179 words - Prompt 1

Those old coots ran circles around us young guns and it’s honestly demoralizing. We’re the future of the league and we can’t even beat those who are in the tail end of their careers who are well past their prime. The main issue we ran into was taking too many penalties. Those old farts know how to draw calls from the refs and how to disguise their dirty plays as clean and part of the game, so when we retaliate they run circles around us on their highly efficient powerplay that is the big reason why they’re feared. We can rebound from this though because they accidentally tipped their hand to us here in the round robin. By showing us their tips and tricks about dirty plays and similar we’ve memorized what they do and have spent hours in practice working to shut it down. Without their feared powerplay running the show for them, they’ll have to play 5 on 5 the entire time and that’s when our speed and energy comes into play and really dominates the scene.