I think I made the right choice years ago when I stopped caring about the NHL. The reason it's a load of bull, to me, is that regardless of how ridiculous the All-Star festivities are, and regardless of who goes to play and who backs out, getting an invite to the All-Star Game is a huge honor. The idea of giving that honor to someone as undeserving as Rory Fitzpatrick over someone who does deserve it, like a Boucher, a Timonen, or a Visnovsky is kind of a tough pill to swallow for me. Having said that the thing that bugs me most about the All-Star Game selections is the fact that each team needs to have a player on the All-Star team. Simon Gagne? Jason Blake? Yanic Perrault?! How about Marc Savard, Paul Kariya, Maxim Afinogenov?
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Post by deer on Jan 22, 2007 17:33:07 GMT -3
Afinogenov's NOT in the ASG? I don't even follow the NHL anymore but I still know what a great year he's having, and how he's one of the poster boys for new NHL success. That's a total joke.
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Post by scroogemcduck on Jan 22, 2007 17:52:17 GMT -3
Afinogenov's NOT in the ASG? I don't even follow the NHL anymore but I still know what a great year he's having, and how he's one of the poster boys for new NHL success. That's a total joke. I don't follow the NHL either, and I find it odd that people still care, but I can still understand it. What I CAN'T understand is how anyone could care about the NHL All-Star game - both the selection of players and the actual game itself are a joke!
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