Delaney
The Ironclads fought their way to a conference final for the first time in franchise history that spring, a seven game series against Portland that turned into the kind of grueling, physical battle the league would replay in highlight packages for years, Roman at the center of nearly every pivotal moment, playing the best hockey of a career already considered fully redeemed.
Delaney watched every game from Row Two, six months pregnant now, the baby active enough during the physical stretches of play that she'd started joking the kid already had opinions about penalty calls.
"She's kicking again," Delaney told her mother, hand pressed to her belly during the second period of Game Six, Portland clinging to a one goal lead in an elimination game that had the entire arena on its fee
