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Seg 1 - MHOC Show w Coach Cav Nov 25 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We are live in downtown Hartford for the Yukon Men's
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  Speaker 1: Hockey Coaches Show, alongside Mike Cavanaugh, Adam Jardino with you.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Christian Antonio, the on site engineer. We've got
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Allison down in Winston Salem coach. You made it
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  Speaker 1: on time. It's been a busy couple of days where
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  Speaker 1: you had games over the weekend and you get still
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  Speaker 1: carved out some time for some recruiting.
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  Speaker 2: Where have you been the last couple of days?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, after the Lowell weekend, I went to Detroit yesterday
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  Speaker 3: and drove up to Sarnia actually watched a game up
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  Speaker 3: in Sarnia, Ontario, and then flew home today just to
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  Speaker 3: get back to be with you, Adam at six pm.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate that. Ye, So Sarnia is that part of the CHL?
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  Speaker 2: It is okay?
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  Speaker 1: So how has obviously there was a rule change in
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  Speaker 1: college hockey where suddenly there's this league that you're able
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  Speaker 1: to recruit out of, and it seems like pretty quickly
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  Speaker 1: you guys just dove right in.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's it's something that we certainly would
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  Speaker 3: be remissed if we didn't go recruit that league and
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  Speaker 3: there's some really good players there and the rule changed,
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  Speaker 3: and I think over time this is going to be
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  Speaker 3: beneficial for all parties because I think more kids who
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't have played in the CHL in the past because
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  Speaker 3: they didn't want to taint their college eligibility are going
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  Speaker 3: to be willing to do it at a younger age.
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  Speaker 3: And then I think we're going to be able to
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  Speaker 3: get some players that will be really good college hockey players.
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  Speaker 3: So in time, I think after this new collective bargaining
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  Speaker 3: agreement with the NHL, there's a lot of moving pieces
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  Speaker 3: at them. I don't really want to get into the
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  Speaker 3: weeds on it, but it could be good for every
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  Speaker 3: all parties involved.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess the last question before we start to
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  Speaker 1: focus on your current team, but how long would you
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  Speaker 1: say that you would have advocated for this kind of
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  Speaker 1: a rule change.
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  Speaker 3: If the NHL gets on board here in the next
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  Speaker 3: couple of years with this collective bargaining agreement, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a win for everybody. And that's the biggest piece,
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  Speaker 3: because it's it's going to be really good the game.
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  Speaker 3: The NHL game is marketed mostly in the United States.
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  Speaker 3: I know that they're passionate in Canada, and it's crazy
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  Speaker 3: in Canada how they feel about hockey, but it's marketed
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  Speaker 3: here in the United States. The majority of the teams
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  Speaker 3: are in the United States. The United States public and
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  Speaker 3: the fan base relates to colleges, not junior teams in Canada.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody in the United States knows where Medicine had Is
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  Speaker 3: or Brandon or moose Jaw. But they do know Michigan,
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  Speaker 3: and they know Yukon, and they know Boston College and
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  Speaker 3: they know Denver. So that's something that is relatable to
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  Speaker 3: the audience, I believe. And I always go back to
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  Speaker 3: the example that I think when Tom Brady was playing
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  Speaker 3: for the Patriots and they were playing in the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 3: the only people outside of New England rooting for the
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  Speaker 3: Patriots that year because they had won so many times
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  Speaker 3: were the people in Michigan. Yeah, and because he went
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  Speaker 3: to Michigan. And I think that would be similar. Can
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  Speaker 3: you imagine if Wayne Gretzky went to Yukon, correct, how
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  Speaker 3: many people from Yukon. I watch it with Brianna Stewart
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  Speaker 3: and she's playing for New York and the Yukon people
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  Speaker 3: are rooting for Brianna Stewart. So It's something that I
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  Speaker 3: think will really help the NHL and going forward if
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  Speaker 3: there's more Canadian Junior Hockey League players playing in the
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  Speaker 3: United States before they go to the NHL.
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  Speaker 1: Last time we had this coaches show was three games ago,
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  Speaker 1: so there are a couple of wins and one loss
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  Speaker 1: to catch us up on and back. On November fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: Tascano Family Ice Forum was a mad house, a five
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  Speaker 1: to four win for Yukon over the number two team
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  Speaker 1: in the country. Before we get into the game, talking
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  Speaker 1: to a couple of the guys, we'll hear from Kaijambaria.
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  Speaker 1: Later on in the show, we'll hear from Kayden Shahan,
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  Speaker 1: and they said that that environment is what they dreamed
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  Speaker 1: of when they committed to playing for Yukon and playing
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  Speaker 1: it that arena.
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  Speaker 3: Strangely enough, I think it was the Merrimack weekend that
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  Speaker 3: actually galvanized the group. I believe that it was a
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  Speaker 3: tough weekend for us, and you know, while we played
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  Speaker 3: pretty well at Merrimack, we didn't play well at home,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that resonated with our players, and we
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  Speaker 3: had a great week of practice coming out for that
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  Speaker 3: Boston College game, and it was, you know, spectacular the
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  Speaker 3: crowd was in it from the beginning. The energy that
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  Speaker 3: the crowd created for our club was just awesome. And
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  Speaker 3: they've been good all year long, Like, yeah, just about
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  Speaker 3: every game we've had really good crowds, and it's something
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  Speaker 3: that I want to continue to build on and create
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  Speaker 3: that type of home atmosphere where it's really hard to
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  Speaker 3: play when you come to stores.
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  Speaker 1: So those losses before we get into the BC game,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned the weekend against Merrimac, a couple of losses
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  Speaker 1: by a combined nine to three.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously you've.
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  Speaker 1: Got Hudson chandor John Spats, You've got your leadership group.
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  Speaker 1: Did they, when you say it, galvanised the team? Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's players taking ownership more than you taking ownership. Did
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  Speaker 1: you see some some players stepping up and kind of
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  Speaker 1: helping take that that charge?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm not sure it was just the captains.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was. There was a collective group of
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  Speaker 3: our captains for sure, and some of our underclassmen and
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  Speaker 3: not so much the freshman group, but more you know,
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  Speaker 3: Joey Muldowney stepped up and with Jake Richard going out,
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  Speaker 3: I mean that was a big loss for us. He
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  Speaker 3: was our leading scorer. You know, I still think he's
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  Speaker 3: in the top three, even though he hasn't played in
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  Speaker 3: the last few games. So yeah, Uh, there was a
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Tattle was instrumental and and really you know, bring
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  Speaker 3: in the group together. So I thought collectively, and that's
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  Speaker 3: the way it should be. It can't all be on
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  Speaker 3: the captains. That becomes a big load to bear when
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  Speaker 3: you're a captain if you feel like every game that
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  Speaker 3: you have to be the guy to energize the group.
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  Speaker 3: So I was really proud of the way the kids stepped.
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  Speaker 1: Up for that game, down one nothing after the first period.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have a sense of what was percolating that
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  Speaker 1: this game was going to swing your way?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I knew we played really well. We outshot him
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  Speaker 3: twenty three to nine in the first period. Uh, played
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  Speaker 3: extremely well, and I was happy to come out and
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  Speaker 3: score right out of the gate. And then we scored
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  Speaker 3: three in the first five minutes of that second period
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  Speaker 3: and Tuscana was jumping and the guys really fed off
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  Speaker 3: that energy.
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  Speaker 1: Does it mean more when Hudson, I know we asked
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  Speaker 1: about the captains and everybody it matters, But earlier this year,
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  Speaker 1: when Hudson Chander, I got the monkey off his back.
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  Speaker 1: He was a little snake bitten last year. Feels like
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it means a little more when when he's the
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  Speaker 1: guy that gets things going and guys buy in behind him.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think that line's been fantastic when you we
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  Speaker 3: put those three together and there I'll live with probably
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  Speaker 3: within as they'd say in Canada, fifteen kilometers from each other.
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  Speaker 3: They live very close to each other, and they have
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  Speaker 3: some synergy, no question about it. As a group, those three,
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  Speaker 3: and they've been you know, really they're tough to play against.
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  Speaker 3: They're a line that creates a lot of offense, but
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  Speaker 3: they also are tough to play against defensively. So it's
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  Speaker 3: nice for me knowing that I can match them up
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  Speaker 3: against anybody against opposing team.
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  Speaker 1: And again we're talking about two weekends ago. Last weekend
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  Speaker 1: it was UMass Low. We're focusing first on the game
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  Speaker 1: against Boston College, the number two team in the country.
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  Speaker 1: For in that game, I think the college hockey world
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  Speaker 1: would have seen the highlight whatever you want to call it,
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  Speaker 1: of Yukon scoring a goal and then Jacob Fowler with
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  Speaker 1: the game misconduct after that. That's a play where it
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  Speaker 1: really a play like that is so interesting. Where a
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  Speaker 1: goalie gets ejected throwing a punch gets suspended for a game,
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  Speaker 1: you think, okay, that's gonna help Yukon emotionally. But I
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  Speaker 1: feel like there was a lot of composure needed from
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  Speaker 1: your team also just to make sure that just to
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  Speaker 1: not let that kind of play distract.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing I liked about that was our power
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  Speaker 3: play wasn't bad because we had a five minute major
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  Speaker 3: and I was thinking at the time, this is when
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  Speaker 3: we have to put this game away, because you get
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  Speaker 3: one goal there. Now it's all of a sudden four
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  Speaker 3: to one, and that's a tough road to come back from.
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  Speaker 3: But we didn't score, but it didn't ruin our momentum,
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  Speaker 3: which I thought, because the power play was very effective,
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  Speaker 3: and in fact, I think we got another one right
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  Speaker 3: after that. So we've played on the power play for
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  Speaker 3: about seven minutes after that, and.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's hard for BC.
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  Speaker 3: When they having to kill penalties for seven minutes to
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  Speaker 3: generate offense. So I was really happy even though we
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  Speaker 3: didn't score. I thought our mindset of a hacking staying
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  Speaker 3: on the attack, and when that power play, those power
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  Speaker 3: plays ended, we still stayed on the attack for the
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  Speaker 3: rest of that period.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just from a statistical perspective, in that game, you
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  Speaker 1: score five goals, but it was zero for four on
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  Speaker 1: the power play, even though you generated.
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  Speaker 2: Fourteen shots on the power play.
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  Speaker 1: So it just feels like another one of those instances
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  Speaker 1: where the team could have found a way to let
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  Speaker 1: that deflate them, and yet they still kept pushing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it was. It was a good game from
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  Speaker 3: start to finish.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we had a couple unfortunate bounces. I think
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  Speaker 3: that got PC a little bit back in the game.
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  Speaker 3: And listen, it was it was tough because I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Tommy Heeney is you know, he hasn't played a lot
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  Speaker 3: of hockey at the college level, and he's got to
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  Speaker 3: step in totally cold in the third period because time
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  Speaker 3: usually goes out with a you know, lower body injury.
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  Speaker 3: That's a hard position to be put in, you know,
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  Speaker 3: especially when the first shot goes in. But he hung
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  Speaker 3: in there and did an awesome job helping us win
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  Speaker 3: that game.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Heeney minutes against Boston University and Boston College not
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  Speaker 1: an easy ask for him in his first couple of
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  Speaker 1: college outings.
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  Speaker 2: We'll dive into last weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You masked Lowell, a couple of games against the river Hawks,
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  Speaker 1: a split up at the song Is Center, and then
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  Speaker 1: we will chat with Kai Jamborea and Kayden Shahan as
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  Speaker 1: we roll on here.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight.
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  Speaker 1: After this, it's pregame between Yukon and Oregon State. Bob
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  Speaker 1: Joyce down and Nasau and the Bahamas. Poor Pop. He
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  Speaker 1: will get us started at seven o'clock Eastern. I'm Adam Jardino.
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  Speaker 1: We are live from Bear's Smokehouse Barbecue here in Hartford.
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  Speaker 2: This is Yukon men's ice hockey from Learfield