December 15, 2014

Zemgus Girgensons Leads NHL All-Star Voting: The top vote getter on the leaderboard for NHL all-star balloting is Zemgus Girgensons. The 20-year-old Buffalo Sabres center does not rank in the top 100 scorers -- 9 goals, 8 assists, 5 +/- -- but he has over double the votes of Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews and Sidney Crosby. Girgensons, the only Latvian in the NHL, is getting enormous support from his country. From the NYT: "In the most recent week in which votes were measured, Girgensons added 400,000, 82 percent of them coming from Latvia."

posted by rcade to hockey at 11:37 AM - 2 comments

I have no problem with this.

If you want to open up voting to people around the world, you have to expect something like this to happen.

Plus, it's Latvia. There are barely 2 million people in Latvia, so if he's already got over 800,000 votes, that's amazing.

I think the gauntlet has been thrown down now.

Es ist Zeit fr sterreich zu intensivieren und stimmen Sie fr Mats Zuccarello !
Pourquoi pas la France voter pour Antoine Roussel ?
Danmark ! Intensivere og stemme p Mikkel Boedker !

posted by grum@work at 12:09 PM on December 15, 2014

Hey now, crowd of people - the day too late for Mr. Graeme Townshend, pride of Kingston, so big up the island chest and vote in a mighty swarm for the next mon up, seen?

posted by beaverboard at 12:54 PM on December 15, 2014

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