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Seg 2 - MHOC Show Dec 4 Coach Cav · Coaches Corner

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  Back on the Yukonacky Coaches Show, Bob Joyce, Adam Jordino, Mike Kavanaugh
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  here at Bear Smoke House Barbecue and Hartford. We've got action for you this
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  week. No, not hockey, We've got hoops Tomorrow night the men in
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  North Carolina at the Garden is part of the Jimmy V Classic. Eight thirty
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  for Mike and Wayne from MSG. And then I'll be with dev on Wednesday
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  when the women take on Ball States. That is a battle of the Mules
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  sisters. Nika plays for Yukon, Hannah plays for Ball State. Mom and
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  Dad from Croatia to see their kids play for the first time. Six thirty
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  on the radio for that one from Stores Mike. The line of Joey Muldowney,
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  Ryan Taddle and Tristan Fraser, they got all sorts of confidence in that
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  first game at BC against the Leonard Perrot Smith line, and they have just
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  picked up and gone hell bent for leather. Of the last four games,
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  they've been really good getting after it, particularly on the fore check. Yeah,
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  and the whole thing kind of happened organically because uh, I think there
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  was I think they were out there in the ice a puck and Greg Brown
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  put that line out there against him and they you know, because he's thinking
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  that that was a good matchup for them, and as it turned out,
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  Fraser's line won the drawer and went down and actually had a really good shift
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  against them. So I was like, maybe we'll try this again, so
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  I tried to get it so that Fraser's line went out there again against Smith
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  and they had another good shift. So we wound up playing them against him
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  that night, that Friday night, and that was about halfway through the first
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  period, and that's when the game started to turn for us. Fraser got
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  a goal and we turned that game around. And then the next night we
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  played him against him and they did a commendable job. Again, they were
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  outstanding. So it's hard to do it when you're on the road because the
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  other team gets the final change. But they've been you know, a line
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  that they skate really well, they compete, they work, you know,
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  all three of them just play with tremendous So when you play like that,
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  the one thing that you very rarely give up is odd man rushers because they
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  skate so well that they can catch a lot of people. So and then
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  they four check the tenacious four checkers. So when you're getting turnovers and you're
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  playing in the other you're making the other team play defense. It's hard for
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  them to have the energy to go play offense, and that's what they've been
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  doing really well. Joey Muldowney is a product for the San Jose Sharks.
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  He's a freshman forward from Lakeview and New York hadn't scored yet. Are you
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  sensing any sort of urgency from him in that department or is he just playing
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  well and he's good with what's going on. I hope so. I mean,
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  he's a kid that scored goals, and goal scorers should feel the urgency
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  to score goals. I hope it's not just him, Like there's other guys
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  on the team that you know, the best goal scorers are driven to score
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  goals. They just won't have a nose for the net. They want to
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  shoot pucks. They you know, some people call him selfish. I just
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  I think every good goal scorer is selfish in some way, because you're not
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  going to score if you don't shoot. And I want that, you know,
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  the mentality from our players. So, but he has been doing things
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  really well. Uh five on five and last night, he actually killed a
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  couple of penalties and did a good job. So hopefully, you know,
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  I'm seeing his role expand more in the second half. Chase has really taken
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  off Chase Bradley. And how of the epistol two goals at BC, what
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  he had two against Starteth, I guess was it? Yeah, yeah,
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  I think so. And so it's four in his last like five or six
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  games, and he just seems to have raised his level of playing. And
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  playing with Matthew and Hudson obviously will help that too. But Chase Chase might
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  be when it might be your best all around player. Arguably he certainly our
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  most physical. I think he's actually the most physical player in the country.
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  I saw a stat last week where I think he averages the most hits per
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  game out of anybody in the country. He had a good clean one against
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  Lowell. Oh yeah yeah, even though one he got a penalty on.
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  I don't think a penalty, I think, oh yeah yeah. And the
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  thing I tell our players all the time that you know, will kill penalties
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  at a boarding and charging and hitting too hard, you know those are fine.
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  You know you want to stay away from the slash and the trip and
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  the stick penalties, the lazy hooking penalties. So you can stomach a lot
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  of chases penalties sometimes, you know, like all good tough, physical power
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  forwards, he does take it a little bit too far. And we've been
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  working on that and I think he's he's actually matured in that area as well.
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  But yeah, he brings an element. He's your prototypical power forward.
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  And when he when he's playing well, which is most of the time,
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  there's very rare occasion Chase isn't on his game. It certainly helps our team.
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  When a guy goes into the penalty box and in a situation like you
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  described, where hey, that probably wasn't a penalty that got against you.
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  Players hot in the box for two minutes. When they get back onto the
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  bench, do you do you have a conversation and say, hey, you
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  know, we saw it the way you saw it. Keep going out there,
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  keep playing hard. How did that conversation work? It depends. Sometimes
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  you don't have to I mean, I shouldn't have to have that conversation all
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  the time. Like, penalties are part of the game, They're going to
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  happen. You know, you don't see many teams that you know whin the
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  least penalized team in the in the conference, usually winning conferences. It's that
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  doesn't happen often. It has happened on occasion, but you know, usually
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  the more physical teams are your teams that are pretty successful as well, especially
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  like you look in the NHL playoffs. I mean, they build those teams
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  for physicality because that's how you got to win. Yeah, and I think
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  the same is true in college. So kids are going to get hot sometimes
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  and they think I might be mad at them because they took a penalty,
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  and that's very rarely the case. The only time I get upset is if
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  it's a lazy penalty or a retaliation penalty. Mike, we're through sixteen games
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  or seventeen games of the season, plus one hundred and eight shots on goal.
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  My question is not so much where the shots are coming from on the
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  ice, what about the shots that are actually going on goal. I know
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  you missed team misses the net a decent amount here, but are you okay
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  with the quality of shots that are actually going in on target where they should
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  be or are they going to a lot of them going right at the goalie?
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  And obviously you got to give the goalies some credit to for coming out
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  taking some angles away in this game. Yeah, no, that's a great
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  question. You know. The one thing I think early on in the year,
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  Bob, I think we were taken too many shots just to shoot it
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  on net that really doesn't have a chance to go in like a point shot
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  without a screen, and not many goalies are going to get beat by that.
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  Right, If you're shooting from outside the dots without a guy driving the
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  net, I think you're better off just carrying the puck in lower and looking
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  at you know, curl up and maybe find a late guy. You'll have
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  a better chance of scoring than you will just throw in a muffin from outside
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  the dots just to get a shot on net. Now, if it's a
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  guy driving the net, that's a whole different story. But uh, that's
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  something that you know, I alluded to, you know, I think last
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  week or two weeks ago in our in our weekly call that we're working on
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  our spacing in the offensive zone, and that was one area. But the
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  other thing we're working on is the quality of shots. We want to make
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  sure that when we're putting a pucket to the net that there's either someone driving
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  the net or there's a body at the net Okay good answer, thank you,
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  well, come back with more with calv Later it's Ryan Taddle and Tristan
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  Fraser as the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show continues live from Bears and Hartford. In
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