I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.
If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.
I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.
I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.
Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.
I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.
For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.
If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.
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