[Rough English translation from French language source]

‘“I am really very happy to be here. It will be really special to find our partisans, to find me in the center of the action. I was plunged in the unknown last year at the same time. I was in the black. I had not even been able to look at the match of opening on TV so much I were distressed. And this evening, I will be on the skating rink. It is certainly a great day for me. One day which will enable me to separate my life and my career in two shutters: that of before the operation, and that which begins this evening. There is not that hockey in the life, but hockey occupied such a place in mine that it was important for me to return after all these tests in spite of the fact that I am 40 years old.”’