Swimming with the Sharks

San Jose Sharks alternate captain Lukas Matterson has been in the NHL long enough to know how this works. Do your job, fulfill your responsibilities, don't make a spectacle of yourself, and above all, don't get involved in any messes.

Mathias Söderlund is a mess.

Mathias, the shamelessly confident and infuriatingly cocky forward for the Los Angeles Kings, seems to have made it his life's mission to unsettle Lukas every time they meet. Mathias brings with him a kind of chaos Lukas can neither ignore nor fully understand.

Lukas Matterson and Mathias Söderlund are used to hating each other. But as the tension between them intensifies, the power struggle that began on the ice starts drifting into more dangerous waters. What once felt like hate begins to grow into something Lukas doesn't know how-and doesn't want-to name.

Or in short:

You have sex with the wrong guy once, and he never leaves you alone.