As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.
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Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.
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I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.
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I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.
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I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.
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I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.
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I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.
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I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.
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It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.
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Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.
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The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.
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Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
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We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
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We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.
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When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.
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