Is Voting Craig Anderson into the all star game a good idea?

[Deadly Dogma]

So considering his off ice family struggles is voting him into the all star game a good way to show him we support him? Also it gives a great platform to raise awareness and funds for cancer research.

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[Le Tricolore]

If he has great stats by the time voting is up, then sure.

 

[NyQuil]

I think it's a bit early to say.

 

[ManyIdeas]

If I was in his shoes I'd rather be with the family.

 

[El Travo]

If he has All-Star numbers, sure.

I can't speak for Anderson, but not everyone wants the John Scott treatment.

 

[Inkling]

It would be a nice gesture but I suspect he might prefer to spend the All Star break with his family. There are probably other ways to support his family; the NHL has various Hockey Fights Cancer activities.

If his stats put him in the picture, then it would be a great achievement and he could always turn down the invite if he was needed at home.

 

[HabsQC]

Whatever his stats are, I think its a great idea and I hate the sens.

Wouldn't be fair to Dominic Moore though

 

[Perfect_Drug]

I mean.. I would think Craig Anderson would want to be with his wife.

 

[swiftwin]

It would be a nice gesture but I suspect he might prefer to spend the All Star break with his family. There are probably other ways to support his family; the NHL has various Hockey Fights Cancer activities.

If his stats put him in the picture, then it would be a great achievement and he could always turn down the invite if he was needed at home.

I think this is the best response. He was also pretty hush-hush about this, since it seems like they knew about it since training camp, when he took a leave of absence back then. He was also very appreciative of the media in Ottawa keeping it under wraps. I don't think he wants to draw even more attention to this, let alone the fact that he'll probably want to spend the weekend with her anyways.

 

[LastWordArmy]

No, let him have the weekend home with his family, and not at the all-star game.

 

[Evergreen]

Why can't we just vote the best players into the All-Star Game? Why does there have to be some "show of support" for an otherwise undeserving player?

 

[Willy Stylez]

No let him be with his family.

 

[left hand path]

Leave the poor guy alone ffs.

 

[sharks9]

Let him be with his wife instead. Trying to force him into the all-star game would suck for him

 

[NJDevils7]

Come on...what now every time someone is in an unfortunate situation we need to vote them into the All Star game?

I wouldn't want to be voted into the all star game if the reason was because my wife has cancer...they have are completely unrelated.

 

[PensBandwagonerNo272*]

At some point I feel families/athletes/celebs don't want that much attention put on them especially if it's because of a very personal matter, but I don't know.

 

[Steveei]

Let him be with his wife.. I bet its a tough time for him. He didn't even want to leave her to play yesterday.. she kinda just told him to go because Ottawa was down both there goalies.

 

[MXD]

No, because it would kinda suck for him to get suspended for spending the weekend with his family.

 

[agent082]

This is what I was afraid of. It seems like that John Scott thing was a mistake after all.

 

[that is unfortunate]

No absolutely not, let him spend the few days with his family.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

Let him have time with his family. **** hockey.

 

[irunthepeg]

Let him be with his family and do something like everyone wear his jersey in warm-ups. I wouldn't be surprised to see Karlsson in his jersey in the festivities at some point during the skills competition.

 

[Thierry]

This is what I was afraid of. It seems like that John Scott thing was a mistake after all.

The John Scott thing was to show the NHL how stupid their voting system is. That was fine.

It's when they tried to put him aside that things got complicated... followed the trade and... you know the rest.

Before that, those kind of things were neven meant to show support to a player, it was to make fun of the system.

 

[John Eichel da GOAT]

If I was in his shoes I'd rather be with the family.

This^. I think he would appreciate all of us donating instead of voting him into a game that has nothing to do with cancer research.

 

[Trap Jesus]

It would turn into something like, "I'm honored to be voted in but want to spend time with my family." Pretty sure the NHL would make an exception for that without a suspension, but still not much of a point in doing it. Take the 4 day break.