Saint-Michel, having played in Vancouver during his DFA period was already very familiar with the locker room and the front office. That didn’t stop him from participating in the team building exercises alongside the other prospects that were being lead by veteran Valterri Kauppinen (nicknamed Koopa by the team which became doubly funny when Mario signed with the team.)

Koopa organised an ice skating race across a frozen river with other funny challenges along the way like marshmallow eating and a certain cone course that the prospects were absolutely convinced that they were set up to crash into each other. Even more so when the prospects lined up and saw the veteran players were all sitting in the banks of the river. Regardless the prospects came away from the event amused and laughing, after they finished crashing into one each other. For the record, Svechnikov won the race after it was determined that his skates crossed the line before Saint-Michel’s