Cole nodded along understandingly as she explained her position. He felt a little disappointed that she wouldn't be joining the team on any of their road trips throughout the year but instead of voicing that, he answered her question.

"Yeah mostly because, well it's Canada's sport, my parents enrolled me when I was little and I liked it. The thing that really made me fall in love was watching the Toronto Maple Leafs making their playoff runs in the early 2000s, I was only a little kid, a year or so into learning how to play myself, and I felt so disappointed when they fell short every time, Carolina in the semifinals, Philadelphia the next two years in a row. Some part of me said 'one day, you're gonna be there, and you'll get them over the finish line' call me a crazy kid, living on wishful thinking, but I genuinely believed it, for years that was my reason for getting up early in the morning on the weekends for the practices and tournaments, and all of that. But yeah, that was what got me in, and love of the game itself just grew over time, you know?"