Back to news
Former Oilers D Klefbom a stay-at-home dad, eyes future in hockey
@Source: edmontonjournal.com
“Nothing, no games. I tried to but I’m still too emotionally involved. I’m only 31 but … I want to see myself on the ice, not from above or on TV,” said Klefbom, who played 378 Oilers games and was a workhorse, the excellent blue-line partner of Swedish buddy Adam Larsson for years here, all the while playing hurt with a shoulder that wouldn’t co-operate.
Eventually the shoulder was so bad, he needed major repair work.
It KO’d his playing career.
He was asked if he’d like to come to the Oilers playoff ride last spring, but declined. “They asked if I could be here for Game 4 of the finals against Florida. But we were having a baptism for our son back home,” he said.
Klefbom reportedly had arthritic issues in the shoulder, which derailed his seven-year Oilers career. “I had the shoulder surgery and they cut into the small muscles and they put the titanium in there, in the socket,” said Klefbom, who has played golf and he loves to fish, but no hockey.
“It’s really weak. I’ve lost a lot of muscle mass. I played with pain for so many years. Every time I talked to you guys I thought ‘You guys should know what’s really going on.’ I was compensating (to not take major hits to the shoulder). I got used to the pain and I dealt with it. Now, I sleep fine.”
Related News
01 May, 2025
At F1 Miami Grand Prix, many top executi . . .
28 Mar, 2025
Russia will never blindly trust ‘Western . . .
16 Mar, 2025
I was struggling to feed kids on £71pw & . . .
21 May, 2025
"Even if MI play at 70 percent of their . . .
13 Apr, 2025
Cian Byrne brace downs Sligo Rovers and . . .
16 Apr, 2025
Rory McIlroy's ex-girlfriend Caroline Wo . . .
13 Mar, 2025
Special Olympics World Winter Games: Ind . . .
25 Apr, 2025
400-yard drives?! Here's why LIV Golf Me . . .