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MHOC Coach Mike Cavanaugh Zoom - UNH Weekend Preview · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: All right, coach, coming off of one game matchup against
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  Speaker 1: Harvard five goals in the third period, turning your attention
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  Speaker 1: back to conference play with a tough matchup against you
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  Speaker 1: n H Home and Home. Just want to get your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts into the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're certainly you know, shifted gears here. We had
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  Speaker 2: three non conference games after the break and now we
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  Speaker 2: get into you know, the meat of the schedule here
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  Speaker 2: the men's league, I think the second half of the season.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, New Hampshire is gonna be a very
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  Speaker 2: formidable opponent, no question about it. I think they're getting
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  Speaker 2: very good goaltending by far. I think the strength of
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  Speaker 2: their team is live within their defense. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: have five senior defensemen and that's a lot of experience
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  Speaker 2: back there, and they're very good, you know gang Ye
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  Speaker 2: Jensen Hure this really really good defenseman back there. And
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  Speaker 2: then up front, I mean con Mey's line with la
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  Speaker 2: Clerk and Devlin, they've been scoring a ton. Lavin's has
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  Speaker 2: been a really really good two hundred foot player for them.
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  Speaker 2: Ring is coming to his own, So it's gonna be UH.
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  Speaker 2: It's always a tough game up at the WIT and UH.
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  Speaker 2: This year the way they're playing, We're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: be at the very top of our game if we
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  Speaker 2: want to be successful.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome, We'll all have been up for questions. Joe, let's
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  Speaker 1: have you start us off.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thanks cav It's nice to be back with actually
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  Speaker 3: doing a game. This will be fun. Glad to have
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  Speaker 3: you back, Joe. It's only been too much I think
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  Speaker 3: on time today too Well. You know last week I
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  Speaker 3: had to work playing music for the Lord off a computer,
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  Speaker 3: so I couldn't I couldn't do that. How is you
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  Speaker 3: Larkin doing? Is he available this weekend? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't practiced this week, so I believe he's going
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  Speaker 3: to be out again. Upper body lower body lower lower.
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  Speaker 3: What did it mean for a kid like Cartman to
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  Speaker 3: take the ice? I mean, I know he's practiced hard
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  Speaker 3: and there just hasn't been a spot for him, and
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  Speaker 3: you were able to put him in a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of different places. How did you like his work? I
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  Speaker 2: thought he did a good job. You know, we spot
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  Speaker 2: shifted him in different spots, and I thought, especially early
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  Speaker 2: on in the Harvard game, we had some guys that
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  Speaker 2: really weren't going and he came in and spelled them.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, like Bobby Knight used to say that
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  Speaker 2: the best motivator sitting on the bench and when you
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  Speaker 2: get sat for a shift or two and someone comes
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  Speaker 2: in and plays like Karpy, did you wake up in
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  Speaker 2: a hurry? And I think he gave us some great
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  Speaker 2: minutes against Harvard. The Muldowney, Chandor Reshard line has just
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  Speaker 2: worked terrifically. Well what was it about them that made
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  Speaker 2: you put them together in the beginning of the year. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you're saying Muldowney, Chandor and and uh we have but
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  Speaker 2: he Rich Rashard, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well we
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  Speaker 2: just put them together Joe the second half, like they
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  Speaker 2: they haven't been together until uh we played Alaska. I believe.
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  Speaker 2: I believe we ended this uh with Chandor, with Tattle
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  Speaker 2: and Frasier. Yeah, that's right, my bet. And the one
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  Speaker 2: thing we thought was like, all three are centermen, and
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  Speaker 2: it was tough because you know, we had Joey Muldowney
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  Speaker 2: centering I think in that BC game, Rashard and Perceval maybe. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Joey's not a center, so it really wasn't fair to him,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we lost a lot of draws with
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  Speaker 2: that line, and when you're losing draws consistently, you're chasing
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  Speaker 2: the game instead of attacking. And uh so that was
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  Speaker 2: why we've kind of moved Hudson, because Hudson is a
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  Speaker 2: center and they seemed to work pretty well together. Thanks cav.
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  Speaker 1: Randy, we'll jump over to you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Colin, Good morning, Calv. Good to see Randy. Nice
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  Speaker 2: to see you.
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  Speaker 4: So the five goal outburst against Harvard, obviously the third
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  Speaker 4: period was tremendous, but at the end of the second period,
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  Speaker 4: Kayden Shahan shot down the ice, drew a penalty. You
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  Speaker 4: obviously scored on the power play, but just his speed
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  Speaker 4: and that energy play. What did that do for the
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  Speaker 4: entire team for that third period?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was a great play, and he's
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  Speaker 2: that's been something he's been doing all year long. I
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  Speaker 2: think what was more important was us executing on the
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  Speaker 2: power play and scoring. That really energized our bench going in,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to the third period, and then we follow
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  Speaker 2: that power play with a goal on the very next shift.
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  Speaker 2: Then we scored again on the next shift. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it was the power play goal that really ignited us.
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  Speaker 4: The first two goals you scored funneled from the blue line.
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  Speaker 4: I think you had three that funneled from the defense
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  Speaker 4: down load to forwards in front of the net. Shahan
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  Speaker 4: that you know the redirect on the second one. How
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  Speaker 4: important are your defenseman And what are you seeing from
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  Speaker 4: guys like Caravin, who I believe is scored in two
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  Speaker 4: straight now and Scott being able to get the puck
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  Speaker 4: to the net through screens.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just think that it's a hallmark of any
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  Speaker 2: good offensive team. Their defensemen get pucks down. They don't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily have to be on net, but you got to
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  Speaker 2: find sticks or you got to put them in an
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  Speaker 2: area where we're going to retrieve it as opposed to
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  Speaker 2: it getting blocked by that first wave. If your shots
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  Speaker 2: are getting blocked, I mean, it's just disheartening. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you work so hard, you kick it to the point,
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  Speaker 2: and if it gets blocked and now the forwards have
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  Speaker 2: to backcheck, you know that gets old quick as a forward.
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  Speaker 2: So it's something that we, you know, we work on
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure every team in the country works on
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  Speaker 2: getting pucks down past that first layer.
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  Speaker 4: And finally, for me, Tongue, he only had to make
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  Speaker 4: fifteen saves and he gave up too early, but he
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  Speaker 4: made some big ones in the second. What does it
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  Speaker 4: say about him to, you know, win a game that
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  Speaker 4: he gives up too quick and doesn't face a you know,
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  Speaker 4: a high volume. I think he limited them to fifteen shots,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, he hung in there and bounced back
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  Speaker 4: and gave you.
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  Speaker 2: The chance for that comeback.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was again a really good game by him.
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  Speaker 2: The first two shots that they take a in and
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  Speaker 2: sometimes goaltenders will crumble on that, and he didn't. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he made some He made a really big save at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the first period to keep it at two.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing made a couple in the second, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: then you know in the third, they had a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a push, but you know, we had a
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  Speaker 2: two goal cushion, so it wasn't probably as nerve wracking
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  Speaker 2: maybe as it was when you're down to nothing and
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to let that third one in. So
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  Speaker 2: I was really happy with the way he bounced back
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  Speaker 2: and played.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I said that was my last one. I
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  Speaker 4: thought of one more. I think Chandor is on ninety
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  Speaker 4: nine points. I know it's a round number, but it
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  Speaker 4: would be something I don't think and Colin could check
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  Speaker 4: me on this. I don't know that there's been one
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  Speaker 4: hundred points scorer in the hockey's there, So Yackham did Yackham,
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  Speaker 4: thank you just your thoughts on you know, his career
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  Speaker 4: as a whole, and you know what that'll mean to
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  Speaker 4: get that one hundred same.
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  Speaker 2: I just think he he's the epitome of a Yukon
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  Speaker 2: hockey player. From the day he's got here, he's just
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  Speaker 2: been nothing but positive influence in the locker room. He's
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  Speaker 2: a kid that started on the fourth line, got some
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  Speaker 2: penalty kill minutes. By the end of his freshman year
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  Speaker 2: he's on the power play and from that point on,
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  Speaker 2: he's been a guy that's, you know, been a fifteen
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  Speaker 2: to twenty minute player for us every single game. And
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  Speaker 2: just he's an exemplary human being, is what he is.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, I just I take I take one hundred
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  Speaker 2: of them. Yeah, thank you, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel will jump over to you.
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  Speaker 6: Is uh Larkin's injury something that you're just taking week
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  Speaker 6: to week and seeing how it goes with practice, or
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  Speaker 6: do you anticipate he could be out a bit of
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  Speaker 6: an extended period of time.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm hoping that he can get back
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  Speaker 2: and practice next week, you know, certainly, but that's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's one of those kind of lingering injuries that, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's Dan anything, you know, year ending injury,
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  Speaker 2: but it's probably a week to week injury. It's not
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  Speaker 2: day to day. It's probably a week to week.
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  Speaker 6: Then in goal, obviously, Callum's numbers jump off the page.
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  Speaker 6: But with Tye now back, how do you anticipate trying
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  Speaker 6: to how do you anticipate using that position and deploying
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  Speaker 6: those two.
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  Speaker 2: Well to This is Tie's first week of practice back
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  Speaker 2: and he's looked pretty good and he's certainly a good goaltender,
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  Speaker 2: and I really think it's a strong position to be
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  Speaker 2: in when you have two goaltenders that can win you
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  Speaker 2: Hockey East games. So we'll, you know, take it game
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  Speaker 2: by game, but it's nice knowing and this is the
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  Speaker 2: first time all year that we've had the both of
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  Speaker 2: them healthy, so it's nice knowing that we have an
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  Speaker 2: option for both of them to play.
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  Speaker 6: Then, Caden's got two goals in his last two games,
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  Speaker 6: obviously had huge numbers in the USHL, leads the team
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  Speaker 6: in shots. Do you see this being the start of
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  Speaker 6: something for him scoring wise. Is he doing something that
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  Speaker 6: could maybe lead to more goals.
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  Speaker 2: I think, as you said, he's been getting shots on net,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that's what he has to keep doing.
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  Speaker 2: He has to have the mindset of I've got to
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  Speaker 2: get four to five shots on that every game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and if he does that, pucks will go in for him.
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  Speaker 7: Natalie will jump over to you, all right, Good morning, coach.
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  Speaker 7: So excited to be back with you this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning.
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  Speaker 7: I actually wanted to ask you about Tray Scott. It
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  Speaker 7: seems like throughout the course of the season he kind
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  Speaker 7: of had you know, a point here, point there, but
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  Speaker 7: the last game he had three assists. I guess you
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  Speaker 7: know what allowed him to be so impactful in that
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  Speaker 7: game in particular. Was there anything that really kind of
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  Speaker 7: facilitated that success, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, Natalie, he didn't play the first couple of games
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  Speaker 2: of the year, and I give Tyler Health him a
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  Speaker 2: lot of credit because he was the one who really
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  Speaker 2: pushed to bring him here to Yukon. I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: much about him as a player. I had never even
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  Speaker 2: seen him play, with the exception of video, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: see him play live. But Tyler had seen him and
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  Speaker 2: really really liked him as a player, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: when he came here, he just kept practicing so well,
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  Speaker 2: we said we got to get him into a game,
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  Speaker 2: and he's never looked back. He got into a game.
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  Speaker 2: He's got so much poised with the puck. He's patient,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that's the reason why he had three
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  Speaker 2: cysts the other night. He was patient and he didn't
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  Speaker 2: do anything you know, revolutionary. He got bucks down to
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  Speaker 2: the net and they happen to get tipped and go in.
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  Speaker 2: So but he's got a great feel offensively and he's
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacking one of the power play units now. And the
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  Speaker 2: hockey iq is really really high, which couple out with
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  Speaker 2: a good skater and you know, good skill, you know
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have a good hockey player there. And he
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  Speaker 2: certainly has proved that this year.
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  Speaker 7: Would you say it took him a little time to
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  Speaker 7: kind of find I don't know if it's his groove
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  Speaker 7: or his confidence throughout the first half. And you know,
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  Speaker 7: what will the second half look like for him? You
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  Speaker 7: think he's going to emerge.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think he already has emerged, I think, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think he's always been a confident kid.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was us giving him the opportunity, and
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  Speaker 2: once we gave him the opportunity, he's taken the ball
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  Speaker 2: and he's run with it.
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  Speaker 7: I also, you know, with the with the un H series,
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  Speaker 7: I feel like this is always a fun one to
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  Speaker 7: talk about on the broadcast side. You started your career
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  Speaker 7: or Mike Susa, you know, both at yukon twenty thirteen
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  Speaker 7: to twenty fifteen. How much of a friendship has there
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  Speaker 7: been established over the years and do you like playing
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  Speaker 7: against each other this time?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've known Mike god when he was a player.
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  Speaker 2: I recruited him unsuccessfully way back when. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: then we actually worked at camp one summer when he
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  Speaker 2: was still at UNH. He was still a student at
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  Speaker 2: un H, and I got to know him a little
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  Speaker 2: bit there. Definitely had stayed in touch. We had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of mutual friends. I knew his agent very very well.
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  Speaker 2: And then when he came available, you know, when I
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  Speaker 2: got the job here, he was one of my first
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  Speaker 2: phone calls. It was great working with him. He was
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  Speaker 2: right here on the ground floor when we started. And
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  Speaker 2: then when the opportunity came for him to go back
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  Speaker 2: to New Hampshire. I totally understood that, being his Alma Mada,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm really happy for It's not easy and it's
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  Speaker 2: not easy to follow Dick, you Millie, I mean, who
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  Speaker 2: had so much success at New Hampshire, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: Mike havn't played for him, and it's really I think
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  Speaker 2: it'd be really tough. I was always I was in
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  Speaker 2: that position as an assistant coach for you know, Jerry
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  Speaker 2: Yorke for so long, and I always thought, God, if
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  Speaker 2: I ever took over for him, it would be different
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  Speaker 2: because your relationships with the players are different as an
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  Speaker 2: assistant coach to a head coach, So that transition I
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  Speaker 2: didn't really envy him having to do that, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was probably toughest first couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: But you've seen now that he's been able to kind
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  Speaker 2: of put his fingerprints on the program, how much success
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  Speaker 2: they've having, and I'm always rooting for him, except for
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  Speaker 2: this weekend fair enough.
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  Speaker 7: You know, speaking of travel with your team, you don't
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  Speaker 7: get to travel, you know, too much. But you went
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  Speaker 7: to Milwaukee over the holiday break. Was there anything you
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  Speaker 7: did away from the rink with the team that was
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  Speaker 7: kind of a fun like bonding moment.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we have some great supporters in Jim and
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  Speaker 2: Jane Mitchell. We have an award named after him, and
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  Speaker 2: also David Anne for Chante. They came out with us
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  Speaker 2: and they sponsored a dinner for us the night before
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  Speaker 2: we played Alaska and it was off the charts dinner
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  Speaker 2: at the steakhouse that they brought us to. So that
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  Speaker 2: was really a fun night. But other than that, there's
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  Speaker 2: not a lot of time, Natalie, Like you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: all flying out there the day after Christmas. We all
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  Speaker 2: get out there about eight o'clock. The next day, we're practicing.
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  Speaker 2: We had the dinner and then we played a game
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  Speaker 2: at one o'clock in the afternoon. So it was a
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  Speaker 2: very very quick turnaround for us. So it wasn't like
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  Speaker 2: we got to go to the Taps Blue Ribbon Bottling plant.
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  Speaker 2: So one of them go see go see My players
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  Speaker 2: didn't even know. I said, this is what happy days
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  Speaker 2: and Laverne Shirley was they had no idea what I
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  Speaker 2: was talking about. You probably don't either, Natalie.
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  Speaker 7: I was gonna say, you know what I don't, but
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to expose myself there.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, exactly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That was one of my old man references that Randy
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  Speaker 3: would look at me like, what what is wrong with you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll go Cooper and then Joe you
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  Speaker 1: can wrap us up.
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta be honest, I have no idea either.
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  Speaker 2: Surprised Coach Cooper, Nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 5: I just wanted to ask about one of your other
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  Speaker 5: defensemen and John Spetts and you know, for a young group,
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  Speaker 5: what has he meant to that group?
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  Speaker 2: He is Cooper. I was so glad when he decided
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  Speaker 2: to come back as a fifth year senior, both he
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  Speaker 2: and Hudson. Because of all the players that I've had,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's a like a player that's more
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  Speaker 2: of a student of the game than John Spetz. He
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  Speaker 2: is literally another coach on the ice, in practice and
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  Speaker 2: in games. He understands concepts in the game as well
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  Speaker 2: as anybody I've been around. And he's very good at
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  Speaker 2: being a liaison between the coaching staff and some of
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  Speaker 2: our younger players in helping them comprehend some of them.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like it's rocket science, but still, when you're
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  Speaker 2: a young player, you might not understand the idiosyncrasies and
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  Speaker 2: the little things that details that come with playing it
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  Speaker 2: within a system. And John's very good at, you know,
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  Speaker 2: breaking it down for them and maybe putting it in
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  Speaker 2: the language they understand that sometimes we can't as older coaches.
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  Speaker 5: And then just you know, big picture here, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you look at the league and you've got you know,
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  Speaker 5: maybe eight, nine, ten teams all in a similar pairwise
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  Speaker 5: situation with basically you know, most of the league to go,
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  Speaker 5: and that includes you. I mean, when you look at
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  Speaker 5: the way the league is right now and what's ahead
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  Speaker 5: of you and all of these teams, I mean, what
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  Speaker 5: comes to mind for you.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's fantastic. I told the team that the
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  Speaker 2: other day, of fourteen of our sixteen games, I think
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  Speaker 2: Vermont's twenty six and the pairwise so fourteen of our
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  Speaker 2: sixteen games are like essentially against top twenty five pairwise teams,
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  Speaker 2: and thirteen of them are against teams in front of us.
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  Speaker 2: I think, so, or maybe eleven or against I forget
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  Speaker 2: what the numbers. I think maybe Quinnipiac, you, Mass, Northeastern,
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  Speaker 2: but they're all in the top twenty five the only
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: ones maybe below us right now. But I think it's
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: a great position to be in. I would not want
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: to be in a position. And there are a few
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: teams I was looking at that are like fourteen, sixteen,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: seventeen in the pairwise and they don't have one game
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: against teams ahead of them. I mean, that's that's basically
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: what you're saying is we got to go play eight
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: hundred percent here down the stretch or win our tournament
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: to get in. And that's that's a very hard position
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: to be in. You know, we're in a position where listen,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: it's I don't know if we can win all our games,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: you know, but you expect to win the next one.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: And if you have that mindset, you know, and you're
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: playing against opponents like we're going to play against, it
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: puts you in a great position to make the national tournament.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: You control your own destiny as far as making the
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: national tournament.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Last one for me, you know, kind of with that
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: context in mind, you've played what eighteen games at this point.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: When you look at the first eighteen big picture, what
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: is kind of the number one or number two things
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: that you take away as you look towards the second half.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: The takeaway is we've you know, our schedule, strength to
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: schedule seventh in the country right now, and then I've
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: already told you what we have coming up, so it's
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: by far going to be a top ten schedule as
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: far as strength the schedule goes, could be top five
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: when it's all said and done. But that being said,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I want to be playing our best hockey, you know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: in February and March, and it's it's building and it's
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: weekends like this that help you build towards playing your
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: best hockey in February and March. So right now we're
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: just focus on the Wildcats and playing to the very
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: best of our ability on Friday night.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Thanks guts, appreciate it.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Sure, all right, Joe, you can wrap us up right,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: thanks Ca.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Have you saw Jared Whale when he was with Alaska Anchorage.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: He took the loss, but he made forty saves. What
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: do you see on him? That makes him a good
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: goal tod and has helped New Hampshire especially with that
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: as you said, that veteran defense in front of him.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Vince Stiletti reminded me of that of this week,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: that he was a goaltender. It's funny, you know, when
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I was an assistant coach, I could remember all that stuff.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: We're here and a head coach. I can't remember who
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: played against us last week, you know, but Vince reminded
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: me that he played against us in Alaska and then
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: he was dynamite in that game. That was the All
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Student game here, and I felt like we played extremely
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: well in that game and we had hard time getting
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: pucks by him, and we're fortunate to get one by
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: him in overtime to win that game. But he's a
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: super athletic, he's got good size, he competes, you know,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: and he's played a lot of quality minutes for New
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Hampshire this year. So we're gonna have to like like
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: all good goaltenders, you know, and we'll face a bunch
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: of them down the stretch here. You have to get
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: traffic in front of him. I mean, it's a broken record,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: but you have to take their eyes away. You have
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: to get volume and uh, you're gonna have to get
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: quality looks and expect to get rebounds and second chance
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: opportunities if you want to be successful, because if he
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: gets clean looks, he's gonna make says, it's plain and simple.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you sure, awesome, Well, thanks everyone for jumping on
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: coach thank you.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Good luck this weekend, all right, Thanks guys, thank you,