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Segment 2 - MHOC Show w Cav Nov 13 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome back to the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show. We're live at Bear Smokehouse Barbecue.
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  This is the like let's see here, Friday Center Center. This fourth
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  day of a moniacal time for us on the network. We've got a triple
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  header of coaches shows on Wednesday, football at six g you know, at
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  seven, early at eight on the Yukon Sports networking online via the Varsity Network
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  app. And we've got a Mend's game tomorrow at the XL Yukon and Mississippi
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  Valley State. We've got Coach cav here with us. Still take on BC
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  this weekend. We'll talk about that later. But your power play is starting
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  to produce a little bit over the last couple of weekends. And it started
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  with that innocent Andrew Lucas gole late in the third period in the first game
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  up there on Friday up in Burlington. Yeah, I think we're five of
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  eleven in our last four games on the power play, and you know,
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  I knew it would get better. We had some chances early on, you
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  know, I thought, you know, before that Vermont weekend and started to
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  show some signs of life. And then lately we've been getting contributions from both
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  you too. I mean Nick Capone's goal was a textbook power play goal that
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  he got us on the board against Merrimac at Merrimack with a little bang bang
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  play with Mash chip that I well, Brad's went down to Mash to Nick
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  and found him in the slot and it was a great goal for us.
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  So we need both of those units going, that's for sure. The start
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  of the year on the power play was slow in terms of actually cashing in
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  on opportunities. So when you're saying you saw it was starting to turn that
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  even if goals weren't coming that they were about to. How what are you
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  seeing as a coach to know, Okay, they're starting to find their rhythm.
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  A lot of zone time, the pucks not be installed. You know,
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  the puck isn't dying on someone's stick. A lot of times when power
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  plays are not successful, it's one guy holding on to the puck too long.
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  It's people getting shots blocked. You want to shoot pucks, but you
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  wanted me able to have a lane. You don't want that first layer to
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  block shot. So if you can get pucks down in the net, I
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  don't mind if the defenseman block them down by the net because a lot of
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  times they can go ricochet off to one of your guys and that's a great
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  scoring chance. So it's you know, it's been a work in progress,
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  but I like where it is right now. What do you see with MADDI
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  would lately and he and Hudson just seem to have that special chemistry between the
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  two of them. Yeah, I think they're both playing well. I told
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  Maddie today, you know, he's certainly is skilled forward. But Maddy can
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  play a hard game when he has to. And I told him today,
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  I said, you know, you need to constantly want to play that hard
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  game and or a physical game and heavy game. You know, there are
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  some guys that are super skilled and can get up and down the ice and
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  they can make plays off the rush, but it's hard when the game gets
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  really physical, it's hard for them to play in those types of games.
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  But that's not the case with Maddie. He has that ability and I'd like
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  to see him start, you know, doing that consistently all the time.
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  How much muscle did he put on from the offseason, right you know,
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  I think it's substantial from where he was at last year and he's uh,
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  he's got like big legs and he's strong, and he's still growing. I
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  mean he's still in the eighteen years old can say he's six' three.
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  That's not right. I mean he's got to be taller than he seems it.
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  He does seems out there. Yeah. Yeah, but I think it's
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  also helped. You know, what I think has helped his game on the
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  power play is having Samu on the other flank because Samu can hit it too,
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  so it's not like they can just you know, key on Maddie and
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  like, let's take away matt Wood because Samu, as you've seen lately,
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  can really rip a puck and he scored some goals for us on that flank.
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  Something I've wanted to ask. So, Matthew Wood, he's a top
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  fifteen pick by the Nashville Predators. How much conversation do you have with Nashville
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  at the moment in terms of guiding what is a valued commodity for their organization?
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  Yeah? Well, both of their development coaches played for me, so
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  quite a bit. Actually, Nathan Gerby and Rob's Canaria, Yeah, developed
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  Cashville. So I have a great rapport with those guys and they're good too.
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  I've told them leave them alone when you were playing. When you were
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  playing, you didn't want a lot of people in your ear all the time,
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  So just let him play. And I think Scot's a little better than
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  that than Gerbs, so I'm working with him. That actually dubtails into a
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  follow up that I had. So even Hyder comes to the Yukon Hansky's as
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  a transfer, but he is a farm hand of Nashville Predators. So does
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  your relationship with your two former players play into that transfer situation? No,
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  okay, not really that that wasn't the case. I think it was just,
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  you know, Logan left us and we were scrambling for another goaltender and
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  Ethan had just decided to enter the portal, and you know, we have
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  conversations with him and it worked out. So but it really didn't have anything
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  to do with Nathan o'rupp. Well, just because of all the NHL teams,
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  it seems like Nashville keeps popping up with Yakam, Condo, Leigue and
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  now Ethan and matthew Wood. It just feels like in Bomachhka, it just
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  feels like over the last handful of years that Nashville really liked. What is
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  happening with your program? Yeah, well I hope that's the case. Yeah,
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  you know, Yeah, good to see nicopoone get on the scoreboard on
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  Saturday. He's been dealing with a lot of injury too. Yeah. What
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  do you think his mindset is and how he's battled through it to just try
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  to get back on the ice and get things done. I think it was
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  great to have him back. I thought that was his best weekend of the
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  year. Last weekend. I thought he did a really nice job getting in
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  on the ford check on Hudson's goal on Friday night, and then you know,
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  paired with Tabor and Mash on Saturday, they were a force that line.
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  He made a spectacular pass to Mash for the third goal, and as
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  I alluded to earlier, he scored our first goal, So it was,
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  uh, we need that from Nick. He's a big physical presence and he
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  had a bone crushing hit during the game too, So that who put the
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  Merrimac guy through the door when the door was open, I don't know who
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  that was. That's a dangerous play. I always worry about that like that.
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  That's you know, I likes big hits and whatnot. But that's always
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  a dangerous play. It kid's changing and when you're working that door, you've
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  got to keep that thing shut when the kids coming. You can't just no,
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  it's it's right. It be better for him to go into the door
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  with it shut than when it opens. That was that was scary. Wow,
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  Nick Capone, He's another one of the guys that's the property of an
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  NHL team. What area right now? For Nick? Do you see has
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  evolved from his time as a freshman till now. That makes him that much
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  more attractive for when he goes pro well, he Nicks battles some injuries throughout
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  his career here. You know, Nick is a really effective player for us
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  when he's moving his feet, he's skating, and he plays physical and that's
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  the game he's going to have to play in the NHL as well, So
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  we just kind of keep encouraging him to play that way for us. Same
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  with Chase. Chase is similar. Yeah, Chase is a similar player.
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  Uh. You know, he's a physical, hard nosed kid that is extremely
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  valuable for our team. You know, plays in a lot of situations.
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  Have you had guys his size, because Chase isn't that big a guy,
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  I mean compared like to Nick. I mean, he's a good sized guy.
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  But does he remind you of anybody that you've had in the past elsewhere
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  even to be here or ABC? It's a good question. Uh, not
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  really. You know, he's such a powerful guy. For he's probably just
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  a hair under six foot now they got him five eleven. Yeah, he's
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  probably closer to one ninety, I would say. But he's so explosive and
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  heavy on his skates. You know, there are some guys that are big,
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  but they get knocked down all the time. Chase is just really compact,
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  low center of gravity, and he's hard to knock off the puck.
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  And he's a vicious hitter like he he Oh yeah, yeah, he gets
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  a lot hey onloads and unleashes. His timing is great when he hits kids.
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  So he was a good player. Speaking of players, your son's here
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  he is, Yeah, he's driving now right it is? Yep. Wow,
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  that's nice to see him. I was bummed out. I miss Senior
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  Knight the other night, but they had a big win over Plainville. There
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  you go love that? Did he did he playing? Yeah? Position linebackers?
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  Oh? Nice? Yeah, nice, so very good. All right,
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  We'll take a break, come back with more with cav later. It
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  sets in Shando and Andrew Lucas on the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show Live from Bears
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  on Learfield,