i am the fresh rookie this year! so i'm appreciating the seattle vets welcoming me to the city and showing me around the facilities. i got a pretty good tour of them before but that was the summer of my draft almost three years ago! the team has changed a lot since then but it was nice to meet a couple of familiar faces before we stepped out into training camp. it was also nice to play with some of my J enemies for the first time. i think how friendly everyone is, and the fact that we have such a young team is really helping me get comfortable and adjusted. we dont have a lot of expectations on us right now, but we want to set the tone for this new era of seattle hockey as good as we possibly can. we have a lot of learning to do, and we want to do a lot of winning, so we have to hold eachother accountable (especially the new people) and push eachother to do better each and every game. we're having fun, we're improving our skills, but most importantly we're laying the ground work for a core that's going to have a lot of success in the future.