The All-Star Game -- Montreal Canadi-craps

Giving fans full control over the All-Star game was never a good idea in my eyes.

WHO SHOULD NOT BE THERE

1) Each of the Montreal Canadiens Starters

Yes, the game is being played in Montreal, yes it's their centennial, and yes, fans are allowed to vote in, and yes the more votes you get, the more chance you have of being a starter and blah blah blah etc.

The facts remain:

-Mike Komisarek has four [count 'em, four!] points this season, and he's a starter in the All-Star game. By this standard, Michal Roszival is a freaking superstar!

-Carey Price's 16 wins are tied for 8th in the league. 8th.

-Alexei Kovalev's 32 points put him in a tie for 59th in the league so far. But not so fast, he could make it to 58th by the season's end.

Andrei Markov is a solid defenseman, and is perhpaps the only one of the four who deserves to be a starter.

-Roberto Luongo should NOT be a starter. He does not play for Montreal and thus probably shouldn't even be in this section.

2) OTHER INJUSTICES

Alex Ovechkin, Jeff Carter, and Tomas Vanek could all be starters. Is the All-Star voting system, like the Electoral College, flawed and outdated? Maybe there should just simply be an All-Star committee.

Phil Kessel, Alex Semin, Nik Backstrom, Nik Zherdev - by Montreal Canadiens standards, these guys all should have made it yet did not.

Maybe the lesson here is to get out and vote. That seems to be what Montreal fans did.