The lack of fans in the rink truly does not mean much to James. Having grown up in Uganda with no fans of the sport at all, he is not used to big crowds cheering him on. He finds it difficult to focus when the roaring of the crowd is in his ears all day and it frequently drives him to mental errors. Nothing major like a slip of the puck or mishandling a shot, but a slight miscalculation in positioning or a a slight misread of a defender's trajectory. Now, it is also strange playing in a completely empty arena with hardly any background noise, but it is much easier to concentrate in the lack of noise than it is to concentrate in the presence of noise. He doesn't make as many mistakes in the quiet. James also is excellent at getting into the zone during the game. He will make an impossible play controlling the puck, and time will speed up. He'll enter the twilight zone, almost, and quite simply make plays without even thinking, only coming out of the zone at a whistle or a goal. It's kind of creepy for those that aren't aware of that already.