Jason Spezza
Jason Spezza
Jason Rocco Anthony Spezzais a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth13 June 1983
CityMississauga, Canada
night games goal
My goal is to be at the top of my game every night.
girlfriend hard-work successful
I was 13 or 14 and I met Donald Trump at a bar mitzvah of a good friend of ours, who's friends with him. He had his girlfriend at the time with him, that Melania with him. He said, 'Hey guys, if you work hard and be successful, you'll get one of these.' I'll never forget that. And now he's married to her.
player winning what-matters
You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.
leads squander third
We have got to play better with the lead. We don't squander too many leads in the third and we don't want to make it a habit.
dinner good happen plans somewhere talking worst
We were talking about making dinner plans and getting a reservation somewhere but it was good that they got it fixed. With the compressed schedule, the worst thing that could happen is we'd have to re-schedule the game.
guys played stepping
We played well. Different guys are stepping up.
intensity kept match ray
We probably didn't match their intensity early. And Ray kept us in it early.
gate home tough
We're at home and we want to be the ones who come storming out of the gate and make it tough on them.
We didn't play the way we wanted to play in the first and we made adjustments.
chance experience playing
The only way you get experience is by playing in these things. I haven't had any experience because I haven't had a chance to play in any of these. We've always made the playoffs, so I never had a chance to go to the (men's) world championships.
coming deep expect favorite high knew order ourselves pace stanley talent team wins
I think with the talent we have, we knew we were a deep team, we knew we were a favorite coming into the year, we had high expectations for ourselves and we still do. We expect to keep this pace going. We know in order to be a team that wins the Stanley Cup, you have to be consistent.
early last night skating tonight took touched tougher
Last night everything we touched went in the net, and tonight it was tougher to put them in, but you can't make any excuses, we took too many penalties, we weren't skating as much and they took the play to us early on.
experience good guys initial injuries stay
I was disappointed not to be one of the initial 23 guys but it'll be a good experience just to go over there. You never know if there'll be injuries so you've got to stay ready.
experience good guys initial
I was disappointed not being one of the initial 23 guys getting dressed, but it's a good experience to go over there and be around these guys.