Prompt 1

One last game before Christmas break. That's it. Gagner had it in his head that he'd go all out for this one, given that there will be a length break following the game anyway, during which he'd have plenty of time to recover.

After putting up a couple of goals for his team, he found himself in a 4-4 tie in the dying minutes of the game. The coach put him out near the end of regulation, and Gagner knew what he had to do. To score a game winning goal in the final seconds of a game to complete a hat trick is any player's dream. After a minute or so on the ice, nothing was working, and his coach was calling his line to go back to the bench. Gagner made a split second decision to stay out when he got the puck on his stick. This was it, this would be his moment.

That is, until he was stripped of the puck while his team was changing. He was too exhausted to backcheck, and the next thing he knew, the puck was in the back of his team's net. He could feel the anger his coach had towards him without even saying a word. It was in that moment that he knew he'd be getting coal for Christmas.