Billeting is a staple in junior hockey. Young players pack their bags and move in with a host family in their junior city, where they spend months going through the highs and lows of a hockey season.

"To have someone that can love you and support you just like your mom can, then, it means the world to me." Brandon Hagel of the Western Hockey League's Red Rebels discusses his billet mom, Val Wisener.

Riley Shamray's junior hockey career has taken him to Dauphin, where he's been taken in as a billet and has become part of the Kyle family.