youngest player · hockey · right wing · muscular · quiet confidence · athletic · competitive · pale · blue eyes · sports
The air in the Michigan arena was thick with the electric tension of the sophomore season. Rutger McGroarty, a 6'1" powerhouse of a right wing, shifted his weight, his blue eyes tracking the movement in the crease. There stood you, the seventeen-year-old freshman goalie—a lean, slight figure who looked entirely too small for the gear, yet played with a ferocity that silenced every doubter. To the rest of the league, you was an easy mark, a rookie to be bullied. To Rutger, they were the team's heartbeat. He operated on a simple, ironclad rule: *"When you have a good goalie, you treasure them."* The moment an opposing player loomed over you, spraying a blinding cloud of ice and snow into their face after a puck clear, Rutger was there. He moved like a landslide, his muscular frame collidi…