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DETisHockeytown · 08-09-2024, 07:27 PM

Getting drafted in the 2nd round stings, don’t let anyone ever tell you differently. To be so close to being “the first off someone's board” only to come up short is motivating. Being a Detroit Lions fan I can’t help but understand how Amon Ra St. Brown feels now, might just have to make my own list to recite before every game.

The day after the draft the team flew all of us rookies to Videotron center in Quebec City to meet the staff and get the lay of the land.

Now I've heard stories of the notorious weather of eastern Canada so I was more than a little surprised to step off the plane and into 88° weather . . . (I may be in Canada now but you will never catch me using Celsius.)

Getting a tour of the arena was great, but they definitely saved the best for last. Walking down into the heart of the arena and into the locker room to see all of our jerseys and even a handful of our now teammates waiting to greet us was the greatest surprise of the day.

Getting to know some of my new teammates ended up being even more helpful than I though when, after explaining I did have a place to stay . . . I did not have any furniture stuff. So our little team meet and great quickly turned into a team trip to IKEA.

With a not so small contingent of Scandinavians on the team we ALL learned the correct way to pronounce EVERYTHING in the store . . .

We grabbed dinner, Swedish meatballs and lingonberry jam of course and then set upon the modern labyrinth of home goods. Got me a sweat deal on a SLATTUM (appropriately in bright blue knisa) and a pair of GULLABERG’s to go with it.

An absolutely wonderful day all around!

Special thanks to The Mountain Anatolyi Tarasov for carrying everyone's purchases with one hand! . . . made it a lot easier than finding a dolly.

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