AAOOOSC! Mini Stories!

Antti drives into the parking lot of the SAP Center in San Jose, where he swerves around the light poles. On each light pole is a vertical banner of a Sharks player. In the way back of the parking lot, he sees himself on the banner.
"Well, there's me..," Antti mutters as he passes by that banner.

The Sharks meet in the locker room, where their coach, Todd McLellan, strolls into a few minutes later.
"Okay, Sharks! First roll call! Is everyone here?"
Joe Thornton looks around the room. "Yup, everyone's here, coach."
"Great! Now, it's time for practice! To the park!" McLellan marchs out of the room and his players follow him.
They leave the building, passing the Sharks' fan shop, where waving employees greet them through the big window, and cross the street to a park.
"Alright guys, now you know the drill--chase the squirrels!"
"Yay!!!" Joe Pavelski runs across the playground to a row and trees and starts chasing a squirrel around the park.
The rest of the players join, climbing on the playground, weaving around trees, and running all over the park, trying to grab some squirrels for their excersise.
Tyler Kennedy somehow grabs a squirrel and starts hugging it tightly. He sits down on the short concrete wall that surrounds the playground and squeezes it with more love. "I love you, squrriel!"
The squrriel couldn't really escape or say anything.
Patrick Marleau hides behind McLellan wraps his arms around his leg. "HELP MEEE!!! THIS IS SCARY!!! THEY'RE GONNA EAT MEEEEE!!!"
Tomáš Hertl is just having fun climbing all over the playground, following three squirrels. "These squirrels are boss!"
Joe Thornton is chasing after a squirrel, when another squirrel high up on a tree conks him out with an acron. He falls on the grass with a goofy smile on his face.
"Uhhh...coach?" Brent Burns tells McLellan, "I think out captain is out..."
"Oh, don't worry! He'll be fine!" McLellan waves his hand in the air. "Always happens, always happens..."
"Ack! Falling squirrel!" Tommy Wingels pushes himself out of the way as a squirrel randomly falls on the place he was just at.
"This is for you, Selena Gomez!!!" Logan Couture dives onto the grass, pinning five squirrels on the ground. "Oh yea! Hope you like squirrels, love!" He looks up and sees Alex Stalock whacking his goalie stick on the ground, trying to stop a speeding squirrel from getting away. "Hey, yo! Stalock! That's cheatin'!"
"Nuh-uh! It's called being wise and having an advantage!" Alex calls back. "Get your own stick!"
"Okay, just don't kill 'em, now! We're only suppose to catch 'em!" A squirrel got away from Logan's grasp. "NO!!!" He reaches for the squrriel but it gets away. "And that's way I'm not a goalie..," he mutters to himself.
"Okay, times up! Release the squrriels!" McLellan shouts.
The Sharks stop running and let of whatever number of squirrels they have, except for Tyler, who continues hugging the squirrel.
"Next up, the cats!"
"NOOO!!! NOT THE CATS!!!" Marleau cries. "They're scarrrrry!"
"Patrick, you'll be fine." McLellan looks down at his scared player. "Now get off of me, I can't walk."
Marleau gets up and holds on to Brent's leg, who didn't seem to care that there was someone on his leg.
They walk across the park to the beginning of the park's bridge, that stretches over a deep slope.
"Alright, now save the stray cats!" McLellan tells them. "But do it quietly. Don't disturb their slumber!"
The Sharks began to crawl underneath the bridge, where all the cats live at.
"Kitty, kitty, kitty," Joe Pavelski whispers to a wandering cat. The cat just stares at him. "Aiy, just don't move." He reaches to grab the cat and succeeds. "Gotcha!"
"You cat are boss!" Tomáš tells a mother cat and her kittens while he is following them to the bottom of the slope.
Tyler, still with his squrriel, scoops up a cat and brings it into his hug. "I love you, cat!" He flashes a big grin.
"Hey, cat," Logan hisses at a black, snoozing cat, "do you want to be with Selena Gomaz? I bet you do. Now come over here." The cat doesn't move. "Aw, c'mon, please--"
A goalie stick comes out of nowhere and lifts up the snoozing cat. Alex grabs the cat from his stick and places it in his arms. "And that's why goalie sticks are better than skaters' sticks. The wider, the better."
Logan growls. "You..."
A few minutes later, McLellan calls the practice at the park a day and leads them into the SAP Center.
They dress into their hockey gear and skate onto the ice.
"Alrightie then, guys... Let's play hockey!" McLellan tells his players.
All the Sharks just lay on the ice, exhausted.
Well, all except for Tyler, who still has the squrriel and cat in his hug. "I love you squirrel and cat."
And that is how the Sharks practice at home.

The End.

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