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Seg 1 - MHOC Show Jan 22 · Coaches Corner

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  But even can. Welcome to Bear's Smokehouse Barbecue here in downtown Hartford alongside Yukon
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  men's ice hockey head coach Mike Kavna Adam Jardino with you, Coach, It's
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  been a couple of weekends since we've had a show here, so four games
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  have been in the docket. We'll get to last weekend against the unh Wildcats,
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  but first rewind the tape to January twelfth, thirteenth, a top ten
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  opponent in the Main Black Bears. We were previewing it the last time Maine,
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  incredibly talented. You held the Black Bears without a goal for five of
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  the six periods. Now, I know that there's a caveat to all of
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  that because of the one period where they scored. But how do you think
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  you did holistically that weekend against Maine? Well, I thought we played a
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  very good weekend against a great hockey team. We kind of self destructed and
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  fell apart a little bit. In the third period. We were up three
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  to one and had a power play and gave up a shorthanded goal, which
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  is a cardinal sin, and then you know, then they got a power
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  play and scored to tie it. It was a disappointing loss, but I
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  was really proud of the guys the way they came back on Saturday, especially
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  without Jake Flynn and Hudson Chandor, to be able to grind out a really
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  well deserved to nothing when on Saturday. So in that third period with the
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  shorthanded goal, you said it's a cardinal sin. Was there what specifically broke
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  down in that situation that the team needed to do better on? Well,
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  we turned a puck over, you know, so sometimes when you're on the
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  power play, you don't sense danger when the puck turns over because you just
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  figure there's only one guy or two guys going down. And they got three
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  guys involved. They were pushing and we were late coming back and they want
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  to battle. One guy beat two of our guys and made a play and
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  their guy rang it off the post and end. So, you know,
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  it was a play that we learned from though last night because we were in
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  a very similar situation in a two nothing game and we got a power play,
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  and we had a great power play and we didn't give them. We
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  understood that, you know, you can't sell out to score a goal and
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  give one up. So I was really proud of the way the guys handled
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  it last night. Maine in New Hampshire main number seven at the time,
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  You and Ah number seventeen in the country. Compare the offense is how how
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  does you and h operate compared to what Maine can do. Yeah, they're
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  both very good. I think you and H is extremely you know, they
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  get a lot of people will talk about how quick their forwards are, and
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  they are, but I was really impressed with their defense. I thought that
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  they had size, they were strong, they moved pucks. I was really
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  impressed with their defense and their goaltenders playing very well. Also, so very
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  similar teams. I would probably give the edge to Maine on their top line.
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  Those NATO brothers are in Breen are really elite, although con Me and
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  la Clerk are very good too, But otherwise, you know, they're very
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  very similar teams. They get a lot of speed and depth upfront. You
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  mentioned the injury. Hudson Chandor has since returned. Jake Flynn, he came
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  back and played the third period. I believe that Friday night after going down
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  with an injury, so he was able to return that night. But where
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  do things stand with him in his health. Well, he's working to get
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  back. We're hoping to have him back this Friday. It's not definite yet.
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  We didn't practice today, so we'll see tomorrow how he's skating again.
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  We're here with head coach Mike Kabana on the Yukon Men's Ice Hockey Coaches Show,
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  rewinding to two weekends ago against Mainz So Friday night, the result wasn't
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  there, but then on Saturday the bounce back was a record crowd in at
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  tenance. Yeah, at the Excel Center on Saturday, how did the guys
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  react to just that's your volume of people behind them? They reacted, well,
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  we won two nothing, So I thought it was awesome. And credit
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  to our marketing department and ticket department for putting that together. And you know
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  Sports Info Collin sitting right here in front of me, so you know,
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  they do a great job of promoting our program. And to have ninety five
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  hundred people in there at the Excel Center, that was almost probably as big
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  as opening night when we played bc SO to nothing. The victory the goalie
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  switched so it was Ethan Hyder on the Friday. But then our Seni,
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  Sir Jeb gets his first opportunity in a little bit, and what did you
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  make of that performance? It was great. You didn't give up any goals,
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  so we probably gave up more Grade A opportunities on Friday than we did
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  on Saturday. But that being said, he kept a very talented team off
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  the scoreboard, so you know, and then he followed that up with another
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  great performance yesterday. So it's nice having two goalies that you can count on.
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  How has he been doing with that the mental side of things, where
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  you're a Division one athlete, you want to be out there, and he
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  just hadn't been getting that opportunity, but all of a sudden put him in
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  for a couple of games and he's really risen to the occasion. Yeah,
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  I think Vince Stilletti does a great job with our goaltenders and he keeps them,
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  you know, mentally engaged, keeps them focused, and makes them understand
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  that even if you're not the starting goal you have to prepare to like you're
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  the starting goaltender because you never know what's going to happen. A guy can
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  go down in the first period. So I got to give a lot of
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  credit to Vince. He does a great job with our goaltenders. We don't
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  talk a lot about Vince. What is his role within the team. How
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  often is he around because he's not a full time he's his full time,
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  No, this year he's full time, bumped up to full time. Okay,
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  so he's there every day. And how many years has he been on
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  staff? This is his let me see, third or fourth, fourth year?
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  Yeah, the years go by too fast for me. So this is
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  his fourth year. So the first three years he was a volunteer and he'd
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  be there like once or twice a week, and he wouldn't be at every
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  game. But now that he's full time, he's here every day and he
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  not only does goaltenders, but he does a lot of development work with our
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  other players. He's on the ice pretty much every morning doing development work.
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  And he's been out helping recruiting right now as well. So he's a full
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  time guy. He's very, very intelligent, introspective, and you know,
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  he's a valuable addition to our staff. We'll keep diving into the last couple
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  of weekends of games in a moment. Tomorrow night, the Yukon women's hoops
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  team. They're in Milwaukee for their second meeting of the season with Marquette joined
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  myself and Bob Joyce for all the action, beginning at six point thirty.
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  Here, along the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity Network App, and the
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  Varsitynetwork dot Com will continue with Mike Kavanaugh in just a little bit