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.That was what all his goals had been about lately—adding extra reps in the gym on core-strengthening exercises, demonstrating improvement in game situations, that sort of thing.He’d had a great practice today, though.He hadn’t had any problems making the switch from offensive to defensive positioning, and the drills we’d run were seriously challenging on that front.I doubted they were going to bring up his core strength again right now.Besides, why would Bergy include me and these other guys in that discussion if it was really just about Cole Paxton?I shrugged, as though that would help him shrug it off, too.“Don’t worry about it.He’s not going to rip you a new one.” Not today, at least, and not this guy.Bergy tended to reserve that special form of communication for Zee.Sometimes for me and Soupy, too, since we were Zee’s assistant captains this year.He only really slammed into the leadership group—those of us who had special weekly meetings with him and the other coaches where we got to write down other leadership-oriented goals.The rest of the guys tended to get the you-disappointed-me sort of speech more than anything else.That was another way he was different than Scotty.Our former head coach preferred to yell at everyone indiscriminately, and if he wasn’t yelling at you, then you were really in hot water.We skated to the boards near center ice, where Bergy and his assistant coaches, David Weber and Adam Hancock, were waiting.Until last year, Webs had been one of the boys, but he’d retired in the off-season.Handy was a longtime coach in the league.He’d been the head coach of a few teams over the years—both at the AHL and the NHL level—and he’d been an assistant coach more than just a few times, too.I figured Jim Sutter, the Storm’s general manager, had brought him in to give Bergy and Webs an experienced voice to help them make the adjustments smoothly and successfully.Bergy had only been an assistant coach for a couple of years before getting promoted.It wasn’t all that long ago that I’d played against him.“So here’s the deal,” Bergy said once the four of us came to a stop.“I’m going to change things up again with you four, starting with Thursday night’s game.I want to see Jens and Ny together, and Burnzie, I want you with Colesy.”“That’ll give both pairs a bit of snarl and risk-taking, along with a bit of safety,” Handy said.He was the assistant coach that was supposed to be overseeing the defense, but Bergy seemed to have a hard time letting go of that particular responsibility.Bergy had been a defenseman himself, and he’d been in charge of us for the two years he’d been an assistant coach.I had no doubt that I was supposed to be the snarl of my pair.Jens and I had been partnered together almost all last season and part of this season.We both played a pretty similar style, though—physical, hard-hitting, in-your-face hockey.My snarl might be a little nastier than Jens’s, but it really depended on the day of the week and what side of bed we had each rolled out of, and I liked to shoot the puck more than he did.Jens was more about making a good first pass and letting the forwards deal with the offensive side of things, at least most of the time.Before Jens had come to the Storm and throughout quite a bit of this year, I’d played alongside Ny.He was your prototypical Swedish defenseman, right down to doing everything like a machine.He skated well, had a decent shot and a lot of skill, and he played a sound positional game.Coaches liked to put him out on a power play unit because his pass was as good as his shot from the point and he had excellent on-ice vision.He could be a power play quarterback.I hadn’t been paired up with Colesy at all, though, other than a random shift or two.His style was closer to Ny’s, only he was less offensively skilled and more defensively minded than the other three of us.Most people in the hockey world would call him a stay-at-home defenseman, but that wasn’t really accurate.He tended to sit back and let the game come to him, so he rarely got caught out of position.Now he was going to be my partner—at least for the next game or two.It was anyone’s guess how long we’d stay together.I’d spent time playing alongside every other defenseman on the team in the first two and a half months of the season.Changing things up that often didn’t make it easy to form good communication or chemistry—both of which were imperative.Which Bergy knew.He’d played defense in the NHL for over two decades.That was what confused me about why he was switching up the pairings and forward lines so often.We’d barely be starting to figure our partners out when he’d throw another wrench in things and we’d have to start all over again.Bergy cleared his throat.“Everyone good with that?”It wasn’t like we had much say in the matter.“Yeah,” I replied for the lot of us.“Whatever you want.”“Good deal,” Webs said.“So starting with practice tomorrow, that’s how we want you paired up for five-on-five work.Jens and Ny will be the 1-A pairing; Burnzie and Colesy will be 1-B.Burnzie, you’ll be on the first power play unit with four forwards, just like you’ve been doing lately.Jens and Ny will handle the second unit.”Handy scanned a page on his clipboard and squinted.“And for penalty kill situations, I want to try Burnzie and Colesy as the first pairing.Jens, you’ll work with Luka for that,” he added.Luka was Slava Lukashenko, another veteran defenseman who was apparently being moved down to the third pairing now since Colesy was going to work with me.“Everyone clear?” Bergy asked.“Yeah,” we said.“Got it.”“Get out of here then.” Bergy picked his own clipboard up off the boards and started flipping pages, so we skated off in the other direction.“Colesy! I need one more minute,” he shouted before we got off the ice.Colesy groaned and turned back the other direction.Damn.I’d been hoping they’d leave the guy alone.I shot a glance over my shoulder, but it didn’t look like Bergy was pissed off or anything.They wouldn’t yell at him, as I’d said earlier, but I still worried about him.He was a guy I’d taken under my wing, so to speak, when he’d signed here as a free agent over the summer.Out of all the guys involved in the team leadership, I had always been the one planning parties and making sure the new guys knew they were invited along to shit, making everyone feel welcome…until this year.I’d passed that responsibility on to Soupy [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]