Michael Peca
Michael Peca
Michael Anthony "Mike" Pecais a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward of the National Hockey League. He played for the Vancouver Canucks, Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders, Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs and the Columbus Blue Jackets. Peca currently is the general manager and director of hockey operations for the Buffalo Jr. Sabres, a Junior A hockey team owned by the Sabres, one of two teams he captained...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth26 March 1974
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February has always been the toughest month I remember over my career. It's going to be important to go into the break on a high and that means getting our game in order at home.
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There's no denying that I'd like to have more goals than I do. But having said that, I haven't hurt the team. I haven't been a liability. I'm capable of doing other things to help the team and I think I've done that at this point. Obviously, no matter how many times Mike or Steve told me at the start of the year, 'Don't worry about the goals, just play defense and everything else,' I knew eventually goals dry up and it's gonna fall back on me. But that's the expectations I place on myself also.
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Scoring and points have become more important than winning hockey games. We've got to get it out of our game.
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For the most part, it is still a pretty light atmosphere around here. As games go on, if it stays tied or if we fall behind, we get a little tight. We have to rely on our ability, we have a great team in here, and just sometimes we don't believe it as much as we should.
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If he's going to run somebody, he's not going to run a fourth-line center. At best, it was a two-minute penalty.
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It was nice. It really wasn't necessary, but it was nice. That's an indication of what kind of man (Islanders owner) Charles (Wang) is and what kind of organization they are.
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You cannot win games in this league with spurts of effort, ... And we've got to get our act together coming out of the gate.