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SEG 2 - Wbb Show w Geno & Cav Mar 4 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back here at Caffe Era with Gene Oreema, Mike Cavanaugh.
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  Speaker 1: CALVS teams in action tomorrow night at Descano six forty
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  Speaker 1: five on the radio against New Hampshire Gino's Cruise of
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  Speaker 1: the Big Eiest Tournament this weekend noon on Saturday eleven
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  Speaker 1: thirty on the network. And we'll just leave it there
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  Speaker 1: because you know, you never take anything for granted, but
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  Speaker 1: the Husky should be at Mohican Sun all weekend. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, this go tee mustache thing I talked about
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  Speaker 1: in the pregame, No, you did on Sunday. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about it in our pregame interview. Is this is this
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  Speaker 1: your playoff Beard? Is this your just mentioned? Is your
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  Speaker 1: game face?
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  Speaker 2: But now you know, when I was a kid, there
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  Speaker 2: was a guy that pitched for the Cleveland Indians. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: in this well, there are probably maybe some people in
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  Speaker 2: this room that might remember this guy to pitch for
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  Speaker 2: the Cleveland Indians. His name was Sam McDowell. It was
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  Speaker 2: a great pitcher and I was what thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. So I've read someplace where he never
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  Speaker 2: shaved like on game days leading up to his next start.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, yeah, he must well, it didn't matter to
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  Speaker 2: me at that age. I didn't shave it before any games,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so it didn't really matter. So maybe I'm
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  Speaker 2: channeling my Sam McDowell putting on my game face here.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever have a beard though?
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  Speaker 2: As I started losing hair on my head? Not like
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  Speaker 2: I'm not like where Mike is.
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  Speaker 3: Because you win.
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  Speaker 2: So you had a lot more hair before that when
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  Speaker 2: he was, when you were an assistant at BC, you
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  Speaker 2: had a lot more hair.
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  Speaker 3: Than I do now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we want
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  Speaker 3: a lot more there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get to that dynamic a little later. That's
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  Speaker 1: a good one to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: You men.
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  Speaker 3: Look at like, look around our penders, Paul Caddy, David Benedict.
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  Speaker 2: But those I know, we have no we have the
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  Speaker 2: only one who wins all the time. And Hurley has
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  Speaker 2: no hair right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's just he's a different Caddy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's a different guy. He's a different guy. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that thing. He's so ornery a lot of times. Hair
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be on set, whether he wants it
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  Speaker 2: there or not. Hair don't want to be on his set.
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  Speaker 2: He's such a such a high strong guy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you watch him, and the man it's great
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  Speaker 2: to be young though.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, he's younger than us.
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  Speaker 2: Oh for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine me and you being like
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  Speaker 2: that now? At our age? I couldn't do it, no chance, No.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see that.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the five on five dynamic, Gino, Mike and
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  Speaker 1: you both answer this?
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  Speaker 2: You can.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've I mean, obviously you've seen each other's
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  Speaker 1: teams play. But if you have ever seen a practice,
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  Speaker 1: do you guys ever take anything away from the teams
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  Speaker 1: that you like if you watch him in practice? Some
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  Speaker 1: of the drills that Mike does that might fit from
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  Speaker 1: a basketball since and vice versa. Do you guys ever
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  Speaker 1: have you guys ever done that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've gone and watched Gino's practices. My my dad,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he grew up in Queens and Forest Hills,
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  Speaker 3: and he played football, basketball, and baseball. He never played hockey.
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  Speaker 3: And when we moved I was born in Queens myself,
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  Speaker 3: and then we moved to just north of Boston. When
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  Speaker 3: I was a young kid, there was a pond across
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  Speaker 3: the street, so I just skated because that's what all
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  Speaker 3: the kids did. I didn't play organized hockey till I
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  Speaker 3: was probably ten years old, and my dad used to
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  Speaker 3: tell me all the time, the games are very similar.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, you're trying to get a two on one.
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  Speaker 3: You're trying to like we set picks in the offensive zone.
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  Speaker 3: You know you're trying to in the fast break. You
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  Speaker 3: want the puck in the middle of the ice, you
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  Speaker 3: want the ball right in the middle of the court,
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  Speaker 3: and you give guys flying on the wings. And it's
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  Speaker 3: a very there's a lot of similarities between the two games.
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  Speaker 3: And to your point, Bob, I know when we're playing
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  Speaker 3: well when you can see five guys, if we're in
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  Speaker 3: the defensive zone, all five guys are in the defensive
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  Speaker 3: zone and we're connected. I call it connected, and we
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  Speaker 3: get through the neutral zone and then the offensive zone,
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  Speaker 3: we're connected. If we're in the offensive zone and we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to four check or like a fast break, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not start fast break press. If you were trying to press.
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  Speaker 3: You can't press with two guys and have three guys
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  Speaker 3: in the back court. Like we can't four check with
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  Speaker 3: three guys and have two guys in the neutral zone.
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  Speaker 3: Like we have to be connected. As a group, and
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  Speaker 3: when we're playing really well, five guys move together throughout
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  Speaker 3: the ice.
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  Speaker 2: And I think if you look at whether it's basketball, hockey, football,
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  Speaker 2: even and someday you can actually you know, in basketball,
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  Speaker 2: you can actually set a screen for somebody right you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can stand and a guy runs into you. You know,
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  Speaker 2: in hockey and football, it may be just cut. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I just cut in front of Mic and then Mike
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  Speaker 2: cuts behind me with the puck or without the whatever
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  Speaker 2: the case may be, and right away you've created, like
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  Speaker 2: you know, a path to go forward and get an
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  Speaker 2: advantage somehow somewhere. You see that in football all the time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they line up three wide receivers on one side.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one guy goes this way, one guy goes
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  Speaker 2: that way, just to kind of get in the way,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So there's a lot of similarities. And I
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  Speaker 2: think if you watch a lot of sports like we do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you get to see a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: things and you take a lot of that. I always
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  Speaker 2: thought years and years ago, somebody asked me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my two favorite teams to watch ever were the Knicks,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in seventy one, seventy seventy one, seventy two.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the Bill Bradley, David de Busher, Willis Reed,
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  Speaker 2: Wall Fraser teams. They just Phil Jackson, Phil Jackson. They
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  Speaker 2: just played incredible basketball, you know, just the way they
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  Speaker 2: played together, the way they move without the ball, how
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  Speaker 2: everybody could dribble, everybody could pass, everybody could shoot. And
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  Speaker 2: then my next favorite team you know, to watch was
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  Speaker 2: the Edmonton Oilers because they had like, oh yeah, a
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  Speaker 2: really good player at most positions, pretty much every position.
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  Speaker 2: But then they had like one superstar for the ages
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  Speaker 2: that kind of controlled the whole thing. And it was
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  Speaker 2: like poetry in motion the way they played, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the key is to try to build a
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  Speaker 2: team around a bunch of good players where they don't
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  Speaker 2: all getting each other's way and kind of let let
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  Speaker 2: it kind of you know, and and when we're playing, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's what we look like. And when we're not, it
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  Speaker 2: looks so disjointed, and it looks like, you know, guys
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  Speaker 2: you know, shooting it at the wrong time, the guys
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  Speaker 2: dribbling at the wrong time, the guys you know, cut
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  Speaker 2: the wrong way instead of you know, I want the
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  Speaker 2: guy to cut that way, I throw the ball the
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  Speaker 2: guy goes the other way. You know, when I'm watch
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  Speaker 2: enough hockey and watch enough that there's so much anticipation
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  Speaker 2: in the game because it's moving so fast that you know,
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  Speaker 2: you have to do things quickly, and it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: get five people to think as one. And people say, well, well
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  Speaker 2: you put five all stars out there together. Yeah, well worse,
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  Speaker 2: that's sometimes that's worse. Yeah, because every guy thinks, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're the guy and that's why. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's not like this in basketball, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: when they have stuff in basketball, it's not really this.
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  Speaker 2: But when they play, when hockey plays like let's say Canada.
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  Speaker 3: Versus US, that's the only time you see it.
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  Speaker 2: Like men's or women's or like World Cup hockey, the
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  Speaker 2: dream team or you get the USA Men's dream team, right,
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  Speaker 2: the women's the two Olympic teams I coached. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you have five great players that everybody who touches
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  Speaker 2: the ball can do special things with it, and they're unselfish.
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  Speaker 2: They're just there to win, not to show you know, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm the best player on the team. It is the
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  Speaker 2: most incredible thing. I mean basketball, yeah, but I've never
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  Speaker 2: seen anything like I forget maybe it was Four Nations.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it was the World Cup a few years ago
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  Speaker 2: and it was Annada versus the US, and every guy
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  Speaker 2: that touched the puck was a Hall of Famer and
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  Speaker 2: you just like shake your head, your mouth is open
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  Speaker 2: the whole time watching and and you know he coached
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  Speaker 2: at BC. You probably had teams that were an amateur
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  Speaker 2: version of that. Yeah, what was the best time.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite time of the year was when the Hockey
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  Speaker 3: East Awards were over because it was like, Okay, you
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  Speaker 3: didn't get your award. You did, now let's just go
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  Speaker 3: and you know, and they would you know, because you
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  Speaker 3: started with the US Olympic team. This year you're talking
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  Speaker 3: about you know, Jack Echel, Austin Austin Matthews, who's one
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  Speaker 3: of the best players in the world, taking a back seat,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to kill a penalty or to take a
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  Speaker 3: short shift, which he wouldn't do with the Toronto Maple
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  Speaker 3: Leaves probably, But when it comes down to a gold medal,
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  Speaker 3: you see the superstars sacrifice to win a hockey game. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: that's that, that's when it gets fun.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, we'll take a break. We'll get to calv
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  Speaker 1: because he has a unique perspective maybe on what Gino
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  Speaker 1: has done, because he worked for a guy who's his
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  Speaker 1: legendary in college hockey as this man is in basketball.
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  Speaker 1: We're live at Cafe al Right's the Yukon Women's Basketball
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show with Gino and Mike Kavanaugh. We're back in
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  Speaker 1: a minute.