Matt met with a few classes in a high school in Tampa last week, as part of an event set up by a partnership between the Tampa Bay Barracuda organization and the neighboring schools in which the players held conferences to talk about their various jobs growing up, before they ever reached the SHL. While becoming a hockey player is much less popular than in his hometown back in Canada, Kholin still felt he could talk about what the kids could expect in the real world. The Barracuda player grew up in a small town in Ontario accustomed to labor jobs and that's where things started for him. He learned discipline when he needed to wake up at 4am every day to work for the local butcher. The guy taught him everything, from how to cut meat, all the different knives and how to take care of them. Matt lasted maybe six months with that job, it allowed him to work on all his hockey training later in the day and all that free time got him where he is today. Being a butcher can't really translate to the SHL, but he sure is a morning person now.