Without further adieu (the adieu comes at the end of this story), here are your Season 2 EURO League All-Stars:
Northern Conference Starters
Goalie – Roberto Luongo, Copenhagen (2x all-star)
Defense – Ryan Suter, Oslo (2x)
Defense – Shea Weber, Oslo (2x)
LW – Bobby Ryan, Dublin
C – Ryan Kesler, Dublin (2x)
RW – Phil Kessel, Dublin
The rest of the team:
Goalies – Henrik Lundquist, Helsinki; Pekka Rinne, St. Petersburg (2x); Cory Schneider, Belfast* (2x)
Defense – Dan Girardi, Gothenburg (2x); Brent Burns, St. Petersburg; Jake Gardiner, London; Kevin Bieksa, St. Petersburg
LW – Erik Cole, St. Petersburg (2x); Milan Lucic, Gothenburg
C – Anze Kopitar, Moscow; Adam Henrique, Gothenburg; John Tavares, Edinburgh*; Eric Staal, Stockholm* (2x)
RW – P-A Parenteau, Oslo; Rich Peverley, Moscow; Patric Hornquist, Minsk*;
Coach – Jamie Langenbrunner
Southern Conference Starters
Goalie – Jonathan Quick, Munich
Defense – Dan Boyle, Munich
Defense – Zdeno Chara, Bratislava (2x)
LW – Henrik Zetterberg, Bern
C – Evgeni Malkin, Paris
RW – Corey Perry, Paris (2x)
The rest of the team:
Goalies – Brian Elliott, Zurich; Kari Lehtonen, Geneva; (2x)
Defense – Dustin Byfuglien, Milan; Erik Karlsson, Madrid (2x); John-Michael Liles, Prague; Trevor Daley, Milan;
LW – David Perron, Paris; Zach Parise, Prague; Matt Mouslon, Milan**
C – Patrice Bergeron, Zurich; Jonathan Toews, Bratislava; David Krejci, Berlin*;
RW – Drew Stafford, Zurich; Jason Pominville, Athens (2x); Claude Giroux, Frankfurt* (2x).;
Coach – Roman Hamrlik
*Player added to give team at least one representative
**Player added to even out teams; had most votes among the players in that conference who did not make the original team
Commissioner’s notes:
I unilaterally decided to add players from six teams that weren’t represented. No one who originally made the team was supplanted.
I also gave Luongo the start in goal. He and Lundquist tied with 36 votes each, but Luongo has all-star game seniority.
For the second straight year, St. Petersburg led all teams in all-star representatives with 4, which is 2 fewer than they had last season. Five teams had three players voted onto the team: Zurich, Dublin, Oslo, Gothenburg and Paris.
For the second straight year, the entire starting forward line for the Northern Conference is from one team. Last season, they were all from St. Petersburg. This season, Ryan Kesler, Bobby Ryan and Phil Kessel, all of Dublin, will start the game.
The player with the most votes who will not be playing in the all-star game is Prague center Ryan Getzlaf, whose 12 votes weren’t good enough.
The raw vote totals:
11 teams voted
Goalie: NORTH – Luongo 36 points, Lundquist 36; Rinne 17, Schneider 5, Halak 5; SOUTH – Quick 50, Elliott 23, Lehtonen 9, Vokoun 8, Niemi 8, Kiprusoff 1
Defense: NORTH – Suter 62; Weber 46, Girardi 20, Burns 19, Gardiner 18, Bieksa 10, J Johnson 8, Kuba 5, Subban 3, Garrison 3, Meszaros 2, Whitney 1, Alzner 1; SOUTH –Chara 57, Boyle 35, Byfuglien 23, Karlsson 18, Liles 18, Daley 15, Seabrook 9, Johansson 6, Phaneuf 5, Streit 3, Timonen 3, Enstrom 2, Krog 2, Visnovsky 2
LW: NORTH – Ryan 35, Cole 31, Lucic 13, Ovechkin 7, Hagelin 2, Ladd 1, Smyth 1 SOUTH – Zetterberg 29, Perron 25, Parise 19, Moulson 16, Brown 1
C: NORTH –Kesler 53, Kopitar 14, Henrique 11, Tavares 9, Grabovski 6, B Richards 6 SOUTH Malkin 31, Bergeron 28, Toews 17, Getzlaf 12, Backes 10
RW: NORTH – Kessel 42, Parenteau 26, Peverley 11, Hornquist 4, Neal 4, Heatley 1, Eberle 1, Grabner 1 SOUTH – Perry 35, Stafford 29, Pominville 10, Little 6, Callahan 6, Hossa 4
