Remember the NHL?

Anyone happen to know that the NHL season has been underway for about 2 weeks now? With the start of the NFL and MLB playoffs its easy for hockey to be forgotten. The video clip below gives you a reason to catch up on what you've been missing this season.

After the third or fourth viewing of the slow-motion replay of this Milan Lucic check, you actually see a large piece of the glass smack Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Mike Van Ryn in the noggin. Perhaps the greatest argument for the necessity of helmets we've seen in quite a while.

The hit came 18 seconds into the second period tonight in Boston; what makes this play even more amazing is that Van Ryn scored the Leafs' first goal almost exactly six minutes later, sparking a rally of four unanswered goals for a 4-2 Toronto win over the Boston Bruins.

Hope those fans that got the shard shower are OK. Or at the very least that they didn't get glass shavings in their beer, what with the cost of a brew in Boston these days. [PuckDaddy]