…and the top prize goes to: Rick Reilly!

Senile reporting at its finest.

An excerpt.

Anyway, I think Americans who come to these Winter Olympics should try to be nice back. You can’t be nicer than Canadians, but you can try. Here’s how:

Pretend that you have to plug in your engine block at night to keep it from freezing, too. Makes them feel better.

Indeed. From my experience you can’t go 10 feet in Vancouver without people complaining about the winter conditions.

With such logic it’s no wonder that Pratt chose to plagiarize his words.

The $10,000,000 Tent

Not sure how a tent ends up costing $10,000,000. But hey, apparently it does.

Now I could care less about how it looks.

No, what gets me is the fact that it cost $10,000,000 for something that I’m sure any sane person could make for under $1,000,000.

Or how about the fact they hired a Chicago firm to build it. I guess people in Canada can’t come up with such high end designs.

Ilya Kovalchuk

Not sure what to think of the trade but I think Atlanta received more than fair value especially for the position they were in.

If the Canucks wanted to do a comparable trade it would be somewhere along the lines of… Jordan Schroeder (still would rather have Bergfors), Bieksa (= Oduya), Grabner (comparable prospect value to Cormier I would think) and a first rounder. That’s a pretty heavy youth dumping for a rent-a-player. Glad the Canucks passed.

Pratt & Taylor

I am pleased to announce that I’ve stopped listening to Pratt & Taylor. Well I have listened maybe a total of 5 hours in the last two months but my system is as Pratt-free as it can get. I seem quite happier too. lol.

So the title is a little very misleading  but if I may be so bold as to propose a trade.

Sami Salo, Pavol Demitra and… Cody Hodgson

for

Ilya Kovalchuk (assuming he signs a cap loophole contract that would lower the hit to $5 mil a year).

Bold move? You bet. But with Louie, Sedins, Kesler and Kovalchuk all in their primes that creates a real cup contender (not one based on hype).

Think about it. Hate to see Cody go but it’s a deal that can finally bring a parade to Vancouver that doesn’t include tight leather pants.