Creating Controversy: Should the NHL Allow Fans to Vote for the All-Stars?

With four players from one team being voted to the Eastern Conference's starting lineup, and not a single one of them being Alexander Ovechkin, the questions have been raised as to whether the NHL should continue fan balloting for the annual All-Star festivities.

A lot of people are not happy seeing four different Montreal Canadians' being sent to the All-Star game; even more people are not happy seeing Alex Ovechkin not being named to the Eastern Conference team.

However, you cannot really allow the NHL to decide who goes to the All-Star game.

First of all, if you go by the top 12 players in the points department for each conference, and the top six D-men, then there will not be the excitement of learning who was named to the All-Star Game.

So what else could you do? You can't go around on the streets asking people who they want in the All-Star Game because of two reasons:

1. You may get a biased opinion.
2. You would only have approximately 10, 000 votes (if that).

So you are left with one more option:

You could assemble the NHL Board of Governors together and have them vote. But again, there are two reasons why that won't work.

1. There would be way to much protesting.
2. That's just flat out silly.

So really, all you can do, is allow the NHL fans to continue voting. This seems like the most sensible thing to do.

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Thanks to Matt Eichel for this week's topic, "Should The NHL Allow Fans To Vote For The All-Stars?"