All Star Voting a Cruel Joke

Nothing against Carey Price, who is having an amazing season for the Canadiens, but Mike Komisarek, who has only played 21 games this season, Alexei Kovalev, who is not having anywhere close to an All-Star season and Andrei Markov [don't get me wrong about Markov, he's a good player, having a good year] are not All-Star game starters.

When I first found out the news, I thought it was a joke.

Sadly, I’d do anything to make sure it was.

The way technology is right now, people that have the spare time, can push players into All-Star games that don’t necessarily deserve to be there. I mean C’mon, former Islander Dave McLlwain has his own fan site for Christ sake.

In the midst of this lunacy however what happens to a player who deserves to start at the All-Star game like Mark Streit? What about Mike Green? Simply put, this is a travesty. It’s almost like the knuckleheads that almost got Rory Fitzpatrick into the game a few years ago were actually Cylons [sorry for the Battlestar Galactica reference, I've been addicted to it lately] and were programmed to just piss logical people and hockey fans like myself off.

As far as the Western Conference is concerned, I’m not as mad at the Western Conference, mainly because guys like Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews and Ryan Getzlaf are three of the best young players in this game and even though Brian Campbell is having an off year and Scott Niedermayer is winding down an impressive career, these are guys that have much better name recognition than Markov and Komisarek and guys that fans want to see on the ice.

I can’t say the same thing about Komisarek and Kovalev to anyone who isn’t a fan of the Habs.

In spite of all of that though, when only four out of 30 teams are represented in the starting lineup of an All-Star team, you know there’s a problem. Where are the Bruins, Red Wings and Rangers in all of this? Where are the San Jose Sharks?

Let the Habs fans out there have their moment in the sun. Their hosting the game anyway. However, that doesn’t mean that the rest of the fans in the league will be able to take them seriously the rest of the season.

At the end of the day, these fans will only be able to look down at themselves and understand what mistake they made, robbing good young players of an opportunity to get what they deserve.

Those same fans will see something else when they look down as well.

A pair of red, white and blue Clown shoes.

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