One in 2330 ~ Connor Bedard Love Story

42. Advertisements and Introductions

Over the course of our four game road trip against the Western Conference, we lost Every. Single. Game.

Our spirits based on our season weren't that high, but the entire team was excited to see me go to the All-Stars.

I tried to convince Connor to come with me, but apparently he had already made plans to hang out with his family, which I couldn't fault him for.

"Bye guys," I said to the team, giving each one of the hug at the airport. I gave Connor a hug as well and looked around to make sure that no one was watching us before giving him a quick peck on the lips.

"I wish you could come and watch." I whispered, hugging him again. "I'm going to miss you so much."

"I'll miss you too, but don't worry, I'll call you every night and I'll be watching everything on t.v." Connor assured me before I boarded my flight to Toronto.

The flight was long, but I was immediately greeted by the faces of my brothers.

"Soph!" Matt shouted, racing over to me and practically tackling me to the ground in a hug. "I can't believe you're an All-Star!"

"Our baby sister is all grown up." Brady said, acting like a mama hen, wiping a fake tear from his face.

"You guys are ridiculous," I chuckled, rolling my eyes at them. "So, we staying in a hotel? Air B&b? What's the plan?"

"I got us an Air B&B near Scotiabank Arena and where we're filming the advertisement, so we should be good." Brady explained. "Also, just so you know, there's a giant welcome party and dinner on Wednesday that we have to go to."

"Sweet,"

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Monday, January 29, 2024. 10:30 AM.

I was told to bring all of my hockey equipment with me to the set, which had me a little confused. I remember watching Connor's ad on t.v-laughing the entire time at how bad his acting was- and he was just wearing his hockey gear from the waist down and a compression shirt.

"Hello, Miss Tkachuk. If you could put your gear over with your brothers' then stand with your brothers and the Hughes Brothers, that would be great." A lady told me as soon as I had arrived.

After wondering exactly what we were going to be shooting, I was finally told that I would actually be shooting two ads. One with Brady and Matt and one with Q, Jack and Brady.

The one with Brady and Matt would be Matt and Brady fighting in the back with me sitting in the front and mom, who would be driving the car, telling them to break it up. Once she tells them a second time, mom tells Brady to go to the back and he complains about me being in the front. And just smirk and say, "Sorry, man. I'm just better,"

Honestly, it didn't really make much sense, but we all know it was going to be hilarious. The hard part would be the fact that we had to do this in full gear.

The one with Q, Jack and Brady thought was going yo be fun to film.

Q, Brady and I would be waiting outside of a building with our gear in hand, waiting for Jack to come pick us up. Once he finally does, we all fight for the front seat, me finally getting it, and us all yelling at Jack for being so late.

In the end, we managed to get all the ads filmed and we watched them together, laughing at each other.

"You two look like girls in a cat fight," I told my brothers as we all were laughing our heads off at our ad.

"Yeah, well, how come you get to be in the front all the time!" Brady complained.

"Cause," I shrugged. "I'm clearly just better than you."