My eyes are burning from the concentrated WIN involved in this move. See, THIS is the kind of stuff we need for that all start deke competition or whatever they call it from last season…I’m sorry, this is probably just the second best shootout goal ever, if not the best (Datsyuk’s is my #1, personally).

Do note that this is actually Jeff posting in Steve’s name. I got a hold of him and asked if he’d like to take part, he said he would if he wasn’t busy, so for now we could post up the stuff he’s doing for the world.

Guess its a good thing we have all these defenceman stocked up, aint it?

Why do I say this? Because Mike Van Ryn is out for a month.

As we all mostly know (if you don’t, see the video below), Tom Kostopoulos was doing his job being an energetic human smasher, and managed to hit Van Ryn from behind, get a boarding penalty, and get kicked out of the game. Van Ryn would end up having trouble getting up, and being sent to hospital.

Turns out that the hit caused him to break his hand.

And his nose.

Oh, and throw in a concussion.

Thankfully for the Leafs, we still have Kubina, Kaberle, Schenn, Finger, Colaiacovo, Stralman, Frogren, and White. In fact, I think we can afford to lose two more defencemen without major hassle. Hopefully it doesn’t happen, but I’m just saying…it won’t really hurt unless those two are one of the “big two” and Schenn.

By the way, I’m kind of shocked Grabovski wasn’t the victim tonight - how many times was he hit? Apparently he wasn’t happy either. I haven’t heard his interview yet, but I did hear that he basically called everyone but Koivu on the habs unprofessional. Bad blood? You bet.

As promised, here is the video (thanks to Whitby4Bob, as for some reason I can’t get WMM to take my recordings on this new tuner. Say, does anyone know of a good basic free video editing program to use just for trimming?).