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

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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 reply actions 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 to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

The Phoenix Coyotes’ Mikkel Boedker has 355 votes… only 50k more! C’mon…

by OdinMercer on Nov 22, 2008 1:01 PM CST reply reply actions 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 to parent up reply reply actions 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 reply actions 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 reply actions actions   0 recs


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