According to the AP, Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo will skip the All-Star game to spend time with his pregnant wife. He will also miss their first game after the break as well, then rejoin them for a two-game swing through Florida. He was chosen by fans to start for the West, meaning Columbus' Pascal Leclaire will step into the starting spot. But the best line to come out of the article was this;
Luongo received 263,221 votes to edge Columbus' Pascal Leclaire (180,381).
Somehow I think getting over 80 thousand more votes than the runner-up would have earned Luongo something like "eclipsed" or "cruised by." Maybe "edged" made Leclaire feel better.
Update: With the West All-Star roster announced today, Pascal Leclaire won't be going, and West coach Mike Babcock will have to choose a starter out of Chris Osgood, Evgeni Nabokov, and Manny Legace.
