Next time, let Plaschke pick the Three Stars

After last night's merciless throttling of the Anaheim Ducks by the Dallas Stars, we were informed that, despite the Ducks' generally ham-handed performance, Brad May was named second star of the game. ("Le Deuxieme Etoile... BRAD! MAY!!") I couldn't wait to investigate who chose the Three Stars.

As a general rule of thumb, if your team gets shut out 4-0, your team is not going to have anyone named as one of the Three Stars. If your goalie has stopped something like 55 of 59 shots en route to that outcome, he might be the Third Star, but that's about it.

As you can see at the lower right here, the typical game summary lists the Three Stars and the local media member who designated them as such. And Sharks radio broadcaster Dan Rusanowsky's choices seem pretty well unimpeachable in the case of last night's Calgary/San Jose game.

Now here is the Anaheim/Dallas game summary. Indeed, Brad May ("You may know me from such atrocities as 'cheering and laughing hysterically on the bench as Todd Bertuzzi broke Steve Moore's neck'...") was named Le Deuxieme Etoile... but no one attached his or her name to the decision! You gutless puke!

At first I assumed it must have been Plaschke, who used to pick 'em once in a while but got banned the time he named Juan Pierre the first star.

Somehow I'll find out how a guy who played 7:35 and didn't show up anyplace else in the box score got named the second star in a game in which his team got bombed out of the building.

Thanks to Bill R for the tip.

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