I stumbled upon this picture I took a long time ago. I remember taking it because it was the first time I tried using a long lens(a 300 mm) at a hockey game and I was having trouble getting any good action. But I stuck with it figuring this is how you learn--struggle until its no longer a struggle. I was still trying to figure out how to follow the action when all of a sudden I just saw these two heading toward one another--they looked in focus and I clicked! All I saw was them heading toward one another and then I saw them both falling to the ice. One of the old sayings in photography is if you saw it--you missed it--meaning if you saw the action then the shutter wasn't pushed. It was on of the best hockey pictures I had gotten and perhaps the only one that day since I struggled so much trying something new( I use the 300 all the time now). About a month later I got an email from a friend of mine near Boston who asked me about this hockey picture he saw on Jay Leno. It was this shot. The shot itself didn't land on Leno's late night desk, it was the combination of the headline and the picture. The headline read 'Clean hit'. Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer