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Seg 6 - MHOC Show Jan 8 Coach Cav · Coaches Corner

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  Final segments of our Yukon Hockey Coaches Show, first one of the year with
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  coach Cavis. The Huskies will take on Maine this weekend. Tickets available at
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  Yukon tickets dot Com or the Excel Center box office six forty five Friday for
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  our first broadcast of the second semester, and then three o'clock face off both
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  games on Saturday. Both games available also on ESPN Plus Adam, you have
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  a question for coach correct matthew Wood. He was overseas playing for Canada and
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  the World Juniors. So what was it like on your end staying in touch
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  with him and monitoring everything that was going on for him. Yeah, I
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  mean it's pretty easy nowadays. I mean you text him and he gets right
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  back to It's amazing how it works now. But you know, he unfortunately
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  for Canada they get knocked out. Uh, So he came back on I
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  think he got back Wednesday night, and asked him if he wanted to play,
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  because I know how grueling that tournament can be, and he said one
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  hundred percent he wanted to play. So he practiced this and played on Friday
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  night. That is such a compact tournament, it is it goes fast and
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  you're playing a lot of high intensity games you do, and it's just it's
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  a lot like those kids go over there, you know, December tenth and
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  you're on the ice every single day, and you know, we gave him
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  a few days off here. When you get back, he just you just
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  need a mental break. Have you ever been a part of the World Juniors.
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  I've been part of the summer camp that helps choose the team. I've
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  never been part of the actual tournament. How long ago was that? Who
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  were some of the big names that were coming through that camp? It was
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  eight because I had to leave. I remember it was eight because I had
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  to leave because my daughter was My wife was like nine months pregnant, either
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  nine months pregnant with my daughter. That team was like Van Reemsdyke, Kevin
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  Shatton, Kirk, Ryan McDonough. I'm trying to think they had some really
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  good defenseman on that team and it was a good team. Yeah, coach
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  this year's US team U League's usually a part of that team, isn't he.
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  Well, they rotated all the time. Matt carl was a coach,
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  the Denver coach. Okay, yeah, it's a good win for them.
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  Went over there and skiing. It's great. I mean, you know,
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  since they've done that US National Development program, you know, they've won six
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  times now it was the twentieth anniversary of when they won in four and now
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  they've won six. In twenty years, they've won six World Junior Championships.
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  That's pretty good. You mentioned the world on the national Development team and a
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  lot of b U and BC kids played on that team. What's that like?
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  What were they based out of They they're based out of the Midwest and
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  they played in the us HL. The base basically used to be out of
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  ann Arbor and now it's out of Plymouth, Michigan, which is not far
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  from ann Arbor. Right, that's where the company where Whalers used to play,
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  right exactly. So they Yeah, they've done a good job. You
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  know, those kids there for two years and I think they get a lot
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  of familiarity with each other. And uh, it's certainly been a program that
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  has had its critics, but you can't argue with the results that. So
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  from Matt Wood coming back, what was the big takeaway from that experience for
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  him? I think he really enjoyed it. You know, he's played in
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  a lot of that. He's played in under eighteens and so he's played.
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  Last year he played with Celebrini in the under eighteen So he's got a lot
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  of experience with international competition and he's eligible again next year. Yeah. Oh
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  is he really? Yeah? Oh that's right. He's just a baby.
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  Yeah, he's just a base He still might be the youngest kid on our
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  team. Think about that for a while. Not the youngest in the country
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  now, just only the youngest on the team. I think he is.
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  That's crazy to think. I mean, but most of your freshmen are coming
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  from juniors and they're nineteen twenty years old. Yeah, that's wild. Have
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  you been paying attention to your bruins at all? Wait, we a little
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  bit here and there. Okay, yeah, they've been playing pretty well.
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  Right then, they they're doing all right. They beat Tampa. They they
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  lost like three or four around the holidays, and then they came back.
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  Yeah, they played such a long season. Oh it is for sure.
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  Before we go, what's what's been the feedback like with the ESPN you showing
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  up to do the game against Harvard. I thought it was great. You
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  know John Butcher, Gross and Andrew Raycroft who used to work for us.
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  Yeah, we're on the call. And I actually didn't obviously didn't watch it.
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  That was no you lived were occupied it. But everybody who watched it
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  said that they did a great job. It was a really good broadcast.
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  Yeah. I enjoyed it. In the arena, it was it looked full.
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  I mean it was nice. It was a good crowd there, really
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  good crowd. Michael. We'll see you Friday. All right, Bob all
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  rights, Adam, thank you all right, Thanks for Adam for coming down.
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  Thanks to Bryant Williams back in the studio for keeping us on the air.
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  Tomorrow night we've got the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show. Hopefully we'll have
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  Kay Karen Alon as our guest. That'll be from six to seven tomorrow night
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  for coach Cabin Adam, I'm Bob Joyce. We'll talk to your Friday six
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  forty five from the Excel for u Ken of Maine here in the Yukon Sports Now