Matthew Peca

Matthew Peca
Date of birth	April 27, 1993
place of birth	Petawawa , Ontario , Canada
size	173 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 7th round, 201st position Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
2009-2011	Pembroke Lumber Kings
2011-2015	Quinnipiac University
2015-2018	Tampa Bay Lightning Syracuse Crunch
2018-2020	Canadiens de Montréal Rocket de Laval
since 2020	Ottawa Senators

Matthew Peca (born April 27, 1993 in Petawawa , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League since February 2020 .

Career

Matthew Peca played in his youth for the Ottawa Valley Titans and then from 2009 to 2011 for the Pembroke Lumber Kings , but never played in the highest-ranking junior league in his home province, the Ontario Hockey League . Nevertheless, he was considered in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft at 201st position by the Tampa Bay Lightning , before he attended Quinnipiac University from 2011 to 2015 . With their ice hockey team, the Bobcats , the center participated in the game operations of the ECAC within the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). During this time he was elected to the All-Rookie Team and the First All-Star Team of the ECAC.

At the end of the 2014/15 season, Peca switched to the Lightning organization by signing an entry-level contract in April 2015 and then joining the Lightning farm team , the Syracuse Crunch , in the American Hockey League (AHL). In the following three years, the Canadian ran regularly for the Crunch and represented the team at the AHL All-Star Classic 2018, while he played ten games for Tampa in the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons. denied.

After the 2017/18 season, his expiring contract in Tampa was not extended, so he joined the Canadiens de Montréal as a free agent in July 2018 with a two-year contract . They handed it over to the Ottawa Senators for the trade deadline in February 2020 and in return received Aaron Luchuk and a seven-round vote for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft .

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 ECAC All-Rookie Team
• 2015 ECAC First All-Star Team
• 2018 AHL All-Star Classic

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2011/12	Quinnipiac University	NCAA		39	8th	31	39	+1	12
2012/13	Quinnipiac University	NCAA		39	15th	15th	30th	+36	36
2013/14	Quinnipiac University	NCAA		40	12	26th	38	+4	16
2014/15	Quinnipiac University	NCAA		39	7th	29	36	± 0	27
2014/15	Syracuse crunch	AHL		8th	1	3	4th	-1	0		3	1	1	2	± 0	0
2015/16	Syracuse crunch	AHL		65	8th	35	43	–11	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Syracuse crunch	AHL		68	12	29	41	–6	14th		22nd	4th	10	14th	+5	4th
2016/17	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		10	1	1	2	-3	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Syracuse crunch	AHL		63	13	33	46	-1	18th		6th	3	6th	9	+6	2
2017/18	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		10	2	3	5	+6	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		39	3	7th	10	-14	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Rocket de Laval	AHL		34	4th	9	13	-14	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		5	0	0	0	-2	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Ottawa Senators	NHL		9	0	2	2	-2	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				157	42	101	143	+41	91
AHL total				238	38	109	147	-33	54		31	8th	17th	25th	+11	6th
NHL overall				73	6th	13	19th	-15	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Matthew Peca  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Ottawa Senators website
• Matthew Peca at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lightning sign Matthew Peca to two-year contract. nhl.com, April 1, 2015, accessed October 5, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Matt Cudzinowski: Canadiens agree to terms with Matthew Peca. nhl.com, July 1, 2018, accessed October 5, 2018 .