Music: {allcanada} Fisher: Celebrity marriage doesn't change anything

Thursday, July 29, 2010

{allcanada} Fisher: Celebrity marriage doesn't change anything

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Mike Fisher (notes) is not going to pull a Dany Heatley (notes) and demand to be traded — not even if he has to live and work thousands of kilometres away from his wife, Carrie Underwood.

Fisher says he loves playing in Ottawa, where he has played his entire career since being drafted in 1998, and intends to play here for the final three years of his contract, which will pay him $4 million U.S., $4 million and $3 million over the coming seasons.

After that, it's anyone's guess where he'll be playing.

If the Senators no longer want him, maybe he could find a home with the Predators in Nashville, where Underwood lives.

After all, Fisher and Underwood, who were married two weeks ago in Georgia, want to start a family, and it'd be a little difficult to do with one parent in Nashville and the other in Ottawa.

However, all of that is still somewhere down the road, said Fisher, who on Wednesday flatly brushed aside any suggestion he'd request a trade.

(It probably wouldn't be too hard to arrange, though, because Senators general manager Bryan Murray and Predators general manager David Poile are close friends from their years together in the 1980s when Murray was coach and Poile was general manager of the Washington Capitals.)

"We've got that question a lot, and not just from media, but from friends, too, kind of asking what are our plans," Fisher said during a break from his summer hockey school in Orléans. "Obviously, I love it here in Ottawa, she likes it and she knows how much I like it, and I want to stay here my whole career, if possible.

"It feels like home, I've been here for so long. But it won't be just up to me. It'll be up to the team, too, after my contract is up. But we're both comfortable here and home is where we are."

What will be tricky is maintaining a long-distance relationship. Fisher probably has the busier schedule, with only about one day off a week. But he figures they'll be OK. They've had plenty of experience during their courtship.

"We're going to be apart a lot," he said. "We're both travelling and busy, but that's not going to limit our relationship at all.

"It's going to be the same as dating, really, being married, as far as back and forth.

"It's all good. We'll see each other when we can.

"We both obviously have an understanding of each other, and it's going to be great."

Fisher said the wedding and honeymoon were everything they hoped they would be. It was relaxing and they spent some good time together, even if he's still finding it difficult living in a world where celebrity photographers dog your every step.

"It is what it is," he said.

"I've never really got used to it, but she's used to it. It's a little different for me, but I'm learning to deal with it.

"It's a part of life now, I guess. You can use it for good or bad, too."

Bad news for hockey fans, though. Asked if being married would make him a better hockey player, Fisher said he didn't think so.

"I don't think I'll change too much," he said. "I'll be the same."