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Mike Cavanaugh - Postgame BU · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Effort. I thought that it's always nice when your seniors
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  Speaker 1: can win their last game and their home rink, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a great hockey game. Bu gave us,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all we could handle. But our response in
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  Speaker 1: the third period I thought was was really really good.
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  Speaker 1: We're able to not only when you know, we took
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  Speaker 1: the two goal lead, I still thought we were control
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  Speaker 1: and play and an unfortunate you know, passed out. It
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  Speaker 1: takes a tough bounce on Anthony and Merrill made a
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  Speaker 1: great shot, But overall, I was just really happy with
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  Speaker 1: our entire team performance. I thought we got contributions from
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  Speaker 1: everybody up and down the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: What was the difference early or not early in the
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  Speaker 2: third period, but coming out of the second intermission in
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  Speaker 2: the third period, was it conversation in locker room? Do
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  Speaker 2: you tweak anything? No?
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  Speaker 1: Not really. Uh, you know, we just said, hey, our
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  Speaker 1: season's on the line, so you get twenty minutes we're
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  Speaker 1: going to continue playing together or the season's going to end.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have seven you know, seniors and they
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  Speaker 1: don't want the season end, and they played like it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I know, well, I'll just how confident were you
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  Speaker 3: that Anthony's Folt would be allowed, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And they Alex Westland immediately radioed down saying that's a
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  Speaker 1: good goal. Like he was not in the crease, and
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  Speaker 1: I was watching the replay, and then when I saw
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  Speaker 1: the quick replay, I was I thought, you still never
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  Speaker 1: know when they go into the box. But I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you what, I got to give Steve Rouleiart a lot
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  Speaker 1: of credit because when you make a call and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to go in and overturn your own call, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a real professional referee right there.
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  Speaker 4: For Anthony, how does it speak to that continued growth
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  Speaker 4: that we've talked about all year for him?
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  Speaker 1: He's just been getting better and better, And I thought
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  Speaker 1: today he was. He was a man out there, the
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  Speaker 1: youngest kid on the team and probably one of the
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  Speaker 1: youngest kids. Him and Lawrence are probably the youngest kids
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  Speaker 1: in the game. And he was fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Played from ahead the entire game. How do you feel
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  Speaker 2: like the guys reacted to kind of the ups and
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  Speaker 2: downs throughout and the state even.
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  Speaker 1: Keeled really well, you know, no matter what happened, even
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  Speaker 1: when they tied it up. We were pretty good. This
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  Speaker 1: time of year when you're in the hockey East playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to control the entire game, and you
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  Speaker 1: have to be able to weather storms. You have to
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  Speaker 1: understand that the other team's going to score a goal
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  Speaker 1: probably they're good teams, and you have to come out
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  Speaker 1: with the same intensity and the same attitude regardless of
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  Speaker 1: what happens, whether you score or whether you get scored on.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have a group of guys that are
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  Speaker 1: experienced as us, they know that and it showed today.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you.
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  Speaker 3: Always talk about the balance three or four lines scored today,
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  Speaker 3: can just pof the one line team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's been like I think. I mean, it's close.
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  Speaker 1: Every line has at least twenty goals on the season,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't see that often on a lot of teams.
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  Speaker 1: So we have, you know, balanced four lines, and there
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  Speaker 1: were some matchups today, But I really wasn't too worried
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  Speaker 1: about him. I have confidence in every line out there, and.
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  Speaker 4: I think Jake did committing two penalties that first period
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  Speaker 4: and just sort of being a consummate person.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he shook it off and played a great game,
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  Speaker 1: scored a big power play goal for us, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought he played really well in the second and third period.
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  Speaker 2: Penalty kill pitches a shutout. Yeah, it's a pretty big
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  Speaker 2: one in the third. What did you see from that
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  Speaker 2: unit that's been a little up and down throughout the year.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they they were in sync tonight. I thought
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  Speaker 1: they worked a very cohesive unit that read off each other.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Perusi did an unbelievable job preparing them. I sat
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  Speaker 1: in on a couple of his meetings this week, and
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  Speaker 1: he really did a great job preparing them for what
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  Speaker 1: they were gonna face.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry speaking of the penalty killed, well, I think
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  Speaker 3: he might have been the first foul play where Tyler
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  Speaker 3: was a little bit out of a position. Yeah, came
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  Speaker 3: in and you have made that statement that I think
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  Speaker 3: Viking had a similar play later. I guess just the
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  Speaker 3: play of your defenseman in those situations.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were. Thought Viking was really good. I thought
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  Speaker 1: Massinio killing penalties was very good. Anthony was very good.
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  Speaker 1: Kai is one of the most underrated defensemen I think
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  Speaker 1: in our league. Defensively, you know, everybody looks at him
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  Speaker 1: as a smaller, undersized defenceman and they think offense, offense,
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  Speaker 1: but he leads our team in plus minus. He's just
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  Speaker 1: his feet or elite did a really really nice job,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought Brendan Dunfie did an excellent job tonight
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  Speaker 1: as well on the penalty.
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  Speaker 3: Kill to actually might be the best crowd here.
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  Speaker 1: It was awesome. It was unbelievable, and it was funny
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  Speaker 1: because the BU radio guy interviewed me before the game.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, well, I guess it's just going to be
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  Speaker 1: like it was at be You, where it was friends
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  Speaker 1: and family on Wednesday night. I go, this place is
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  Speaker 1: sold out. I don't know what you're talking about. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, the fan base here, they they
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  Speaker 1: support like no other place I've been. It's it's truly
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  Speaker 1: remarkable and we're very appreciative of it.
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  Speaker 2: Last year when you guys beat Providence, he said he
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to be a program that just went once
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  Speaker 2: a class to the garden. Now you're going two years
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  Speaker 2: in a row. How important is that for your growth
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  Speaker 2: and just the consistency of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's huge, It's huge. It's uh, it becomes you want
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  Speaker 1: it to become an expectation, you know, that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: you want. You want, you know next year, if you
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  Speaker 1: know our juniors, the juniors that stay and become seniors.
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  Speaker 1: I want them we expect to go to the garden.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we do. I think when it becomes an expectation,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's half the battle. As a coach, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to convince them that. You know, this is
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  Speaker 1: one of our goals two under the.
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  Speaker 2: Career win tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I found that out. Yeah afterwards, it's just another win.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really happy. I don't care how many numbers
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  Speaker 1: there are. I'm just really happy for our team. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to two to one. That's the one I
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  Speaker 1: want to get next.
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  Speaker 3: There was no over the top celebration from Joey when
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  Speaker 3: he hits. It was almost like he just kind of
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  Speaker 3: shrugged and lifted up his stick.
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  Speaker 1: When you had that empty dintor well, there's fifty five
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  Speaker 1: seconds left, so we talk about that all the time,
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  Speaker 1: like the game is not over. So we understood that
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  Speaker 1: they were going to pull them again, and when they did,
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  Speaker 1: they had one Look, if that goes in, there's thirty
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  Speaker 1: seconds left and this one goal game again, So we
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  Speaker 1: never ever think the game is over.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the three or four minutes leading up to them
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  Speaker 2: pulling the goalie the first time, it seemed like you
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  Speaker 2: were not necessarily possessing the puck, but really keeping them
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  Speaker 2: back in their own end having to go retreat. It
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  Speaker 2: just what do you guys do so well to limit
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  Speaker 2: them from being able to come at you offensively.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we did a good job protecting the guts
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  Speaker 1: of the ice, the middle of the ice and tried
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  Speaker 1: to just keep them to the outside. As part of
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  Speaker 1: our game plan with Hudson was don't let him come
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  Speaker 1: up the middle of the ice, and McLoughlin once got
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the ice on us. It happened a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times, but for the most part, we did
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  Speaker 1: a really good job keeping them to the outside and
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  Speaker 1: making them dumb pucks. Because you saw it tonight they
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  Speaker 1: scored three rush goals, like that's what they're very good at,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that's what we were trying to mitigate tonight.
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  Speaker 4: And with them means so good scoring short handed. Did
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  Speaker 4: you think your power play units were the right balance
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  Speaker 4: of aggressive and just being mindful of what they could do.
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  Speaker 1: The only one that was a little tentative was probably
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  Speaker 1: that last one when it was about eight minutes left.
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  Speaker 1: When we get that that one got a little tentative.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they just didn't want to turn one over
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  Speaker 1: and give up a shorty. But other than that, I
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  Speaker 1: thought they were good. Anything else for coach guys awesome,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Next week