NHL investigates ballot stuffing

by James Mirtle on Nov 14, 2008 3:13 PM CST Comment 8 comments

The NHL is investigating a suspicious spike in votes for Montreal Canadiens players in all-star fan balloting.

Fans choose the starting lineups for the all-star game by voting at NHL.com, and all six Canadiens on the ballot have huge leads in balloting for the Eastern Conference team.

— CBC Sports

Here's a look at where voting stands right now. The Canadiens players still have incredible leads, and I honestly don't think it's all attributable to auto-voting.

The NHL may disagree.

"I don't want to jump to conclusions at this point. There is some indication that something has happened," said NHL spokesman Gary Meaghar. "I'm not at a point where I can say definitively that something has taken place."

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obviously not all

obviously not all the votes are auto-voted, but the vast majority.

When it is this easy to setup a script and auto-vote, why not:
http://forum.canadiens.com/index.php?showtopic=21619&st=109

I just can’t believe the NHL wasn’t expecting this. I figured they knew it would happen and were planning on it. It would have been fun to say that the starting goalie received 21,450,304 votes.

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by pwnicholson on Nov 14, 2008 3:32 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

“I don’t want to jump to conclusions at this point. There is some indication that something has happened,” said NHL spokesman Gary Meaghar. “I’m not at a point where I can say definitively that something has taken place.”

Sounds like they’re waiting for Bettman to get out the Jump to Conclusions Mat.

by thepenismightier on Nov 14, 2008 3:33 PM CST reply actions 0 recs