At 39 years old and having served 2 stints on injured reserve this season, I started thinking about Patrik Elias; not so much if his career was over, but what he's meant to myself and all Devils fans.
As I've written about on this site before (it feels like a long time ago already) when I was young, I grew up in a home that didn't care much for hockey; oh sure, if it was literally all that was on, my family would watch it, but more often than not it was tabled for another sport or a sitcom.