NHL ALL-STAR WEEKEND

February 1, 2002

Sami Kapanen

SAMI KAPANEN: Well, obviously, we're not the favorite team, but there's five, six teams lucky to make it through the qualifying round, they having a solid offense. It's a matter of time, whoever gets hot. Good goaltending, special teams, is having a shot to win whole thing. Obviously, I think Canada, Czechs, US. We're doing the best we can. We're having a chance.

SAMI KAPANEN: I'm looking forward. It's only once in four years. It's making the season quite hectic, playing every other day, having the All-Star Game. I just played West Coast Canada, four, five games, now playing back here. Going back for one game. Then coming back for Anaheim, San Jose. That means a lot of travel. It's once in a lifetime, so that's all right.