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MHOC Coach Cav Zoom - Oct 18 · Coaches Corner

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  So how are you feeling? Not great? Better than last week, but
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  not terrific? All right, well, hopefully hopefully it gets better soon.
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  Yeah, I'm shooting for the twenty eighth. All right, all right everyone,
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  Well we'll go ahead and get started. Coach, coming off weekend h
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  and two against Fully Cross, looking ahead on the road again two games at
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  Union, I want to get your thoughts on how you think the guys have
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  looked in practice coming off the weekend and then looking ahead to the two games
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  at Union. Yeah. I was certainly disappointing from the results wise this past
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  weekend. I actually though thought we played pretty well. We didn't score goals,
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  and I think you have to focus, especially this time time of year,
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  on the process and how you're playing. And you know, we did
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  we play well in the defensive zone. I thought we played pretty well there.
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  Did we give up a lot of odd man rushes. We gave up
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  a breakaway on a kind of broken play and then we had a turnover that
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  led to their scoring chance or their first goal. But other than that,
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  I thought we limited any type of odd man rush type situation. So we
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  played pretty tight there and we put a lot of pucks on net. The
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  goalie played well and we didn't get it by him. Now, we focused
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  a lot this week on you know, more traffic in front of the net
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  and hitting the net more. I think we missed the net on a couple
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  opportunities where we probably let the goalie off the hook, So focusing on those
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  things. But overall, I was happy with the effort and the performance.
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  And I think if you continue to play weekends where we only give up you
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  know, three goals will be more successful more than not. All right,
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  Bob, you on off for the first question. Yeah, sure, thanks,
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  have good morning. Good morning. Ask you about I want to ask
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  you about that turnover and just a mental aspect of it. Nobody felt worse
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  about it, I'm sure than Jake. How's he responded this week in practice?
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  He's been great. I mean he's Uh, those things happen and he
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  knows and we're going to be a better team as long as he doesn't do
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  that again, you know, and if you learn from it, uh,
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  your team gets better. So it's uh, when you when you've played sports
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  long enough, you're going to make mistakes. Even the best make mistakes,
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  and you have to have a short term memory and learn from it and move
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  on. And I think that's what he's done this week. And what are
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  your thoughts on Union? I think that you know, I watched their game
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  against Colorado College and I don't think the score was indicative of the game.
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  I was really impressed with how quick they were. I think pro cups excellent
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  on defense, and they're gonna they're going to be a team that pressures all
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  over the ice. I think Josh has done a great job with them in
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  two years. And yeah, they're a very good team and we're going to
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  have our hands full for the weekend for sure. Randy will go over to
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  you, Good morning, coach, how are you today? Morning? Randy?
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  You referenced Owen Simpson's ability to get the pucked through layers of traffic last
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  week. I thought that was kind of interesting. And seeing that Holy Cross,
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  I think they blocked like seventeen and sixteen shots. I just a little
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  more thought on, like how do you work on that? Like how do
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  you how difficult is it to get pucks through layers of screens from your own
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  teams and defense and get it on target. It's very difficult. It's something
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  that you know you do work on in practice, but The one thing that's
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  hard is you're not going to have guys selling out diving in practice to block
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  shot, and that happens in games sometimes, So there are things that we
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  do to work on it in practice. But one of the things, you
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  know, they say one of Connor Brodard's great skills is he a defenseman can
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  be stick on puck, but he can pull a puck in and shoot it
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  from inside and get it between the triangle of the stick and the leg.
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  And that's something you got to be able to do as a defenseman too,
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  because guys that not everybody leaves their feet when they're coming out to block a
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  defenseman shot, and you're going to have to be able to do that.
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  And that's it's a skill that you can do standing still. It's a lot
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  tougher to do it at full speed when you've got to be moving and a
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  guy's coming at you. So it's something that we worked on yesterday. And
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  in regards to Union, I didn't see their game against Colorado College, but
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  you look at the box score and you see that there was a lot of
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  goals scored. Of course, was it are they a more like open up
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  style of play? And I know you said they're going to pressure, but
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  and if they are, does that play well for you guys with your speed
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  and your skill to have a more opened up game. Yeah, I'm not
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  sure that their style of play is a benefit for or against US. I
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  just I was impressed with their team speed. I don't think you've got to
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  be really careful this time of year to look at scores and put any stock
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  into them. I think that look at, hey, Edmonton, oiler is
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  going to be eight to one the first night against the Canucks and not you
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  know, they're gonna be a good team there at the end of the year.
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  So I just trust my eyes and I watch their team play, and
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  they're quick, and they get on pucks and they compete. So it's gonna
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  be I believe, two hard fought games this weekend, much like they were
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  last year. Right, thanks, Hm, Adam will head over to you.
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  I'm sure you addressed this after the game on Saturday. I didn't quite
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  catch it. The instance where the goalies glove went over the goal line and
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  there was no review was just a matter of They've said that they knew they
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  had blown the whistle before all of that transpired. No, the call on
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  the ice was that our guy had pushed his glove over the h So if
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  I wanted to challenge that I could have I would have had to use a
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  time out. It was early in the game, and my guys radio down
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  to me that our guy did pushes his glove over like it would have been
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  one that I don't think they would have overturned. So it wasn't worth it
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  for me at that point to use a challenge at that point. How were
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  you at the stage of the season four games in feeling the team is with
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  taking the right kind of penalties versus penalties that you really could do without.
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  Well, if you're referring to some of the penalties we took lot last weekend,
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  I think there's certainly two of them at the end of the game on
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  Friday night were unnecessary, and I think one in particular was unnecessary on Saturday.
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  So again, those are learning experiences, and you know you have to
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  I don't think I've ever coached a season where a kid hasn't taken a dumb
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  penalty. And as a player, I took dumb penalties. Now you don't,
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  and at times you get frustrated, and it happens if it continues to
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  happen, then that's going to affect someone's playing time. But those are the
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  things that you obviously, that's why you're here and you coach and you tell
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  them that this is, you know, not going to help our team win.
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  And I know my expectations are this doesn't happen again. If it happens
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  again, then that'll affect playing time. Thank you, Joe. Will hung
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  over to you, cav when you're going through us rich like last weekend and
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  the puck's not going in the nets, what's the trigger for you as far
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  as mixing up lines is concerned, And is it different early in the season
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  rather than January and February. Yeah, you know, as far as switching
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  lines, that's just a feel for me, Joe, Like I did it
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  at Colgate late in the game that second night because I didn't feel like we
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  were generating our lines were generating enough offense. I feel like we needed a
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  change and it fortunately worked out now Saturday night, I didn't think our lines
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  were the problem, you know, when I told our team that we were
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  generating a lot of offense and every line was generating chances, and I said
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  to the team, it's like you know, if you have ten birdie putts
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  and your lip eight of them out, it's not the putter. You know,
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  you're hitting good huts, it's it's just not dropping for you. So
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  I felt like our lines weren't the issue on Saturday. We were generating a
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  lot of offense, so I didn't feel the need to switch those up.
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  I just that point, you just keep doing what you're doing and trust that
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  something's going to happen, and let's keep trying to take his eyes away and
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  get second and third opportunities and be hungry around the net and keep saying positive
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  there, you know, I just no, if you know, watching that
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  game, we were in their zone most of the time. We had to
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  puck the majority of the time. How did you think Chase played after missing
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  a couple of games and is he ready to be back on a regular line.
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  I thought he was kind of felt his way through the first period.
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  I thought he was excellent in the second and third. I thought he was
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  really dominant, wars full, and he played that power forward game that we
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  need from him. Thank you, Randy. Go ahead. Well, just
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  to follow up to Joe's question about trusting the process and sticking with it,
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  when you're generating chances and staying positive, Like, how important is you know
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  a guy like Hudson and Tabor who bring that positive energy to you know,
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  enforce the message of staying positive and sticking with the process. Yeah, I
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  think we have a lot of guys like that who can do that. And
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  we're four games in, you know, so you know, I told the
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  team, you know, last year we got off to a great start,
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  but we were winning some games I didn't think we deserve to win. We
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  got some excellent goaltending, and you know, we're opportunistic in certain areas,
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  and I didn't feel our record was indicative of actually how we were playing.
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  Uh, this year, I'm not sure our records indicative of how we're playing.
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  I think we're playing playing pretty solid. You know, you have sleepless
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  nights when you have to win games eight six all the time. If you
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  have pretty solid goaltending and good defense, the goals will come go ahead.
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  Andy Hi, coach Andrew Santo. I'm doing the broadcast this weekend the games
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  against Union. Just wanted you to comment on your goalie position. We are
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  Sinny and Ethan, just maybe what you like about what both of them bring
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  to the table and then your you know, your mindset about you know how
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  each of them have played two games so far. Yeah, they're both very
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  competitive, which I like. They they both have good size. I think
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  our Sinny is probably more athletic and Ethan is more technique type or efficient in
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  his movements. But they're both successful in their own ways. And I just
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  like so far how they've given us a chance to win every game. And
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  that's all you can ask of your goaltender. They you know, the goalie
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  that Ethan gave up the other the night was a breakaway essentially turnover in almost
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  a two on zero, and then you know, our Sinny the night before
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  was a little unfortunate. The first one was a weird pucket was like a
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  knuckle pucket went off a stick and it was a weird shot. I think
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  if it didn't hit our stick, he probably makes a save. You know.
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  In the second one he made actually made the save and they knocked in
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  the rebound. We didn't do a great job back checking to the net.
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  So they've both in making saves that they should make and sometimes making you know,
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  you need your goalie. There's going to be five, maybe Greade a
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  attempts, and they got to make four or five out of those great A
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  attempts and stop the ones they should. And if you're getting you know,
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  nine save percentage somewhere in that ballpark, they're giving you a chance to win.
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  And I think they've both done that