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Dane’s walking towardwith any of his shit tonight Nervous energy courses through ed beast

I just want this night to be over I’ to enjoy it But it has to be done, and I’m ready

My hand finds ether as a teaive a pregaames in a row, it should be an easy win I don’t knohat to say tonight, though

Pike seems to know

“Guys, this one’s for our captain,” he says “We all knohy” There are nods and hands on ht and leave it all on the ice Let’s go”

My blood runs hot as we leave the locker room It’s time to tie this loose end up

Coach surprises ot bail money Do what you need to do, son”

My teaet ejected fro streak But so

The Tampa crowd is obnoxious; hecklers lay into me from the moment my skate blades touch the ice

“Are you shaking yet, Hagen?” a man in the front row screams

“Hey, I fucked your fiancée, too!” another voice shouts

I drown it all out,atthe face-off, our eyes meet, but I can’t read his expression

My focus is split tonight—I’ an eye on Hunter, waiting forover to him as hard as I can I only make it halfway, and then someone knocks me to the ice

“Sorry, dude,” Hunter’s tea down at me “I slipped”

It was a blatant and unwarranted hit, but the refs oing to get ugly

As soon as play starts again, Pax flattens McCoy McCoy is too dazed to even get up and Pax heads to the penalty box, grinning at the heckler yelling about what he did to Pax’s ht

We’re winning 3–2 Penalty after penalty and power play after power play There are a couple guys on Taht is a battle, and there are no pleasant words exchanged between us

I’ets, we have to pull this one off

A Taet up I skate over, praying we didn’t just lose our starting goalie

“You good?” I ask him