Prompt 2

All three of these situations have their own different types of related stress. A tie game has that constant sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. Every time the sim slows down and does the play by play you feel time slow down around you. You start to stand up just a bit when your gain possession and your hands slowly cover your eyes in dread. When you have a one goal you watch the game with a little more confidence. You hold your breath a bit when that play by play starts in your defensive end but you also can relax a bit because you have that cushion to rely on. Down a goal is the true I am going to die viewing experience. The sim never seems to slow down. You just can’t grab the puck and establish possession. Every time it does slow down it is about a missed shot. It is a brutal experience knowing that the best-case scenario at least for right now it getting it tied up and heading to overtime which is a whole other can of worms. Nothing is as tense as watching or playing in that one goal down game.

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