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Seg 1 - MHOC Coach's Show w Mike Cavanaugh 3-4 · Coaches Corner

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  And for the final time this season, we're live at bariswel Cow's Barbecue with
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  the Yukon Hockey Coach Show Adam Jardino with me the co host with coach Mike
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  Kavanall. How are you doing tonight? I'm doing great. How are you
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  doing, Bob? I'm doing well. I gotta tell you. Friday night
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  was so much fun at Matthew's. That was a fun hockey game. As
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  you got to split this weekend, it was it was you know, I
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  thought we were pretty opportunistic in that game, and we got some great goaltending
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  and it's a it's always a fun building for us to play in, that's
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  for sure. And other than okay, yes, Northeastern came back, but
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  it was nice to get a lead. Yeah, it was. It's been
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  a while since we've had a lead like that, and you know, I
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  was really, I guess proud of the kids because they came back to tie
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  the game up. But you know, we stayed resilient, as I said,
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  and found a way to get that game winning goal. Yeah, when
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  you have a three to nothing lead on the road and that first goal comes,
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  the second goal comes, did you see any changing demeanor? It sounds
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  like you didn't. It sounded like the guy stayed pretty tough. Yeah,
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  no, I don't think so. Well. You know, when they scored
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  a little bit, we were sitting back in the third, But when they
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  scored then we started playing again and started got some good chances. So,
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  uh, you know, it's been an up and down year. And I
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  think sometimes when you're not scoring goals regularly or as much as you would like,
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  the team sometimes gets you know they're doing they're playing desperate to try to
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  get a win. Yeah, and they're not playing maybe as free as they
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  should be, Mike. The first goal came a minute twenty in by Nick
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  Capone, who had a really good weekend playing. It was just a simple
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  rister through a screen that got past what Colin White had. I'm not sure
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  he ever saw it from the time he did was buy him, but just
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  simple play it to get it on it and he waited for the screen a
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  little bit. Yeah, it's something we work on quite a bit, as
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  shooting through the defenseman, you know. And what made the play too was
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  right and tattle driving the net, which backed the defenseman off a little bit.
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  Then Nick got to the middle and made a good shot so in sense
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  he had not officially forces, but that's as good an assist setting a screen.
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  Yeah he made the play. Yeah he drove the net. You you
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  know, you talk about shooting through a defender, and it's a skill.
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  I don't know if we've talked to you about it this year, but who
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  in this group is particularly good at being able to just get a defender in
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  a spot where you know, you can fire it through their legs. Yeah,
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  you know, Jake Richard is a kid that's pretty good at it.
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  Jake Black isn't bad at it. You know, all our guys. It's
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  something that they work on, but those are probably two kids in particular I
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  think that are really good at it. But it's certainly a learned skill,
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  and I think all great goalscorers have it. Yeah, if you can't get
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  it by the first layer of defense, it's never going to get to the
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  net right exactly. But it's a good scoring chance too, because a goalie
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  is sometime has a hard time picking it up. Mike matthew Wood off the
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  Schneid hat trick first time, had been in a bad drought in Hockey East
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  since November, only two goals since then, but nice give and go with
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  with Tats on the first goal, second goal on a rebound, and then
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  the third goal right after our Senni surge have made another spectacular save and we'll
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  get to our Sinny in a minute, but shut the door onwards Covid and
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  then suddenly transitional two on one and what he finishes he did, and it
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  was It was a great game because we certainly need to get him going for
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  playoffs. There's no question about it. We're a better team when Maddi's going
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  like that. So I was happy to see him break out. And as
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  you said, another big piece of that game was our Cinni and he made
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  some really timely saves when he had to Yeah, the pat the paddles saved
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  that he made on Jack Williams early third period. I mean the net was,
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  like I said on their on the air, the net was open like
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  the size of Texas and I'm not even sure how it stayed out. And
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  then you see the replaying your eyes is bulge. Yeah, yeah, he
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  was. He was really good and not just not just the third period,
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  don't throughout the game. And then towards the end when he had to kill
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  off the penalty with the six on fourth the end. Yeah, he did
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  a good job. We did a pretty good job there too, not allowing
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  them to really get too many Grade a's in that situation. Yeah, because
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  you want some face offs. I mean they dominated the face offs for the
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  good chunk of the game. With the third period you were able to narrow
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  that and then late in the game when you pat hands on head, when
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  you sauch Jake take the penalty. I saw that. Don't make it easy
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  on yourselves, do you. No, it was and it was unfortunate because
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  he was playing hard, but you know, you want to get that puck
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  out, but Fontaine had turned his back, so it's a play where you
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  really can't be as aggressive as he was in that situation. So it's a
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  learning, you know, teaching point, you know, for Jake, and
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  it didn't cost us a game, so you know, hopefully, you know,
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  going down the stretch, if we're in those situations, he'll play it
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  differently for our Sinny we've talked over the last month or so as he's getting
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  those starting reps again after seeding them to Ethan Hyder through the middle part of
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  the year. So the thing that helped him turn the corner was he started
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  staying, you know, within the pipes and being a little bit more not
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  robotic, but mechanical. But then he still has that creative flare. Is
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  that the exact type of play where you're saying, Okay, he's doing what
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  we want, but then he still has the improvisational skills to make those spectacular
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  saves. Yeah, it's not. I think it's mechanical and robotical probably aren't
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  the right adjectives maybe to use. I think it's more he's efficient, you
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  know, is what we're looking for. I always want him to be athletic,
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  but it's within his posts and it's not going out into the bad white
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  ice, you know, just staying within the blue paint for the most of
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  the part, because that's when you get when you get way out into the
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  white ice for shots that you don't need to, that's when you have trouble
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  come back. We mentioned Ryan saddlehat trick of assists in the game on all
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  three matthew Wood goals. I mean, he has really taken off this year.
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  He could probably be one of the candidates for Most Improved Player. Yeah,
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  I would say so for sure. You know, I think he and
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  Jack Pescucci's done a nice job like from where he was a year ago,
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  No question. I think Ryan, you know, would be a candidate for
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  that. It's been fun to watch him and even in practice every day he
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  just brings a lot of energy and just he's a driver of a line,
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  like he really pushes the pace when he's on the line. And when you
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  look at that line, so would have the three goals. So that line
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  accounted for three goals. Is that sustainable every night? Probably not? But
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  what can you take from a three goal night that they can replicate even if
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  they're not getting Matthew at a hat trick every night? But what did they
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  do that you want them to replicate? Well, just to play in the
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  game the right way, like the give and go and on the winning goal,
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  it was Maddie got it and made a play to Ryan and then raced
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  up the ice and got it back. It was another give and go.
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  Essentially. They actually had four goals on the weekend because Samuel got one on
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  Saturday. Yes, So that's a good weekend for them. And if we
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  can have a line like that that's producing for us, it's certainly going to
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  help with Chase coming back as well all right, we'll take our first break
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  later. We've got Tyler Helton, one of your assistants. He's the associate
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  coach, correct he is? All right, let's let's get the title properly
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  done. Longtime assistant associate coach. And then mister four point zero joins us
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  Oliver Flynn. As you're listening to the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show, we're live
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  at Bear Smokehouse Barbecue, the final one of the season here on Learfield.
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  Stay with us.