The Hockey Machine by Matt Christopher Pg. 36-42

         Steve wakes up to find that he has classes.  His subjects change every day and his schedule is very confusing.  When he gets to his first class the teachers start telling him about how things work around there.  Steve replies by saying he won’t be there long because he doesn’t like it there.  After his classes are over for the day it’s off to the rink.  They play a scrimmage and Steve’s line is the first one up.  Everyone then takes their positions at the face off circle.  He has to go against a player much bigger than he is, but Steve breezes the puck right passed him and scores a goal.

The Hockey Machine by Matt Christopher Pg. 32-36

While Mark keeps telling Steve how lucky he is and how many opportunities he will have from this experience. Steve is still angry and feels like he has been kidnapped.  Of course Mark tries to reassure Steve that he has not been kidnapped.  Steve starts asking questions about Kenneth’s father.  We learn that his father owns a professional hockey team called the Blue Gills, and when players on the Chariots get old enough they dream to play on the professional team.  Mark then introduces him to the rest of the guys on the team.  Steve meets two guys who will be on the same line with him.  When it is time to go to sleep Steve finds out that the guys on his line are in his room along with Mark.  Steve is glad that someone he knows is in the same room as he is.

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Steve finds that he has his own room in this mansion all set up already.  He enters a room with five cots with desks.  The room is decorated with different posters including hockey players.  Although, Steve is still unsure of all of this and feels like he is being forced into this.  He learns that the Chariots are a professional kid’s team and they are the best.  Also, he learns that Kenneth basically runs the team and he’s already been to college.  Every player on the Chariots is glad to be on the team.  Steve is warned that he will have to work hard.

The Hockey Machine by Matt Christopher Pg. 24-28

In their final attempt to convince Steve to come with him, Kenneth and mark show Steve a scrap book with newspaper clippings and pictures of Steve.  Steve is still not convinced but they rush off to a small airport.  They take off in a small plane and Steve falls asleep.  When he wakes up they are in a different airport in Indiana.   Everyone gets out of the plane and into a car.  Then they arrive at a house where only half of the lights in the house are lit.  Kenneth tells Steve that this is where their team, the Chariots, lives.  Kenneth knocks on a door and a tall man opens it.

The Hockey Machine by Matt Christopher Pg.1-24

The Hockey Machine by Matt Christopher opens in on a hockey game.  We hear the skates grinding and players smashing into the boards.  Steve Crandall, the main character of this book, is the star of his hockey team.  After the game, Steve in walking out of the rink when a boy named Mark Slate introduces himself to Steve.  Mark eventually convinces Steve to come meet someone named Kenneth Agard Jr. sitting in a limousine.  Kenneth offers to give Steve a ride home, and on the way Kenneth tells Steve that he is going to take him under his wing and turn him into a hockey star.  Steve is unconvinced that Kenneth is who he says he is until Kenneth shows Steve a letter from his parents giving him permission to go with Kenneth.  They then rush to the airport to begin their long journey.