Honestly the welcome was great and far beyond what I would have expected. Me and all of the others in the class that went to Great Falls all met up first and had a grand time getting to know each other at the hotel the team had booked for us as not all planes would arrive at the same time. There were plenty of us, six new people were drafted. But the welcoming? Something special to be sure. As we walked in to the locker room, the entire team, players, coaches, GMs were stood in the room making sounds like bears, growling like grizzlies. As we walked in, one by one, we had bear pelts (yes, head included) put on us! We were then invited out on the ice for a first lap, still in the bear pelts, and then brought back inside to actually do some meet and greets with our future teammates to get to know each other and pump ourselves up for the coming season.