With the new season just around the corner, the team is working not only to boost their player physical and mental skils, but as well working on the way the rookies get to feel between more seasoned players and between other rookies. Carolina was one of the teams with a pretty small draft class so it is no wonder that they want to keep the team as close as possible. The new rookies were soon invited to team training and went trough a "rookie celebration" where other team members and the management and crew got a chance to let the new guys know - who is in charge here. This was the usual - lets all stand in two lines while the rookies slide trough and we just whoooooop them with sticks. Pretty common, pretty usual. The training passed but the "rookie celebration" was in full swing.

After practice, ZZ and other Kraken rookies - A.Foley, C.Hutton and Blunt Man, went off to a super secret location or in other words, the basement of Velveteen Dream. And in the best fraternity house traditions they went trough one of the most horrific, yet funniest and the kindest experiances of their lives. The rookies together with the rest of the squad went trough weird bunch of exercises that challenged their trust on every turn. After this Zuntnere was pretty sure that she has landed in the best possible junior team out there in the SMJHL. There is no doubt that this squad is as close knit as possible and the season will show how well they can perform under pressure, because this season they will have to prove, that they can be higher in the standings than last season.