| Done any All-Star game voting yet? Polls opened a couple days ago. Current count:
Forwards:
KOIVU, Saku (Montreal): 181069
KOVALEV, Alex (Montreal): 180192
TANGUAY, Alex (Montreal): 178182
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SEMIN, Alexander (Washington): 71111
OVECHKIN, Alex (Washington): 54092
Defense:
MARKOV, Andrei (Montreal): 193847
KOMISAREK, Mike (Montreal): 180273
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GREEN, Mike (Washington): 46329
CHARA, Zdeno (Boston): 41859
Goal:
PRICE, Carey (Montreal): 195378
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LUNDQVIST, Henrik (NY Rangers): 51661
THOMAS, Tim (Boston): 21781
FLEURY, Marc-Andre (Pittsburgh): 20404
In case you haven't guessed, some "enterprising" Habs fans have written a short script which, when executed, will automatically vote for the Habs on the ballot endlessly. Go to the website, open a dozen windows or so, fire up the script, and go get a coffee. While you're gone, your system will vote for the Habs a few thousand times. Of course fans of other teams have noticed this, googled the Habs message boards, found the script (Habs fans posted it online so all their peeps could use it), modified it, and started running it for their own teams. So it remains to be seen if the Habs will continue to lead by idiotic margins or if EVERYONE will start to have insane vote totals. For a frame of reference, last year Crosby led all players with 507274 votes. Total. This year's voting has been open for two days. At the current rate, Carey Price will pass that sometime this weekend.
That's really weak. Under other circumstances, I'd expect the League might step in and invalidate the results and/or put in better safeguards against bots and script routines. I say "under other circumstances" because the NHL is pretty much spending the whole season on their knees "servicing" Montreal about this 100th anniversary stuff, so I expect they wouldn't be disappointed with an all-Habs starting six. Who knows.
-Ricardo
"2 minutes by yourself and...you feel shame, you know...and then you get free" | 
