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Originally Posted by Bill Daly
"If you have a fan polling system, and voting is legitimate, you honor the results."
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That's pretty rich, considering all evidence points to the NHL basically just cheating the fans in order to keep Rory Fitzpatrick out of the game when this happened to him:
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports.../rorygate.html
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I believe the evidence suggests the NHL cooked the books. Since the league counted only ballots that were entirely filled in, there should have been an equal number of votes cast for hockey's two conferences. But for the week after Christmas, players in the Eastern Conference received 6 percent more votes than those in Fitzpatrick's Western Conference. Among defensemen, the results were even more skewed: The guys in the West—Rory among them—got 16 percent fewer votes overall. (These discrepancies were about three times bigger than any that had come before.) As bloggers were quick to point out, the numbers were exactly what you'd expect to see if the league had manually dumped 100,000 Rory votes. Nothing has been proved, but I'm hard-pressed to come up with another reasonable explanation.
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