Losing to Them!

I watched as the Goalie caught Gunnar's shot. I couldn't believe it. We lost to them! We lost to Team USA. We were supposed to win. Their captain was assistant coaching and their star player had a bad wrist. How could we lose? But we did. Coach Stansson was angry.

We all followed Coach Stansson's instructions. He told all of us to watch out for Banks and Tyler. Banks because of his wrist and Tyler because he had a good shot. When Banks went on the ice, I hit him with my hockey stick. Not my fault that he had extra padding. When Tyler was on the ice there was always three players on him. Then they pulled a trick on us and hid him as the Goalie. We did what Stansson said and Team USA won.

Gunnar wants us to shake their hands. He has to be kidding. Us shake their hands. But we did anyway. I shook the hand of Banks and looked at it. It was taped up pretty well. He shouldn't have been playing. We skated off the ice. I looked back once again and saw Team USA skating around with their flag.

There was always the next Junior Goodwill Games. We'd meet again.