So does this make Carey Price cool or a huge dork?

Per Chiliwacktimes (found at Puck Daddy):

Merritt’s Mike Gill road a score of 85 to first place in the bull riding competition and $978.39 at the British Columbia Rodeo Association’s Chilliwack Rodeo last weekend.

Gill barely edged out Chilliwack favourite Jeff Roney, whose score of 84 was good enough for second place and $777.73. Lee Munsey of Kelowna rounded out the top-three.

In the saddle bronc event, Quesnel’s Steve Hohmann’s score of 77 beat out 20 other riders for the first-place winnings. Chilliwack’s Kaila Mussell didn’t ride the short distance home empty handed, though. Mussell, who also happens to be the only female professional saddle bronc rider in North America, scored 68 to finish in fifth place and earn $139.23.

Justin King of Sagle, Idaho, won the bareback event, with Hohmann increasing his haul by taking both second and fifth place. (Each saddle bronc and bareback rider rode twice and could claim multiple prizes. King was also fourth in the bareback.)

Laura James’s time of 16.049 seconds was enough to narrowly edge out Judy Hyde in the ladies barrel racing and claim $1,046.61. The junior barrel racing was just as close, with Fallon Fosberry of Merritt claiming first prize with a time of 16.397 seconds

Willee Twan of Alkali Lake, B.C. won the tie-down roping with a blazing time of 9.2seconds, Mike Gill of Merritt wrestled a steer to the ground in just five seconds to win that event, and Charlie Soffel of Vanderhoof and Cody Falconer of Merritt shared first-place winnings in breakaway roping. Lane Cork of Quesnel won the junior steer riding event with a score of 71.

Finally, Ryan MacNaughton and Ty Lytton of Quesnel and 100 Mile House, respectively, won the team roping event.

Team roping, in which one rider attempts to lasso a calf’s horns and another goes for a hind leg, doesn’t normally get as much attention as the wild-animal riding contests. But Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price’s attempt to snare a couple of calves shone a light on the sport.

Price learned the ropes, so to speak, on Friday and Saturday, before giving the event a go for real on Sunday. He should stick to hockey; he recorded two no-time scores as he was unable to snare the calf’s hind leg with his lasso. But despite his lack of team-roping talent, Price was a hit with locals, according to organizer Helen Larson.

“The kids loved it; he posed for lots of pictures . . . and answered all the kids’ questions,” said Larson, who had Price sign her own Canadiens jersey, bought specially for the rodeo.

For those wondering, team roping was the only event the NHL would let Price participate in.