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Seg 3 - MHOC Show w Cav Dec 1 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Adam Jardino with you here in downtown Hartford. It bears
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  Speaker 1: smoke How's Barbecue. Alongside head coach Mike Kavanaugh. We've got
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  Speaker 1: Christian Antonio to my left and Wat Kopelman back in
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  Speaker 1: the network studio. You know, we talk about this weekend
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  Speaker 1: coming up against Merrimac, and we talked last show about
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  Speaker 1: you know, you want to have those four or five
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  Speaker 1: things every game to focus on.
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  Speaker 2: As we're you know.
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  Speaker 1: Five days out, do you have those things already kind
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  Speaker 1: of floating in your head of what you're going to
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  Speaker 1: challenge the team with or does that inspiration come closer
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  Speaker 1: to game day.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's really five things we focus on every game. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's those are kind of standard for us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think and I think if you went around and
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  Speaker 2: pulled every college hockey team, three or four of them
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  Speaker 2: be very similar. You know, you want to win the
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  Speaker 2: faceoff game, you want to win the net front, you
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  Speaker 2: want to win special teams, you don't want to give
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  Speaker 2: up odd man rushes like the types of things. So
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  Speaker 2: those are things that we really try to focus on.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, whether it's five, six, seven, if you
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  Speaker 2: can accomplish four out of five or five out of seven,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times you'll win the hockey game. So
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  Speaker 2: let's say I think it's a good way to like
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  Speaker 2: we say at times, you know, this was a processed
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  Speaker 2: base when and we focus on the things that help
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  Speaker 2: us win as opposed to just the result, because I
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  Speaker 2: think when you focus on the result, it can be
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  Speaker 2: very paralyzing and you don't want your players to play,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with fear or scared of what the result
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  Speaker 2: might be.
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  Speaker 1: And is that am I connecting the dots correctly and
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  Speaker 1: saying that there is a little bit of that element
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  Speaker 1: where you know at the top of the show when
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  Speaker 1: you're but we went three, one and one in our
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  Speaker 1: last five games. They're a little bit of that disconnect
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  Speaker 1: there where the results on the paper look like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you took three out of five and with
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  Speaker 1: a tie in there, but they just maybe the process
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  Speaker 1: wasn't quite where it was.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. I think we focus on the process a lot
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  Speaker 2: more than the result. And you know, our players know that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we've played our best hockey and it's
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  Speaker 2: a long season and every opportunity after every game, it's
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  Speaker 2: just data, that's all it is. It's data for us
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  Speaker 2: to look at to say, how can we get to
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  Speaker 2: being the best team we want to be? And some games,
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  Speaker 2: you know that data is a win, and some games
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  Speaker 2: that data is a loss, but regardless, it's data. And
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  Speaker 2: sometimes when we win the game, we're not really happy
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  Speaker 2: because we didn't play up to our standards or to
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  Speaker 2: our ability, and we know that that's not sustainable in
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  Speaker 2: the long run.
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  Speaker 1: You played the team that you're gonna be playing this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Merrimack already played them this year. Is a little unusual
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  Speaker 1: that you're gonna play You're already gonna have some data
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  Speaker 1: against Merrimack going into a two game weekend so early
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  Speaker 1: in the season like this. So how do you use
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  Speaker 1: that five to one win on November fourth or first
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  Speaker 1: to inform what's going to come this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that result is going to have much
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  Speaker 2: to do about this weekend. We'll certainly break down their
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  Speaker 2: games from Notre Dame in Dartmouth and watch their team.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're excellent in transition. I think their goaltending
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  Speaker 2: is pretty good. They have some guys in the faceoff
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  Speaker 2: dot that are that we're going to have to contend
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  Speaker 2: with and game plan four, so you know, and there's
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  Speaker 2: really really hard team to play at Merrimack. I love
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  Speaker 2: playing there. I grew up playing a lot of games there,
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  Speaker 2: so I always like going back home. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: place that the fans are right on top of you.
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  Speaker 2: The game happens a little faster than you think it does.
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  Speaker 2: It's a low ceiling. It just everything happens quick there.
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  Speaker 1: And before we join Ethan Gardula and Kai Jan Veria,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, you know, growing up playing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: games there. Now that your final time walking inside Matthew's
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  Speaker 1: Arena is behind you, walking out of there, did it
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  Speaker 1: did it feel a little odd knowing that that building
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  Speaker 1: would be no more?
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  Speaker 2: It felt great walking out of there with.
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  Speaker 1: A Win's right, I'll tell you that absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I walked right back down to Copley Square, and I
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  Speaker 2: had planned to go recruiting the next day, so I
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  Speaker 2: was staying in Boston that night, but a snowstorm derailed me.
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  Speaker 2: So I enjoyed a nice evening in Boston that night.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, not bad as promised. When we return,
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  Speaker 1: We've got Ethan Gardula, we've got Kai Jan Veria, and
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  Speaker 1: oh by the way, tomorrow four thirty pre game Yukon
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  Speaker 1: Women's hoops down in Tampa against South Florida. Bob Joy
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  Speaker 1: said he didn't go golfing today. I don't believe him.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's.
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  Speaker 2: Pulling one over on I played the fifth on that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sure he got out. He snuck out
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  Speaker 1: at least for nine holes earlier today. Yeah, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: He and Deb Fisk will have coverage beginning at four
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  Speaker 1: thirty with a five o'clock tip against the South Florida Bulls.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back more Hockey Coaches Show coverage from Bear
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  Speaker 1: Smokehouse barbecuing downtown Hartford.