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Segment 1 - MHOC Show w Cav Nov 13 · Coaches Corner

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  And we indeed are live at Bear Smoke Cow's Barbecue for another edition of the
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  Yukon Hockey Coaches Show. Coach Mike Kavanaugh is with me. And who's this
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  guy in the end? I hadn't seen it in a while, the House
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  Hunter star at the House Hunter Star. That's right, the big TV star
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  Adam Jardino is back with us after a lot of football duties. He'll be
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  back with me Friday at BC. Thank god, I've been sick of talking
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  to myself. As we sit here, talk to Yukon Hockey for the next
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  hour. We'll also visit with Hudson Shandor, one of the two captains of
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  the Huskies, and one of the alternate captains who's on a tear right now,
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  Andrew Lucas, the defenceman from Alexandria, Virginia. First of all,
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  CAF, good to see you once again. How you doing. Nice to
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  see you, Bob. I'm doing well. Thanks, and I imagine the
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  bus ride with home from Merrimack was pretty nice after what took place over the
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  weekend. Getting a good split over a good Merrimack team. Well, it
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  was certainly nice in the fact that we won, but I was still pretty
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  I guess disappointed. I thought that was a weekend where we had a chance
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  to win two games and we didn't give ourselves a chance Friday when we were
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  self destructed. So that was still bothering me even Saturday night after the game.
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  Yeah, games like that can get to you. I don't know what
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  was said in the locker room, and that what stays in the locker room.
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  You know what said stays. But it seems like from at least a
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  player's perspective, the effort was substantially better on Saturday, and maybe message received
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  well. The effort was pretty good up until eight minutes left in the third
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  period on Friday night. I don't think Merrimack had a shot on net in
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  the third period up until that point. And then, as I said,
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  we you know, you took the five minute major. And it was more
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  of a technique issue with Tristan on that penalty. It wasn't, you know,
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  a selfish penalty or dirty penalty. It was just his technique was off.
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  He's wound up going east west and he was all in on a hit
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  and the kid moved a little bit and it was needed and there was no
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  arguing in it, and I had no issue with the referees call of the
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  league suspending him. I think it's a play that he was just maybe a
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  little reckless as opposed to, you know, a dirty penalty. But either
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  way, we almost had that thing killed. And even though they scored,
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  you know, there's still three minutes left in the game. I mean,
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  last year we had tied Providence up, you know, scoring two goals in
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  the last three minutes, yeah, in a game, and this year we
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  scored three goals in a minute, you know, the week before. So
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  for us to take those penalties at the end and not give ourselves a chance
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  to get back in the game, that's what was really frustrating. Rewinding the
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  tape to the end of that second period. It was three to three going
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  into the final minute, you were on the kill again and Merrimack scored what
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  was eventually the game winner, but a go ahead goal with one point nine
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  seconds to go in the period. So what is what did you perceive from
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  the team heading into the locker room for that second intermission, because I'm sure
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  that it's deflating, it just flat out obviously it's not a great way to
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  go into the locker room. But we were fine we came out and played
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  really well. As I said, they didn't have a shot on net I
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  don't think in the first ten minutes. So we were playing really well and
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  up until the point where we took the five minute major. Mike, I
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  brought up a point second period. I think early second shots were like eight
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  to nine to nothing early. I mean, you were really putting it on
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  here. And I thought of something that you brought up with me with Ethan
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  Hyder earlier in the season. There was a period I think maybe it was
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  the Union game where you had thirty shots on goal in the first period and
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  I think maybe he saw five, and we talked about that mental toughness to
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  stay focused and in the game. And unfortunately second period, on the very
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  first shot of the second period, puckets buy our Sindy, Sir Jev and
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  then it was a downhill from there for him as he got pulled. But
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  what's it, what's that mindset like for him? What's his mindset right now
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  after the disappointment of Friday. No, I think it's just he's a competitor.
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  He'll get back to work and you know, I think work on his
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  process and he does, you know, Vince STILLETI does an outstanding job with
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  our goaltenders, and he was on the ice with ur Sinny this morning working
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  on just setting his feet and controlling his rebounds and just all details and aspects
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  that go into being a solid goaltender. And it's fundamentals. A lot of
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  times, you know, he makes those spectacular saves every now and then.
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  But the goaltenders that are consistently and you know ninety two save percentage are the
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  ones that are fundamentally sound. Right when you talk about Vince working with them
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  with our Sinny, have you seen Ethan be able to pass some wisdom along
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  as the elder statesman of that tandem. They certainly have a pretty good relationship.
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  You know, I'm not necessarily you know, see that all or hear
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  all their conversations together, but they do have a great relationship. All three
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  of our goaltenders do, right, Mike, You got Andrew Lucas going on
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  a hot tear right now, I mean, got the game winner low then
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  he has scored that power play goal at Vermont and the four to one loss
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  late in the game, but he has snowball. Then he's been aggressive picking
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  his spots. I mean the goal he scored Friday was gorgeous, and then
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  right place, right time for the game winner Saturday. Yeah, it was
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  a great goal Saturday that you know what was really Tyler Helton brought this up.
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  It was impressive. Was right before that goal was scored, they called
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  us for icing, and I think they missed the call one. I think
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  it went off our guys stick. But nonetheless, we were going to get
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  to that puck first, so that I think the call should have been nullified.
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  It shouldn't have been icing. But the kids nobody whined or complained about
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  it. It was like, all right, we gotta go get defensive zone
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  draw. Let's go make sure we get this draw. And we did.
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  Chipped it out and then Samuel and Perceval won the race and that's what started
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  the offensive zone play and it culminated with Andrew finishing it bar down. Yeah,
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  and Andrew talk about that later as a Jake gave him a nice pass
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  and Huskies win at four to three. Hey, look, Dan Connelly's here,
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  nice Patriots at that's the old path, the Patriot logo. I like
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  that. He's everywhere. He is everywhere. He wasn't Raleigh though he watched
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  that game. I know that because I didn't see him there anyhow, we'll
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  take a break later. Andrew Lucas and Hudson Shander will join us on the
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  Yukon Hockey Coaches Show Bar with Cavin A moment you're listening from Bears Barbecue on
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  Learfield. Stayless,