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I appreciated his desire to pull me closer to the guys.
I respected him for that.
But at some point I figured I’d have no choice but to break out my contract and show them that it clearly statedONE FUCKING SEASON.
That was it.
I was here to collect my seven figures, set the record for most fights and penalty minutes by one player in the history of the team, help them find their balls to get better, then move on.
“Come on, Atlas, talk to us,” Sebastian said.
“Look, this team is good,” I said. “You’re all smart enough. You all know how to play the game. I think the problem is taking everything all at once and trying too much. Trying too hard. Probably sounds fucking stupid, right? Worst team in the league trying too hard? But if you slow it down a little. Dumb it down. These intensely designed plays right off the puck drop aren’t going to get us anywhere.”
“Are you challenging the coaching staff?” Joe asked.
“No. They’re doing what they think is best for us. What I’m saying is we should take the ice and take the ice from the ice level first. When we win a face off we attack the net. Desperate. If you play desperate, you’re going to fucking lose.”
“I’m going withB,” Rome said.
I watched as he put a fifty dollar bill into an empty glass at the middle of the table.
“What?” I asked.
“Game’s starting,” Henry said.
“What fucking game?” I asked.
Rome smiled at Jago. “Go for it. Tell him the rules.”
Jago inched closer to me.
This guy smelled like the cologne counter in a shopping mall.
And he dressed like he was going to some fucking movie awards show.
Maybe that was just a goalie thing.
I looked at him. “What are you doing?”
“We play a game,” he said. “It’s calledThe Cup Game.”
“OrSize Squeeze,” Rome said.
“Nobody calls it that but you,” Sebastian said. “Nobody is squeezing a thing without consent. At best, you get a look.”
“A look at what?” I asked.
“Boobs,” Jago said.
I rolled my eyes. “What the fuck?”
“Listen, Atlas,” Rome said.
“We pick out a woman and guess her size,” Jago said.
“Her size?”
“Boobs,” Jago repeated with a smile as though he just saw his first pair of breasts ever.
