Link to ESPN article - Latvia is in love with Buffalo Sabres forward Zemgus Girgensons, who remains the runaway leader in the NHL All-Star Game fan vote. The second-year player had nearly 1.1 million votes Tuesday. That's nearly double the total of each of the next two forwards: Chicago's Patrick Kane (586,310) and Jonathan Toews (573,198). Girgensons' total is more than half the 2 million population of his native Latvia, where the NHL says he's attracted more than 80 percent of his votes.
THE FREIGHT TRAIN! Living life at the top of the NHL all-star voting. Unreal that Latvia literally has nothing better to do than vote for the NHL all-star game but who the hell am I to complain?
CYA Patty Kane - Buffalo has a new hockey player in town.... and his name has like 30 letters and is almost impossible to pronounce the first time you see it.
For real though Girgensons has been the catalyst behind the Sabres 10-4 record after that awful start. 9G/8A/+3 on the season on a team that is as young as Buffalo is an incredible start. You can take those number and multiply them if he's on a number of other teams in the league. Not to mention he scores almost every shoot-out (ignore yesterday's result). Look out for the Freight Train in the coming years to put an absolute beating on the league.
To the fans out there who are pissed about this mini win-streak and want the team to lose for McDavid:
1. Winning the lottery doesn't guarantee anything (look at how many last-place teams have won the lottery in the past).
2. As I've said before, you don't just turn the effort on and off in this league.
3. The reality is that the Sabres have a handful of very, very talented players on the team right now.
4. The team lost almost every game in February/March of last year. Relax. Wait for the season to play out and enjoy these wins.
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