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Mike Cavanaugh - Postgame UVM · Coaches Corner

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  Yeah, I was certainly happy with the start we had. It was nice
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  getting out the two goal lead, you know, and then we get the
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  third goal, and I thought it was a great second effort by Maddie on
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  that goal, and it was disappointing to give one up the very next shift,
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  but we held thought the second period was a little casual, But the
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  third period I thought we played smart. You know. Fraser's goal was a
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  typical. We just got the puck in deep Taber and Funny did a really
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  good job on the fore check and found Frasier the slot, really good shot
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  off the pipeing in, and then we closed it out after that. But
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  I'm just happy that we can get our seniors another home game here at Tuscano.
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  What would have been doing so well these past few games to, you
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  know, get on the board like you have been well. He's going to
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  the hard areas like his first goal, he's driving to the net. His
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  second goal, as I said, he stayed on the puck. He did,
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  and it wasn't one and done. It was a great second and third
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  effort. And he's a talented kit so he's going to finish plays when he
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  has a chance. So he's playing on the inside, which that's what big
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  power forwards have to do. What do you think picked for the offense tonight?
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  Well, I was happy. I thought we were able to, as
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  I said, stay on pucks early, then get him to the net,
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  and then you know, I thought a big part of it was being able
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  to create some turnovers off the fortune. We did a decent job through the
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  neutral zone defensively, but when you get pucks deep and you can't make a
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  play and you don't have an odd man rush, they're a very good team
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  at not giving up odd man rushes, So you're gonna have to get pucks
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  in behind him and get turnovers on the fore check, and we did that,
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  which created some offense for us tonight. Yeah. What is Joey?
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  You've been able to add to the team as just a fresh and how do
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  you think he's improved to the past couple of games quite a bit. I
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  mean not just the past couple of games, certainly the second half of the
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  year. I thought he started to come right before, right after Thanksgiving,
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  and then the second half of the year he's been dynamite. He just he
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  skates really well, he's tough, he goes to tough areas. You know,
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  we got a puck on net tonight, So that was one of the
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  things I thought early in the year he was missing the net too much on
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  Grade A opportunities, and tonight he was able to get one on the net.
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  Well just him a phraser and even Solomon and getting that puck on net
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  from behind the goal line. For yeah, that was I know, what
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  has been a point for you to get pucks on net and important is that
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  it's extremely important, Like the only one I can remember. I think Brads
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  might have missed a Grade A, but other than that, I thought we
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  were you know, when we have our Greade A opportunities, you got to
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  make goaltenders make saves. You can't let him off the hook because even if
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  they make the save, if there's a rebound, that's usually another Grade A.
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  So it's really important for us. Chase always plays hard, but after
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  missing three games, he played like he was shot out of a cannon tonight.
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  Yeah. Well they had plenty of rests, that's for sure, but
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  no, I mean, he's such a competitor and you see the difference he
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  makes in our lineup when he's in there. So it was certainly nice to
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  have him back tonight and then just an intelligent third period. I mean,
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  doing the things that you do when you're up two goals at home, not
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  taking chances, clearing pucks from away, and again, you know, we
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  don't talk about him a lot, but our city was just rock solid at
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  all. He made saves when he had to. You know, they made
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  it three to one, and then we had a turnover and they came right
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  back down at us and he made an incredible couple saves there, which was
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  huge. But he was excellent. He was very, very good. You
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  can talk about the effectiveness of Ryan Taddle on the county killing fairly aggressive tonight,
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  kept them first best in the first coat. Yeah, well that's his
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  strength. He skates extremely well. He's competes on pucks. You know,
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  he's quick to different areas, he anticipates well, and he's been another one.
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  You know, early on he wasn't killing a lot of penalties for us,
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  but he's earned that tice time now. And Oliver just picked up where
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  he left off on set on Saturday night. I mean that let that line
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  with him in Tabor. Yeah, they really really bushed. It was like
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  when we together, Yeah, I put you know, they scored, so
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  I kept them on that line and they played really well. You have.
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  The challenge was when when they challenge that strung by the net where it looked
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  like to our Spanish poet looked like that puck was still free. What was
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  they were challenging. They were saying that I think Fraser grabbed his face mask.
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  But that was a challenge. So they were looking for a five minute
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  major, but that wasn't They came back and said, no, it wasn't
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  the case. I haven't seen it, so look what anything? Yeah,
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  anything else for coach guys. Yeah, the next week we'll look for you
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  guys in corporation for the house. Yeah, I think, Well, tomorrow
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  will be a day off Saturday, we'll have a workout Sunday, practice Monday,
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  practice Tuesday, and get ready to play again with seeing her mind in
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  the regular season finale and then likely I think almost, I think it's guaranteed
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  to get them. Now, how does that play out? Haven't seen them
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  just a few days prior to the playoffs. Well, I know that tonight's
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  win means zero for next Wednesday night. You know, we've been in this
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  position before. We're I think it was maybe Spetsy and Howey and those guys
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  freshman year where we'd be providence in the last game, and they came back
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  and they put it on us. So it's I'm happy we won and I'm
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  happy we're staying home, But that doesn't mean that it's a guarante by any
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  stretch of the imagination. We're gonna have to come out and play a much
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  better game. Like that's a good team. They've won a lot of games
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  this year. They've beat a lot of opponents. You know, I respect
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  what Steve's done. I think it was well deserved that he got named the
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  coach because he's done an incredible job. His team plays hard, and it's
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  gonna be a much tougher game if we do play them next week. I
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  didn't know that was guaranteed, but I'm not sure. But yeah, but
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  if we do, it's gonna be a much tougher game next week,