Larry Brooks live up the adage, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
From George Gillett's own mouth, neither Bob Gainey nor Pierre Boivin have any interest in taking on a 10-year contract. And yet Larry Brooks has proclaimed the deal done. Put your job on the line, there Lar. If no deal is done at or before the draft, quit sportswriting and go into your true vocation: fiction.