The jump into professional hockey, albeit not yet in the Simulation Hockey League was a big one.  It is a crazy experience going from lugging your own bag and equipment around rinks all over the place to now being part of an organization.  I have so many small memories from those first couple days with the Detroit Falcons but one definitely stands out to me.  The roar of the crowd in Detroit, or in our case it would be better to say the SKREE of the crowd.  Up to that point, the most people I had played in front of was maybe seven thousand.  A large crowd but nothing like what we had for that first game.  I never thought it would be so exciting to hear the crowd while waiting in the tunnel to go out on the ice.  Once you hit the ice it was like an explosion which was so cool.