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Minnesota ends Wisconsin's unbeaten run · The PodKaz: USCHO Women's Hockey

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Speaker 1: Usccho dot com. Welcome back to the podcast. Todd Maleuski
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Speaker 1: and Nicole Hasey with you from us echo dot com.
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Speaker 1: Busy week to talk about last week. Nicole, lets jumped
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Speaker 1: right into it. Games that we were at in Madison, Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: number three rank Minnesota splitting with number one Wisconsin, breaking
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin's thirty eight thirty seven game un beaten streak on
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Speaker 1: Friday with a five to one win before Badger's respond
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Speaker 1: with a seven two victory on Saturday. Four goal third
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Speaker 1: period for the Gophers on Friday to break a one
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Speaker 1: to one tie. That was the way I was thinking
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Speaker 1: about it was. I definitely saw Minnesota having a chance
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Speaker 1: to split sweep any possibilities there. But I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I saw a four goal third period coming from
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Speaker 1: a team against wiscot in Labon Arena.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it particularly how that game started.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think maybe if they had Minnesota had
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Speaker 3: come out like on fire and done that sort of
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Speaker 3: thing and like really dominated the game, maybe it would have.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's the fact that like that felt.
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Speaker 3: Like a tale of two games, maybe more than any
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Speaker 3: game I can remember in recent history where where Wisconsin,
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Speaker 3: you know, sort of had the dominating, They were dominating possession,
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Speaker 3: They kind of had everything going in the first only
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Speaker 3: got the one goal, and then man, things sure flipped,
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Speaker 3: and uh yeah, I think I think for opponents it's
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Speaker 3: probably a mixed bag of like what to take away
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Speaker 3: from this and that, like, hey, they're they're fallible, they're beatable,
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Speaker 3: Like that's great. But also they came back well, still
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Speaker 3: not playing their best and had a heck of a
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Speaker 3: rebound game on Saturday. So you know, some from column
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Speaker 3: as some from columbe if you're a team that has
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Speaker 3: to face Wisconsin. But yeah, very weird and interesting weekend
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Speaker 3: at the rink, don't you think it was?
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Speaker 1: I thought that you may Wisconsin being fallible. We did
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Speaker 1: see that a lot where Minnesota was able to pressure
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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin's defensive zone and create turnovers and create just
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Speaker 1: some sloppiness and some things you don't normally see out
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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin in their own end of the ice. And
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Speaker 1: that was I think a great credit to the Gophers
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Speaker 1: the way that they play game plan for that and
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Speaker 1: the way that they executed that and were able to
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Speaker 1: really make life difficult throughout really both games for Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: all over the ice.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely and like their fore check was just I thought
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Speaker 3: it was funny. And I don't remember if it was
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Speaker 3: you or someone else asked KK Harvey in the postgame
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Speaker 3: about the Ford check, and she sort of like her
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Speaker 3: eyes sort of got big, like her reaction was like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: their for check, like that was a I think it's
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Speaker 3: just something that they hadn't seen a ton, particularly from
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Speaker 3: the Gophers, but just from really anybody. I mean obviously
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Speaker 3: Ohio State that's their deal too. But yeah, the defense,
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Speaker 3: which is I think that like for Wisconsin, we haven't
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Speaker 3: talked about probably in a couple of years. They've just
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Speaker 3: been sort of really solid. I mean, KK Harvey's arguably
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Speaker 3: the best defender in the world, you know, if not
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Speaker 3: well when you say top three to to keep away
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Speaker 3: the arguments. But yeah, they looked they were struggling, like
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Speaker 3: you said, just just turnovers and bad passes and and
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Speaker 3: a little too nonchalant, like even with that for check,
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Speaker 3: they were trying to just escape. A couple players started
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Speaker 3: to scape the fuck out. It's like, well that's not
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Speaker 3: gonna work. So yeah, it was. It was a very
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Speaker 3: interesting game. I thought it just was one of those
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Speaker 3: like I think, you know, knowing Wisconsin had gone almost
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Speaker 3: a year without losing a game, the National Championship, all
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Speaker 3: that stuff that like maybe people have them in this
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Speaker 3: this sort of wanted like level, and it was like, no, no,
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Speaker 3: these are these are still college kids and this is
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Speaker 3: still a team that's learning. It's still you know, only
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Speaker 3: November Friday, I guess, still October. But yeah, it was
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Speaker 3: it was interesting. I think just it was a good
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Speaker 3: learning I mean, you know, Mark Johnson would always say,
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Speaker 3: you want you like, you want your team to lose games.
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Speaker 3: You don't want the first time they figure out what
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Speaker 3: to do when they go down to be in March,
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Speaker 3: and so you know, I think that's a really good lesson.
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Speaker 3: That's a team, like the sophomores on that team had won,
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Speaker 3: had lost like one game, you know, in their careers
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Speaker 3: that thus far. I think those are all things from
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Speaker 3: all the Wisconsin side that like they'll those are all
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Speaker 3: like how do you respond? How do you handle that
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Speaker 3: in the locker room? You know, it was a night game,
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Speaker 3: in an early Saturday game, and so being able to
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Speaker 3: wipe that slate clean and come back out. Those are
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Speaker 3: all things that I think, you know, they would talk about,
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Speaker 3: but certainly things that I think other opponents will be
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Speaker 3: looking at that tape and wondering what they can do
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Speaker 3: to cause the same sort of mayhem.
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Speaker 1: Right exactly. I was kind of struck by what we
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Speaker 1: saw from Minnesota, the you know, the the regulars getting scoring.
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Speaker 1: Avy Murphy had a couple of goals, Josephine Buvang scored
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Speaker 1: a couple of times, Sidney Morro scored, but the go
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Speaker 1: ahead goal for them in Friday's game, Siena dallas Andro
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Speaker 1: or her first collegiate goal. What a time for that,
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Speaker 1: and what a place to to make your marketing goal.
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Speaker 1: He'll remember for the rest of your life. I would
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Speaker 1: imagine that it.
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Speaker 3: Was fun to watch, and man did she get a
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Speaker 3: sited and so did their bench And yeah, I mean
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Speaker 3: one of the things that Wisconsin done so well is
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Speaker 3: keep Abby Murphy in check. Right, But the one player
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Speaker 3: that sort of picked has picked up the slack.
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Speaker 2: There is moving.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think we've figured out she's got more
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Speaker 3: career goals than against the Badgers than Abby Murphy does,
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Speaker 3: which is interesting. And when I asked her about it postgames,
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Speaker 3: she didn't give details, but I think she basically said,
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Speaker 3: like their style and my style, Like I just I.
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Speaker 2: Match up well with them.
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Speaker 3: She also pointed out that she gets a lot of
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Speaker 3: passes from Abby Murphy, which helps. But I think she
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Speaker 3: just maybe something about sort of the European approach and
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Speaker 3: things like that. She said, she just sees it. She
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Speaker 3: sees the opportunities a little better against the Badgers than
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Speaker 3: maybe others do.
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Speaker 2: She thought was interesting.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Scotson came back right away in Saturday's game goal
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Speaker 1: by Maggie Scannell fourteen seconds into the game, and they
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Speaker 1: had a one nothing lead on as well, but they
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Speaker 1: stretched it to nothing pretty quickly on Saturday or that
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Speaker 1: that just seemed important to have have a little bit
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Speaker 1: of room because Minnesota did keep pushing. And we've seen
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Speaker 1: a lot of games at Lebon Go Go Haywire when
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin starts scoring early but the open state in it
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Speaker 1: for a while. It ends up seven to two, with
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Speaker 1: I believe it was five Badgers players having three points
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Speaker 1: a piece, so a pretty good spread of offense there
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Speaker 1: from Wisconsin. And it's a split. It doesn't change who's
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Speaker 1: at the top of the rankings. The Badgers still are there,
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Speaker 1: but Minnesota leapfrogged Ohio State into second in the rankings
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Speaker 1: this week, so a little bit of a change there.
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Speaker 3: Yale Hastate needed over time to beat Saint Thomas on Friday,
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Speaker 3: and I think, you know, if you sort of only
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Speaker 3: looked at the results, you'd be like, well, Minnesota went
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Speaker 3: out on Friday and beat Wisconsin, and that's what Ohio
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Speaker 3: State did.
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Speaker 2: So I think that's part of some of that.
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Speaker 3: But obviously I think, you know, it's all it's pretty
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Speaker 3: negligible at this point. But what will be interesting, I
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Speaker 3: think is it's you know, Wisconsin, several teams will be
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Speaker 3: on buys this weekend because of the international break. Wisconsin
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Speaker 3: had two more injuries come up in that game. Both
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Speaker 3: the players came back into the game. But that's a
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Speaker 3: team that's struggled thus far with players needing time away
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Speaker 3: or however you want to say it. There's been various
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Speaker 3: injuries and setbacks, and so they're definitely looking forward to
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Speaker 3: a little rest.
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Speaker 1: Very happy for that bye week, I'm sure. And we
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Speaker 1: will talk a little bit later in the show about
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Speaker 1: the rivalry series and international break this week, but let's
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Speaker 1: continue on with the Wcha you mentioned. I'll have Satan
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Speaker 1: needing overtime on Friday to beat Saint Thomas. That was
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Speaker 1: a game that Saint Thomas had a lead in the
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Speaker 1: third period, Chloe Boreen put to Tommy's ahead, but hilldas
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Speaker 1: fence and scores the tie and goal with two fourteen
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Speaker 1: left and extra attacker on the ice, and then Saddi
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Speaker 1: von Hennen I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. Close to
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Speaker 1: that anyway, scores in overtime to give the Buckeyes a
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Speaker 1: three to two win, and then they run all over.
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Speaker 1: Saint Thomas ate nothing on Saturday behind a six point
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Speaker 1: game from Joy Done. Hello, four goals to assists. Not bad.
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Speaker 1: We've talked in the past Saint Thomas is this close
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Speaker 1: to Ohio State and some of the games, and then
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Speaker 1: there's a massive gap in some of them. It feels
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Speaker 1: like the the state of a lot of things in
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Speaker 1: college hockey, right There can be these these really narrow games,
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Speaker 1: and then there can be blots and it could be
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Speaker 1: the same two teams on back to back days.
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Speaker 2: The kind of played out this week.
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Speaker 3: Basically, every team that like maybe got upset or like
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Speaker 3: one and you lost a game on Friday that they
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Speaker 3: were maybe not supposed to came back with a huge
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Speaker 3: win on Saturday, and it you know, It's one of
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Speaker 3: those things we've talked about sometimes when you when we've said,
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Speaker 3: like we're disappointed in a team that had a bad
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Speaker 3: weekend not coming back sort of revved up the next
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Speaker 3: week or.
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Speaker 2: The next day. And so I thought it was really interesting.
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Speaker 3: You know, let's see stone Hill beat l a U
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Speaker 3: four two, Mercyhursty Delaware for Northeastern, took a seven to
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Speaker 3: three win over bu Ohio State had the aight oh win,
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Speaker 3: Ari t went seven to one on linden Wood in Wisconsin,
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Speaker 3: took down Minnesota seven two, and all of those teams
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Speaker 3: either tied, lost or had a team eke out a
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Speaker 3: late win. Like those were all questionable games for the
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Speaker 3: teams that probably should have won them easily, and then
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Speaker 3: they all came back with multi goal wins the next day,
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Speaker 3: and some of them in emphatic fashion. So yeah, it's
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Speaker 3: I like, but yeah, how do you how do you
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Speaker 3: lose to a team that you can turn around and
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Speaker 3: beat ato the next day or how whatever it is,
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Speaker 3: beat seven to one the next day irit Lyndon Wood's case,
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Speaker 3: you know, it goes to show I think that it's
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Speaker 3: not just a feeling that things are more wide open
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Speaker 3: and the you know, things are much closer and nobody
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Speaker 3: can really look past any game right now. I think,
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Speaker 3: you know, it's a thing we've said on and off
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Speaker 3: for years and coaches like to say, but me and
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Speaker 3: the results are really showing that, Like on any given night,
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Speaker 3: it's entirely unclear what the results are going to be.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a road suite from Minnesota Duluth at
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Speaker 1: Saint Cloud State last weekend five to three and three
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Speaker 1: to two Taan Johansson, I'm counting here, three goals on
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Speaker 1: the weekend. Pretty good performance there, Sophia Villa via Nueva
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Speaker 1: stepping in for v Gascon who was away at Hockey
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Speaker 1: Canada training and stopping sixty three or sixty eight shots
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Speaker 1: on the weekend. So good fill in role there for
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Speaker 1: the Bulldogs to make that happen. And this also helps
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Speaker 1: create a little bit of that separation there between Duluth
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Speaker 1: and Saint Cloud as we move forward in the season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and good for her, great outing, and you know
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Speaker 3: there's going to be times when, like likely ev makes
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Speaker 3: this Olympic rosster like they need to be getting her
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Speaker 3: some time in net So those were some great games.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they weren't sure if I would be gone or not.
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Speaker 3: But like just going into this knowing that she could
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Speaker 3: get some time on ice and get that confidence is
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Speaker 3: huge and she had a good weekend.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's head over to ECAC hockey. Now, how concerned
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Speaker 1: should we be with Colgate a couple of loss or
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Speaker 1: a tie and a loss last week lost to number
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Speaker 1: fourteen Yale in overtime on Saturday, five to four, after
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Speaker 1: a three to three tie with number fifteen Brown on Friday.
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Speaker 1: I'm interested in your thoughts in there, Colgate four or
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Speaker 1: five and one overall one two and one in ECAC.
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Speaker 1: That's not the start day they were under. They wanted
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Speaker 1: right not to start day one, or anyone thought they
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Speaker 1: would have.
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Speaker 3: I would think no, absolutely, I think, uh. I mean,
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Speaker 3: am I surprised by last weekends? Uh?
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Speaker 2: Outcomes? No?
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Speaker 3: At this point, like it was clear that like hmm,
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Speaker 3: things could like a good game from Dartmouth could definitely.
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Speaker 2: You know, defeat them, and then that's exactly what happened.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they're still getting the scoring, so I think
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Speaker 3: it's a defense splash goaltending thing. But I think also
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Speaker 3: there's just like it's a it's a little bit of
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Speaker 3: a self fulfilling at this point, like there's I think
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Speaker 3: there's not a ton of continents there, and yet it's
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Speaker 3: just I think maybe I think we all did it.
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Speaker 2: I think maybe they did too.
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Speaker 3: It's just a sort of underestimated what the that graduating
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Speaker 3: class A was bringing to the team and B would
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Speaker 3: take away when it was gone.
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Speaker 2: I'm just feels like maybe they're not entirely.
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Speaker 3: Like, weren't entirely prepared to be the team they needed
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Speaker 3: to be this year, and like now they're trying to
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Speaker 3: find what their equilibrium is. But I mean, they're still scoring,
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Speaker 3: so I don't, like, I know, it's hard for me
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Speaker 3: to say that, like, oh, it's just the graduation of
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Speaker 3: Elton Cova, because I don't I don't think it's just
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Speaker 3: I don't think it's that. I don't think the offense
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Speaker 3: is the problem.
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Speaker 1: Right, offense not being the problem either for Cornell nor defense. Again,
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Speaker 1: the Big Red keeps rolling along now seven and zero,
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Speaker 1: which I believe is one of two undefeated teams left
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Speaker 1: in the country along with Penn State. Cornell beats Yale
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Speaker 1: three nothing in Friday with thirty nine save shutout from
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Speaker 1: Annalise Bergmann, and then five to one over Brown on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: George Shift two goals in that game, helping Cornell out
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Speaker 1: to a three nothing lead. That's looking like the team
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Speaker 1: to beat as it was towards the end of last season,
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Speaker 1: as it has been, and it seems to be continuing
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Speaker 1: along that way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean it's unsurprising they you know, returned to much
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Speaker 3: of their core. It helps having as Bergman in net,
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Speaker 3: and I think I think that after probably the disappointment
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Speaker 3: of how the Frozen four went, I think there was
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Speaker 3: probably some you know, sort of soul searching and some
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Speaker 3: working on the team and and then a desire to
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Speaker 3: come back and do even better. Like they they had
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Speaker 3: a great season and and it sort of fell flat
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Speaker 3: pretty quickly once once they got you know, to that point.
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Speaker 2: So that's they don't want that again.
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Speaker 3: That's that's just competitive people, and where they were like
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Speaker 3: they want to come back, and they showed fight in
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Speaker 3: parts of their semi final game, and so I think
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Speaker 3: I feel like this is a team that's really going
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Speaker 3: to be working this year to be in a better
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Speaker 3: position if they get there or when they get there
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Speaker 3: again this season, they're probably talking about it as a lens.
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Speaker 2: So let's give them that when they get there again
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Speaker 2: this season.
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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, like they just they it was a
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Speaker 3: different pace and you know, they played Ohio State and
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Speaker 3: that's a very different type of game than you play
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Speaker 3: within other teams against other teams in the ECC. And
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Speaker 3: so yeah, I think that they're just they're in a
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Speaker 3: great position to have returned so much that talent and
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Speaker 3: now the goal is to be a bigger player when
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Speaker 3: it comes to frozen four time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Also when you c ac last week, Dartmouth with
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Speaker 1: a three nothing upset win at number nine Clarkson on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: Grace Zanne thirty three saves for the shutout. There, that's
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Speaker 1: a little bit of an eye opener I thought on
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Speaker 1: Saturday for Dartmouth to get to go to Clark Center
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Speaker 1: did and get that win.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. I think it was like their first win
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Speaker 3: at Clark Cident in like seven years something like that.
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Speaker 3: You don't you don't go into Chile and win all
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Speaker 3: that often. But yeah, just an absolute great weekend from them.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting there they're two four no, but
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Speaker 3: when it came to conference time, they picked it up
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Speaker 3: quickly and I thought it was interesting. I assumed that
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Speaker 3: it was a great weekend from goalie Mikaela Ashiva, whom
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Speaker 3: A big fan of and she is not who is
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Speaker 3: in net. She maybe off doing international duty. I'm unsure,
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Speaker 3: but I just there were a lot of secondary or
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Speaker 3: backup or not primary goalies however you want to say it,
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Speaker 3: that started this weekend and put it really great results.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, I Dartmus and one of those years Dearmouth
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Speaker 3: and Brown are the two we've talked about for probably
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Speaker 3: the last year or two that have been on the edge,
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Speaker 3: have shown that those flashes of like this is a
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Speaker 3: team that could could do some damage and then you know,
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Speaker 3: obviously they have their downs as well. But it feels
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Speaker 3: like for both of those teams things have really come
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Speaker 3: together quite well this season. And I feel like we
16:28
Speaker 3: could be talking about both of them come February and
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Speaker 3: I could see one are both of them making decent
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Speaker 3: runs in the ECAC Tournament as well.
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Speaker 1: I know we'll be talking about Quinnipiac in February. And
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Speaker 1: Bobcats bounced back from their first loss of the season
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Speaker 1: by sweeping Union and RPI by combined fourteen to one
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Speaker 1: score over those two games. Cale and the marsh six
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Speaker 1: point weekend five goals now leads in the country with
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Speaker 1: seventeen goals, one ahead of Aber Murphy from Minnesota, and
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Speaker 1: tied with Murphy for twenty for scoring lead with twenty
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Speaker 1: five points. It feels like those are really big numbers
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Speaker 1: early in the season that we're seeing put up, right,
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Speaker 1: because I believe thirty five goals was the lead last season,
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Speaker 1: and we're already seeing the leader at seventeen roughly a
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Speaker 1: third of the way into the regular season, so maybe
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Speaker 1: maybe not even a third away, right, it's about ten games,
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Speaker 1: twelve games, Oh yeah, about there. It feels like there's
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Speaker 1: the scoring is turned up in a lot of ways
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Speaker 1: for some of these teams.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: What's interesting is it's not like those players are then
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Speaker 3: like leaving everybody else in their team and the dust,
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Speaker 3: like there are plenty of other people scoring on their team.
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Speaker 3: Tess a whole cat of uh metric for Quiinnipiac this weekend,
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Speaker 3: Like kil LaMarsh wasn't even like the best goals.
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Speaker 2: Scorer on her team this weekend.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean I would love we may have
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Speaker 3: to try and get killing on here, because you know,
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Speaker 3: she had thirty three points last year, so she's obviously
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Speaker 3: taken a huge step up and just found a lot
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Speaker 3: of confidence. It's not just the goals, but it's the
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Speaker 3: shots too, like taking putting that puck on net and.
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Speaker 2: Like making creating those opportunities.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, to me, it's not just that we have
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Speaker 3: high goal scorers, but that like, it's not like they're
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Speaker 3: doing that and then just nobody else is scoring goals
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Speaker 3: for their teams.
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Speaker 2: So that's what's crazy to me.
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Speaker 3: Is that it's it's like, it's not that we're just getting,
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Speaker 3: you know, these outsized scores and leaving everybody in the dust.
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Speaker 2: There's there's a lot of them. There's just been a
18:30
Speaker 2: lot of goals early on.
18:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's move over to hockey East. Northeastern
18:37
Speaker 1: back into the top ten of the ushow dot com
18:40
Speaker 1: poll at number nine this week after a sweep of
18:44
Speaker 1: Boston University three to one Friday, seven to three on Saturday.
18:48
Speaker 1: Ali Lalan scored the goal ahead power play goal with
18:51
Speaker 1: twenty eight seconds left in that Friday game, and then
18:54
Speaker 1: Jaden Bogged and Lili Shannon each with two goals on Saturday.
18:59
Speaker 1: Importance steps there for Northeastern. Who is you know, right
19:05
Speaker 1: there with well right now three and zero in hockey,
19:11
Speaker 1: So behind Boston College, who has played a couple more
19:15
Speaker 1: games in the conference there, but starting on the right
19:19
Speaker 1: foot in Hockey East play so far for Northeast.
19:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like so when I went to do
19:26
Speaker 3: my poll this week, I felt like it was time
19:27
Speaker 3: to do some course correcting, right. Like what happens is
19:30
Speaker 3: if you don't if people were in the poll start,
19:34
Speaker 3: it takes a while for them to maybe like shuffle
19:37
Speaker 3: down and things like that. And I felt like, you know,
19:40
Speaker 3: Northeastern probably had been underrated to start the season based
19:43
Speaker 3: on some of their outcomes, and so I moved them
19:46
Speaker 3: up more than you know, like I had them in
19:48
Speaker 3: the teams and move them I think up tonight somewhere.
19:51
Speaker 3: And that just sort of course corrected on some of
19:53
Speaker 3: this stuff. It's been hard to really figure out some
19:55
Speaker 3: of this, as I've talked about before, but I yeah,
19:57
Speaker 3: I made some bigger moves this week to just try
20:00
Speaker 3: and it felt like other people did as.
20:01
Speaker 2: Well, and they made that big jump.
20:04
Speaker 3: So yeah, it seems like things are starting to come
20:08
Speaker 3: together there. Like it just was a little bit of
20:10
Speaker 3: a slower start than maybe they would have liked.
20:12
Speaker 2: But I love, you know, not only is.
20:15
Speaker 3: The excitement of a last second goal flood and on
20:18
Speaker 3: its own, but like that fight that we keep talking about,
20:20
Speaker 3: showing that like you're not giving up on a game,
20:22
Speaker 3: and sort of that went from a possible upset to
20:27
Speaker 3: a secure win in about twenty not even six seconds.
20:31
Speaker 3: I think they immediately be pulled their goalie and Northeastern
20:34
Speaker 3: scored an empty netter, and so yeah, I think unsurprising
20:39
Speaker 3: from them like that they would have, that they would
20:41
Speaker 3: have a bounce back, and that they would sort of
20:42
Speaker 3: start putting it together. We know what kind of fight
20:45
Speaker 3: they have, and then we know what their coaching staff
20:47
Speaker 3: is capable of, and so yeah, I think it should
20:51
Speaker 3: be I think probably a better season than last year
20:53
Speaker 3: for them, and maybe more like they're used to and
20:56
Speaker 3: have been in the last few seasons or last year.
20:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to bring up Vermont's four to three
21:03
Speaker 1: win over BC on Friday, just briefly, not so much
21:07
Speaker 1: for the hockey even though that was first conference losses
21:11
Speaker 1: season for BC. So a good one there for Vermont.
21:15
Speaker 1: But the costume is that the Vermont coaching staff was
21:20
Speaker 1: where it was a late morning start at kid's day
21:24
Speaker 1: education is some kind of thing like that in Burlington
21:28
Speaker 1: and the coaching staff is all wearing fishing clothes is
21:33
Speaker 1: the best way I could describe it. Waiters Jim Plumer
21:37
Speaker 1: had we were talking about this when I was showing
21:40
Speaker 1: you the video. Had this great bucket had on with
21:42
Speaker 1: the Vermont logo on. It was it was really cool.
21:45
Speaker 1: So nice job to them for understanding the assignment on
21:50
Speaker 1: Halloween for early morning, a late morning start.
21:55
Speaker 3: I guess there was also somebody I think, in a
21:57
Speaker 3: shark costume to a company the when I went looking
22:02
Speaker 3: to get stills, and we should point it too that
22:04
Speaker 3: it was like waiters, but also still the shirt and tie,
22:07
Speaker 3: which I think is amazing.
22:09
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right, like professional. But yeah, all of it
22:14
Speaker 2: was perfect.
22:15
Speaker 3: I'm a little like somebody at UVM released the pictures
22:18
Speaker 3: that you had to.
22:19
Speaker 2: Have taken them.
22:21
Speaker 3: ESPN doesn't let you take screencaps, so I put it
22:24
Speaker 3: on social yesterday. But it's literally my camera phone pictures
22:27
Speaker 3: of my computer screen of the stream, so they're not great,
22:31
Speaker 3: but yeah, shout out that that was amazing.
22:34
Speaker 2: I definitely made her day and Friday.
22:39
Speaker 1: Yes, sant Anselm up to the top of the New
22:44
Speaker 1: hah standings right now at a five and one start
22:48
Speaker 1: through six games. Sixteen points. They got a sweep of
22:51
Speaker 1: Sacred Heart for one Friday and three to one on Saturday.
22:55
Speaker 1: Kayla Schukuwski stopped seventy of seventy two shots over the
22:58
Speaker 1: weekend Lucy Da Koto with two goals on Friday and
23:02
Speaker 1: another on Saturday. So that's where we're starting to see
23:06
Speaker 1: things shake out with New High's Saint Anselm going to
23:09
Speaker 1: the top. Stone Hill is in that mixed two assumptions there,
23:13
Speaker 1: but we're seeing Sacred Heart, which is, uh, had had
23:16
Speaker 1: some it had better starts than this, struggling a little
23:21
Speaker 1: bit and kind of in the middle of the pack
23:23
Speaker 1: so far.
23:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, the preseason coaches pulled.
23:25
Speaker 3: They picked Sacred Heart first in sant Ansome filth, so uh,
23:29
Speaker 3: definitely some overperformance from Saint Anselm.
23:30
Speaker 2: Assumption was six. So yeah, a huge week in for st.
23:34
Speaker 3: Anselm to go out and just really like put an
23:36
Speaker 3: exclamation mark on, like, hey, work, we aren't we aren't
23:39
Speaker 3: finishing towards the bottom of this conference. I mean, obviously
23:41
Speaker 3: there's still a ton of season to go, but that
23:43
Speaker 3: those were big name wins for them. They weren't. They
23:46
Speaker 3: weren't necessarily close either, Like they just went out and
23:50
Speaker 3: really dominated the weekend, and I think, uh, kudos to
23:53
Speaker 3: them for for really sort of putting their mark on,
23:55
Speaker 3: like this is this is who we are, and you're
23:57
Speaker 3: gonna have to beat us this season.
24:00
Speaker 1: Yep. Atlantic hockey is continuing to be dominated by Penn State,
24:05
Speaker 1: which is twelve to zero and eight to No. One conference.
24:08
Speaker 1: After a pair of four nothing victories at Robert Morris,
24:12
Speaker 1: the Nity Lions of outscored opponents forty to two win
24:15
Speaker 1: conference games and fifty six to eight overall, He's now
24:18
Speaker 1: got a fourteen point lead over RIT for first place
24:22
Speaker 1: in Atlantic hockey. Now they've played two more games, but okay,
24:25
Speaker 1: even if you give Rit six points to that, it's
24:27
Speaker 1: still an eight point advantage this early in the season.
24:30
Speaker 1: It's it's really feel like the races for second, which
24:33
Speaker 1: I don't know that anyone would have been surprised by,
24:35
Speaker 1: but knowing that Penn State is really separated itself as
24:38
Speaker 1: the the star team of Atlantic hockey so far, I
24:44
Speaker 1: mean really in the last few years.
24:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, I you know, maybe pre apologies, I'm not sure
24:48
Speaker 3: how much we're going to talk about the AHA going forward,
24:51
Speaker 3: because Penn States feels like, you like Rinse and repeat,
24:54
Speaker 3: Penn States and first and everybody else is playing ketch
24:57
Speaker 3: up behind them, So kudos to them. They're having a
25:00
Speaker 3: great season so far. They've looked, you know, pretty unbeatable.
25:03
Speaker 3: And again it's not just testigianiky right like that, there's
25:07
Speaker 3: scoring coming across. They've got some of the best freshmen
25:09
Speaker 3: in the country points wise. Yeah, just uh, putting together
25:15
Speaker 3: a really solid start. And you know, being brinked sixth
25:19
Speaker 3: is not like that's that happening by you know, by accident,
25:23
Speaker 3: So good for them.
25:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, that's our look back at last week.
25:30
Speaker 1: That's a lot of stuff. Anything else you wanted to
25:32
Speaker 1: touch on before we we move on?
25:33
Speaker 3: Do you want to shut out Mia Montenari of RPI,
25:36
Speaker 3: who scored with point one seconds left in the third
25:39
Speaker 3: to force overtime against Princeton.
25:42
Speaker 2: Princeton did end.
25:43
Speaker 3: Up winning, uh with a power play goal in over time,
25:46
Speaker 3: but you don't cut it any closer in that point
25:49
Speaker 3: one second goal, And unfortunately, like that wasn't shared. I
25:53
Speaker 3: didn't see that as it was happening, but then I
25:55
Speaker 3: saw it, uh, I think maybe yesterday on social and
25:58
Speaker 3: just wanted to make sure that that got a shut
25:59
Speaker 3: out I would love to see a video, but I
26:01
Speaker 3: hadn't seen one posted yet. But yeah, that's amazing. Must
26:05
Speaker 3: have been a spectacular feeling. So good for them, Good
26:07
Speaker 3: for RPI, who has not had the greatest start to
26:10
Speaker 3: the season. But that's another one of those things that
26:12
Speaker 3: you can build on. You know, they're one ton to know,
26:14
Speaker 3: but they took for instant overtime and I hope they
26:17
Speaker 3: can kind of build on.
26:18
Speaker 2: Stuff like that.
26:20
Speaker 1: Yep, all right, we will be back briefly. We've got
26:24
Speaker 1: some international hockey to talk about and look ahead to
26:27
Speaker 1: this coming week in NCAA women's hockey. Stay with us
26:30
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Welcome back to the podcast. Todd Nicole
26:41
Speaker 1: with you to talk some international hockey on a semi break.
26:45
Speaker 1: There's still gate college games this weekend, but a lot
26:47
Speaker 1: of the teams have taken off because they're losing players
26:50
Speaker 1: to the international window here. What used to be the
26:54
Speaker 1: Four Nations window now is the rivalry series window here
26:57
Speaker 1: in North America, Canada and the US playing Thursday night
27:01
Speaker 1: in Cleveland and Saturday night in Buffalo in the first
27:05
Speaker 1: half of this annual rivalry series has not much more
27:11
Speaker 1: to call it than that it's it's getting ready for
27:12
Speaker 1: the Olympics this year, but it still has that rivalry aspect.
27:17
Speaker 1: There'll be more games played in December in Canada. I guess, Nicole,
27:21
Speaker 1: when you look at the rosters, is there anything that
27:24
Speaker 1: stands out to you about who's playing and maybe who's
27:26
Speaker 1: not playing in this segment of the rivalry series.
27:29
Speaker 3: I think the US roster is pretty standardly what we expected.
27:32
Speaker 3: I think the surprising one, well, we haven't they have
27:34
Speaker 3: it officially.
27:35
Speaker 2: Not who they have in camp is what we expected.
27:38
Speaker 3: Canada announced their roster of twenty five players and of
27:41
Speaker 3: sort of their regulars and Renee Debienne, Brian Jenner, Emily
27:45
Speaker 3: Clark and Jocelyn Morock are not.
27:47
Speaker 2: On the roster. It's it will be.
27:52
Speaker 3: I am unsure if that is them trying to get
27:54
Speaker 3: look at some of their newer folks and give them
27:56
Speaker 3: some time on the ice, or if there are reasons
27:59
Speaker 3: those players are not there. Canada does not tend to
28:03
Speaker 3: like generally, it has not done something like that leaves
28:06
Speaker 3: they're more you know, respected players, they're more veteran players
28:10
Speaker 3: off the roster just to give others a chance to
28:13
Speaker 3: get a look. That It is very sort of unlike
28:16
Speaker 3: hockey Canada. So I think that does make me wonder
28:19
Speaker 3: if there's more intuitive and if there are injuries that
28:21
Speaker 3: are being recovered, fun things like that, particularly because with
28:25
Speaker 3: the PDUB not starting yet or not entirely sure, and
28:28
Speaker 3: then sort of the newer folks. Some of these players
28:30
Speaker 3: are brand new, some are you know, have maybe played
28:32
Speaker 3: in one international tournament. The names and the roster Katie Tabin,
28:36
Speaker 3: Hannah Miller, Kaitlyn Clark, Jen Gardner, Darryl Watts, v Gas Gong,
28:40
Speaker 3: Chloe Promurano, and Kaylie Osbourne. So I feel like, you know,
28:44
Speaker 3: with Ev and Kalle Osborne on that list, I think,
28:47
Speaker 3: you know, with Anreney out there, just they're trying to
28:49
Speaker 3: figure out who what their goalie situation looks like. I think,
28:52
Speaker 3: you know, ann Is is the clear number one, and
28:55
Speaker 3: then you have Emond smash Meyer and the two newbies,
28:58
Speaker 3: and so I think they're trying to figure out, you know,
29:00
Speaker 3: what that that threesome will look like with and obviously
29:04
Speaker 3: already slotted in. But yeah, interesting interesting changes for Canada
29:07
Speaker 3: and again just really not their normalm to have done that.
29:12
Speaker 3: So it'll that will be interesting to see on the
29:15
Speaker 3: US side, you know, it'll be interesting you.
29:18
Speaker 2: Both Kirsten Sims.
29:19
Speaker 3: And Leila Edwards were injured. I don't think that either
29:22
Speaker 3: was playing to their full strength. Kirsten probably more so
29:26
Speaker 3: with playing more so than Laila. Lelas still looked like
29:28
Speaker 3: she was favoring things a little for Wisconsin this weekend,
29:31
Speaker 3: So how much they play will be interesting and what
29:33
Speaker 3: we see from them. And then a couple of players
29:36
Speaker 3: that were pulled in, you know, to this camp maybe
29:41
Speaker 3: that we that had have had time away and things
29:43
Speaker 3: like that. So yeah, it'll be see interesting to see
29:46
Speaker 3: how that how much ice time some of the players get.
29:51
Speaker 1: I know, for Leila Edwards, the game Thursday in Cleveland,
29:55
Speaker 1: obviously it was a big circle on the calendar going
29:58
Speaker 1: in because that's where she's from. It and then when
30:02
Speaker 1: the injury happened, you start kind of counting the weeks.
30:05
Speaker 1: This was a few weeks ago. I'm like, well, she
30:07
Speaker 1: can be back by then, and I don't think there
30:12
Speaker 1: would be there would be a lot of questions if
30:14
Speaker 1: she came back and played for the US in Cleveland
30:17
Speaker 1: and hadn't played for Wisconsin yet, and so I think
30:20
Speaker 1: that was a little bit of the hurdle to get
30:22
Speaker 1: her there. But I don't really know what the overall
30:26
Speaker 1: situation is with that with their.
30:28
Speaker 3: Injury, right, I mean she she played essentially like full
30:32
Speaker 3: minutes for Wisconsin. It just looked like she was a
30:34
Speaker 3: little tentative at times. So yeah, that that will be interesting.
30:40
Speaker 3: It's I I was scheduled to talk to her about
30:42
Speaker 3: getting to play in her hometown the day she got injured.
30:46
Speaker 2: Obviously she did was not given.
30:47
Speaker 3: To postseason media availability after that, so, you know, for
30:52
Speaker 3: her sake, I'm glad. I'm excited for her she gets
30:54
Speaker 3: to play at home. I know it's it's a big
30:56
Speaker 3: deal for anybody that gets to do that, but particularly
30:59
Speaker 3: you're talking someone for a really non traditional market and
31:01
Speaker 3: that this is a big thing happening in Cleveland this
31:04
Speaker 3: weekend so or this week So yeah, it will be
31:07
Speaker 3: I hope she at least, you know, I hope she
31:09
Speaker 3: gets a chance to get out there and play.
31:11
Speaker 2: And yeah, only things.
31:13
Speaker 3: You know, some players that like had been out of
31:16
Speaker 3: sort of the regular rotation are in, like Caleb Barnes
31:19
Speaker 3: has been in and out, and a few other players
31:21
Speaker 3: and my passion seems to be a regular now in
31:24
Speaker 3: camp on defense from Ohio State. So she's someone I
31:27
Speaker 3: will want to see Hannah Bilka again with someone that
31:29
Speaker 3: has been a little in and out a favor, So.
31:32
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it will.
31:33
Speaker 3: I think how the lines shakeout and how players are used,
31:37
Speaker 3: I think is what we will be seeing and be
31:39
Speaker 3: interested in watching in these two games.
31:43
Speaker 1: I'm I'm interested in whether there's more games been shipped
31:47
Speaker 1: than normal in terms of what you're putting out there,
31:50
Speaker 1: knowing that this is part of the really next four
31:54
Speaker 1: months right of the lead up and then the Olympics.
31:57
Speaker 1: So now you could say that, you know, that's always
32:02
Speaker 1: the case when you've got the World Championship at the
32:05
Speaker 1: end of.
32:05
Speaker 2: The season next Yeah, I agree, it takes it to another.
32:08
Speaker 1: Lesson, So yeah, I do. So I wonder whether you
32:12
Speaker 1: know what Canada is doing with this roster who will
32:15
Speaker 1: see on the ice for the US, whether we'll be
32:18
Speaker 1: seeing more college players because they're in season versus the
32:20
Speaker 1: p up players that haven't necessarily gotten into you know,
32:24
Speaker 1: maybe they've been on the ice obviously but not in
32:28
Speaker 1: season form yet.
32:31
Speaker 3: Absolutely dominated these early games of the rivalry series when
32:34
Speaker 3: the thinks in large part because of those college players,
32:37
Speaker 3: and then you know, Canada sort of took the win
32:40
Speaker 3: by winning the later games of the series. So yeah,
32:42
Speaker 3: I think for sure Ussay is sort of counting on
32:46
Speaker 3: having that edge of having more collegiate players.
32:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well that's gonna be fun to watch
32:53
Speaker 1: this week. There's also other international play going on or
32:58
Speaker 1: activity happening, so college players are involved in other things
33:02
Speaker 1: around the world this week.
33:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Little Hockey Games. Little l I d L
33:05
Speaker 3: is a grocery store. That's the women's zero Hockey Tour. Interestingly,
33:09
Speaker 3: like CHECKI is taking most of their Olympic roster, Switzerland
33:14
Speaker 3: has is not called in most of their players, and
33:17
Speaker 3: then Flewitinland and Sweden are sort of half and half
33:19
Speaker 3: on their regulars and also trying out some new players.
33:22
Speaker 3: One of the interesting things in Sweden is that they
33:25
Speaker 3: have not called in Emma Soderberg, so they're trying out
33:28
Speaker 3: some other backup goaltenders. Again, probably similar to what we
33:31
Speaker 3: just talked about with Canada in terms of figuring out
33:33
Speaker 3: what happens, you know, if it's not Soderberg in nuts
33:37
Speaker 3: so you know Finland, Yeah, yedia Hirikosky's coming back from
33:41
Speaker 3: you know, having been sick and had surgery. There's you know,
33:44
Speaker 3: there were some injuries in the peed UB of some
33:47
Speaker 3: international players and so yeah, I think this will be
33:50
Speaker 3: a good first Like, it is interesting to me that
33:52
Speaker 3: of the four teams, CHECKI is the only one that's
33:54
Speaker 3: really bringing you know, fundamentally there. They're only you know,
33:59
Speaker 3: they're top tier roster. So the games are taking place
34:04
Speaker 3: in Sweden, and I think that is part of like
34:07
Speaker 3: why you're seeing a bit more of the Swedish Beast
34:09
Speaker 3: players there too. But I would imagine some of the internet,
34:12
Speaker 3: you know, some of the younger the rookies that are
34:14
Speaker 3: in the NCAA this year, Hills Suns in a roundio,
34:17
Speaker 3: some of those players that have had really great to
34:20
Speaker 3: the season will be interesting to see how they get used.
34:22
Speaker 3: And similar to what we're talking about in the rivalry series,
34:25
Speaker 3: those players that are probably a few steps ahead of
34:27
Speaker 3: everybody else at the moment.
34:30
Speaker 1: Right, all right, anything else internationally you want to mention
34:34
Speaker 1: before we turned back to NCAA hockey.
34:37
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I'm probably forgetting stuff.
34:39
Speaker 3: But it's exciting, right, Like talking about Olympics in abstracts
34:44
Speaker 3: for so long that it's exciting to see the teams
34:47
Speaker 3: to actually get out there. And I think, you know,
34:49
Speaker 3: I know, the players have talked a little bit about
34:51
Speaker 3: just you know, they've gone to camps, but to actually
34:53
Speaker 3: go out and play full games is what.
34:55
Speaker 2: They're excited about.
34:58
Speaker 1: We're essentially just over the three months away from the
35:00
Speaker 1: start of the Olympics. So yeah, it's gonna it's gonna
35:02
Speaker 1: start feeling a lot more real here really soon. So
35:08
Speaker 1: that will be fun to see. Okay, let's come back here.
35:11
Speaker 1: We've got just one game between ranked teams this week,
35:15
Speaker 1: after there were five each day on last Friday and Saturday.
35:20
Speaker 1: This week, that is number eleven Clarkson at number seven
35:23
Speaker 1: Quinnipiac on Saturday. These are both teams that are three
35:27
Speaker 1: and one with nine points in Ecac tied for second
35:31
Speaker 1: with Princeton. Princeton tied for second with Princeton. You know,
35:35
Speaker 1: that's that's worth mentioning too. Off to a good start,
35:39
Speaker 1: Clarkston coming back after that shutout loss to Dartmouth. We'll
35:43
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how they bounce back from that.
35:44
Speaker 1: We've seen We mentioned before how Quinnipiac bounced back from
35:47
Speaker 1: their first loss with a resounding set of victories last week.
35:53
Speaker 1: What are you what are you looking for in this one?
35:56
Speaker 3: Well, that's one of those sort of rivalry games where
35:58
Speaker 3: I'm not sure any of anything else that has happened matters,
36:02
Speaker 3: because when those two teams play each other, they're if
36:04
Speaker 3: they're like so locked in on each other, they know
36:07
Speaker 3: each other so well that you know, it doesn't matter.
36:11
Speaker 3: I think a team could go into that winless and
36:12
Speaker 3: still come out with a win kind of thing, right, Like,
36:14
Speaker 3: it's just some of the and all the other stuff
36:16
Speaker 3: doesn't matter.
36:17
Speaker 2: It's it's all about beating that team.
36:19
Speaker 3: And I think, you know, Clarkston, like you said, looking
36:21
Speaker 3: to come back from that loss and prove that they're
36:23
Speaker 3: you know, they are a team that is in contention
36:26
Speaker 3: for the national tournament and things like that. So like
36:28
Speaker 3: they're they need they have that anyway, and then they
36:30
Speaker 3: definitely want to Kinna want to do that against their rival,
36:33
Speaker 3: you know, interestingly, two teams that tend to be pretty
36:36
Speaker 3: defensive but also have great offensive scorings. I mean, the
36:40
Speaker 3: thing about Quinnipiac with with LaMarsh and all that scoring
36:43
Speaker 3: is that like that's just so not normally quinnipiax m
36:46
Speaker 3: oh that is a defensive team normally, and for you know,
36:51
Speaker 3: primarily or three quarters of what they're focusing on the
36:55
Speaker 3: game is in Quinnipiac Quinnipiac home that you know helps them,
36:59
Speaker 3: but also I think probably fuels Clarkson a little bit too. Yeah,
37:03
Speaker 3: I think that's we do have a light schedule, like
37:05
Speaker 3: I said, because a lot of teams take that bye
37:07
Speaker 3: week for because this has always been an international break weekend.
37:10
Speaker 3: It used to be four Nations. But I'm excited then
37:13
Speaker 3: that I really get to focus on that game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a couple others that are are kind
37:20
Speaker 1: of worth for sure mentioning. We're paying attention to a
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Speaker 1: couple in hockey East Vermont at number nine Northeastern Friday
37:27
Speaker 1: and Saturday. We've seen Vermont have some success and here
37:30
Speaker 1: and there Northeastern kind of doing this continual build back
37:34
Speaker 1: up to the places where we've seen them before in
37:40
Speaker 1: the national rankings. Now off the nine, that one stands
37:45
Speaker 1: out to me. And also a BC home and home
37:46
Speaker 1: series with number eight Yukon because we've seen BC have
37:49
Speaker 1: some success in conference early in the season. It's getting
37:52
Speaker 1: a little bit tested now. We saw the Eagles lose
37:56
Speaker 1: at Vermont get a real tests with Yukon this week.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I you kind of got great goaltending against great
38:07
Speaker 3: scoring from from BC.
38:08
Speaker 2: So far this season, So I think that's going to
38:10
Speaker 2: be interesting.
38:10
Speaker 3: And I think Connecticut could just use a little a
38:13
Speaker 3: little push on their offensive side. They have, you know,
38:16
Speaker 3: some of the great players they have, you know, the
38:19
Speaker 3: returning Rooky of the Year and things like that, and
38:21
Speaker 3: so yeah, I think those are those are games that
38:24
Speaker 3: will propel whoever comes out on top, I think quite
38:26
Speaker 3: a bit. And so yeah, there's sort of a lot
38:29
Speaker 3: to play for in Hockey East this weekend with these series.
38:31
Speaker 3: I think everybody's got a little there.
38:33
Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: New Hampshire had a decent start and had some big
38:35
Speaker 3: games this weekend. They scored a ton of goals last weekend,
38:39
Speaker 3: and we've seen Providence have some upset wins. So the
38:41
Speaker 3: New Hampshire Providence is is a really interesting series as well.
38:45
Speaker 3: Hockey East is definitely sort of taken center stage this
38:47
Speaker 3: weekend with these these sets of games.
38:52
Speaker 1: Indeed it is. We also have bu traveling to Maine.
38:57
Speaker 1: One of those games is on Nessen, so if you
38:59
Speaker 1: have that, that's an option for you this weekend. I
39:02
Speaker 1: believe that's the Saturday game, Saturday afternoon contest at the
39:07
Speaker 1: Alfond Arena. So yeah, it should be some some good
39:13
Speaker 1: watching going on your opportunities to watch some daytime hockey
39:16
Speaker 1: and on Saturday, and then there might be a couple
39:19
Speaker 1: of games at night too. I'm just paging through this.
39:22
Speaker 1: It looks like everything is pretty much during the day.
39:23
Speaker 1: There's a Delaware Brown game on on Saturday evening though,
39:28
Speaker 1: so it's got that to look forward.
39:30
Speaker 3: To travel partners. Obviously, you mentioned Clerk's and at Quinipiac,
39:33
Speaker 3: but that also puts Clarkson at Princeton and Saint Lawrence
39:36
Speaker 3: at Quinnipiac on Friday night. And I think you know,
39:39
Speaker 3: we were talking about Princeton maybe being a surprise, so
39:42
Speaker 3: that's that's not an easy game for Clarkson.
39:45
Speaker 2: Saint Lawrence has been up and down too.
39:46
Speaker 3: I don't think you know, Quinnipiac can look past that
39:48
Speaker 3: game at all either, So that's an interesting set of
39:51
Speaker 3: travel partners.
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Speaker 1: There, right, Absolutely, Okay, I think that just about wraps
39:57
Speaker 1: it up for this week, doesn't I think so. All Right, Well,
40:02
Speaker 1: we thank you so much for tuning in again. We
40:04
Speaker 1: hope you'll be back with us next week when we'll
40:07
Speaker 1: recap the rivalry series and then look ahead to what's
40:09
Speaker 1: coming as we get deeper into November. Boy, it's November already,
40:14
Speaker 1: we're really rolling along in the season here, all right
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Speaker 1: for Nicole, I'm Todd. Thanks for listening to the podcast.