During an away game in Toronto, Los Angeles defensemen Oliver Cleary was asked to go back to where it all began. He was asked to go speak at his old high school in nearby Mississauga, where he played junior hockey with the OHL's Steelheads. Cleary was asked to speak about perseverance and putting the tools in place to be able to meet your personal potential. Cleary was someone who is an expert on this topic. Cleary was one of the few true rookies in the past few seasons in the SHL which is someone he was able to lean on. He doesn't think of himself as a great public speaker, typically speaking to the media in whatever hockey cliches he can muster up so that he's able to get in and out pretty quickly. But this time he decided to put his ideas on paper so he could draw from them in a pinch.