”Well, I don’t know if I can ..how exactly i can put it into words I mean it’s something very very special. especially when you look at it and say, here you got a kid 18-years old who grew up in Ontario, playing canadian hockey, bringing kid over, who is 19- years old from Finland who doesn’t speak any english at all.

..and yet, we put our skates on and went out the door and got on the ice it was like we’d grown up together, thought the same way, felt the same way, understood the game the same way, and it just all came together as one, it was something really really remarkable.

I mean, we didn’t spend a lot of time together like, extra practicing or you know, conversations. That time he couldn’t even speak english. but it was amazing when we got on the ice, it was the chemistry that, I don’t know why we had it. If you..you know, if you’re a big believer in god, there’s no question god was looking over us and said these boys belong together, something like that. We would get on the ice and he would have no idea where I was and the puck would be right on my stick or I would have no idea where he was and I could put the puck to where I felt - I knew - he was gonna be. And, it was something very unique, something very special and we were fortunate to have it together. Yeah, we were good friends we pushed each other, we kidded each other.

And I think the biggest thing of all we were unselfish with each other, you know, he didn’t care if I scored, I know I didn’t care if he scored. I felt like when he scored I was scoring and I know he had that same feeling for me. And I think our unselfishness towards each other was huge part of our success. ”