It was a cold Monday night in the province of Quebec when Louis Belanger got the call from his agent, St-Louis was about to select him from the waiver wire. Belanger had a good idea this was coming, he had talks with Jimmy the GM and he seemed interested. There were rumblings that some other teams were interested and might try to trade for him, but it looked like Jimmy wasn't interested in trading him. He wanted to select him.

Belanger took a direct flight out of Montreal to get to St-Louis. Once out of the airport, he took a cab directly to the arena to meet his teammates. At the door was a kid, he was kind of funny, making jokes to everyones passing by and looked to fun to be around. Louis pulled out his hand to do a handshake and the guy responded: "Hey there! I'm Jay! I'm the co-gm of St-Louis. You'll be seeing me a lot around here! Even though I play for another team, I actually spend all my time here in St-Louis talking to alumnis. We're happy to have you, please go in". At this moment, Louis knew he would be welcomed well in this team. While walking to the locker-room, he saw Alexa. Alexa was kind of a big deal. St-Louis had traded a lot to have the chance to pick her and she had been named captain in her first year "Hi Louis, I'm Alexa. You can also call me Cake. We're happy to have you!". Cake had a pronouced Australian accent, but there was a warmth around her. You knew right away why people seemed to appreciate her so much. While talking to her, there was another guy in the background that Louis later learned was called Pyro. Pyro kept making snarky comments and making sure everyone knew he was an adult, but then he disappeared.

Once in the locker room, there wasn't many people there. Jay, Cake, Pyro and Jimmy were in a corner talking about who should be ban or fired. He saw a man called Waldo in the doorframe but he just came in for a second complaining about the captain vote, but left right as Louis was trying to introduce himself. Louis went in the corner and joined the small group.

A few days later, right before the preseason was about to start, a man who seemed quite busy came in screaming" sorry everyone! I've been so busy! My name is NRF or Jack Booth. Happy to you see you all after a few weeks of absence".

And that's how Louis met his team. He was happy to be there. It can be hard for a rookie to join a group thats been together for so long, but with time, he felt he could become someone his team could rely on and build a relationship with.