“I’m not retiring because of you. I love hockey, it’s been my life for as long as I can remember. It connected me to my grandparents, and it saved me from my parents. It brought me to you. I love hockey, but I don’t love it as much as I love you. My accident shook me up, but it also brought me you, and I don’t know how long it would have taken us to find each other without it. And that shakes me more. I’m not retiring for you, it’s just time for me to retire, but that doesn’t mean I’m not also doing it for us.”
