Mike Pandolfo is a professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 left wing

Winger (ice hockey)

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. He was drafted in the third round, 77th overall, by the Buffalo Sabres

Buffalo Sabres

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 in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft

1998 NHL Entry Draft

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. The Sabres traded his rights to the Columbus Blue Jackets

Columbus Blue Jackets

The Columbus Blue Jackets are a professional ice hockey team based in Columbus, Ohio, United States. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...

 in a deal during the 2002 NHL Entry Draft

2002 NHL Entry Draft

The 2002 NHL Entry Draft was held June 22–23 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada. 291 players were drafted in total: 35 from the OHL; 23 from the QMJHL; 43 from the WHL; 41 from the NCAA; 6 from U.S high schools and 110 from outside North America....

. He played three games in the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

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 during the 2003–04 season with the Blue Jackets, going scoreless. He is currently a member of the organization of the New Jersey Devils

New Jersey Devils

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, for whom his older brother Jay Pandolfo

Jay Pandolfo

Jay Paul Pandolfo is an American professional ice hockey forward currently a member of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League.He spent most of his career with the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League...

 played.