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- 1:34SPEAKER_01: Welcome into season six, episode eleven of the Inside Cyclones Hockey Podcast.
- 1:40SPEAKER_01: As usual, we're breaking down all the action from the Cyclones latest campaign, as well as previewing what we've got to come for this weekend's hockey matchups for the Wassa Cyclones.
- 1:53SPEAKER_01: Got a great episode for you.
- 1:54SPEAKER_01: So get ready, because it's time to enter the storm.
- 2:20SPEAKER_01: I do want to just briefly apologize for the slight delay on the release of this week's episode.
- 2:26SPEAKER_01: My job in Denver, getting super busy.
- 2:29SPEAKER_01: Lots of stuff going on with uh the Colorado Avalanche and the Denver Nuggets season's ramping up, but uh still making it a priority to make sure that I get these episodes out, make sure that I get these awesome podcasts done for you guys.
- 2:43SPEAKER_01: So, pretty typical episode.
- 2:45SPEAKER_01: Uh, no interview this week.
- 2:47SPEAKER_01: Wasn't able to get uh any of the coaching staff or the players on.
- 2:50SPEAKER_01: But uh next week, hoping to have either Luke Meyer or Max Cothern on the pod just to get their insight on where things stand for the team, where things are at, uh, you know, at this point in the season for the Cyclones.
- 3:02SPEAKER_01: Our goal for the season, honestly, is to try to get one of those coaches on once per month throughout the year.
- 3:08SPEAKER_01: And I think that's uh obviously a very attainable goal.
- 3:10SPEAKER_01: Something that we can something we can definitely accomplish.
- 3:14SPEAKER_01: So keep an eye out for that specifically next week.
- 3:16SPEAKER_01: Should be able to grab uh either Maisy or Max Cutherin for an awesome interview.
- 3:22SPEAKER_01: Uh, but for now, we'll be uh we'll be breaking down everything from last week's matchup versus the Wisconsin Woodsman, as well as what to expect for the Cyclones this coming weekend.
- 3:33SPEAKER_01: Some news for the Cyclones, though, some very big news before we get into the games that we need to talk about.
- 3:42SPEAKER_01: The Cyclones star offensive player last year, someone who had a remarkable first season in Wassa has returned to the Cyclones.
- 3:57SPEAKER_01: If you were a Cyclones fan last year, you probably recognize his name.
- 4:02SPEAKER_01: Jackson Schrader is back on the roster.
- 4:07SPEAKER_01: Started out with the Houston Bulls for the 2026-27 season, where uh former head coach of the Wasa Cyclones, Nathan Oystrick, is coaching.
- 4:16SPEAKER_01: Played two games, wasn't able to tally any points, any goals, any assists, none of that kind of stuff, but he's now with the Wassa Cyclones and he's already got a goal and an assist and two points in his uh few games played with the club.
- 4:30SPEAKER_01: So huge welcome back to Jackson Schrader.
- 4:34SPEAKER_01: Absolutely electric to have him back in the fold, to have him back as a part of this organization.
- 4:40SPEAKER_01: I mean, like I mentioned, he just was unbelievable for the Wassa Cyclones last year.
- 4:45SPEAKER_01: 28 goals, 36 assists for a jaw-dropping 64 points.
- 4:52SPEAKER_01: So clearly, the offensive output is there.
- 4:54SPEAKER_01: Clearly, he makes a huge difference offensively for the Cyclones.
- 4:57SPEAKER_01: He's a 200-foot player, he's a phenomenal guy to have in the locker room.
- 5:00SPEAKER_01: So huge to have Schrader back in action for the Cyclones.
- 5:06SPEAKER_01: Speaking of Jackson Schrader, we're breaking down everything from last week's matchup versus the Wisconsin Woodsman to kick off this episode.
- 5:16SPEAKER_01: Uh, and let's talk about how everything went down this last weekend as the Cyclones come away with a big win against the Woodsman.
- 5:26SPEAKER_01: So, looking at this game, let's start with the shots on goal.
- 5:29SPEAKER_01: Very even.
- 5:30SPEAKER_01: 32 shots on goal for the Cyclones, 31 for the Woodsmen.
- 5:33SPEAKER_01: So as far as offensive opportunity goes, it was pretty split throughout the game.
- 5:38SPEAKER_01: And honestly, throughout the the three periods, it was split during the during the three periods as well.
- 5:42SPEAKER_01: There was never a period uh where it was super leaning one way or the other.
- 5:47SPEAKER_01: Uh nine shots on goal for the cyclones in the first period, six for the woodsmen, uh, in the second, 14 for the clones, and 17 for the woodsmen, and then in the third, nine for the cyclones and eight for the woodsmen.
- 5:59SPEAKER_01: So, like I said, pretty even on the shots on goal count.
- 6:02SPEAKER_01: What wasn't even in this game was the one thing you don't want to be even, and that was the score.
- 6:08SPEAKER_01: The Cyclones with a commanding eight to two win over the Wisconsin Woodsmen.
- 6:15SPEAKER_01: Their first win of the year over the Woodsman.
- 6:19SPEAKER_01: So just a big win overall for the Cyclones.
- 6:21SPEAKER_01: Let's go through the box score.
- 6:23SPEAKER_01: Let's talk about how it all unfolded.
- 6:25SPEAKER_01: The Cyclones kicked off the game with six unanswered goals.
- 6:30SPEAKER_01: You gotta be kidding me.
- 6:32SPEAKER_01: Fire me up.
- 6:33SPEAKER_01: Six straight offensive opportunities that went past the netminder for the Woodsman, the Cyclones with a very strong start to this game.
- 6:42SPEAKER_01: At the 1337 mark, Cyclones returner Alec Mellon gets a goal from Luke Menkoff and Joel Anderson grabbing those assists.
- 6:49SPEAKER_01: And then only three minutes later, they extended their lead to 2-0.
- 6:52SPEAKER_01: Brighton Thaxton.
- 6:54SPEAKER_01: Braden Myers and Gabe Field grab the assists there as Thaxton gets his fourth goal of the year.
- 6:59SPEAKER_01: Braden Myers gets the third goal of the game.
- 7:01SPEAKER_01: Maxim Salyanko and Brighton Thaxton get the primary and secondary assists there.
- 7:06SPEAKER_01: We move to the second period.
- 7:08SPEAKER_01: The guy we just talked about.
- 7:09SPEAKER_01: Welcome back to Wassa.
- 7:11SPEAKER_01: Jackson Schrader gets his first goal of his second season with the Cyclones.
- 7:15SPEAKER_01: Brayden Myers and Nate Spencer grabbing the assists there.
- 7:18SPEAKER_01: And then the goal scoring frenzy continues.
- 7:21SPEAKER_01: The fifth goal of the game at the 1648 minute mark.
- 7:23SPEAKER_01: Brady Schute grabs a tuck from Alec Mellon and Michael Wolfenberg, the primary and secondary assists on that goal.
- 7:31SPEAKER_01: And then Owen Renslow scores from Jacob Maxson and Lucas Makoff.
- 7:35SPEAKER_01: So there it is, right there, folks.
- 7:36SPEAKER_01: Six unanswered goals from 13 minutes in the first period all the way up until 12 minutes to go in the second period.
- 7:43SPEAKER_01: Just an absolute explosion of offense for this Cyclones team.
- 7:48SPEAKER_01: Unfortunately, the unanswered goal count got broken by the Woodsman at the four-minute mark.
- 7:52SPEAKER_01: Nicholas Nugent scored the first goal of the game for the Woodsman.
- 7:57SPEAKER_01: Parker Holloway and Ian Finley able to grab the assists on that goal, but an extremely quick response from Cyclones player Frank Goodman gets the seventh goal of the game at the 243-minute mark.
- 8:07SPEAKER_01: Jackson Schrader and Joel Anderson grabbing the assists there.
- 8:11SPEAKER_01: And then we move to the third period.
- 8:13SPEAKER_01: Osbez Muzon for the Woodsman grabs the second goal of the game.
- 8:17SPEAKER_01: Parker Holloway and Ty Palios getting the assist there.
- 8:20SPEAKER_01: A power play goal for the Woodsman.
- 8:23SPEAKER_01: But then Braden Myers gets the deal ceiling goal, if you will, to make it an 8-2 Cyclones win.
- 8:34SPEAKER_01: Three stars of the game.
- 8:35SPEAKER_01: Braden Myers had two tucks.
- 8:36SPEAKER_01: Alec Mellon had a goal.
- 8:38SPEAKER_01: And then we'll get into the third star in just a second because it's it'd be spoiling the next thing that I want to talk about if I tell you who the third star is.
- 8:46SPEAKER_01: Let's talk about goaltending.
- 8:47SPEAKER_01: So for the Woodsman, Nicholas Foy started out in between the pipes for the Woodsman.
- 8:54SPEAKER_01: He had 13 saves on 18 shot attempts, a 722 save percentage and 38 minutes of ice time.
- 9:02SPEAKER_01: Just a hair over 38.
- 9:03SPEAKER_01: 38.06 was his total time out on the ice before the Woodsman coaching staff decided to pull him and give Dominic Seligman a chance at trying to reel this game back in, but he unfortunately wasn't able to do so.
- 9:18SPEAKER_01: In his 2154 minutes of ice time, he had 11 saves on 14 shot attempts.
- 9:24SPEAKER_01: Both of those two goaltenders combined to allow eight goals against the Cyclones, a 7-8-6 save percentage for Dominic Seligman.
- 9:33SPEAKER_01: For the Cyclones, on the other hand, Gavin Norton.
- 9:36SPEAKER_01: I mean, you gotta be kidding me.
- 9:38SPEAKER_01: This is just a masterclass performance in between the pipes for the Cyclones Netminder in this game.
- 9:44SPEAKER_01: 60 minutes time on ice, played the entire game, 29 saves, 31 shot attempts.
- 9:49SPEAKER_01: Only allowed two goals throughout the night, tallied a 9-3-5 save percentage.
- 9:56SPEAKER_01: Shout out Gavin Norton.
- 9:58SPEAKER_01: And if you didn't catch on to it already, that spoils and now reveals who the third star of the game was alongside Braden Myers and Alec Mellon.
- 10:04SPEAKER_01: Gavin Norton with a 9-3-5 save percentage and only two goals allowed on 31 shots faced Gavin Norton.
- 10:11SPEAKER_01: Fire me up.
- 10:12SPEAKER_01: Really, really strong performance for the Cyclones.
- 10:16SPEAKER_01: Before we get into the next segment, uh talking about what the Cyclones have going on this weekend, let's look at the standings and how things are shaping up right now.
- 10:26SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, we've had a few conversations with a few different guys.
- 10:28SPEAKER_01: We talked to Sean Hall last week, we talked to Braden Myers the week before.
- 10:32SPEAKER_01: And clearly the theme here is this team needed a second to settle in, but now they've done so, and now they're very confident with where they're at.
- 10:43SPEAKER_01: They feel like they could be a difference maker.
- 10:45SPEAKER_01: They feel like they are a legitimate force in the central division.
- 10:49SPEAKER_01: And I think we're finally starting to see that.
- 10:51SPEAKER_01: So, with that, let's take a look at the central division standings and where things sit right now at this point in the season.
- 10:58SPEAKER_01: Just gonna quickly run all the way from bottom to top.
- 11:03SPEAKER_01: Fox City's Forged.
- 11:04SPEAKER_01: Oh, four-and-o in four games played in seventh place.
- 11:07SPEAKER_01: Peore Mustangs in sixth place, four and four and oh and oh with eight points.
- 11:14SPEAKER_01: Uh hot start for Peore, but it seems like they're kind of settling into what the norm is for them.
- 11:18SPEAKER_01: Uh the Cyclones, nine games played, four, four, and one with nine points.
- 11:23SPEAKER_01: St.
- 11:23SPEAKER_01: Louis Junior Blues, eight games played, three, two, and three with nine points.
- 11:26SPEAKER_01: Wisconsin Woodsman in third place, four, three, and one with nine points.
- 11:30SPEAKER_01: The Rochester Grizzlies, six games played, four, oh, and one with ten points.
- 11:35SPEAKER_01: They also have a shootout loss in the West Bend Power, six, oh, oh, and one with 13 points.
- 11:40SPEAKER_01: I mean, you gotta be kidding me.
- 11:41SPEAKER_01: West Bend continuing to be on their absolute tear that they are always on.
- 11:46SPEAKER_01: You remember last year, which is a very impressive showing for the West Bend Power.
- 11:52SPEAKER_01: But that's where uh that's where the standings sit as of right now.
- 11:56SPEAKER_01: That's kind of where things are at.
- 11:58SPEAKER_01: Uh, we're gonna kick it to break here on the Inside Cyclones hockey podcast, and we will return shortly talking about what the Cyclones have going on this weekend.
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- 14:10SPEAKER_01: Welcome back to the Inside Cyclones Hockey Podcast.
- 14:13SPEAKER_01: Thanks so much for letting us take a second to hear from all of our lovely sponsors that make this podcast possible.
- 14:19SPEAKER_01: Let's not waste any time.
- 14:20SPEAKER_01: Let's get back into the episode.
- 14:23SPEAKER_01: So, after a nice 8-2 win over the Wisconsin Woodsman, the Cyclones are back in action.
- 14:29SPEAKER_01: Actually, currently, as I'm recording this, uh, I mentioned it at the very top of the episode.
- 14:34SPEAKER_01: Uh, I had some schedule stuff come up this week.
- 14:36SPEAKER_01: I was a little delayed uh getting around to producing and getting this podcast rolled out.
- 14:40SPEAKER_01: Uh so I apologize for the slight delay.
- 14:42SPEAKER_01: We will try to make sure that doesn't happen very frequently, but schedule stuff happens.
- 14:48SPEAKER_01: It is what it is.
- 14:49SPEAKER_01: Uh but either way, the Cyclones currently in action in the first of a two-game series versus the Peoria Mustangs through one period.
- 14:56SPEAKER_01: It is 0-0, so nothing crazy has happened yet.
- 15:00SPEAKER_01: But uh Wassa in Peoria, Illinois at the Owen Center, playing tonight, Friday night, and tomorrow, October 10th, both at 6 o'clock p.m., hoping to come away with some wins against the Peoria Mustangs.
- 15:13SPEAKER_01: They have not beaten Peoria yet.
- 15:16SPEAKER_01: They have played them twice.
- 15:18SPEAKER_01: Uh those the first two games of the season, and they lost 8-3 and 4-3, respectively.
- 15:23SPEAKER_01: But like I mentioned, those were the first two games of the season, and according to you know, not only some of my personal observations, but also some of the stuff that we've heard from these players, all they needed, as in the Wassa Cyclones, was just a quick second to settle in and kind of dial into the season.
- 15:39SPEAKER_01: That's all they needed.
- 15:40SPEAKER_01: Now they're right where they need to be.
- 15:41SPEAKER_01: They actually are ahead of the Mustangs in the Central Division standings.
- 15:46SPEAKER_01: Uh, and if they can keep up the strong play that they've had, if they can hold on to the win streak that they've got right now.
- 15:53SPEAKER_01: They currently hold what I believe is a two-game win, three-game win streak, excuse me.
- 16:00SPEAKER_01: They beat the Fox Cities Forge twice, uh, and then they beat the Wisconsin Woodsman last weekend.
- 16:04SPEAKER_01: So they can hold on to their three-game win streak.
- 16:06SPEAKER_01: Uh, we'll definitely see this Cyclones team get back into their winning ways in terms of having a winning record.
- 16:14SPEAKER_01: They obviously have that win streak, but they are 4-4-1 as it stands right now.
- 16:18SPEAKER_01: A win tonight would make them 5-4-1, and a sweep this weekend would make them 6-4-1.
- 16:22SPEAKER_01: And that's obviously exactly what we want to see from the Cyclones this coming weekend.
- 16:29SPEAKER_01: So we'll be keeping an eye on score updates and all that good stuff.
- 16:33SPEAKER_01: Uh, just one more quick reminder.
- 16:35SPEAKER_01: Uh, let's talk about the promotional schedule in terms of the next home games that the Cyclones have coming up and what you as fans can expect next time you're in the building at Marathon Park Ice Arena.
- 16:46SPEAKER_01: Friday, 16th of October, it's$2 beer night, the best night of the season, in my opinion, presented by Bush Light.
- 16:53SPEAKER_01: And uh Saturday, the 17th of October, it's the Halloween costume contest and trick-or-treat game presented by Goodwill NCW.
- 17:00SPEAKER_01: The best way to try out and preview your Halloween costume.
- 17:04SPEAKER_01: Come out, enjoy Cyclones game, put on your costume, and see if you win the contest.
- 17:08SPEAKER_01: We've talked about it a ton here on the pod.
- 17:09SPEAKER_01: We see great costumes, we see lots of fun stuff at that event.
- 17:13SPEAKER_01: So come out, enjoy it.
- 17:15SPEAKER_01: It'll be a great time.
- 17:16SPEAKER_01: 17th of October, Halloween costume contest and trick-or-treat game, presented by Goodwill and NCW, excuse me.
- 17:22SPEAKER_01: And that's followed by$2 beer night, presented by Bushlight on the 16th of October.
- 17:27SPEAKER_01: All right, that is gonna do it for us on this week's episode of the Inside Cyclones Hockey Podcast.
- 17:32SPEAKER_01: Thanks so much for the support.
- 17:34SPEAKER_01: Thanks so much for tuning in.
- 17:35SPEAKER_01: We appreciate you guys more than you know.
- 17:38SPEAKER_01: Go clones, and we'll talk to you next week.
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