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Frozen Four bonus episode: Hear from players on semifinal eve · The PodKaz: USCHO Women's Hockey

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  Speaker 1: Usccho dot com. Hi everyone, Welcome to the podcast. Todd
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  Speaker 1: Mlusky here with Nicole Hasey. We are in Minneapolis at
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  Speaker 1: the Frozen Four at Ritter Arena. It is media day today.
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  Speaker 1: As we're talking to you on Thursday, we've heard from
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  Speaker 1: the coaches and players from all four teams that are here.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some interviews lined up for you that you'll
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  Speaker 1: be hearing in a couple of minutes. I'm Apecial from
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  Speaker 1: Ohouse Sate, Ashley Messier from Cornell, and Chloy Primirano from Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: We were hoping to have a Wisconsin player that timing
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  Speaker 1: didn't work out, so we apologized for that. But Nicole,
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  Speaker 1: what did you take away from today? It does seemed
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  Speaker 1: like these four teams are ready to go for Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think everybody said the right things.
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  Speaker 2: I thought there were some really interesting quotes across the
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  Speaker 2: board about sort of like this is a one game season, right,
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  Speaker 2: They're not thinking about what came before, other than maybe
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  Speaker 2: building on some things. But it's not about how you
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  Speaker 2: did against any of these teams in the past. They're
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  Speaker 2: saying it's relevant, and you know, it's it's when or
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  Speaker 2: go home and they're all really happy to be here,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, forty other teams are at home.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It was a very weird day of press conferences. When
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  Speaker 2: Todd says timing, it's this day where we get here,
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  Speaker 2: I mean we have been here for five or six
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  Speaker 2: hours and we had four press conferences in that time,
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  Speaker 2: so you like, it's just it's a strange, running around
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  Speaker 2: sort of day where everything and nothing happens all at once.
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  Speaker 2: We had talk of childbirth and golf at some of
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  Speaker 2: our press conferences.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was a strange day, but I mean it was light,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's that's part of it, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: instead of being you all in your head today, right,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to talk about silly other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: No one felt it felt like no one was seeming
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  Speaker 1: like the spotlight was too big, too bright. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there's a you know, let's just get
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  Speaker 1: the fright hand place of hockey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always interesting too. With the Frozen and four
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  Speaker 2: we get more media than we normally see at any
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  Speaker 2: other point in the season, and you can definitely tell
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  Speaker 2: when people have an agenda and a story either trying
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  Speaker 2: to write or plan to write and the questions follow that.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it was a fun day. I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: we got to talk to some of the players individually
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  Speaker 2: and always they're always a little more relaxed when they're
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  Speaker 2: not sitting up on that dais and in front of
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  Speaker 2: all the cameras.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we've got two semi finals Friday. We'llhouse It
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  Speaker 1: against Cornell four o'clock Central and Wisconsin against Minnesota at
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  Speaker 1: seven thirty Central. Follow complete coverage of that on usc
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  Speaker 1: HO dot com at Victory Press. Cole will have all that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll put in a plug for myself Madison dot com
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  Speaker 1: and baddress dot com because they never get to do that,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll put that in right now. So what you'll follow,
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  Speaker 1: what you're here, you'll hear following this is three interviews
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  Speaker 1: as I mentioned, Emma Pecial, Ashley Messier and Chloyd Permurado.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you enjoy. Welcome back to the podcast, our special
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  Speaker 1: edition here at the Frozen four in Minneapolis. Todd Muss
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  Speaker 1: you joined by Ama Pecial from Ohouse say thanks for.
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  Speaker 3: Joining us, of course, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if you can kind of give us a
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  Speaker 1: vibe check on the team going into this. You've been
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  Speaker 1: in these situations before going into the Frozen Four. What
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  Speaker 1: does it feel like. How does this one feel different
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  Speaker 1: than the same to the other ones you've been at.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's honestly crazy that we're already back
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  Speaker 4: at the Frozen Four. This year went by really fast,
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  Speaker 4: and that's a good thing. It's not a silly bad
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  Speaker 4: But I think we're feeling really good. We had a
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  Speaker 4: really good first game against Saint Lawrence. We're building momentum
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  Speaker 4: at the right time. We're feeling good, good energy, good vibes.
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  Speaker 4: Muzzy's really happy with how we've been playing. We had
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  Speaker 4: a good week of practice, and we're happy to be
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  Speaker 4: back in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if you can tell us maybe some of
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  Speaker 1: the memories because you played Cornell literally this season in
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  Speaker 1: the Icebreaker tournament, and now you're playing him again at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the season. Obviously a massive difference in
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  Speaker 1: times of you know, time of dater that's October, this
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  Speaker 1: is March, right. What do you draw on from that experience?
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  Speaker 1: What do you remember from from that game?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it was a really long time ago.
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  Speaker 4: It was Cornell's second weekend, so there's not much that
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  Speaker 4: we can kind of pull from that. We're very different team,
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  Speaker 4: so are they, But I think we have confidence knowing
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  Speaker 4: that we put up seven on a really good goalie.
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  Speaker 3: We know that she's going to come out to play.
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  Speaker 4: She's their best player, so it's just a matter of
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  Speaker 4: being able to put pucks on her early. At the
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  Speaker 4: same time, we have to adjust our game. We've done film,
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  Speaker 4: we've understood how they've adjusted their game, and we just
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  Speaker 4: have to go out there play our hockey. We have
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  Speaker 4: to worry about ourselves first and deal with the rest
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  Speaker 4: after that. But if we can play a full sixty
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  Speaker 4: minutes and put our best out there, then we should
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  Speaker 4: be able to take care of business.
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel like has maybe developed with what
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  Speaker 1: a full sixty minutes means to this group, because that's
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  Speaker 1: something that obviously you want to develop as the season
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  Speaker 1: goes on. What does that look like now?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: I think just being a one shift warrior is the
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  Speaker 4: biggest thing. Muzzy harps on that all the time, and
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  Speaker 4: just going shift by shift and just taking everything one
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  Speaker 4: shift at a time. We'd like to play relentless, play
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  Speaker 4: get out there, play hard, just do it's right, And
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  Speaker 4: I think playing a full sixty minutes is just playing
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  Speaker 4: twenty minutes a period of every period at a time
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  Speaker 4: and stringing all those shifts together and building on those
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 2: I know, ideally you want to prepare the scene for
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  Speaker 2: every game, but playoffs are different, and it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: hard to deny that. Is there anything that you do different,
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  Speaker 2: I think differently or maybe mentally do different pending into games.
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  Speaker 4: Like this, Yeah, I mean, obviously the intensity is much higher,
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  Speaker 4: but we all obviously want to keep it as casual
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  Speaker 4: as possible. We don't want to over emphasize the game.
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  Speaker 4: We want to just play our full sixty minutes and
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  Speaker 4: play our game. And I think for me it's just
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  Speaker 4: really being mentally stable, because I know that these games
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  Speaker 4: are really high. It' stew or die at this point,
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  Speaker 4: but it's being able to just take a breath, reset
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  Speaker 4: if I need to, and just focus on what's in
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  Speaker 4: front of me and what is happening in the next shift.
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  Speaker 1: Plisha's experience play into that, because you know what it's
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  Speaker 1: like to be in the spotlight. But at this point
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  Speaker 1: in the season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, being this my third Frozen four of my career,
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  Speaker 4: it's been really awesome and an incredible opportunity to be
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  Speaker 4: able to be here again. We're also defending national champions,
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  Speaker 4: so there's a lot of tensity with that. We have
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  Speaker 4: a target on our back as well. So I think
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  Speaker 4: just being able to help those who haven't been here
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  Speaker 4: before and just get them to just relax and just
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  Speaker 4: play their game is the biggest thing, just because we
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  Speaker 4: don't want them to be nervous and grip their sticks
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  Speaker 4: a little bit tighter. So we just want to get
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  Speaker 4: everyone to just relax. Obviously everyone's going to be nervous,
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  Speaker 4: but that's fuel for our energy as well.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio States had a lot of experiences this season. The icebreaker.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the game at Wrigley where you're outdoors,
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  Speaker 1: it's dark of night, and you win a shootout and
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  Speaker 1: you get fireworks going off for you. Now you're here
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  Speaker 1: at the frozen foard. How do you kind of in
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  Speaker 1: the moment appreciate those that you know not every college student,
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  Speaker 1: college athlete gets those kind of experiences, but you guys
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  Speaker 1: have had a fuel home, right.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, being able to host Icebagger tournament was great.
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  Speaker 4: It's been really cool to bring hockey to Columbus. It's
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  Speaker 4: not very big there yet, but we're trying to get
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  Speaker 4: things going. We have a really good fan base and
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  Speaker 4: I think that's been helping as well. And obviously big
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  Speaker 4: Lely was just unbelievable. It's the top ten, even top
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  Speaker 4: three moment in a hockey career, and that was absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 4: Chicago did a great job hosting that event, say with
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  Speaker 4: big ten. But I think we know that our main
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  Speaker 4: goal is to win a national championship and that's what
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  Speaker 4: we're here to do. So it's obviously we're very thankful
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  Speaker 4: for those opportunities. We want to take that momentum and
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  Speaker 4: take those chances that we've had and put them into
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  Speaker 4: this weekend and keep building on that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe just jumping back to what you were saying about
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  Speaker 2: the younger players and stuff, the makeup of this team
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  Speaker 2: and who you all are heading into this title run
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  Speaker 2: is very different from the team that won last year,
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  Speaker 2: and so you've got, you know, some younger players as
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  Speaker 2: sort of your scoring leaders, and it's just a different
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  Speaker 2: group and a different mentality and less experience. How has
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  Speaker 2: sort of this run up been different from last year
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  Speaker 2: and how are you all trying to, like I see
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  Speaker 2: you try and turn that into a positive and really
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  Speaker 2: build on it right.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we know we're younger, we know we had
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  Speaker 4: a lot of new girls coming in. I think more
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  Speaker 4: than half of our team or about half, was new
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  Speaker 4: at the start of the year. But we've also known
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  Speaker 4: that everyone has owned their role this year, regardless of
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  Speaker 4: it's different than in high school or now. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's just owning what you have. And obviously we want
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  Speaker 4: to help them build experience. The experience is a thing
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  Speaker 4: that is what builds confidence in these situations especially, and
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  Speaker 4: I think that just helped helping them get to a
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  Speaker 4: point where they're comfortable at out of frozen four because
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  Speaker 4: we've had some transfers like Swedter Citi, who's been in
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  Speaker 4: a frozen for the last year with Clarkson, like, we
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  Speaker 4: want her to use that experience and put it into
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  Speaker 4: this one. But I think just really not trying to
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  Speaker 4: compare it to last year, because you can't compare it.
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  Speaker 4: But it's more just like how do we get our
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  Speaker 4: team to get that same result as last year.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State got here with a six to one win
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  Speaker 1: over Minutes or Sorry over Saint Lawrence in the regional final,
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  Speaker 1: that coming after a six two lost in Minnesota the
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  Speaker 1: weekend before how important was it to turn the page
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  Speaker 1: and how did you guys do that? From from really
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  Speaker 1: what you know coach Mazarol was saying, was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not the kind of efforts she wanted to see up
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  Speaker 1: in Duluth to what you had to do to win
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  Speaker 1: at home to get here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just turning the page. We don't want
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  Speaker 4: to dwell on that type of loss. We know it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't our best game. We know we didn't put our
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  Speaker 4: best foot forward, and we got back after it in practice.
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  Speaker 4: We said, look, if we're you have two choices. You
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  Speaker 4: can either dwell on it and just poor me, poor me,
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  Speaker 4: or we can move on as a team and focus
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  Speaker 4: on the wei and focus on what we need to
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  Speaker 4: do to get to the Frozen Four, get back to
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  Speaker 4: Minneapolis to thein a national championship. So I think Muzzy
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  Speaker 4: was really just harping on turning the page, moving on.
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  Speaker 4: She was moving on. She's not quitting on us. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't the performance we wanted to put out, but
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  Speaker 4: I think us bouncing back against Saint Lawrence and putting
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  Speaker 4: up six on a really good team and just having
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  Speaker 4: a really good team game.
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  Speaker 1: Is what we needed all right, well, best of luck
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. Thank you so much, and now we're joined
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  Speaker 1: by Ashley Messier of Cornell. Thanks for joining us first,
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  Speaker 1: happy to be here. Cornell is back in the Frozen
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  Speaker 1: fourth for the first time since twenty nineteen. What does
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  Speaker 1: this mean for the program?
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  Speaker 6: I guess well, I think for the IVY leagues especially,
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  Speaker 6: it's been it was hard with COVID.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of players lost that year.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't get to play obviously at all during the
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  Speaker 6: COVID year, especially with that first ranked team that got
• 9:53
  Speaker 6: the season cut short and then didn't really get their
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  Speaker 6: eligibility back. So I would say that we have a
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  Speaker 6: lot to play for and a lot of alumni backing
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  Speaker 6: us that you know, got that taken from them and
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  Speaker 6: we want to finish it for them as well. So
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  Speaker 6: it means it means a lot to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: It took it was quite a big rebuild, so it's
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  Speaker 2: almost like an amazing feat that you guys got here
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  Speaker 2: back here so quickly. What has what has worked for
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  Speaker 2: you guys? What has kind of come together so that
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  Speaker 2: you're hearing you're peeking at this right time?
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  Speaker 6: I think first and foremost, and this is like pretty obvious,
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  Speaker 6: but we have a tremendous coaching staff and we're a
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  Speaker 6: very well coached team. And I think that's what when
• 10:31
  Speaker 6: players pre or when teams pre scout us and talk
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  Speaker 6: about us before, I can almost undoubtedly assume that they're saying,
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  Speaker 6: you know, this is a very well coached team. They're disciplined,
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  Speaker 6: and we run our systems properly, and we have a
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  Speaker 6: lot of faith in our coaching staff and coach dera Is.
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  Speaker 6: I have nothing but great things to say about him
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  Speaker 6: as a person at a coach, but I think that's
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  Speaker 6: a big one. And we, like Cornell is known for
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  Speaker 6: being the blue collar, hard working team. We have scale too.
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  Speaker 6: We have a fantastic goalie, a strong decoor, and a
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  Speaker 6: lot of depth up front. So I think there's a
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  Speaker 6: lot of factors that go into it. But overall, like
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  Speaker 6: we play a team game and we're consistent with that,
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  Speaker 6: and I think that that's brought us a really long way.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about a blue collar team. It seemed like
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  Speaker 1: that was on display last Saturday. To get here, the
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  Speaker 1: loose one nothing and the game that was tied, nothing,
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  Speaker 1: nothing after two periods. Can you kind of just give it,
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  Speaker 1: give us a sense of the mentality of the team
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  Speaker 1: during that game of like how you had to just
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  Speaker 1: kind of stay in the moment and not let the
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  Speaker 1: stakes get too big for anyone.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, honestly, and that's that's really hard. It's a really
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  Speaker 6: hard thing to do when the emotions get so high,
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  Speaker 6: and every weekend it gets bigger and bigger, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's like, this is a big weekend, this is a
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  Speaker 6: big game, and it's stressful, and obviously this is for everybody,
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  Speaker 6: but we had just a phenomenal crowd and that was
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  Speaker 6: like we got out there and we're like Wow. For
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  Speaker 6: me personally, I was like, wow, I am so lucky,
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  Speaker 6: and that was kind of brought me down a little bit,
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  Speaker 6: helped me relax. But I think we just have, like
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  Speaker 6: I've said in the past, and my teammates and have
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  Speaker 6: said too, that we have so much trust in each
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  Speaker 6: other and we've been solid with our like I said,
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  Speaker 6: our consistency, like things up and downs during the game,
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  Speaker 6: like it's going to happen. You can expect to probably
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  Speaker 6: get scored on, like it's usually not going to be
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  Speaker 6: a shutout game, so you go down one or up one.
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  Speaker 6: It's kind of the same level headed Okay, let's keep
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  Speaker 6: going this so much can change either way, so you
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  Speaker 6: just stay level headed, consistent, keep doing what we do,
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  Speaker 6: and that's kind of what we stick to.
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  Speaker 2: I asked coach Darreed this, But when you, I mean
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  Speaker 2: he is obviously defense first, it's what his specialty is.
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  Speaker 2: You know that you are going to have to play
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  Speaker 2: a strong defensive game against an offensive team like Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: but finding that balance of still being strong on defense
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  Speaker 2: but being able to be offensive enough to get some
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  Speaker 2: books in the net because you.
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  Speaker 3: Have had to score away.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I would say for that too, we, like
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  Speaker 6: I said, with our depth up front end defensively, we've
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  Speaker 6: we've got all across the board. We don't have I
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  Speaker 6: think one thing that we had to get used to
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  Speaker 6: and adapt to. Like obviously last year we had the
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  Speaker 6: Patty Kaz winner on our team is Daniel and she
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  Speaker 6: put the puck in the net, and that was I
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  Speaker 6: think obviously an adjustment. But we figured that out. And
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  Speaker 6: it's not like we have one person that's getting all
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  Speaker 6: the goals. Really like we have it pretty spread out.
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  Speaker 6: So we'll go into games and we're like, we don't
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  Speaker 6: know who's going to score, but we know somebody will
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  Speaker 6: and it can be upfront or on the back end.
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  Speaker 6: We just we know that when we have our opportunities,
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  Speaker 6: like we find a way to bury. And I'm confident
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  Speaker 6: in that.
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  Speaker 1: Played Ohio State earlier this season, but that was way
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  Speaker 1: back in October. It's not a different Actually, no one's
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  Speaker 1: home ice, so it is at the value cit of
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  Speaker 1: the arena. Where was even in Ohio State's home rank.
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  Speaker 1: Does that mean much to you guys coming into this
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  Speaker 1: or is that just kind of like a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a baseline for what to expect from Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: But you know this, everything else is different, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 6: Start of the year to the end of the year,
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  Speaker 6: every team, not just us, Like every team's almost a
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  Speaker 6: different team. It's not the same, like you're getting used
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  Speaker 6: to a whole new group like we had. You know,
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  Speaker 6: it's just not the same. And for us as well,
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  Speaker 6: we don't start until October, we don't. Those are our
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  Speaker 6: first couple of games this season. We hadn't played at all.
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  Speaker 6: We were just getting our lines together. That might have
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  Speaker 6: been our third game all year. And and I think
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  Speaker 6: that a lot has changed, Like our lines are completely different, obviously,
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  Speaker 6: our our coaching style like our plan, our game plan.
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  Speaker 6: It stays the same, and that's not a secret at
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: this end, at this point of the year, no one,
• 14:21
  Speaker 6: no one's got some secret that they're hiding. Like we
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: all know how each other play the same with Ohio,
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: I'm sure that they figured a lot out that's different.
• 14:27
  Speaker 6: So I'm not saying that, you know, we have this
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: new advantage or something, but I just think it's going
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: to be a much different game. It's gonna I mean,
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: we're in the it's the Frozen four the it's a dogfight.
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: There's four teams. You don't know what's gonna happen. Everyone's
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: giving everything they have and everyone.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Deserves to be here.
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: So I think it's going to be it's gonna be
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: a good one for sure.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: What should people listening watch for, Like what do you
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: guys need to do to win this game? Like what
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: first ten minutes, first period? Like what needs to happen
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: for like fans to feel like, Okay, we're our teams
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: in a good spot, know.
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: A big one always in every sport, hockey like included,
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: you just youve got to start. You got to be ready,
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: you have to be ready to go. There's no you
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: can't take any any seconds off, any shifts off. Like
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: you start, You've got to be ready to go. And obviously,
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: like I think everyone knows that we've been playing big
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: games for the past couple of weeks, the past month,
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: and that's expected. Just confidence, like we we we come out,
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: play what how we play, do what we do and
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: just be ready, be ready. No, it's going to be
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: a physical game and not be you know, taken aback
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: by that. We know what to expect and I think
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: that's all we really need to do is trust what
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: we do because it's nothing's going to change.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Have fun with it. Good luck Friday.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Yeah, appreciate it.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the podcast, Todd Molski and Nicole Hase.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: You're in Minneapolis at the Frozen four. Chloe Premerano, the
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Minnesota fresh and is joining us. Thank you for your time.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Tell me what it's like to be here. I mean,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: you're here all the time, but this is the Frozen Four.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: It's a little bit different, right, Yeah, it's pretty nice
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: to have it at home. I mean you don't have
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: to travel anywhere and just being at your home rink,
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: just having our home fans.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: It's awesome.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: You're used to big games and big you know, you've
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: stuff with you eighteens senior national team. Where does this
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: rink and how does that experience sort of help you
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: prepare to be in this situation?
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean this has got to be up there.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: I'm playing in the Frozen four. Obviously, this is my
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: first year, but something that I'm really looking forward to.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: And yeah, just having the opportunity to play at home,
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: it's it's really special.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Can you just give us a little bit of what
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: the mentality of the team and the vibe is like
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: right now? Knowing that here you are. You wanted to
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: be here all along, and.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: Here you are. Yeah, I mean the vibes in the
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: locker room are really high. Everyone's super excited. It's going
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: to be so fun. So we're ready to go for
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: tomorrow and we're gonna put our best foot forward.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I talked to Abbe a couple of weeks ago, and
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: she was, you know, talking about yeah, been ups and downs,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: but this was the goal and that's all that really matters.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: And so you know, you learn from some of that stuff,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: but ultimately it didn't matter because you got where you
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: wanted to be. How have those sort of ups and
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: downs helped you, guys be in a place where you could,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: you know, the play the game you played in wha
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: is play the game that you played last week and
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: be here.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, obviously it hasn't been smooth sailing all year,
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: but I think it's helped us a lot coming into
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: this this moment in the past few weekends, just knowing
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: that we can fight back through adversity.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: And yeah, we're super excited to be here.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Obviously we knew it was at home all year, so
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: finally making it here, it's pretty surreal.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I'm interested in your journey in the season. Like Nicole said,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: you've played at really high levels before. Was playing a
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: full season in college kind of what you would expected
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: it to be or was there something that surprised you
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: about Yeah, I.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Mean, obviously it was tough coming from U eighteen.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: It was definitely a lot faster and a lot more physical,
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: and so big adjustment at the start. But it's been awesome.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: The competition is great. I mean every team is so good,
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: which is like it's just awesome to play a tough
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: game every night. So that's awesome.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like you know you made the decision
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: to come early and you really, you know, wanted to
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: be able to up your game. Do you feel like
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: you've been able to do that and accomplish what you
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: want to do this first year?
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think just playing at a higher level, it's
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: it's definitely pushed me and I've had to change the
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: way I've played a little bit and just kind of
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: adapting to the faster pace and different playing style here.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: But it's been a it's been a great year and
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: The game that you want to get here three two win,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: you're a ridder. You got out to a three nothing
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: lead and then it kind of crept away a little bit.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: They cut it the three to two. Can you just
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: give us some mindset of what that was like to
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: try and get to the finish line of that game,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: knowing what was on on the line for it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we knew it was going to be a tough game.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Cool Get's a great team, So I mean, obviously you
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: started off really well and got the three nothing lead,
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: but let them get back in a little bit there.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: But we had we had the belief the whole time
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: and we knew we could get that done.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: When you're playing a team that you know so well again,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: and this isn't that weird situation where like, you know,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: they haven't ever swept the Gophers during the season, But
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: just all that sort of stuff, all the little things
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: that go into not just a semi final game, but
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: playing the Badgers and playing a team you know so well.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: What do you take from the games two guys already learned,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: and how do you still treat this like just this
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: is a semi final game. We need to win regardless
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: of who we're playing.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously we've seen them a lot this year and
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: haven't had the best results, but we're.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Ready and you know, we've seen them a lot, so
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: we know what's coming.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: And I think just focusing on ourselves and how we
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: can play is going to be really important, and yeah,
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: and not worrying about anything else, just just just ourselves.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: We've had a lot of experiences this year already you
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: a team gold could be a Frozen four championship. Can
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: you kind of put that all in perspective what this
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: year has been like.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been very busy, but I've loved every part
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: of it and just being here at the University of
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Minnesota and playing with this team and being able to
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: have the frozen for at home, and that would be
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: pretty special if we were able to hoist it in
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: the end.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: For people that aren't super familiar, they turn tune in
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: tomorrow and they wonder how the game is gonna go.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: What is what needs to happen in those first few minutes,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: maybe in the first period for you to feel like, Okay,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: we're we're gonna win this game and we're gonna we're cruising.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think we can't wait for them
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: to come to West. We gotta get going right from
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: the puck drop. And just like I said, just play
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: our game. We know what we can do, and just
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: do what we know we can do.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Everyone kind of knows someone or knows a lot of
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: people on the other team in these situations, run across
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: them in the hallways. Is there a high is it
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: a just a you know, a nod? What's that like
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: around here?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously everyone knows a lot of people around here,
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: but this weekend there are competitors and no friends.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: But uh yeah, it's gonna be special. I think when
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: we get on the ice.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: It's it's we love our team and that's about it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be awesome. What do you think this collegiate
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: season has taught you?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, you you know that you're you know, you're
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: obviously a highly toirted player.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: You had a lot of skills coming in.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: What is this game, particularly this expleegiate game, taught you
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: in your career?
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I think just how many good players are all
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: across North America. I mean you don't really know when
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: you're coming from like Western Canada or just.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: You're part of where you've played.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: So just seeing like how many good players there are
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: and how the game is and yeah, it's been great
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: to see.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Well, good luck with it, have fun, Thank you.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: We hope you enjoy these semi final games. Games will
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: be te not televised streamed on ESPN Plus and the
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: championship game is televised on esp and you, as Todd Ted,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: will both have coverage and her various locations and here
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: in us c HO dot com. I also recorded a
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: podcast with Sarah Spain for her Good Game podcast that
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: comes out on Friday. So when you're listening to the
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: listening to this, definitely switch over there and help me
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: spread the good word of women's college hockey and get
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: more people excited