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Five minutes before practice is scheduled to end, Coach Giles blows his whistle and motions for us to join him at the bench. His typically stoic face crinkles into something like a smile.
“Great news,” he says. “Just got a text from the activities office. Halcyon Lake has been selected as one of this year’s HockeyFest cities.”
Carter whoops and Justin lifts me off my skates and spins me around as the guys talk over one another in their excitement.
“Holy crap,” Showbiz Schroeder says. “Ho.Ly. Crap.”
This is the closet Showbiz comes to swearing (admirable, considering the potty mouths on our team), further evidence that this announcement is a big deal.
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