Unthinkable
10-05-2003, 10:38 AM
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=ap-agedonice&prov=ap&type=lgns
NHL '03-'04: In NHL, old-timers play every night
By ALAN ROBINSON, AP Sports Writer
October 4, 2003
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Larionov, now with the Devils after helping the Red Wings win the Stanley Cup in 2002, is the oldest of the old-timers -- he'll be 43 in December, long past the age most contact-sport athletes expect to play.
``You have to love the game, you have to commit yourself to the game,'' said Larionov, the oldest player to score a game-winning goal in the Stanley Cup finals. ``You sacrifice a lot of things. When you're successful, you climb to that summit and there is nothing else above that. Then you take a couple of days or a couple of weeks off, and you feel hungry again, so you have to do it again. ... That's what keeps me going.''
That and the money, of course. The former Soviet Red Army star was making only $100 a month when he came to the NHL at 29, years after many players began making big money.
``That's not the reason, though,'' Larionov said. ``If you think about the money, you forget about the main thing: playing the game. You have to play the game.''
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NHL '03-'04: In NHL, old-timers play every night
By ALAN ROBINSON, AP Sports Writer
October 4, 2003
.
.
.
Larionov, now with the Devils after helping the Red Wings win the Stanley Cup in 2002, is the oldest of the old-timers -- he'll be 43 in December, long past the age most contact-sport athletes expect to play.
``You have to love the game, you have to commit yourself to the game,'' said Larionov, the oldest player to score a game-winning goal in the Stanley Cup finals. ``You sacrifice a lot of things. When you're successful, you climb to that summit and there is nothing else above that. Then you take a couple of days or a couple of weeks off, and you feel hungry again, so you have to do it again. ... That's what keeps me going.''
That and the money, of course. The former Soviet Red Army star was making only $100 a month when he came to the NHL at 29, years after many players began making big money.
``That's not the reason, though,'' Larionov said. ``If you think about the money, you forget about the main thing: playing the game. You have to play the game.''
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