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“You’d think, after preparing for years, knowing the way things would end for over a decade, the big picture if not the details, that it would hurt a little less when it happened, that it might even be a relief. It doesn’t, and it wasn’t. Sometimes it feels like it hurts more every single day.”
― Thrown Off the Ice
― Thrown Off the Ice
“He may be a rookie, but he's got a gift for face-offs that even most vets don't have: Fitzgerlad's a true natural center which requires just as much instinct as practice.
If he keeps playing like he has, he just might take someone's job out from under them, some poor fucker getting shuffled straight from injured reserve to healthy scratch. Steinberg may as well take his sweet time healing.”
― Thrown Off the Ice
If he keeps playing like he has, he just might take someone's job out from under them, some poor fucker getting shuffled straight from injured reserve to healthy scratch. Steinberg may as well take his sweet time healing.”
― Thrown Off the Ice
“Why can't I just stay with you?” Liam asks.
Mike stares at him. “Because I'm not a fucking lunatic,” Mike says. “And I would become one if I had to deal with you all the fucking time.”
“I'm here all the time anyway,” Liam says.
“And I'm already one day away from killing you.”
― Thrown Off the Ice
Mike stares at him. “Because I'm not a fucking lunatic,” Mike says. “And I would become one if I had to deal with you all the fucking time.”
“I'm here all the time anyway,” Liam says.
“And I'm already one day away from killing you.”
― Thrown Off the Ice
“He introduces himself to Mike before his first game with a outstretched hand and a shit-eating grin, radiating that specific kind of confidence that teenage boys the world over seem to have: cockiness overlaying self-consciousness.”
― Thrown Off the Ice
― Thrown Off the Ice
“I could be goon squad material," Fitzgerald argues.
Typical rookie: of course he wants to be good at everything from the get-go. What Fitzgerald's got is the kind of potential you don't see in the guys mired on the fourth line, the kind of potential Mike's never had in his life.”
― Thrown Off the Ice
Typical rookie: of course he wants to be good at everything from the get-go. What Fitzgerald's got is the kind of potential you don't see in the guys mired on the fourth line, the kind of potential Mike's never had in his life.”
― Thrown Off the Ice
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