The
players were getting dress in all their hockey gear; it was their
first minor
peewee hockey game. After they were dressed they awaited
their pep talk
from their coach. The coach waltzed in and explained the
plays they were
to perform in their playing time. After he was done
speaking the
all walked into the middle of the dressing room and placed
their hands
in a circle. They all shouted, “Go team!” The exited
through the
dressing room doors.
As the
entered the arena onto the ice they slowly started warming up
the muscles
in their legs and other body parts. After the whistle was
blown by the
referee which indicated that the practice time was over.
They all skated
to canter ice and lined up. Goalies first of coarse.
Chris stood
at the back of the line. The referee said, “Start!” The
boys started
to touch gloves. The also traded the words, ”Have a good
game!” among
themselves. Chris at the back of the line decided to
change the words
a bit. “You are a loser”, is what Chris said to the
people on the
opposing team. The opposing team just replied with bad
looks towards
Chris.
They engaged
in play and were doing very good until the second period
the other team
had placed their second goal in the net. As the line of
men was called
off Chris said, “You all are losers letting them score
like that!”
None of the team let it get to them. Chris was called to
the ice.
On the ice Chris let guys go by, let them have the puck and
worst of all
let the score. The coach was not happy at all. He called
Chris off the
ice and told him to play hard. Chris just responded but
singing, “We
are going to lose yes, yes, yes, yes we are going to
lose!”
In the third period the boys were losing six to nothing.
Shortly the
game ended. After the game the went to their dressing rooms
and Chris was
saying, “I told you so, I told you so!” The coach raised
his voice in
the reply of, “We only lost because of your bad attitude!”
The players
were given out drinks and went home. Before Chris went home
he stole two
more drinks.
The next
day there was a practice at the same arena. The coach knew
why Chris was
not there. It was because he knew what he had done.
Chris never
did show up at any more practices, no one really knows what
happened to
him. He just disappeared.
The moral of
the story is if you have a bad attitude towards life, you
will lose in
life.
Matthew--age 12