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Seg 5 - MHOC Coach's Show w Oliver Flynn 3-4 · Coaches Corner

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  Back on the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show. It is my pleasure to welcome in
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  Alibert Flynn, who was born in Vulcan and is back in Connecticut with his
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  family after a stint in North Carolina. We'll talk about that as well.
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  But good week for you. First of all, on Wednesday, you were
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  one of the many student athletes on three point oh Night that received special recognition
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  for four point zero. That's awesome. Congratulations, thank you, thank you.
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  Yeah, it was special. I mean I think it's just more more
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  saying thanks to our academic counsel Alana. She did great. Like if you
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  look around our team, like we had a bunch of guys who got three
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  point ohs and stuff like that, like eight ten guys you got three point
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  ohs. I'm pretty sure Jake Percival was close to getting a four point zero
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  or maybe dead I'm not sure. But yeah, we all did a good
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  job as a team and it was really special doing the right things off the
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  ice. So what's your few. You don't have a major yet, do
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  you? No? Yeah, So I'm hoping to get into the business school.
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  I apply at the end of my sophomore year and pursue finance, kind
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  of like following the footsteps of Matt pisqually because it seems like he knows what
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  he's doing. So yeah, from some of the players that we've had on
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  the Coaches Show in that direction, they all kind of gravitate to him.
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  What's he just got a he's got a really good mind when it comes to
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  that stuff. Huh. Yeah, for sure, he just knows what he
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  wants to do, so just kind of looking and learning from him, like
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  he's he's got his stuff together. So it's always nice to have a role
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  model like that on the team. So there you go. Husky's won at
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  Northeastern Friday and then unfortunately and it wasn't a loss, but late in the
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  game, your first career goal and it looks like you get a little help
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  from Hudson and shand or take me through the goal. Yeah. So it
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  was late, probably about a minute and a half half left. Coach called
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  my name, so I got on face off in the offensive zone. I
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  was a little scrum kind of towards the blue line and it popped out.
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  I think the defender fell and then Hoddy chipped it over to me. I
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  don't really remember what happened. All I remember is I shot it and I
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  looked back and it went in the net, and I was excited. I
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  was glad I was able to put the boys up kind of have a fighting
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  chance late in the third to try to get back into the game. So
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  I didn't even really realize it, didn't really like process in my mind that
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  I scored until I got onto the bench and I was like, wow,
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  I just I just scored my first goal. So did somebody retrieve the puck
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  for you? Yeah? Yeah, how do you got it for me?
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  So it was awesome. One thing that coach cav has talked about during this
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  season, and it has been a roller coaster ride for this team. I
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  don't know why the wins aren't coming int home. I know goal scoring has
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  been an issue, but everything cav has said, Hudson, Schandor and the
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  leadership group of this team has kept you guys up each and every day.
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  And he says that Hudson is far and away the most positive person he's ever
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  met. Oh yeah, for sure. Coming in as a freshman, those
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  guys have just been great, like bringing us, teaching us the ropes,
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  like knowing how to do things and They're just great examples of how to work
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  hard and put your nose to the ground and keep grinding even if it's not
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  going to go your way. And I just really look forward to following him
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  into battle and coming into playoffs, like I'll do anything to play for those
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  guys, or the guys around me, like my fellow freshman sophomor's juniors.
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  So it's just really great to have those guys as leaders. Oliver, you
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  were from Wilket. You were born in Connecticut, but then your family moved
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  down to North Carolina for a while till you were at seven or eight years
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  old, and you grew up in Raleigh all of the Hurricanes and you know
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  the story there. But I understand you got to watch the Hurricanes and you
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  had a favorite player back in the day. Yeah. Yeah, I always
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  loved watching Eric Stall. I just think he was just he's just a big
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  body. You get into the corners, win a lot of puck battles,
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  and you were strong in front of the net, and I just always loved
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  watching him. And he was a great leader of the Hurricanes, brought home
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  and stuff like that, so it was just awesome. Well, I will
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  tell you this, I was very happy for my friends Chuck Katon and John
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  Forsland to get to get a ring after all the years working with those two
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  guys, and it was great. And in fact, you go on YouTube,
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  you can find Cayton's calls of the game seven of the six final against
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  Edmonton. You came back to Connecticut and I know you spent some time playing
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  juniors here, but you also went to Loomis Chafe. Yeah. Is that
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  kind of about the time you had a feeling that you might be able to
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  do something with hockey and to another level. Yeah, I think it was
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  like my sixteen's year. I've always wanted to play Division one hockey, but
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  I think that's really when I made the jump in my skill level and it
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  kind of turned into a reality. And Yukon was the one school I knew
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  I wanted to go to from a young age, like being fifteen, sixteen
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  years old. I always loved the campus like I was a young kid when
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  I got committed here, just because I knew I wanted to be here and
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  play for Connecticut and where you ca on Jersey. So that's pretty cool.
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  Who reached out to you first? What was that first interaction, Like it
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  was, hell, it's reached out to me first. I was he watched
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  me first at the New England District camp up and I think it was Wallpoole
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  mess. Yeah, so it was, it was, it was. It
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  was surreal having him talk to me, because I was like, Wow,
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  I school my dreams actually talking to me to go and I can one day
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  play for them. So I was. I was really happy. And your
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  thoughts on the new building, It is phenomenal, Like when I when I
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  committed it here, there were talks about it and just stepping foot first time
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  in there, it's surreal. We're just like so lucky to have it and
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  I'm so grateful to be able to go there every day and use the facilities
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  and just get better and work hard. So right, Coach keV talks about
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  the fact that you guys gravitate to that building. Are you much of a
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  ping pong guy? No, I'm not. I usually stay away because I'm
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  not good. I'll get whooked pretty bad, but I'll have played a couple
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  of games against guys who are like my skill level, but I try to
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  stay away. Oliver, We're down to the end of the season here,
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  a big game coming up on Thursday and then who knows how many playoff games.
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  But it has been a just a unique season for the home struggles that
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  you've had. Can you put your finger on what why this thing has not
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  gone the way you hoped? I mean, I don't think so, but
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  I just can say like I'm confident, Like when I look around the room,
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  like before practices, when we're talking about the end of the season,
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  I look around to my fellow teammates. I just know how confident we are
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  coming into playoffs because the good thing about Hockey's playoffs you only have to win
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  your last game, right, So I think, I think playing for each
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  other, when we're playing for each other in a playoff spot, we're going
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  to be a really really dangerous team to come again. So if Maddie and
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  Chase really get going. Yes, how much fun was Friday? By the
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  way? That was a fun game to call? By the way, Yeah
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  it was. It was a fun game. I mean it was just nice
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  to go in there on their senior night. Kind of ruin it upset that
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  they did that to us. But it was a close game Saturday too,
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  so even closer than the score depicted it. But yeah, Hockey East has
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  been a bear this year. Hey Oliver, thanks for a few minutes.
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  Best of luck and hopefully we'll see you. I get to call a few
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  more of your goals during the during the course of your career in stories.
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  Yeah, thank you, Thank you for having me. You're very welcome.
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  More of a you COT Hockey Coaches show on this Monday night in just a
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  moment here on Learfield, stay with us.