Crosby’s jerseys should be a carry-on

We’re no fans of shootouts, either, but if you’re the Leafs, you better figure out how to win them because ties might be the best you can hope for on a lot of nights this season.

The adjustment period to the NHL’s new obstruction rules is very much a work in progress. The good news is, the penalties — even ones that produce 5-on-3 power plays — are still coming. When they stop, it will either be because the players have conformed, or the officials have bowed to pressure. You go, zebras!

Note to the Crosby family: Avoid petty theft, take Sidney’s gameworn jerseys home in the hand luggage. How bad can they smell?

Speaking of which, Jason Giambi truly is the Sultan of Sweat. He makes former Edmonton Oilers goalie-cum-head coach Ron Low — previously the most prodigious perspirer I’d ever seen in sport — look like a walking Right Guard commercial.

Sorry, can’t bring myself to write “Poor John Daly.” If he’d spent his career getting into the habit of caring just a little more, on the golf course, he’d have never let himself nonchalant that two-foot putt he missed to hand Tiger Woods the American Express Championship on Sunday. But then, the head was never Daly’s strength.

Long-festering gripe: In Manassas, Va., last month, the Presidents Cup was plastered all over the official brochures put out by Prince William County to trumpet the business and recreational opportunities it offered. Proud host, and all that. Except that the Robert Trent Jones Club, where the Presidents Cup was being played, didn’t appear on any map of the county, not even in a golf guide. That’s because RTJ was content to take the fans’ money, but it doesn’t really want ordinary people driving into the gated property when the tournament isn’t on.

So much of what North America has done to golf is about exclusion, it makes you long for the democracy of the game where it was born, in Scotland. Happily, the Scots have not yet adopted the U.S. model.