The fan votes have all been counted and the NHL has announced the starters for the upcoming All-Star Game in Atlanta. The starters are:
Eastern Conference
- Sidney Crosby
- Vincent Lecavalier
- Daniel Alfredsson
- Andrei Markov
- Zdeno Chara
- Martin Brodeur
Western Conference
- Henrik Zetterberg
- Pavel Datsyuk
- Jarome Iginla
- Nicklas Lidstrom
- Dion Phaneuf
- Roberto Luongo
All things considered these are actually pretty solid picks by the fans as all 12 players are definitely deserving of the trip to Atlanta. I would probably stick hometown boy Ilya Kovalchuk in instead of Alfredsson, but Ilya will make the team any way so it's not that big of a deal. At first I didn't think too highly of Markov being voted in, but it's not that much of a reach when you look at the numbers. Of course if Sergei Gonchar had been on the ballot (I'll never understand why he wasn't) then maybe things would have been different.
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