冰上恋人

里中晴春（木村拓哉 饰），某企业旗下冰球队的头牌队员兼队长，深受队友的喜爱，对待感情则是玩世不恭的态度。村濑亚树（竹内结子 饰），晴春所处公司的职员，男友出国两年，音讯全无，而亚树则一直默默等候着他的归来。这样的2人在酒吧里的邂逅了。亚树引起了晴春的兴趣，在晴春的攻势下，亚树答应成为其“契约女友”，一旦亚树的正牌男友回归，这段恋爱就宣告结束。 　　而冰球队这边，晴春一直尊敬的安西教练（时任三郎 饰）身患重病，队里聘请了新的教练兵头雄一郎（佐藤浩市 饰），晴春对新教练产生了强烈的抵触情绪，而队上的麻烦事不断。被邀来观看比赛的亚树起初觉得比赛过于残暴，但到后来也被其吸引，成为了晴春力量的源泉。一出运动与恋爱的故事在汗水与泪水里交织上演……Halu (Kimura Takuya) is the captain and star player of an ice hockey team, who is greatly respected by his teammates. For him, hockey is serious business that fully occupies his mind, while he treats romance as if it were a game. Aki (Takeuchi Yuko) is a typical OL (office lady), and is waiting for her boyfriend to return from studying architecture abroad. At this point in time however, he shows no sign of coming back. One day, Aki's friends who are determined to find her a new boyfriend, invite her to watch an ice hockey game. There she sees Halu for the first time. After the game, Aki and her friends join the players for a party celebrating their victory. Aki, however, is not so excited to be there. When she leaves the party, she bumps into Halu, who was slightly injured from a fight. They exchange e-mail addresses and part. The sparks of mutual attraction are ignited in a second encounter between Aki and Halu, arranged with the help of her friends shortly after a party. Hyodo (Sato Koichi) has come as a replacement for the team's coach who has been hospitalized. Halu has a lot of respect for the hospitalized coach. Unfortunately, he can't stand Hyodo's way of doing things. Bringing with him a lot of coaching experience from overseas, Hyodo criticizes the former coach's strategies. Whenever Halu and Hyodo see each other, they get into a quarrel; consequently influencing Halu's behavior during games. Seeing that his game ended in a brawl, Aki visits Halu to comfort him. But he tells her that she is being too friendly with him. Aki is hurt, Halu is irritated, and his teammate Hotta (Sakaguchi Kenji) can't stand seeing Halu like this