Iceman: Chris Lynch
Hot Head
Do you know how it feels to be on a team? Do you know how to deal with winning and losing? Well Eric needs to learn some of this. Eric is not the best sport and constantly gets angry at his teammates. Although he is the best on his team, he still doesn’t understand sportsmanship. During games, he always got penalties, argued with the ref, and slammed his stick after a bad play.
As the season progressed, Eric got better and better while his attitude got worse. His team was doing well and so was Eric, but one practice -- right as Eric’s attitude was getting better -- he messed up on a drill. Eric started to slam his stick wildly and ended up hitting his teammate in the head. Eric claims, “I broke a new Christian Brothers hockey stick. I broke it over somebody’s head.” (Lynch 71).
After that incident nobody on the team liked Eric anymore. His teammates made a decision not to talk to him: and informed him that once he changes they will begin talking to him. Eric complains that, “It was an accident, and that’s that. But none of my teammates will talk to me.” (Lynch 73). After a while, Eric began to bring himself back together and control his anger issues. The team began to welcome him back and talk to him. Now Eric and his team need to focus on the last game of the season.
The last game would be played against Utica. Not only was this the last game of the season, but it was the last game of Eric’s career. Eric says, “The season was finally wrapping up with one more trip into hostile hockey country, Utica, New York. So rather than just quit outright, I figured I’d make one final appearance.” (Lynch 133). Eric’s team ended up by winning in a close game where Eric got a hat-trick in his final game.
I would recommend this book to kids who like sports, especially hockey. It also teaches great life lessons about sportsmanship and teamwork. I would rate this book an 8/10 because it took awhile for things to flow but once they did, it was a great book.
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