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Seg 2 - MHOC Show w Coach Cav Feb 9 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back on the Yukon Hockey Coach A Show. We are
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  Speaker 1: live at Bear Smokehouse Barbecue and Hartford. Another live show
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow night over in Manchester will be at Cafe Oor
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  Speaker 1: with Mike's friend Geene Oriema from six to seven. You
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  Speaker 1: can Women's basketball coach A show. Yes, now put this
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  Speaker 1: state down. March the fourth, It's a Wednesday. We've talked
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  Speaker 1: about doing this forever. Mike is going to join Gino
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  Speaker 1: for the last coach Of show of the year at
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  Speaker 1: Cafe Ara And basically, I'm gonna tell the guys when
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  Speaker 1: to break, but the whole part of the show is
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  Speaker 1: just let you two go at it for an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Okay that night?
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  Speaker 1: So wow, I know, I mean, well it it's Gino.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that his after his after shows are fantastic
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  Speaker 1: by the way he stays and does like an extra
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  Speaker 1: half hour forty five minutes with the folks at cafe
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  Speaker 1: or where we're here. So yeah, looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: Watching the broadcast on uh well today, actually watched the
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  Speaker 1: replay of your game Friday and you mentioned Northeastern like
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  Speaker 1: five across or one three one or one four. How
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  Speaker 1: exotic can you get defensively with teams, you know, making
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  Speaker 1: their moves.
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  Speaker 2: Up the ice. Are you saying when we have the
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  Speaker 2: puck or are you saying we're on defense?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess when you're on defense? How exotic can
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  Speaker 1: you get it? I mean, it's it's not It shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be that hard.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean no, I mean, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: there are some people that try to revolutionize the game,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not that complicated. Some people sit back and trap,
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  Speaker 2: and that's a trap, you know, I philosophically don't really
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  Speaker 2: believe in that. I believe it's tougher on your opponent
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  Speaker 2: when you're constantly putting pressure on them. Now, when you
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  Speaker 2: do that, there's times that they break the pressure and
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  Speaker 2: you can give up a good chance. However, I think
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  Speaker 2: you create more Grade A chances for yourself when you're
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  Speaker 2: pressure putting pressure on a team and you can wear
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  Speaker 2: them down over six minutes right there. It's like blitzing
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  Speaker 2: on every down. Yeah. Yeah, Occasionally when they break the blitz,
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  Speaker 2: it's a big play. But if you're consistently doing it
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  Speaker 2: really well, it's hard. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Seattle didn't have to blitz much last night. They were
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  Speaker 1: bringing the pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Well when they did yea, Yeah, I know, but even
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  Speaker 2: when they did, it wasn't much of it. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: got what a boring game it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was, But defense does that to you and I
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  Speaker 1: and I just never thought that the Patriot's going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to score.
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  Speaker 2: A defense or bad offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, let's put it this way. It wasn't Giants
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  Speaker 1: forty nine ers in the in nineteen ninety those two
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  Speaker 1: games that they had, Yeah, seven three and fifteen thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Those were phenomenal games and they were physical and they
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  Speaker 1: oh it was so much fun. Yeah, those back in
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  Speaker 1: those days. But I digress. Look, you were asked on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday about you haven't really made much in the way
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  Speaker 1: of changes lineup wise, because you haven't had to. Your
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  Speaker 1: four lines are rolling well, your three defensive pairs are
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  Speaker 1: doing a spectacular job. I mean, you've got good chemistry
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  Speaker 1: going with the lines that you have right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. And it's nice not to have to
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  Speaker 2: keep juggling lines. And I think the players appreciate that too.
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  Speaker 2: They are right now in a little bit of a rhythm,
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  Speaker 2: you know, going out there playing with each other. So
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  Speaker 2: and when you can trust all four lines, especially like
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  Speaker 2: we have, you know, a lot of road games we
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  Speaker 2: had played Northeastern was on the road. We got two
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  Speaker 2: at Maine on the road. Then we're on the road
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  Speaker 2: at BC yep, you know, and then we get them
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  Speaker 2: at home. But then home and home where we have
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  Speaker 2: home and home with U Mass and New Hampshire at
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  Speaker 2: home and then on the road again. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: it really helps because you don't get last change on
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  Speaker 2: the road and when you have a lot of confidence
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  Speaker 2: in your lines, you don't really care about matchups.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned, you know, home and away. It's
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  Speaker 1: bizarre this year the home record hasn't been great, but
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  Speaker 1: you guys have been dynamite on the road.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. What are we five hundred at home? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think just the game over five hundred.
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  Speaker 2: I think, well, two thousand and eight we won a
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  Speaker 2: national championship or the team that had a losing record
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  Speaker 2: at home. So go figure, Yeah, go figure. I'd rather
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  Speaker 2: be better in some ways, you're better off being better
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  Speaker 2: on the road than you are at home. Uh Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't I say that a little bit tongue in cheek.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. We've got to play better at home. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and some of that though, we've been playing fine at Tuscano.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're two and one at People's Bank.
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  Speaker 1: Hartford's been tough. Yeah, yeah, and you've got.
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  Speaker 2: It with six four and six four and one at home.
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  Speaker 1: Something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Colin wanted me to mention this nice hat. Dan
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  Speaker 1: love that Whalers hat. Would you play BC? That's the
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  Speaker 1: next home game that isn't Hartford. I hear like seven
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  Speaker 1: thousand tickets around for that game.
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  Speaker 2: Seven thousand, I like more than that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Wow, that'd be phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: I heard only the upper bowl is available.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's fantastic. Yeah, but it's like discounts like
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  Speaker 1: on hot dogs and sodas and beers and all that too.
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  Speaker 2: So tell all these people from the Travelers to get
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  Speaker 2: some tickets for that game.
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  Speaker 1: Yukon tickets dot com. That's the website to go to.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking about your senior line of Jake and
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  Speaker 1: Tabor and Tristan. We've done that, ye, Jake, Tatz and
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  Speaker 1: Muldowney speak for themselves too. But your other two lines, Carlin.
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  Speaker 1: I love watching Carlin Dezagin. He's got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of an edge to him. Blaz has been good. Shahan
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  Speaker 1: just skates like the win and then the two Ethans
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  Speaker 1: in Murtag. I mean, we've talked about this, just the
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  Speaker 1: surge of Murtag's kind of like the surge of Joey
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  Speaker 1: in some different ways this year with Murtag as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to Joey not him, I'm doing Joey went on and
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  Speaker 1: scored almost thirty goals last year, but Murtag, man, he
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  Speaker 1: has been sensational with the two ethans he is.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's probably not gonna you know, hello, he's doing
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  Speaker 2: what is he third or fourth on our team in points,
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  Speaker 2: But he's not gonna usually produce the number of goals
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  Speaker 2: that say Joey Muldowney's gonna do, but well throughout of
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  Speaker 2: course of a sea And however, he brings so many
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  Speaker 2: other intangibles to our team into the game. He's just
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  Speaker 2: really really physical. He skates so well, he takes a
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  Speaker 2: puck to the net. You know, he's fearless. He's becoming
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  Speaker 2: a pretty effective penalty killer for us as well. So
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  Speaker 2: I've been like, and we've talked about it a lot, Bob,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not surprised. I thought he was a really good
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  Speaker 2: player last year, you know, and just like I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Joey o'doniac and Cardi spurl who we just
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  Speaker 2: picked up, are really good players. They're good players. We
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  Speaker 2: just we have a good team and it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: crack that lineup sometimes. But they won't surprise me if
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  Speaker 2: they step in next year and be very effective players.
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  Speaker 1: Right And the two Ethans, especially guard Dula is starting
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  Speaker 1: to generate more offense. He's in a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a hot streak right now. And then Joey, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Joey's an a good frame of mind. I mean playing
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  Speaker 1: with Jake and Ryan speak for themselves. But what do
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  Speaker 1: you see differently, say, second half of the season. I
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  Speaker 1: mean you use the old Jerry yorkism when you get
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  Speaker 1: to the second half of the season, it's big boy hockey.
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  Speaker 1: Do you sense that now? With Ben's league, men's league,
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  Speaker 1: men's league, But big boy hockey took today.
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  Speaker 2: He is going to be on between the first and
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  Speaker 2: second period on the bean pot tonight?
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  Speaker 1: Oh nice? Yeah, isn't he dropping the puck to night?
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  Speaker 1: I think Parker, Yeah, we will get into that a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. But do you sense that like with the veterans, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, second half of the season, chance to win
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  Speaker 1: Hockey East, chance to place high. Do you just get
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  Speaker 1: a sense of that from the from the veterans, that
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  Speaker 1: it's time to raise your game a little bit. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that's natural I do. To answer your question, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I think they understand that. And our schedule. To me,
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  Speaker 2: some people were saying that, Wow, you got a really
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  Speaker 2: tough schedule. It couldn't be any better. I think this
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  Speaker 2: is fantastic to have these types of games down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing is going to prepare you better for the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: than playing two at Maine and home and home with BC,
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  Speaker 2: and home and home with you Mass and having to
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  Speaker 2: go to Providence your last game of the year. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's exactly what you want. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to be playing games against the fifty fifth ranked team
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  Speaker 2: late in the season. It's I don't know how much
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  Speaker 2: that helps you. These games are going to really our
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  Speaker 2: team is going to grow from these games. They sure are.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at the Hockey East standings. Providence is
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  Speaker 1: starting to distance themselves a little bit. They've opened up
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  Speaker 1: an eight point lead on on Yukon and BC. Granted
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  Speaker 1: both teams have a game in hand. U Mass is fourth,
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  Speaker 1: but Boy third to seventh to eighth. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: a fine line hockey, it is. Playoffs could be very
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  Speaker 1: interesting this March.
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  Speaker 2: They are. Our goal is to stay within three points
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  Speaker 2: of Providence. If we can do that, that's going to
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  Speaker 2: make that last game of the year really interesting. So
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  Speaker 2: that's our goal right now, is to try to stay
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  Speaker 2: within You know, we have a game in hand on them,
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  Speaker 2: and I know they have an eight point lead, but
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  Speaker 2: if we can hold our end of the bargain, it
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  Speaker 2: would be nice to stay within three points of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll take a break. We'll come back first a
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  Speaker 1: trip to Orno, Maine, which is always fun, man, and
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  Speaker 1: that place is loud and exciting and thankfully you won't
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  Speaker 1: have any snow to deal with. It'll be cold, but hopefully,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we'll come back with Mike Kavanaugh. We're live at
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  Speaker 1: Bear Smokehouse Barbecue. It's the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show. We're
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  Speaker 1: back in a minute here on Learfield.
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  Speaker 2: To stay with us.