Listen up, Thrashers' fans.

All ten of you.

We have a crisis on our hands. Something that demands our urgent and utmost attention. We must band together and put our collective wills into this effort. This is the latest update on voting for All-Star defensemen. Take a look at this injustice:

Defensemen              
*Kris Letang     Pittsburgh     342118
Duncan Keith     Chicago     271227
Chris Pronger     Philadelphia     254500
Nicklas Lidstrom     Detroit     241922
Kimmo Timonen     Philadelphia     204622
Brent Seabrook     Chicago     177068
*P.K. Subban     Montreal     172695
Drew Doughty     Los Angeles     139937
Dustin Byfuglien     Atlanta     133885
Brian Rafalski     Detroit     127307
Paul Martin     Pittsburgh     126589
Mike Green     Washington     125590
Zdeno Chara     Boston     94701
Marc Staal     NY Rangers     81313
Andrei Markov     Montreal     67627
Dan Boyle     San Jose     63434
Brian Campbell     Chicago     59507
Joni Pitkanen     Carolina     54773
Shea Weber     Nashville     54196
Dion Phaneuf     Toronto     47962
Sergei Gonchar     Ottawa     47056
*Brooks Orpik     Pittsburgh     43779
*Tim Gleason     Carolina     40087
*Josh Gorges     Montreal     38348
*John-Michael Liles     Colorado     35615
Tomas Kaberle     Toronto     34862
Dan Hamhuis     Vancouver     31884
Stephane Robidas     Dallas     23949
*John Carlson     Washington     23596
*Dan Girardi     NY Rangers     23251
Tobias Enstrom     Atlanta     21307

Buff is in 9th, and Toby is in 31st behind such luminaries as who? Kris Letang? Pffft. PK Subban? Andrei Markov? Those Habs fans are at it again, stuffing the digital ballot box. I guess they ran out of things to light on fire. Markov's injured, he can't even play. Neither can Chris Pronger. Besides, we can't let Pronger anywhere near the ASG - everything not nailed down would disappear, and that would probably include the Montreal forwards. He could stuff like, three or four of those guys in his pockets, and we'd never see them again.

Look, point is, we're running out of time, and we need to do something. My proposal: we campaign for Buffstrom '11. What is Buffstrom '11? It's the idea that the Thrashers have the best top D-pairing in the NHL, and it's time they all recognized. It's the idea that these two fine young men must both be propelled into the All-Star Game, and anything less would be... less. It's bigger than you, bigger than me, bigger than all of us. These guys are truly a team, and they belong together at this glorified skills competition centerpiece of quality hockey. They are two halves of a whole,the sum is greater than the parts, like... like... Voltron, man. Yea, Voltron.

What about those empty cough syrup bottles? I've been sick. Don't judge me.

Listen, we need to get this off the ground. I've got some slogans done up here, and I want you guys to vote on them. We'll take the best ones and comment bomb as many places as we can. We've only got a limited amount of time remaining - we need to go all Banksy on this mother. Guerilla style, knawmean? If you have a better slogan, post it in the comments, and we'll add it to the ballot.

But before you do that, do this:

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

OR

Text "Byfuglien" or "Enstrom" to 81812

Vote Buffstrom 11.

Buffstrom '11. Cause it's what the cool kids are doing.