Afternoon Delight: Go Back to Russia

• Black Dog Hates Skunks with yet another excellent post about life and the Oilers. The writing is always superb, and his thoughts on the Oilers are bang on.
• A troika of news items from Spector. Lots of interest in Boullion?
• Canada has advanced to the gold-medal game at the Ivan Hlinka, thanks to a 9-0 drubbing of the Czech Republic. Always nice to see these kids do well, since the tournament doesn’t receive much fanfare.
• Ilya Kovalchuk discusses the NHL and KHL relationship.
• Style and Sports takes a closer look at Zach Budish. He is a project at this point, but would be a good fit in Nashville.
• Cash for Clunkers, hockey style.
• Small Thoughts at Large offers a glimpse into what travel in the WHL looks like. I feel bad for the those Brandon kids.
• A quick look at some one-year wonder teams.