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Seg 4 - MHOC Coach's Show w Tyler Helton 3-4 · Coaches Corner

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  Back with you on the Yukonacky Coaches Show. Tyler Helton will us the Associated
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  Coach, Huskies and Catamounts to wrap up the regular season on Thursday. Our
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  coverage begins right after Gino Show between six and seven. We'll go right pretty
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  much puck drop at seven oh five for round number three with the Catamounts.
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  Before we get to the Catamounts. So, Adam, you want to start
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  with a couple of weekends ago. Yeah, we hadn't had a coaches show
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  since the BU weekend as well, and we focused on last weekend against Northeastern.
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  So just that Friday night at home, the six to one loss,
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  but just the way that the game unfolded with physicality and penalties, and it
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  just felt unlike what we've really seen from this Yukon team in years. If
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  ever, that one game, yeah, I think it was. I think
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  we probably let our emotions get the best of us a little bit in that
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  game. And I think the guys were obviously fired up to play against BU,
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  and I thought we were ready to play, and I think we just
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  got our emotions that's the best of us. And sometimes it can be a
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  frustrating game and but we don't want that to happen, and that was just
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  something that happened and it won't happen again. It felt like it was I
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  mean, it felt like it was coming from both sides. It wasn't just
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  a one way street there. It did feel like BEU was just as willing
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  to tussle as you guys were about Yeah, I think be You is probably
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  one of the heavier teams in our league too, and plays a heavy style,
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  So it was two of the same, similar styles kind of going at
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  each other, and sometimes when that's going on, it can get a little
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  over the top. Tyler, you're heavily involved in the special teams, start
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  with the penalty killing. What do you like about it this year? Yeah,
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  I think we were fortunate to bring a lot of guys back from last
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  year. Actually the last two years. I think we were top ten penalty
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  kill and the last two years before that, so we brought a lot of
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  guys back. I think we want to obviously pressure quite a bit. This
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  weekend was a little different or last weekend against Northeastern. They're a little It
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  brings me unique challenges that we can't do some stuff that we want to do.
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  But I think our biggest thing is pressure in the park, can getting
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  two hundred foot clears and being good on face offs. All right, you
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  mentioned the differences with Northeastern, How similar, how different? Artists say,
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  like some of the better power plays in the league, like BU and BC.
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  Yeah, it's more. I mean they all. I feel like every
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  weekend, every power play we play has got someone on it that can hurt
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  you. So then the way they moved the puck, Yeah, they moved
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  the puck, and they just have a lot of high end skill guys that
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  can hurt you in a lot of different ways. So their structure is a
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  little different than BC and BU in terms of like a one three one versus
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  spread. So and Northeastern does some stuff that's just different. But I thought
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  we did a decent job of it. I thought the coal Saturday was a
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  little unlucky. We blocked two shots and it ends up on someone's stick.
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  So, by the way, the sixth and four of the end of game
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  Friday, well done started with the face offs. I mean, Hudson finally
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  was able to get a few face off wins in that third period, but
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  those were key and you didn't really give them much of a chance in that
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  last minute, No, and the guys did a great job. I thought
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  Tabor, Heath Slip and Hudson Chandor did a great job. And then Harrison
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  Reese has been one of our best penalty killers since peak here as a freshman
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  and he does a great job doing it. Why well as a freshman to
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  come in and just know that's a hole he's gonna plug. What made him
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  so immediately effective? I think he does a great job clearing bucks, Like
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  he doesn't miss on a lot of clears, and that's a unique skill.
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  Like I remember when Tag was here, we put him on defense because he
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  could clear the puck, And it's just a skill that if you can get
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  the puck out of his own, you can get fresh guys out on the
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  ice, and you can get back to pressure in which we want to do.
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  Toy, You've got a lot of seniors on the back line. I
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  mean, obviously Harrison and the Jake Flinner are done. I guess in theory
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  some of the other guys could come back. But it's been a pretty good
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  run for these guys. Yeah, it's been a great run. I mean,
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  and you haven't really had much in a way of injuries, they've been
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  steady eddies on that blue line all year. Yeah, they've been awesome.
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  Jake Flinn and Harrison Raci for five years has been great for us. And
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  then Andrew Luke has been here for two years, but this is his fifth
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  year in college hockey. And then John Spetts has been great for us too
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  from day one, and they've had a lot of success. And I think
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  that leads to probably a lot of Coffi institute coming into the playoffs for us
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  is we've had guys that have played in the Garden. All those guys pretty
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  much just outside this year, finished in the top five every year they've been
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  here in hockey, So I think they feel pretty confident in the team and
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  group we have. And then in the power play, the other unit that
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  you are in charge of, what's been something that you've really liked that you've
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  seen lately out of that group? I thought we're really good Saturday. I
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  thought we had a lot of good scoring chances. I think we ended up
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  having sixteen shots on the power play. I could be off, but I
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  think that's what I saw. And I think we're really trying to emphasize that
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  right now because obviously it hasn't been great for us, but we always talk
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  about the next power play, I mean most important, and especially coming into
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  the stretch. You only get so few power plays in a playoff game,
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  so you got to be able to capitalize and that's going to be the most
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  important part is making sure we're playing our best on our special teams coming in
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  the playoffs. Here, when you watch your power play versus some of the
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  other ones, do you feel the puck movement? Is it equal to what
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  they do or could it be better? I could be better. I think
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  everything could be better. I think we can improve. I thought we did
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  a good job this weekend of being more of a threat more consistently. But
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  definitely that's a point of emphasis for us, is like we got to move
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  the park. We don't want guys holding on to it. And you gotta
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  be willing to make plays and feel comfortable with that on a stretch where maybe
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  you're not scoring as many power play goals, are there other metrics that you're
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  using to say, Okay, guys, you know you didn't score, but
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  this shows that it was a productive two minutes. Yeah, I think shots
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  can somewhat be that and momentum. Mike We always talk about not losing on
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  a penalty kill. We talk about gain and momentum on the powerplay. We
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  talk about not losing momentum on the power play. And I thought, especially
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  Saturday night, like I thought we had, we had Tupacs there sitting on
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  the goal line that goes through them, and they just don't cross over the
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  line. So I thought it gained some momentum for us going five on five,
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  especially in the second period. I think the shots were twenty two to
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  six or something like that at some point. So I think it's just gain
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  and momentum, and they gave it to us Saturday, and unfortunately we were
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  able to capitalize. But we get another opportunity Thursday. Tyler, you close
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  out with Vermont on Thursday. Haven't played them since early November. I'm sure
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  you've started to watch some video. How have they changed in November? They
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  haven't changed much. They work really hard, they're heavy, they do a
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  good job getting on you in the D zone and creating odd man rushes for
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  themselves. So I thought we uh When we played there Friday night the first
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  time, I thought we were okay, and then I thought we responded well
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  on Saturday and hopefully we can build off our game on Saturday versus Northeastern and
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  continue to build on that. But we gotta play heavy and we got to
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  play fast against them. Does that mean that they also create short handed opportunities
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  the other way? Because I know that's an area where you know you've been
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  bitting at times this year. Yeah, they do a little bit. And
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  like watching our games yesterday against them, they got a lot of timemon rushes
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  against us last time, so I think that's something that we got to eliminate
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  from them. And they scored. I think they scored two versus Maine this
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  weekend too, So it's a big part of their offense that we got to
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  do a good job at it. Yeah. They give up seven shorties this
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  year too. Yeah, see how that plays out. Tyler, thank you
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  for coming down. We appreciate it and the best of uck this weekend.
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  Yeah, I appreciate you guys having me out. You bet you associate coach
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  Tyler outing with us here on the Coaches Show. Mister four point zero,
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  I like to call him that because you know it doesn't happen very often.
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