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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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.
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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'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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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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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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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 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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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 seemed to lose composure as the game went on.
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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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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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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're just trying to take lanes away and take away their speed in the neutral zone.