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Seg 3 - MHOC Show Jan 8 Coach Cav · Coaches Corner

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  Back on the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show the start of another busy week as we
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  have another coaches show tomorrow. We'll visit with Gino Oriama tomorrow night from six
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  to seven on the Women's Basketball Coaches Show. Hopefully KK Arnold will join us,
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  and then we have two basketball games on Wednesday, Dan Hurley Thursday,
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  Hockey Friday, and then yeah, it just continues all the action here on
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  the Yukon Sports Network and the Varsity Network app and the Varsity Network dot com
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  Mapisqually is your third goaltender? Very valuable piece. I don't think people realize
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  how valuable, more so in practice. But he's a guy that you could
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  plug in if you need it on that for sure. Yeah, he's outstanding.
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  He's just been a solid guy for us for four years. He's so
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  well respected in the locker room. He has really good insight. Like a
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  lot of times after a game, I'll ask him his thoughts on the game,
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  and his insight is just fantastics. Do you see him being a coach
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  somewhere down the road? No, I see him being on Wall Street is
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  where I say him. He does what he doesn't want to do. This
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  job he'll make a lot of money at some point. He's uh, he's
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  just great and he's beloved by all the guys on the team as well.
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  One of the young guys that we have not seen yet is Bower Swept freshman
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  defenseman from West Hartford. So what have you seen with him in the program
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  over the course of these few months. Well, he didn't. He just
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  started practicing again after Christmas, so he was had a issue of health issue
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  that where he couldn't play for basically the whole first half. So he's just
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  getting back now. And he's a big kid, and he skates well and
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  he competes. So I'm looking forward to seeing what he can bring more often
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  on a daily basis. Mike, You've got Maine coming in this weekend.
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  Ranks seventh in the country. Seven to three was the score up there.
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  But as you told us the night after the game on the Coaches Show,
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  it was a game that it was basically a synopsis of the entire first half
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  the season for your team. Boy, an impressive group set of twins and
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  ADU boys. They're off to the fantastic start. They basically have helped turn
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  things around for Ben Barr's team. In his third year. Yeah, they're
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  actually not twins, but they play like twins. Okay, No, I
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  think Josh is older than brad I think I think Josh is an O three
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  and Bradley's a five. They've played together forever for a long time. They're
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  outstanding players. With Lyndon Breen, that line is arguably one of the best
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  lines in the in the country. And uh yeah, they've been on a
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  heater too. I think they've won seven in a row, so they've They're
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  a really good team. They've got two good goaltenders that they play on a
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  you know, consistent basis. The defensemen are very, very mobile, and
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  they have other guys up front that are big and strong too, so they
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  pose a lot of challenges for your team, you know. But you know,
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  I thought, as I said, we didn't play poorly when we played
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  up there. It was just they were very opportunistic and we're going to have
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  to certainly do a better job when the NATO's are on the ISS for sure.
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  The way that conference play is set up, this is the first time
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  that you are playing No I take that back. You played U mass Lowl
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  a couple of weeks after playing them once So, what's it like to have
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  tape on a team and it's not Okay, it's Saturday morning, we have
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  tape from last night. What's it like to be able to have a couple
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  of weeks removed from a result that you had against a team like this?
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  Are you asking like, how much will we look back at the game against
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  them? A little bit? I think it's more. I think we'd probably
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  be more focused on how they played and what they did against Colgate than necessarily
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  what they did against US. I think teams, you know, throughout the
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  course of a season, they changed so much during the course of a season,
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  and lines, combinations can change, and that can and give a whole
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  different dynamic to a team. So I think we'll probably be more focused on
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  what they did this past weekend. Twitter question here, what's the goalie situation
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  look like moving forward? It sounds like Ethan's pretty much in entrenched himself as
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  the number one. Yeah, yeah, but our Sinny's still a really good
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  goalie and he's proven that he can win in this league, So I'm not
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  writing off our Sinny either. He's had strung some good practices together here lately,
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  and yeah, Ethan has played very very well, and as of right
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  now, he'd probably be the one, but our Sinny's won a like he's
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  right there. When you when you think back to that game against Maine's what's
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  one thing that you did do really well that night where you're thinking, okay,
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  we do want to replicate at least this part of it. Yeah,
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  I thought we played well in the offensive zone. I thought we were able
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  to get some multiple shot shifts and put some put them under some pressure.
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  That's something that we're gonna have to continue to do. And if we're playing
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  well, it doesn't matter who we're playing, We've got to be able to
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  do that. We've got to be a team that cannot be just really a
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  score off the rush or you know, one and done type offensive. His
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  own play. It can't be you know, you win a battle, you
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  kick it to the point, there's a shot, there's a rebound and they're
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  going the other way. It's going to be there's a rebound. You got
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  to go get that rebound and keep the offensive his own play alive. Jake
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  is out of them a fire firecracker right now. He's got a five game
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  point streak games and four goals and four straight games and before he got on
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  that streak, it was all about the empty netters, had a nice one
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  against you, Massull, the win, the winning the stores. Yeah.
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  But Jake, I mean, it just seems like he's a little more mature
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  and and just more confident right now. And then you know, like it's
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  a funny game because last year I think there was four or five games.
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  I remember it was a frozen Fenway and there was the opener here at Ta
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  Sky, I know, and where he I think four or five games in
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  a row, we hit a post and you know, if it's an inch
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  left or inch right, it's going in. And he has another he has
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  a four or five game point streak or a goal streak like he has right
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  now. Right now, he's playing the same way, and he's just brings
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  so much energy to the game and whatever line he's playing on, he uh
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  is able to get those guys to play at his pace, which is,
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  you know, really important for our team. One thing you're gonna hear from
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  Jake too. I mean, this is a young man that came up and
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  he learned to do the dirty things and the things that you don't necessarily see
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  on the score sheet to get playing time, and that includes killing penalties.
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  Is that a big reason why he's been so successful in that department? Yeah,
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  no question. And you know his dad's a coach. His coaches in
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  Avon, and he has probably learned a lot of the habits that a coach's
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  son learns, and he does those little things. He's got a fantastic stick.
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  His stick is always on the ice in a lane and he's deflexed a
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  ton of bucks. So for Jake, he's a sophomore. So how far
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  back have you had a relationship with his father. I haven't really, I
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  didn't. We saw him play out in the USHL and I thought he had
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  a pretty good game, And when I went down to look see who he
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  was, it just so happened that he was a local kid. And I
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  said, but he went to Millbrook, so he really wasn't around here.
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  He went there for a couple of years, and then when he went out
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  to the USHL, that's where we saw him. All Right, speaking Jake,
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  we will hear from him next to we'll let Mike take a break here.
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  We'll have Jake Percival and then Joey Muldowney. Interviews that I did earlier
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