"It's not ideal If I have to miss a year, I hear sometimes it benefits the older players, but I don't think it really does. I think you have to be consistently playing, being active and all that.

"You usually train for two, two and-a-half months in the summer and then maintain (heading into training camp). But we're going on three months of training right now and it kind of gets groundhog day-ish."

-Todd Bertuzzi of the Detroit Red Wings. More from Bertuzzi via Ted Kulfan of the Detroit News.