Highlight #1

Being drafted by Vancouver Whalers at #27 was earlier than I thought as I already had seen hints about enforcers being on low demand and on the other hand I had not had any contact with Whalers management.

Highlight #2

We got relatively good start to season and after nine first games our record was 6-3-0. But then we hit losing streak, next nine games we had one overtime loss and 8 regulation losses, that includes few games that our starter goalie got called up. Our management worked bit with our lines and for next thirteen games we went 10-3-0, being part of that turnover and seeing how it affected our locker room was one of greatest experiences of season.

Highlight #3

Game number 123 of season. Halifax takes lead early in first, but then:
2. Vancouver Whalers , Bjorn Leppanen 2 (Marcus Ohlsson 3, Jean-Paul Boivin 4) at 9:54
Later Sami Rieder gets one on power play and we have 2-1 lead. Then in second period:
4. Vancouver Whalers , Bjorn Leppanen 3 (Artem Mozgov 6, Jean-Paul Boivin 5) at 10:16

We win 3-1, I got first star of the game, I had most impressive stats of my career so far with: 2 Goals +0 Assists = 2 Points, +2, 2 Penalty minutes, 2 Shots,  1 Hit,  3 Shots blocked, 15:40 Minutes played, 0:02 PPM, 0:02 PKM.

We had exactly 25 games played, I had 3 goals and 7 assists and season looked to turn out pretty great, little did I know those would be 2 last points for my rookie season making them even more special.