Being in St. Louis is a new adventure for the young center. Not knowing any teammates was hard but the first true bonding experience was during the first team practice. The team practice started off with a group ice breaker that each player talked about there dream hockey team and how they are able to achieve. Some players talked about how they want to be on a winning team and some talked about how they wanted to be a fun team. A few players also talked about the team being solely for players to truly showcase their ability and help improve their shl draft stock because at the end of the day that was the goal for some players on this team right now. You could really tell the difference between the returning send downs and the rookies on how they answered the question. Some will take more time than others to adjust to the smjhl team hockey aspect of things.