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Seg 2 - MHOC Show w Cav 9-29 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Bear smokew S Barbacue.
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  Speaker 2: It is the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show, our first of
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  Speaker 2: the year, as we preview the twenty five, twenty sixth
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  Speaker 2: edition of the Ice Bus. It starts this weekend at
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  Speaker 2: Colorado College and they'll take a week off and then
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  Speaker 2: the home opener is on October seventeenth against the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 2: of the Ohio State University Friday game and stores Saturday
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  Speaker 2: game at the Excel. We're hoping, let's go Red Sox
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  Speaker 2: that our first radio broadcast for hockey is October seventeenth,
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  Speaker 2: because as long as the Yankees go, that makes life.
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  Speaker 1: Tough for us, so let's eliminate them exactly. And that
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  Speaker 1: starts tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of which, the Football Show will be six five
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  Speaker 2: to six tomorrow night on the network, So if you'd
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  Speaker 2: like to listen to the Football Show before Yankees Red Sox,
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  Speaker 2: you get that chance.
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  Speaker 1: To do that, all right.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of familiar faces, obviously, the offensive weaponry is
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  Speaker 2: there from last year, led by Joey muldonne, Jake Richard
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  Speaker 2: and Ryan Taddle, but there's also a lot of new
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  Speaker 2: faces and some new rules that were in a place
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  Speaker 2: we talked about last year, like the major junior hockey
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  Speaker 2: leagues in Canada now our fair game for college. You
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  Speaker 2: have a couple of those you did not hit the
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  Speaker 2: portal this year, now, Now, was that part of it
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  Speaker 2: because of roster size and the fact that you got
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  Speaker 2: the kids from the major junior you know, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of the junior hockey leagues the major leagues that you
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  Speaker 2: got or is that just just didn't work out this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think the portal is our first choice
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  Speaker 3: in bringing players into the you know program. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's certainly I'm not Dabo Sweeney where I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 3: we're never going to take a transfer, yep. But if
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  Speaker 3: it's the right one and it's the right fit, maybe
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  Speaker 3: we'll take it. I think the majority of the transfers
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  Speaker 3: we have taken over the last few years were more
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  Speaker 3: COVID kids, you know, whether it was you know, Tai
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  Speaker 3: Amanti or Kevin O'Neill or Justin Pearson or Nick Carabin.
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  Speaker 3: There were all kids that you know, graduated from school
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  Speaker 3: Darien Hansen and they wanted to play one more year,
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  Speaker 3: so they had already graduated from the university they were at.
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  Speaker 3: They weren't allowed to go back to those universities of
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  Speaker 3: most of them IVY leagues because they graduate. There's no
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  Speaker 3: fifth year in the IVY leagues. So it worked out great.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm not saying I would never do it,
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  Speaker 3: but I think you've got to be very, very careful
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  Speaker 3: when you're looking at an undergraduate transfer, because why do
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  Speaker 3: they want to leave? You know, if a coach leaves,
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  Speaker 3: that's a different story. Like Viking, we took as a transfer,
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  Speaker 3: but his coach left. You know, he was coaching the
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  Speaker 3: Hartford Wolfpack now, so the guy that recruited him wasn't there.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that made sense. But if it's a
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  Speaker 3: situation where a guy's not happy with his playing time
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  Speaker 3: at school X, you know a lot of times I
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  Speaker 3: think that's just going to become my problem after that. Yes, right, Really,
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  Speaker 3: I think you really have to do your homework on
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  Speaker 3: in college hockey. I think you really have to do
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  Speaker 3: your homework on undergraduate transfers.
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  Speaker 4: When looking at the returning talent Rishard, Joey Muldowney, two
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  Speaker 4: really incredible forwards, and the missing Lincoln there is Hudson
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  Speaker 4: schandor how do you go about positioning a third person
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  Speaker 4: between those or maybe even exploring the offense. The option
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  Speaker 4: of breaking those two up, which based on their friendship,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't really seem like an option.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it has nothing to do with their friendship. I
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  Speaker 3: don't really care about that. It's there. The way they
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  Speaker 3: work together on the ice, it's more important. So and
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  Speaker 3: they have great chemistry on the ice, so that's one
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  Speaker 3: of the reasons why they're together. But you don't replace
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  Speaker 3: Hudson Chandor as a player. Maybe, you know, we ken
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  Speaker 3: Hudson was certainly good player, but there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: good players. I don't think we replace his leadership and
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  Speaker 3: what he brought to this program. That's just and that's okay,
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  Speaker 3: because you know we can I don't want Tabor. He
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  Speaker 3: slipped to be Hudson Chandor. I want Tabor he slipped
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  Speaker 3: to be Tabor. He slipped and he has a lot
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  Speaker 3: of great qualities in his own right that is going
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  Speaker 3: to be beneficial for our team. So we'll find somebody though,
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  Speaker 3: that can play with Jake Richard and Joey Muldowney. That's
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  Speaker 3: that's not one of my concerns this season.
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  Speaker 2: You know, number nine did a pretty good Jeb filling
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  Speaker 2: in for him last year, especially in the Hockey East tournament.
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  Speaker 2: They have that and because of that mentality that you
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  Speaker 2: have now, because you are so much quicker than you
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  Speaker 2: were even a few years ago, the four check game
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  Speaker 2: was part of the success.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of reasons why you were so good
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  Speaker 1: last year.
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  Speaker 2: Power play obviously was big, but the way your team
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  Speaker 2: four checked, and I'll use the bu game in the
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  Speaker 2: Hockey E.
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  Speaker 1: Semifinals as exhibit a of that though.
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  Speaker 2: I think the last goal that Joey scored, or the
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  Speaker 2: second goal that Joey scored, was just off great four
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  Speaker 2: check with tats On along the boards. He gets it
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  Speaker 2: to Jake Rashard, who's got that long long stick. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if people have ever really focused on that.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a super long stick. He just waited out
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  Speaker 2: your go off and there was Joey Muldowney open. But
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  Speaker 2: the four check was so good last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think that's a staple of our team.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when we're four checking, well, we're well and
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  Speaker 3: you know we're a team that doesn't trap. We're pretty aggressive.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to come after you. And when we are
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  Speaker 3: playing really well, we're creating turnovers off the fore check.
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  Speaker 4: Joey Muldowney is someone who talked to the assembled media
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  Speaker 4: a week ago and he was asked about a twenty
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  Speaker 4: nine goal, eighteen assist forty seven point season numbers that
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  Speaker 4: are off the chart.
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  Speaker 1: How do you get.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody like him to improve without maybe necessarily worrying about
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  Speaker 4: some numbers last year that you'd love for him to replicate.
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  Speaker 4: But he could still be as good of a player
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  Speaker 4: even if he's not maybe hitting all those marks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Joey and I have spoken about it and actually
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  Speaker 3: holds true to a lot of our players. Just keep
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  Speaker 3: becoming a better two hundred foot player. I don't I
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  Speaker 3: mentioned it last week. I don't care if Joey gets
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  Speaker 3: twenty nine thirty nine goals, nineteen goals. If he's playing
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  Speaker 3: the right way and he's creating a lot more scoring chances,
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  Speaker 3: then he's giving up when he's on the ice than
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  Speaker 3: those are the things that we're concerned about. That to
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  Speaker 3: me is more telling, because sometimes goal scoring is lucky,
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  Speaker 3: like sometimes the puck goes in, you know, and you
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  Speaker 3: make great shots and you hit a post, or you
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  Speaker 3: make a great shot and it hits a stick. I
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  Speaker 3: mean he had he hits a post against Penn Stadia
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  Speaker 3: is another one that hits a defenseman stick that's going
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  Speaker 3: in the net. So you know those didn't go in
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  Speaker 3: for him. That doesn't mean he's not playing well. He's
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  Speaker 3: creating great chances. So and Joey's not going to put
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  Speaker 3: that type of pressure on himself, and I'm certainly not
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  Speaker 3: going to put that pressure on him either.
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  Speaker 2: Senior class, you got a lot of seniors and I
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  Speaker 2: think of three of them are off the top of
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  Speaker 2: my head, Jake Personval Tabor, Heath Slip and Tristan Fraser.
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  Speaker 2: They have been through the wars. I like to call
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  Speaker 2: him your foot soldiers is because of the way they play.
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  Speaker 2: They grind, they get after it. They're good defensive four
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  Speaker 2: as they play two hundred feet. So, well, what are
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  Speaker 2: your expectations for them to take their next step in
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  Speaker 2: their development for this year? Mae, because now now they're seniors.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody's a leader, as they said in the
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  Speaker 2: press conference last week, But what would you like to
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  Speaker 2: see from these guys now?
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  Speaker 3: And you can add Houston Cartman to that list too,
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  Speaker 3: because I think we're expecting him to, you know, add
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  Speaker 3: value to our team as well. So I just think
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  Speaker 3: that they have to continue again to play the right
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  Speaker 3: way as long as our team is focused on winning
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  Speaker 3: hockey games and not and I think that's where they
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  Speaker 3: are now. They understand they've been through a freshman year
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  Speaker 3: where it was a pretty good year, then a sophomore
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  Speaker 3: year that was a little disappointing, and then a junior
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  Speaker 3: year that was a really good year. I think they
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  Speaker 3: understand we don't want to go back to a disappointing year.
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  Speaker 3: So right now, I believe all they're focused on is
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  Speaker 3: winning games, and they know what it takes to win games.
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  Speaker 3: They know if we turn the puck over in the
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  Speaker 3: neutral zone and give up odd man rush's, that's not
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  Speaker 3: winning hockey. They know if we don't finish checks on
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  Speaker 3: the for check, that's not winning hockey. They know if
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  Speaker 3: we're out of position in the defensive zone and we're
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  Speaker 3: giving up second and third chance opportunities, that's not winning hockey.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's incumbent on them to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that the rest of the team and the younger guys,
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  Speaker 3: the six seven younger guys that we have on our
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  Speaker 3: team are new guys, that this is how we have
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  Speaker 3: to play and this is what your expectations are.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about the seniors, Well, last year you had Ethan Whitcomb,
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  Speaker 4: Kayden Shahan, Ethan Gardula. Is the freshman line moving into
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  Speaker 4: their sophomore years. What do you anticipate seeing out of
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  Speaker 4: them in terms of growth?
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  Speaker 3: I think more of I think they need to have
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  Speaker 3: more of an impact on the game. I think last
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  Speaker 3: year it was almost whatever they brought to the game
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  Speaker 3: was a bonus. Now they're going to be lied on
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  Speaker 3: because you can't count on Muldowney and Rashard's line every
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  Speaker 3: night to carry the mail. There's gonna be some nights
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  Speaker 3: that Wickcomb's line has to and they did that last year.
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  Speaker 3: At times, there's gonna be some nights where Tattles line
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  Speaker 3: might have to carry. You know. The thing that I
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  Speaker 3: like about our team as I really believe we have
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  Speaker 3: four balanced lines. When you watched the Stanley Cup playoffs
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  Speaker 3: last year, I thought the biggest difference Florida's top end
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  Speaker 3: players were not better than Edmonton's top end players. Mcdateavid
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  Speaker 3: and dry Suttle might be the two best players in
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  Speaker 3: the world, but when McDavid and dry Suttle have to
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  Speaker 3: play twenty five to thirty minutes a night, for you
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  Speaker 3: to be successful. And Kachuck only has to play twenty,
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  Speaker 3: and Sam Bennett only has to play twenty, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and Barkov only has to play twenty.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: They had four lines that just wore you down, and
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  Speaker 3: that is something that we've tried to build. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know who our first line is. I don't. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: you have Joey and Ja and a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: will say those are the top guys, but all right,
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  Speaker 3: go concentrate on them. And Ethan Wickholm will beat you guys,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe Ryan Taddles line are gonna beat you guys,
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  Speaker 3: or you know Tabor, he's slipping his line's gonna beat you.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what we want to create, is to have
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  Speaker 3: a team that's just gonna wear you down. We might
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  Speaker 3: not win the first period, we're not win the second period,
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  Speaker 3: but it's eventually gonna wear you down.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reminded of Paul Maurice. Start banging him. Now.
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  Speaker 2: It's not for now, it's for game seven when they've
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  Speaker 2: got nothing left right, ex exactly, all right, more with
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  Speaker 2: cav we'll get into the fence and we'll also chat
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  Speaker 2: about the newbies on this Husky team. When we continue
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  Speaker 2: It's the Yukonachey Coaches Show live from Bear Smoke. How's
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  Speaker 2: Barbecue on Learfield