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MHOC Mike Cavanaugh Availability Oct 2 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Opening weekends upon us kick off the season Friday against Colgate.
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  Speaker 1: Just want to get your thoughts heading into opening weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to believe it's already here, but it's exciting,
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  Speaker 2: that's for sure. We've had you know. Now, this is
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  Speaker 2: our fifth week of practice, so I think our guys
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  Speaker 2: are chomping at the bit to get going and play
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  Speaker 2: some real games. So we're looking forward to opening up
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  Speaker 2: against Colgate in Tuscano this Friday night. Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I will open up for questions. If you guys could
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  Speaker 1: just raise your hand, I'll get to you.
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  Speaker 2: Dan. We'll start you off.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have any update on Satar and whether he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to play or if you know
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  Speaker 3: how long he might be out now?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet, No, we're still waiting on compliance. We're hopefully
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  Speaker 2: going to get a clarification either today, hopefully today or
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow at some point, but I'm not sure. Like I
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  Speaker 2: would then, I wouldn't bet that he'd be eligible list Friday,
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  Speaker 2: but we're hoping it'll be shortly after.
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  Speaker 1: Brandy will go over to you morning, calv How you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm great, Randy? You great?
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  Speaker 4: Can't wait for Friday?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: You know at media Day, you mentioned that you feel
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  Speaker 4: your team speed has improved this year. Who are some
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  Speaker 4: guys you know I should be on the lookout Friday
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  Speaker 4: night who could really motor and call attention to Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think, well, obviously there's some returning players in Perceval
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  Speaker 2: and Tattle and Muldowney that and Chandor that can you know,
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  Speaker 2: really skate and get up and down the ice. But
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  Speaker 2: I think Ethan Gardoula is a kid that skates really well.
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  Speaker 2: I think Kayden Shahan's a kid that skates really well.
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  Speaker 2: Kai Jan Varia skates really well on the back end.
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  Speaker 2: So that those are just a few there that I
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  Speaker 2: think will add to our overall team speed.
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  Speaker 4: As you go through, you know, the preseason, getting ready
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  Speaker 4: for an opening night and you have somewhat limited time together,
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  Speaker 4: how do you decide onlines and do you recruit thinking
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  Speaker 4: for lines or does that develop in these days leading
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  Speaker 4: up to the season when you see the chemistry on
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  Speaker 4: the ice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's tricky.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Hudson Chandor came in and he was a fourth line center,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but he eventually moves himself up to a
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  Speaker 2: first line center. So Chase Bradley played on our fourth
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  Speaker 2: line at one point and became a first line type player.
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  Speaker 2: So you like to see those kids that sometimes what
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  Speaker 2: you might see Friday night might be very different come
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  Speaker 2: February or March. But we've had, like I said, four
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  Speaker 2: weeks to kind of watch how kids play well. You know,
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  Speaker 2: what kids play well together, what might mesh. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: go off of that. But it's still you know, as
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  Speaker 2: I've said many times, Randy, that we cannot replicate in practice.
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  Speaker 2: It's impossible. I've talked to a bunch of coaches in
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  Speaker 2: different sports. In your preseason, you cannot replicate how our
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  Speaker 2: opponent's gonna play. It's just a completely different level. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll find out more about our team, you know, come
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  Speaker 2: Friday night.
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  Speaker 4: And one final question on a specific player, Merdtod you
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  Speaker 4: know lit up the BHL, especially on power play. Is
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  Speaker 4: he somebody that you know we we might see on
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  Speaker 4: the power play.
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  Speaker 2: He's another kid that skates really well. He's been hurt
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  Speaker 2: for you know, he's back playing now, but he was
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  Speaker 2: hurt previous two weeks, so we'll get to kind of
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  Speaker 2: still assessed to where he's at. But he missed a
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  Speaker 2: you know, probably two weeks of training camp.
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  Speaker 4: But so we'll see, all right, we will see Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, you got it, Yeah, Joe will jump over to you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Colon morning, coach. How are you? I'm great, Joe yourself,
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, Thank you, Calvin. The five weeks, what's been
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  Speaker 2: the area that you've seen the most improvement in your team? Well, again,
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping it's in the offensive zone, Joe. It was
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  Speaker 2: an area where we struggled to score goals last year
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  Speaker 2: and it's been an emphasis and a focal point of
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  Speaker 2: our preseason and it's an area that I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: see all that work we've put in in the preseason,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to see that paid dividends come Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: What strengths in goal does Tyler bring to your team?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously familiar with him from New Hampshire, but what made
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  Speaker 2: him someone that you were actively pursuing in the portal. Well, one,
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  Speaker 2: he's an experienced Hockey East goaltender, like he's had experience
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  Speaker 2: playing in this league. So when he went into the portal,
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  Speaker 2: that was certainly attractive to us because we didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a goaltender with that, so that was something that was attractive.
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  Speaker 2: He was a very young goalie coming into college. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I still think his best hockey's in front of him.
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  Speaker 2: So those were two things that you know, we're appealing
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  Speaker 2: to us when he went into the transfer portal. And
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  Speaker 2: finally for me this time around, when you go into
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  Speaker 2: an opening weekend, is it more about what you do
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  Speaker 2: than worried about what Colgate does? I mean, obviously they
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of guys back from last year, not
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  Speaker 2: their top scorer, not there number one goalie. But what's
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  Speaker 2: the mindset when you approach this opening weekend. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's always you know, whether it's the opening weekend or
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  Speaker 2: whether it's a Friday night in February. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: got to be more about what we do. And I
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  Speaker 2: think the best teams make the other teams change your
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  Speaker 2: game plan, as opposed to us trying to game plan
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  Speaker 2: for an opponent. So now there's always a few things
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  Speaker 2: they may do in the power player, they may run
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  Speaker 2: a face off play. That's of note that we've got
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  Speaker 2: to make sure we prepare for. But by and large,
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  Speaker 2: I want us to be dictating the terms of the
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  Speaker 2: hockey game, not us reacting to how they play.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dan, we'll jump back to you.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned how tough it is to replicate playing an
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  Speaker 3: opponent until that first game. So have you ever considered
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  Speaker 3: doing an exhibition this weekend or opening with an exhibition?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you know, we got you know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people got away from exhibitions because of we're having a
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  Speaker 2: pay to play a Canadian team, you know, to bring
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  Speaker 2: them down here. And I don't know how much we
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  Speaker 2: got out of that. But now that they've changed the
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  Speaker 2: rule where we could play another college team, yes, I
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  Speaker 2: would be open to that. We just unfortunately had locked
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  Speaker 2: these uh weekends in before you know, they changed the rules.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the short answer. But yeah, no, I'd love
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  Speaker 2: to play when and I'd love to like I like
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  Speaker 2: using this weekend to get going because it allows you
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  Speaker 2: to space out your schedule a little bit. If we
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  Speaker 2: didn't play games this weekend, our first half might be
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  Speaker 2: a little more condensed. Uh, you know, where you're playing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of games, maybe a midweek game would you
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  Speaker 2: try to avoid? I was, I would. I would hope
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  Speaker 2: that maybe they even change it so you could play
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  Speaker 2: your one exhibition game, you know, in September. That would
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  Speaker 2: be really beneficial for as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 3: Then there's the change in the schedule where I mean
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  Speaker 3: it shifts it up one day. But do you like
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  Speaker 3: the ability to start on a Friday as opposed to Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I do. It just keeps us more in line
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  Speaker 2: with how we our normal week goes. And it also
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  Speaker 2: like we had to go to Colgate last year Saturday Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: and you know you're getting back late Sunday night. Kids
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  Speaker 2: have school the next days. It certainly and I hate
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  Speaker 2: competing with the NFL. You know that's usually never You're
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  Speaker 2: not going to win that battle on most Sundays. So
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  Speaker 2: I would definitely prefer to play Friday Saturday night.
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  Speaker 3: What about some of the other rule changes, the getting
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  Speaker 3: rid of the face off penalty and just kicking guys
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  Speaker 3: out of a circle again and losing the double jeopardy
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  Speaker 3: penalty where if you score on the delayed penalty you
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  Speaker 3: get to keep the power play. I think there's some
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  Speaker 3: changes to the high stick rules. Anything that you really
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  Speaker 3: like or don't like in those changes.
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  Speaker 2: I like getting rid of the double jeopardy I thought
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  Speaker 2: I never ever liked that rule. I thought it could
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  Speaker 2: really change a game quickly, So I think that's a
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  Speaker 2: good change. What was the first one he said?
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  Speaker 3: The kicking guys out of the face off circle again
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  Speaker 3: instead of the warning and the penalty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't mind that either, because real good face
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  Speaker 2: off guys knew they had one free b and they
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  Speaker 2: could cheat. And where it was supposed to speed the
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  Speaker 2: game up, I think it actually slowed it down because
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  Speaker 2: no one was ever dropping the pocket on the first
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  Speaker 2: everybody was cheating, so that I'm not so opposed to
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  Speaker 2: that either. The last one, what was it? Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that is a tricky one because I do agree with it.
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  Speaker 2: Like Zadano, Chara's high stick is different than Brian Gionta's. Right.
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  Speaker 2: That being said, I don't like it when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to a goal because it's very clear cut and dried
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  Speaker 2: around the goal. It has been for years that it's
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  Speaker 2: the top to the crossbar, and now we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get you know, a six foot six player to a
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  Speaker 2: five foot six player. It's different, and I don't like
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  Speaker 2: that because when it comes to a goal, I think
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  Speaker 2: it should just be the crossbar. But everywhere else in
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  Speaker 2: the ice, I do think it speeds up the game
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  Speaker 2: and it makes.
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  Speaker 3: Sense with the face off change. Are you working more
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  Speaker 3: with wingers or guys that maybe you wouldn't expect to
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  Speaker 3: be on the faceoff dot as much this season now
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  Speaker 3: that there's a higher probability that they're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to go in and take some face offs.
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  Speaker 2: So we've always tried to have two players on each
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  Speaker 2: line that can take a face off, primarily a LEFTI
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  Speaker 2: and alrighty, because I think it's much easier to win
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  Speaker 2: faceoffs on your backhand. So I don't know if you've
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  Speaker 2: noticed that over the past few years, but we've had
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  Speaker 2: usually two kids on a line, and if it's in
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  Speaker 2: the left dot, a left, you will take it, and
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  Speaker 2: if it's in the right dot, a right, you'll take it.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, if we have a line where we're
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  Speaker 2: definitely gonna have to have a winger to be able
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  Speaker 2: to take a draw or at least tie up on
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  Speaker 2: a draw, but I've always tried to have two kids
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  Speaker 2: on the line be able to take a draw.
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  Speaker 3: Then in goal, you know, just how has the competition
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  Speaker 3: gone throughout the fall, and how are you liking how
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  Speaker 3: the guys are playing coming into the first weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It's been great. The one that would be a great
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  Speaker 2: benefit of an exhibition game, Dan, because you could get
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  Speaker 2: all your goalies in for a period, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: give them, give them some game action. So again, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's really hard to, like I said, replicate what it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be like playing in a game for those goaltenders.
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  Speaker 2: So but I like the competition, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think we're going to be uh. I feel good about
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  Speaker 2: that position.
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  Speaker 3: Do you imagine it's going to look more like the
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  Speaker 3: last couple of years where you you've got a couple
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  Speaker 3: guys starting maybe even splitting the games, or could you
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  Speaker 3: imagine where it's one guy really runs with it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I just want one guy that helps
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  Speaker 2: us win games every single night. So whether that's two
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  Speaker 2: guys or whether that's one guy, I'll just let that
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  Speaker 2: play out.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know who you're going with on Friday?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet? You knew the answer to that question. I know.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't mean I didn't have to ask it.
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  Speaker 1: We got anything else for go ahead?
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  Speaker 2: Randy?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just one more? You know, guys like Bradley and Capoon,
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  Speaker 4: we're so heavy on the four check. I know you
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  Speaker 4: got some size with Witcomb. I mean, is that something
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  Speaker 4: we can still expect? You know, you've had a physical
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  Speaker 4: brand of play at say the last few years. Are
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  Speaker 4: there any guys that are particularly you know, good hitters
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  Speaker 4: and heavy on the four check on this roster, well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just because you're heavy and you can deliver
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  Speaker 2: a bone crushing hit doesn't mean you're a great four checker.
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  Speaker 2: Not to say that they weren't, I'm one of my
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  Speaker 2: point is, you know, Joey Muldowney and Jake Percival and
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  Speaker 2: Tristan Fraser and uh, you know Ryan Cattle, they're as
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  Speaker 2: quick as anybody. They get on people, and if it's
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  Speaker 2: a lot about stick detail, it's about getting in there
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  Speaker 2: quick and not giving the defenseman time to get his
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  Speaker 2: eyes up ice. So there's a lot of different ways
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  Speaker 2: you can be effective on the fore check without having
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  Speaker 2: to run somebody through the glass. So I still think
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be a very effective for checking team.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks all right, Joe, we'll wrap it up with you. Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Two questions, cav Number one, U losing Andrew Lucas, you
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  Speaker 2: lose a pretty good offensive defenseman. Who do you look
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  Speaker 2: to to kind of step up into that role? Can
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  Speaker 2: Can Tommy Muscinio take over that role? I think he
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  Speaker 2: has certainly those type of that ability to do it.
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  Speaker 2: But I also think Nick Caravan who we brought in
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  Speaker 2: from Princeton. Uh, you know, could possibly be running a
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  Speaker 2: power play. I think kai Jan vayah. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a very talented offensive freshman we brought in has the
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  Speaker 2: ability to run a power play. So I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have enough in house here to you know, try
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  Speaker 2: to replace Andrew, who is a terrific player for us.
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  Speaker 2: Are there freshman calf where you're looking at right now?
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  Speaker 2: Is potential red shirts? Or is everybody in play? I
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  Speaker 2: think everybody's in play right now. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the luxury of football with one hundred and five players,
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  Speaker 2: but that's not the case. And how's your health? Not
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  Speaker 2: yours personally, because you look good, but the team's health
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  Speaker 2: going into this weekend. Uh, our team health is well.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Fitzgerald's going to be out for the year unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: tours ACL and practice last week and we're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to get that operated on. But other than that, I
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  Speaker 2: think we're okay.