Alexis Metzler doesn't usually go to the SHL/SMJHL awards unless he's specifically been nominated for something (which has happened in several seasons, mind you). However, this time he chose to show up after being pushed to do it by the team coach, in order to support fellow team mates that had been nominated for awards. Metzler drove a rented BMW to a pay carpark near the show, and then walked the rest of the way to the front of the red carpet. He wore a fairly ordinary suit, ignored the reporters as he went down the red carpet (and fortunately, they ignored him this time, too). He sat at a table with the retiring Jordin FourFour Jr, and the retiring Viktor Vorkampfer, along with fellow veterans Charles Walker and Viktor Marius, and the recently retired friends Brynjar Tusk and Eduard Selich. They got appropriately plastered and went out the back door about 15 minutes before the show (but after all awards that Buffalo players were nominated for had been handed out), and went to the nearest burrito cart to stuff their faces.