Option 1: Since I’m still playing in juniors, everyone, except a few exceptions whose family lives in Quebec City, is staying with a billet family during the season, getting a bunch of guys who just hit majority staying on their own is probably not a good idea. All billet families have two players staying with them and the team has decided that every rookie on the team is automatically paired with a player that has already played at least one season with the team to facilitate their integration both with the team and with the city, since they get a teammate that could show them around if they needed to. This season I’m staying with one of our rookies. Since he is still too young to have it driver license, I’m the one who takes him anywhere he wants to go, and I told him that I’m available whenever he needs me. I think that if I can get help them significantly off the ice and remove the stress factors he could have experienced while moving to a new city, it will put him in a position to focus on what he needs to do on the ice which impact his performances positively.

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