Head in the Game — Jeff Adams

After a disastrous breakup, pro hockey defenseman Roger Jacobson's game is slipping. With his contract up for renewal, he has to do something quick because his fourteen-year career is on the line. Roger returns to his hometown to work with his old coach and help run the summer hockey camp. But Dylan Barker, a handsome graduate student and the coach's son, proves to be a romantic distraction that Roger couldn't have anticipated. Can Roger's trip home fix his game and mend his broken spirit? Head in the Game is an m/m hockey romance. It originally appeared in the Changing on the Fly: The Second Period anthology.