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Seg 1 - MHOC Show Jan 8 Coach Cav · Coaches Corner

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  First Yukon Hockey Coaches Show of twenty twenty four comes to you on a Monday
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  night from Bear Smokeow's Barbecue downtown Hartford. Bob Joyce, Adam Jardino, my
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  broadcast sidekick, and Mike Cavanaugh, the head coach of you con men's ice
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  hockey, with you for the next hour. We'll hear from Joey Muldowney and
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  Jake Percival, two guys that have been playing pretty well lately. Percival's on
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  a hot streak five game in a row. He's got at least a point
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  four game goal streak, and Joey Muldowney, who plays with Ryan Taddle and
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  Tristan Fraser, got his first goal of his career on Friday in the three
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  to three tie up at U Mass Michael, Happy New Year, Happy New
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  Year, Bob, Adam, nice to be back, Thank you very much.
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  So went over Harvard the tie in against UMass in the shootout where you
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  get the extra point. Pretty good start to the second half. Yeah,
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  it was. I thought we played really well against Harvord. You know,
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  we kind of caught them. They played at Princeton the night before. But
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  it was good, you know, we had four practices when we got back,
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  and I thought we played really well. We took some penalties in the
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  third that weren't great that kind of let them hang around a little bit.
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  Otherwise I thought we were in full, you know, control and command of
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  the game. And then the UMass game was just a back and forth game.
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  It's always tough, especially up in that building. It's the only rink
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  that's, you know, Olympic. Now I think New Hampshire's made theirs a
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  lot smaller, so it's really the only true Olympic rink in the league.
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  And it does pose some problems when you're not used to playing in it as
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  far as for checking and sometimes defensive zone coverage. But overall, I was
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  pretty happy with the way we played that game. Again, Harvard, you
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  get the goal forty seconds in, you're off and running. It's one nothing
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  after a period, and really you controlled that that twenty minutes. But then
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  Harvard scores a power play early in the second period, and like you said,
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  it was a one goal game midway through the third. So the way
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  things had gone this year, I think there had been some results where you
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  thought, man, we played well, but we didn't get the results so
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  how did you make sure that the guys got the result on a night where
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  they should have gotten a victory. Well, the second period, when they
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  tied the game up on the power play, it was a great shot,
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  but we came right back and scored two goals, so you know, we
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  continue to play really well. So it was, you know, three to
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  one game, and then when they made it three to two, we still
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  were playing pretty well and then we got the empty ntter. But that game
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  I felt, you know, for the first two periods we were rolling four
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  lines and we were in a great rhythm as a team. And then the
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  third period when we started taking penalties, not everybody's playing and you lose that
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  rhythm, and that was kind of the key to that game. But you
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  know, I don't think it ever really crept in that this is a game
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  where you know, we could lose, you obviously in a one goal game,
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  and so we still felt that we're pretty much control of that game.
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  Yeah, only one power play for the Huskies in that game, and and
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  Harvard had three h big excuse me, yeah, they did have three.
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  Thomas Siny was off to a good start to begin the second half of the
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  season. Four assists in his last two games, two in each night.
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  Doing anything differently or just starting to see the puck going from him, He's
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  just he's been really consistent. You know, He's been playing that way all
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  year long and plays a lot of minutes for us. He's really the only
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  underclassman who has you know, played you know, big minutes the last two
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  years. So, you know, because you have the four seniors and then
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  Jack Pascucci's been playing lately and been giving us you know, been playing pretty
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  well. He played well against Harvard, played well against UMass, so that's
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  been nice. But Tom's certainly got a lot of experience back there now after
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  playing a year and a half, and he's doing a great job for us.
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  Yeah, you talk about that defensive group where there was just kind of
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  the one spot for him to try to wiggle his way in, he did
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  last year and he grab hold of it. So looking ahead to next year
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  with him leadership that kind of thing, he's going to be the elder statesman
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  in a lot of ways in that group. So are you starting to see
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  from him in ability to kind of take that mantle? Yeah, I think
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  so. I think he will, you know, I mean, he's Still
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  he's not really forced to do it now when you have Jake Flynn and Harrison
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  Reese and Spetsy and Andrew Lucas. You know, like they've all played over
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  one hundred games. So but he fits right in with those guys, and
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  you know next year, yeah, he'll be counted on to, you know,
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  be the leader back there. He is in in a luxury to have
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  all your defensemen have been healthy and together all season long. Knock on wood,
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  bum, knock on way. I've seen it. We've I've knocked on
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  enough wood for the other team that I cover. You know that it doesn't
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  seem to be worth it. You Gino's tried everything too, and it doesn't
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  seem to help. What about the power play, whatever you liked about it.
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  The first couple of games coming back, well, we only had one
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  against Harvard, but it was pretty good. Uh, you know, we
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  had some chances on it. And then the other night I think we had
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  well one was nullified about fifteen seconds in. Uh, and then the second
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  one was okay, we we had we had some things set up and we
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  just didn't make the plays on that one. But the third was big.
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  I mean, you know, it's two minutes and eighteen seconds left in the
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  game, they take a high sticking penalty, and you know, you have
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  to convert in those situations, and we did and it was it was good
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  puck movement and we found the open guy in front of the net and gave
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  us a chance. You know, well, we tied that game up and
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  gave us a chance to win it in overtime. How do you get the
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  game tign goal? And then Jake Flynn likes backhand. Oh, that was,
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  yeah, it was although you had some chances, I understand in the
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  overtime, we had a couple of Yeah, mal Downey had the it was
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  like he and Tattle had a two on zero. But yeah, they had
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  a couple of chances too. It wasn't like, you know, it went
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  back and forth rewinding to that that goal at the end of regulation to tie
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  it on the power play in a situation like that, do you have the
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  looks on a power play that you you hold back in a in a critical
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  situation where it's like, all right, you know, let's give them a
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  different look that maybe they're not expecting it. Really Sometimes that wasn't that really
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  that's such a well, yeah, I said it afterwards. That really wasn't
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  the play we drew up, but I'm glad it worked, you know,
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  so houtt he just made a good read. He was a hockey player and
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  he made a good read coming down on it. But yeah, there's sometimes
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  that you're looking for a certain thing. Okay, let's look for Maddie's one
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  timer. Let's look for Samu's one timer. Let's like Lucas giving Lucas a
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  lane to get it down on the net from up top. So you do
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  try to take what they give you, but also at the same time you
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  want to dictate how they're going to kill the penalty as well. All Right,
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  we'll come back later on. We'll visit with Jake Personval, Joey Muldowney
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  our player interviews tonight, and of course a big weekend series right downtown with
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  the main Black Bears coming their rank seventh in the country. We'll talk to
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  cav about that series coming up as well. This is the Yukon Hockey Coaches
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  Show, live from Bear Smokehouse Barbecue here on Learfield.