Vote for Rory Fitzpatrick for All Star Game

killer_6 · #21 (**permalink**) 01-05-2007, 01:34 AM

From what I've been hearing I don't think he will play...

"Hockey experts" think it's wrong because he'd be taking away a spot from another guy who actually deserved to be there.

Some guys like Sami Salo or Phillipe Boucher, who aren't superstars, might only get one chance at the all star game. If you had a career year and it was maybe your only chance at the all star game it would suck if someone like Rory got voted in and took your spot away.

shevchenko · #22 (**permalink**) 01-05-2007, 02:30 AM

most of the guys voted in for the all-star game DO NOT want to be there...so i couldn't care less if some dude loses his spot to Rory, cuz im sure he couldn't care less...

killer_6 · #23 (**permalink**) 01-05-2007, 07:02 AM

some guys want to be there...
the guys that go every year might not care much but someone who's never gone, a younger guy or older guy, might be really excited to go.

shevchenko · #24 (**permalink**) 01-05-2007, 07:43 PM

i think that every year someone is voted in who doesn't belong there... Peter Sidorkiewicz 1993, Scott Lachance and Dale Hunter 1997, Dimitri Khristich 1999, Buzek 2000, Marcus Ragnarsson 2001, mike york, knutsen, and kapanen 2002, Kuba and Kubina 2003...it happens all the time...Peter Sidorkiewicz played in an all star game...lol

killer_6 · #25 (**permalink**) 01-06-2007, 09:28 PM

Sidorkiewicz was Ottawa's representative that year. They were brutal.

Khristich was awesome that year. He's the reason I won my hockey pool that year! I picked him up in the 6th round and he had a hell of a season with Boston I think.

The other guys like Buzek, Knutsen, Kuba etc. benefitted from the North America vs the World (Europe) format.

Anyway although those guys are not "stars" they did at least excel in the seasons they were picked as all-stars.

Fitzpatrick is having as average a year as ever.

shevchenko · #26 (**permalink**) 01-07-2007, 04:23 AM

Kuba stinks...buzek and knutsen..come on man, these guys are totally average at best! I'll let you have Khristich, but if Sidorkiewicz played in an allstar game, i think pretty much anyone can play...i remember that old format they used...every team had a representative in the game...how stupid is that??? i think even john garrett has played in an allstar game...and he was terrible..