Violet’s first interaction with the team didn’t start at the locker room – it involved a fair bit of paperwork, a lawyer or two, and a bunch of ‘on-boarding’ before she was able to join the team, especially as a Swede joining a team in a new country. She didn’t have any ties to Regina or Canada as a whole, and while proficient with English, hadn’t spoken a ton of it in her childhood and early teenage years.

The team themselves were positively lovely, with the general manager greeting her personally. Unbelievably, she’d run into an old childhood friend in Mercedes Baylé, a winger originally from Pennsylvania she had seen once in a while at hockey camps. Lots of high fives, handshakes, and hugs later, she settled into the rookie class with various other new Elk calves in Inge Baardsen, Bean Beanman Jr., and Mary Hollywood – among a few others! It felt like the first day of school.