The game's darkest moments

When the horn sounds on the final game of a season, and the banks of lights thunder into darkness in the rafters of an arena, what happens next?

For most of us, we watch the transaction wires and get ready for next year's training camp. That camp convenes in September, and by the season's opening in October, we've forgotten about those third- and fourth-liners, those sixth- and seventh-defensemen that are either in another league, with another team or out of hockey altogether.

We forget about them almost as easily as they forget about the game -- and not because they wanted to. The Toronto Star's Randy Starkman has this great piece from last Sunday's paper.

It's a must read.