No need to trash Jeff Watters, he's a great guitar player and a great dude, but I highly doubt that Alexi will ever allow anybody into a COB song. In cover songs he does and has done sometimes, but not in their own songs.
I like mean dudes like Pronger. I'm still trying to decide who I'm going to vote for on the Defensive end for the ASG right now. Lidstrom has been in it soo many times, and you can almost guarentee that he is going to be in that game even if the fans don't vote for him. This is the same reason I don't want to vote for Crosby, Ovi, or Stamkos. Right now I'm kinda thinking Pronger, Byfuglien, or Fowler. I don't know... I'm not too familiar with defensive players in the league. =
Who did you pick?
Well I really hate seeing Pronger up top, I don't like his style of play, so definitely not Pronger haha. Nah, if you want to vote unheralded, go for John Carlsson (he's having a hell of a season with the Caps and he filled extremely well when Mike Green went down for some games) and I guess Byfulglien deserves the other spot, he's been playing tremendous.
If you want an unheralded/write in squad, my choices would be:
FORAWRDS:
-Jeff Skinner (that guy's just unbelievable, Eric Staal must be so happy to finally have somebody to play with haha).
-Alexander Semin
-Patrick Sharp
DEFENCE:
-John Carlsson
-Dustin Byfuglien
GOALIE:
-Jimmy Howard (yes I know he's my goalie, but it's not because of that, it's because he's been playing just amazing, with less games than anybody else he's top at the win department in a really offensive team as Detroit).
I'm not sure if this is old info but I saw this on Jeff Waters' (Annihilator) Wikipedia article.
Jeff also revealed to French fans after a show that Alexi Laiho asked him to play a guitar solo on Children of Bodom's next album.
Alexi has said countless times that in an actual COB album nobody's allowed in besides COB, so I would say Alexi offered him to do a solo on either a cover song for the new album or he offered him to do one for one of the new songs on the cover album but he declined.