Women don't need cups!

Our Governor-General, Adrienne Clarkson, wants the Canadian and American women's hockey teams to play for the Stanley Cup this year. Apparently she is serious too! This has to be one of the worst ideas I've ever heard in my life. Last year the Tampa Bay Lighting fought through a grueling 82 game schedule before winning 4 best of 7 playoff rounds. It is a disgrace to the cup to allow a signle series to decide the winner. Worse yet, it is with women hockey players. Not that I don't enjoy watching women's hockey, because I do enjoy it, but the Stanley Cup should be going to the best team not the best team of people that do not happen to have penises. This is so arbitrary we may as well just say whoever wins the QMJHL this year gets the cup. Nevermind that the OHL and WHL are the same level we could give it to the Memorial Cup winner, but no, let's just pick a league out of a hat and let them have the cup. There are so many better choices out there. Have the winners (or top 2 or 3 teams) of all the major hockey leauges in the world operating right now and have a playoffs. At least that would have a shred of legitimacy with NHL players probably on each of the rosters.

The other problem is not only how bad of a choice for teams to play for the cup, but that they are not legally allowed to play for it. The cup will not be awarded to anyone but an NHL team this year. Says one of the cup trustees, "It's really sad not to see it competed for, but under the terms of our agreement, there's no basis under which we could take it back and say that someone else is going to compete for it." But of course we can't expect Adrienne Clarkson to show discretion with anyone else's property the way she spends OUR money on completely useless things.

Please Adrienne Clarkson, if you want to be more useful to Canada follow my advice: shut up, buy a plane ticket to some unkown location - one way - take a million dollars spending money, and leave us alone until your term is over!