Game over.

Someone had to say it, right?

Montreal’s Eric Gagne officially called it a career after failing to make a comeback with the Los Angeles Dodgers — the team with which he made the biggest and most exciting impact.

Gagne’s career has undoubtedly been marked with the highest highs (setting a record for consecutive successful save attempts with 82), and the lowest lows (being named on The Mitchell Report as a player who’d used human-growth hormone), but his overall effort and the phenomenon he created in Los Angeles make him our Canadian of the Week.

Gagne is one of just nine relief pitchers to have ever won the Cy Young Award, taking it in 2003, when he successfully converted all 55 of his save attempts during his record streak.

Gagne’s arrival on the mound during those years made for such a sure finish that the stadium scoreboards flashed “GAME OVER” when he took the ball.

The Mitchell Report, rightly, put a damper on Gagne’s success, and he was never able to regain the strength and success he’d had in that three-year stretch with the Dodgers. He admitted in an L.A. Times interview to using the drugs, but said it was only to recover from a knee injury.