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
came effort game great points saves team
We had a great team effort and Morrison really came up with two big saves at the end of the game to give us the two points we deserved.
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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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We seemed to lose composure as the game went on.
calms confidence crowd despite game gave goal guys momentum ready start younger
The way momentum shifts in the playoffs, it's a big goal because you can take the crowd out of it. It calms everything down and allows the younger guys to play with more ease. Despite them getting that goal back, it gave us that confidence at the start of the game that we were ready to go.
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It's a void that everybody thought we had and if this is us addressing it, which we all believe it is, maybe it'll give us a bit of a boost. He came up big for us in a couple of games in the conference final. He's a guy who wants the opportunity and thrives on the opportunity.
evaluate few game goes played practices rink
I haven't played a game in over a month, so I'd like to get a few more practices in. I'll come to the rink (Tuesday), skate, see how it is and evaluate it as every day goes by.
controlled deserved felt game points start
I think we, ultimately, felt we deserved the two points because we controlled the play of the game pretty much from start to finish.
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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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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.
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I'm sure there will be a lot of everything at that meeting, such as our strategy moving forward. A lot of people may want questions answered, they may want to know what happened over the course of the last week, help them understand where things fell apart or didn't come together.
guys pride
I want to show the guys I can be relied on. I've got a lot of pride in myself and my game.
charles indication man
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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We might say, as competitive players, that we'd love to get back at it right away. But if our bodies could speak for themselves they'd say give us six or seven days before you put us back into a game.
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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.