Rory Fitzpatrick and All-Star Crappiness

With all the hullabuloo about the Rory Fitzpatrick thing, and now that it's over with him not quite getting in, I would like to point out that, if he made it, he would still not have been the crappiest defenseman to play in the All-Star game - and the crappier one was selected by the coaches.

NHL Totals
Petr Buzek: GMS 157 Pts 31
Rory Fitzpatrick: GMS 239 Pts 28

And Buzek was supposed to be an offensive player. The year he went to the All-Star game he was -22. Rory is currently +3.

I hope Gary, the media, the coaches, and everyone else realize that it's the league that has made the All-Star game a joke, not the fans.

The fans can vote for whoever they want, and that's the way it should be. I voted for Rory about a half-a-dozen times. I'll be going to Vancouver for a week's vacation but I'm still going to go out of my way to watch the game. If I want to see Rory then that's my business, or my fault, take your pick. But if they give me Justin Williams, Yanic Perrault, and Bill Guerin, that's their fault.

The fans voted, and we wanted Rory, not Williams. But if we can't get Rory, why couldn't we have a Kovalchuk or Savard instead?