Long before Alex Winters was a star SHL player, he worked at a print shop back home in Pardubice. He learned all the tricks of the trade: how to set type, how to type, basic computer processing skills, and even tried his hand at photoshop to make cards of his own SHL heroes. What Alex definitely doesn’t miss is the customers. The needy people that act like you shot their dog because you won’t and can’t print 5000 booklets in 2 hours or the people that bring in a black and white photo and want to know why you won’t print it in color. Especially those last folks. Alex was grateful that he got to come to the US for high school before making the jump to the SMJHL, and although he may have hated his time at the print shop while there, he’s grateful for some of the skills he picked up and his coworkers that he met while there.