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Fresh start
- Updated: September 20, 2016
DETROIT — Teemu Pulkkinen is looking for a fresh start as this year’s training camp begins.
Pulkkinen underwent left shoulder surgery on June 6, the second time he has had surgery on that shoulder. He also had a procedure on his left shoulder in 2010.
“Last season I didn’t feel so good with the shoulder,” Pulkkinen said after the Wings skated at Joe Louis Arena Tuesday. “And at the end of the season I didn’t play much, so I didn’t know where we were are with the shoulder. After the season I went to the world championships and it was bothering me there. So we decided to make surgery to make it better.”
Pulkkinen said it was not a season-long problem.
“It started bothering me in the world championship,” he said. “That was the most it was bothering me in the whole year, in the end of the season when I was playing with the (Finnish) national team. With the Wings, it didn’t bother me so much.”
Pulkkinen has been skating with his teammates and lifting weights but said he’ll be ready to ramp things up for training camp, which starts Friday.
“I’m feeling good, feeling pretty good,” Pulkkinen said. “I’m going to get full …
