So Thornton and Boyle were named to the All Star team; grier and I had both of them right in the podcast.  Who we also picked (maybe because we’re shameless homers) is Patrick Marleau, who wasn’t chosen.  We both forgot that a player from every team needs to be there, and because of a crazy restriction like that, I present to you Milan Hejduk, tied for 68th in the league in scoring, -6, and a 2009 All Star.  That is crazier than Giguere being voted the starter.

Because a person on ChompBoard requested it, and because I’m also into such things, I made a list of Sharks all-stars, culled from hockey-reference.com

• 1992 – Doug Wilson
• 1993 – Kelly Kisio
• 1994 – Sandis Ozolinsh, Arturs Irbe
• 1995 – no game because of lockout
• 1996 – Owen Nolan
• 1997 – Tony Granato, Owen Nolan (the called shot goal)
• 1998 – none, it was North America vs. World
• 1999 – Marco Sturm (again NA vs. World)
• 2000 – Owen Nolan (NA vs. World)
• 2001 – Evgeni Nabokov (NA vs. World)
• 2002 – Teemu Selanne, Owen Nolan, Vincent Damphousse (NA vs. World)
• 2003 – Teemu Selanne (back to West vs. East)
• 2004 – Patrick Marleau
• 2005 – no game because of lockout
• 2006 – no game because of Olympics
• 2007 – Jonathan Cheechoo, Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau
• 2008 – Evgeni Nabokov, Joe Thornton
• 2009 – Joe Thornton, Dan Boyle

You’re welcome.