18-1-2012 All-Star Teams selected
Starting lineups for the 2012 All-Star Game have been decided according to votes given by hockey fans around the world. The fans voted the starting lineup consisting of 1 goaltender, 2 defenseman, 1 left wing, 1 center and 1 right wing for both North America All-Stars and World All-Stars. Here are the final results of the voting:
North America World
R Dany Heatley R Thomas Vanek
C John Tavares C Pavel Datsyuk
L Jonathan Godin L Ilya Kovalchuk
D Drew Doughty D Zdeno Chara
D Brian Lee D Dmitry Kulikov
G Ryan Miller G Marcus Belfour
Traditionally, the coaching staff of the two All-Star teams will selected rest of the players to participate in this most profilic annual sports event. The following players have been selected to the All-Star teams by the coaching staff.
North America World
Right wings Right wings
R Jarome Iginla
R Daniel Brière
R Devin Setoguchi
R Kaleb Orr
R Nino Niederreiter
R Alexander Semin
Centers Centers
C Jeff Carter
C Taylor Hall
C Sidney Crosby
C Mikko Koivu
C Martin Hanzal
C Evgeni Malkin
Left wings Left wings
L Vincent Lecavalier
L Dustin Brown
L Zach Parisé
L Marian Gaborik
L Alexander Ovechkin
L Milan Michalek
Defensemen Defensemen
D Dan Boyle
D Dennis Wideman
D Dion Phaneuf
D Mike Green
D Lubomir Visnovsky
D Andrei Markov
D Tomas Kaberle
D Sergei Gonchar
Goalies Goalies
G Roberto Luongo
G Marc-André Fleury
G Semyon Varlamov
G Jonas Gustavsson
This years All-Star weekend starts Saturday February 13 with the Super Skills competition and continues on Sunday February 14 with the clash between the North America All-Stars and the World All-Stars.