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Seg 2 - MHOC Show w Coach Cav Jan 20 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Coach cav on the Yukonacky Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 2: It's busy week here on the Yukon Sports Network, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: down the street at the Excel Center. Tomorrow night, the
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  Speaker 2: men's basketball team will take on Butler Mike and win
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  Speaker 2: at six thirty. Debbie joins b Wednesday in stores for
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  Speaker 2: the women in Villanova. That's a six to thirty broadcast
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  Speaker 2: as well. And then Adam has the return of Yukon
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  Speaker 2: hockey on the radio Connecticut Ice when the Huskies take
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  Speaker 2: on Quinnipiac three forty five Friday afternoon from Sacred Heart
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  Speaker 2: right here on the Yukon Sports Network. Unfortunately, we can
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  Speaker 2: operate the Saturday games because we have a basketball double
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  Speaker 2: header on the road Saturday evening. I'm at Creighton at
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  Speaker 2: five and the guys play at eight, So what's the issue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll squeeze at him in there. We'll do well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're on an FM's thing, you know, most of
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  Speaker 2: our affiliates are FM station, so left.
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  Speaker 1: Channel we can do one game and week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, but we got a boatload of games. We got
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  Speaker 2: both games of the Providence series. The following weekend, you
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  Speaker 2: got UMass U mess Low. We got both those games.
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  Speaker 2: I think the only game we're not doing in February
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  Speaker 2: is the last a game we have bu We're doing
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  Speaker 2: the two games at Northeastern and then the game of
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  Speaker 2: a month.
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  Speaker 3: How about Adam's Nantucket reds here.
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  Speaker 1: I called him Bob Baco when he got in here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's the.
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  Speaker 2: Rumor. Well, look, let's get back to your hockey team
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  Speaker 2: for a minute. Your captain has come alive since coming
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  Speaker 2: back from the break. Three goals, nine assists. Hudson Chander
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  Speaker 2: had four straight multi point games that ended on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: night up at Maine. But man, he has gotten going
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  Speaker 2: and now playing with both Joey Muldowney and Jake Richard,
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  Speaker 2: I mean he has really come alive.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's playing great hockey right now and it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: surprise me. Uh he. I think has become the all
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  Speaker 3: time leading scorer in the Hockey East era. I think
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  Speaker 3: he surpassed Yakam and John Spetz surpassed Joe masonis ye
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  Speaker 3: so but the two of.
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  Speaker 2: Them, by the way, Gino's teamed a nice job on
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  Speaker 2: his sister yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yes, yeah, faith for seat and hall.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's right, that's right, Yeah, I forgot she transferred
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  Speaker 3: from Maryland, right right, right? Yeah? What she doing a
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  Speaker 3: fifty year there because she graduated from COVID year at
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  Speaker 3: I love the Masona's family.
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  Speaker 2: She could have gone to Villanova too, from what I understand,
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  Speaker 2: but she chose a seat in Hall.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, But what what Hudson and John have
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  Speaker 3: brought to our team. Never mind the the scoring and
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  Speaker 3: be an all time leading scorers, which shows how great
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  Speaker 3: a player they have been, but what they've done this
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  Speaker 3: year to galvanize the team and make sure that the
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  Speaker 3: locker room is as tight as can be. You don't
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  Speaker 3: understand how far that goes because you don't have those
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  Speaker 3: insidious issues that can cripple a team, you know at
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  Speaker 3: some point during the season, and they've been able to,
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  Speaker 3: just like I said, mitigate all those issues and really
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  Speaker 3: keep the locker room super tight.
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  Speaker 4: And without peeling back the curtain too far. That process
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  Speaker 4: begins over the summer. So when last season ends and
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  Speaker 4: you have these two guys who have a chance to
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  Speaker 4: come back for a fifth year, just take us through
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  Speaker 4: as much as you're willing to divulge that just that
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  Speaker 4: process of what it took with them coming back, deciding
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  Speaker 4: to come back because it wasn't a given and them
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  Speaker 4: coming back and then just starting this whole process from there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was funny because when those two decided to
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  Speaker 3: come back, you know, listen, everybody thought the sky was
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  Speaker 3: falling for Yukon hockey because we had three draft choices
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  Speaker 3: transfer and for a number of different I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what reasons they you'd have to ask them. But when
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  Speaker 3: those two decided to come back, I think that was
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  Speaker 3: a big statement to everybody else. You know, and the
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  Speaker 3: playbook that they drew up over the summer, and it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't neutral zone four checks, it wasn't offensive zone play,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't face off plays. It was this is how
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  Speaker 3: we're going to be as a team. This is how
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  Speaker 3: you're going to act as a Yukon Hockey player, and
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  Speaker 3: these are our expectations. I think it it went a
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  Speaker 3: long way with everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's phenomenal, and they just galloned.
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  Speaker 2: I mean what we I mean I always knew that
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  Speaker 2: howe Hey was cap and material and we've seen that.
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  Speaker 3: Three time captain.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean when he was young, you could
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  Speaker 2: see that in him and it's just taken off like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a coincidence.
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  Speaker 2: A the team has substantially more speed than they had
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  Speaker 2: a season ago. This team as a whole, you've seen that,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen that the power play has suddenly taken off,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just interesting. You know, Tyler, i'd talked to
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  Speaker 2: him today and you know, Dan and I have been
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  Speaker 2: talking back and forth, Dan Connolly, and it was a
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  Speaker 2: conversation about I guess just simply more practice on the
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  Speaker 2: power play and it has shown, and the movements there
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  Speaker 2: and the puck movements there, the speed movement, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the skating movements there. It kind of seems like a
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  Speaker 2: half court offense for basketball. Because we've talked about this,
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  Speaker 2: how you can take things from you know, and Dan
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  Speaker 2: Hurley and take it to the ice.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's no question, and I think what Tyler's done
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  Speaker 3: with the power play is been phenomenal. And we actually
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  Speaker 3: had a very spirited conversation out in Wisconsin right when
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  Speaker 3: we get back from the break. I wasn't happy with
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  Speaker 3: the way things were going with the power play, and
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  Speaker 3: Tyler had his beliefs and thoughts and vision on how
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to practice it, and it wasn't necessarily what
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  Speaker 3: I wanted, but I said Okay, if this is what
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  Speaker 3: you want to do, I'm going to trust you. And
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  Speaker 3: he was right. It's it's been, you know, really good
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  Speaker 3: since Christmas, and he's done things a little bit differently
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  Speaker 3: than we've done them in the past. But I got
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  Speaker 3: to give him credit. He's really it's it's worked for us,
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  Speaker 3: and it's with our kids. They are buying into it
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  Speaker 3: as well, So I think it's very relatable for our
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  Speaker 3: kids the way he's practicing the power play now.
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  Speaker 4: At the beginning of the year, it might have been
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  Speaker 4: our first show we talked about mo Butler and how
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  Speaker 4: you said, I'm turning everything over to her, and it
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  Speaker 4: felt like you as a coach might.
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  Speaker 3: Have when it came to conditioning, Yeah, conditioning, And.
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  Speaker 4: It felt like you as a coach maybe came to
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  Speaker 4: terms with, Okay, I can give a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: to other people, take more off of your plate. Do
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  Speaker 4: you see you know, the middle of the season, but
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  Speaker 4: do you find yourself growing in that way and you're
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  Speaker 4: eleven here at Yukon where maybe you wouldn't have totally
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  Speaker 4: said to Tyler, Okay, yep, let's let's do it your way.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think I've always kind of been my management
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  Speaker 3: style is to let people do their job, you know,
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  Speaker 3: give them but at the same token, you are the
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  Speaker 3: CEO of the organization, so it always stops with you
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day. So you do have
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  Speaker 3: to have some input and I do have some experience
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  Speaker 3: so with a few out of my careers, so I
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  Speaker 3: try to, you know, impart that when I can. But
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  Speaker 3: he was very, very like we had a spirited discussion
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  Speaker 3: on the ice at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and
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  Speaker 3: he was very passionate about how he wanted to practice
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  Speaker 3: the power play and I wasn't necessarily on board with it,
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  Speaker 3: but I said, okay, like, if you're this passionate about it,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to let you do it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever have any of these type of conversations
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  Speaker 2: that you had with Tyler when you worked for Jerry
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  Speaker 2: at BC and think, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Jerry was Jerry was very similar that way. Now, the
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  Speaker 3: one thing I say about Tyler too is and you
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  Speaker 3: having them on later. I don't know if there's anyone
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  Speaker 3: who has more allegiance and devotion to our program. He
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  Speaker 3: may have more than I do, because he went to
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  Speaker 3: Yukon and he played in the program and he's been
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  Speaker 3: here with me for all twelve years.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, and I'm sure that's a big part of it.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, he'd be retsican to say anything about himself.
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  Speaker 3: He would never ever do that, but I'll say it
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  Speaker 3: for him. You know. I just have the utmost respect
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  Speaker 3: for him.
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  Speaker 2: And it's working. Can't deny that almost thirty percent. And
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  Speaker 2: since you've come back, it's pretty wild, all right. Tyler's
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  Speaker 2: coming up in a bit. We'll have one more segment
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  Speaker 2: with Coach Gavire and then it'll be Tomasinio and Tyler
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  Speaker 2: Hilton is the Hockey Coaches Show from Paris Smoke Cows,
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  Speaker 2: Barbecue and Hartford Hockey Coaches Show on Learfield.
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  Speaker 3: Stay with us,