Before I got my big break with the SMJHL and SHL I was trying to make my way in a different league and sport altogether. I was drafted first overall in the second season of the now defunct Simulation Lacrosse League and it was awesome. I played for the Michigan Hellhounds for only a few games before the league closed up shop.

I was sent home to wander the cold streets of Anchorage and search for work and I honestly didn't know what I was going to do. I moved back in with my parents and got work as a pizza delivery guy at Great Alaska Pizza Company on the corner of Dimond and Sand Lake. It wasn't a bad job but it wasn't great either. I got all the free pizza I wanted from the wrong orders and I got to drive around and meet people and earn a few decent tips. Note: college kids are garbage at tipping, up on the Hillside though, they are awesome tippers. Ultimately, I knew this wasn't going to be a career and so I started searching.

I was listless and searching for something greater and that's when one of my SLL friends asked if I had thought about playing hockey again. I'd played hockey growing up and it was a passion but I'd gone to college to play lacrosse and had given up hockey as a viable option. The passion was there, though, so I gave it a try and ended up signing as an undrafted free agent in the SMJHL and now got drafted by an SHL team.