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Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

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There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

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Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

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We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

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I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

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I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

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It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

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I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

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I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

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25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Athlete

Born: January 18th, 1961

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