Kimmo Timonen got through the 2013-14 season with a body he says didn’t feel its 39 years.

What gets old, he acknowledges, is what you have to do to keep your body believing that.

“That’s why I am going to take my time, probably start working out in a few weeks to see if I still like it and go from there,” he said Friday as the Flyers broke up for the summer. “Or, if I would like to do something else.”

Timonen has heard what he wanted to hear from Craig Berube and Paul Holmgren. They would like him to come back for a 16th NHL season, and an eighth with the Flyers. Now Kimmo’s legs will beg for the same words of encouragement from his brain.

#44 KIMMO TIMONEN A LOOK AT KIMMO'S CAREER * 5-Time Barry Ashbee Trophy Winner as Flyers Most Outstanding Defenseman:

(2008, 2009, 2012, 2013 & 2014 )



* 5-Time Named an NHL All-Star:

(2000, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012)



* 4-Time Olympic Medalist:

(BRONZE: 1998, 2010, 2014 & SILVER: 2006)



* 3rd All-Time in Flyers defensemen history in points

(Howe: 480 l Desjardins: 396 l Timonen: 270)



* CAREER TOTALS:

(GP: 1,092 l G: 117 l A: 454 l PTS: 571)



* DRAFTED:

(10th Round l 250th overall l 1993 l LA Kings)

“For myself, I put the highest standard where I want to be when I play the game,” he said Friday. “I gotta think about whether I can still be there.

“If I find I can be there, I don’t see why I’m not coming back.”

It remains to be seen in what role, at what salary, but not what team.

“I haven’t even figured out how much (cap) money the (Flyers) have left,” Timonen said. “It doesn’t matter to me.

“This is my place. If I get back, this is where I want to be. I like our team. I like our team moving forward.

“I wasn’t going to end my career (last season) with 50 games and no playoffs. This year we got off to a really bad start and put ourselves in a big hole. We climbed out and made the playoffs, which in my mind was a minimum goal, but then you lose in the first round, that’s not acceptable.

“Let’s put it this way, if I had won a Stanley Cup earlier, I would say ‘that’s it.’ That’s the only thing that keeps my hopes up, not money, not anything else.”

In the meantime, he, his wife, Johanna, and children have no desire to be anywhere else but Haddonfield, whether Dad continues playing there or not.

“No matter what, we going to stay here for a couple more years and figure out what we are going to do as a family. My kids are older, my (oldest) son (Samuel) is 15 and I’m sure he wants to stay here. He has been here all his life.”

When you have played hockey all your life, only chronic pain makes it easy to leave it. Fellow NHL senior citizens have told Timonen they will keep skating until someone faster catches up and drags the skates off their feet.

“A lot of them say that if you can play the game, don’t leave the game,” said Timonen. “If you can still play and people want you back that’s always a good sign. I just have to figure out if I can do it.”