The moments before the first game of every season are of course special, the cheering crowds and the teams on the ice both loaded with the promise of what could be achieved and on the other hand the slight fear of falling short of expectations in the end. By now, Lemo has gained enough experience of both kinds not to let himself be swayed too much by the initial emotion of the first kickoff and instead concentrates on keeping a cool head and just being the best he can be from the first shift to the last, taking from every preceeding shift the small lessons to be taken from successes and failures alike and leaving the grief over those failures for other people to wallow in. 

Of course he has felt those opening night jitters too in his career. The first time suiting up for a new team, those are the ones he remembers most. That moment when his name is first called by the announcer to the fans of his new team. Is the cheer one of hype and hope or rather one of only cautious optimism. It was that once upon a time first suiting up as a complete unknown undrafted free agent for the Anchorage Armada (although he missed the actual opening night there, joining the team already a few games into the season), then later as a rookie for Texas Renegades. But then only last season, his first with the Toronto North Stars, Lemo was indeed greeted with a fabulous cheer of that hype and hope as the centerpiece of the team’s blockbuster trade that summer.