All-Star Teams selected 09

Starting lineups for the 2009 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 Patrice Bergeron R Ales Hemsky
C Joe Thornton C Anze Kopitar
L Sidney Crosby L Ilya Kovalchuk
D Dion Phaneuf D Sergei Zubov
D Bryan McCabe D Andrei Markov
G Justin Pogge G Riku Helenius

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
Right wings
R Jason Pominville
R Nathan Horton
R Guillaume Latendresse

World
Right Wings
R Dainius Zubrus
R Marian Gaborik
R Nikolai Zherdev

North America
Centers
C Scott Gomez
C Vincent Lecavalier
C Zach Parisé

World
Centers
C Pavol Demitra
C Mats Sundin
C Evgeny Malkin

North America
Left wings
L Paul Kariya
L Simon Gagné
L Keith Tkachuk

World
Left wings
L Patrik Elias
L Alexander Frolov
L Alexander Ovechkin

North America
Defensemen
D Jack Johnson
D Jay Bouwmeester
D Brent Seabrook
D Cam Barker

World
Defensemen
D Zdeno Chara
D Tomas Kaberle
D Mattias Öhlund
D Marek Zidlicky

North America
Goalies Goalies
G Marty Turco
G Martin Brodeur

World
Goalies
G Henrik Lundqvist
G Peter Budaj

This years All-Star weekend starts Saturday February 8 with the Super Skills competition and continues on Sunday February 9 with the clash between the North America All-Stars and the World All-Stars.