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TRACY: All I could think about was, I have
all these people's support.
And it's just amazing that everybody there
is there to say thank you.
So I start waving my glove around.
And of course, I'm facing to the right
because I don't want my husband to see me.
He's going to be walking around to the left.
Now, what's the method here?
Get the puck in the goal, man.
Puck in the goal?
Absolutely.
All right, my friend.
Make it happen, bro.
TRACY: Oh, he was so close to me.
It was crazy because I thought he could see me.
I swear he knew who I was.
So I just hung my head down, and tried not to give myself away.
Thank you very much.
Good evening, Smashville.
Y'all met Josh a couple of minutes ago.
He's down here tonight to try to get himself a hat trick.
Let's hear it for Josh.
Come on!
Come on, Josh!
ANNOUNCER: Step up, Josh.
Do your thing.
The first one just flew right by me.
And I was trying to act like a pro.
So I wasn't going to let any of his pucks in the goal.
ANNOUNCER: All right, shot number two.
Let's support him here, guys.
That's all right.
Fell straight down on my butt in front of 17,000 people.
I tried so hard not to laugh.
ANNOUNCER: One more!
Couldn't do anything about it.
The goalie got it.
Oh, Josh!
What happened?
TRACY: I was just running on adrenaline.
And I couldn't believe I actually
blocked the pucks that I did.
Your wife, Tracy, she is a sergeant in the army right now,
in Afghanistan.
Hooah.
Absolutely.
How long has she been deployed?
Just over a year right now.
She's been in Afghanistan for over a year.
I just wanted to throw my gloves down, and tear my helmet
off, and run to my husband.
You love her a lot, don't you?
With all my heart.
Well, you went 0 for 3.
But the good news is, you still win a prize.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome,
in an early return from Afghanistan--
Oh, man.
--our goalie, and Josh's wife, Sergeant Tracy Wheaton!
[crying]
Oh, I love you so much.
I love you, too.
Holding her again felt like it was the first time
I'd ever held her.
It's an amazing feeling.
I love you so much.
It was very surreal.
Even through all the hockey pads,
it was great to be in his arms.
Oh-- ha-ha!
Thank you!
God.
Welcome home.
Thank you.
Being able to hold her and talk to her,
that feeling, it's--
it's incredible.
It's something I have never felt in my life until I met her.
The way she smiles, the way she talks, the way she blinks,
the way she breathes, everything about her
has got me captured in every way.
TRACY (VOICEOVER): I was just happy to be in his arms.
The whole deployment, he has been really missing me,
and I've been missing him.
And I just wanted to go home and just hang out with my husband.
And it's just the simple things in life
that you're just so excited to come home to.
Ladies and gentlemen, again, please
welcome home Sergeant Tracy Wheaton and her husband, Josh!
Congratulations.
Thank you.
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