If you are a player for the Nevada Battleborn, there really is a lot to look forward to in the next season!

The Battleborn are a very young team having been part of the expansion in the SMJHL last season and the thing that stands between the team and success is the age of their team. This means that by the time they come back next season they will be much more able to compete and will have a chance to win the Four Star Cup.

Experience is never a bad thing and that will help too as the team was able to experience their first SMJHL playoff series this season too.

It’s going to be exciting to watch the Battleborn play next season and I think that we are going to be a team to watch. Let’s see what the GMs are able to do between now and this season to make us even better and more ready to win!




There is not much time between the end of the SMJHL playoffs and the SHL draft but I am planning on spending time recovering and healing after the season before it is time to do it again!

It will be nice to be able to go home and spend time with family and friends after being away for so long playing in Nevada. I want to spend a lot of time working on improving for next season so that I can come back and be a better player. Nevada had a hard season but I want to be a better player who can help his team more when it’s time to come back for another try!

I will also try and coach some of the young players in the area I grew up in. It’s important for me to give back to my community and it helps me learn by teaching others!



Alexis Vermette is an interesting prospect in the SHL draft.

He has spent the season playing for the Nevada Battleborn in the SMJHL and was one of the best rookie scorers in the league playing on the teams second line, but he is not valued among the top prospects in this draft. This is because some scouts think that his development is behind the other players in the S56 draft and the history that his agent has had with managing players in the SHL.

If a team takes the risk of drafting Alexis I think that he has a high ceiling and has a lot of potential to score goals and play as a good player at the SHL level.

He is not the best prospect in the class but his skating speed and scoring touch should mean that a team thinks he is worth taking a chance on in the draft!


A. There are many great names in this playoff series but the one that stands out the most is Hennesey-Gallchobhar O’Mcguinness of the Maine Timber! I am a big fan of Ireland and Irish names so this one ticks all the boxes for me and I hope that he plays strong and lives up to his name!

B. This is hard to say because both goalies have been unbelievable but I think that Leo Bloomfield has been the most important player for the Maine Timber so I would give him the edge! He has done everything that the team needs to win all season so I would give the Timber the edge in goal!

C. The thing that they would be able to do better would be score goals! It is a simple way of looking at it but both of the teams were finding it hard to score goals and crack the goaltenders they faced which will always make it hard to win a series. If they had both made it to the finals it would also have been a fun series!

D. The key player for the Newfoundland Berserkers in the regular season is an easy choice! Because Mats Marner was able to lead the SMJHL in scoring he was definitely an important player for his team and helping them be successful during the regular season. There are other candidates on the team too but I don’t think they come close to him!



I have completed the trivia with verification word “Alexis”.