Mock Draft… behind the scenes

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[Sports Illustrated writers Darren Eliot and Adrian Dater are walking, discussing their recent collaboration]

DE: It was nice to work with you again, Dater, I think that was a pretty solid mock draft.

AD: My favorite part was when I picked Erik Karlsson before Zdeno Chara.

DE: That was a —

 

Sedins: /silent staring

AD: Oh, um… how’s it going.. guys

Henrik: Hello internet web writer journalists

Daniel: We have been waiting for you since we read your internet web article on the internet web.

DE: We posted that about 6 hours ago. Have you been waiting here the whole time?

AD: And how did you know we were even in the same city?

Henrik: We knooooooow things

/Seagulls catch the Sedins attention, they both stare for a minute

/Dater clears his throat

Daniel: We do not understand your internet web article

DE: Oh, it was a mock draft. We were pretending that we were acting as Niklas Lidstrom and Eric Staal might for the All Star Game.

/blank stares

AD: You know.. The All Star Game Captains

Henrik: The what?

AD: The… captains

/Henrik screams a terrifying, high pitched scream.

Daniel: EFTERBLIVEN! The Sedins are captain! The Sedins are captain!

DE: You’re the captain of the Vancouver Canucks! Wait. One of you is —

Daniel :WE ARE THE CAPTAIN!

DE: OK, OK! You are the Captain of the Canucks! They are the captain of the All Star Teams!

/Henrik finally stops screaming

Henrik: Explain then the draft. It is my understanding that Sedins must always be taken as one.

AD: Well, no. It worked that way in the NHL draft but…

/Henrik starts screaming again

Daniel: EFTERBLIVEN! How would you like it if we had an internet web writer journalst

/tries to do air quotes, flaps entire arms

“mock draft” and picked Darren Eliot and Adrian Dater on different internet web writer journalist teams?! You see how impossible your

/arm waive thing again

“mock draft” is?

DE: Um. Adrian and I already usually work for different

/successfully accomplishes air quotes

“internet web writer journalist teams”

/silence

/Except for screaming Henrik

/Daniel bends over, picks up a rock and throws it at and hits a seagull

Daniel: Stop screaming Henrik. It’s time for dinner

/Darren Eliot and Adrian Dater are left alone in confused silence

AD: They’re still better than Belfour

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