Sami Kapanen Quotes (13 Quotes)

My body was starting to crave more workouts. When I started working out I sat down and thought about it and I said, Why am I working out if Im not going to work out to get in game shape. Thats when I decided to play a couple more years and see how I felt after that.

I didn't feel that good, I was more tired than (Wednesday). There was a big difference in my game. I tried to keep my shifts short.

It's been sore ever since then, ... I still have been able to do the scrimmages and all that, but I guess it's time to fix it. ... I think it's better to fix it now than to try and play with a bad shoulder and get to the point where it needs to be fixed in the middle of the season and be in a bad spot going into the playoffs.

He told me to take some time off and think about it. Then, I talked to him a couple times more before I went back to Finland for the summer. We talked a few times that summer. He told me it was too early to retire. He said he knew what I was going through. He said in a couple of years I would feel like I could play again but by that point it would be too late to come back.

I think there's a couple weeks now where we don't play any regular season games, so it kind of shortens up the time you're going to miss in the season,

Last month I finally started feeling good, ... I was just anxious to get back -- with the new signings and the new rules -- and seeing as we were out for a year. Not being able to play the next couple of months will be hard.

It's better to face it now. There's a couple weeks now where we don't play any regular-season games. It kind of shortens up the time you're going to miss. It's better to fix it now than try to play with a bad shoulder.

I'm trying to get through the next three weeks until the Olympic break. I'm leaning toward not playing in the Olympics because the way my body is feeling, I need the extra rest.

No matter what my final decision is, I'm going to feel the heat from either end.

(The defenseman) was kind of standing still. So I kind of made a little move to gain some speed and drive to the middle. It was fairly easy for me because there was no hooking or holding.

It hasn't been a whole lot of fun playing lately, with the aching and all the pills and needles. The time off should do some good for my body.

You can sense, late in the game, when they were all over us, guys were kind of laughing and smiling towards each other. To have that much fun late in a game is kind of disturbing. We do have pride to play real hard, no matter what the score. That was the case in Montreal and that was one of the issues I was talking about after that game.

I guess it was about three or four weeks back. I think I kind of fell down on my shoulder. I can't even finger-point any hits in the past, I don't know how many weeks we've been skating. It's been sore ever since then. I still have been able to do the scrimmages and all that, but I guess it's time to fix it.