Sunday, November 9, 2008

It's All Just a Popularity Contest

The All-Star ballots for the starting lineups were released the other day. There are three Blackhawks on the ballot: Kane, Toews and Campbell. I believe Sharpie should have been on the ballot as well. He has played really well this year and certainly deserved the nod. It seems as if the sixth leading scorer in the NHL this season should be on the ballot but then again you would have thought the 5th leading scorer would have been on there to:

OK now the male readers can stop reading. The rest of the post doesn't concern you. Go read other news. Here's a link to TSN if you need a suggestion. 

I want to start out by saying whoever decided it would be a good idea to have the Rangers in a photo shoot for Men's Journal is a genius. Now I am not a Rangers fan but I appreciate a good idea when one comes along. Now you look at the next picture and tell me this wasn't a good idea:

 This picture didn't even have Lundqvist in it. 
Now normally I like to keep this blog devoted to serious hockey news but there are certain times that I will go off track a little.
Here's a video from the shoot:
 Oh and the issue is on newsstands now. (It's the one with Paul Newman on the cover)
Back to serious hockey news next post and Happy Veterans Day!
Also is this seriously the first post I tagged with Patrick Sharp?

2 comments:

Hand of Godard said...

The All Star ballots are either made long before the season starts, or they're made by brain damaged monkees throwing crap at a board full of names. Case in point:
Last season Sergei Gonchar was left off the ballot despite the fact that it was probably the best year he's had in his career. This season, he's on the ballot despite the fact that he separated his shoulder in a preseason game and is out for 3 to 4 months. They also decided to put Ryan Whitney on the ballot, despite the fact that it's been known since mid-August that the earliest he would return is December.
Then again, a lot of what the NHL does seems to be the work of monkeys playing with shit.

mer said...

That's an insult to monkeys.

Case in point: TSN has a monkey named Maggie (I'm DEAD serious, well, except she's not TSN's, she lives at the Bowmanville Zoo) who spins a wheel during playoffs to predict who will win each series. She's got a 40-35 record on predicting playoff results since the 2003 post-season, consistently higher than most of TSN's staff...maybe we should give her Bettman's job...