'"I'm a hockey player," said Brennan. "Everyone's got that fire in them to play the game. I liked lacrosse because it was physical, but there is nothing like hockey. It's just something about the connection with the other guys that you have on the team and just being out there on that ice that you just forget about everything at that time. That's all I'm worried about. It's just an unbelievable feeling and if you don't get that feeling, you can't really go through with it."'