Claws on Ice
For the first two periods, it was the Yasmine show, while I was getting screamed at by Coach, almost getting benched twice for nearly missing my rotations because I was trying too hard to compensate for the North pack’s cheap shots.
And by the third period, I was completely fed up. If I was going to get blamed anyway, I might as well make it fun.
“Time for a little humble pie.”
As the play moved toward the net, I fake-tripped, sending my stick sliding perfectly into the path of the Northern defender who was closing in on Yasmine.
It caused a massive, clumsy pile-up that completely shielded what I did from the ref, but it forced Yasmine to lose her footing and awkwardly slide face-first into