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Seg 2 - MHOC Show Oct 23 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome back to the Yukadaky Coaches Show here on Learfield. We're live at Bear
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  Smoke House Barbecue. This is just the first of three coaches shows this week.
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  Tomorrow night at the Football Show with Jim Moore and Mike Crispino and myself
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  as I interviewed Malik Dixon, Williams and Brett Buckman today for the show,
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  and then Wednesday we get into basketball. The men's open practices Wednesday at Gamble
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  and Mike and Wayne will be there from seven till eight on the Yukon Sports
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  Network. First Gino show is next Friday, ahead of the hockey game at
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  Vermonths, So we'll have coach and hopefully a player. Is it at the
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  restaurant or no? No, no, no no. Some of them are
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  recorded. I don't think the first one is till after the New year.
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  I think we're gonna do like three or four from there. Yeah. Good,
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  Yeah. Sarah Daris sets up the schedule. She determines what's what's too.
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  Hey, Colin did a pretty good job. Hey, you guys are
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  easy. You guys are easy to deal with, all right. One question
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  from a listener. This is from Matthew and it's kind of what we been
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  talking about here. During a game, how do you keep your teams confidence
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  and positivity high even when things might not be going your way. Yeah,
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  it's difficult. I think you know, it's a cliche and you hear it
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  all the time that you just have to really focus on the process and not
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  so much the result, even though at the end of the day you judged
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  on your results. But you have to really stay strong to what you're trying
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  to accomplish and how you're playing. And as I said, I don't think
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  we've played poorly. Maybe the first game of the year, I don't know
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  how well we played, like I'm not sure we played a real tight game
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  like we're used to. And what I mean by that is we're not turning
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  pucks over, we're not giving up odd man rushers. And I thought we
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  gave up a few and had some really poor turnovers in the neutral zone on
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  that first game in the year, and sometimes that's to be expected because you
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  just haven't played. But since then, I thought, we've played, you
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  know, really well, just about in every game, and we've played five
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  of six of them on the road, and I've been happy with our effort
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  and I've been happy with what we're trying to accomplish. We've just really struggled
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  scoring goals. So you have to keep telling your team you're doing the right
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  thing, stay with it, you know, be strong. Like you said
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  earlier that the damn is going to break at some point, and it did
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  on Saturday. I gave you guys a ration of garbage on the air on
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  the football broadcast, like sure, I leave and you guys score. This
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  is a true fact. In the three games that have not been on the
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  radio, you've scored twelve goals. In the three games that have been on
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  the radio, you have scored twice. So we're not doing radio this Friday.
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  We're playing a little anyways, and goals are hard to come by in
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  that series anyways. So I'm not taking the blame for that, all right.
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  So maybe you know three is the threes. If you get three on
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  Friday, you're good. Okay, you should be right, we know,
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  just I know. Yeah, all right, Let's talk about some of the
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  line changes that you made on Saturday. Let's start first, Chase, Samu
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  and Jake were shared Rashard has scored in five of his six games so far
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  at least a point he's been productive. But Chas and Sam who seemed like
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  to be a pretty good, pretty good tandem, particularly with their size.
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  Yeah, you know, actually those changes were made Friday going into the third
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  period. We tried to mix some things up, and we played so well
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  going into the third period on Friday that decided to stay with those for Saturday,
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  and it seemed to work pretty well. You know. In talking with
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  Jake, I interviewed him for the intermissions came up after practice on Wednesday.
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  You can see the sense the hockey IQ just from talking to him. Because
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  his dad was a GM in Florida with some of the junior hockey programs down
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  there, and he's been a rinker at his whole life. Well that makes
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  sense to get some of that IQ hockey IQ. Oh yeah, he you
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  know, and sometimes you just it's not anything you really teach. Like.
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  I don't think anybody taught Larry Bird his basketball IQ, right. I think
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  sometimes you're just blessed and born with that. But he's only works at his
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  game. He's on the ice all the time. I see it coming in
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  the morning and he's out there at seven thirty eight o'clock in the morning working
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  on different things. And after practice he's one of the last guys off all
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  the time. He just he truly is a rink rat and just loves everything
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  about the sport and everything that goes into being a great player. What about
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  Samu now his first full year. I mean, yeah, he played a
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  pretty good chunk of all last year, but he came in and boom,
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  you're playing right away because kemean with the late October right about this time last
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  year. Yeah, yeah, and now he's certainly comfortable and you can see
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  the way he's playing. But he's a physical force and he hasn't even you
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  know, maybe he's scratched the surface, but his ceiling is certainly a lot
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  higher. He's going to continue to improve and get better and better as he
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  stays with us. You move Matt to the wing with Hudson. Obviously he
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  played with Hudson a lot last year. The other side was Pierson, a
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  kid from Yale. Jake Percival now on that line, but I don't know,
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  there's wings seemed like a better fit for Matt right now. I don't
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  know if that's the case. It's just it was just that he had gone
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  a few games without scoring, and I knew that he and Huddy had some
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  success together and when he scored, when that line scored, I think they
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  got two goals for US at Colgate to tie that game up, and Huddy
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  had moved with Matt and Rashard. So I was just trying to, you
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  know, put them back together because I know that they have played well together.
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  Seem like, talking with Ryan Mashie, a big weight was lifted off
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  his shoulders when he got the first one. It was a garbage goal,
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  but you know, you get a lot of those garbage goals, but it
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  seemed like a big weight was lifted on him. Just talking to him today,
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  Yeah, I'm sure it was. He's been you know, Justin Pearson
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  went through the same thing last year. I think he went six or seven
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  games without a goal and when he finally did, it broke through. And
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  you know, but he's been playing really well, Ryan, He's been finishing
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  checks, he's been hard. He's been the power forward that we envisioned when
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  he came here. Is this team more physical? Have the potential to be
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  more physical than the team him last year with some of the makeup that you
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  have with Chase and Nick. Yeah, Nick, he didn't even play this
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  weekend. But yeah, I think you know, Ryan's physical, Tabor's physical,
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  Tristan Frasier obviously, Nick Copone is, and Chases and Sam who can
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  play a physical game if he has to. You know, Maddy Wood's not
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  known as a real physical player, but he is. He's big and strong,
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  and he's on pucks and it's hard to get it from him. So
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  just because he might not hit guys like Chase and Nick do, he's still
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  a physical player. He kind of reminds me, at least from a puck
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  possession standpoint, because he's big. I mean, he's not Yack him Connolly
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  size wise, but he still seems to use his body pretty well. He
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  does, and he's learning, you know, every day, how to use
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  it even a little bit better and how more efficient. So once he masters
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  that, I think he'll be a really tough kid. He's tough now to
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  handle. It's even gonna be tougher for him. And he's still eighteen,
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  right, yeah, he was not nineteen, I don't think till February or
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  so. And then you mentioned Tabor and Tristan. Which one is the Swiss
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  Army knife Taber or Tristan that you've referred to in the past. Well,
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  Tabor can be, but Tristan's playing great hockey for us right now, and
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  he can play the wing or center like. It's nice having those two on
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  the line because they both can take face offs, especially on their backhand,
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  you know, so they're a lot stronger on your backhand. So if we're
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  on the right dot and the defense of his own, Tristan will take it,
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  and if we're on the left dot, Taber will take it. Jake
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  Black has given you some good minutes too. Yeah, he played pretty well
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  on Saturday. I thought he gave us some pretty good minutes. And you
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  know we're going to need that from him because he has some offensive potential and
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  when you're not scoring goals consistently, you need guys who have that offensive potential
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  and who can create off the rush and snipe a goal by a goaltender,
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  and he certainly has that ability from a puck movement standpoint, particularly on the
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  special teams. Mike, what have you seen? I know this, You
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  know, the production of the of the power play has not been what you
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  hoped it would be. But did you even tweak that a little bit too?
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  As far as personnel goes, not necessarily. I think the power play.
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  Our penalty kill has been very good. Our power play has been slow,
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  and it was slow last year getting out of the gate, and I'm
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  not quite sure why, because we have some pretty good players and some good
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  talent there. I think we probably got to move the puck a little quicker
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  and we got to get more volume to the net, and that's something that
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  I think we'll continue to focus on. Do you have a point where even
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  guys are trying to do too much? Maybe? I think that. Again,
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  that's another area where you press, you know, and it's hard because
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  great power plays fail seven out of ten times. Yeah, it is.
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  You know, it's sometimes even more. You know, if you have a
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  twenty five percent power play, that's fantastic, and so that means you're failing
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  seventy five percent of the time. So the big thing for us is to
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  make sure that we're not losing momentum off our power play. You know,
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  the other team Ice is a puck and then crowd starts getting into it because
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  they're out working your power play. That's what really hurts. When you're in
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  there zone the whole time and you're throwing bucks at the net and the goalie
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  might be making some saves or you hit a post and that's going to happen,
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  but at least you don't lose momentum, you know, off your power
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  play. So that's something that we really focus on. You know. I
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  enjoyed the student section at Union. They don't have stands behind the netminders,
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  so we had the student sections of my right. That was a fun little
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  place it was. I mean, I didn't notice it as much. You
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  get so locked into the game, but yeah, the rink hasn't changed much
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  since when I played there in the late eighties, so it's very similar.
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  You know. Ben Darnell, my boss at our flagship, was trying to
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  pronounce Boden one day and I said, that's where cav win. He goes,
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  n I go, Yeah, you played football and hockey, Yeah I
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  did so yep, So all right, well what's that you're going to say?
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  No, it's a union used to be in the league. The trip
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  used to be Hamilton Union. They used to be Division three, yeah,
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  back in the eighties, and they went to two Frozen fours and actually won
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  one. I know, it's incredible. Who are some of the guys on
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  the team that won in fourteen. You know everybody, this kid got the
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  spear. Shane got the spear, who was excellent defenceman. And then they
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  had the defenseman body I think who went to the Rangers. I don't know
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  if Daniel Carr was on that team. They had some really good players.
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  We actually that was my first year at Yukon. We tied him at the
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  freightest to two that year. Okay, and didn't you beat him the next
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  year? We did? Yeah, we did, remember so we mentioned Bridgeport
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  in the Christmas tournament. Okay, very good. All right, we're here
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  with Mike Kavanaugh. A little later we'll hear from Ryan Mashey and defenseman Thomas
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  Sineo. We'll come back with more with Mike Kavanaugh, The Yukon Hockey Coaches
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  Show live from Bear Smoke House Barbecue in a moment here on Learfield