Inside the Dog house
Issue date: 4/1/08 Section: Sports
MS - Favourite away rink is probably Ottawa, the fans are pretty crazy there and the lights across the top on the scoreboard make it look pretty cool. I hate Peterborough; the corners and the boards, it's just bad. I hate playing there.
SF - My favourite is Saginaw. I played there for a little bit and I like going back there and they don't like me so I like that feeling. The worst barn is Windsor, those fans hate me and it makes it a lot harder on me in the game.
AP - Yeah probably Ottawa, but the worst is Sault Ste. Marie, just because you have to go all the way up there, we always end up losing up there.
SD - I like Belleville. I always feel like I have something to prove when I play there; I can't stand playing in Plymouth there's something about that barn that I can't stand.
Why did you choose the number you did?
MS - I've always had 14. When I was young I liked Brendan Shanahan so my mom gave me 14. I wore it in hockey and lacrosse. I've had it all the way up.
SF - I've changed my number quite a bit. I was 24 in Saginaw for three years and six in Mississauga last year. I got drafted in the second round to the OHL and that's when I was playing my best hockey. So I thought I might as well go with 20-something and I might have a better year and now I'm playing better than usual.
AP - When I was a kid I was a forward and used to like Pavel Bure, so that's why I started wearing number 10.
SD - As soon as I came over here [from Denmark], I was thinking on the plane of what number to pick and when I came here my trainer said, "Welcome to Canada, by the way you're number 29."
Mississauga or Niagara - Which is the better city?
MS - Everything's way better here, people actually care about you here. You can go out to Subway and little kids come up to you and ask you for your autograph. It's a good feeling knowing that people know about you. When we were there, there were no fans to get you pumped up for the game, but here, its 20 minutes before the warm-up and you can hear the fans screaming their heads off and you're sitting in the room getting pumped up hearing them.
SF - My favourite is Saginaw. I played there for a little bit and I like going back there and they don't like me so I like that feeling. The worst barn is Windsor, those fans hate me and it makes it a lot harder on me in the game.
AP - Yeah probably Ottawa, but the worst is Sault Ste. Marie, just because you have to go all the way up there, we always end up losing up there.
SD - I like Belleville. I always feel like I have something to prove when I play there; I can't stand playing in Plymouth there's something about that barn that I can't stand.
Why did you choose the number you did?
MS - I've always had 14. When I was young I liked Brendan Shanahan so my mom gave me 14. I wore it in hockey and lacrosse. I've had it all the way up.
SF - I've changed my number quite a bit. I was 24 in Saginaw for three years and six in Mississauga last year. I got drafted in the second round to the OHL and that's when I was playing my best hockey. So I thought I might as well go with 20-something and I might have a better year and now I'm playing better than usual.
AP - When I was a kid I was a forward and used to like Pavel Bure, so that's why I started wearing number 10.
SD - As soon as I came over here [from Denmark], I was thinking on the plane of what number to pick and when I came here my trainer said, "Welcome to Canada, by the way you're number 29."
Mississauga or Niagara - Which is the better city?
MS - Everything's way better here, people actually care about you here. You can go out to Subway and little kids come up to you and ask you for your autograph. It's a good feeling knowing that people know about you. When we were there, there were no fans to get you pumped up for the game, but here, its 20 minutes before the warm-up and you can hear the fans screaming their heads off and you're sitting in the room getting pumped up hearing them.
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