DU Alum and Colorado Avalanche center Paul Stastny has been named to the 2008 NHL Western Conference All-Star roster, the league announced today. He will make his first career All-Star appearance when the 2008 NHL All-Star Game is played at Philips Arena in Atlanta on Sunday, January 27 (6:00 p.m. ET, VERSUS Network).Stastny, currently the team’s leading scorer with 44 points (15g/29a) through 43 games this season, was named to the All-Star squad by the NHL’s Hockey Operations Department in conjunction with League general managers. He is also scheduled to participate in the NHL All-Star Skills competition which takes place Saturday, January 26.
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This is to my knowledge, the first DU player to make an NHL all-Star team since the mid-late 1980s when Glenn Anderson and Kevin Dineen were all-stars. Correct?
Glad to see Stasny get this well deserved honor. Hopefully he breaks out of his recent scoring funk.
Glenn Anderson played in the NHL All-Star game in '84,'85,'86 & '88.
Kevin Dineen in '88 & '89.
I guess the correct answer is Stastny is the first since Kevin Dineen in 1989.
Keith Magnuson played in the All-Star game in '71 & '72.
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