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Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.

Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.

It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.

I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

I'm 26 years old. I don't need to be playing 16 anymore.

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.