The mysterious stranger pulls out a peanut butter, jelly, and banana sandwich. The exact same type of sandwich Valerija Serapin's adopted father would make for her before games and the one she makes on her own after she turned pro. Clearly this individual had done their homework, which made Valerija even more worried. Caught between two different gut feelings, she trusted her streen honed instincts. She knocked out this stranger out with one mighty punch. Her gut made the right call as the stranger was actually a Russian mobster and his attempt to rig the game against the Patriotes. The fact that someone would come after her made her angry and with that anger she put togther a amazing performance on the ice that night. Hunger and stress were her reality in her early days and the certainly had no chance of slowing her down for even a minute.