Skating to New York

You want to get hit in the back of the head?

False shot!

Hey, any of you guys gone down by the lake? Check out the ice yet?

Oh, yeah. It's gorgeous. Can hit a slapshot all the way to New York, sir.

That'd be a hell of a shot.

- Yeah, it is 40 clicks to the other side. - Yeah.

Okay, guys. Enough chitchat, all right?

Let's get focused for tonight's game. We've got to break this losing streak.

They can't pull that crap in our barn.

Hey!

Yeah, that's right. Come on, get up!

- Rudy, throw down the mitts! - Come on, Rudy!

Hey, you want to go, boy? Want to go?

Yeah? Back off, pussy, or I'll tear your goddamn head off!

Keep threatening it, then go.

- Are you kidding me? - No, I'm not kidding you.

You want to bring that up right now? You want me to...

You can't show these guys any weakness.

- You look shaky. Get your head in the game. - No, I'm good.

- You're good? - Yeah!

Look, we got these guys. Just stay focused.

I'm good, okay? I'm good! Go! I'm good.

Come on, this is hockey, not synchronized swimming!

Give it a rest, Mario.

Come on, you guys. Fists, not finesse.

Fists, not finesse.

Sit down. Watch your brother.

So sad, you know? I'll never be half the man your mother is.

You just quit?

I don't even know when or why. I'm sure that I probably had something to do with it,

but everything that we believed in, everything that we put our hopes on,

you just quit on it.

You just talk. You're down here at the rink,

like... you're, like, one of these losers down here.

That's what you think of me? A loser?

Yeah!

Yeah!

Goddamn! Was that ugly or what?

- Ugly? That was haggard. - Hey, a goal's a goal, man.

- Hey, catch my banner, bro? - How much you pay for that?

I paid them with this.

Come on. We can take them.

Hey, we're up by one.

I always saw something better for us, Jess.

And there was a time when you said that, and I actually believed you.

You need to be home. Casey needs his father.

Yeah. It's hard to keep down a kid like that. At least we got that part right.

I got to go.

This one's on you, Jess.

And you know, it's pretty obvious that you've had a few,

so I don't know, maybe you want to stay sober, right?

'Cause your kid might actually need you tonight.

This is what you want, right?

What's going on?

Shitty break, Case. You get a pad on that, and we take them to O.T.

Winners don't wait for breaks.

They make them.

- Casey! - Demas!

Casey! Casey, are you good?

- Casey? - I'm fine.

- Good. Can you move? - Yeah.

- All right. - If I can stand up.

There you go.

I'm good.

Rudy, come here!

Are you going to let these guys just cruise out of town, thinking they own this ice?

Did anyone think to call an ambulance or something?

That's all right. He just took a little knock.

That's a lot of blood for a knock, don't you think?

Well, there's more blood vessels in the head, so it tends to bleed more.

Now that's hockey.

I tell you, without skateboards and hockey, I'd be put out of business.

- How's it look? - It looks all right.

You are the best.

Thanks. Unfortunately, tonight is my last rotation.

Dr. Pradeesh takes over tomorrow.

You're leaving? Is Timsbury a little bit too exciting for you?

Well, as good as I am at sutures, I actually trained in neurology.

And I've got an opportunity to go join a practice in Syracuse.

In the States?

Casey? I came as fast as I could.

- Let me see. Are you okay? - Be careful. Is Dad coming?

I don't know. I don't know where your dad is.

What about concussions? You hear all this stuff about concussions.

- He took a knock, but he checks out fine. - Is it going to leave a scar?

No. In a couple of months, you won't even see it.

- Casey, that is it for you for hockey. - Mom...

No. Every time you get hurt, it reminds me of when your dad played.

- You're good to go. - Thank you.

Thanks, David. Get your stuff.

Let's go. There's a whole crowd of people out there waiting for you.

- Hey! There he is. - There's the stud. How you doing, buddy?

- You dizzy or what? - I'm okay.

- You good? - Stitches.

- Seven. - Whatever. You look badass.

Yeah, it's pretty sexy.

Dissolvable sutures, doc?

Yup. They should absorb in a week or so.

- So, no internal stitches? - What year of medical school are you in?

I think we'd all like to know.

See you, buddy.

Hey, Scarface? We're all headed down to Pinheads. You want to come?

Not tonight, boys. Let's go.

- Bye, Mrs. D. Love you. - "It's bedtime for Casey."

You sure you're okay?

Yeah, Mom, I'm fine.

- You feel dizzy or nauseous? - No, I'm fine.

Casey, I need some time to figure some things out.

Okay. I get it. Everyone needs a time-out every once in a while.

I'll see you inside.

Can you pop the trunk? I forgot my knapsack.

I need more than a time-out, Casey. I need some time away.

I'm just going to be at Aunt Nita's.

Aunt Nita's in Cornwall. That's an hour from here.

It's not an hour. It's 20 minutes, 25 minutes.

Okay. I'll just go grab my bags.

No, no. That's not the way this is going to be.

Honey, you are struggling at school. That would be a big change.

I don't care about that. I can change. It's not the end of the world.

I'm sleeping on Aunt Nita's couch as it is. I'm going to call. I'm going to be around.

You're going to be around? What does that mean?

Things have changed between me and your dad.

No, they're exactly the same they've been for the past year.

Sometimes, people just...

just need some freedom.

Freedom from what?

Not from you. That's not what I'm saying.

Honey, I love you. I am always going to be a part of your life. Always.

You're not even coming in, are you? You're just going to leave it on me to tell him.

He knows.

Believe me, he knows.

Go. I'm happy you're leaving.

Dad?

"Lidstrom on Casey Demas. Lidstrom for the weak side. He shoots...

"Oh, great stick save by Demas! And he covers up."

- Pretty far from the real story. - Yeah, well, next time. Yeah.

Who was it that said, "Goaltending is like being shot at"?

- Jacques Plante. - That's right.

Just 'cause you're the goaltender doesn't mean you're the only one on defense.

How many shots on goal tonight?

30, 35.

35. Nobody's good enough to stop everything.

You guys got to get back. Keep them from getting all those open shots on goal.

I got to get this...

All this work done or I'm going to have hell to pay tomorrow.

I can help.

No. I want you to go inside, take it easy.

Go ahead. Watch T.V. You had a rough day.

Mom's gone.

Yeah.

She's just clearing her head.

You...

Still up for going to Belleville? Check out the ice dogs?

You still want to?

I do if you do.

Is she coming back?

I don't always know what your mom is thinking.

Okay. What are we going to do about it? What's the plan?

I don't know yet.

You guys fight all the time. What happened?

I don't know.

- How are you going to fix it... - Case! I'm not the one who quit on us.

No.

You pretty much quit on everything else.

Hi, Casey.

One, two, three, stop!

Hey, guys.

So, you ask her if she wants to ride your zamboni yet?

- Nice. - She's new here, isn't she?

Yeah, her old man works with my dad in the warehouse now.

She transferred, like, last month or something. I don't know.

So, you get her phone number?

I hate to break it to you, bud, but she's got peanut butter legs.

- What? - Easy to spread.

- Oh, come on, man! - What?

Aren't you supposed to be eating broccoli and egg whites?

You've got that septic tank heart thing.

- They call it... - Ventricular septal defect.

And I got arteries like a garden hose, okay?

You're a garden hose.

Check out my M.R.I.'s

- Seriously? - Here, here.

- See? - Oh, he actually has it.

Yeah, this one shows the hole between the chambers in the heart.

You're so weird. Why do you have that?

Rudy, you know all this, dude. He's only told us about a thousand times before.

Do you know what happens if the hole doesn't heal itself?

Sudden death!

- It's not as funny as you guys think. - Man, you get that during the game?

Just forget about it. Soon as I'm done with school, I'm gone.

You know what? Forget school. You know why?

Because this guy's going to be playing in the CHL, sooner or later, so who cares?

Yeah, I'm so sure that some scout's going to come and scope out a bunch of plugs like us.

- All right, we're bouncing. - You're putting the tab? Thanks, bro.

- Coming? Hurry up. - Guys, wait up.

Well, you look better than the last time I saw you.

- Hi. - Laid out on the ice.

Yeah. Feeling better. Seven stitches.

So, do you guys keep score on everything?

Can I have a cream soda, please?