Tantrum's Hockey RPF
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Mitch Marner is playing the best hockey of his life. He is one win away from the Stanley Cup, the favorite for the Conn Smythe trophy, and for the first time in a long time, hockey is fun again.
So of course, this can't last.
The phrases are so familiar that for a moment they don't sound like threats at all. They sound like headlines, call-in shows, comments he learned years ago not to read but always seemed to absorb anyway. Overpaid. Selfish. Soft. Not built for this. The old reflexive shame stirs before he can suppress it, absurd and immediate, as though he is once again twenty-two years old and trying to explain to an entire country that he is trying as hard as he knows how.
He takes a step backward. The man reaches into his jacket.
Mitch's mind splinters into practical fragments. He should find security. He should run. He should yell.
"Hey," he says, raising one hand. "Listen, man–"
"If you couldn't win for Toronto," the man says, and there is something heartbreakingly sincere in his voice, as if he is the injured party here. "You don't get to win anywhere."
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- Part 5 of Tantrum's Hockey RPF
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Reaves just looked at him, eyes hard and squinted. "Will broke Mercer's nose."
Tyler just stared. "Smitty?"
Will didn't get angry. Which meant this wasn't Will. Which meant, with the inevitability of a headache beginning somewhere behind his eyes, that somehow this was about Mack.
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- Part 6 of Tantrum's Hockey RPF