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Meet new Syracuse coach Brian Idalski · The PodKaz: USCHO Women's Hockey

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Speaker 1: Uscho.com Hi and welcome.
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Speaker 2: It's another preseason edition of the podcast. I'm Todd Molesky
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Speaker 2: here with Nicole Haase. We're from uscho.com and we're thrilled
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Speaker 2: to be joined in our tour of new head coaches
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Speaker 2: around NCAA women's hockey with someone who is definitely not
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Speaker 2: a new head coach in NCAA women's hockey but in
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Speaker 2: a new location. Brian Adolsky from Syracuse. Now Brian, thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining us. Appreciate your time today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Appreciate you guys having me on.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are interested in knowing
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Speaker 2: how your connection with Syracuse came up and, and how,
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Speaker 2: how that all got to be and how you're starting
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Speaker 2: things up now there in New York. What's, what's the
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Speaker 2: backstory there?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think really it was a difficult year in
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Speaker 3: the PWHL and just the opportunity to get back into
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Speaker 3: collegiate coaching and some things had kind of aligned where
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Speaker 3: the opportunity presented itself.
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Speaker 1: And it was something I thought would be a good fit.
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Speaker 4: After sort of the the career that you had up
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Speaker 4: until this point you're in a new league now sort
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Speaker 4: of just a different style of play you know east
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Speaker 4: coast sort of the the refs we know call things
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Speaker 4: a little different in the aha how are you sort
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Speaker 4: of approaching it and how have you looked at it
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Speaker 4: in terms of like what how it might be different
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Speaker 4: than your previous time um as a collegiate coach yeah.
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Speaker 3: I nicole i tried not to prejudge too much till
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Speaker 3: we get going obviously i think it's a different uh
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Speaker 3: feel when you're you're coming out here and playing from
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Speaker 3: the WCHA and expectations and reffing. And so there was
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Speaker 3: a little bit of a change, but I also think
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Speaker 3: the NCAA and the reffing community has worked really hard
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Speaker 3: to try to make sure that that standard is being
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Speaker 3: upheld across the board and that there's more consistency to
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Speaker 3: the physicality and how it's being called.
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Speaker 1: And so I'm hopeful.
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Speaker 3: That that's not a thing and that we're going to
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Speaker 3: be able to play and compete and play hard. And
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Speaker 3: that's regardless of what league and what refs, that we're
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Speaker 3: getting a quality product and a consistent product.
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Speaker 2: I wonder, Brian, if this change for you has been
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Speaker 2: maybe similar to other changes, where when you take a
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Speaker 2: new job, you have to kind of set new expectations
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Speaker 2: for people and understand what the situation is. How is
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Speaker 2: this one similar or different to other starts for you?
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Speaker 1: You know, I think that....
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Speaker 3: Every time you step into a new situation, you hear
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Speaker 3: consistent themes of what was wrong. And it typically is communication,
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Speaker 3: clearly stated expectations, and people being held accountable. That's been
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Speaker 3: across the board. What's interesting is there's always various levels of, okay,
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Speaker 3: what's next?
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Speaker 1: And commitment to changing what's going on.
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Speaker 3: But I've also learned that when you step into a situation,
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Speaker 3: not everything is bad, that there are certain cultural things
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Speaker 3: that they enjoy, that they like, that they don't want
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Speaker 3: to see change. And so my initial conversations always are like,
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Speaker 3: what do you like most? what is it that you
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Speaker 3: hope never changes? What do you want to make sure
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Speaker 3: that we're maintaining culturally that you think is a huge positive?
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Speaker 3: And then, you know, what are a couple of things
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Speaker 3: that if you're in charge, would you change tomorrow that
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Speaker 3: you absolutely feel like need to go for us to
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Speaker 3: move forward?
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Speaker 1: And so those.
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Speaker 3: Conversations are always very interesting and you always get a
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Speaker 3: couple of themes that kind of run through their answers.
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Speaker 3: So Um, I don't think Syracuse is that far off
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Speaker 3: of anything else when I've stepped in and taken over.
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Speaker 1: Um, you know, hockey is hockey and people are people.
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Speaker 4: Culturally, it's just, um, a bit of a different situation
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Speaker 4: where there is sort of maybe a bigger athletic program,
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Speaker 4: but it's not a hockey for school, no men's team.
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Speaker 4: So I just wondered if that's a different challenge for you,
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Speaker 4: if that's something that maybe appealed to you, there's, there's
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Speaker 4: some different building that can be done there, um, to
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Speaker 4: bring attention to that program.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the largest school I've worked at. And
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Speaker 3: campus is huge. And so that's a big turnover. And obviously,
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Speaker 3: it's a different feel on campus. And with athletics being
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Speaker 3: in a power five school, with big time football, big
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Speaker 3: time basketball, successful lacrosse soccer programs. So yeah, we're a
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Speaker 3: little bit under the radar when it comes to hockey
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Speaker 3: on campus. And so Um, with that comes a huge
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Speaker 3: opportunity to, uh, to grow the program and, and to
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Speaker 3: do some things. I also think it's super cool that,
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Speaker 3: you know, HL team in Syracuse cruncher in town and, uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, hockey is a super small world. So knowing
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Speaker 3: a lot of people who have worked there, played there, um,
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Speaker 3: connecting with the president of, uh, hockey operations, um, I
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Speaker 3: feel like that's going to be a really neat kind
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Speaker 3: of opportunity for us to watch practice, to hang out,
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Speaker 3: to kind.
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Speaker 1: Of learn from their staff and be in and around.
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Speaker 3: So there's a lot of positives to what I think
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Speaker 3: can be a pretty good situation.
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Speaker 2: When you look over the resume that you've built, I mean,
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Speaker 2: going back to, you know, five years as head coach
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Speaker 2: at your alma mater, UW-Stevens Point, North Dakota, St. Cloud State,
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Speaker 2: coaching the Olympics, coaching the world championship, coaching in the PWHL.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if there are, I guess, still some things
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Speaker 2: that regardless of the level is, or remain your standard
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Speaker 2: things that no matter who you're coaching, you, you will
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Speaker 2: expect from players, uh, whatever level they're at and how
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Speaker 2: that gets into, I guess, your, your coaching style a
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Speaker 2: little bit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So I think that's a great question because, um, It's interesting.
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Speaker 3: There's no doubt I'm closer to the end of my
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Speaker 3: career than the beginning. There's no hiding that. I somehow
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Speaker 3: became an old coach, it seems like, overnight. But with
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Speaker 3: that comes an understanding when you get painted with that brush.
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Speaker 3: I kind of chuckle and I'm always like, old school.
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Speaker 3: So if that means that... valuing work ethic and compete
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Speaker 3: in the fact that I believe the game of hockey
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Speaker 3: is still won in one-on-one battles and in front of
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Speaker 3: nets and along walls, then I guess sign me up.
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Speaker 3: But I don't really think that that's changed. I don't
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Speaker 3: think those values are out of style when it comes
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Speaker 3: to being a competitive hockey player in teams.
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Speaker 1: So, That's been interesting.
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Speaker 3: Those things are still things that I value and I
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Speaker 3: think are important and I think are what it means
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Speaker 3: to be a successful hockey program.
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Speaker 4: Do you think your, maybe since the last time you
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Speaker 4: took over, since that first week at St. Cloud, do
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Speaker 4: you think what you've done in the interim has changed?
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Speaker 4: I don't change your style, change your approach. Like what
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Speaker 4: have you learned with some of the different things that
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Speaker 4: you've taken on over the last couple of years that now,
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Speaker 4: you know, maybe make you a better, different coach taking
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Speaker 4: over this role now?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would tell you the last couple of years,
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Speaker 3: it's really been the adjustment to the lack of practice
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Speaker 3: and what does that look like? And so, giving the
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Speaker 3: information in other ways and how do you present that
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Speaker 3: and what does that look like and how do you
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Speaker 3: teach outside of the practice time that really we're used
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Speaker 3: to in a collegiate setup and even the way we
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Speaker 3: were set up in China with the Russian League like
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Speaker 3: we would practice for a couple weeks and then go
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Speaker 3: play in a span of two weeks six games and
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Speaker 3: then we'd have a little break and we'd practice. That's
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Speaker 3: not what the national team's like. We have a very, very,
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Speaker 3: very limited practice time together. The PWHL was very similar with,
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Speaker 3: you know, we basically have 10 days for a training
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Speaker 3: camp and grabbing players from six different organizations and then
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Speaker 3: having seven players gone. and then, Hey, we're playing games.
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Speaker 3: And it was not very good out of the shoot
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Speaker 3: for sure. Um, and it took us a while to
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Speaker 3: play catch up with that. So what does that look like?
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Speaker 3: So I learned a lot with that. I do not
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Speaker 3: have any ill will towards that experience. Um, you're either
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Speaker 3: getting better, you're getting worse. And so there was a
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Speaker 3: lot of growth opportunities and things that I learned through
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Speaker 3: the experience that, um, yeah, there are different ways to
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Speaker 3: improve with that. When you don't have a lot of
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Speaker 3: practice time, what does that look like? How can you
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Speaker 3: best teach people and get them to be where they
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Speaker 3: need to be?
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Speaker 2: What would you say is the biggest change in NCAA
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Speaker 2: women's hockey since when you started to now?
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Speaker 1: Well, in the beginning, if you had.
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Speaker 3: One line, a couple D and a goalie, you could
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Speaker 3: be in the mix to win a national championship. And
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Speaker 3: that one line was so dominant that if you're an
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Speaker 3: opposing team and you get your third line out because
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Speaker 3: you really couldn't play a fourth line and they were
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Speaker 3: against someone else's top line, you were in trouble. Now
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Speaker 3: the depth is much better. Now a fourth line can
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Speaker 3: still skate with and compete. They may not have the
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Speaker 3: offensive ability, but at least they're competitive and they're athletic
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Speaker 3: enough to destroy and defend and give you a chance.
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Speaker 3: And I also think the increased physicality has played into that.
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Speaker 1: A little bit as well, where you can at least
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Speaker 1: destroy and defend.
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Speaker 3: That's hard work. That's just being in the right spots.
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Speaker 3: But scoring goals is still a super premium and probably
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Speaker 3: always will be.
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Speaker 4: Was there a thought for you? Like, it feels like
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Speaker 4: it seemed obvious that you were going to come back
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Speaker 4: to the college game, but I was just curious, did
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Speaker 4: it take the right situation? What were your thoughts in
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Speaker 4: terms of like what came next for you?
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Speaker 3: Um, I don't know if I really like, because some
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Speaker 3: national team opportunities.
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Speaker 1: Had come up first. Um, and, uh, that process, uh,
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Speaker 1: began first.
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Speaker 3: Um, And obviously there's a point where you're like, okay,
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Speaker 3: what does this look like and what's next? And, you know,
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Speaker 3: some of those conversations came pretty quick once the season
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Speaker 3: ended there. So, like I said, no ill will, but
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Speaker 3: I did miss a lot of the interactions that happen
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Speaker 3: collegiately with... day-to-day and practice and film and video and
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Speaker 3: just the amount of time you spent with your players
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Speaker 3: and doing skills.
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Speaker 1: Coaching there, support staff's much larger.
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Speaker 3: It's a little compartmentalized with other people, you know, because
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Speaker 3: you have skills.
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Speaker 1: Coaches, you have assistant coaches.
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Speaker 3: You have other people who are doing things a video
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Speaker 3: coach that at the college level, like you're a little
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Speaker 3: more hands-on with some of that stuff. And I missed
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Speaker 3: some of that, to be honest with you. I thought
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Speaker 3: relationship-wise it made it a little more difficult to connect
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Speaker 3: with people just because you didn't have that same kind
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Speaker 3: of one-on-one time with players. So, yeah, that's kind of
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Speaker 3: how I ended up backing this.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Are you still planning on being part of the, the
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Speaker 2: Czechia leadership with this new job and how does that
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Speaker 2: balance happen?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's crazy right now. Uh, that's self admitted.
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Speaker 3: Um, but I also was very, uh, straightforward with Syracuse
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Speaker 3: in the process that, um, this was something that I'd
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Speaker 3: committed to and that's something that, um, I felt like
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Speaker 3: I needed to fulfill that obligation. And if that wasn't
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Speaker 3: going to be possible, then I wouldn't be able to
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Speaker 3: move forward with them. So they were pretty understanding. They
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Speaker 3: allowed me to do that. And I've kind of told
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Speaker 3: everyone on both sides, we're going to have to sit
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Speaker 3: down and evaluate.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the year of what this looks like.
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Speaker 3: And if it's possible, are the checks happy with what
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Speaker 3: direction we're going in, how we're improving? And is Syracuse okay?
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Speaker 3: I'm going to miss some time and what does that
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Speaker 3: look like? But I feel pretty good about the staff
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Speaker 3: here at Syracuse and being able to handle things. While
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Speaker 3: I'm gone, that's why the staff's pretty mature and has
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Speaker 3: a ton of experience knowing that I would miss some time.
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Speaker 1: And that was going to be important to the players
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Speaker 1: so that.
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Speaker 3: They were able to not see a drop-off happen when
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Speaker 3: I was not.
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Speaker 1: Here on occasion.
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Speaker 3: And I also think it will get a little easier
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Speaker 3: in future years if we continue to do it just
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Speaker 3: because I'll have control of the schedule. I can schedule
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Speaker 3: some off time during time I'll be gone. I think
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Speaker 3: the Euro Tour is going to have to adjust more.
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Speaker 3: because the amount of college players and missed time for
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Speaker 3: events is a burden for them. So maybe looking at
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Speaker 3: readjusting that schedule. And lastly, it stinks that as college coaches,
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Speaker 3: we have to adjust to all this without being parts
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Speaker 3: of the conversation, but we're going to have to adjust
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Speaker 3: the collegiate schedule. Do we take off IHF weeks later?
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Speaker 3: and extend our calendar? Do we push back our championship? Like,
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Speaker 3: what does this look like? And how can we best
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Speaker 3: serve the student athletes to make sure they don't have
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Speaker 3: to choose between being great at school and representing their
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Speaker 3: country and representing their university?
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Speaker 1: And so what does that look like? I don't know.
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Speaker 3: But we're stuck with this for the next four years.
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Speaker 3: And so we're going to have to adjust some way.
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Speaker 3: And obviously... I think all of us can agree that
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Speaker 3: we need to do what's best for the student athletes,
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Speaker 3: and that's probably changing the schedule in one way, shape.
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Speaker 1: Or form.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, just to remind listeners, too, Senior Women's Worlds will
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Speaker 4: be in November, so that's going to be interesting, and
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Speaker 4: I think obviously not quite to the extent of the Olympics,
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Speaker 4: but we haven't done this before, so who knows in
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Speaker 4: terms of what that impact will be on the college game,
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Speaker 4: because it is usually in April. So usually the collegiate
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Speaker 4: season is done. That's interesting you say that, Brian, because
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Speaker 4: I think it's long been a sort of quiet conversation
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Speaker 4: about how the international federations really benefit from sending their players,
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Speaker 4: like using the NCAA's development for their players, but not, yeah,
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Speaker 4: but the NCAA, as you said, like sort of the
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Speaker 4: players in the NCAA really have to bend to those rules.
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Speaker 4: And so I think there's a little bit of a reckoning,
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Speaker 4: especially as more and more, I mean, there's just an
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Speaker 4: absolute ton of, of European players in the NCAA over
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Speaker 4: the last couple of years and in this incoming class.
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Speaker 4: And so I think you're right that a reckoning is,
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Speaker 4: is probably on the horizon at some point, there's gotta
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Speaker 4: be a discussion that the NCAA or the coaches, however,
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Speaker 4: whatever that looks like have to be in that discussion
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Speaker 4: and at the table talking about some of that stuff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: That representation has not happened much in the past and yeah,
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Speaker 3: we are the, no matter what anybody wants to say,
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Speaker 3: The NCAA has been the premier development league for international hockey,
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Speaker 3: professional women's hockey, and that is not going to change
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Speaker 3: anytime soon. And so for us not to be part
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Speaker 3: of that conversation is a little disappointing. There's some real
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Speaker 3: opportunities there. And the reality is the U.S. and Canadian
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Speaker 3: player pool now is kind of pushed out of the NCAA.
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Speaker 3: and pushed into being all professional age players. The Europeans
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Speaker 3: are not there. And so speaking from the Czechs, I
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Speaker 3: believe they've got like 20 players in the NCAA who
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Speaker 3: are first year and second year players. So that's not
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Speaker 3: changing for another at least five, six, where they're completely
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Speaker 3: out of the NCAA and playing professional hockey, hopefully.
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Speaker 1: And then, you know, this conversation's probably not happening.
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Speaker 3: There will always be an elite generational kid for every
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Speaker 3: country that's going to be outside the norm that probably
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Speaker 3: will still get taken for the national team at a
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Speaker 3: young age. But those numbers will dwindle significantly. And so
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Speaker 3: we're just not there yet globally.
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Speaker 4: I feel too like we're going to see some trickle down, right?
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Speaker 4: Like that might be through for Czechia, but now we're seeing,
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Speaker 4: you know, some, some countries that are maybe in division
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Speaker 4: two or D1, D1A or D1B at the IH level level.
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Speaker 4: So it's, it sort of trickles down too, right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I agree with that.
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Speaker 3: There's some, there's a fair amount of players now who
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Speaker 3: are coming from France and from, you know, um, Norway,
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Speaker 3: Norway that are playing a little bit below, um, the
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Speaker 3: top group, but you know, with their players coming over,
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Speaker 3: have a chance to develop and push themselves into that
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Speaker 3: conversation was good for the game overall.
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Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you, last question from me anyway,
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Speaker 2: is your first year playing pro, 1995-96, you were with
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Speaker 2: a team that had great uniforms named the Madison Monsters
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Speaker 2: in the Colonial Hockey League.
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Speaker 1: One of your.
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Speaker 2: Teammates was the new men's hockey coach at Minnesota, Brett Larson,
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Speaker 2: and your coach was a guy named Mark Johnson. You
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Speaker 2: mentioned earlier in this that hockey is a small world
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Speaker 2: and a small community, and I wonder... how, how you've
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Speaker 2: seen that manifest itself over the years. And as, and
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Speaker 2: I wonder how, who you've taken things from as a
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Speaker 2: coach to be, to kind of develop who you are.
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Speaker 3: Um, yeah, hockey is a small world. I'll take it
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Speaker 3: a little bit further. Luke Strand played for that club, uh,
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Speaker 3: after I left. And so still keep in touch with Luke.
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Speaker 3: Dan McLaughlin played on that team, was head coach of
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Speaker 3: Superior's women's program, um, for a few years. Um, And
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Speaker 3: so it's really interesting to see um, how that coaching
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Speaker 3: tree goes and who, um, kind of, uh, continues on
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Speaker 3: and loves the game and continues to be a part
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Speaker 3: of things.
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Speaker 1: And so, yeah, Brett's, uh, Brett's awesome. Oh, the one
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Speaker 1: more Danny Rojo.
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Speaker 3: Coach in, uh, Madison capitals, uh, hockey still in town and,
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Speaker 3: and contributing to that. And I keep in touch with
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Speaker 3: him and see him around the rinks all the time. So,
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Speaker 3: Probably the craziest one to me is my junior coach
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Speaker 3: who was challenged us, pushed us, would have never dreamt
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Speaker 3: that he would be the person that I would have
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Speaker 3: kept in touch with the most and who still calls
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Speaker 3: me and sends me messages and congratulates me and goes
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Speaker 3: out of his.
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Speaker 1: Way to see me when I'm in Florida. Yeah, so.
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Speaker 3: That is super cool. Paul Picard was his name. And
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Speaker 3: so Paul was great and probably the person I probably
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Speaker 3: took the most from at a young age before I
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Speaker 3: even really thought about coaching, philosophy, things that he said,
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Speaker 3: being a student of the game, reading books.
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Speaker 1: Work ethic. That was the.
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Speaker 3: First coach I had who really pushed us you know,
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Speaker 3: really talked about work ethic, grit, compete, all the.
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Speaker 1: Things that I still value.
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Speaker 3: So, and he, but you take a little bit from everybody,
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Speaker 3: you know, Dave Schultz was the next guy. So, um,
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Speaker 3: you know, that was, I went from Mark who was
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Speaker 3: very calm, doesn't say a whole lot when he does speak,
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Speaker 3: it carries weight, but, uh, very understated. Uh, it doesn't, uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, show a whole lot of emotion. Ted, Dave,
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Speaker 3: the hammer Schultz, he was, um, very intense, uh, very passionate.
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Speaker 3: And so, yeah, I mean, you take a little bit
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Speaker 3: from everybody.
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Speaker 4: Sort of bringing it back around to talk about being
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Speaker 4: old school or thinking about being an old coach. Now,
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Speaker 4: do you ever think about, or have you looked back
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Speaker 4: at sort of the coaching tree behind you? Um, and
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Speaker 4: some of the, the, you, there've been about a lot
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Speaker 4: of former players that you've maybe given their first chance
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Speaker 4: on the bench and things like that.
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Speaker 3: Um, Sometimes, but I think that's the thing about coaching
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Speaker 3: when you're constantly in this environment is, like, I would
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Speaker 3: tell you I'm not very mature.
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Speaker 1: Like, I still yip and yap, and every.
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Speaker 3: Once in a while I'll go down and light up
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Speaker 3: our goalies and just kind of chuckle.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was okay when I played. I still got it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I think there's something to be said being surrounded by
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Speaker 3: a group of 20-some-year-olds on a regular basis that I.
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Speaker 1: Would never, my wife would clearly never.
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Speaker 3: Tell anyone that I'm super mature or I'm old mentally. Physically, sure,
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Speaker 3: but mentally I'm still a kid myself in a lot
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Speaker 3: of regards.
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Speaker 2: Ryan, this has been awesome. Thanks for spending some time
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Speaker 2: with us, and best of luck getting things going this
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Speaker 2: year at Syracuse.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate all you guys do and been promoting hockey for
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Speaker 3: a long time and specifically women's hockey and appreciative.
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Speaker 1: Keep doing what you're doing.