Option 2:

I know I have to be out on the ice, I can feel that. My gut screams at me and I know this is different from the usual feeling of just wanting to be on the ice. Even though I just had a shift I know I must be back out there. When the whistle comes, I tell him I have to be there, it's do or die NOW and to please trust me in this. If we take this faceoff with me on the ice I will personally take responsibility if we do not manage to score the goal before the game ends. I'm willing to put everything, my entire career as a stake on this because I truly know that if I get that one good hit in to win the puck the opening will be there. Even though I am the defensive minded dman of the team, this one chance of a game changing hit to turn it all around is our hope. The coach? Well, they recognizes the spirit and feeling from their own days as a player and let me in for this chance to equalize.