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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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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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.
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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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I've been full of confidence. I just needed one to go in for me. I'm still going to get my fair share of goals this year.
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They are all superstars on their own teams, but when they come there they have to rely on each other and it is a team effort. Sometimes guys have to make sacrifices on ice time and roles and that is how this team will have success.
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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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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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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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I wasn't nervous at all. I just wanted to go out and have fun with it.
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It doesn't seem like we have the drive we had before the Christmas holiday.
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We can't expect to compete with the teams that are considered among the tops in our conference, the tops in our league, if we're going to come out with slow starts like we have been.
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I think Jason Smith is the best captain in the league by far,
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We needed to relax. It showed in our play.
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The one thing you have to be careful with every time you look at a lineup and see that you are playing a team you should beat, is that sometimes you don't put in your best effort. But I think at this point in the season, we're prepared to play our best hockey night in and night out.