Lewis Continues to Train While Waiting for Showcase

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The playoffs are a time for excitement and heartbreak. Teams battle hard trying to make it all the way to a championship and players are deeply invested in their teams cheering each other on when they win and comforting each other when they lose. For someone in Jeffs position, they are somewhat in limbo as they aren't invested in any particular team and only passively watch the playoff results roll in. Without a team drafting him he doesn't have a team that is his, instead he relies on the kindness of GMs that may extend a locker room invite giving him a chance to meet other players and giving him a team to have some interest in and follow in the playoffs.

 

In this period before being drafted, he continues to train hard continuously improving himself even though he has only been in the league for a few days now. He has to, he awaits the Junior Showcase Tournament currently which is something that he is very interested in. It will give him a chance to showcase what he can do to prospective teams. Waiting, however, is hard and it feels like it will be forever although it really won't be. Just a couple more weeks!

With the tournament coming up, he's not entirely sure how it works yet but he's been looking around at others in his draft class to see how hard they have been training. As part of the S89 class, he sees some players have already found teams and have been training longer than him but he's quite happy with where he stands so far.

 

He has had a lot of questions so far and other players have been very welcoming and forthcoming and this makes for a very smooth on boarding process and he thanks those who have reached out to him with advice, words of encouragement and answers to his many questions. He'd also like to thank a GM who reached out to him and let him hang out in a locker room while he waits.

 

When looking at his draft class he finds himself sitting sixth in TPE with some work to do this week yet. A couple of defencemen are on top. Erin Queefson of the Las Vegas Aces and Pope Francis of the Ottawa Lynx are the top of the class to date. The class will still grow but he finds himself quite happy with his effort so far as he works towards finding a home. If we remove the players who already have a team and just look at free agents he is second in TPE, again, with work to do this week still.

 

Of the available free agents, only Montgomery Burns is ahead of him so he feels quite good about his start. Now he awaits the playoffs to end so he can get to showcase his talents for prospective GMs of the VHLM and find himself a home in the draft.

 

He looks forward to being scouted by teams as the draft approaches and hopes to have some good interactions with more people. Good luck to all of the teams in the playoffs currently!

 

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