Jason Spezza
Jason Spezza
Jason Rocco Anthony Spezzais a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth13 June 1983
CityMississauga, Canada
girlfriend hard-work successful
I was 13 or 14 and I met Donald Trump at a bar mitzvah of a good friend of ours, who's friends with him. He had his girlfriend at the time with him, that Melania with him. He said, 'Hey guys, if you work hard and be successful, you'll get one of these.' I'll never forget that. And now he's married to her.
player winning what-matters
You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.
We didn't play the way we wanted to play in the first and we made adjustments.
against game hard open
They're like us. If they get the first goal, it's hard for us to come back. They try to play us tight. We have to open the game up against them.
bigger elevate people physically picked stronger team
I'm stronger physically and I think stronger mentally, too. I'm bigger than people think because I'm not too physical normally. But, in the playoffs, you have to elevate your game. You play the same team so often, you'll get picked on if you don't.
definitely games heal miss properly slowly time
I'm slowly getting better ... it's still kind of day-by-day. It's definitely frustrating, any time you miss games it's frustrating. But the most important thing is we heal it properly and it doesn't become a reoccurring problem.
games guess happen maybe practice sit stay watching
I don't know what is going to happen or where we would stay or if we could practice. Hopefully, we're at least going to get to practice with the team. I guess we could go to the games and sit in the stands. If that's the case, maybe (Staal) and I will be just there having beers, watching the games.
against florida guys nice night paid people playing price realize supposed teams took wins
It was nice to get the wins against the teams we're supposed to beat. What people don't realize is these guys are playing for their jobs. We took a night off against Florida and paid the price (in a 6-2 loss).
cutting player want
I didn't want to be cut, but it made me a better person and a better player.
bad game goal great hard nice people quit score
It was a big goal and we were pretty excited. We battled hard for a great comeback. People had kind of quit on us in this game and we battled back to score and it was nice to get that. Too bad we didn't score in overtime.
behind stanley trying win worried
That's all behind us. All we're worried about now is trying to win the Stanley Cup.
games style jason
I'd really like to have my own style of game and be known as Jason Spezza, not a Mario Lemieux or Wayne Gretzky 'clone.'
good heads hockey knew point putting tough
It's tough to have that happen, but we knew it was going to be a grind. They're a good hockey team. There's no point putting our heads down now.