A quick healing during a hockey game
Originally appeared online in the teen series Your Healings - January 7, 2025.
The score was tied, and my hockey team was doing well.
The other team got a penalty, so my coach told me to jump in for our power play (which means we had a "man advantage"—one more player on the ice than our opponents) on our defensive end of the rink. I took the face-off and won the puck.
I skated to the wall in time to receive a direct pass from a teammate. Then I quickly turned and headed up the ice toward the goal. My opponents disappeared behind me as I skated past them, and then there was just one more defenseman that I had to get by in order to score. As I was going around him, a different defenseman came out of nowhere and hit my knee, causing me to fall. I tried to get up, but couldn’t put any weight on my right leg.
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