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Seg 1 - Coach Cav Show Nov 4 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Bear Smoke Cows Barbecue for show number three
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  Speaker 1: of a Yukon Men's ice Hockey Coaches Show. Adam Jardino
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  Speaker 1: is to my far right and between us is the
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  Speaker 1: head coach of the Huskies, Mike Kavanaugh, coming off a
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  Speaker 1: very entertaining game on Sunday six ' five for the fans,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not so much for the coaches after a one
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  Speaker 1: nothing game on Saturday, both games against the Catamounts of Vermont,
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  Speaker 1: and Mike, first of all, thanks for joining us once again.
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  Speaker 1: And boy talk about a complete one to eighty between
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  Speaker 1: the two games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in some ways, uh, I thought we deserved to
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  Speaker 2: win on Saturday, and on Sunday it was more of
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  Speaker 2: kind of a game that was up in the air
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  Speaker 2: and we wound up winning that one, so, uh, you
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  Speaker 2: know it was it was frustrating. I was talking to
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  Speaker 2: my staff today that it was frustrating from the standpoint
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  Speaker 2: that we're point three away from having a four point
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  Speaker 2: weekend again. But when I looked back on it, being
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  Speaker 2: down two goals in the first three minutes and coming
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  Speaker 2: back and making it three two by the end of
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  Speaker 2: the first period, you know they have third goal goes
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  Speaker 2: off a referee right to a guy in front of
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  Speaker 2: the net, so it was a bad break, and then
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  Speaker 2: getting that gut punch with point three, and then having
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  Speaker 2: to kill a penalty in overtime when we just lost
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  Speaker 2: the night before in a very similar situation, and being
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  Speaker 2: as resilient as I thought the team was and finding
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  Speaker 2: a way to get two points, you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: really a big positive for our club. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When you go into the locker room after the game,
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  Speaker 3: is that one of those where you don't know what
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  Speaker 3: message you want to deliver because it sounds like you're
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  Speaker 3: pulled in so many different directions of I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 3: a long list of things they need to have done better,
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  Speaker 3: but then at the end of the day they came
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  Speaker 3: away with the win.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, there's no question about it that I was
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  Speaker 2: conflicted at the end of that game because I thought
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  Speaker 2: we should have had three points in that game and
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  Speaker 2: we didn't get it. But whenever I go into the
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  Speaker 2: locker room, I don't usually say too much after a
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  Speaker 2: game because it's such an emotional time, whether it's a
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  Speaker 2: win or a loss, that I don't think a ton
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  Speaker 2: of it registers with the players. It's more the next
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  Speaker 2: day or on Monday. Usually this today, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday because we had today off that you can, you know,
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  Speaker 2: dive a little deeper into the game and you know
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  Speaker 2: what your thoughts were and how it impacted your club.
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  Speaker 1: Start with Saturday, team that had thirty shots on goal,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, Axel Mango makes his first start of the
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  Speaker 1: year for the Catamounts. A lot of quality shots. But
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  Speaker 1: do you feel you had enough like chances for second
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  Speaker 1: and third chance opportunities the way Vermont played and positioned
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  Speaker 1: in themselves in front of the net.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not. I would say, you know, we've tried
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  Speaker 2: to be a little more creative offensively, and I never
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  Speaker 2: want to be that, you know, coach, that's a myopic
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  Speaker 2: thinker that you know, we were always trying to be
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  Speaker 2: imaginative and creative and trying to find the new cutting edge.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we've done some things offensively this year
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  Speaker 2: that we haven't done in the past. But to your point,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we had enough traffic in front
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  Speaker 2: of the net. And I thought we let and we
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  Speaker 2: knew that was the strength of Vermont, that they box
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  Speaker 2: out really well, and we just didn't get enough there.
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  Speaker 2: We had some good chances. We had some good chances,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a game we played well enough to win.
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  Speaker 2: But that's what happens in those games when you don't
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  Speaker 2: you know, we didn't win face offs, we didn't win
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  Speaker 2: special teams, and you know, the net front probably was
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  Speaker 2: an area that was a fifty to fifty toss. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a fifty to fifty game, and that's
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  Speaker 2: not exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you had a lot was I think the
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  Speaker 1: second power play in the first period. He had real
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  Speaker 1: good possession time in there.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Oh yeah, I mean we had plenty of chances.
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  Speaker 2: That wasn't the issue with that power play. He just
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  Speaker 2: he made some good save. Yeah, and sometimes that happens.
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  Speaker 2: I think the thing that I really was happy about
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  Speaker 2: was last year I felt, and I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 2: always not compare ourselves to a year ago, but ye
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  Speaker 2: I felt sometimes revisionist history is good when you look
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  Speaker 2: at it. And I felt like that game turned into
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  Speaker 2: two games, which turned into three games and became a theme.
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  Speaker 2: And then yesterday we were able to hang six on
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  Speaker 2: them and you know, not let the game before dictate
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  Speaker 2: how we were going to play the next day.
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  Speaker 3: By the end of a season. The old adage is, okay,
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  Speaker 3: if your freshman are still freshman by the end of
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  Speaker 3: the year, you're in trouble. They need to be sophomores
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  Speaker 3: and playing like that. But down to nothing in the
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  Speaker 3: first period. We'll be talking to Ethan Garduola later and
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  Speaker 3: Kate and Chahan. I mean, the three goals that got
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  Speaker 3: you back in that thing immediately were freshmen that came
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  Speaker 3: and stepped in. So what does it mean to have
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  Speaker 3: those guys kind of pick up that immediate that immediate slide.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting because Gino and I were talking about this
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  Speaker 2: last night after the game. I feel that that of
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  Speaker 2: you know, freshmen are and freshmen by the end of
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  Speaker 2: the year, that's a little bit gone out the window.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these kids, especially in hockey, they're playing sixty
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  Speaker 2: seventy junior games before they even get to us. So
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  Speaker 2: we're expecting freshmen to come in and contribute. And I
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  Speaker 2: think you're seeing on a lot of really good teams.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, BC had three freshmen that almost led them
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  Speaker 2: before that almost led him to a national title. Last year,
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  Speaker 2: BU had a few freshmen that led them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to the Frozen four. So freshmen are being relied upon
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  Speaker 2: to come in and contribute, and yesterday we got quite
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  Speaker 2: a few contributes. Their their contributions were ubiquitous throughout the
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  Speaker 2: game yesterday, all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And it's the first time that at least at
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  Speaker 1: the start of a game you changed a few lines.
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  Speaker 1: You moved moved Ethan down with with a Ryan Saddle
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  Speaker 1: and interest in Frasier. You moved Jake Personal up to
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  Speaker 1: with with Honey and Shahan, and then of course you
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  Speaker 1: made some in game adjustments too. But would you like
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  Speaker 1: we'd just like, what'd you see from those guys?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I thought Huddie's line had not been producing enough
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  Speaker 2: through seven games. Usually don't have a quick trigger finger
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to changing lines. I like to let
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  Speaker 2: guys work it out and see what they can do.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought Witcomb's line has been solid all year long,
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  Speaker 2: and yesterday we just felt, well, let's switch it up
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. And I thought Gardula responded really well
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  Speaker 2: with Tattle and Frasier. They were probably our best line yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, Percival has been playing pretty well, so
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  Speaker 2: we put him with Honey and shaehand. So sometimes it works,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Right more with Cavs. We're live here from Bear Smokehouse Barbecue.
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  Speaker 1: Later recorded interviews with Tim Muslik and the aforementioned Ethan Gardula.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Yukonhaky Coaches Show, Live from Bear Smokeouse
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