Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 09:11 PM EST [
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Text the word PENS to 81812 to vote for the Pens in the All-Star Game
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR THE PENS IN THE ALL-STAR GAME
Pens fans....enough of this Montreal Canadians B.S. - CHECK THIS OUT!
Responding to the daunting challenge issued by the devoted fans of the Montreal Canadiens, the citizens of Pittsburgh and Penguins fans around the world are proving just how passionate they are about their heroes.
Pens forwards Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, the top two scorers in the NHL, have closed the gap considerably on the front-running Montreal threesome of Alexei Kovalev, Saku Koivu and Alex Tanguay in fan balloting to select the starting lineups for the 2009 NHL All-Star Game in Montreal January 25.
As of 7:00 am ET Tuesday, Crosby had received 320,373 votes in XM NHL® All-Star Fan Balloting presented by 2K Sports. With polls still open for another month, that moved Crosby within 65,000 votes of claiming one of the three starting spots up front for the Eastern Conference. Malkin, who led the NHL with 39 points through Monday's games, ranked fifth among Eastern Conference forwards with 264,914 votes.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LEADING VOTE GETTERS
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LEADING VOTE GETTERS
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LEADING VOTE GETTERS
We figured out how to send a LOT of votes REALLY quick from your phone.
Go to send a text to 81812 but instead of typing it in just ONCE, type it in about 10 times or so. Then type the word PENS in the subject and hit send.
Instead of just sending ONCE to 81812, it will send 10 times. THEN, click the message back open and hit re-send. Do it OVER AND OVER AGAIN if you have an unlimited text plan!!!