For those who missed it, last year Fitzpatrick played for Vancouver and finished third in All-Star Game voting for defensemen in the West with 550,177 votes, falling 23,000 votes shy of second place Nicklas Lidstrom. He was the object of an Internet campaign to get the most obscure player in the league into the All-S
tar game. The plot was originally conceived as a humorous campaign designed to show the flaws in the NHL voting system.
tar game. The plot was originally conceived as a humorous campaign designed to show the flaws in the NHL voting system. The magazine Slate found the final results suspicious due to unlikely numerical coincidences in the final week of voting, and believes that the NHL altered the vote counts.
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