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Seg 2 - MHOC Show Jan 22 · Coaches Corner

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  We welcome you back to Bears Smokehouse Barbecue here in downtown Hartford for the Yukon
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  Men's Hockey Coaches Show. He's Yukon Men's Ice Hockey head coach Mike Kavanaugh,
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  Adam Jardino with you. Thanks to John Ashmead here on site, and big
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  thanks to Bryant back in the studio in Winston Salem. So we dove into
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  the main series and now this past weekend against number seventeen unh it was in
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  some ways a similar script dropped the first game win the second. We won't
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  harp too much on Friday, but what was the general sense of how that
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  the third period went in that one? Well? Not well? Yeah,
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  I mean I thought we were playing okay. I wasn't crazy about our energy
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  Friday night, but we were still playing well enough to win the hockey game.
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  We actually put their goal in, went off Andrew Lucas's stick, and
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  we had two great chances to tie the game to start the third period.
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  I liked our first few shifts and then you eh scored kind of on an
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  unfortunate goal. I thought it hit Ethan in the head and he lost it,
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  and then they just got two other quick ones. Right after that,
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  they scored three goals with like in a minute and ten seconds, and that
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  was pretty much a game. We didn't have a lot you know, pushback
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  after that. So it was frustrating because you know, we're playing at home
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  and we had a great crowd there and I thought we were building some momentum
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  after the last Saturday, and it was frustrating to lose that game Friday.
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  But I was really proud again of the effort yesterday because you know, five
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  minutes into the game yesterday, Hudson Schandor gets thrown out of the game for
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  a five minute major. We were able to kill that. I thought our
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  penalty kill was outstanding yesterday. Different guys stepped up. We got a couple
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  of goals, like Tristan Fraser steps up and takes Hudson's spot on that line
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  and makes a really high end play to Chase Bradley for our second goal.
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  So a lot of guys stepped up. Penalty kill was excellent. We blocked
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  a lot of shots and it was a well earned, you know, road
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  victory for us yesterday. One last thought on the Friday game before we focus
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  more on yesterday. So with that flurry the three goals in about a minute.
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  Were there any of those three that you looked at and you just thought,
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  guys, that's one we just can't give up. I mean, that's
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  hard to say. I mean there were a lot of mistakes with those goals,
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  you know, so I don't know if there was one in particular.
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  I Mean, the thing about it is I always say, you can't let
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  one mistake turn into two, turn into three. And that was the thing
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  that bothered me. It wasn't so much that we gave up that second goal.
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  It was we let it compound and basically, you know, put us
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  in a situation where it's really hard to come back and win a hockey game.
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  And this league, when you're down four to nothing with sixteen minutes ago
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  on the third, I don't care who you're playing in this league, it's
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  really hard to come back from that. Mike Kavanaugh joins us here on the
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  Yukon Men's Ice Hockey Coaches Show, Adam Giordino with you live at Bears Smokehouse
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  Barbecue here in downtown Hartford. So we do jump into yesterday going on the
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  road to the Whittemore Center. You had talked about UMass being the Olympic size
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  sheet of ice, and the ice of the Wittemore Center used to be Olympic
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  size and now it's a little bit not anymore. Okay, it's probably uh,
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  I don't know if it's eighty five feet wide. It might be a
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  touch wider than that, but it's not much. The corners are a little
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  deeper. It's like Boston College where the corners are a little deeper. But
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  no, it's a much more manageable rink these days. And when you talk
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  about just the slight variances BCU mass unh that those changes largely fall on the
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  defenseman. That's where it would affect you a little bit more as a new
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  team coming in. No, I think it's everybody. I mean it's not
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  just defenceman. I mean in the offensive zone, if you beat a guy
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  in a small rink, you got a chance to score a goal. So
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  it's our forwards, you know, coming back. It's playing inside the dots
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  and playing in you know, protecting the good ice. So I don't think
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  it's unique to defenceman a large sheet. I think it affects everybody because your
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  forwards have to four check, so when you have to cover more ground,
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  it's a lot harder to for check. It was Scorelas going into the second
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  period, and then Ryan Taddle got you on the board just a minute thirty
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  six in on the feed from Mattthew would where is his game just continued to
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  grow this year Ryan Tattle's. I would say he and Tristan Frasier from last
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  year to this year have probably taken the biggest jumps on our team. Well,
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  there's a few, you know, I know, I think you have
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  Jack Pascucci on later right. Yes, he's really playing great hockey for us
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  now. But Ryan Taddle in particular, he was out there at the end
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  of the game last night taking both face offs because he was our best face
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  off guy last night. So this is not a role he had played in
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  earlier in his career, but did a fantastic job last night. And I
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  just really like the way his game's trending today. On the season, he's
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  about a fifty percent face off guy, but those numbers have been trending in
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  the right direction. So how does a player improve that particular skill over the
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  course of the season. Well, we've certainly put more emphasis on it,
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  and you know, Mike Pereira is kind of heading up our face offs,
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  and he's done a really nice job with showing the kids different video and strengths
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  of other players, but spending a lot of time with our players after practice
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  working on different techniques as well. So that goal by Tattle, it's followed
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  up a little bit later with a goal by Chase Bradley and the media at
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  large we'll be talking very likely to Chase tomorrow in the run up to Connecticut
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  Ice. So for Chase, I guess similar question. He's a Detroit Red
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  Wings product and it just seems like his trajectory has been going in the right
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  direct since he stepped foot on campus. It has. He's, you know,
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  probably our most physical player. He skates really well. It was a
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  great draft pick by Detroit, especially in the seventh round. I think he
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  went. He's a guy that has a really legitimate chance to play at the
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  next level, I believe with his skill set. So and for us,
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  he's leading our team and scoring and he just plays a sad owned two hundred
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  foot hockey game and he's invaluable to us, that's for sure. We talked
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  about our Sinisor Jeb on the Saturday game against Maine helping bring you guys back.
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  So then yesterday against unh he's put into a similar situation. Not must
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  win, but you guys want to win that game surely, So what did
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  he specifically show you? Yet again, in another start, I thought he
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  was square to the puck. I thought he was very efficient. You know,
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  when our city's playing really well, he plays within his posts. He
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  doesn't get out into that white ice, and I thought he did that very
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  effectively yesterday. He killed a lot of plays. You know where it gets
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  dicey sometimes in front of your own net for a goaltender is when you're allowing
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  second and third chance opportunities and you don't control that first rebound and the other
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  team's getting wax at it. And he didn't excellent job of killing plays yesterday.
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  Is it hard to deep program a goalie that likes to be a little
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  bit more Uh, I don't know, artistic in some ways where it's hey,
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  you're at your best when you are in the crease rather than being a
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  little more frea glowing. You know, it's a good question. I would
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  say that if it's working for you and you're getting results, then fine.
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  Like Dominic Castick, I mean, he was very unique in the way he
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  played. I think if you're not getting results, then yeah, you got
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  to make a change. So I was saying that that's where I think our
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  ciny when he was struggling this year, it was really due to the fact
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  that he's probably playing more outside his posts and right now, Like a great
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  example yesterday was, you know, we gave up a two on one and
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  their guy came in point blank and he held his feet and made a glove
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  safe, you know, without guessing. So that's when you're really locked thin
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  and seeing the puck. Well, we'll continue on with this conversation in a
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  moment. Friday afternoon, it's day one of Connecticut Ice. We'll talk more
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  about that in the next segment. At the Excel Center, yukon Sacred Heart,
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