puck this| g.germaine

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"Tell me about my new kids." Coach Bombay says to Tibbles as we look at the 5 new players, one being a girl. I stood next to Connie and Averman, Guy was on Connies other side.  "That's Luis Mendoza, he's from our Miami club. A real speedster, incredible skater. I clocked him at 1.9 seconds; blue line to blue line." Tibble says and we watch him skate. "Good-looking skater." Connie says and i nod in agreement. "Very good -looking, what do you think Guy?" Averman says, making me giggle. "Shut up, Averman." Guy says and elbows Averman in the gut making him fall. I couldn't help but laugh, earning a giggle from Guy. "He has one minor problem." Tibble says and Luis falls into the boards. "He has a little trouble stopping." Tibble finishes.

"I'd say so." Goldberg says and we all nod in agreement. The other new player help him up, asking if he's alright. "I'm okay, i almost had it that time." Luis says making everyone new chuckle. "Yee-haw! How is everyone? Y'all ready to play some puck?" The one says putting his helmet on. "Hey look. It's a Hopalong Gretzky!" Jesse says and everyone on the Ducks laugh.  "That's Dwayne Robertson from Austin, he's the best puck handler i've ever seen." Tibbles says as Dwayne shows his skills. "You mean for his age?" Bombay asks. "No, i don't." Tibble says, eyes on Dwayne. "Hey this is easier than ropin hogs! Yee-haw!" Dwayne says as everyone gets mesmerized by his puck handling.

Next was the girl, Julie 'The Cat' Gaffney. "We have a goalie, Goldberg." Bombay says. We all turn to Goldberg say his part then miserably do a split. "Watch this." Tibbles says as Adam, Charlie, and Jesse shot on Julie, she blocked every shot. "Well, we... could use a backup goalie." Coach says and i roll my eyes internally.  I got bored of watching everyone and started making jokes with Averman and Guy until Dean shoved them to the ground while singing. I help Averman up and fixes his glasses, then i help up Guy. I slipped a bit our faces got pretty close, leaving us blushing. I skated over to Charlie, getting as far as possible. "I saw that, Bwenwick." He whispers and i roll my eyes. "I slipped!" I whisper yell back and he shrugs. "Well you both were left blushing." He smirks and playfully punches my shoulder.

After we get yelled at for fighting and Bombay takes Tibbles whistle we finally get to scrimmage the new guys and girl. Jesse lost the face off and i raced down towards our net, Luis had the puck. I skated in front of him playing  defence then he fell into me making me fall on Goldberg. "Thanks for breaking my fall, hot stuff." He says while we both take off our helmets. "Yeah, yeah, anytime." I say as he helps me up. We both turn to Goldberg, "Thanks for breaking our fall." I say then Luis and i begin to laugh. After some time, Fulton shoots it and it hits Mr. Tibbles head.

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After we got changed, Guy, Jesse, Fulton and I went on the zamboni and started messing around. It started moving and crashed through the ice rinks wall and onto the ice. "Wow are you guys okay?" I ask them and they nod. "That was awesome!" Guy exclaimed and we started to laugh. until we saw Bombay and Mackay. "Sorry." Fulton said throwing his arms up. "Yeah, sorry." Guy says and i admire him while he spoke, but looked away when he turned to me. "We're okay." Jesse says and i stifle a giggle.

We hopped down and walked back to the locker rooms, coach ordered another practice. Everyone was already in their gear besides the four of us, leaving us alone in the locker room. "I heard coach say he's  gonna tie us in a big rope." I tell the three boys and they laugh. "Yeah right." Jesse says and i shrug. "Suit yourself , Jess-ster" I smirk and we all laugh before walking back out. As i said in the locker room, i was right. I was pressed against guy and next to Julie. "Somebody better watch their hands." She said and i cringed. Why would someone touch another teammate like that during a team bonding skill. After a second a smell eroded. "Goldberg!" The original ducks and i yell. "It wasn't me!" Goldberg defends himself. "No, it was me!" Dean says, putting his arms up. "We are a team, and to work as one we need to work together. So as one, skate." Bombay commands, we all try to move but end up falling. "Everyone moves their own way, everyone falls down. Get up and try again." Bombay says, it took nearly seven minutes for us to get up.

"Alright, all of you move to your right. Now." Dean says and we start to move until Fulton speaks up. "You made you boss? Everyone to the left." Everyone on the old ducks went to the left snd everyone on the new moved to the right. We fell again, then got up. After a minute or two, we started moving forward together. 

"You guys are starting to look like hockey players. I'm proud of ya team. You worked hard today. You worked hard today, but hockey should also be fun." Coach says as we take a knee. "Rancher Dwayne!" Coach calls out. "Yes, sir!" Dwayne answers turning to Coach. "Round me up some stray cattle there." Coach says handing him a rope. "Uh-oh" I say getting up and skating away as fast as possible. Everyone else was shortly up and skating. Averman was our first, followed by Charlie then Julie.

"I saw you looking at me on the zamboni." Guy whispers to me as we skate. "You were talking, i always look at the person speaking." I lie and he nods. "If you say so Bwenwick." He says with a smirk, making me blush. "Shut up, Germaine!" I say back, blush creeping his cheeks. We shortly stopped playing and danced, Dwayne showing us the moves.

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"Today it's Wheatley's boxes, tomorrow it's action figures, video games, the sky is the limit." Tibbles says showing us a box with us on it. "Hey y'all  that's us!" Dwayne says with a smile. "Duh whatdya know." Fulton says and i roll my eyes at him. "Now just to make sure everyone knows who you are, try on one of these!" Tibbles says holding up a USA jersey. "Wow" I whisper next to Averman who gives me a smile. "Brought to you by all those wonderful people at Hendrix, for all your hockey needs." Tibble says and throws Fulton his jersey, then coach. Everyone gets yo snd grabs their jersey, i saw Charlie not getting his so i got it for him. Coach was next to Charlie when i gave it to him. "These are nice coach." I say with a smile. "Yeah, but we're Ducks and this stuff says Hendrix all over it." Charlie says. "Well yeah, they're our sponsors Charlie." Coach answers.

"Well yeah, but can't we be USA Ducks or at least keep our own colors?" Charlie asks and i walk away before he says anymore.