After a heavy defeat at the hands of the opposing prospect team, James remains defiant and holds his head up high as he walks through the door. Obviously the defeat had put his morale down to quite a low but "it's not the end of the world... is it?" he thinks to himself shaking hands with some of his team mates and opponents signalling the end of a good game, despite being sure that it could have gone better. There was the usual amount of press bumbling around the rink as there was during most of the games and he saw them scribbling down stats and reports on what they had just seen. Oh dear... what they must think! James decided that there was no way that he was going to let a heavy loss defeat his spirits and he certainly didn't want people to think that he wasn't ready to step up into the ISHL come the draft. Some words had to be said. He walked on his way out without any move towards any particular member of the press as to not make it too obvious he wanted to be seen without too much of a defeated spirit but he was sort of angling towards them as a few walked passed with hopes to catch a member of the winning team... "They weren't worth my time anyway" he thought as he got dangerously close to leaving without being stopped by someone.
"James!" said a loud booming voice from the croud and James gave a slight sigh of relief, still being conscious of how much he was giving away. The voice came from a mountain of a man in a slightly tight fitting tracksuit (which didn't look like it was meant to be tight fitting) and a press badge. He was bald, round and pink in the cheeks. James thought he looked to be quite a jolly man, kind of like the skinhead version of a Santa but surpressed this thought to try not to appear to giggle for no particular reason, especially after a heavy loss he didn't want to seem in any way unhinged, he needed to be draftable. Thus the interview started.
How do you feel about the heavy loss tonight?
Well, I guess it's important to keep looking ahead to what's really important; giving it your all. You can't win them all and tonight was definately an example of that. It's never easy to lose by such a great margin, especially when you've been shut out. Got to hand it to their Goalies though, they weren't giving up an inch and we couldn't quite push them out of position enough to get enough chances in. It's a shame really but I'm keeping my chin up, looking forward to the next game, going to get plenty of practice in to do so and I'm going to be ready to really bring it and hopefully try and turn it around on them.
Do you think this match will effect your draft position?
I hope not, it's not been my best game, granted. I just hope the GMs will be able to look past it towards my better games and see that I am a capable player. I think on the Red team we're all in the same boat in trying to prove that we're good enough for a draft pick to any and all the GMs in the league so that hopefully there's a place on their roster for us, and this game kind of got away from us and then got just a bit out of hand. It is also a testiment to the opposing team's lineup, they skated hard out there and they're a team deserving of the W tonight. We just need to show them that next time that we're the ones that deserve the W and we'll skate just as hard right back at them.
Do you think that tonight has shown you up about your comment about getting "One up on Wheeler" after the last game?
(With a a bit of a smirk thinking back James gives a quick sigh and a roll of his eyes in slight amusement) Oh well, I guess it'll just be all that much sweeter when he's picking up his pride off the cold, cold ice when I skate rings around him like I have before and will do over and over again.
(With a bit of a chuckle saying that what he'd just heard was just the kind of rivalry he was looking forward to hearing the man made a few notes and carried on with the interview)
What do you think of Nyrud moving to the other prospect team? Do you think that's what turned the tide tonight?
Well I guess that's one aspect of their match tonight, as I said, they really skated hard against us, Jay being a definate thorn in my side all night, he said he wasn't going to make it easy for him and I guess he really meant it. I just wish I could have kept up not making things easy for him. He's definately a good player and working towards being one of the top draft picks, if not THE top draft pick... That's if I can't beat him to it. (The last statement punctuated with another bit of a chuckle and from both men, more so though from James who again thinking about not looking unhinged stopped himself to carry on). But yeah, he was definately a benifit playing for the team and it's a shame to see him go but I'm glad to see he's already up to old tricks and throwing up both goals and assists and getting a positive +/- for the match as I'm sure he will do in the league.
Any other words considering the games to come?
Just bring it on! I'll definately be ready and waiting. They're going to have to remember tonight well because it's not going to be something we're just going to give up every night, let alone any scorelines that look anything like that. So yeah... Bring it on!
Thank you, that will be all.
Feeling slightly better about himself and starting to believe his words a bit more, James carried on out of the building feeling optimistic about the next game, a few thoughts going through his head involving Wheeler's name and a heavy minus. This made him smile to himself enough to almost forget about losing 6 - 0. Just the thought of winning by the same margin was enough to remind him what he was working so hard in training for, let alone the possibility of being drafted. Bring it on... Bring it on indeed
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