Decision '09: The all-star campaigns you haven't heard of

Sure, the move by Habs fans to get six Canadiens as starters in January's all-star game has had all sorts of coverage. And there's been talk, too, of some of the write-in campaigns, although none have truly caught on to this point.
But have you heard of the even less successful 'Vote for Raycroft' movement? Or how about the sudden spike in support for Wade Belak? And which goaltender who has played in fewer than 60 minutes this season has more than 1,600 votes?
Luckily, the NHL has unlocked the mystery.
For the curious, the league has added a feature whereby you can check the vote tallies of any player in the NHL this season, everyone from Jeff Finger (121 votes) to Darren McCarty (47) and Ryan Hollweg (22). Try as I might, I wasn't able to find a single player, no matter how obscure, that didn't have a single vote, but there are some with only a couple. (I didn't have the patience to check everyone's totals, however.)
Here's an incomplete list of pluggers, backups, injured players, rookies, goons and NHL nobodies and how they stack up in terms of votes so far:
| Players | Votes |
| WARD, Jason | 2 |
| LACOUTURE, Dan | 2 |
| MATTHIAS, Shawn | 3 |
| RYAN, Michael | 3 |
| POWE, Darroll | 4 |
| ROSS, Jared | 5 |
| MOJZIS, Tomas | 6 |
| BOULERICE, Jesse | 6 |
| HALISCHUK, Matt | 7 |
| RADUNS, Nate | 7 |
| BROWN, Mike | 7 |
| DAVIS, Patrick | 8 |
| CAMPBELL, Gregory | 8 |
| TARNASKY, Nick | 9 |
| NOKELAINEN, Petteri | 9 |
| PICARD, Alexandre | 10 |
| WELCH, Noah | 10 |
| MCLEOD, Cody | 11 |
| DORSETT, Derek | 11 |
| MCGINN, Jamie | 11 |
| FROLIK, Michael | 11 |
| GRATTON, Josh | 13 |
| STAUBITZ, Brad | 13 |
| MCGRATTAN, Brian | 14 |
| KOCI, David | 14 |
| VRANA, Petr | 14 |
| PELTONEN, Ville | 15 |
| PESONEN, Janne | 18 |
| PRUST, Brandon | 19 |
| FRITZ, Mitch | 19 |
| YELLE, Stephane | 20 |
| HJALMARSSON, Niklas | 21 |
| HOLLWEG, Ryan | 22 |
| HORDICHUK, Darcy | 24 |
| BROUWER, Troy | 24 |
| BROOKBANK, Wade | 27 |
| BISSONNETTE, Paul | 28 |
| EAGER, Ben | 28 |
| LETOURNEAU-LEBLOND, Pierre-Luc | 29 |
| SALMELA, Anssi | 31 |
| SANFORD, Curtis | 34 |
| LACOSTA, Daniel | 37 |
| MCELHINNEY, Curtis | 38 |
| RINNE, Pekka | 39 |
| RYAN, Bobby | 39 |
| STORTINI, Zack | 40 |
| TIKHONOV, Viktor | 40 |
| JANSSEN, Cam | 42 |
| NORRENA, Fredrik | 43 |
| SCHWARZ, Marek | 44 |
| MACINTYRE, Steve | 44 |
| STEPHAN, Tobias | 45 |
| MCCARTY, Darren | 47 |
| HUNWICK, Matt | 53 |
| BISHOP, Ben | 56 |
| MALIK, Marek | 56 |
| GODARD, Eric | 61 |
| CLARKSON, David | 65 |
| LAPERRIERE, Ian | 66 |
| BOLL, Jared | 71 |
| COTE, Riley | 72 |
| PETERS, Andrew | 75 |
| CLEMMENSEN, Scott | 89 |
| SHELLEY, Jody | 94 |
| THORNTON, Shawn | 96 |
| SCHNEIDER, Mathieu | 105 |
| HNIDY, Shane | 106 |
| RAYCROFT, Andrew | 115 |
| FINGER, Jeff | 121 |
| BLAKE, Jason | 151 |
| BYFUGLIEN, Dustin | 153 |
| NODL, Andreas | 179 |
| JOSEPH, Curtis | 191 |
| STAMKOS, Steven | 192 |
| BOOGAARD, Derek | 283 |
| LEIGHTON, Michael | 395 |
| PARROS, George | 541 |
| DROUIN-DESLAURIERS, Jeff | 746 |
| LARAQUE, Georges | 1217 |
| BROOKBANK, Sheldon | 1630 |
| DANIS, Yann | 1648 |
| BELAK, Wade | 1676 |
| YANDLE, Keith | 2106 |
| DIPIETRO, Rick | 4894 |
Yann Danis's really only 39,000 votes back of making an appearance on the leaderboard, so maybe his supporters just need to get a bit more organized. They could talk to the Belak people, maybe, and form a tag team of sorts.
You do wonder who the poor, misguided souls are logging in to vote for Nate Raduns and Darroll Powe, but I say more power to them.
See any other quirky vote-getters I missed?
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Jonathon Kalinski played one game for the Flyers and has 0 votes. If a player doesn’t have any votes, he won’t show up in the drop-down box, so you have to manually find his id and enter it.
Of course, now that I’ve mentioned he has no votes, I don’t think it’ll take long for him to get his first one.
by RyanV on Nov 22, 2008 11:45 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
That would explain why the zeroes are hard to find. Still, there can’t be many of them given how many obscure players have at least a couple votes.
by James Mirtle on Nov 22, 2008 2:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
The Phoenix Coyotes’ Mikkel Boedker has 355 votes… only 50k more! C’mon…
by Travis Hair on Nov 22, 2008 1:01 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
im one of the 13
who voted brad staubitz
by idunno723 on Nov 22, 2008 1:02 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
because he is all-star worthy
but really i was just curious to see how many votes he would get
by idunno723 on Nov 23, 2008 12:09 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I admin, as I went through to vote for the few Sabres who deserved, I went off the board a bit. Patrick Kaleta got a few votes, for instance.
Honk if you love Justice!
"I'm betting that I'm just abnormal enough to survive. "
by TheTick on Nov 24, 2008 4:30 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
er, “I admit”, you can tell how often I type that at work…
Honk if you love Justice!
"I'm betting that I'm just abnormal enough to survive. "
by TheTick on Nov 24, 2008 4:31 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

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