Before the SHL, Slap McShotty had several jobs. The first was in high school as a human punching bag. He was allowed on the school hockey team to help relieve stress of the top liners by padding up as a goalie and taking a beating. This worked too well, as they were very enthusiastic about beating Slap, thus tiring themselves out so much that their play suffered. Then, he got a job as a human abacus. He used both his arms, raising them and lowering them to keep count. He wasn't very useful as he could only store 2 binary digits, so he wasn't used often. However, when people needed to add or subtract numbers where none of the numbers involved are greater than 3, he was the man. Both these jobs helped Slap with the physical side of his game, allowing him to take beatings like a champ and to stiff-arm like a human arm abacus.