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Seg 1 - MHOC Show Oct 21 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We are live Bear Smoke House Barbecue for show number
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  Speaker 1: two of You Comments Hockey with coach Mike Kavanaugh and
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  Speaker 1: Mike Cohorts on the air. Adam Gardino as so, the
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  Speaker 1: Huskies are five games into the season. They've taken care
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  Speaker 1: of business at home, two losses on the road at
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  Speaker 1: holy Cross and then on Friday night good test against
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  Speaker 1: bu Husky's lost four too. But let's do an overview.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, Michael, good evening, thank you for joining
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  Speaker 1: us once again. Nice pullover. You're playing you playing the
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  Speaker 1: Gino's golf tournament.
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  Speaker 2: This show. I did not this year. I don't know when.
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  Speaker 2: This one was a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Harford Golf, right it is, Yeah, good track. Never
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  Speaker 3: played there only big only a big guns playing there.
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  Speaker 2: Gino is a member. I'm not the members, So hit
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  Speaker 2: them up at the next radio show.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, that's that's always you know, maybe we should do
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  Speaker 1: a foursome. You meet Gino and Chardino.
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  Speaker 2: Have them put it together.
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  Speaker 1: Adam can act the ball pretty good, all right, five
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  Speaker 1: games in. What's your overall of you and what you've
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  Speaker 1: seen so far from your team?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been pretty happy. With the way the team
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  Speaker 2: has played. I thought, you know, the game Holy Cross
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  Speaker 2: was a we played pretty well five on five. It
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  Speaker 2: was special teams that was the issue in that game,
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  Speaker 2: where they went three for five, we went oh for
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  Speaker 2: six and still lost four to three. It was still
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  Speaker 2: in the game at bu I thought, you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: a really good team, but I thought we went toe
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  Speaker 2: to toe with them. They got the late goal, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to make it four to two. I was kind of
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  Speaker 2: hoping that we could hold off. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: right at the end of the four on four that
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  Speaker 2: they scored because we were playing extremely well there in
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  Speaker 2: the third period. So I've been happy with the way
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  Speaker 2: the team has come together. And you know, we're scoring
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  Speaker 2: goals knock on wood, more so than we have in
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  Speaker 2: the past, or at least we did last year. So
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  Speaker 2: that's been a positive sign. And I think we've been
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  Speaker 2: playing pretty solid defense as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the goals against average in terms of five on five,
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  Speaker 4: you've allowed nine even strength goals in five games. Is
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  Speaker 4: that a number that you specifically focus on when when
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  Speaker 4: you're assessing how the team is playing, and you look
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  Speaker 4: at that number and think, yeah, we wanted to be
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  Speaker 4: below two per game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, you do. I mean, unfortunately, though power
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  Speaker 2: play goals count. Yeah, so, I mean, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: we really only had one game. I thought that Holy
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  Speaker 2: Cross game we made some mistakes because they got three
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  Speaker 2: in that game. But I think BU got one. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think anyone else is small. Yeah, one a game four.
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  Speaker 4: Out of twenty three.
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  Speaker 3: So the year four that you've allowed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, we've played both special teams, even
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  Speaker 2: our power play. We haven't had a lot of them,
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  Speaker 2: but when we've had the power play recently, we've put
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  Speaker 2: a lot of volume on net. Now, we just got
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  Speaker 2: to find a way to put it by the goaltender.
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  Speaker 1: That Holy Cross came up in Wistard the game winning goal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever seen a puck bounce
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  Speaker 1: off the back lass as fast as it didn't, and
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  Speaker 1: it just happened to be almost a one timer that
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  Speaker 1: got in.
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  Speaker 3: Ty was basic, probably looking for the pun.
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  Speaker 2: That was unfortunate.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: When I watched it live, I thought Ty got all
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  Speaker 2: twisted up, but he didn't. He actually came out and
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  Speaker 2: the puck was six feet over his head and when
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  Speaker 2: it hit the glass, it came out so fast it
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  Speaker 2: hit his back, so he was trying to spind so
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  Speaker 2: it didn't hit his back and go in. And it
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  Speaker 2: was just a flukey play.
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  Speaker 4: That came up at holy Cross when when you look okay,
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  Speaker 4: you give up the three power play goals. In your
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  Speaker 4: discussion with the team after that one, how much are
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  Speaker 4: you focusing on on that and just either a the
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  Speaker 4: penalty kill or b not putting yourself in the penalty box.
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  Speaker 2: The thing that bothered me was most of the penalties
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  Speaker 2: we took were in the offensive zone. That's what bothered
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  Speaker 2: me that that weekend in particular, we were taking, you know,
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  Speaker 2: penalties two hundred feet from our own net and that's
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  Speaker 2: just not And we got better this weekend. I thought
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  Speaker 2: we I thought we played it pretty so there's only
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  Speaker 2: one penalty until we get to the third period and
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  Speaker 2: then it got a little out of whack. But it's
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  Speaker 2: an area that certainly we want to focus on. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be taking penalties in the offensive zone.
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  Speaker 1: Huskies were perfect penalty kills in that second holy Cross game. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: six for six in that department in the three to
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  Speaker 1: one win. Dan kindly brought this up, and you tell
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  Speaker 1: me the way the style holy Cross plays reminds him
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  Speaker 1: a lot of loll The way they play, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of similar.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that, I mean those are grinders those games, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's more in line with
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  Speaker 2: Quinnipiac because Billy coached under for a long time and
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  Speaker 2: they do a lot of the same things. Now they
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  Speaker 2: have different spin tweaks to what Quinnipiac does, but they
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  Speaker 2: play a lot of that style of play, and it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to play. Like when teams that structured and disciplined
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  Speaker 2: on their for check and disciplined on their breakouts and
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  Speaker 2: disciplined through the neutral zone, it's hard. It's a hard
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  Speaker 2: game to play.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that you kept them for two periods,
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  Speaker 1: I think what they had like six shots on goals. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: through two periods. They aren't good. And considering the way
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  Speaker 1: they play.
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  Speaker 2: I think for the weekend five on five, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was under fifteen. So wow, No, defensively we played
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  Speaker 2: pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And then you jump from a game like that,
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  Speaker 4: a weekend like that against Boston University, a number three
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  Speaker 4: team in the country, probably the first test where you
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  Speaker 4: would come into the season saying, Okay, we've got good
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  Speaker 4: team speed, how do you think that the team speed
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  Speaker 4: looked against one of the best teams in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought it was fine. Like you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of the things in that game that I was encouraged
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  Speaker 2: about was because against Colgate we gave up a lot
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  Speaker 2: of odd man rushes. I thought we played very loose.
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  Speaker 2: And then against BU that was certainly point of emphasis
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  Speaker 2: was we cannot ignite their transition game and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we turned to puck over and they got a breakaway
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  Speaker 2: and then we had a turnover in the third period
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  Speaker 2: that led to a three on two. But other than that,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we gave up any odd man rushes.
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  Speaker 2: So it was that was encouraging. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: And when there was a goalie situation that happened at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the second Holy Cross game, that meant
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  Speaker 1: you had to put Thomas Haney and that we will
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  Speaker 1: get to that when we come back.
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  Speaker 3: It is the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: It's show number two of the season for laved Bear
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  Speaker 1: Smokehouse Barbecue ahead of the Home and Home with u
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  Speaker 1: maass here on the Yukon Sports Network from Learfield