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You feel your heart banging against your rib cage. You are sucking in air. You are smiling.

You smell the sweat that’s built up over the years seeping out of your hockey gear, its presence somehow reassuring.

You. Are. Beyond. Confident.

You inhale the frozen air coming off the ice. It reminds you of all the years you’ve spent flying from one end of the rink to the other. This is your ice.

You are solid, stable, balanced. Ready to take off.

You see the image of a panther in your mind’s eye—dangerous, fully focused, and ready to explode at any second with controlled aggression.

This is your time.

This is your game.

You are playing the game of your life!

Then, in the time it takes to power a puck from one end of the ice to the other, you hear,

“What the hell did you do that for?! You are an idiot!”

What?!?

Within seconds, that hockey dream is now your worst nightmare.

The puck turns over. The other team is running away with your vision, your mission, your future.

The blow is painful. You snap right back down to earth—bang!