@EricEngels: A sad bit of news, as Ryan O'Byrne has lost his mother to breast cancer.
Not long ago, Ryan left earlier to attend to an "ill parent" but after staying by her side as much as he could, she instructed him to go back and play because there really wasn't anything that he could do anymore. "Do what you love," a hockey parent has the highest of pride when their child is out there on the ice. She did not get to see it but he played one hell of a game last night, and I can only imagine how proud she was of him from those early morning practices to seeing him called in the draft and making the team. I send O'Byrne and his family my deepest condolences.
You make us proud too.