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Seg 3 - MHOC Coach's Show w Mike Cavanaugh Feb 19 · Coaches Corner

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  It is the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show. We're live at bear Smokehouse Barbecue Bob
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  Joyce, Adam Gardino and coach Mike Kavanaugh ahead of the weekend series with the
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  BU Terriers. Game one on Friday at Tuscana. We'll have it for around
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  the radio at six forty five and then Saturday at seven oh five up at
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  Againnis and the Terriers are having an excellent year. BCBU one two in the
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  national rankings. The Terriers are twenty eight and two fourteen four and two in
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  the league. They have a fantastic freshman and maclin Celabrini who will probably be
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  the first pick in the draft this year. And Lane Hudson not too shabby
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  defenseman. You had the game winning goal in the Hockey's Championship game last year.
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  And they're just a dangerous team. And like BC, they coming at
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  you in waves, don't they they do. They're a little different than BC,
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  I think. You know, they've got some experienced defenseman in, you
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  know, McCarthy and Weber or two grad kids, you know, Hudson obviously
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  as as dynamic as it can be. But they're deep back there on d
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  They got McGavin McCarthy. They have Gallagher kid, who's a junior I believe
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  now, so they have a lot of experience on d I think up front.
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  Obviously, Celebrini could be the first pick overall in the draft. He's
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  a he's a special player. He's got a high, high motor. He's
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  one of those rare players you know that that is so skilled with a high
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  motor. It's you know, when you have that, it's like a Sydney
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  Crosby type. You know, when you have that combination, it's it's special.
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  So he's got a lot of that. And then they have some big
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  size too, like Tuck and Peterson are big kids, will the chance of
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  big kid. They have speed with Wilmer and Zabine, So they they're pretty
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  They're pretty deep in all aspects. They've got greatting this year, haven't.
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  Yeah, Kuran's come over from Brown and he's done a good job for him.
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  But he on the radar, I mean with the transfer portal and all
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  these switches happening. Was there ever a conversation or no? No, not
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  with him. Yeah, with Celebrini, we've had the opportunity to see in
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  person met us a line for Boston College. So how does he compare and
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  contrast to any of those top guys for BC, Well, I mean he
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  can play with any of those guys. It's just they have three on one
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  line right who have played together for a long time, so they have have
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  a lot of chemistry and together. I watched some of their game yesterday against
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  Hu Mass and they're just so dynamic when they have the puck. Uh,
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  you know, Celebrini, He's played with a bunch of different linemates I think
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  this year. But h he's got great numbers. He's got to have twenty
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  goals, right, twenty three? Yeah, twenty three goals. So he's
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  second in the country behind Coachi and yeah, yeah, second in the conference
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  and second in the country. Yeah. And Lane's brother, Quinn's having himself
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  quite a here. He's vastly improved, and I understand he's a solid player.
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  And then Lane's got a brother coming next year play as a defenseman cut
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  from the same cloth as Lane coming to play next year for BU. How
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  has a j pandelfo system in his second year change from what they had previously.
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  I don't think so. You know. I think one thing that Jay
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  does really well is their kids play hard like there was times where I think,
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  you know, b you would just try to beat you on skill alone,
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  and now that's not the case. They're they're going to come at you.
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  They play a physical brand of hockey. They play the right way.
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  They you know, come at you on the ford check, they backcheck with
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  tenacity. So they're really they're not just a run and gun team that's going
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  to try to beat you six or five. They play solid, hard nosed
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  defense as well. And you know, for the coaching staff, you mentioned
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  j Pandolpha his associate head coach, Joe Perira nine years on staff with you.
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  How does texting or communication with Joe this week vary from the perhaps other
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  communication throughout the year. Not much. I actually talked to them today because
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  they're coming in on Thursday. So I mean, Joe worked for me for
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  nine years, so we have a great relationship. So I talked to him
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  probably at least once a week. And sometimes it's not even about hockey,
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  it's about different stuff. So but that you know, I work with Greg
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  Brown for a long time, and I work with Brendan Buckley and Mike Suza.
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  So when you work with guys, uh, you know, when you
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  have great relationships with him. Obviously, on game night you're competitive and you
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  want to win, but the friendship goes much deeper than that. So there's
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  no moratorium from Sunday to now. Okay, not not from my standpoint,
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  maybe for him, Mike. The finish lines coming coming close. Five games
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  left too with b U, two in Northeastern and then the one with Vermont
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  before the hockey's playoffs begin. To your guys since the finish line coming here,
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  knowing that they have to get, you know, start doing some Yeah,
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  I think differently. We talked about it a lot over the break,
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  like we have to get to the point where we're playing our very best hockey
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  going into the playoffs. That's our goal. We want to really strive to
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  hit on hit all cylinders and be playing our best hockey going into the playoffs.
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  My apologies, I did not ask this earlier when you mentioned some of
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  the guys really needed the week off. What types of things can they do
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  other than rest? Do they have cold tubs they can get into? What
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  type of rehabs are are we talking about here? They have the Normatax,
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  they have cold tubs, hot tubs. What's a Normatax? It's it's like
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  a pant that they put on for the bottom of their legs and it's a
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  circulation and their legs going. But yeah, Mo Butler does a great job
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  with our guys, uh the recovery piece and rejuvenating. And it was definitely
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  we We had played a lot of hockey, so it was beneficial for us
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  to have that weekend off. And I know specifically Jake blame with somebody who
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  recently missed some time. So where is his health with that knee bang up?
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  Progressed? He was great? Did he was full go today in practice?
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  You know, I'm limiting his contact, but just precautionary reasons. If
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  we were playing a game tonight, he'd be going full tilt. But he's
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  no, he was great. Does he have a red jersey an so you
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  don't hit him sometimes? Yeah? Really? Okay, all right? What
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  about Jake Felucent's he's come back. I know you've raided the bottom his health
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  is and he's doing all right? He seems to be. Yeah, so
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  it seems to be. And yeah, when I'm watching him play, I
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  think you know he's back. I mean, i'd have to ask him.
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  I haven't asked him in a while I don't know if he's one hundred after
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  that injury. You know, it's a lot of time to miss, but
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  he looks pretty good. I'm just thinking about roster composition and guys kind of
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  coming in and out over the last few weeks. When you're feeling out that
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  extra skater at this stage of the season, what do you what are you
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  thinking? It seems to generally be the forward that you plug in there.
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  But how do you make that decision? It depends on the opponent. Sometimes
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  it depends on the opponent, the rink, their style of play. Do
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  we want a heavier player, do we want a more skilled player? So
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  you know, a lot of factors go into it. We sit down as
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  a staff and discuss that and make a decision. And then assuming all twelve
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  forwards stay healthy throughout that game, So how do you then decide when to
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  insert the thirteenth guy in? Well, every now and then, you pop
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  try to get the guy a shift, and sometimes I don't play him much.
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  You know, there's times where you don't play much, and there's other
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  times where maybe some other guy's not going that well that night and he takes
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  his spot. So it is no we don't have a cut and dry formula.
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  It's on a game to game basis. All right, last question before
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  the break, which brings me to this. During the game, who's in
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  charge of making sure the line changes get done throughout the game? I do
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  the forwards and Tyler does the defense. Okay, right now? And optical
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  optimum is what about a minute for second? Five seconds? Probably? Yeah,
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  forty five seconds. You start going over that it can get dicey,
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  right and later in the game you get a little tighter as the game.
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  Well, what you gotta be careful of is if you're on for forty seconds
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  and the puck turns over, you don't want to get stuck in your own
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  zone. Now for another now you're on it for over a minute in your
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  own zone. So it's uh, that's why we try to you know,
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  if you're at the forty second you should be looking for a change. Okay,
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  all right. When we come back, it's Adam doing the interviews this
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  week because I was occupied with hoops today. It'll be matthew Wood and Jake
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  Richard coming up. As you're listening to the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show, we're
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