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“How’s Jonah doing?”

My agent Jack tosses a baseball a few feet into the air and catches it, feet up on his desk as we finish up ourat his New York office

“He’s good”

“Gotta be hard on a goalie, ending the season that way,” Jack says

Last week Jonah dove for a puck that was flying toward the goal with seconds left in the ga our postseason run

“We win together or we lose together,” I tell Jack “If we’d been better offensively in that game, ould’ve been ahead at the end there”

Jack nods “He’s always been good at shaking off losses”

“In terms of hockey, he’s the best at it”

“Yeah, when I said losses, I didn’t mean…shit, it was a damn shame what happened to his wife Does he date much?”

“Jonah?” I shrug “Occasionally”

Jack’s a good guy—he’s been o But I don’t tell anyone personal shit about h around all of us as it is

“You heading to Kauai on the big team trip?” Jack asks

Most of our team’s already at the beach house my teammate Luca and his wife Abby own It’s the ays kick off our offseason break, and I hate that I’ it

“Not this year, unfortunately I passed because I was originally going to take my mom and aunt on a safari tour trip, but o and fractured her hip, so we had to cancel”

“Dah?”

“Oh yeah My Aunt Jo will outlive us all”