65 Quotes by Patrik Elias

I knew it was going to be for a couple of weeks and that's what it's been. I missed about 10 months before that. This was quick.

I'm more nervous than excited, actually. I felt okay the past couple of days, no pain, no problem. I feel good conditioning-wise and hockey-wise. It's going to take awhile. I'm a little too quick for my hands right now. My hands are not that good.

I'm very happy where I'm at right now.

I haven't skated in almost two weeks, so I need to get back in shape a little bit.

It helps to start a game like that on the road.

It helps that they're going well. We were making good plays, spreading the ice pretty well. I didn't want to hold back. I told the coaches that when I come back I want to play, I don't just want to go out there and play a couple of shifts and try to work into it.

I don't think I got too frustrated, too down. You remember yourself, what you went through.

I don't know if I ever said that to myself. There were a couple of times that I felt OK and then all of a sudden I started feeling like (garbage).

You've got to give the man credit. (He stepped) into a position he hasn't been used to, he wasn't in for quite a while, obviously not at this level, at the NHL level.