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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I think Jason Smith is the best captain in the league by far,
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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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We're just trying to take lanes away and take away their speed in the neutral zone.
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Our success comes with skating and being aggressive.
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It doesn't seem like we have the drive we had before the Christmas holiday.
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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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I think Dwayne silenced a lot of critics with his performance. He made three great saves and gave us a chance to win.
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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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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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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.
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You haven't got time to suck on your thumb and think about things that didn't go your way.
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We needed to relax. It showed in our play.
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I want to show the guys I can be relied on. I've got a lot of pride in myself and my game.
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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.