“Pretty Special” Jeff Skinner Set To Play In 1,000th NHL Game | Buffalo Sabres

“Pretty Special” Jeff Skinner Set To Play In 1,000th NHL Game | Buffalo Sabres

I don’t know if you’re into numbers or whatever but a thousand games what does that mean to you uh yeah it’s pretty cool I think for me um this just kind of sort of uh gives you a chance to kind of look back and and reflect on kind of everyone that’s

Helped you kind of get to this point and um obviously it’s like kind of a lot of sort of ceremony things going on and um reflection and stuff but but we still got to play the game so I just focus on the game but it’s it’s

Cool to look back and and see the support and I got a few friends and family coming in town so that’ll be fun when you first got in the NHL I mean do you think something like that was possible I mean you you’ve got to have a

Lot of longevity to to make it to a th games yeah I I mean you don’t think about it I don’t think at least I didn’t when when you first come in the league um but yeah you you you got to have you got to have some good luck

Um you got have the opportunity to to go out there and and um yeah I’ve been fortunate to to to play a while and uh yeah it’s uh yeah I’m grateful for that can you take us back to when you came here August 2018 just did you need

To change like what did coming here do for your career right uh I mean I don’t know it it happens so like probably 98% of guys in the league they play for two different teams or more and I think for me uh uh yeah it’s hard to say I think it’s

Everyone’s kind of got their own Journey just kind of shaked out the way it did and uh I’m obviously happy I I I got to come here and um and be a part of this organization and uh yeah it’s yeah again another thing I’m grateful for did you

See the uh thing that ly con sent to you oh yeah what you think of it h it’s pretty funny it’s uh it’s a good job by our social team I guess I I know I don’t I don’t have that contact info so I don’t know how they did that so uh yeah

It pretty cool and and I think obviously some people got some good laughs out of it so that’s that’s that’s good too that’s you know like hockey standards I mean there there aren’t a lot of guys that are into their 30s you guys ever tease you about that or

Anything uh I mean yeah there’s there’s definitely not a lot here there’s there’s probably a few throughout the league but uh uh not really I don’t I don’t think I mean unless it do behind my back then you’d have to ask them what do you remember about your

First game uh my first game was in Finland actually we were doing the global series uh um so yeah it was It was obviously a little bit unique in that way um yeah I think there’s there’s sort of Snippets you remember throughout throughout of the day or kind of going

Up leading up to the game but uh yeah it’s it’s obviously a good memory I think and and uh it’s cool to look back on now you’d like to have fun I mean you you did that TV show last year with with your teammates and everything

Uh have you always believed in that you know try to keep it light with the guys and have some fun yeah I mean yeah I think um I’m I’m not the only guy in here that likes to have fun but uh the way that just worked out I think it just kind of

Um I don’t know again social team and sort of people behind the scenes that sort of made that happen it’s probably you have to have to have some interviews with them to figure out kind of how that came came to be as big as it did but I

Don’t know I think everyone in here likes to have fun in their own way and and uh yeah I think part of my personality is to to enjoy it I guess and um yeah I again it’s it’s I don’t think anyone in here sort of takes it for granted but we’re we’re

Very fortunate to be able to play game and and hang around guys um for um as as much as we do and um yeah I think we’re all all grateful for it are you glad you did it I mean because it it was pretty popular

And the guys seem like to enjoy doing it with you yeah I mean I mean I think my view of that those kinds of things like if people don’t like it it’s that’s fine but but there are people that think it’s funny and and um if they enjoy it

And it sort of makes someone day makes someone’s day or whatever like I mean it’s it’s not that serious it’s it’s supposed to be for fun and um yeah if people find it funny or or have some enjoyment out of it that’s that’s that’s nice it is different on the though I

Mean when you get on the ice you’re a whole different person I mean you try to get out the other team’s skin you’re chatting with them uh it’s like a whole different person when you’re on the ice isn’t it yeah I mean I mean I I think we

All know especially when we’re doing stuff like that we all know we’re here to play hockey and we’re hockey players first and um I obviously think about hockey more than I do think about that stuff so um yeah I think it’s uh yeah I think my sort of my identity

As a hockey player is kind of a little separate or a little bit different than than that maybe thank

Buffalo Sabres forward Jeff Skinner is set to play in his 1,000th National Hockey League game on April 2, 2024. He spoke with the media on April 1 after practice.

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