Creative Prompt:

Practice yesterday was quite eventful. We hadn't been playing up to our standards lately so the coaches really put us to the grind in this practice. Tons of endurance drills and repeating basic hockey drills. We hadn't worked that hard in practice in a long time and it really showed. Players were hunched over, trying to catch their breath, and just spent. As champions now, the coaches expect that work ethic every game and they're right. It was a practice we needed, but nonetheless it was absolutely no fun. I think they knew that, though, because after practice they gave us the ice to ourselves and said finish up however you want, and they left.

We were all beat, but this was a great opportunity to do something that we all actually talked about before. A while ago, Donair bought a team set of laser tag gear for everyone. We played a few times at each other's house, but we always talked about playing on the ice. So, we told a trainer to get the operations staff to turn all the lights off while we filled the ice with obstacles and equipment to create a makeshift laser tag course.

We split the players into two groups and proceeded to play the craziest rounds of laser tag ever. It was pitch dark except for the glow of our vests and we were flying on the ice. It was a blast to just act like kids for an hour and really reset ourselves.

(251 words)