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MHOC Coach Mike Cavanaugh Presser HEF · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: I certainly like to start by one thanking Hockey East.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they put on a tremendous tournament this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Kate, Brian, the whole staff. Brian Murphy thought the
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  Speaker 1: games were really well refereed. The whole red carpet thing
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  Speaker 1: was a great touch. It was just a first class
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  Speaker 1: tournament and great crowds. Hats off to the main fans
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  Speaker 1: for times. I felt like I was up at Alphont
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  Speaker 1: today during that game. And then secondly, Ben and his
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  Speaker 1: staff and his team, they deserve to win tonight. I
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  Speaker 1: thought they played better than we did, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations to them. But we had a tough start, I thought.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought we got it back in the second
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  Speaker 1: period and were playing a lot better and we had
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  Speaker 1: some chances. But it was one of those nights when
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  Speaker 1: when you had a great a we missed the net.
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  Speaker 1: Just wasn't really our night. But I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: great learning experience, And like I told the kids in there,
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  Speaker 1: the last time we were in this position, our season
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  Speaker 1: was over and it's not the case this year, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's something that we can learn from. And
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  Speaker 1: when you compete in this league and you can compete
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  Speaker 1: for a championship. I think you can compete against anybody
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  Speaker 1: in the country. So I told all our players that
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  Speaker 1: we just got to regroup, refocus, and get back at
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  Speaker 1: it next week. Thanks coach. We'll take questions for coach.
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  Speaker 1: Just raise your hand high so I can see it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll try to line you up. We'll start with Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Ragel and Dan Okay, Josh pidoshot call taking
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  Speaker 1: news yesterday. We talked a little or you talked a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about John and Hudson. Obviously how they've been
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  Speaker 1: here five years ago. One do you have an update
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  Speaker 1: on Hodson's status? And then two like what do those
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  Speaker 1: two players or what have they meant to this team,
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  Speaker 1: especially this season. We're not here if they don't come back,
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  Speaker 1: not even close. And not because they're really good players
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  Speaker 1: for us, because their leadership we couldn't have done when
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  Speaker 1: we're playing. I think, what do we have tonight? Eight
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  Speaker 1: seven eight freshmen maybe in the lineup. You're not going
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  Speaker 1: to win a lot of games if you don't have
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  Speaker 1: that type of leadership showing them the way and letting
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  Speaker 1: them know what the expectations are of the team that
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  Speaker 1: wants to compete for a championship. So from that standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: they're invaluable to me for this program. I have the
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  Speaker 1: utmost respect for him because in today's world, you don't
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  Speaker 1: see many kids, you know, coming off the season that
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  Speaker 1: we had last year, and they could go transfer wherein
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  Speaker 1: they wont stay for a fifth year because they didn't
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  Speaker 1: like the way their career ended and they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: they thought it could end better, and already it has
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  Speaker 1: because we're going to the first national tournament we've ever
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  Speaker 1: been to. So from that standpoint, that's great. And as
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  Speaker 1: far as Hudson's status, it's a day to day type thing.
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  Speaker 1: And Mike, which saw I'm a mess life kind of
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  Speaker 1: on that theme on Sunday, You're going to be rewarded
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  Speaker 1: for your entire season, not just what you did in
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  Speaker 1: this tournam but what didn't happen in this tournament? Right Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm really I told the group, I'm really
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  Speaker 1: proud of them, and I've been doing this a long
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  Speaker 1: time and I've been in this game a lot on
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  Speaker 1: both sides of it, and you know, sports can humble you,
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  Speaker 1: and we got humbled tonight. I thought Maine jumped us
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  Speaker 1: early and it was hard for us. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to score first and try to take the crowd
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  Speaker 1: out of the game, but that wasn't the case. Daniel Connolly,
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  Speaker 1: ukon of Hockey. What did Maine do in that first
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  Speaker 1: period that made it so difficult for you guys? They
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  Speaker 1: didn't allow us to get our four check going. They
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  Speaker 1: did a really good job of Part of that was
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  Speaker 1: because we were in our own zone a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So if you spend in twenty seconds in your own zone,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to get a four check going. And I
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  Speaker 1: thought we were just disconnected on our four check. We'd
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  Speaker 1: have one going, but two wasn't there, and you need
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  Speaker 1: five guys connected to really establish it. Now, we got
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  Speaker 1: to go on in the third. You know, we got
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  Speaker 1: some turnovers in the third, and you know, if that
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  Speaker 1: play isn't off sides, It was close and it was
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  Speaker 1: off sides, but you know, if it stays on sides
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  Speaker 1: there and we scored that goal all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: it could have been four to three, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: then it's a different game. But I thought we started
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  Speaker 1: to establish our four check a little bit more in
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  Speaker 1: the third period, but it was a little too late.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go Cole bridget Yahn Colpaslano EML Sports. You guys
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  Speaker 1: challenge with about eleven ish minutes left in regulation. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just curious what you saw on that or you guys
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  Speaker 1: we got radio down that there was a contact to
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  Speaker 1: the head. There was eleven minutes left. We were down
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  Speaker 1: three to one. I think at the time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when we kind of took a chance. If you get
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  Speaker 1: a five minute major there, that could change things a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot. It wasn't. It wasn't like I was going
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  Speaker 1: to get a penalty for challenging at that point. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see the need to save it. It was close,
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  Speaker 1: you know, more than just said it wasn't five. It
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  Speaker 1: probably should have been a penalty, but it wasn't five. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Did health play a backer at all in your goaltending
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  Speaker 1: decision today? And what went into deciding to play music?
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  Speaker 1: We've switched all year long. That was a decision we've
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  Speaker 1: rotated all year long. Chrazy John Doyle, usco coach, imp
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  Speaker 1: think was that second main goal Not only did it
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  Speaker 1: come late in the first period, but down to nothing,
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  Speaker 1: was also on the only power play in the game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it was off the rush. We had done a
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  Speaker 1: good job against them in zone and Nato made a
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  Speaker 1: great play and you know, we probably didn't handle it
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  Speaker 1: as well defensively as we should have it. It was
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  Speaker 1: a one on two that he made a great play
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  Speaker 1: and turned into almost a you know, he beat both
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  Speaker 1: guys and shot back against the grain. It was a
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  Speaker 1: really nice goal. We'll go Luca right in the middle
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  Speaker 1: the Tedesco The One Tea podcast. How close was Hudson
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  Speaker 1: to be being ready to go? Was? Did you kind
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  Speaker 1: of know before warm ups or was it really a
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  Speaker 1: last I didn't think that he wanted to try warm
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  Speaker 1: ups again because he's such a competitor, But I was
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  Speaker 1: confident that he was gonna be able to play. But
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  Speaker 1: I let him try because he's had some chandor and
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  Speaker 1: he's given everything he has to this program. So if
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  Speaker 1: he asked me to try warm up, so I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: let him