[Sylvanfan]

Okay with the NHL trade deadline approaching, it's like a series of days to take advantage of any friends or co-workers who you think are real suckers. I'm talking about doing your blogger impression and selling these folks on trades that are complete BS to get a rise out of them. This does not involve posting phoney rumors on a message board, but outright lying to your closest friends and seeing how long you can keep them fooled and outraged until you let them in on it.

The trick is you can't make it too far fetched or they'll never believe it. You also have to devise your smokescreen as to where you heard it and why it's not being widely reported yet. But you have to make it so that a player they're emotionally attached to leaves town so they blow a gasket. For example I just told a co-worker of mine that a radio station in Edmonton just reported that Ryan Smyth may be on his way to New Jersey with M-A Bergeron for Paul Martin, Sergei Brylin and Niklas Bergfors. Reason being Edmonton isn't going to resign Smyth and coveted Martin, Brylin was to balance salary, and Bergfors pretty much replaces the pick that Edmonton lost for Roloson last year. It's a total fabrication and complete BS, but he's just lost it and is flipping out.

I need to come up with a couple more of these to sucker my co-workers! I have a Hab fans, and a Canuck fans to pull these stunts on. Post your doozies here. Remember it's all BS and the point is not to sucker a large contingent of hockey fans on an internet site, but to sucker your closest contacts in person.