Youngblood

crowd: Youngblood! Youngblood!

Youngblood! Youngblood!

Youngblood! Youngblood!

man: Dean!

[stirring instrumental music]

boy 1: Pass!

boy 2: Yes!

boy 3: Yeah, Dean, come on.

Come on, Dean!

Pass the puck!

- -Dean, I'm open!

older kid: Here, watch this.

boy 3: Come on, Dean. Over here.

Yo! Come on, Dean! Pass the puck!

-Come on. Let's go, hot dog.

Come on! boy: Come on, Jason, fight!

Jason: Come on! boys: Fight! Fight! Fight!

Jason: What're you looking over there for, huh?

Let's go, superstar.

Stay out of it, Kelly.

Sit down.

boys: Fight! Fight! Fight!

Jason: Hit me, man. Come on. Hit me!

- boys: Fight! Fight! Fight!

Jason: Come on. Let's go, kid. Hit me back.

man: All right, boys! Break it up.

Break it up. Each to a side.

-Yeah, it's easier to just quit, isn't it?

Ruby: What are y'all yelling about, Blane?

-And, Dean, get back here and pick up this gear.

-Blane. Blane: Boy, when I tell you.

Blane!

-The boy can't be this soft, Rue.

Ruby: That boy is nine years old.

Blane: Yeah, and how old is too old

for him to understand what's comin' at him?

Ruby: You had it hard.

That doesn't mean he needs to learn that way.

Hey... -

The world is hard enough.

Now make yourself useful and please get dinner started.

-Yes, dear? -Yes... dear.

Mm.

Ruby: Tell me, how do you win hockey games?

By scoring goals.

-And how do you score goals?

-Shooting the puck in the net.

-And how many goals do you get for fightin'?

Mm-hmm.

They wanna fight you because you're good, Dean.

There are people walking around out there

carrying a lotta hurt.

Don't let someone else's pain change who you are.

Promise? -Promise.

Ruby: You remember this?

The Winged Wheel is a symbol for speed and motion.

Whenever you see this pin,

I want you to remember what I just said. Okay?

Dean: Dad!

Blane: Rue? Rue?

[unsettling music intensifies]

[stirring instrumental music]

Again.

Bla What I need you to understand

is that nobody's offering you any free handouts.

Now, hockey will teach you

what you need to know about life.

What you need to... to... to survive in this world.

But you gotta work three times harder

than the next man.

Nice. C'mon. C'mon! One, two, three...

I wish it wasn't the case, but that's the way it is.

Come on, there you go.

So, use it.

Let it drive you.

Let it push you.

Get up, get up, get up. Why you lookin' scared?

Hit me.

Harder. Harder.

C'mere.

Go.

Again.

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Nice. Nice.

C'mon, c'mon!

Blane: There we go. Again.

Blane: Those boys out there are not your friends.

They think you're trying to take

what belongs to them.

They'll do anything they can to beat you down.

Don't you ever hesitate

when some boy steps to you again.

Not ever.

[players shouting indistinctly]

- -How's that taste, boy?

Dean: What'd you say?

What'd you call me?

Two more days, man.

Dean: Yo, all this time,

I didn't think you could count that high.

-Startin' to feel real though, am I right?

Doesn't even matter, man.

Suspension might be over, but the season's done.

-Well, I'm not the only one countin' down the days, man.

Yeah.

Blane: Come on, Wings!

-These refs, man! -Ah!

Kelly: I can call a better game with one eye.

Want another one, Pop? -Yeah.

Yo, D!

Yo!

Come watch the game with us, man.

Dean: Nah, man, I'm good.

Look at this.

Oh, thanks, Kelly.

It's good to see you're keeping in shape, Dean.

-Yeah, yeah. Not much else to do.

-You wanna tell me why we haven't heard from you...

or anyone else since Dean was suspended?

I mean, one minute, he's a top prospect.

Next, everybody's pissin' off.

Um... oh, so, what...

what brings you to Southfield, Coach?

Hamilton Mustangs.

They're finishing their season.

They're going into the playoffs.

They've been decimated by injuries.

Blane: So what's that gotta do with Dean?

-Lucas Turco, he's the GM there.

He's a friend of mine, and more importantly,

they're calling up two players...

two players to fight for one spot.

-So, they're okay with Dean coming off his suspension?

Dean served his time.

We all have to move forward. Blane: "Forward"?

You know my son lost a whole season.

Lost his scholarship.

You gonna tell me about moving forward?

Hall: Blane, I stuck my neck out

to vouch for Dean's character.

And now we all, all of us, we have to...

we have to put that unfortunate

incident behind us.

-Inconvenient racial incident.

Dean: Um...

Who... who... who's the coach?

Hall: Murray Chadwick still.

Hall: He's been there for six years.

Since they brought him up from Omaha, he's...

he's done right by the team.

Guys, listen...

This is Dean's...

It's not his best shot, I'll be honest with you,

it's probably his only shot to get back on the radar.

-What do you know about this Chadwick that I don't?

This wasn't a...

honorable discharge sort of situation.

He got shuffled for a reason, Pop.

Kelly: Let's go, hotshot. -

Kelly: C'mon. C'mon.

All right, all right, okay.