The real upside to a long term contract like this is it's ability to attract better quality players in the future.

-- "Clever dealings by Canucks GM Gillis" in Vancouver 24 hours on September 3, 2009

The sports section of Vancouver 24 hours is brutal territory for the English language as spelling and grammatical errors are plentiful there. Hockey articles are often the worst culprits and this one is a good example as it contains two errors in a single sentence. A hyphen has been erroneously omitted from long-term contract and the contraction it's is supposed to be the possessive its.