In the history of the SMJHL we have had some great dudes. Plenty of people have passed through that one would think were really outstanding dudes. However, there has only been one so great, so humble, so abiding as to be referred to simply as The Dude.

The Dude was drafted twelfth overall by the St. Louis Scarecrows back in the season thirty seven SMJHL draft. He impressed his older teammates quickly by his sense of how to tie a room together with a good rug, his ability to drink White Russians seemingly all day without getting truly inebriated, his hockey abilities and most of all his abiding dudeness. He was slotted onto the third line and played eighteen minutes a game.

That rookie year was, while decent for a rook, not up to his overall level of expectation. He managed to score one goal on the year to go along with eight assists. He dished out a meager seven hits and blocked thirty one shots.

Two seasons later much has changed. The Dude has truly come into his own as one of the best defensemenn in the league. As a first liner the past year The Dude managed to rack up a truly impressive fourteen goals and twenty five assists. He added to this with forty one hits and a tremendous fifty six blocked shots. He accomplished all this in twenty one and a half minutes per contest.