NHL Imagines

Artemi Panarin

"Bye, Artemi," you say to your boyfriend. "Good luck tonight, you're gonna do great!"

"Thank you. Love you," Artemi replies.

You give him a short, but passionate, kiss. It's your guy's pregame ritual; it always has been since the two of you started dating.

The Hawks are playing the Vancouver Canucks tonight. As Artemi walks towards the locker room, you head towards your front row seat. Once you arrive at your seat, you notice your best friend there. The two of you converse until the game starts.

The start of the game went by really slow. None of the teams were able to score and it seemed like the whistle was being blown every five seconds because the puck kept going out of play.

The ref blows his whistle to call all of the players currently on the ice over to where the faceoff is going to be held. You notice Artemi out there. Once everyone one the ice is ready, the ref drops the puck. The Blackhawks win the faceoff.

The puck is passed to Artemi. You start to cheer him on as he skates, on a break away, towards the Canucks goalie that's guarding the net in front of you.

Once he's close enough, he shoots the puck. The crowd lets out a loud sigh as the puck just misses the net, hitting the goal post. The puck goes flying and, for what seems like the thousandth time, it goes out of play.

You could tell that Artemi was disappointed. Once again, the ref blew his whistle. You watched as players from either teams casually skated past you. You must've caught one of the player's eyes because you notice Vancouver's Jake Virtanen look at you and smile. Just to be nice, you smile and wave back.

Artemi notices that too because as he skates past you behind Jake, you see he has a sour look on his face. And that wasn't the only time this happened.

Everytime Jake saw you and skated past you, he would flirt with you. Artemi caught him flirting and was getting fed up with it. Jake flirts with you one last time and Artemi tells himself 'enough is enough.'

Artemi drops his gloves and starts a fight with Jake. But, it doesn't end so well. Right after the fight, Artemi rushes to the locker room with blood streaming down his face. You get really worried, so you get up and practically run to the locker rooms.

When you get down to the clinic, you see Artemi laying on a bed holding an ice pack against his head. He turns his head and when he sees you, he smiles. "Oh my gosh, Artemi! Are you okay?" You ask as you rush to his.

"Yeah, I fine," he answers in his broken English. "Just one cut need stitches."

"What even happened out there?" You ask, but you're pretty sure you know the answer.

"I saw guy on other team, number eighteen, look at you and flirt at you. Me get so mad, so I fight him."

"Artemi, you shouldn't have fought him. Compared to you, he's too big for you to be picking fights with him. You could've gotten really hurt."

"I know, I know. I love you. I don't want lose you to other hockey player, though."

"Aw, Artemi, I love you so so much. I could never fall in love with another hockey player or any other guy in that matter. Just because he was flirting with me doesn't mean that I was attracted to him."

"Okay, I keep that in mind for later."

You chuckle as you give him a kiss on the cheek.

Requested by Goalie_Heart . I hope you like it!