the exclusion of knox booth from the western conference all star roster is a head scratcher to me. booth put up a top 5 goaltending performance in the league from a middle of the pack team--a similar narrative to western conference all star markus tegernako. booth got bumped for texas goaltender cillian kavanagh who is having an excellent season, but has been protected by working in a tandem with white goodman and playing behind a significantly better defense corps. kavanagh played 700 fewer minutes and faced an astonishing 900 fewer shots than booth, whose 0.923 save percentage has clearly been tested by a massive sample size. ultimately i believe booth was a better all star nomination choice than both roenick, who ended the season 24 points behind his team's scoring leader, and fox, whose possession and defensive performance fell off dramatically in the back half of the season. booth will receive mcbride votes this season assuredly, so it is a shock that he didn't get an all-star nod as well.