Today the NHL will be announcing the official format for the 2009 NHL Skills Competition to be held in Montreal, Quebec during the NHL All Star Game Weekend festivities.
The NHL All Star Game will be held on January 25, 2009.
Voting is completed and a bit of a controversy has come up over the results. So-called fans of the host city Montreal Canadiens found a way to easily spam the NHL.com voting system with a ridiculous amount of votes for every Montreal Canadiens player on the ballot. As a result, the league’s best player Alexander Ovechkin is not even in the starting lineup.
Personally I find this to be embarassing to the league and to the Montreal Canadiens fans who still respect the game of hockey. There are talks underway to come up with a way to avoid such scams in the future. So far allowing fans to vote almost always turns out to be a mockery of the sport, maybe it is time to put the voting in the hands of the top beat writers around the league.
In any event, the NHL All Star Game will go on regardless of who is in the starting lineup or not! Don’t miss your chance to celebrate 100 years of the Montreal Canadiens and witness the greatest players the sport has to offer, you can find 2009 NHL All Star Game tickets here.
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