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Rankings get shaken up after a chaotic early weekend · The PodKaz: USCHO Women's Hockey

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  Speaker 1: Uscho.com Welcome back to the podcast. I'm Todd Maleski here
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  Speaker 1: with Nicole Haase from uscho.com. We're here to talk about
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  Speaker 1: this week in the, well, the most recent week of
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  Speaker 1: NCAA women's hockey. Nicole, we had a few upsets, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of splits, a couple of sweeps, a pretty interesting
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  Speaker 1: weekend all in all. We're going to get into a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them throughout our episode today. And once again,
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  Speaker 1: remind people that we'll have two episodes a week now.
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  Speaker 1: And so our first episode coming out early in the
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  Speaker 1: week is looking back on the previous week. And then we'll,
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  Speaker 1: on our second episode, be looking forward to what's coming
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  Speaker 1: along with some hot button topics sometime. So, Nicole, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: where do you want to start? Out of all of
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  Speaker 1: what we saw last weekend, we had Yukon. rebound from
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  Speaker 1: being swept with a sweep of Clarkson. We had Northeastern
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  Speaker 1: lose to RPI, which had been really struggling for the
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  Speaker 1: first few weeks. Vermont getting a win over Duluth before
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  Speaker 1: Duluth rebounds in overtime. It just felt like there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot to kind of be bouncing back and forth
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  Speaker 1: between last weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like every time I checked scores or looked
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  Speaker 2: at anything, there was another surprising result. That UMD-Vermont game
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  Speaker 2: was at like 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: Because it was a school game. They brought students in.
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  Speaker 3: So that one was like an early morning surprise almost.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the RPI upset has to be the
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  Speaker 2: big one there, right?
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  Speaker 3: I think them probably getting a win over any ranked
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  Speaker 3: opponent would have been a little surprising. Northeastern is particularly surprising.
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  Speaker 2: Northeastern, good sort of on all accounts, particularly good in goal.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I think that was.
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  Speaker 3: Probably the most surprising. Did you think differently?
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  Speaker 1: No, I think that, I mean, as I was going
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  Speaker 1: through scores and stats and sometimes, you know, there's an
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  Speaker 1: upset that's, you know, okay, it's deserved. They outshot him.
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  Speaker 1: It just felt like it was going that way. But
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  Speaker 1: this one, RPI beats number five, Northeastern 2-1 in overtime,
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  Speaker 1: despite being outshot 42-14. Kalen Fisher scored a tying goal
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  Speaker 1: with 10-30 left on the power play for RPI. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and then Barbara Scherner-Proshkova. I hope I'm, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where the accents are going to be on that one.
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  Speaker 1: So sorry. Scores in overtime for RPI. Uh, Sadie Bellissimo,
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  Speaker 1: 41 saves for, uh, really just an incredible, uh, early
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  Speaker 1: season win for RPI because man, uh, it'd been a
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  Speaker 1: rough start, like I mentioned. And, and then you've got
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  Speaker 1: Northeastern coming in. Um, but they, they were able to
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  Speaker 1: hang tough and stay in it. keep, keep, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Northeast into a goal and, and, and find your way
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  Speaker 1: to the finish with a nice goal in overtime.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you had particularly pointed out how rough
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  Speaker 2: of a start it was from RPI. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just that they were 0-4, they were, they were
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  Speaker 2: not pretty losses and, um, looked like it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be a big struggle.
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  Speaker 3: And, um, so I just felt like this was really surprising.
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  Speaker 2: Um, and then, you know, have you seen the, the
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  Speaker 2: overtime goal? Because it's, um, It's a little lackadaisical from Northeastern.
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  Speaker 2: RPI passes the puck up the ice and.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really think that.
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  Speaker 2: Prostala takes a good first touch, but then has a
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  Speaker 2: lot of, I mean, it is three on three, but
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of empty ice and she's kind of
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  Speaker 2: able to go straight to the net.
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  Speaker 3: The defender gives her way too much space and she
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  Speaker 3: makes a good shot.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I feel like that's a piece of tape
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  Speaker 2: that Northeastern will be watching.
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  Speaker 3: Um, a few times to, to make some corrections on,
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  Speaker 3: but good for RPI. I mean, you know, I, it's
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  Speaker 3: a team that doesn't get a ton of wins and
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  Speaker 3: that like, it's gotta be hard sort of gaming and
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  Speaker 3: game out to, to be up for that.
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  Speaker 2: And, and, you know, after being on four, like they
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  Speaker 2: went into that game thinking they could win, which is
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  Speaker 2: absolutely like spectacular and hard to, you know, sort of
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  Speaker 2: do as a coach to keep that morale up. And,
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  Speaker 2: and they just kind of play spectacularly to keep Northeastern
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  Speaker 2: off the board until into the third period. Um, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just a lot to like there, and I feel like
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  Speaker 2: possibly a lot for other teams to look at to
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  Speaker 2: see what they're going to do when they play Northeastern.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be one of those results that
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  Speaker 1: probably is a little bit of an early season fire
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  Speaker 1: center for Northeastern because, yeah, that will not stand within
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  Speaker 1: that locker room. So I think you'll see some change
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  Speaker 1: come out of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but also, you know, we spent a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time in the first week kind of talking about how, like,
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  Speaker 2: one goal, one period, one game can make a difference
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  Speaker 2: in the end of the season. So it will be
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  Speaker 2: certainly very interesting, you know, to see where Northeastern ends up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they are, you know, the favorites to win
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  Speaker 2: their conference and sort of have that path to the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: But in terms of, like, where their.
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  Speaker 2: National ranking is, this could, you know, this could have implications. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's why after all of that talk last weekend, I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was kind of interesting how many, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of surprising results we had. And I think we'll
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  Speaker 2: be looking back to this week at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the year and wondering what kind of big impact they had.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So let's move over to that Vermont UMD series,
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  Speaker 1: non-conference series. In Burlington, a 3-0 win for Vermont over No.
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  Speaker 1: 7 UMD in the opener there. Tara Bach, 36 saves.
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  Speaker 1: Vermont scored in all three periods. So it wasn't just a,
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  Speaker 1: like a, You get one and sit with the lead.
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  Speaker 1: They kept going at it. Like you mentioned, that was
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  Speaker 1: an early game for the school crowd, and those are
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  Speaker 1: always challenging to play. Maybe a little less when you're
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  Speaker 1: used to playing 2 o'clock games or 1 o'clock games
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  Speaker 1: to play a game that's just a little bit earlier,
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  Speaker 1: but it's different when you're on the road. Not trying
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  Speaker 1: to make excuses for Duluth, but it was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a different environment. They do get an overtime win,
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  Speaker 1: 3-2 in overtime on Saturday. Kaitlin Kramer scored a tying
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  Speaker 1: goal with 13-14 left, despite Vermont out-shooting the Bulldogs 13-3
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  Speaker 1: in the third period, which I thought was really telling that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Duluth is trailing for a good chunk of that,
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  Speaker 1: but it's Vermont that was holding possession, or at least
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  Speaker 1: it looked like from the stats. Josie St. Martin scored
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  Speaker 1: a minute into overtime for the Bulldogs, so A split there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Vermont getting a little bit more when you
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  Speaker 1: think of MPI points because of the overtime result in
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  Speaker 1: the second game. But I don't really know what to
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  Speaker 1: make out of all of that. Vermont obviously has to
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  Speaker 1: feel good coming out of that with the first win,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe feels like they left a little bit on
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  Speaker 1: the table.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, one of the things I think it was
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  Speaker 2: just probably just some lessons learned in terms of I
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  Speaker 2: felt like Vermont absolutely played a complete game, which A,
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  Speaker 2: is hard to do in a third-ish week of the season,
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  Speaker 2: wherever you want to count from. And UMD didn't, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like those two teams showed up sort of differently for
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  Speaker 2: that very first game. And kudos to, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: the Vermont squad for being prepared for that and being
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  Speaker 2: able to power through it and just play that really
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  Speaker 2: complete game.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they really put a lot of pressure on UMD. They,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the four track was really strong. But yeah, UMD,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's, you know, probably a lot to take
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  Speaker 2: from being able to come back and earn those points
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  Speaker 2: in the second game.
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  Speaker 3: I'm someone who has really liked Josie St. Martin at U18.
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  Speaker 2: So I was excited to see her come into college.
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  Speaker 2: And she, it has not sort of panned out in
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  Speaker 2: that way to start. She started at Ohio State and
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  Speaker 2: last year at UMD. But, you know, she had those
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  Speaker 2: two goals in the second game here. Maybe that's the
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  Speaker 2: kickstart that she needed. UMD could really use that second
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  Speaker 2: scoring threat. It really makes a difference for them if
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  Speaker 2: it's not coming all from from Caitlin Kramer. So hopefully
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  Speaker 2: that's a sign for them of things to come.
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  Speaker 1: We could go. We were talking about St. Cloud State
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  Speaker 1: sweeping UConn and those two teams obviously went their separate
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  Speaker 1: ways this last weekend, both having interesting results. UConn rebounding
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  Speaker 1: with a sweep of then number nine Clarkson, 3-2. On Friday,
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  Speaker 1: with a go-ahead goal by Julia Pellerin, 6-22 left. And
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  Speaker 1: then 4-0 on Saturday with Taylor Belchets getting 43 saves
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  Speaker 1: for the shutout. All four of those goals on the
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  Speaker 1: power play for UConn. Four for four. Yeah, four for four.
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  Speaker 1: And Clarkson not having any power plays, I'm sure. They
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  Speaker 1: felt that a little bit. Yes. So, that's... It's a
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  Speaker 1: good bounce back for UConn on the Clarkson side. It's
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  Speaker 1: something that you're probably a little bit concerned about. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you'll lose one game late, and then you get shut
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  Speaker 1: out in the second game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not only that, but they dominated. They really came
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  Speaker 2: out skating hard in that first game, had a two-goal lead,
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  Speaker 2: way outshot UConn. UConn came out in that second period,
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  Speaker 2: really pushed back, and it was like, then there was no,
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  Speaker 2: that was kind of the it for Clarkson. you know,
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  Speaker 2: that ability to really withstand something like that. Like it
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  Speaker 2: was still a tight game. They were in it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the second. And it was like,
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  Speaker 2: you need to be able to weather those sorts of things.
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  Speaker 2: And then to come out that next game and have
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  Speaker 2: it be 4-0. No coach is going to be happy
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  Speaker 2: with 4-4-4 on the power play, regardless of whether or
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  Speaker 2: not you got any of your own. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: sort of a separate and probably valid.
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  Speaker 3: Question that he has about the officiating. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think more questions than answers there. for Clarkson. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But like I said, I think, I think the most
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  Speaker 2: concerning part is having come out and dominated that first
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  Speaker 2: period and then have it the rest of the weekend
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  Speaker 2: kind of go to heck from there. So good for UConn.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, they needed that bounce back. They
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  Speaker 2: needed to prove that, you know, they, they have that
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  Speaker 2: and they can do that. But yeah, I, I, I, I, when,
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  Speaker 2: when they were dominating so well and it came down
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  Speaker 2: to only scoring on the power play, like on the
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  Speaker 2: one hand, great way to go, way to be so
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  Speaker 2: solid on your power play. And the other, like, there's
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  Speaker 2: gotta be some more, uh, equal strength scoring than that,
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  Speaker 2: I think. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other Huskies from that UConn St. Cloud series, uh,
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  Speaker 1: had to go to Minnesota state this last weekend. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they did that and they did a well with a
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  Speaker 1: pair of wins and a, Maria McCallion show, five goals
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  Speaker 1: in the two games, a hat trick and a 5-2
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  Speaker 1: win in the opener, and then two goals and an
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  Speaker 1: assist and a 3-0 victory in the second game. Alexis
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  Speaker 1: Ehrman with 33 saves in the second one there. The Huskies, St.
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  Speaker 1: Cloud Huskies, are 4-0 for only the second time in
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  Speaker 1: school history. The first time was the 2024-25 season, and
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  Speaker 1: so Um, it's a good start for St. Cloud. We
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  Speaker 1: know they, they have to, uh, keep making the building
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  Speaker 1: steps and keep, you know, taking one thing and building
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  Speaker 1: on it and, and not letting, um, success kind of
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  Speaker 1: get to them. Uh, that's, that's something that becomes a challenge. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What's interesting is they are not the team from the
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  Speaker 2: WCHA that we thought were maybe would be doing that.
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  Speaker 2: And that was Minnesota state who had such a great
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  Speaker 2: season last year when we thought they would be building
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  Speaker 2: on that. And it's not to say that they aren't,
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  Speaker 2: but I would say that St. Cloud State wasn't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: on my radar as the team sort of most primed
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  Speaker 2: to be in this position. They're up to, what, eighth
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  Speaker 2: or ninth in the poll now, thanks to their early start.
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  Speaker 2: I will say it does help that sort of there
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  Speaker 2: was other chaos there in the middle. When I was
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  Speaker 2: filling out my, when I was making my rankings to
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  Speaker 2: send in my poll votes, I was like, oh, this
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  Speaker 2: is interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Because, you know, you kind of always want to make
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  Speaker 3: corresponding moves, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like when someone's upset and you're looking at like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but now the next three teams also like, do they
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  Speaker 2: deserve whoever it is? It's always sort of interesting map,
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  Speaker 2: especially this early stage.
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  Speaker 3: Um, but yeah, I, Maria McKeely looked spectacular as a rookie, right?
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  Speaker 3: There were flashes.
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  Speaker 2: There were a couple of games where she was, she
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  Speaker 2: was really great. And it feels like she just made
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  Speaker 2: a huge steps, um, sort of over the summer and
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  Speaker 2: coming into this season. Um, Alessorio is, you know, has
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  Speaker 2: always been spectacular for them. And so that, that pairing, um,
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  Speaker 2: McKeely and also, um, I had at least one assist.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she was involved in pretty much every goal
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  Speaker 2: that they scored this weekend. Um, that makes them just
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  Speaker 2: so much more dynamic. Um, I was going to point
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  Speaker 2: out to the goalie, um, uh, in the second game,
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  Speaker 2: that was her start, her first start. So she had
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  Speaker 2: all those saves and got a shout out in her
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  Speaker 2: first career, uh, starting goal, which.
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  Speaker 3: Is pretty spectacular.
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  Speaker 2: Um, we've had some really interesting, it, there aren't a
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  Speaker 2: ton of teams that have one solid goalie so far
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  Speaker 2: this year. And we've seen everybody sort of trying everything
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  Speaker 2: out to start, um, and some really great performances. So
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  Speaker 2: it's been fun to see that, um, But yeah, I'd
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  Speaker 2: say Cloudman, they're one swatch at this point. And like
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  Speaker 2: I said, they're up quite a ways in the pool. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, good for them. And I hope that they
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  Speaker 2: continue it. It's like you said, it's so hard to maintain.
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  Speaker 2: And then they're going to get into more of the
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  Speaker 2: conference schedule. And like those losses are just sort of inevitable.
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  Speaker 2: And so how they handle those highs and lows, particularly
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  Speaker 2: when there's just something about having that experience before and
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  Speaker 2: having been there before, not a ton of the players
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  Speaker 2: have had that. So if they're go from these highs
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  Speaker 2: to suddenly having to play some of the top of
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  Speaker 2: the WCHA, how they handle all of those different sort
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  Speaker 2: of emotions and fluctuations in the schedule and their results.
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  Speaker 2: But they need to win the games they can win,
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  Speaker 2: and they've been doing that. And so they're definitely, I think,
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  Speaker 2: made a statement here in these first couple weeks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the USCHO rankings, which you can find at uscho.com.
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  Speaker 1: And The top four teams stayed the same, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: Penn State. But everyone else changed, either moved in, dropped out,
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  Speaker 1: or changed in order from last week's ranking, which feels
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  Speaker 1: like it doesn't happen a ton. It's usually a pretty
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  Speaker 1: stable core of teams. Obviously, it's the top four. But
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  Speaker 1: beyond that, yeah, there was a lot of movement. UConn
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  Speaker 1: moving up to ninth from 12th. You mentioned St. Cloud
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  Speaker 1: moving up. to 8th from 13th. And then going the
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  Speaker 1: other direction, Clarkson was 9th, fell to 13th. Vermont in
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  Speaker 1: the rankings this week at number 15 after not being
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  Speaker 1: ranked last week. And I guess I was wrong there.
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  Speaker 1: Colgate stayed 14th. So they're the one other than the
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  Speaker 1: top four that kept the same spot. So yeah, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of movement there in the rankings this week, which
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  Speaker 1: I guess feels right. Early in the season, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to start in start to find out what, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what teams are making moves. And then it starts to
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  Speaker 1: shake up.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I prefer that because it can get really
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  Speaker 2: sort of static.
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  Speaker 3: And it's sort of.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you get into the rankings, you're not, unless
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  Speaker 2: you're like, you know, 14 or 15, you're almost like
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  Speaker 2: not going to fall out or it's going to take
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot. It feels like it usually takes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of movement or a lot of change for people
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  Speaker 2: to really change.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of what I was saying about St.
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  Speaker 2: Cloud. Like getting up to eighth is huge. Like, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like it would take a lot now for them
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  Speaker 2: to keep moving down based on how people usually vote. Now, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we saw a lot of volatility in this week's voting,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm not mad about. But like I said, it
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  Speaker 2: was quite hard because all of those results came in
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  Speaker 2: about six votes, like where those teams were all ranked within.
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  Speaker 2: And it was so it was interesting to see how
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  Speaker 2: that shaped out. I usually move teams a decent amount
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  Speaker 2: when I'm voting, but I often find that I that's
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  Speaker 2: not how the final poll comes out. So I figure
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  Speaker 2: I must be one of the only ones.
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  Speaker 3: Um, but yeah, this week, this week matched more of
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  Speaker 3: what I did. So yeah, we'll see how it keeps
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  Speaker 3: up this year.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's take a spin through some of the
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  Speaker 1: other results before we finish up, uh, this first episode
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  Speaker 1: of the week, Ohio state number two in the polls,
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  Speaker 1: got a sweep at St. Thomas with a pair of
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  Speaker 1: five to two wins. Joy done two goals and two
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  Speaker 1: assists in the first game. Hilda Svensson with two goals
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  Speaker 1: and two assists in the second game. So it's the,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the, The big player is doing big things,
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  Speaker 1: as usual, for the Buckeyes. Minnesota, number three. Yeah, exactly. Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: number three, got a sweep of Mid-State on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Adriana Milani, two goals in her debut. A really highly
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  Speaker 1: touted player for the Gophers. A lot of people excited
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  Speaker 1: to see how her season's going to go. And then
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  Speaker 1: just one of the wacky results.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just a reminder that she.
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  Speaker 2: accelerated. She just turned 18. She did the same thing
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Chloe Pomerano did. So she accelerated her matriculation and came
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  Speaker 2: in a year early and clearly found herself comfortable right away.
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  Speaker 3: So probably the smart move for her there.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, she's going to surprise, not surprise, but she's
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  Speaker 2: going to be fun to watch. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who haven't had a chance to watch her are going
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: to discover her. She's definitely the future of Canadian hockey
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And then a kind of crazy scoreline. Boston College beating
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  Speaker 1: Stonehill on the road, 17-0 on Saturday. Ava Thomas, three
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  Speaker 1: goals and three assists. Maxime Tremblay, two goals, two assists.
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  Speaker 1: Sammy Tabor, two goals and an assist. It's just, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I didn't see, you know, what all went
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  Speaker 1: down that game, but man, it's just, you know, when
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: you get to that number, you know that things are
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: working right on one end and things are just not
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  Speaker 1: competitive on the other end. And so that, that scoreline
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: just stood out to me as a rough one.
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  Speaker 2: I think I heard, too, that was possibly the biggest
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: blowout or shutout. We know that we've seen some other
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: games with that many goals scored, but the other team
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: had scored some.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that the spread doesn't... Yeah, it was
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: unexpected from both sides.
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  Speaker 2: But I think, you know, aside from the surprisingness of it,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: good for Boston College because... sort of that consistent like
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: top pressure on the goal.
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  Speaker 3: And being able to connect that much.
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  Speaker 2: And have that many players have multiple goals on the
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: score sheet like i think that says good things for
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: them even if it is in a situation where you're
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: like you know how it's gonna take out of a
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  Speaker 2: 17 oh i think that there are positives to take
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: out of that in terms of like sort of just
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: the the basics that we want to see from them
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: sort of week in and week out and that they
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: have the pieces and and if they can continue to
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: click like that even against different opponents um they're going
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: to be pushing for, for more in hockey East. So
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I'm hoping that that says something good about sort of
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: all of the pieces, maybe clicking a little more for
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: the Eagles.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Right. You can see all of the scores from last
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: week at uscho.com. In addition, you can read Nicole's weekend
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: wrap up, uh, getting into some of the games involving
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of the, the right teams from, from last week,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: anything you'll want to, uh, anything else you want to
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: get into before we say goodbye for this episode, Nicole?
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: No, I think it just proves that, like, you should
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: be tuning into these games and taking the time to
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: find the links, which I'll usually have.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Up at Victory Press. And just really, like, it doesn't
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: matter that it's not a conference.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter that, you know, we're in the third
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: week of games. I think, you know, the results, the
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: fact that we're consistently texting each other going, oh my God,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: did you see this? She says that it's the a
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: good time to be watching women's college hockey.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Okay. We will take a pause there. We will
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: be back later this week with another episode, looking ahead
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to the mashup between number one, Wisconsin and number two,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Ohio state. And the reason why the both teams will
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: be missing. some players for that series. In addition to, well,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: six other teams are going to be missing players for
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: games next week because of Canada's training camp. And we'll
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: be talking more about that. So we hope you will
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: join us for that one. Thank you for tuning into
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: this one for Nicole Haase. I'm Todd Molesky. Thanks for
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: tuning in to the podcast.