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Western Conference ASG Voting Update
by Paul on 12/17/08 at 12:15 PM ET
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New York (December 17, 2008) – Chicago’s rekindled love affair with the Blackhawks, already manifested by soaring United Center attendance and insatiable interest in NHL Winter Classic 2009, now is being reflected in the fan balloting for the 2009 NHL All-Star Game.
As of 7 a.m. ET today, Blackhawks’ winger Patrick Kane had taken over the top spot among Western Conference forwards in the XM NHL® All-Star Fan Balloting presented by 2K Sports that will select the starting lineups for the 2009 NHL All-Star Game in Montreal Jan. 25. In the last week, Kane vaulted four players to take a 26,828-vote lead over the previous pace-setter, Detroit’s Marian Hossa. Anaheim center Ryan Getzlaf also slipped past Calgary’s Jarome Iginla for the third starting nod.
But with 16 days remaining in the voting that will end Jan. 2, Iginla remains very much in the running – as do Detroit’s Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg and Kane’s Chicago teammate, Jonathan Toews.
On defense, Detroit’s Nicklas Lidstrom and Calgary’s Dion Phaneuf remained the leading vote-getters, as they have been virtually since the moment balloting began. However, Chicago’s Brian Campbell closed the gap considerably over the last week and Anaheim’s Scott Niedermayer and Chris Pronger aren’t far behind.
As of this morning, Vancouver’s Roberto Luongo still was the masked man to beat among Western Conference goaltenders. But he had a new chief rival as Anaheim’s Jean-Sebastien Giguere had moved past San Jose’s Evgeni Nabokov and Detroit’s Chris Osgood and into second place in the balloting.
The vote totals, as of 7 a.m. ET, in the fan balloting for the Western Conference starters are detailed below.
Through Jan. 2, NHL fans can vote as often as they like in the XM NHL® All-Star Fan Balloting presented by 2K Sports to select the starting lineups for the 2009 NHL All-Star Game in Montreal. Fans around the world can vote online via interactive English and French ballots at Vote.NHL.com. Those in the U.S. and Canada also are able to cast their votes via text message using any wireless carrier. Real-time results are available exclusively at http://Vote.NHL.com/results.
Fans can vote for up to six Eastern Conference players and six Western Conference players—three forwards, two defensemen and one goaltender. Fans are permitted to select as few as one player—a balloted player or write-in—per online ballot at Vote.NHL.com or via text message.
To vote using any wireless carrier, fans should text their favorite player’s last name to the shortcode 81812. Fans interested in voting for all of their favorite team’s balloted players can text the team nickname (e.g., Bruins) to 81812. Standard text messaging charges will apply.
XM, which airs every NHL game for every team as the Official Satellite Radio Partner of the NHL, and 2K Sports, a leading publisher of sports video games, are the NHL All-Star Fan Balloting title and presenting sponsors, respectively.
The 2009 NHL All-Star Weekend in Montreal will celebrate the Montreal Canadiens’ Centennial season with live national broadcasts of the Honda/NHL SuperSkills® event on Saturday, Jan. 24, and the NHL All-Star Game on Sunday, Jan. 25, on VERSUS in the United States and CBC and RDS in Canada. NASN, ASN, J Sports, Sky Mexico, Fox Sports Australia and other NHL international broadcast partners will provide live coverage of both the Honda/NHL SuperSkills event and the NHL All-Star Game to more than 150 countries and territories in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific Rim, Mexico and the Caribbean. NHL Radio™ will provide exclusive, national radio coverage which can be heard on stations around the United States and Canada as well as on Sirius XM Radio’s NHL Home Ice, located at XM channel 204 and on SIRIUS channel 208 with the “Best of XM” programming package. NHL.com and NHL Network will provide extensive coverage of the All-Star Weekend.
XM NHL All-Star Fan Balloting Presented by 2K Sports
Western Conference
(as of 12/17/08, 7 a.m. ET)
Forwards
Player Team Votes
Patrick Kane Chicago 341,242
Marian Hossa Detroit 314,414
Ryan Getzlaf Anaheim 309,127
Jarome Iginla Calgary 306,053
Pavel Datsyuk Detroit 299,121
Henrik Zetterberg Detroit 291,519
Jonathan Toews Chicago 276,611
Joe Thornton San Jose 181,383
Mikko Koivu Minnesota 144,102
Patrick Marleau San Jose 128,938
Rick Nash Columbus 94,775
Joe Sakic Colorado 88,892
Mike Ribeiro Dallas 84,970
Shane Doan Phoenix 71,437
Ales Hemsky Edmonton 62,456
Marian Gaborik Minnesota 62,223
Brad Boyes St. Louis 61,893
Olli Jokinen Phoenix 56,033
Paul Stastny Colorado 54,651
Mike Modano Dallas 49,419
Jason Arnott Nashville 48,271
Dustin Brown Los Angeles 45,908
*Devin Setoguchi San Jose 39,048
Daniel Sedin Vancouver 39,028
Anze Kopitar Los Angeles 37,930
Henrik Sedin Vancouver 37,816
Paul Kariya St. Louis 36,106
Milan Hejduk Colorado 34,437
Brenden Morrow Dallas 31,950
Shawn Horcoff Edmonton 25,565
Brad Richards Dallas 22,497
*Patrick Sharp Chicago 20,196
Keith Tkachuk St. Louis 20,146
Defensemen
Nicklas Lidstrom Detroit 437,108
Dion Phaneuf Calgary 369,171
Brian Campbell Chicago 284,663
Scott Niedermayer Anaheim 251,859
Chris Pronger Anaheim 245,404
Dan Boyle San Jose 199,280
Brian Rafalski Detroit 190,333
Rob Blake San Jose 154,205
Sheldon Souray Edmonton 142,109
Shea Weber Nashville 107,069
Brent Burns Minnesota 77,018
Robyn Regehr Calgary 39,146
Goaltenders
Roberto Luongo Vancouver 369,386
J.S. Giguere Anaheim 227,568
Evgeni Nabokov San Jose 184,017
Chris Osgood Detroit 159,362
Niklas Backstrom Minnesota 108,416
Miikka Kiprusoff Calgary 55,062
Ilya Bryzgalov Phoenix 54,572
Pascal Leclaire Columbus 39,538
Marty Turco Dallas 38,500
Note: Write-in candidates are denoted by an asterisk (*).
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