Dion Phaneuf awakes with a start. It is early in the morning and the sun has yet to peek over the horizon. Dion sets his alarm for sunrise everyday. Something is wrong and it is this wrongness that has woken Dion.

He gets out of bed and stretches. Reaching out with his extra senses Dion senses an emptiness he hasn’t felt in over five years. Confused and startled Dion takes a step in the darkness. Pain rips through his body as his shine bumps hard into the coffee table of his unfamiliar hotel room.

Now Dion is truly frightened. He should not feel any pain. Concentrating Dion tries to lift himself off the floor. Flight was the first super power he discovered as The Captain. It has always come easily to him, until today. Again and again he leaps futilely, unable to sustain any sort of loft.

At last he gives up and curls up into a ball on the floor. He weeps because he knows that the lose of his powers can only mean one thing. Only the captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs can call on the powers of The Captain. Dion’s time as a Leaf is over.

“No. Please.” He weeps and begs an unforgiving universe. “Please don’t take this from me. Please.”

There is no answer because the deal is done. Farewell Dion Phaneuf.