There is a theme going on throughout the story that is to overcome your challenges and it keeps getting built on. At a young age Fleury had almost no support from his parents, they would never watch any of his games. His Dad was a drunk and never home. His Mom never thought he should play hockey because she thought he was just going to get hurt. These few Fleury fought against in his younger years playing hockey. I know what it feels like to have parents not agreeing with what you choose to do in sports and it really puts you down. Later on when he moves into junior league he has to live with his head coach who is a pedophile and does stuff to every night. This is very difficult to get by because he had to live with it for two years. This would affect you physically because you would stay up to try to stop anything from happening and would get sleep deprived. You would also be affected psychologically because you would be constantly thinking about what your coach would try to do that night and how you would have to stop it. When Fleury gets drafted to the Flames he doesn’t get to play right away so he is sent to the IHL (international hockey league) and he thinks he never got to play because he was too small. He was 150lbs 5’9” while most of the other people were 220lbs 6’2”. Since Fleury thinks this way he goes on the off-season and gains 30lbs and with that he loses most of his speed. When the next season comes around he gets told to get to the gym and lose some weight so he has the speed and agility again. Fleury made the wrong decision and I know if I would have put on 30lbs to be on the team I would be devastated to find out I need to take it all off again. Even though Fleury had to go through all these difficulties Fleury said that he just turned most of it into anger and rage for the ice.
~BW
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