Voting
One hundred players were chosen to be on the ballot for the All-Star game (minimum of two players from each team), but fans were also given the option to write in any player who was not listed. Ballots were all digital for the fourth consecutive time, giving fans the ability to cast votes online at NHL.com and Facebook. Votes could also be cast via text messages from mobile devices, and Smartphone users could vote by way of a mobile ballot feature. The NHL put no limitation on the number of votes an individual could cast. When fan balloting ended 14.3 million votes had been cast and the top six were named to the All-Star Game. The six top vote recipients were from only two teams, the Pittsburgh Penguins (4) and Chicago Blackhawks (2). Individually, Sidney Crosby led all players with 635,509 votes, while teammate Kris Letang was elected as a write-in candidate. The six players elected by the fans are listed below with their vote totals.
| # | Name | Pos. | Team | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87 | Crosby, SidneySidney Crosby | C | Pittsburgh Penguins | 635,509 |
| 19 | Toews, JonathanJonathan Toews | C | Chicago Blackhawks | 407,676 |
| 71 | Malkin, EvgeniEvgeni Malkin | C | Pittsburgh Penguins | 376,887 |
| 58 | Letang, KrisKris Letang | D | Pittsburgh Penguins | 477,960 |
| 2 | Keith, DuncanDuncan Keith | D | Chicago Blackhawks | 382,162 |
| 29 | Fleury, Marc-AndreMarc-Andre Fleury | G | Pittsburgh Penguins | 426,305 |
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Famous quotes containing the word voting:
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)