If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and... seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.