QUEBEC -- Patrick Roy will wait until the end of the NHL playoffs before announcing whether he will retire.

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The 37-year-old star for the Colorado Avalanche has spent 18 years in the league and is the NHL's winningest goaltender.

"My decision is 90 percent taken but there will be no announcement until the end of the playoffs,'' Roy told Radio-Canada television Monday night.

It was the first public comment by Roy on his future since Colorado was eliminated from the playoffs on April 22.

"If I want to come back, I still have some good hockey in me, so I have no problem doing that,'' he said. "I think I had a very good season for myself.''

The four-time Stanley Cup champion recalled advice given by former teammate Ray Bourque.

"When he retired, Raymond Bourque told me that, physically, you feel certain things,'' Roy told the Quebec Le Soleil newspaper. "It hasn't happened to me yet.''

Roy is a co-owner of the Quebec Remparts and has returned to his home city to watch the junior hockey team play in the Memorial Cup tournament beginning Saturday.

Roy aims to take a front-office job after he ends his career. Remparts general manager Raymond Bolduc has one year left on his contract and has said he will retire when it is up.

Roy's other business interests in his home province include part ownership in an annual women's tennis tournament.