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Seg 2 MHOC Show w Mike Cavanaugh 10-26 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Bar Bones in Hartford. It's the UConn
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  Speaker 1: Hockey Coaches Shows. If you like coaches shows, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them for you this week. Wednesday, we've
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  Speaker 1: got two. Football with Mike Crispino and Jason Candle at 6.
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  Speaker 1: And then the men's basketball show that was recorded late
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  Speaker 1: last week over at iHeart from 7 to 8. And
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  Speaker 1: then Thursday, Geno's over at iHeart from 6 to 7.
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  Speaker 1: I like these live shows. The only real live shows
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  Speaker 1: that we do are you and Geno. That's pretty much it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yep. And we had a good one together last year.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed that. Yes, that was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope the folks at Cafe are enjoyed that. Gino,
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  Speaker 1: we're against, Gino, you're Cav. See, it says right there, Cav. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Some of your young guys, who's impressed you so far?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think a lot of them have.
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  Speaker 3: You know, up front, I think Jesse Heslops played solid
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  Speaker 3: for us. I think Cole Davis, when he's been in there,
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  Speaker 3: has played really well. At different times, I think Leroy
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  Speaker 3: Madofsky has done some nice things on defense. I thought
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  Speaker 3: MacIsaac played really well on Saturday night against BU. Charlie
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  Speaker 3: Morrison got hurt Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got late in the game, right? Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we'll have him this weekend. We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: That's 50-50 on whether we'll have him this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Upper body, and it didn't look that hard a hit either,
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  Speaker 1: but you could tell.
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  Speaker 2: He dropped the stick.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's going to be fine, but It'll
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  Speaker 3: be touch and go to see what happens this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I do like Jeremy Leranger. He got kind of a
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  Speaker 1: fortunate bounce, the first goal that made it 4-1 at
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  Speaker 1: the time. But sooner or later, you get the feeling
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  Speaker 1: that Dam's going to burst on him, and he's going
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  Speaker 1: to score some goals.
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  Speaker 3: He's super talented, very skilled, has a lot of patience
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  Speaker 3: with the puck. And, again, he's another player that's learning
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  Speaker 3: our system. However, that being said, he has a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things you can't teach offensively.
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  Speaker 2: Like what?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you mentioned he skates really well with the puck,
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  Speaker 1: which is a gift. What else have you noticed from
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  Speaker 1: him and some of the skills?
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  Speaker 3: I think he's very patient. You can't teach patience with
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  Speaker 3: the puck. Some guys have it and some guys don't.
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  Speaker 3: He's just very calm and collected when he has the puck.
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  Speaker 3: So it allows him to survey the ice and be
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  Speaker 3: able to make... You know, his vision is excellent and
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  Speaker 3: he makes... He can make some high-end plays. As you
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  Speaker 3: saw in the game, he definitely was dangerous all night long.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's for sure. When you looked to get him here,
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  Speaker 1: he went to the portal, came from Nebraska-Omaha, where he
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  Speaker 1: had a pretty good first year there. How did that
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  Speaker 1: all come together? You see him and then you contact
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  Speaker 1: him and say, hey, come to the stores and take
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  Speaker 1: a look-see-er. How did that all work with him?
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  Speaker 3: That was really unique because I was up in Quebec
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  Speaker 3: City watching Charlie Morrison play. And in between periods, Tyler
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  Speaker 3: Helton called me and he said, Jeremy Leranger from Nebraska
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  Speaker 3: Omaha just went in the portal. And I said, okay.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, I watched him quite a bit when he
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  Speaker 3: was at Sherwood Park. I really like him as a player.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any way you could go? I was driving
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  Speaker 3: home from Quebec City the next morning back to Connecticut,
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  Speaker 3: which is about a five or six hour drive.
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  Speaker 2: How fast were you going?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's not five or six.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's no more.
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  Speaker 3: Than six hours from Quebec City. So he's like, Jeremy
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  Speaker 3: is in Trois-Rivières. Could you meet him for coffee in
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  Speaker 3: the morning?
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  Speaker 2: And I said, sure.
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  Speaker 3: So I got up and drove down and met Jeremy
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  Speaker 3: for coffee. And we sat and we talked for about
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  Speaker 3: an hour, hour and a half. About a lot of
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  Speaker 3: different things. Had a great conversation. And we had him
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  Speaker 3: down to campus the following week and We got him committed.
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  Speaker 3: So actually, the timing was perfect that I was up there.
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  Speaker 3: So I was able to meet with him in person.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's always better than you can have great
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  Speaker 3: phone conversations with someone.
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  Speaker 2: You can have a Zoom call.
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  Speaker 3: But when you're sitting across the table from somebody and
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  Speaker 3: I think the conversation and you're able to develop a
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  Speaker 3: connection a lot easier. And I think a lot more
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  Speaker 3: effective when it's face to face.
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  Speaker 1: Now, was it the old La Colisea or the new
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  Speaker 1: place that you.
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  Speaker 2: It was a new place. It wasn't the old one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're right next to each other. They are.
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  Speaker 2: They are. But the new one's pretty nice. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's what I hear.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I hear.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my wife and I went up there two
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  Speaker 1: summers ago. What a great city. You better be a
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  Speaker 1: mountain goat, though, if you're going to the immediate downtown,
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  Speaker 1: the big hotel there. It is.
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  Speaker 2: That hotel is spectacular.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, you know, I got there– when I
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  Speaker 3: went up there, it was late March or early April–
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  Speaker 3: And the snow was just melting. The ice where they
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  Speaker 3: have the ice skating rink was gone. But you could
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  Speaker 3: see how special that could be with snow and in
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  Speaker 3: the wintertime. I think it's a better winter city than
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  Speaker 3: it is a spring city.
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  Speaker 1: It was fun in the summertime. You know, that boardwalk
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  Speaker 1: is where the hotel is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The original buildings were dug out. They had an excavation
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  Speaker 1: project and so much history is underneath that place.
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  Speaker 2: It's really cool from that.
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  Speaker 3: That old part of Quebec City is really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it certainly is fun, and the Copper Place outside
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  Speaker 1: is amazing, outside of town. Some of your returnees, new roles,
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned Caden, Ethan Gardula, who we'll talk to, Whitcomb,
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  Speaker 1: guys like that, getting more ice time, doing more things.
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  Speaker 1: Caden using his speed, not only just up and down
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  Speaker 1: as a goal scorer, but one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: those two talked about is playing the 200-foot game that
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  Speaker 1: you emphasize, and it seems like they've gotten more comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question about that. And, you know, they're
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  Speaker 3: different players, Ethan and Caden. Caden relies on speed, and he's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in basketball terms, I mean, he'd be a wing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that would drive the hoop.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. He'd be James Worthy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe a little more James Worthy. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Ethan Gardula is Kevin McHale. He's going to play down
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  Speaker 3: on the block. He's very, very good in front of
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  Speaker 3: the net. You know, and that's why we have him
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  Speaker 3: there in the power play. But he tips pucks really
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  Speaker 3: well and he's really heavy on pucks. But both have,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that insatiable appetite to get to the net
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  Speaker 3: and score goals, which is something that, again, you know,
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  Speaker 3: great goal scorers. I was reading something where I kind
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  Speaker 3: of got not upset, but I got a chuckle out
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  Speaker 3: of it. Marco Sturm was saying that James Higgins now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, has gone to the net to score some goals.
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  Speaker 3: He's been playing pretty well for the Bruins. And he said,
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  Speaker 3: we have to tell them that this isn't college anymore.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm thinking to myself, Marco, in what league can
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  Speaker 3: you not go to the net to score goals? It
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  Speaker 3: has nothing to do with college or pro. You still
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  Speaker 3: have to go to the net to score goals. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what we preach as well.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, when you played BU last season, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: youth on that team, and now... A lot of upperclassmen
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  Speaker 1: decided to stay. Harvey's there, Celebrini, guys like that. What
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  Speaker 1: do you see, at least, and it may be unfair
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  Speaker 1: to say, because every year you play BU, it always
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  Speaker 1: seems like you're playing them in October. You're not playing
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  Speaker 1: them later in the season.
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  Speaker 2: We played them late in the season last year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, on March, but the two-game series that you usually
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  Speaker 1: play with BU usually is in October. Did you notice
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  Speaker 1: anything different from their returnees? Anything different with chemistry with them?
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  Speaker 1: As opposed to last season?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. They're pretty young too. They
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  Speaker 3: have some younger guys back there. They lost Eisenman and
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  Speaker 3: they lost Hudson. But the one difference I saw on
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  Speaker 3: their team this year than from last year is I
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  Speaker 3: felt like they had four lines that really worked. Where
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  Speaker 3: I think last year there might have been some guys
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  Speaker 3: that might have cheated for offense. That wasn't the case
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  Speaker 3: with this BU team and I spoke to Joe Pereira
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  Speaker 3: yesterday for a while, and we were talking about the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: and that was one of the comments I made to him.
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  Speaker 2: I said I was impressed with how hard.
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  Speaker 3: You guys worked because a lot of times they want
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  Speaker 3: the easy game, and that wasn't the case.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: I was impressed with Caleb Malhotra. I mean, I covered
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  Speaker 1: his dad when he played for the Wolfpack when they
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  Speaker 1: won the Calder Cup 25 years ago and how he's
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  Speaker 1: coaching the Canucks.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I feel old.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to go there, Bob.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just a tad younger than I am. All right,
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  Speaker 1: we're here with Mike Cavanaugh. We'll do one more segment,
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  Speaker 1: then you'll hear from Caden Shahan and Ethan Gardula as
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  Speaker 1: we continue live from Carbones, downtown Hartford, here on Learfield.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with us.