All-Star 2006

18-1-2006 All-Star Teams selected
Starting lineups for the 2006 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 Ryan Smyth R Marian Hossa
C Mike Modano C Mats Sundin
L Owen Nolan L Pavel Bure
D Chris Pronger D Zdeno Chara
D Rob Blake D Sergei Zubov
G Jose Theodore G Nikolai Khabibulin

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 Bill Guerin
R Shane Doan

R Zigmund Palffy
R Marian Gaborik
R Alex Ovechkin

Centers Centers
C Joe Thornton
C Joe Sakic
C Sidney Crosby

C Peter Forsberg
C Robert Lang
C Henrik Sedin

Left wings Left wings
L Glen Murray
L Simon Gagne
L Rick Nash

L Daniel Sedin
L Henrik Zetterberg
L Pavel Datsyuk

Defensemen Defensemen
D Sheldon Souray
D Brian Rafalski
D Scott Niedermayer
D Bryan McCabe

D Lubomir Visnovsky
D Andrei Markov
D Kimmo Timonen
D Sergei Gonchar

Goalies Goalies
G Roberto Luongo
G Martin Brodeur

G Miikka Kiprusoff
G Ilya Bryzgalov

This years All-Star weekend starts Saturday February 11 with the Super Skills competition and continues on Sunday February 12 with the clash between the North America All-Stars and the World All-Stars.