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by Paul on 01/10/08 at 12:04 PM ET
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Your Western Conferenc All-Star Team at NHL.com…
Both Osgood and Legace made it…
Update: Complete list of names below.
NEW YORK (January 10, 2008)—Centers Ryan Getzlaf of the Anaheim Ducks, Anze Kopitar of the Los Angeles Kings and Paul Stastny of the Colorado Avalanche—three of the NHL’s brightest young stars all under the age of 23—headline the 16 players named today to the Western Conference roster for the 2008 NHL All-Star Game, Sunday, Jan. 27 at Philips Arena in Atlanta (6 p.m. ET, VERSUS, CBC, RDS, NHL Radio).
Getzlaf, 22, leads the Ducks in scoring with 48 points (17 goals, 31 assists) in 44 games and has posted a team-best +20 rating. Kopitar, 20, is the Kings’ leading scorer with 40 points (17 goals, 23 assists) in 44 games, while Stastny, 22, paces the Avalanche with 44 points (15 goals, 29 assists) in 43 contests. Each will be making his All-Star Game debut.
Four other players added to the Western Conference roster will be making their first All-Star Game appearance: goaltender Manny Legace of the St. Louis Blues, defenseman Duncan Keith of the Chicago Blackhawks and forwards Shawn Horcoff of the Edmonton Oilers and Henrik Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks.
Joining Legace in the Western Conference net is goaltender Chris Osgood of the Detroit Red Wings, who will be making his second career All-Star appearance and first since 1996. Osgood has posted a 19-2-1 record, leads all goaltenders with a 1.68 goals-against average and ranks second in save percentage at .932.
Rounding out the goaltending corps is Evgeni Nabokov of the San Jose Sharks, selected to his second career All-Star Game. Nabokov, the only NHL goaltender to have appeared in each of his club’s games this season, leads the NHL in victories (23-12-6) and ranks fourth in goals-against average (2.01) and shutouts (five) in 41 appearances.
Others named to the Western Conference roster are defenseman Ed Jovanovski of the Phoenix Coyotes, Chris Pronger of the Ducks and Sergei Zubov of the Dallas Stars; and forwards Jason Arnott of the Nashville Predators, Marian Gaborik of the Minnesota Wild, Rick Nash of the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Sharks’ Joe Thornton.
The roster additions were selected by the NHL’s Hockey Operations Department, after consultation with League General Managers.
The players selected today join five players voted by fans to the starting lineup: forwards Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk and defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom of the Red Wings, and forward Jarome Iginla and defenseman Dion Phaneuf of the Calgary Flames. Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo, also voted to the starting lineup in fan balloting, will not play.
The head coach of the Western Conference All-Stars will be the Red Wings’ Mike Babcock, making his first career All-Star Game coaching appearance. Babcock’s assistant is Sharks head coach Ron Wilson.
The 2008 NHL All-Star Weekend in Atlanta will feature live national broadcasts of the Dodge/NHL SuperSkills event on Saturday, Jan. 26 and the NHL All-Star Game on Sunday, Jan. 27 on VERSUS in the United States and CBC and RDS in Canada. NASN and other international broadcasters will provide live coverage of both the Dodge/NHL SuperSkills event and the NHL All-Star Game to more than 115 countries and territories in Europe. NHL RADIO on Westwood One will provide exclusive national radio coverage which can be heard on stations around the United States and Canada as well as on XM Satellite Radio’s NHL Home Ice and NHL.com.
2008 WESTERN CONFERENCE ALL-STAR ROSTER
(statistics through games of Jan. 9, 2008)
2007-08 Statistics All-Star
GOALTENDERS GP W L OT GAA Appearance
Manny Legace, St. Louis Blues 30 16 10 2 2.06 1st
Evgeni Nabokov, San Jose Sharks 41 23 12 6 2.01 2nd
Chris Osgood, Detroit Red Wings 23 19 2 1 1.68 2nd
2007-08 Statistics All-Star
DEFENSEMEN GP G A Pts Appearance
* Nicklas Lidstrom, Detroit Red Wings 44 4 36 40 10th
* Dion Phaneuf, Calgary Flames 44 6 23 29 2nd
Ed Jovanovski, Phoenix Coyotes 40 3 22 25 5th
Duncan Keith, Chicago Blackhawks 43 5 12 17 1st
Chris Pronger, Anaheim Ducks 46 9 23 32 5th
Sergei Zubov, Dallas Stars 43 4 31 35 4th
2007-08 Statistics All-Star
FORWARDS GP G A Pts Appearance
* Henrik Zetterberg, Detroit Red Wings 39 26 28 54 ** 2nd
* Pavel Datsyuk, Detroit Red Wings 44 17 36 53 2nd
* Jarome Iginla, Calgary Flames 44 32 28 60 4th
Jason Arnott, Nashville Predators 41 15 21 36 2nd
Marian Gaborik, Minnesota Wild 37 21 19 40 2nd
Ryan Getzlaf, Anaheim Ducks 44 17 31 48 1st
Shawn Horcoff, Edmonton Oilers 44 18 21 39 1st
Anze Kopitar, Los Angeles Kings 44 17 23 40 1st
Rick Nash, Columbus Blue Jackets 41 22 15 37 3rd
Henrik Sedin, Vancouver Canucks 42 7 35 42 1st
Paul Stastny, Colorado Avalanche 43 15 29 44 1st
Joe Thornton, San Jose Sharks 41 13 33 46 5th
* voted by fans to the Western Conference All-Star Team’s starting lineup
** includes selection to 2007 All-Star Game (did not play)
Selected to starting lineup in fan balloting (will not play):
Roberto Luongo, G, Vancouver Canucks
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Jovo? They were really struggling to justify someone from the Coyotes to have Jovo on the team.
Posted by PDXWing from Portland, OR on 01/10/08 at 01:34 PM ET
should have been Ballard or Morris from the lost dogs, not jovo…
Posted by Pharazon from England on 01/10/08 at 01:41 PM ET
It’s good to see Osgood finally get some recognition. He deserves to go.
Rock on, Osgood!
I’m excited Anze Kopitar gets to go because he, Jack Johnson, and Michael Cammalleri are about the only guys worth watching on the Kings’ squad.
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 01/10/08 at 02:03 PM ET
4 Redwings *3 are starters
2 Flames *both are starters
2 Sharks
2 Ducks
11 teams with 1 player each assigned to the ASG.
Congrats to all. Well, except Sasquatch.
Posted by cementslinger from Midland MI on 01/10/08 at 03:37 PM ET
Ditto the ‘Slinger:
Congrats to all. Well, except Sasquatch
I’d say Congrats to all. Sasquatch can burn in Hades.
Posted by Jeff - - OklahomaWingNut from Wind-Swept-Plains on 01/10/08 at 03:50 PM ET
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