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“I’ve obviously had a concussion and I’ve had concussions before but this one was pretty traumatic. I’ve had 2 major injuries in my lifetime that have kind of rocked me in a way where I have to put breaks on

“There’s people that have helped me with all different aspects of the field, but that being said I am so strongly a people oriented person that people who have shown me what it looks like to really be a leader

“I’m a people person, I love learning about why people are doing what they are doing, what motivates them. You can take the best athletes in the world and they will have different reasons for doing what they are doing.

“I was a wrestler in college, wrestling was my big sport and 1 year I had a really terrible injury. I remember when people would ask me ‘how are things going’, ‘what are you into’, and I would only talk

“Playing for Toronto too was a highlight of my career because that was my dad’s favourite team. We had the opportunity to have a father’s trip in Toronto, all the dad’s flew down to Toronto and was on a road

“What sticks out to me when I was young in my career playing for Florida, you’re constantly going out to please the coach, please the management in order to stay in the NHL or make it. I found when I

“In life, there’s always thing that comes up that are tough, whether it’s hockey or not hockey. When I was a kid, being picked on for being too heavy, and to having a coach in the NHL that he can’t

“I was fortunate enough to live the childhood dream of playing in the NHL but at the same time I think it’s hard to make the NHL but I think it’s even harder to stick in the NHL. That’s 1