NHL imagines

Craig Smith-WC

*y/ns pov*
I headed to capital one arena for practice. When I arrived, I noticed the team talking to a new player. They all parted their ways and I said "Hey Tom, who's the new guy?"

He said "Craig Smith from the Bruins, we're calling him Smitty." I said "okay, let me go introduce myself to him."

He smiled and I headed over to him, I said "Hi I'm y/n, I'm your line mate." He smiled and said "I'm Craig, but call me smitty."

He smiled and I saw that he staring at me, Laviolette said "Y/l/n, Smith get to the ice! You two need to get used to being on the same line together!"

We looked at each other and laughed, we headed towards the ice and skated around for a while. We shot pucks at the goalie, I said "you're good smitty. I think you have some potential with us."

He said "thanks smiley, I hope our season goes well together." Stupid bubbly attitude, always has me smiling. I said "that's not a nickname I want to be called by, so please don't call me that."

He said "what are you going to do about it if I don't?" I said "I'll kill you or just ignore you for the rest of the year."

He said "you don't want to ignore me do you? I don't think you want to do that." I rolled my eyes and said "try me smitty, I'm stubborn enough to ignore you."

He chuckled and said "good luck with that one bud." I rolled my eyes and I skated to the locker room and packed up my stuff because practice was over.

It seemed like Craig got along with everyone else besides me. I felt like the outsider, he doesn't like me because I'm the only girl on the team.

Does he like me? I'm not sure, but I'm going to put it behind me. I headed to my car, I heard someone yell "wait y/n! You forgot something!" I turned around to see Craig.

He said "you forgot your stick tape, I didn't want you to leave it there." I said "thanks smitty, but I always leave that in my locker. I use it before every game."

He said "oh, I guess you can just keep it for tonight." I smiled and said "Are you doing anything? I was going to head to the coffee shop and grab something to eat."

He said "no, I'm free. You want me to meet you there or something?" I said "sure, I'll show you the way just follow me."

He smiled and headed to his car, I started to drive to the cafe. He followed behind me, I couldn't help but smile.

Was he going to confess his feelings for me? no, he wouldn't, he doesn't like me. I headed inside, it was snowing outside. I had a short sleeve shirt on and a pair of sweatpants.

He came in after me and said "hey! What're you going to get?" I said "probably just something small with an iced coffee. What are you going to eat?"

He said "whatever you get, but I'll get hot coffee instead." I smiled and ordered the same thing for both of us. Once we got the food, we sat down at a table.

I said "you said you were traded from Boston?" He said "yeah why? You from Massachusetts?" I said "I'm from Maine, I grew up loving hockey but I couldn't play until college."

He said "Aw, why couldn't you play until college?" I said "I don't know, people in Maine didn't like the idea of women playing hockey."

He chuckled and said "wanna do this again sometime?" I said "sure I would love to." He said "let me give you my number so we can keep in touch."

He grabbed my phone and put his number in, we said our goodbyes and I got a text. It was Craig, it read "tonight was great! Let's do this again tomorrow after the game."

I smiled, I couldn't wait to see what was in store for me.
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Wanted to show love for our new player! But I still miss Hath and Dima!