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Seg 2 - MHOC Show w Mike Cavanaugh Dec 1 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back at Bear Smokehouse Barbecue here in downtown Hartford, Adam
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  Speaker 1: Giardino with you, joined by the headman of Yukon Men's
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  Speaker 1: ice hockey, Mike Cavanaugh. We left talking more team oriented stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Would love to dig deeper into some of the individual
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  Speaker 1: performances so far, and we're darnear approaching the midway point
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  Speaker 1: of this season. Is there a and I know you
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  Speaker 1: hate this, I'm gonna ask you anyway, So is there
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  Speaker 1: a freshman right now that it has played in a
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  Speaker 1: way that you maybe has exceeded expectations for a freshman?
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  Speaker 2: I would say all of them, Yeah, Yeah, I would.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that, you know, Carlin de Zandy is
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  Speaker 2: certainly he's put up some numbers of late and Alexander
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  Speaker 2: Blake has been very consistent all the way through. And
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  Speaker 2: both Brendan Dunfee and Anthony Alan Samaki. It's not easy
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  Speaker 2: to come in as a freshman defenseman. It's a lot
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  Speaker 2: harder to come in, I think as a defenseman than
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  Speaker 2: it is a forward. And they've both acclimated themselves very
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  Speaker 2: well because parts of our defense of zone coverage can
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  Speaker 2: be esoteric at times, and they have picked up on
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  Speaker 2: it pretty quickly. The little nuances and you know, done
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  Speaker 2: a nice job with it. And even Cam Hendrickson, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in goal. I think he's been solid in both his starts.
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  Speaker 1: When you talk about that kind of esoteric nature. We're
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  Speaker 1: actually gonna talk to Kai Janvrie a little later and
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  Speaker 1: Kai's paired up with biking. Gustav Sen Nyberg.
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  Speaker 2: Just how was that interview with Kai?
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  Speaker 1: He was awesome. Yeah, him and Ethan Grdoola, both of
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  Speaker 1: them outstanding sophomores.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing you could say about Kai is he
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  Speaker 2: would be a loquacious.
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  Speaker 1: You know, but it's funny. Last year I remember it
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  Speaker 1: not be I think we chatted with him and it
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  Speaker 1: was a little more more of a freshman. It just
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  Speaker 1: felt more like, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The only reason I know that word is because the
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  Speaker 2: second grade teacher told me the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Guy, without ruining the surprise, we did ask him about
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  Speaker 1: growing just outside of Detroit Thanksgiving football. We'll find out
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  Speaker 1: if he ever went to one of those Detroit Lions
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  Speaker 1: games growing up. Okay, on Thanksgiving Day, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: a Brendan Dunfy, for an Anthony Alayin Samaki in practice,
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  Speaker 1: even though they're do you pair up? Do you mix up?
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  Speaker 1: The defensive pairings just to keep guys fluid and getting
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  Speaker 1: used to things or in practice, do you like them
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  Speaker 1: really getting that cohesion with the guy they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be skating with on a game day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you'd like the cohesion. It's same thing
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  Speaker 2: with your forward lines. You know, when guys can read
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  Speaker 2: off each other and they have a really good feel
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  Speaker 2: for where the puck is going to go. I think
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  Speaker 2: the same thing is true for defensemen. However, you know
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  Speaker 2: when you have we only have eight defensemen, and when
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  Speaker 2: one's hurt like Trey has been hurt, or they have
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  Speaker 2: to learn to play with all you know each other,
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  Speaker 2: and throughout a game it happens too. There's times where
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  Speaker 2: you mix up your lines to try to maybe get
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  Speaker 2: some energy within the team if you feel like you're flat.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you mix up your defensive pairings too. So I
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  Speaker 2: think the great players can play with anybody, but certainly
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  Speaker 2: when you do have a pair that plays together and
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  Speaker 2: can read off each other, I think it's a beneficial
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  Speaker 2: to your team.
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  Speaker 1: So again, loquacious now esoteric. So when you say that,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think is the hardest piece of it
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  Speaker 1: to pick up without giving away you know, trade secrets here.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you think the hardest part is for
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  Speaker 1: a freshman coming into this program to pick that up
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  Speaker 1: as a blue liner.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a little bit different than probably what they've
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  Speaker 2: played up until this point. So it's no different than
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  Speaker 2: a high school football player going in to play defense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Bill Belichick's scheme at North Carolina is going
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  Speaker 2: to be different than what his high school football coach
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  Speaker 2: had ye you know, Nick Saban's scheme is going to
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  Speaker 2: be different than what the guy played. So it's something
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  Speaker 2: that you just have to get used to. And a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times guys might play for a team for
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  Speaker 2: two or three years before they come to us and
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  Speaker 2: they're very comfortable in the system they're at and they
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  Speaker 2: come to us and we're playing something different. So but
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  Speaker 2: hockey players can adjust the and the good ones always do.
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  Speaker 1: Kim, We're doing by head coach Mike Kavanaugh here and
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  Speaker 1: the coaches show Bear Smokehouse barbecuing downtown Hartford. When we
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  Speaker 1: talk later with Ethan Gardula, we ask about his ability
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  Speaker 1: to play along what has been a pretty consistent line
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  Speaker 1: for him. Mike Murtagg continues to take advantage of increased
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  Speaker 1: reps here in his second year. So is there anything
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  Speaker 1: new to report over the last couple of games for Mike,
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  Speaker 1: because it seems the production hasn't slowed down.
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  Speaker 2: No, he's just continuing to play. You know, I've probably
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  Speaker 2: talked about him the most out of anybody this year
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  Speaker 2: and even on this show, and he just continues to
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  Speaker 2: get better. And it's not really surprising to me because
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  Speaker 2: you know, I watched him a lot last year and
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  Speaker 2: I've said this multiple times that we had a really
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  Speaker 2: good team and he was right there. He still played
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of games last year and I had,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a lot of confidence in him that he
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  Speaker 2: was going to have a great year this year. And
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  Speaker 2: he's probably one of our best forwards at getting to
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  Speaker 2: the front of the net. When you watch him play,
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  Speaker 2: he gets to the front of the net at least
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  Speaker 2: two or three times a game.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Hendrickson is a guy you mentioned. He's the second goaldie.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Muslik has been the one that has gotten the
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  Speaker 1: bulk of the reps, but Cam with a game against
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State more recently got one against New Hampshire. What
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  Speaker 1: do you like about what he's been able to do
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  Speaker 1: because you know he's given up a couple of goals
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  Speaker 1: in each of the games that he's been in. But again,
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  Speaker 1: you said that you you still like what he's brought.
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  Speaker 2: I think he competes really hard. I love his I
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  Speaker 2: love that aspect about him. I think he's a you know,
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  Speaker 2: catlike quickness. He can get from post to post as
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  Speaker 2: well as anybody, and he's just still you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think the hardest part for him is he doesn't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: have Tyler Muslik size, so he's got to figure out
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  Speaker 2: a way to be able to fight through screens and
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  Speaker 2: you know, find pucks on point shots that where there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of traffic in front of the net.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't net giving up to those goals against you
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  Speaker 1: and h in that third period as a freshman, I've
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  Speaker 1: got to imagine that's hard. What have you seen from
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  Speaker 1: him coming out of that experience. I'm sure one that
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  Speaker 1: he would have the old team would have rather not been.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a very confident kid, so I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that was an issue. I think that he uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I have a lot of faith in him, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, if he had to play tomorrow, I feel
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  Speaker 2: very confident with him.
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  Speaker 1: That coming up this coming weekend, is a pair of
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  Speaker 1: games against Merrimack, and then it's about a well almost
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  Speaker 1: a month off where you get to regroup, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk plenty about that as we roll on here again.
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  Speaker 1: Later on in the show, we've got Ethan Gardula and
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  Speaker 1: kai Janverria joining us for conversations more with head coach
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  Speaker 1: Mike Kapana when we return to Bear Smokehouse Barbecue in
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  Speaker 1: downtown Hartford. This is Yukon men's ice hockey from Learfield