Peter: This season started pretty well for me because we have great forwards on our team and also because I play with great forwards the points are just kind of coming by themselves, I don't have to work very hard they just kind of come. It's been a great season for me, for the team it's been ok. We're doing pretty well, but we still have lots to improve. As for me I'm just playing every game and trying to work as hard as I can, like I said I'm playing with great players.

Sarah: Do you feel that you have made a major improvement since last season?

Peter: Maybe not major, but I've made some improvements. I mean in one year you can't really make any big improvements, but every summer I try and work hard and it's supposed to show on the ice. I have made some improvements and it maybe shows in the points, I for sure still need to make some improvements.

Sarah: Ok, tell me about your role on the team this year.

Peter: We have only got a few veterans on the team and I am one of them. We have a very young team and it's kind of hard because the team is so young and so few veterans, but I am supposed to be one of the leaders. I'm just trying to be that leader and be someone they can go to at a tough point in the game.

Sarah: So during the games when you're not doing so well do you help to motivate the team?

Peter: Sure, everybody tries to and so do I. Sometimes there are hard times during a game, but then sometimes we get through like the game last week where we come back, but there are also games from the other side where we get kind of behind the game and we lost it. You just try and keep the team motivated and sometimes it works and sometimes it's ugly.

Sarah: What about your future plans for next year?

Peter: Next year I committed to Colorado College. I'm looking forward to it, just going to a four-year college and hopefully getting good enough grades that I can play hockey! And just try to be successful playing college hockey also.

Sarah: Do you eventually want to play pro hockey?

Peter: Mmm, now I don't really think about pro because I have four years of college in front of me and that's kind of long term. I would for sure like to play pro after college, it depends on how good I will be, we'll see.

Sarah: Do you have any other goals for your future?

Peter: Just graduate from college and get a degree. Then if I'm not a good enough hockey player, hopefully get a decent job with my degree.

Sarah: Do you have any stories you can tell me, anything embarrassing, funny, something you'd like to tell us about?

Peter: No, not really, most of everything stays in the locker room.

Sarah: What did you do over the summer?

Peter: This summer I went home for a couple of months and saw some old friends and then prepared myself for this season. Then I came back here for the second tryouts.

Sarah: Finish this sentence: .I can't imagine living without...

Peter: Any sports.

Sarah: So do you play any other sports?

Peter: Not really now, I played soccer before, that's pretty much it. I did do figure skating when I was young, just for a few years.

Sarah: Is there anything you can tell the fans that they may not know about you?

Peter: Not really, I think they know a lot.

Sarah: You think so? It can be anything, something that happened when you were young as you grew up?...

Peter: I fell on my head? I speak four maybe five languages. Just because the languages around us are not that different, I mean they're not the same, but they also are very similar.

Sarah: What hobbies do you have?

Peter: Playing golf during the summer, not really during the hockey season. Tennis. Maybe bowling, I never really did bowling before but it was kind of fun when we played. Pool.

Sarah: Anything you'd like to tell the fans?

Peter: They're great fans, even when we're not playing very good they are still great. It's really different between home and here. Fans here just come to have fun and really cheer for the team. Over there in Slovakia we don't really have that many fans and they don't have the fun that fans have here. Back home they just kind of come to watch the hockey, but out here everybody comes from their job and have more fun.

Sarah: So they cheer a lot more here?

Peter: Kind of, it's just that people know how to have fun out here then in Europe. Even when the game is not going well.

Sarah: Ok, I think we can go ahead and wrap this up now! Thanks!

Peter: You're welcome.