Well, I had a pretty interesting path to the SHL. I was just a kid skating in Siberia dreaming of playing some big time hockey. Maybe you read an article written about me when I first made it to the SMJHL? It was about how I was training on the ice and this brown bear came onto the ice. I skated around it, avoiding it, and used it as a training tool. It kept coming after me for a long time before I finally shot the puck at it and it went away. My job before the SHL was to train for the SHL. I worked really hard at training to one day come here and play in this league. Other than that, every now and then I'd have to help my parents out on the potato farm which we then used to distill vodka. That was hard work as well, but I much preferred the hard work of playing hockey. Working in the fields was tough though, especially with how cold it could get in Siberia. Then when it got too cold, I'd help out distilling vodka. It was a great time for me to learn all about hard work and it made me even more determined to make it in the SHL to make money and having a job that I love to do every day.