well have something thats going to be good enough for players to want to wear it all over the world said karlsson who believes cutresistant socks like helmets will eventually be mandatory in the nhlit could be a tough sell the red wings daniel alfredsson 41 who played with karlsson in ottawa and has been reunited with him on the swedish team here played in the game when karlsson was hurt the image of karlsson writhing in pain is seared in his memoryand yet after experimenting with hightech socks in practice alfredsson decided he was more comfortable risking injury than discomforti find them too hot he saidkarlsson did not sweat making the switch its very rare that someone gets cut he said but ive been cut twice now and its not a fun thing to go throughkarlsson was told by his doctors last year that the tendon which was 70 percent ruptured would take six to eight months to heal as usual karlsson was in a rush he returned after 10 weeks for three games in late april and the playoffs when the league broke for the olympics this month he was the topscoring defenseman with 55 points in 59 gamesit wasnt until this year he could perform at the level hes capable of alfredsson saidlast thursday on the first anniversary of his injury karlsson practiced with his teammates and later attended a figure skating competition with alfredssonits not something i put any focus on whatsoever karlsson said just moving forwardon sunday karlsson gave his teammate henrik lundqvist the rangers goaltender a lift around the olympic park on one of the bicycles made available to the athletes he delivered lundqvist back to the village safely but the next day at practice gave the whole team a scare when he crashed into lundqvist while trying to stop loui eriksson from scoring in a breakaway drill the bolshoi training rink grew deathly quiet for several seconds while lundqvist got upi think it looked worse than it was karlsson said adding i told him i was sorry about 500 timesearlier in the same drill alfredsson fell while trying to catch karlssonhe has one speed that most of us dont have alfredsson said thats probably his biggest asset is his skating and his ability as a defenseman to join the rushthe swedish coach par marts smiled monday when asked about karlssons antics either hes on or off thats it he said nothing in between