I like funny movies, too.Ī: I don’t really have a favorite band, I like the Killers. Wedding Crashers is probably my favorite movie. And like I watched Murder Ball the other day. I am into true life stuff, like Cold Case Files. Sometimes he gives me a hard time like why didn’t I give him the puck here, why didn’t I do this, I always tell him, “I am not Sidney Crosby, so lay off me bud."Ī: I watch movies and play my little video game thing and I sleep. He’s a great guy.Ī: Yeah definitely, he is so fast. He’s a great kid and he has fun and he’s one of the more easier-going guys that I have met. But, he’s an 18-year-old kid and picture an 18-year-old kid at your school.
In his interviews and stuff, he’s very professional but he does his job and does what he has to do. It’s tough on the fans to watch us lose right now, but down the road it will pay off and be exciting.Ī: I don’t know if I want to spill the beans. We got (Evgeni) Malkin coming in, another high draft pick, he will probably be a good player and help out, so it’s pretty exciting down the road. You look at the young guys that we have here now everyone knows each other and gets along so well. Q: Are the young players on this team anxious about the future of the franchise?Ī: Yeah definitely.
I think the Cheesecake Factory is my favorite restaurant here because you get so much food. You come through the tunnel and it’s a nice big city, so it’s really beautiful. It seems like a real hard-working place, and the people respect that. It seems nice, I’ve been out a couple times, and seen the place a little bit. I just got a car here the other day, so that maybe will change a little bit. I don’t know my way around the city that much. Q: How do you like living in Pittsburgh? What’s your favorite restaurant in the ’Burgh?Ī: So far it’s been good.
And he always had a little trick about everything, I think for him to get me out there, and teaching me everything, how to tape a stick to how to put on equipment.
Q: Who was your biggest influence growing up?Ī: My dad always was helping me out with every little thing I needed (for hockey), and I can credit that to him, always watching hockey games on TV with him, he would point out every little thing and show me every little thing, every little trick. She’s a funny old lady – crazy, funny old lady. Q: Where did you get your sense of humor?Ī: I don’t know, my grandma maybe, she’s funny. The more you do it, the better you get, but I think that definitely helped me with my skating, I was just always on my skates, all the time. Skated, rollerbladed, I was always skating. Q: What did you do to improve your skating as a young player?Ī: I just skated a lot, all the time as much as I could. It’s my skating too, I think I have pretty good balance, and I am able to use my edges fairly well which helps me get out of the grasp of bigger guys, I think that it’s just my skating and being shifty and trying not to get killed. How do you manage to win so many battles in the corners?Ī: Slippery I guess! I’ve always been doing it since I’ve been a junior, going in with a bigger guy. Q: You are tall and lanky…some would say you are wirey. I took a lot of abuse for it, but I hung around with a lot of girls. I got bugged a lot, but I skated everyday, hockey and figure skating, so I skated all the time. My mom teaches figure skating, so I did it for like 4 years, but I still played hockey. I started figure skating in grade 6… my mom wanted me to do it. It’s mostly just my technique why people think I am a good skater. I’m not by far even close to being the fastest guy on the team, I am probably the middle of the pack, or just under, but I think I’ve got the right technique for skating, it’s just a matter of getting stronger and skating faster I guess. I have been taking skating lessons since I was young and just learned how to skate from there. Q: You are not a particularly fast skater, but you have been described as a good skater? What’s the difference?Ī: My mom’s got my back on the skating. I think you can kind of put everything into one group. You are playing for the best league in the world. Just playing the hockey that I can play right now from where I started, I am pretty happy.Ī: I like the whole lifestyle, you get to fly, you get everything first class, food and hotels and everything.
Q: How would you rate your progress this season?Ī: I think I started off alright, I had shoulder surgery this summer and so I think from that standpoint I have made steps and now I am playing where I want to play…things are going pretty well for me, so I would say that I have made a couple big steps this summer.