2008–09 Pittsburgh Penguins season

I'm sure you are all aware by now that the fan voting for the All-Star game has begun over at the official website of the NHL. As such, I'm also sure that you've seen the landslide-lead that six Canadiens players have over their competitors that go by names such as "Ovechkin" and "Crosby". If you are at all an earnest fan of the NHL as a whole, you've come to realize how flawed their voting system is for this glorified game of shinny. Regardless of the decreasing importance and excitement of the game, we have seen incidents like the Fitzpatrick-campaign of a few years ago make a laughingstock of the online balloting system. This year gives rise to a new fiasco as all six Canadiens players that were placed on the ballot have taken a runaway lead and do not appear to be in any trouble of relinquishing it. [more…]