Cory Conacher's Stanley Cup dreams halt when he is reassigned from the NHL Tampa Bay Lightning down to the minors. Rather than seek a trade to a rival NHL team, he commits to earning his way back up, motivated by the Lightning’s projected odds to win the Stanley Cup. As we trace Cory’s impressive early childhood playing sports, we meet Shannon and her newborn son Callum. She reveals the hardships of raising a child with a largely absent father, confiding a deep sense of isolation, instability and anxiety. Despite Cory’s obvious talents, Cory’s father exposes that his short stature, diagnosis with diabetes, and relative youth defined Cory as an easily dismissed underdog. Shannon discloses that Callum was born via IVF, a difficult process, where she was supported by her mother-in-law, Debbie. Debbie easily empathizes, having had a child herself with a rare bladder disorder where the corrective surgery left her son with an impaired walk into adulthood. Back in Syracuse, Cory continues to out-perform, maintaining a prime position as the next potential call up to the majors. After being selected and winning the AHL All Stars game, he returns to his hometown for a family dinner where he reveals that he is the father to Callum, husband to Shannon, the son born with bladder exstrophy to Debbie, and resolutely undefeated in his pursuit to return to the NHL.