Nine days before they faced off in the final league game of the season, Fort Vancouver coach Neil Lomax asked Mountain View coach Adam Mathieson if he team could come watch the Thunder practice. Him, and his entire roster. The Trappers are amid a longstanding rebuild, and the coaching staff wanted to show the players what a winning culture looks like day-to-day. It was the first time in Mathieson’s long coaching career he’d ever had an entire team come watch a practice, let alone a league opponent.