The Keeper

<p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sometimes I feel like a square puck trying to roll down ice.</em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-Calum Lefleur VEGAS CRUSH</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Living in Montreal and playing the best hockey of my career after leading my team to a Cup-winning season last year?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Check.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Traded overnight to the </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Vegas Crush </em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and blindsided with no warning whatsoever?</span></p><p>Also check.</p><p>So now I'm in Vegas. Feeling all the uncomfortableness of a new environment where nothing is familiar. Where every person I see is someone I don't know. Where fitting in will be nearly impossible without an established routine.</p><p>To help settle me in <em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Vegas Crush Media Relations</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> arranged for a volunteer gig teaching guitar lessons to disadvantaged kids at a local youth center. They feel that connecting with the community will help boost my image with the Vegas fans.</span></p><p>I don't mind volunteering at all. I prefer to keep busy and I think it could be a fun way to pass my downtime.</p><p>But there is a hitch. <em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Of course there is.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That stunning drummer from </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Love Scrum</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> I saw play my first night out in Vegas?</span></p><p>The one with the ends of her dark silky hair dyed electric purple?</p><p>The one with the mile-long legs who danced with me (and kissed me) when I stupidly crashed that after-party?</p><p>The one-in-the-same gorgeous drummer I blew off at the end of the night because I'm awkward AF in new situations with new people...as previously noted?</p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That one???</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Well today I found out her name is Billie Hirsch. And she is everything I said she was...plus a whole lot </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>more.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>More...</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>like she's the program director for those guitar lessons I'll be teaching over at the </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Crush Foundation Music Workshop.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>More...</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>like Ms. Hirsch and I will be </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>forced to work closely together</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> throughout the entire season.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>More...</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>like Billie Hirsch kinda hates me and this is going to be a </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>huge pucking problem.</em></p>