Digital art, After a disappointing hockey game where their team suffered a significant defeat, a player finds themselves unexpectedly consoling an aging opponent named Viktor Tikhonov, only to witness an embarrassing accident that leaves them conflicted between empathy and amusement.

Taking down Tikhonov

Date: 3/21/2022

By bstefanescu

I was playing in a hockey game with my old Breakers team and my dad was the coach. Our goalie was pretty bad (it wasn’t Mader) and the refs weren’t calling any penalties/offsides on them. We ended up losing 9-2. Towards the end of the game, I lined up a good check on someone and he was unconscious for a few seconds. I screamed at his coach to go help him, but the coach didn’t seem to care. I skated over to him and tapped his shoulders to see if he was okay. When he woke up i asked his name and he said “Viktor Tikhonov” with a thick Russian accent. Now that I’m looking at him he seemed like a really old man, so I felt bad for hitting him. I helped him get up. On our way back to his bench, he started peeing in his gear, and was like “oops.” After the game ended I went to the locker room where someone made confetti cake so I was pretty happy even though we lost.