AAOOOSC! Mini Stories!

In the players' parking lot of the American Airlines, Antti Niemi is getting out his car with his goalie equipment. He strolls towards the arena's parking lot when he is stopped by a familiar person.
"Welcome to Dallas!" A small, brown-haired guy exclaims in a high-pitched voice, throwing his arms up in the air.
Antti looks down and blinks for a moment. "Oh, hello there, Romo!"
The football player smiles largely with a closed mouth. "Hi, hi!" He waves at him with small motions.
Before their conversation can go any long, another person steps in.
"Okay, Tony, that's enough!" An arrogant looking brunette shouts while strutting up to him. He then kicks Tony out with such force, making him fly over to the AT&T Stadium.
Tyler then changes his facial expression to a prideful look; he sticks out his hand at the goalie. "I'm Tyler Seguin." With the hand, he waves it back towards the arena. "C'mon, let's take you to the locker room."
Antti shifts his eyes awkwardly. "Okay..." He then follows the Star across the parking lot, into the arena, through hallways, and into the entrance of the bright locker room. Tyler swaggers in first with the new Star behind him.
The Star skater stops in the middle of the room and extends a hand out to a brunette with a soft look who is tying his skates while sitting on a bench. "This is Jamie Benn, our captain!"
Jamie perks up at the two; he then stands up and gazes at Antti.
Antti looks at Jamie.
Jamie looks at Antti. He then shifts his gaze at Tyler.
"Aaaaaaand..." Tyler continues talking, "...that's your spot!" He redirects his hand towards the back corner of the room, where a man with spiky blond hair with goalie leg pads was sitting in.
The man's face lights up and he waves at Antti overly-excitedly. "Hi, Nemo!" he shouts in a perky, ebullient voice. "I saved a spot just for you, right here!" He pats his hand on an empty space on the bench that was next to him.
Antti face goes pale. "Oh no, not Kari," he mutters under his breath.
Another familiar brunette then passes by him. Then he halts abruptly, walks backwards, stops next to Antti, and turns to look at him. "Hey, Rico!" He pats his back. "Long time, no see!"
"Yes, yes, Jason." Antti nods his head quickly.
Tyler makes a puzzled look that can be mistaken as a disgusted look. "Rico?" He frowns with uncertainty and shrugs.
"Glad we have reunited!" The former Shark tells his teammate.
The goalie nods his head and then shuffles over to Kari, sitting next to him cautious with lots of space between them.
Kari scoots closer to Antti with one motion. "OMG, I can't believe you're on my team, we're like gonna be BESTIES!" He shakes his hands in the air with excitement. "My wife talked to your wife and planned out a dinner for all of us! And now you can sit on the goal net and--"
A blond man halts in the middle of the entrance. "I am Val Nichushkin," he says in a deep voice
Antti looks up at Val. "Oh, my name is--"
The Russian turns around and walks out of the room.
The goalie makes a frown with disappointment. "Oh."
Kari crosses his arms while rolling his eyes. "That's the only thing that Russian knows what to say in English--he says that ALL the time." He scoffs.
Antti nods his head slowly. "Oh, okay..."
Then Kari jumps back into talking: "Okay, so like what I was saying, you can sit on the goal net now--"
He gets interrupted by an odd laugh coming from another Stars player who is on the other side of the room, laughing hard.
Kari shoots him a dirty look. "Someone's gotta get a new laugh for Spezza." He then turns back to his goalie partner. "So like what I was saying..."
Meanwhile, Tyler walks up to the coach of the Stars, Lindy Ruff, who is talking to Jamie about the game plan for practice. "Hey, can Rico start in the net for the opening game?"
The coach and Jamie turn to look at him with confused looks.
"Who's Rico?" Ruff asks with a swing of his head.
Jamie nods his head with a tough look, like as if he was agreeing with the coach.
Tyler gazes at Jamie with raised eyebrows. "Come on, Jamie, you're the captain of this team, you're suppose to know your teammates!"
The captain shrugs and walks away.

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