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"the ducks trail 3-1 and now they call on number 44, fulton reed and number 14, athena bates to save their defence," the commentator spoke as me and fulton stood next to eachother.

"and the ducks get it back to fulton reed. hall and bates clear the net. here's reed winding."

fulton swung his stick back hitting the puck, knocking the hawks goalie in the net as he scored.

"fulton reed has scored, and the ducks are back in the game," the commentator said as the team on the ice surrounded fulton cheering.

"more fun! more fun!" coach screamed as we celebrated.

i was sat on the bench as the hawks scored another goal leading 4-2.

"guys, guys listen up, listen. we have got to stay fired up and focused, all right? it ain't over til it's over. tammy, tommy, let's show these hawks something really different. come here." coach beckoned us all in as he told us the game plan.

i was once again sat on the bench as i watched tammy distract the team with her figure skating before scoring a goal taking us up to 4-3.

the whole bench jumped up cheering before fulton ran out after a hawks player after they pushed tammy down.

"he grabs mcgill from behind and throws him over the boards into the bench."

as soon as i saw fulton i cheered him on before he got pulled out of the game for, misconduct.

"i'm off coach," he spoke passing us.

"he barely touched him," coach tried to back him up but it was no use.

i was back onto the ice neck and neck with a hawks player trying to get the puck.

coach called a line change but ordered me to stay on as we were going the 'flying v' something we have perfected in practice recently.

jesse went behind the net as we followed him. jesse passed the puck to guy as i was on the other side of him and passed it back to me and the rest of the team knocked down the hawks players.

i made a bee line for the goal knocking a hawks player down on my way hitting the puck straight into the goal making us tie with the hawks 4-4.

averman and connie stood up followed by the rest of the team as we cheered and had a huge group hug.

i was on the bench listening to the commentator, "with the score 4-4, the next goal will decide the championship. tremendous pressure. neither team can afford any mistakes now. 23 seconds left to go in regulation."

averman passed to puck to charlie as he made his way down to the goal but was knocked down just before the buzzer, the ref calling a penalty.

"all right ducks, who's gonna take it?" coach asked us all.

without a second thought i shouted "charlie," just as he shouted "athena."

"i think guy should take it," connie said after us.

"what about charlie?" coach asked stood next to me.

"let him finish what he started," coach said.

"coach, we have a chance to win."

"yeah we do charlie if you do it," i said patting his shoulder just before coach took him away to speak to him away from the group.

we began cheering for charlie as he made his way onto the ice, "you got this charl," i shouted sending him a smile.

"charlie, charlie, charlie," we began chanting.

we all watched in suspense and after doing the triple deke he scored, making us the champions.

for a second everything went quiet until we raced onto the ice surrounding charlie in a huge hug.

"we did it!" i screamed as i hugged connie before letting her hug guy.

my dad ran down onto the ice scooping me up into his arms, his eyes glistening with tears, "you did it, wow, my girl a champion," he said as he put me on his shoulders.

this feeling could never be matched. this was home. this was my family.