Mike Modano is thinking about retirement, but his mother sees things differently. "I'm really hoping we squeeze another year out of him," Karen Modano said Thursday. "I've told him that a thousand times. What are you going to do? You're going to be so bored? All you have is hockey? He said he'd play golf, but you can only play golf so much." Modano's parents -- Karen and Mike -- were supposed to watch Modano play in Minnesota on Saturday night. But they discovered that a pre-planned family cruise to the Eastern Caribbean leaves that same day. "It's so expensive and it's nonrefundable," Karen Modano said. "I said to my husband, 'Oh no! This is one of the only times Mike has ever asked us to come to a game and we can't go.' I can't believe it." Karen said she talked to her son about retirement, but he has no idea what he may do next season. "The choice is with Dallas," Karen Modano said. "He's too young to retire if he was in another business. Mike doesn't retire; his career just ends. He wouldn't be hanging them up because he can't do it. I think he'd want to do one more year just for his own benefit because he had such a lousy year because of the injuries and the appendix. It seems like he couldn't get his mojo going."