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Minnesota-Ohio State tussle leads to suspensions · The PodKaz: USCHO Women's Hockey

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Speaker 1: Uscho dot com. Hi again, Welcome back to the podcast.
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Speaker 1: Todd Molusky and Nicole Hasey here from a us echo
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Speaker 1: dot com and Nicole, We've got a seven goal weekend
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Speaker 1: from Kaylin LaMarsh at Quinnipiac and a great weekend for
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Speaker 1: the Bobcats to talk about. We've got some upsets over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. We had a heck of an event Sunday
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Speaker 1: afternoon in Minneapolis with Ohio State and Minnesota really wrapping
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Speaker 1: up their series in a kind of unusual way with
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Speaker 1: a couple of game disqualifications and then some supplemental disci
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Speaker 1: one happening there, and maybe that's where we should start.
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Speaker 1: It really was a series that was a lot more
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Speaker 1: than what happened when it was over. But that's what
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Speaker 1: we're left talking about, was a couple of suspensions and
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Speaker 1: then a couple more suspensions added on after some bad
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Speaker 1: blood came out at the end of the series.
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Speaker 2: What's fascinating is that to some extent, this really mirrored
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Speaker 2: that last series they played last season in Minneapolis, where
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Speaker 2: each team sort of really dominated one game, right and
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Speaker 2: there was you know, postgame extracurriculars there too, with a
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Speaker 2: game misconduct after the whistle and so that one, Ohio
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Speaker 2: State came out on top. But yeah, it's what's fascinating
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Speaker 2: to me is how the games are so different. Ohio
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Speaker 2: State absolutely dominated the first game. I set this over
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Speaker 2: at Victory Press. But my thought while watching that game was,
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Speaker 2: I guess, your high flying offense isn't like it doesn't
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Speaker 2: matter much when you can't get out of your defensive zone.
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Speaker 2: That's how oppressive Ohio State was. They just manned. Did
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Speaker 2: they put the pressure on. They really threw Minnesota off
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Speaker 2: their game, and they were making mistakes and just like
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Speaker 2: taking away all that time it's space and basically sort
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Speaker 2: of nullifying any sort of hockey IQ that might be there,
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Speaker 2: right because you were just they were just so under
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Speaker 2: pressure the whole time. And Haley mcclob played the spectacular game.
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Speaker 2: And then we get to Sunday's game and you know,
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Speaker 2: the extracurriculators aside, like Minnesota came out scored or anyway,
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Speaker 2: it was a completely different game. Like I don't know
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Speaker 2: where Ohio State went. I don't know what flipped. I
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Speaker 2: don't know what I guess. I like, I wish I
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Speaker 2: knew more in terms of like what what the approaches
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Speaker 2: were because Ohio State dominated that first game and that
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Speaker 2: team was not the team that came out and played
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Speaker 2: on Sunday and Hayley McLeod got pulled after four goals,
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Speaker 2: and man, it's just so fascinating when two teams, two
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Speaker 2: really strong teams, kind of come out and play two
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Speaker 2: completely opposite games in a weekend series.
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Speaker 1: Right, And that's a little bit of what happens when
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Speaker 1: you play two games in consecutive days, right. One team gets,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe doesn't put out the performance they want
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Speaker 1: and feels like they've got something to make up for.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like that was Minnesota on Sunday. So
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Speaker 1: I would say four to one on Saturday and then
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Speaker 1: six to three for the Gophers on Sunday as they
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Speaker 1: just kind of got back to that you know that
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Speaker 1: we're going to score from from a lot of different people,
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Speaker 1: sort of mentality that they showed in the first couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks of the season, and it just kind of
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Speaker 1: built up to the last couple of minutes of being
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Speaker 1: there's some some things that carried into that what we
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Speaker 1: saw after the buzzer And if you haven't seen the
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Speaker 1: Coles had this on her socials, you can go watch
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Speaker 1: the video of what happened in the last couple of
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Speaker 1: minutes of that game. It ends up with what was it,
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Speaker 1: two game decues and then seven or five I.
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Speaker 2: Think it was seven. There were nine total penalties.
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Speaker 1: So Cassidy Carmichael and Gracie Graham, who had tussled right
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Speaker 1: before about three seconds ago, leading to some penalties, they
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Speaker 1: both got sent to the penalty box, tussled again after
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Speaker 1: the horn, apparently coming out of the box after there
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Speaker 1: was a an incident at the horn, some cross checking
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Speaker 1: going on after a face off, and then everything broke
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Speaker 1: loose and ends up with Carmichael and Graham getting the DQ.
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Speaker 1: So they are out for their first game this weekend.
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Speaker 1: It's the automatic one game suspension. But then on Monday,
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Speaker 1: the WHA also sent over some one game suspensions of
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Speaker 1: their own from supplemental discipline. For I say it's Jordan
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Speaker 1: Petrie and Minnesota's Chloye Premurano, so they are also out
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Speaker 1: for that first game of this week's series. Also, then
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Speaker 1: some game is conducts which don't take a player out
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Speaker 1: of their next game, but if they add up your
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Speaker 1: third game is conduct of the season does add up
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Speaker 1: to a one game suspension, So not there yet, but
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Speaker 1: it's something to keep an eye on and keep in
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Speaker 1: the back of your mind as the season goes on.
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Speaker 1: We're not that far in here, and there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of time where things can happen, and game is conducts
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Speaker 1: also count you know, hitting from behind, if you get
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Speaker 1: thrown out for that, that's game is conduct that adds
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Speaker 1: up for that. So a lot of things to watch
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Speaker 1: for there as we go forward. But this one, the
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Speaker 1: WA statement you know, that they sent out said the
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Speaker 1: wh is not support fighting and acts of aggression that
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Speaker 1: result in player safety concerns and reflect poorly on our league.
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Speaker 1: And so the reflect poorly on our league part was
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Speaker 1: kind of what stood out to me as a I
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Speaker 1: feel like, they don't want this to happen again, so
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Speaker 1: they're sending a message.
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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, absolutely it was. I mean, clearly they're sort
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Speaker 2: of ongoing, you know, I don't want to bad blood
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Speaker 2: feels like even worse than it needs to be. I mean,
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Speaker 2: there are two highly competitive teams that beat up on
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Speaker 2: each other. They're highly competitive players. I think, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's a very physical league. I think depending on who's
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Speaker 2: officiating the games, the games can be more or less
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Speaker 2: physical and sort of in the bounds of what's supposed
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Speaker 2: to be allowed. I actually thought the officiating, at least
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Speaker 2: in the first game was quite good. Like there was
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Speaker 2: a face off where there was some pushy chovy in
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Speaker 2: the immediately set both those players to the box. They're like, nope,
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Speaker 2: we're not doing this, and so it was like that
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Speaker 2: was a to me. It was like stood out to
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Speaker 2: after sort of all of the stuff that we've seen
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Speaker 2: missed that they really were like, we're not letting stuff go.
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Speaker 2: And so I didn't feel like that game on Sunday
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Speaker 2: was particularly contentious, more contentious that I expect from either
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Speaker 2: of those two teams. But yeah, towards the end, it
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Speaker 2: just kind of sorted to boil over. And there's a
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Speaker 2: limit to how long videos can be on social media.
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Speaker 2: Someone was like, well, you didn't post long enough to
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Speaker 2: show everything and you didn't have audio, and I'm like, friends,
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Speaker 2: I like, I feel like I was the only when
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Speaker 2: watching that game because I'm lucky to have the media
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Speaker 2: access to be ten plus and it was Sunday when
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Speaker 2: everybody else was watching football, So I just wanted to
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Speaker 2: share what had happened because a lot of people don't
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Speaker 2: have that you know, subscription, and so you know, I've
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Speaker 2: seen a lot of very upset Gopher fans, and yes,
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Speaker 2: there was a grushion there, but also you all are
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Speaker 2: not innocent in this ongoing feud. That was not a
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Speaker 2: a isolated incident that happened there. That was a build
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Speaker 2: up of a whole lot of other stuff. And so
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Speaker 2: I think there's a whole lot of everybody sucks here
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Speaker 2: in this particular instance, and the finger pointing is not
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Speaker 2: great in that aspect. I just I don't like that's
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Speaker 2: a Reddit reference. Sorry, that's I wasn't like trying to,
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Speaker 2: but I just it was an am I the asshole
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Speaker 2: reddit reference? Anyway? Yeah, I just think that like there's
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Speaker 2: there's no winners here, and I'm not sure it like
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Speaker 2: does anybody any favors just in around and go like
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Speaker 2: you guys are worse than others. Like everybody came out
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Speaker 2: and not looking great. That's wha statement, as you said,
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Speaker 2: kind of pointed that out. There was aggression all over
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Speaker 2: the place, not great. So that face off happened down
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Speaker 2: you know, to the side of one of the goals,
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Speaker 2: on the other side of the ice from the penalty boxes.
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Speaker 2: And so when the final buzzer ring, and the the
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Speaker 2: reps were paying attention to the sort of pushy chevy
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Speaker 2: that was coming after the face off. They they didn't
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Speaker 2: pay the attention to the two women they had just
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Speaker 2: put the box for being aggressive with each other. And
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Speaker 2: so those two came out basically started releasing and so
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Speaker 2: that was really I think the escalation. And you had
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Speaker 2: both coaches on the ice, and then the coaches had
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Speaker 2: words and we did not have a handshake wine and yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's uh, it's October. So those two teams are gonna
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Speaker 2: meet at least two more tine times, probably more, and
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Speaker 2: so yeah, there's just there's a lot of bad blood.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of aggression and and I don't know,
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't know what you know, I don't
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Speaker 2: know that that's going to like none of this made
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Speaker 2: any diffused any of that, you know. So that part
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Speaker 2: is the other The thing that I think will be
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Speaker 2: interesting now is you've got Minnesota, who already I think
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Speaker 2: had someone injured, was down to I think eleven forwards
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Speaker 2: to begin with. So now you're talking about taking another
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Speaker 2: player away and from Rono is obviously on defense, but yeah,
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Speaker 2: that is sort of handicapping both these teams as they
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Speaker 2: head into you know, tough matchups next week, right, And
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Speaker 2: I thought one of the things that like that run
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Speaker 2: for me is the we before Wisconsin had got kind
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Speaker 2: of pulled into some stuff because of the officiating, and
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Speaker 2: Mark Shohnson basically just said, like you have to you
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Speaker 2: just have to be able to skate away and go
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Speaker 2: stand at the face off circle and wait, like you know,
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Speaker 2: know that you're winning on the scoreboard, and just like
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Speaker 2: let that go. And that's kind of what I was thinking,
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Speaker 2: which is all easier said than done and obviously very
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Speaker 2: what everybody knows you're supposed to do. But yeah, I
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Speaker 2: think there's a point where where all the players have
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Speaker 2: to just be able to be like, you know and
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Speaker 2: go back to the face off circle and move on.
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Speaker 2: So that's what their coach is going to tell them,
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Speaker 2: and you can't get pulled into this again. But I'd
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Speaker 2: imagine that the sort of leash that anybody has is
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Speaker 2: going to be pretty short from the league. So I
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Speaker 2: would think that any sort of future aggression between these
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Speaker 2: two teams are against other teams as well, it's not
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Speaker 2: going to be looked to bond kindly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Minnesota down two D when they play at Minnesota
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Speaker 1: Duluth this weekend. So not exactly did I say that backwards? Sorry, Well,
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Speaker 1: it's just that I think you had one forward, one
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Speaker 1: D and that's unless they move players around. That's that's
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Speaker 1: too deep for them, and too forwards for Ohio State,
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Speaker 1: which is already short on forwards this year as they
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Speaker 1: host Saint Cloud State this coming week. So, uh, that'll
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Speaker 1: be interesting to see those you know, those line charts
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Speaker 1: for that. Uh. I believe they both start Friday in
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Speaker 1: those series this week, and uh yeah, that's uh, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna get the that'th's gonna get challenged, I guess for
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Speaker 1: for both of those teams. And it's just.
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Speaker 2: A preview of Olympic stuff.
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Speaker 1: I guess, well, I guess yeah, at least.
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Speaker 2: They're already planning to be Yeah. Uh yeah. It's one
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Speaker 2: of those where I mean, obviously my socials blew up
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Speaker 2: right like tons of people that that video made its
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Speaker 2: way around and people were, oh, I love fighting, Oh
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Speaker 2: let them fight things like that, And I mean moral
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Speaker 2: of the story is that's not allowed. It's really not
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Speaker 2: even allowed on the men's side in college, and it's
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Speaker 2: just it's not good. And so you know, I think
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Speaker 2: that's whoever the teams were, we'd have to be having
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Speaker 2: this conversation. And I think just for the good of
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Speaker 2: the sport and really for the safety of the players,
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Speaker 2: it can't. It can't happen like it just this is
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Speaker 2: when we talk about, when you and I talk about
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Speaker 2: like the officiating and things getting out of control. This
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Speaker 2: is I think sort of the worst case scenario we
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Speaker 2: were imagining right as teams getting in fights and teams
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Speaker 2: like that, that aggression boiling over. And so I think
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Speaker 2: that that's why, like we hartput some of the officiating
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Speaker 2: and stuff like, we're worried someone's gonna get hurt. We're
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Speaker 2: gonna worried it's gonna end up in something like this.
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Speaker 1: And so so now here we are, yep, a message
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Speaker 1: sent there by both referees and the league as they
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Speaker 1: exit that series. But let's let's move out east for
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Speaker 1: what we had looked ahead to last week as a
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Speaker 1: series to watch Quinnipiac hosting Northeastern for a couple of
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Speaker 1: non conference games. Uh and Northeastern you have to say,
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Speaker 1: had their chances in this series, but it became the
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Speaker 1: Kaylin Lamar Show. She scored seven goals over the two games,
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Speaker 1: four of them on Friday, three of them on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: so back to back half tricks. The really important goals too.
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Speaker 1: On Friday, the goal ahead goal to make it four
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Speaker 1: to three and another goal to make it five to three,
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Speaker 1: and that ended up being the final after Jules Constantinople
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Speaker 1: scored a couple of goals for Northeastern to get them
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Speaker 1: right back in that one, and then LaMarsh scores the
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Speaker 1: tying in goal ahead goals in the third period and
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Speaker 1: the goal ahead goal with less than two minutes left
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Speaker 1: on Saturday as Quinnipiac got a four to two win there,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, She's got twelve goals this season.
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Speaker 1: It's like out of nowhere.
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Speaker 2: I think she had fourteen last year. I was just
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Speaker 2: trying to pull it up, and of course I got
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Speaker 2: an error message on the website. But yeah, just an
12:39
Speaker 2: absolute masterclass from her this weekend. I thought too. It
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Speaker 2: was funny. Emerson Jervis scored the first goal for Quinnipiac
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Speaker 2: in the last goal and then in the middle and
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Speaker 2: we just want to say we apologize if you're saying
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Speaker 2: her name correct. They don't have her name phonetically spelled
12:53
Speaker 2: that we could find anywhere, And so I went and
12:55
Speaker 2: even listened to some of the broadcast highlights that we
12:58
Speaker 2: were just getting. Last name, so apologize for saying your
13:01
Speaker 2: first name was wrong, because you definitely deserve all the kudos.
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Speaker 2: Just an absolute master kept classical performance. I mean, when
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Speaker 2: you're scoring six in a row, like everybody knows what's
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Speaker 2: coming and she still sort of did it without being
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Speaker 2: stopped and so absolutely the player to watch. Amazing to
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Speaker 2: me that we sort of talked about like the run
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Speaker 2: that Abbie Murphy had been on, and here we've got
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Speaker 2: another player that just absolutely broke out. It has ridiculous
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Speaker 2: numbers and you know, less than ten games.
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Speaker 1: That was a series, as we previewed last week, between
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Speaker 1: teams that had not lost yet this season. So Quinnipeg
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Speaker 1: moved to eight to oh their scoring margin is thirty
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Speaker 1: four to thirteen. Pretty impressive on that and on the
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Speaker 1: Northeastern side they fall the four and two and it's
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Speaker 1: you know, it just needed really on Friday, they needed
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Speaker 1: a goal to get over because they fell behind I
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Speaker 1: believe three nothing and then got back in it and
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Speaker 1: then needed needed to find that extra goal and they
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Speaker 1: couldn't do it same thing on Saturday. They grabbed the lead,
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Speaker 1: couldn't hold on to it. That's that's got to I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's got to be a bit of a blow for
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Speaker 1: for Northeastern UH to have the chances that they did
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Speaker 1: in some games that are probably going to mean something
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Speaker 1: in the NPI towards the end, UH and and not
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Speaker 1: being able to get them done.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I think, you know, it's it's a double
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Speaker 2: edged story. It is still early, they are non conference
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Speaker 2: games in that way, you know that that doesn't necessarily
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Speaker 2: hit the same way. But I also think it says
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Speaker 2: a lot about them that they were able to you know,
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Speaker 2: sort of cost some of that back, Like they didn't
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Speaker 2: go down and just completely give up. And so you know,
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Speaker 2: again I'm always looking for the positives to take from it,
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Speaker 2: and I think there are some for them there. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: they would have wanted the opportunities for Northeastern to play
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Speaker 2: ranked teams and get you know, points off ranked teams
14:52
Speaker 2: is just fewer because there are a fewer ranked you know,
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Speaker 2: Hockey East teams and so so they really like that
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Speaker 2: was one circle on the calendar for them as a
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Speaker 2: big deal, and they unfortunately ran into a Quinnipiac team
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Speaker 2: that's just absolutely rolling, and I'm not sure. I feel
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Speaker 2: it's kind of crazy to me. The Quinnipiac is still
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Speaker 2: ranked seventh in the polls at the moment. I understand
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Speaker 2: like based on who's ahead of them, it's hard to
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Speaker 2: move anybody up or around. And but yeah, eight and no,
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Speaker 2: and they've pretty much sat in those teams, bot in
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Speaker 2: the poles this whole time. They definitely, I think proved
15:24
Speaker 2: another thing this weekend. Like we said last week, we're
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Speaker 2: talking about sort of them proven that they were the
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Speaker 2: real deal, and I think they did that again this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Part of the reason that there's you know, not a
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Speaker 1: lot of advancement there for Quinnipiac is okay. Penn State's
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Speaker 1: also right in that mix as an unbeaten team. I
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Speaker 1: believe they're eight and no now right eight no as well,
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Speaker 1: they're at the six. Cornell just starting their season started
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Speaker 1: off at two and zero. People expecting a lot out
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Speaker 1: of Cornell again this year. And then you've got that
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Speaker 1: block of WHA teams that has just kind of proven
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Speaker 1: that it's going to be in that mix.
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Speaker 2: And so right, yeah, and their only losses to are
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Speaker 2: to each other.
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Speaker 1: They're beating each other, right, so it's yeah, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be tough to crack that, but I I feel like
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Speaker 1: in the end, you keep going, you keep with a
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Speaker 1: just got.
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Speaker 2: To keep your head down and keep doing it right.
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Speaker 1: It's going to show up in the end for you
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Speaker 1: in in what matters, that being the NPI, and you know,
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Speaker 1: then your your conference standings really are going to count
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Speaker 1: a lot towards towards the idea of you know, how
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Speaker 1: how good of a team you are in the voter's
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Speaker 1: eyes at the end too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've talked about all the time, you know,
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Speaker 2: like particularly when we've talked as like maybe Hockey East
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Speaker 2: about sort of like winning the games you need to win,
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Speaker 2: like just sort of putting your head down and doing
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Speaker 2: what you're supposed to do. And that's what Quinip is
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Speaker 2: doing right now.
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Speaker 1: Yep, let's spin around or the rest of the country.
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Speaker 1: In Atlantic hockey, Penn State UH solidified its hold on
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Speaker 1: that the number one spot in the well early in
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Speaker 1: the stand condensingly. Yeah. Yeah, three nothing and six to
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Speaker 1: one wins over Mercy Hearst and you know Mercyhurrist being
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Speaker 1: the team that last season really gave Penn State it's
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Speaker 1: best challenge. So UH Mercius off to a three and
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Speaker 1: five start this season, which is not quite what a
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Speaker 1: lot of people felt I think like going into this
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Speaker 1: and and Penn State is really moving out to that
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Speaker 1: uh getting that gap and in Atlantic hockey that we
17:20
Speaker 1: have seen occasionally from them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and importantly for Penn State, not everything is coming
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Speaker 2: from or through Testagianiky and so for sort of the
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Speaker 2: growth of the program and the future of the program,
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Speaker 2: I think it's really important that we keep seeing from
17:36
Speaker 2: them that they're they're doing. I mean, they didn't even
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Speaker 2: play her last week, and then it's not like she
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Speaker 2: is she's she did not get to get LaMarsh for
17:44
Speaker 2: way through the weekend. Everybody else is contributing there, and
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Speaker 2: so I think that's that's one of the keys for them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, seven goals allowed in eight games for Penn State.
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Speaker 1: So that's a positive side for them too that it's uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, they're playing the style that that they can
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Speaker 1: pop possession and you know, good defense when you need it.
18:04
Speaker 1: Also a couple of other upsets that we saw over
18:07
Speaker 1: the weekend. UH Providence got a two to one win
18:10
Speaker 1: over Clarkson on Friday before Clarkson rebonded with a three
18:13
Speaker 1: nothing win on Saturday. Important win there for Providence. Uh,
18:18
Speaker 1: they're only won so far getting some footing after a
18:22
Speaker 1: rough start. They're they're one and five and they've been
18:25
Speaker 1: outscored twenty three to five. So that one like was
18:30
Speaker 1: a bit of a double take for me. It's to
18:33
Speaker 1: see that that's how that game turned out on Friday.
18:36
Speaker 2: It was a wild third period. But what I think
18:40
Speaker 2: even more than the win for Providence is they took
18:42
Speaker 2: the lead and then held it for quite a long time,
18:45
Speaker 2: including killing a five minute major. So I think the
18:49
Speaker 2: confidence boost of not just like it's not like they
18:51
Speaker 2: stole the game right like they it was two to
18:53
Speaker 2: one win, they got their goal ahead goal, and then
18:55
Speaker 2: they held Clarkson off and they were still it wasn't
18:58
Speaker 2: like they just turtled. They were still you know, getting
19:00
Speaker 2: some shots off and things, and so that was a
19:02
Speaker 2: wild and fun third period to watch. But also I
19:04
Speaker 2: think just a really huge and necessary sort of mental
19:08
Speaker 2: win in addition to the actual win for Providence in
19:11
Speaker 2: terms of like okay, we can do this, we can
19:14
Speaker 2: you know, we can play against the top team, we
19:15
Speaker 2: can hold on to this and really, you know, play
19:18
Speaker 2: our game in the face of all that pressure.
19:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, despite that seven minutes of power play time for
19:24
Speaker 1: Clarkson in the third period shots on goal, we're still
19:26
Speaker 1: fourteen to eight for Providence. So that that tells you
19:29
Speaker 1: that they were able to you know, settle it down
19:32
Speaker 1: a little bit and not not let that spiral away from.
19:36
Speaker 2: Like superpressive from them. Particularly you know, going into that
19:39
Speaker 2: that weekend, you're thinking like, ooh, this this could be
19:41
Speaker 2: a rough matchup, like they just hasn't been how to
19:44
Speaker 2: start they wanted. I think, you know, sort of any
19:46
Speaker 2: team doing that well in that situation and this, oh
19:49
Speaker 2: and fourteen going in and doing it was it was
19:50
Speaker 2: really fun to watch.
19:52
Speaker 1: Maine got a two one win over Colgate on Saturday,
19:55
Speaker 1: which was we've we've seen some flashes for Maine or
19:59
Speaker 1: last couple of years, right, and and this maybe I
20:03
Speaker 1: guess I can't remember all of their their wins, but
20:06
Speaker 1: it feels like it's one that's up there in terms
20:08
Speaker 1: of things you can build on and things you can
20:12
Speaker 1: use as a launching point towards uh where that team
20:16
Speaker 1: wants to get to.
20:17
Speaker 2: Well, you know, sometimes we talk about like when I'm
20:20
Speaker 2: like that that that lost wasn't as bad as it looked,
20:23
Speaker 2: like if you think about the team that lost Wisconsin
20:27
Speaker 2: five oh five OHO in Madison. But like you and
20:30
Speaker 2: I both said that we watched them of that and
20:32
Speaker 2: more like wow, like this is main like really held
20:35
Speaker 2: them at times and really it was just there were,
20:38
Speaker 2: like you said, those flashes there of like Okay, I
20:41
Speaker 2: can see how this can work. And so I was
20:42
Speaker 2: really impressed that, like in a short period of time,
20:44
Speaker 2: you're talking a couple of weeks, they did that against
20:47
Speaker 2: Colgate and so I think, you know, I'm not it's
20:50
Speaker 2: not just a team can pull in those eas and
20:53
Speaker 2: what they might pull together. So yeah, that was nothing
21:01
Speaker 2: and later number at Colgate and so that to those details,
21:07
Speaker 2: that's what we're talking about and what we're looking at
21:09
Speaker 2: and hoping to see in the future from the Dems right.
21:13
Speaker 1: Boston University's tough start has continued. A lost brown sank
21:18
Speaker 1: the Terriers to zero to five this season. That's on
21:21
Speaker 1: the heels of making the NCAA Tournament last season. A
21:24
Speaker 1: lot of things going in the right direction there and
21:26
Speaker 1: and this start is is obviously a bit of a
21:30
Speaker 1: turn in the wrong direction for BU. But for Brown.
21:33
Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked about them in the past as
21:36
Speaker 1: being able to get the occasional victory. That that looks
21:39
Speaker 1: like it's a well, okay, there, there they go. We
21:42
Speaker 1: can we can see what what Brown is and what
21:44
Speaker 1: Brown could be. And I'm not I'm not sure which
21:50
Speaker 1: which side to put more on here of the will
21:52
Speaker 1: be used in trouble or hey, maybe there's Brown coming again.
21:56
Speaker 1: But I think there's probably something on both sides of
21:59
Speaker 1: the equation there.
22:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Brown went out the next day and beat Merrimack.
22:04
Speaker 2: It was just a one to win, but you know,
22:06
Speaker 2: still win. And I think being able to put those
22:08
Speaker 2: close games it makes me wonder about Brown's ability to
22:11
Speaker 2: I need them to course some more goals if they're
22:13
Speaker 2: going to make their way through the East. But yeah,
22:15
Speaker 2: two oh start is exactly what they need, is a
22:18
Speaker 2: launch pad, right right.
22:21
Speaker 1: Saint Lawrence also having a tricky time now, got to
22:25
Speaker 1: win against r T but then lost four to one
22:29
Speaker 1: on Friday in that Thursday Friday series. This is a
22:36
Speaker 1: kind of a really volatile bottom five of the top
22:41
Speaker 1: fifteen right now. It feels like where there's there's not
22:45
Speaker 1: a lot set and stolen there. I mean where we're
22:47
Speaker 1: seeing the top teams are like okay, there's not a
22:49
Speaker 1: lot of movement there, and we like we're saying, you,
22:51
Speaker 1: Quinnipiac at seven can't move up because there's really no
22:54
Speaker 1: one to pass. But then there's a lot of things
22:58
Speaker 1: happening at.
22:58
Speaker 2: The bottom there really is like you get as someone
23:02
Speaker 2: who votes in poles, like you're starting to put it
23:04
Speaker 2: in and you're looking at the weekends, you know, resulting
23:08
Speaker 2: like okay, well that they lost, like what you know,
23:10
Speaker 2: who could move up? And then you're like all the
23:13
Speaker 2: teams below them lost and then you're like, well, okay,
23:15
Speaker 2: like bu is winless, like they should probably drop out
23:18
Speaker 2: at this point. And then you look at like the
23:19
Speaker 2: other teams receiving votes and they also all lost, and
23:22
Speaker 2: you're like, well what do I do here? Like what
23:25
Speaker 2: do you like who gets the Yeah, So it's been
23:28
Speaker 2: it's been a little fascinating that bottom half of the
23:30
Speaker 2: fifteenth team pole. It's for sure a tale of two halves, right,
23:35
Speaker 2: like you have that top half. I think if you
23:38
Speaker 2: look at the points this week to like the accumulated points,
23:41
Speaker 2: there's like a fifty point difference between seven Quidnipiac and
23:46
Speaker 2: eight is that full gate, like I apologize, So, yeah,
23:52
Speaker 2: it's it's making the poll each week is certainly has
23:56
Speaker 2: been challenging, and you know, I think one of the
23:59
Speaker 2: cool things is that Saint Thomas made their way onto
24:03
Speaker 2: the poles for the I think the first time since
24:05
Speaker 2: they joined the NCAAA, and they're doing it in time
24:08
Speaker 2: to open their new stadium next week. You pointed out,
24:11
Speaker 2: so that's pretty cool for them. But yes, I think
24:14
Speaker 2: you know at five and two they certainly they had
24:16
Speaker 2: an upset win over Sat Cloud's State this weekend. That
24:19
Speaker 2: was a fun series that was weirdly chaotic and sort
24:23
Speaker 2: of like two. It was two four to three over
24:26
Speaker 2: five wins, one for each team, including sort of ridiculous
24:29
Speaker 2: overtime goals to end the game. But yeah, so the
24:32
Speaker 2: polls right now, I think at this point I'm ready
24:35
Speaker 2: for a few more games to figure this out because
24:37
Speaker 2: it's every week. I just then go out, yeah up,
24:40
Speaker 2: who moves down?
24:42
Speaker 1: So there's a big get you Like you mentioned there's
24:43
Speaker 1: a big gap in points between seven and eight, and
24:45
Speaker 1: then again between Northeastern and twelve and Saint Thomas and Yale,
24:49
Speaker 1: who are now tied for thirteenth. Northeastern ninety five points
24:53
Speaker 1: Thomas and Yale at twenty seven. So that's where voters
24:57
Speaker 1: are seeing the drop off happening. And then it's the
24:59
Speaker 1: bottom three that it's like, well, okay, who do we
25:02
Speaker 1: want to throw in there this week? And Saint Thomas
25:04
Speaker 1: and Yale both moving into that Yale starting two and
25:07
Speaker 1: oh after last week, And like you mentioned, Saint Thomas
25:11
Speaker 1: five and two is an intriguing story out of the
25:17
Speaker 1: w c h A. We've we've talked about how it's
25:21
Speaker 1: tough to break into that top four for Saint Cloud. Well,
25:25
Speaker 1: Saint Thomas is gonna make a run at something. Yeah,
25:29
Speaker 1: so uh, let's see where that goes. They're gonna have
25:33
Speaker 1: to beat some some of those top four teams to
25:35
Speaker 1: make anything happen. But yeah, like you mentioned, a great
25:38
Speaker 1: timing opening Lee and Penny Anderson Arena this Friday against Providence.
25:41
Speaker 1: I believe that's a two game series Friday and Saturday.
25:45
Speaker 1: So yeah, a lot, a lot of good things happening
25:46
Speaker 1: at Saint Thomas and something to keep an eye on
25:50
Speaker 1: going forward for sure.
25:52
Speaker 2: And just to point out, like the other teams receiving
25:55
Speaker 2: votes were Mercy Hurst, Saint Lawrence, Minnesota State Princeton, Boston College,
25:59
Speaker 2: Brown and Providence. And so again you're talking Mercyhurst was swept,
26:03
Speaker 2: Saint Lawrence has not a great record, you know, like Boston,
26:08
Speaker 2: these are not what do you look at six teams
26:10
Speaker 2: there and you're like, so one of those teams should
26:12
Speaker 2: move in in their losses over another team that. Let's
26:16
Speaker 2: It's just it's getting very sticky and weird right now.
26:20
Speaker 1: And that's why, I mean, you can look at the
26:24
Speaker 1: computer rankings right now, but it's I wouldn't recommend it
26:27
Speaker 1: because it's all meaning. There's not enough in there to
26:31
Speaker 1: for that to mean anything. So give give, give that.
26:35
Speaker 1: Put pause on that.
26:36
Speaker 2: Uh for not, I haven't even pulled it up. I'm like,
26:39
Speaker 2: it's not.
26:41
Speaker 1: There's not enough games in in the formula to really
26:46
Speaker 1: make any real sense of it. So better to hold
26:49
Speaker 1: off on that for now. Okay, let's pause there. We'll
26:53
Speaker 1: take a break. When we come back, we were going
26:54
Speaker 1: to look ahead at what we have coming up this weekend.
26:57
Speaker 1: Stay with us on the podcast. Welcome back to the podcast,
27:08
Speaker 1: Todd and Nicole with you. I wanted to mention one
27:10
Speaker 1: more result out of last week in the New Ha
27:13
Speaker 1: the the Assumption Greyhounds with a couple of victories over
27:17
Speaker 1: l i U last week three two in overtime on Friday,
27:21
Speaker 1: two to one in overtime on Saturday. I haven't been
27:26
Speaker 1: able to talk about assumption a lot in a a
27:29
Speaker 1: positive way, I guess for for positive results in in
27:32
Speaker 1: the last a little while here. So a couple of
27:35
Speaker 1: wins over l i U. Big thing for them. They're
27:38
Speaker 1: they're right now if you look at the standings, they're
27:41
Speaker 1: they're leaving New Ha. So uh uh we.
27:46
Speaker 2: Think those are their first two wins against LU had
27:49
Speaker 2: only ever gotten a tie. So yeah, big for them. Really,
27:53
Speaker 2: Like I there were so many upsets it was hard
27:55
Speaker 2: to fit this into but I like I was tempted
27:59
Speaker 2: to put it in my list of like, look at
28:00
Speaker 2: all the upsets we saw this weekend, just because I,
28:03
Speaker 2: you know, like you said, it's rare that we get
28:05
Speaker 2: to talk about them this way.
28:07
Speaker 1: So gosh, that.
28:08
Speaker 2: Sounds so but I just I wanted to. I really
28:09
Speaker 2: wanted to highlight it. I was so excited for them.
28:12
Speaker 1: Well chance from behind too, ye, yes, chance for upsets again.
28:15
Speaker 1: This week We've got a few games between ranked teams,
28:19
Speaker 1: but then also some some teams looking to get their
28:24
Speaker 1: season moving again. I guess uh in in a positive direction.
28:28
Speaker 1: Let's start, Uh, let's start with Quinnipiac and Yale so quinnetpack.
28:34
Speaker 1: Like we mentioned eight no, Yale just started to and
28:37
Speaker 1: O feels like, you know, if if, if Quinnipiac wants
28:43
Speaker 1: to win the ECAC this season, like they're showing that
28:47
Speaker 1: they can be in that mix. Uh, getting a win
28:51
Speaker 1: against Yale on opening that of ec A C play
28:53
Speaker 1: would be big for them.
28:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think you know, when these the
28:58
Speaker 2: wins you have to have, I think a because you're
29:02
Speaker 2: just clearly at the top, you know, of of the
29:04
Speaker 2: conference right now and in playing your best hockey. And
29:07
Speaker 2: also you know, you know, Y'll just hit the ice
29:10
Speaker 2: last week and at this point, quinnipiacs a boulder rolling
29:13
Speaker 2: down the hill and they just got so much momentum
29:15
Speaker 2: and so much experience under their belt at this point.
29:18
Speaker 2: And I think, like sometimes we talk about that and
29:20
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how much it matters, but it does
29:21
Speaker 2: feels particularly important. Quinnipiack probably couldn't be more confident in
29:27
Speaker 2: their abilities and what they're capable of. And Yale it's
29:30
Speaker 2: probably still you know, figuring things out a little bit
29:32
Speaker 2: and so yeah, like you said, it's just really important
29:35
Speaker 2: to get those conference points, and you know, Yale will
29:39
Speaker 2: be looking to prove that they're there's somebody that should
29:41
Speaker 2: be you know, in the conversation this year. So you know,
29:46
Speaker 2: anytime you're the top team, you're going to give everybody's
29:48
Speaker 2: best game, and so it's always going to be a
29:50
Speaker 2: little bit of a trap for that better team coming in.
29:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, quining Piac then goes to Brown on Saturday. On Friday,
29:57
Speaker 1: Princeton zat Brown. Prince a couple of close losses to
30:04
Speaker 1: Yukon last week we mentioned Brown with a couple of
30:07
Speaker 1: or you know, an impressive start to their season. You
30:13
Speaker 1: were you were saying before, this feels like one of
30:15
Speaker 1: those where, well, well we'll know a little bit more
30:17
Speaker 1: about these teams by the end, by the end of
30:19
Speaker 1: this one.
30:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels a little bit of a a you know,
30:23
Speaker 2: undercover test of like which ones may be the real
30:25
Speaker 2: deal after with very little information, right, like we just
30:29
Speaker 2: we don't know yet. And so that we were super
30:31
Speaker 2: impressed with Brown that first weekend. I thought, you know,
30:34
Speaker 2: Princeton unranked, Yukon ranked, like they're they're not supposed to
30:37
Speaker 2: win those games. They were close games. I thought Princeton looked,
30:40
Speaker 2: you know, pretty good for a team that was hitting
30:42
Speaker 2: the ice for the first time and who had you know,
30:44
Speaker 2: graduated some really good talent, had lost some talent to
30:46
Speaker 2: the transfer portal. So yeah, I think it's it's a
30:49
Speaker 2: really good early test. It's funny you were were like,
30:52
Speaker 2: and then Princeton does. I like, because we've been doing preseason,
30:55
Speaker 2: a non conference, I had forgotten that we're moving into
30:58
Speaker 2: ECAC Travel partners. It's like, well, yes, they're not pretty
31:01
Speaker 2: playing the same team twice an arrow. They caught me
31:05
Speaker 2: my surprise for a second into.
31:07
Speaker 1: That mix of lug. Oh, that looks like that would
31:08
Speaker 1: be a good series. No, wait, that's just one one.
31:12
Speaker 2: It was just on auto auto pilot.
31:14
Speaker 1: There a couple of big ones in the w c
31:17
Speaker 1: h A, Like we mentioned before, We've got Minnesota at
31:20
Speaker 1: Minnesota Duluth and Saint Cloud State at Ohio State. Minnesota
31:24
Speaker 1: and Ohio State both missing a couple of players from suspensions.
31:28
Speaker 1: H does that open up the door for a potential
31:32
Speaker 1: upset in those series. I don't know if it would
31:33
Speaker 1: be a big upset with you know, d Luth getting
31:36
Speaker 1: wins win or wins against Minnesota in their home rink,
31:40
Speaker 1: when you know, the Bulldogs are fourth and the rankings
31:43
Speaker 1: Gophers the third, but Saint Cloud going into the os
31:47
Speaker 1: u Ice Arena maybe having an opportunity against a shortened
31:52
Speaker 1: bench of the Buckeyes.
31:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a team that they've you know, really pushed
31:58
Speaker 2: to their limits and really showed that they can play
32:00
Speaker 2: well with in the past couple of seasons that you know,
32:03
Speaker 2: of the sort of teams above them in the standings,
32:05
Speaker 2: I think that's probably the best matchup for Saint Cloud.
32:08
Speaker 2: And so yeah, when it's already been closed in Saint
32:10
Speaker 2: Cloud is mailed to, you know, pull some points in
32:12
Speaker 2: those matchups and the door opened just that little bit more.
32:16
Speaker 2: Saint Cloud really has to try and take advantage of that.
32:19
Speaker 2: What I liked from Saint Cloud this weekend in their
32:21
Speaker 2: close games was how much they were on a fast
32:24
Speaker 2: break at times. That game felt like a uh speed
32:29
Speaker 2: skating match, you know, like it was just there was
32:31
Speaker 2: so much quick play in that. And so when you're
32:35
Speaker 2: talking a short bench and a team that likes to
32:37
Speaker 2: pressure and that likes put possession, I mean, I don't
32:40
Speaker 2: I'm not sure you can ever really fatigue a Nady
32:43
Speaker 2: Mozarell team. But I think that, you know, if they
32:45
Speaker 2: can really keep Ohio State running with that fast paced
32:49
Speaker 2: game on a short bench, that could really lead to
32:51
Speaker 2: some interesting things.
32:52
Speaker 1: Yeah. I wonder if Minnesota death will be as effective
32:57
Speaker 1: in I don't know if getting under the skin is
33:01
Speaker 1: the right way of seeing it, but of being able
33:05
Speaker 1: to disrupt what Minnesota wants to do offensively and pop
33:08
Speaker 1: possession wise, as the Louth was against wisponsin for a
33:11
Speaker 1: lot of the series a couple of weeks ago in Madison.
33:14
Speaker 1: That seems like if if they can use that as
33:19
Speaker 1: a strategy and if it, you know, get gets the
33:22
Speaker 1: Gophers off their game a little bit, that might work
33:24
Speaker 1: out pretty well. Yeah.
33:27
Speaker 2: And the other thing I would say is counterpoint is
33:29
Speaker 2: that Minnesota State at Ham Minnesota the loof on the
33:32
Speaker 2: ropes at one point pretty late in one of their
33:34
Speaker 2: games this weekend, and so you know, like kim Minnesota Duluth,
33:38
Speaker 2: Kin Minnesota, give that to Minnesota Duluth and sort of counteract.
33:42
Speaker 2: I feel like it's going to be a bit of
33:43
Speaker 2: a chess match that way. It was like once Minnesota
33:46
Speaker 2: Duluth finally was able to score, then they came in bunches,
33:48
Speaker 2: but Minnesota State had them really frustrated and steinyed, and
33:52
Speaker 2: so you know, in terms of like watching tape and
33:54
Speaker 2: what the Gophers can do back to them, I think
33:56
Speaker 2: there's going to be some some interesting, uh sort of
34:00
Speaker 2: coach machinations and planning going into like the hypotheticals of
34:03
Speaker 2: like what what does this short bench look like and
34:06
Speaker 2: what the you know, how does that affect things and
34:08
Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff.
34:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had mentioned before the opening of Lee and
34:13
Speaker 1: Penny Anderson Arena in Saint Paul, Minnesota for Saint Thomas
34:17
Speaker 1: against Providence. It's been a long stretch on the road
34:24
Speaker 1: for Saint Thomas opened the season waiting for their Yeah,
34:28
Speaker 1: I think they build in a little extra time in
34:31
Speaker 1: case the rink wasn't quite ready for the side of
34:33
Speaker 1: the season, to just make sure they weren't having to
34:35
Speaker 1: play somewhere else or moving wolve home games. But now
34:39
Speaker 1: they're here, they're uh St Thomas five and three, having
34:42
Speaker 1: played I believe all those games on the road. If
34:44
Speaker 1: if I'm remembering that right or five and two, I'm sorry,
34:50
Speaker 1: we have the right five and two and five and
34:52
Speaker 1: two on the road. Yeah, So to do that on
34:56
Speaker 1: the road to now be able to come back home.
34:58
Speaker 1: You're going to have a run of home games at
35:00
Speaker 1: some point here to be able to build home ice.
35:04
Speaker 1: Uh boy, that that looks like it's in a pretty
35:06
Speaker 1: good shape now for the Tommies.
35:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really think they're they're sort of the team
35:12
Speaker 2: to keep an eye on right now. Right Like they've
35:14
Speaker 2: got great coal attending, they've found consistent scoring, they've got momentum,
35:17
Speaker 2: they've got confidence, they have this rink sort of like
35:21
Speaker 2: it's just check check check in terms of like what
35:24
Speaker 2: they sort of needed to go for them. And I
35:26
Speaker 2: think too, there's just you know, there had been some
35:28
Speaker 2: negative around the team. There had been just a lot
35:31
Speaker 2: going on. So like this is this team under this
35:33
Speaker 2: coach in their own arena, just like deep breath, let
35:38
Speaker 2: it all out, relax and be you know, be comfortable.
35:41
Speaker 2: And so I think there's something to be said for that.
35:43
Speaker 2: And and yeah, you were talking about timeline. If you
35:46
Speaker 2: sort of the social videos they posted it to the
35:48
Speaker 2: girls just or the women just saw the arena like
35:51
Speaker 2: last week, maybe the last ten days, so it's not
35:54
Speaker 2: like they've they've been in there this whole time for
35:55
Speaker 2: anything else. And so yeah, I think there's just there's
35:58
Speaker 2: a lot that positive for them to build on, and
36:02
Speaker 2: it's it's cool.
36:03
Speaker 1: To see, all right, anything else you're looking forward to
36:06
Speaker 1: this week?
36:13
Speaker 2: That wasn't meant to sister. It was a deep breast
36:15
Speaker 2: and maybe some sleep and there's just it's a very
36:18
Speaker 2: busy time for me at the moment. But no, I'm
36:20
Speaker 2: looking forward to you know, I was lucky to weirdly
36:24
Speaker 2: we had a brunt of brunch hockey again on Friday,
36:27
Speaker 2: and so I mean I felt, like I said, and
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Speaker 2: was able to watch hockey and you know, I was
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Speaker 2: doing some you know, writing and work and data gathering,
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Speaker 2: but I got to watch hockey for a lot of
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Speaker 2: time on Friday and it was really nice to to
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Speaker 2: just kind of go game after game after game. And oh,
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Speaker 2: I should shout out to ESPN Plus, who has been
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Speaker 2: like promoting women's college hockey games on their socials mostly
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Speaker 2: in the PR but you can also turn go into
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Speaker 2: ESPN Plus and put in like the multiview, so there's
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Speaker 2: up to three or four games on one screen and
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Speaker 2: in a time, and then you can it's kind of
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Speaker 2: like a red zone where you can just click into
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Speaker 2: one when when you want to and goodness, I watched
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Speaker 2: some really ugly feeds. Also it's Catch twenty two, but
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Speaker 2: it's such a like it's such a huge step forward
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Speaker 2: and it's just so nice to see that. Like when
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Speaker 2: I go into ESPN Plus, you know, and again, I
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Speaker 2: know there's not a ton going on it noon on
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Speaker 2: a Friday, but like all of the women's college hockey
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Speaker 2: games are just on the top of the screen, like
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Speaker 2: it's just like it after some lean times. It's really
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Speaker 2: nice to see. So it was just a happy thing
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Speaker 2: for me to like at one point. I mean, I've
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Speaker 2: talked about I have my multi screens going, but that
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Speaker 2: I could.
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Speaker 1: Just do it.
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Speaker 2: I had the multi screwing on one. It was really nice.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, it's great to see. It's great to see
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Speaker 1: that technology being used. I thought it was just because
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Speaker 1: I watched a lot of hockey games that I'm getting
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Speaker 1: those up at the top of my feed. Maybe that's
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Speaker 1: the way the algorithm works. But if it's not, it
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Speaker 1: it'd be great to have those games promoted the more
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Speaker 1: and more people who are just like you're saying, flipping
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Speaker 1: through looking for something to watch it, you know, early
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Speaker 1: afternoon Fridays.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you sort of quote unquote more you know,
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Speaker 2: bigger profile stuff comes the women's talky stuff, who's lower
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Speaker 2: on the streets. That's why I think it might not
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Speaker 2: just be the algorithm for me. But yeah, it's still
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Speaker 2: it's like you said, it's just it's the small things
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Speaker 2: and I'll take the wins when we get them.
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Speaker 1: Right, all right. Uh, we hope you enjoy this week's games.
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Speaker 1: We hope we will have you with us here again
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Speaker 1: next week. For Nicole on Todd, thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: the podcast.