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Seg 3 - MHOC Show Dec 4 Coach Cav · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome back to the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show live at Bear Smokehouse Barbecue and Hartford
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  Husky's wrapped up the first half of the season yesterday. They're not back at
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  it till New Year's Eve in stores against Harvard three o'clock. National Television ESPN.
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  Yeah, and I thought for a minute, well there's Bowl games.
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  But wait a minute, it's a Sunday. Yeah, no bowl games.
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  It's all NFL on Sunday. So nice, Jop, Are you getting an
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  ESPN game against a good, good Harvard team? Well, I don't think
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  I can take credit for it. I think Hockey East reached out to us
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  and said would be interested in, you know, playing the game. They
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  originally wanted us to play it at one o'clock, which I would have been
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  fine with, but it was not fair to Harvard because I think they're playing
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  Princeton the night before. So and Teddy's you know a friend I did not.
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  I wasn't going to make him play that game one, but he agreed
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  to play at three. He was happy with that. I'm going to play
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  at three o'clock. So, because I think they are games at three or
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  four o'clock on the day before okay, but yeah, that's great being able
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  to be on ESPN's outstand Yeah for sure. What are the next few weeks
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  look like? I know this upcoming week of the next week of exams,
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  and what about the three weeks before you start half number two? What's it
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  look like for the players and for the coaches as well? Yeah, well,
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  I think for the players, they're still the finishing up school this week,
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  this is our last full week of school, and you have finals next
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  week, and then I think most of them will be going home, I
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  hope, So, you know, I think it's good to get that break
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  and recharge the batteries. I know it's good for coaches. We'll be doing
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  a little bit more, you know, recruiting in this time. You know,
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  all of us will be going out over the next couple of weeks,
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  and you know then that we'll take a week off too, I think before
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  Christmas, you know. Basically, I'll have the players come back. I
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  think the twenty sixth, then we'll practice the twenty seventh. So from the
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  you know, nineteenth, maybe I'm going out on the road. I think
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  I get back to eighteenth, and uh, I'll take that week. I
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  gotta get my wife something for Christmas. Everything will still be wait till the
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  last minute, right, and the wife takes care of the kids, right,
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  No, not necessarily. I bought my son at gift the other day.
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  Good job. Yeah, that's something I thought he'd like. It's easy
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  now online, you know, I get on Amazon account. Yeah. I
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  already did part of my shopping in the Caymans for the missus. Go ahead
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  at him. When you talk about players that are going home, so to
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  internet, I mean, got the Canadian players, it's a little bit easy
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  traveled. But for our Cinny going back to Russia, for Samu Finland,
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  I mean, do you know kind of already like yeah, those two guys
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  who have more ornerous travel, do you know if they're going to be going
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  home. Yeah, Samu's definitely going home. I haven't talked to our Sinny
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  yet about that last year. I know he didn't because traveling to Russia is
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  a different story. So I'm glad you brought that up. That's gonna be
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  a conversation we have with him tomorrow. I don't know what his plans are
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  because sometimes he stayed here and gone to Florida as well, so I think
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  he has some family in Florida. Oh good, he visits. So,
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  Mike, do the prep schools have a big tournament around this time of your
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  day to do? Yeah, they've started up, so they usually play on
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  Wednesdays and Saturdays, but the tournaments start the fourteenth, fourteenth, fifteen,
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  sixteenth, seventeenth. That weekend, there's a bunch of prep school tournaments and
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  that's by design because they know that there's a gap in the college schedules,
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  so coaches can make it. No, I don't think. I don't think
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  that has anything to do with it. I think historically that they've just always
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  that's weekend is the last weekend of school for them, and that's when they
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  have their big prep school tournaments because they all leave to go home after those
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  tournaments. All right, Well, you mentioned you're gonna go out and look
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  at some players us HL versus BCHL. It seems like a ton of kids
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  at the college level coming out of both those leagues. How different? How
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  similar are those two leagues? Yeah, that's where I'm actually going. In
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  three days, I can go see ten of our committed players. So I'm
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  going to go out to h Dubuque and see a few of our players in
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  that game. We've got a bunch of players on Sioux City. Then I'm
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  going to go see Sue City plays Debuque, who have one player on Dubuque
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  and three on Sioux City. So I can see four players in that game.
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  And that's Iowa. Yeah, how do you get to flying to seedar
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  Rapids? Then I'll fly into Vancouver the next day and we have let me
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  see two on al Bernie and one on Langley, so I'll see three in
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  that game. And then Nanaimo's playing Coquitlam and there's three game, three players
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  in that game. So I'll get to see ten players in three days.
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  So that's a pretty good trip. And do you make sure that they don't
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  check each other in those games? Those those players say stay away from one
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  another, stay out of that. I don't want no friendly fire. Yeah,
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  Mike, tell me about Vancouver. I mean, I've heard a lot
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  of great things about it. You've been there a ton of times. What's
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  what's so special about that city? It's a beautiful city. First of all.
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  I mean the mountains come right down into the ocean. Uh, it's
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  just spectacular, spectacular, you know, just landscape. It really is beautiful.
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  Part of the country, you know, in the in the winter,
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  it's not usually as nice, just because sometimes you can get a lot of
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  the rain and some gray you know clouds. But oh like Seattle, Okay,
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  it's a little bit like Seattle. Yeah, but you know there's all
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  other parts of the air, you know, springtime and especially the summer.
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  It's it's beautiful. It's a lot of sunny days, and it's a it's
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  a it's a really nice place. It's crowded though, too, Like it's
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  it's it's a crowded. It's not an easy city to get around. It
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  might be the only city I know where there's not a major interstate that runs
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  into the city. It's like a it's like going on the Berlin Turnpike of
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  the Silas Dean to get in, honest to God, to get into Vancouver,
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  you know. So it takes you thirty five to forty five minutes to
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  get in from the airport and you're only going eight to ten miles. It's
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  wow. So's it's you know, they do have Highway one when you can't
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  get on that, and that's fine when you're going out a little bit outside
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  the city. But like I'm only going maybe fifteen miles from the airport to
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  both games. I'm going to see and it's going to take me fifty to
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  fifty minutes to an hour. Wow. So we're gonna be talking with a
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  couple of guys coming up here. So Ryan Taddle is one of the guys
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  that Bob talked with earlier today. What is something that has really impressed you
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  about his play this year? Well, Ryan's really found an idea entity on
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  this team. I just I got to give him a lot of credit because
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  he was in and out of the lineup last year and even to start this
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  year, he was a little bit in and out, but he really just
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  focused on competing and winning his one on one battles and making I think when
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  he was in and out of the lineup last year, it was because he'd
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  have a you know, take a penalty unnecessary penalty, or he'd uh for
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  three good plays, he'd have one turnover that was catastrophic, and he's eliminated
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  that really from his game. He's eliminated that turnover. Not turnover is going
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  to happen, but it's not. You know, every game he was good
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  for a turnover, that's not happening anymore. He's really and he's pushed the
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  pace of our team. You know, he's become a outstanding penalty killer and
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  I love seeing that in players. I love seeing actually them struggle, you
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  know, and find their way out of it, because you that's when I
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  think you can get really good players. You know whyatt newpower was that for
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  us. He was in and out of our lineup for two years, right,
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  you know, when he worked through his struggles, he wound up being
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  the defensive defenseman of the Year in Hockey East. Yeah, and a major
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  you know, one of the better captains we've ever had here, as Gino
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  said, figured out yep. Yeah. And it's so easy sometimes to just
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  go somewhere else. It'll be easier somewhere else. And you know, I
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  don't think he's done that, and Tristan too is it hasn't always we had
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  to. You know, I sat him last year at Fenway, which I
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  know wasn't easy for him, but you know, he handled it like a
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  pro. And he's continued to just work, work and get better and better.
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  And he's been an integral part of our team this year, no question
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  about it. All Right. We will hear the interviews with mister Tattle and
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  mister Fraser when we come back on the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show from dear Field
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