Don’t get me wrong—my teammates deserve to be happy. But seeing the ones I’m closest to suddenly coupled off, three guys married and two in serious relationships—I have to admit. I didn’t see this one coming. I’m the Appies captain. And I’m spending my Friday night with the rookies because all of my friends are at some sort of couples’ party. They invited me. They aren’t jerks. But I’m not enough of a masochist to go to something like that on my own. Even sitting at Mulligan’s with a pair of eighteen-year-old defensemen is better than watching my friends pretend I’m as interesting as the women
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