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Seg 2 - MHOC Coach's Show w Mike Cavanaugh Feb 19 · Coaches Corner

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  Back at Bear Smokehouse Barbecue. Of course, we had a busy Monday today.
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  The women won by twenty today over Creighton. The men are in Omaha
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  tomorrow the unanimous number one in the country. Mike and Wayner en route eight
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  thirty for the tip off tomorrow night eight o'clock pregame on the network. Thursday,
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  I've got Gino at Bears at the cafe or sorry, although we could
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  have him here someday, and that's that's helped next year. We had to
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  do that next year. We're supposed to do that last season, and then
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  unfortunately Gino's mom passed away the untimely there and then Friday, we've got hockey
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  six forty five in the radio. You kind of second ranked bu Yeah,
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  grats the Gino surpassing Mike Krychevski yeap coach k career win number twelve oh three.
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  All right. A couple of weeks ago, during one of the Zoom
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  calls, you talked about John Spett and his improvement, and you mentioned that
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  a he's a rink rat would be he watches more video than anybody on this
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  team. What's he looking for when he watches the video? Not only have
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  games. Mind you he watches practice too, right, Yeah, he watched
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  There's a lot of practice. I think you know, the players have access
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  to watch practice. We film it every day, and I think he just
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  likes to see his technique and how he's handling certain plays and every now and
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  then, if you know it was a bad breakout, he wants to understand
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  why it was a bad breakout. So he's just, uh, he's a
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  hockey junkie and just loves everything about the sport, the film, playing,
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  skill work, everything. And do you see that if and when his playing
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  career comes to a close, that coaching could be a good fit for him.
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  I think so I've told him that. Yeah, I think he's going
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  to make a great coach someday. Just he really has a good understanding of
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  how the game is played. Do you have any other guys that might fit
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  that bill with his current group coaching wise, Yeah, I'm sure there are.
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  I mean, Hudson could be. I don't know if he's even interested
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  in it, you know, Jake Flynt like, we have a lot lot
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  of guys that are really I would say, good hockey guys and enjoy the
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  sport. So I don't know, John spetso definitely does stick out to me
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  on this team. And so John's beets when you were had those comments in
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  the Zoom call, you were saying, you know, watch his film,
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  but he's really good at breaking stuff down. So when you kids that arrive
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  as freshman and maybe they've never watched film before, what are some of the
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  common mistakes not on the ice, But if you're sitting there watching film,
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  you have to learn how to watch films. So what do you try to
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  tell those guys of, like this is how you break down your game?
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  Yeah, typically they're just watching their shifts. A lot of times they don't
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  watch it like Tyler might watch it to pick up another team's tendencies. Although
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  you know Wyatt Newpower was here early in the year and spoke to the kids
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  and told him that he that's very beneficial for him when he's playing pro.
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  He wants to can see how a team's going to four check, so he
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  knows how to what he's going to look for on a breakout. So there
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  are certain things, but you know, the game moves so fast. It's
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  not set like football or even basketball to some extent, where you can draw
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  up a play and run a pick and have different options. Like the game
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  is so fluid and the puck turns over and change his hands so quickly.
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  It's hard to script anything in our sport. So right now most of the
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  kids just watching their own shifts and they'll see like, yeah, you know,
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  it should be in a different spot, you know, here offensively or
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  defensively, and it's not the cat and mouse of a pitcher batter in baseball.
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  No, no, no, yeah, there's nothing like that. I
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  got twitter question here, thoughts on Owen Simpson this season. What do you
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  think his role will be down the stretch. Well, we'll see. I
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  don't know. You know, he's he's I don't know how many games he's
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  played in, probably ten to twelve games. You know, we have a
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  lot of common petition back there on defense, and I think that he's certainly
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  capable of playing minutes for us. And right now it's just kind of a
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  numbers game because Jack Pascucci's come in and played pretty well. So but I
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  still believe Owen can help us at some point fourteen games and Piscucci's played eighteen.
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  More physical. Jack's probably a little more physical than Owen. Yeah,
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  I would say that, And at six' five for Owen Simpson. I
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  mean that that size, that height, how can he or how does he
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  use that to his advantage? Well, I mean when you're six five and
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  he's long and lean, so he you know, I should be able to
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  use your stick to be able to you know, deflect shots with your stick
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  or defend really well with your stick. So he still probably has to put
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  a little more weight on and strength. So but you know, again he's
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  young, he's only a freshman. You lost two nothing and re won t
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  U Mass last weekend, I mean Friday night. Well, I think our
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  city played Friday night right again, I thought he played pretty well. You
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  know. The tough thing is it's like, you know, the fact that
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  the goal scoring has been has been tough to come by, especially at home.
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  I mean, you've got to be almost perfect. And I thought we
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  talked about this in the pregame about the Providence series where yeah, they lost
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  five nothing, but I thought Arsity played fantastic in that game. He did,
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  He played and he rebounded really well and played a solid sixty against HU
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  Mass. Yeah, I mean the last two times we haven't scored a goal
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  for him, So it's hard to win games if we don't score goals,
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  so our city has been playing. Uh, you know, I think very
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  solid for us, isn't That is he taken not as a because he's very
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  demonstrative in his in his movements. As he started to economize that, I
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  think he has. I think, you know, he's done a lot of
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  work with Vince and they've certainly worked on that. He had a great week
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  of practice last week. So I think it is he is taken to the
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  coaching and implement and thing it into his game. I'm going to say.
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  So you can tell that it's a little bit of a different look, but
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  does look like he's fighting it. It looks like it's just all kind of
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  you know, it's starting to become second nature when he plays within his post
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  lines. He's a very effective goaltender, you know, so because he's big,
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  and he's he's skilled, and he's athletic. He really is. So
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  that's a good combination. When we see the guys warm up, the goalies
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  especially, they have the balls and they're thrown up against the wall. I
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  mean that's strictly for reflexes. What are type of things do they do off
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  ice to train their minds to be a goaltender from a reflex standpoint. Yeah,
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  well, well like some of that stuff, I don't really know,
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  Bob. I mean, Vince, I'm sure has different things that they does
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  with him, so I need as Vince. Yeah, he'd probably be better
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  at that. I mean I watched what they do on the ice. I
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  watch how they prepare on the ice. Off the ice, I see him
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  throwing the balls up against the wall and things like that. It's just I
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  hand coordination, right right. Okay, we'll go to a break here and
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  then we'll come back with calv a little later on. It's Jake Richard and
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  Matthew Wood. Adam did those interviews earlier today. As we get set for
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  another weekend of hockey, b you Friday at Home six forty five on the
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  radio and then Saturday night up at Aganis seven oh five face off. Both
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  games available on ESPN Plus. It's the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show on Learfield Live
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