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Mike Cavanaugh - Pre Maine Series · Coaches Corner

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  All right, coach coming off one game Versushu mass skated to a tie,
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  got the extra point with the shootout win. Big big weekend coming up,
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  and welcome and welcoming Number seven main to the Xcel Center. Just want to
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  get your thoughts on this upcoming weekend. Yeah, I think it's going to
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  be a great weekend. Uh. They're extremely talented club. I think what
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  Ben's done with the program has been remarkable. Uh, the deep end goal.
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  They've had two goalies that they've been playing lately that have given them.
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  You know, we all know about Osman, but boys has been playing pretty
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  well. Their d are very mobile, you know, when they have some
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  experience back there with Brazil. Uh, I believe he's a third year player
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  for them. And it all starts up front with the NATO line. Uh,
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  they really got us last time they were they were excellent. So we'll
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  have our hands full. We got to stay out of the box, that's
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  for sure. They're they're a team that can make you pay on the play.
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  So we've got to play disciplined and smart hockey this weekend. Joe,
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  you want to start us off. Thanks morning, cav How are you good
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  morning, John? Good? Thanks? What makes the NATO so good.
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  And obviously it's not just them. Breen does a does a great job on
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  that line as well. Yeah, Breen's been a great player in this league
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  for a while. And uh, they just they've played together for a long
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  time. They know each other, they play off each other well. And
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  I mean Bradley's a first round draft pick for a reason, you know.
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  Uh, and Josh probably would be too if he wasn't undersized. So,
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  uh, when you get brothers that can read off each other and you know,
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  are really dangerous off the rush, you got to manage the puck extremely
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  well. That's gonna be our biggest you know, key probably against that line
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  especially, we cannot have ah, Like, we had turnovers high at our
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  blue line twice and they made us pay last time we played. Hudgin's played
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  well, but hasn't seen the puck going then that much. How important was
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  it for him to get that? Obviously for the team too, but get
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  that game time goal that you mass. Yeah, I think it was really
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  big for him. He's been I told him this week, I said,
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  puck's are gonna start going your way because he has played extremely well and had
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  excellent looks. He had two or three great a's against Harvard that didn't go.
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  But he just plays the game the right way and when you do that,
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  the hockey gods will take care of you at some point. Jake in
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  the shootout, obviously he had You only had one other shootout this year and
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  you only had two shots and Sam movie and Maddie took them. But what
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  was it about Jake that you had seen that you that you put him out
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  there. I mean, I know he's got great hands as a defenseman,
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  but what else did you see? Well, we do a shootout every week,
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  uh, you know, the last practice before we play, and uh,
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  he just continually scores in it. So it was just a kind of
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  a hunch. You know, he's been pretty good lately, so we play,
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  we put him out there. Thank you, Darren. We'll go over
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  to you. Do you got a chance to see Yon's debut at in Calgary
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  last night? I just saw him going on the ice for the warm up
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  by himself on social media. I did not get that game. I was
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  in I was in bed early last night. Damn. I didn't even see
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  the end of the BU Northeastern game. But when he was here, what
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  did you see from him that that since translated into becoming an NHL player.
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  Well, he certainly had the size and the strength. He was an excellent
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  skater, very powerful, could shoot it a ton, you know, had
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  good skill. I think his game he just had to mature it, just
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  you know, I wish we could have kept him here a little bit longer.
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  But you know, the two years we had him, he was an
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  exemplary kid, excellent in school, Like he was like a three five student,
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  really really strong student, and coachable kid. So I'm extremely happy for
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  him that he got his opportunity last night. You've got plenty of guys that
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  play in the American League and haven't made it to the NHL. So what's
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  the differentiator between those guys that get that call up and the guys that never
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  make it? You know, sometimes it's just lockdown. Sometimes you get a
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  guy. You know, there's been situations where your American Hockey League coach gets
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  promoted to the NHL. But he really liked you in the American League and
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  he brings you up. You know, sometimes his injuries and you get your
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  chance and you play really well. Other times it's just like you just keep
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  playing well and getting better and improving, and they have no choice but to
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  call you up. So I don't think there's one certain thing or another that
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  delineates between an American Hockey League player and an you know, NHL Hockey League
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  player. All those guys are pretty good if you're playing in one of those
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  two leagues, but the NHL is the best for a reason. Andrew will
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  jump over to you, thy keV. You mentioned last week when you were
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  getting ready when matthew Wood was coming back, how grueling World Juniors was.
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  What did you think of his performance Friday? It seems like he might have
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  got a little gassed in that game. And how is how is he looking
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  this week in practice? He's looked back to normal this week in practice.
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  He I would agree with you it was probably it was a little tired on
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  Friday night, although I actually thought he might have got better as a game
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  went on. He started really slow, and I thought he maybe got a
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  little bit better as the game went on. But we gave him a few
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  days off, you know, just totally off as skates and try to re
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  energize him here a little bit. But he just he loves playing, Andrew.
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  He doesn't want he doesn't want to take time off. I'm making him,
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  and he's begrudgingly taken some time off, but he wants to go out
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  there. He's a rinker at and he just loves being on the ice.
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  Go ahead, Joe. Thanks. Obviously, we had talked earlier cav about
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  Tom and Messinio getting up into the play, and he's had two assists in
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  each of his last two games. What is it about his offensive skill set
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  that's kind of come to the four lately? Yeah, Well, as all
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  starts with his legs. He skates so well, so he can jump into
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  the play and create odd man rushes with his feet. But he also shoots
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  the puck extremely well. And you know, the past he made to Percival
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  was a really nice play to send him in on the breakaway. So I
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  just think he keeps getting better, Joe. You know, from where he
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  was last year at this time to where he is now, it's been fun
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  to watch his development. And you mentioned Jake he gets his goals and bunches.
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  He did that last year and it seems like he's in another streak this
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  year. Yeah, I hope it continues this weekend. What's what does he
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  have four goal four games in a row of a goal or something. Yes,
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  yeah, yeah, well let's make it five Friday night. What has
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  he gotten better at calf from last year this year? You know, I
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  think last year, like every typical freshman, he kind of deferred to older
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  kids and maybe played a back seat where you know, times where he could
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  shoot the pucket pass it. And I think he's just getting more comfortable with
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  his role on the team now and comfortable with himself as a player and has
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  confident that if I get a chance, I'm gonna shoot it. I don't
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  necessarily have to pass this time. Thank you, go ahead, Dan.
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  Any chance Jake Blue makes his debut this weekend, he is cleared to play,
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  So there is a chance. We haven't decided yet on the lineup for
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  Friday night, but there's certainly a chance. Yeah, he's cleared by the
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  training staff to play. Then I think he had three guys go out with
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  uh or at least come to the bench with an injury at some point with
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  personval Capone and Black. Are all those three guys good or any of them
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  dealing with anything? They're all I think they're all good right now. They're
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  all good, awesome. Well, anything else for coach guys awesome. Well,
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  thank you, coach, appreciate it. Thanks you have a good date.
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  Thanks again. Yeah.