The Hockey Captain Wants the Size 20 Team Chef Every Night novel · Chapter 9 of 24

Chapter 9: Out Eight Weeks

The article said a source close to the team felt the captain's "personal distractions" were "a risk to the Cup run."

It named no one.

It didn't have to.

Hank Doyle printed it, taped it to the wall of the coaching office, and wrote a single word across the top in marker.

"Garbage."

Doran scored ten goals in the next fourteen games.

Then, in the first week of February, a defenseman from Montreal took his knee out at the blue line.

I was in the arena kitchen when I heard the crowd go silent.

You can hear twenty thousand people stop breathing.

I ran down the tunnel with my apron still on.

Doran lay on the ice on his side, trainers around him, his face gone gray.

He saw me over their shoulders.

"Don't," he said through his teeth. "Don't cry on the ice."

"I'm not crying."

"You're crying."

"Shut up, Doran."

They put him on a stretcher.

The doctor said the ligament was torn but the joint was stable.

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