Sporting Madness

Once again, the Ultimate Canucks Search has produced some great stuff. One of my favorites is "The Battle of the NorthWest." Check it out here . Thanks to James Mirtle for spotting this originally.

As those who don't live under rocks (or south of the 49th parallel) assuredly know already, Tuesday was the NHL trade deadline. They should go ahead and declare it a national holiday already: it makes much more sense than "Family Day", and everyone knows no self-respecting Canadian actually got any work done during the day(particularly because TSN streamed their trade deadline coverage online and got over a million streaming viewers ). In fact, James Duthie referred to the day as " Canada's Unofficial National Holiday. " Anyways, plenty of interesting deadline deals went down. Far better minds than I, including Stephen Brunt , Tim Wharnsby and James Mirtle , have extensively analyzed what went down. There's one team that I thought deserved special attention for their moves, though: the always-dangerous Colorado Avalanche, who added Peter Forsberg, Adam Foote and Ruslan Salei, but didn't even make Wharnsby's list of deadline winners . The Forsber...