I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.

People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

It's really hard. And it's harder today because of the salary cap. It starts in September at training camp - getting every guy on the same page, being as mentally and physically as focused as you can be. Then in April and May, you basically spend eight weeks practising, watching video and playing games. That's your life.

You miss every shot you don't take.

In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.

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 have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.