Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey
club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive
twin boys who became, as is all too
often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.
At the mother - of -
twins club meetings, I would listen to all the other moms — including those with full - term
twins with good birth weights — talk about projectile vomit, diarrhea, high fevers, and
often hospitalization for pneumonia.