Sami Kapanen
Sami Kapanen
Sami Hannu Antero Kapanenis a Finnish former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey Leagueand the Finnish Liiga. He played 12 NHL seasons for the Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes and Philadelphia Flyers. He is the majority owner and general manager of KalPa. Kapanen's son, Kasperi Kapanen, is a prospect for the Toronto Maple Leafs...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth14 June 1973
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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 I?m not going to work out to get in game shape.? That?s when I decided to play a couple more years and see how I felt after that.
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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.
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(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.