Matt Cooke
Matt Cooke
Matthew David Cookeis a Canadian professional ice hockey player currently an unrestricted free agent. Cooke won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey Leagueduring the 2008–09 NHL season and was member of the Team Canada team that won the gold medal at the 2004 World Championships. In addition to having previously played for the Penguins, he has also played in the NHL with the Vancouver Canucks, Washington Capitals and Minnesota Wild. Cooke was born in Belleville,...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth7 September 1978
CityBelleville, Canada
It puts things in to perspective for how we can improve. It was more of a building experience and thinking about where we can go from here.
You can't look back. Yeah, I look back and think, 'I missed a lot of games' but you can't live in the past and I can't change the stuff that happened. So, I just have to look forward and move forward.
Normally I?m peeling away to be a third guy, but I saw his head down and saw I had a chance to poke it away from him and fortunately it went in the net.