This has been a great year. We have a great record, I'm learning a lot, and I'm having a lot of fun.

I bring many years of defensive experience. I believe I know a lot about how to play defense and I like to think I can help our defensemen become better.

There's not a lot of coaching going on - I'm just the guy on the bench. But it should be fun and I think it'll be an intense game of hockey.

It was a good learning experience since we have several players who have never played before. They have had two matches and 10 on-court practices and this was our first match of the season. And we have had five on-court practices, so we did respectably. I think we can take at least a few matches off them next time.

At this point, they're ready for flight assignment. But the reality is they could spend years in technical assignments learning the ins and outs of spaceflight. Then there's another year of training specifically for that flight.

We're learning to handle it. We play well against man-to-man, we're getting there against a zone.