Your time

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Herb Brooks, hockey, poetry, this is your time

Their time
      is done

They pushed
       you
             all over
                           the ice
Set the
        neutral zone trap
              so
                     you
                                  can’t

CROSS THE BLUE LINE

checked you
I
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T
O
T
H
E
B
O
A
R
D
S

knocking

          t
e
               e
                              th loose

scored on the 5 on
       3 after diving

             and the ref didn’t call it

And all you’ve done is play dump and chase.

If we played them ten times they’d win nine- but not tonight.

Their time is done.

You were born to be here.

This is your time. 

Now go out and take it.