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Quick and dirty translation. First the locker room part.

- Random Calgary Facts
- Matti Nykänen with 3 golds from the Calgary olympics
- Jonas Hiller looks like Luke Skywalker
- Those kids are probably skipping school to go watch the Flames practice, "that's awesome"


Ortio:
q: "In the summer you said you were playing too well, have to slow down a bit. You got that part right, looking at the standings."
a: "Yeah I did say that, I guess I overdid it"

q: "Are there a lot of Kipper legends going around still? I heard he was quite the personality"
a: "There's still some of that, especially some of the staff guys, they were here during Kippers era. One of them still calls Kipper pretty regurarly. So yeah, those legends, I think they'll never die around here."

q: "Pekka Rinne has a golf glove under his hockey glove, do you have some special gear like that?"
a: "Not really, I don't like extra stuff like that. When you have soft hands already... Don't really have that. Nikke (Bäckström) also uses a golf glove."

Bäckström
q: "Dude has had change of scenery after about a decade in Minnesota. So what's it like to be in Calgary?"
a: "I've only been here about 10 days, but feeling nice so far. You always try to prepare for the possibility of getting traded, but when it happens it's still a kind of a shock. With such a long tenure in Minnesota, lots of friends on the team and outside the team there, it was mentally even surprisingly tough. But when I got here, getting into the locker room and training with the guys, after a couple of days it's been starting to feel better every day. Having a change of scenery is nice too. It was starting to be clear that a lot needed to happen (in Minnesota) for me get starts, and you never want bad things for your team mates, you want them to stay healthy. Would have been a long way to get a chance there. I had a NTC so I could have blocked the trade so I made it a condition that I get to play. We'll see what the future brings."

Ortio:
q: "How much do you bench press"
a: "My weight. We'll leave it as a mystery how much that is, you can take a guess."
q: "Comments on Johnny Hockey."
a: (Deadpan humour) "Well much of the credit obviously goes to me, been giving him tips on where to shoot. So yeah, absolutely I deserve some of the credit."
q: "Modesty seems to be in your blood."


Jokipakka:
q: "You got traded from the warmth of Texas here to Canada, how are you feeling?"
a: "No problems, I've been getting along well. I did think I wouldn't have to listen to that country music anymore, but hell, they play it here too damn it."