Walking into Regina the first time was quite an experience. There were 3 of us taken pretty highly in the draft for Regina and that comes with a lot of expectations usually. However, the team made us feel at home almost immediately. All the teammates were ready for us and welcoming in their own ways. Even the older vets of the team, in their last season or 2 before making the jump to the big leagues, came over and helped everyone become acclimated to the locker room itself and all the traditions and customs that the team has come to expect in that building. Of course the biggest thing for me was being so far out in the middle of no where, the furthest I had been out like that other than a game or 2 here and there. Well and the maybe the biggest thing was the teammates trying to play it cool with my giant body covered in fur and hamster face. Who knows, they had good poker faces.

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