Patrick Michael Peake (born May 28, 1973) is an American former professional ice hockey forward. Peake was drafted 14th overall by the Washington Capitals in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft. Peake played 134 career NHL games, scoring 28 goals and 41 assists for 69 points. Peake suffered several serious injuries in his short career; by the end of the 1997–98 NHL season, in which he played only one game, he had retired. Playing career As a youth, Peake played in the 1987 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Detroit. Junior Peake was an up-and-coming star during his junior career. Playing in the North American Hockey League in 1989-1990, he scored 33 goals and assisted on 44 goals in just 34 games. In the next season, he moved to the Ontario Hockey League with the Detroit Compuware Ambassadors (later the Detroit Jr. Red Wings), scoring 90 points (39 goals and 51 assists) in 63 games. The Washington Capitals rewarded him by making him their first-round selection in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft. Still 18 years old at the time, Peake returned to the Ambassadors for the 1991-1992 season and scored 93 points (41 goals, 52 assists) in 53 games. Following an outstanding season, Peake earned the Red Tilson Trophy, as the OHL's Most Outstanding Player of the Year, and was named the CHL Player of the Year. Peake appeared with the United States team at the 1992 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships scoring five goals and one assist in seven games, and with the Baltimore Skipjacks of the American Hockey League, recording one goal in three games. The 1992-1993 season would be his last, and most successful, in junior; he scored 136 points (58 goals and 78 assists) in just 46 games with the Detroit Jr. Red Wings and also had four goals and nine assists in seven games with the United States team at the 1993 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. NHL By the 1993–94 season, the Capitals saw fit to promote Peake to the NHL, and he played 51 games with them, scoring 11 goals and 18 assists, with a +1 defensive rating. In the same year, he recorded five assists in four games with Portland, and he played in eight playoff games with the Capitals, recording one assist. In the next season, he was limited to 18 games with the Capitals due