2012 All-Star Game Players

All-Star Teams selected
Starting lineups for the 2012 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 Jarome Iginla ----------------------- R Alexander Semin
C Steven Stamkos ------------------- C Evgeni Malkin
L Rick Nash ---------------------------- L Alexander Ovechkin
D Mike Green ------------------------- D Joni Pitkänen
D Ryan Whitney ---------------------- D Nicklas Lidström
G Roberto Luongo -------------------- G Niklas Backstrom

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 Shane Doan
R Dustin Brown
R David Backes
R Daniel Alfredsson
R Jaromir Jagr
R Jiri Hudler

Centers Centers
C John Tavares
C Eric Staal
C Sidney Crosby
C Henrik Sedin
C Henrik Zetterberg
C Pavel Datsyuk

Left wings Left wings
L Martin St. Louis
L Dany Heatley
L Zach Parisé
L Daniel Sedin
L Ales Hemsky
L Michael Grabner

Defensemen Defensemen
D Dan Boyle
D Dion Phaneuf
D Ryan Suter
D Shea Weber
D Lubomir Visnovsky
D Zdeno Chara
D Mark Streit
D Alex Edler

Goalies Goalies
G Ryan Miller
G Marc-André Fleury
G Jonas Hiller
G Miikka Kiprusoff


This years All-Star weekend starts Saturday February 9 with the Super Skills competition and continues on Sunday February 10 with the clash between the North America All-Stars and the World All-Stars.