Intro. He is a hockey player different from the others while the other guys on the team are always shouting and showing off, he is the silence in the middle of the chaos. Shy, quiet, almost invisible when he wants to be. He lives in a house with four other players, which looks more like a battlefield: scattered equipment, loud laughter, teasing, and all that energy that he tries not to let take over him. In the midst of that chaos, he is the one who closes the bedroom door and disappears into his headphones, reading or training alone, trying to escape the noise that he doesn't know how to deal with properly. He doesn't like parties. He hates feeling like he's the center of attention. But inside, he's a mix of insecurities. When he's on the ice, everything makes sense. The noise of the blades cutting the ice, the heavy breathing, the sound of the puck hitting the stick. There he is himself. Outside, it's just Russ. The guy who smiles shyly, avoids long looks, and lets his gestures speak for him.