Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey Subject: Re: An All-Star complaint Message-ID: <1799@dciem.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 09:20:43 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1799 Posted: Mon Mar 3 09:20:43 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 3-Mar-86 10:49:54 EST References: <1789@dciem.UUCP> <290@agrigene.UUCP> Reply-To: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Distribution: net Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 27 Summary: > > The fans didn't do too > > badly, but I don't think they based their selections entirely on this seasons > > performances, as they should have. (Fuhr and Gosselin should not have been in > > the game; > Grant Fuhr was named outstanding player in the game. How can you argue > that he did not belong? Fuhr did play well in the All-Star game, but that doesn't prove that he deserved to be there. Any player, especially a goalie, can have an outstanding game, but All-Star selections should be based on a player's performance over the course of the season in which the voting takes place. There have been seasons in which Fuhr deserved to be the All-Star goalie, but he is not having a good season this year. At the time of the All-Star game, his goals against average was something in the neighbourhood of 4.68, with only about 20 games played and no shut-outs, numbers far worse than what you'd expect for even an average goalie playing with the best team in the league. Andy Moog's average was more than a goal a game better with about 10 more games played on the same team, and Rick Wamsley has the best goals against average in the conference with a team only slightly over .500 (St. Louis), but he was ignored in the All-Star selections! To me, Moog and Wamsley were the obvious choices for the Campbell goalies because their records this season are far better than anybody else in the conference. -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsri!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff