All star team selection

All-Star Teams selected
Starting lineups for the 2009 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 Jarome Iginla R Pavol Demitra
C Joe Thornton C Evgeny Malkin
L Rick Nash L Alexander Ovechkin
D Brian Rafalski D Nicklas Lidström
D Chris Pronger D Zdeno Chara
G Martin Brodeur G Kari Lehtonen

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 Martin St. Louis
R Michael Ryder
R Brian Gionta
R Daniel Alfredsson
R Marian Hossa
R Alexander Frolov

Centers Centers
C Daniel Brière
C Jason Spezza
C Eric Staal
C Saku Koivu
C Patrik Elias
C Henrik Zetterberg

Left wings Left wings
L Steve Sullivan
L Erik Cole
L Dany Heatley
L Daniel Sedin
L Pavel Datsyuk
L Ilya Kovalchuk

Defensemen Defensemen
D Rob Blake
D Scott Niedermayer
D John-Michael Liles
D Dennis Wideman
D Lubomir Visnovsky
D Sami Salo
D Mattias Öhlund
D Sergei Gonchar

Goalies Goalies
G Jean-Sébastien Giguère
G Rick DiPietro
G Evgeni Nabokov
G Miikka Kiprusoff


This years All-Star weekend starts Saturday February 8 with the Super Skills competition and continues on Sunday February 9 with the clash between the North America All-Stars and the World All-Stars.