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Episode 5: Avery Gugliotta & Lauren Cloherty | Tampa Hockey · College Hockey Mouth

• speaker-0: Welcome back, everybody, to College Hockey Mouth, a College Hockey South podcast. My name is Devin Cera, co-hosting alongside Gavin Coker, Danny Baum. Boys, welcome back. Good start to our season. The last two weeks, College Hockey South has gotten right in the swing of things. Got a big, big week coming up for everyone involved in the conference. But what were you guys up to this past weekend? speaker-1: So in a former life, I was a baseball player and over years of playing all summer long and probably way overusing it and not treating it ever, my arm has like completely fallen into tatters. And I can't throw baseball anymore, like more than three times before like my fingers go numb. But the other day, like on a whim, decide to have a catch and y and by God, I I was feeling it. You know, I didn't have like the same VLO on on my fastball, but you know, I I was slinging the thing. You know, working on my two seam, I was working in a knuckle curve. Maybe a little bit of shoulder tightness, but I tell you what, two days after, my God, it feels like my arm is gonna spontaneously like amputate itself. There is excruciating pain in my elbow right now and my bicep. So, you know, the kid's in pain right now, but he's gonna play through it because this is a hockey podcast and that's what we do, right? speaker-0: ⁓ my god, we just said it at the same time. speaker-1: That's how you know this is gonna be a good one. speaker-0: Danny, what was the the main pitch we were throwing out back in the day? Four seamers? And we clocking in at eighty miles an hour? What are we speaker-1: ⁓ maybe eighty kilometers an hour. ⁓ you know what? I I don't know. It it it's been so long ⁓ that I've thrown a baseball that I never repeated my mechanics the same. I'm I'm sure it some were cutters, some were two seams and I had no idea like I had no intention of of them going that way. But you know, it it's nice to go out and, you know, toss a baseball around every once in a while, but I don't think my my arm is equipped to do that anymore. Yeah. Dude might need Tommy John. Loki. Might need to get some Tommy John speaker-0: Jimmy Johns, Tommy Johns, don't matter. Danny Bauman four. Gavin, how was you? speaker-1: ⁓ it's been good, you know. It's it's school. It's like what, week three? And I already feel like ⁓ I'm I'm underwater. But you know, all that was getting me through was Columbus Classic coming up this weekend. I've been so pumped. I just got ⁓ done packing at the ⁓ time that we're recording this. So I'm ready to go. This I'm super pumped. This episode comes out the day Columbus Classic starts. So if you're listening to this on Friday, tune in. Great broadcast, great tournament. It's gonna be super exciting. speaker-0: It's Wednesday. speaker-1: You But you're packed? Well, I'm traveling tomorrow. I'm leaving tomorrow. I'm going up to Atlanta first. And then I'm coming up to Columbus on Friday. I'm just that excited. I'm just I'm just that pumped. He's he's packed for battle at the beach too, by the way, which which is in October. He he's ready to go. Yeah, CHS playoffs, dude. I've I've got a suitcase for that too. It's labeled and everything. I made a highlight video of me packing that bag, so watch my Instagram in like February. You'll see that video. speaker-0: My mistake jumping to conclusions, I was thinking you were packed frickin' two days in advance. And I'm like, that's some psychopath material. Most people, if you're like me, you're packing hours before. My weekend was pretty good. We're sticking with a baseball theme here. I went to see the Tigers play, the Marlins. I work for FanDuel Sports Network, so I'm at the Lone Depot Park a lot. This is the one time this year that I've gotten to be a fan at the place I work. So, like switching over into that mode was kind of weird, but really fun. Great game. Marlins won an extra innings, a really tight game. The Tigers are starting to slip a little bit as we get close to the postseason, but it's been fun to watch them be one of the best teams in the American League. Hopefully, the Red Wings, who start up here soon, take some of that ⁓ Detroit grit with them. Cause I am dying to see a hockey team be good in this city. I baseball's cool, don't get me wrong, but If the wings were good just this year, I I would not spend any more money on on clubbing and going out to I'm gonna do. It would only be in the hockey tickets and it would be flying. I can't hold my breath, but I will fly to Detroit if they make the playoffs and even probably before then. So speaker-1: Don't hold your breath, buddy. I was gonna say, I mean the centennial uniforms came out and they they look fire. And I saw the comparisons between them and the ⁓ Capitol Screaming Eagles ⁓ uniforms. What are your guys' opinion? Which one's better? Evan, you're the Red Wings fan, so you go. speaker-0: This was my segue talking about hockey, okay? So that came out two days ago now. It's Wednesday. This came out on Monday. And I just said I need to save money. I've got things I want to do. I want to go see places home. But I I couldn't resist, dude. I hit the pre-order button, bought myself a Patrick Kane jersey with the Centennial logo. It's sick. I thought it was gonna take a couple of weeks to come in. The pre-order is mentioning just that like a pre order. So you're thinking to yourself, maybe it's gonna be a month or two out. But I just read this morning on FedEx it shipped. I got an alert about it. So I'm gonna be wearing this thing in the next college hockey mouth episode if I get this in the weekend. And and I'm probably gonna wear it for like three or four days straight 'cause it is that cool. Real quick to answer your question, Gavin, the screaming eagle is a a top ten logo in hockey. Fight with a wall, it's it's badass. Clears. speaker-1: I just I think the red jersey doesn't like the screaming eagle on the red doesn't do it as much as the screaming eagle does on the black. Like I think the black was so clean and the red is just now like at first everyone was like, ⁓ my god, it's back and then you've made another one now and it's like I get it's popular, but it should have just stayed on the black. The one thing I saw about the Red Wings ⁓ centennial uniform, which I agree tremendous, you know, they got the buckets and helmets to match. And by the way, maybe we can circle back to this later. We've got some new buckets for a CHS team that we can talk about. But anyways, the the Red Wing Centennial, I saw them out on the ice and I swear I saw them with black gloves, which just seems so out of place. Ooh. I don't know. That might be sometimes I like that though. The mix match. Come on, man, it's the red wings. Red and white. Keep it there. speaker-0: Let's clear the air, right? They're leather coated. Okay. So they're supposed to look like the old worn-out leather that players wore in the twenties and thirties and the forties. Yeah, I agree. I it it is the only thing that you'd be like, man, like if those were pure red, absolute cinema. But I do like it because it's supposed to be a classic throwback inheriting all of the things that Red Wings hockey's been since they came into existence in nineteen twenty-six. By the way, Danny. It's a hundred year for Chicago. I don't know why they don't have some special jersey like the wings as well. Well what are we doing over there? speaker-1: Well, what they've decided to do is put gold trimming around the logo and the font on the back of the I don't know, man. I was hoping for much more. When I heard the news that they were gonna do a revamped uniform set, I was thinking about like, you how the Bruins did that a couple years ago? Where they got like a completely new uniform set for their hundredth year? I was like, yeah, that's what they're gonna do. But no, all they did was just add some gold trimming, and I don't even know if they're getting a third jersey. So a little disappointing there, but they're gonna be doing some fun stuff, ⁓ you know, honoring. old players, including players that, you know, I feel like it was just yesterday I was watching them on the team, which is, you know, a sign of age, watching players who you watch when you were growing up and all of a sudden they're retired and like they've got kids that are in their teens, so speaker-0: Love to hear it. Looks like the boys got active this weekend, and we've got a very active interview to get to talking about the reigning defending Columbus Classic champion team, Tampa. We've got two members from the Spartan squad, defenseman Avery Gugliata and forward Lauren Clarity on this edition of College Hockey Mouth. And we'll bring that to you now. We're very happy and excited to join on episode five of College Hockey Mouth. Two players from the Tampa women's team, defenseman Avery Gugliata and forward Lauren Clordy. Avery, Lauren, welcome to College Hockey Mouth. Absolutely. This episode is sort of our segue to the Columbus Classics. So you two very familiar your team is with that. Still the reigning defending champions of the world in the Columbus Classics. So ⁓ tell us a little bit about yourselves and your background and ultimately how you ended up at ⁓ U Tampa. speaker-2: Thanks, we're glad to join. We're glad to be here. So I'm from Massachusetts. ⁓ grew up there. I played high school hockey at just like small Catholic high school. Wasn't planning on playing hockey in college and I decided to come to Utapa. Obviously it's Florida. Weather's awesome, it's beautiful here. And found out they had a team and tried out and I've been with the team for three past three years and it's been great. I am also from Boston, Massachusetts. I am a senior here. I transferred here my sophomore year and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I was playing hockey back home, NCAA division three, after playing at prep school for five years. Just kinda needed some warmer weather. Can't really deal with those Boston winters. So I came down here and like I said, it was a very awesome decision. speaker-1: Marin, are you a ⁓ a Burns fan? I am Ooh, gross. speaker-2: I am but you can't I'm a light. Okay, I I I'm transitioning. speaker-1: Avery and I's conversations are like fifty percent about Tampa women's hockey, and then the other fifty percent are just commiserating about how bad the Bruins have been. Like the trade deadline and and Don Sweeney like ⁓ completely purging the roster that happened, like I think the day before national started. She had she had to go through some serious trauma. speaker-2: It heartbreaking. I received a text with someone on ice. speaker-1: remember sitting in the war room and the ESPN notification comes through that Marshawn is gone and he's gone to Florida for everyone freaking out. And I just speaker-2: About to get on the ice at Nationals and my coach me a picture of Marshawn in the Panthers jersey. I was not too happy. speaker-1: I was sitting in the room as we were ⁓ prepping for nationals and stuff and I just started laughing because everyone in there was half Bruins fans. speaker-2: I thought he made it up. I thought he like put it through Chat GPT or something. Funny. He's like no. And I was like ⁓ speaker-1: Obviously, you guys, Tampa's been dominant in the women's scene for several years, but what has allowed you guys to be that dominant across all the divisions? speaker-2: I really think we have so much like like high hockey IQ throughout our whole team. Like I know our first two lines kind of know what we're gonna do before we even get the puck. And I really think we've used that to our advantage when some teams they don't start that kind of hockey IQ sense till halfway through the season. So I really think we start on that early and especially with our power play penalty kill, we kind of all work as a team and we do that from the start. We've had our first kind of scrimmage last week and you could even see it already developing. And I think we take that and it only strengthens during the season. ⁓ and I really think that benefits us when we play those speaker-1: You guys are both third year players. The first year you guys were like run and gun, ten of offense, scoring ten goals a game, something like that. Year two you guys were a lot more shut down defensively. The offense dipped down a little bit, you guys were still scoring a ton. But what do you guys think your identity will be this year? speaker-2: We can both chime in on this. But I do think with as much as like CHS and all the teams are growing, I think we really are focusing on like when we play a certain team, what we're gonna be focusing on. So I definitely think practices have been very heavily like focusing on all areas. So we're prepared for everything because we just really don't know what some games might be very offensively driven, some we might be needing to really focus on that D zone coverage. So I think it We've been practicing for everything just because of how much CHS and everything is growing. So we're kind of prepared for all instances and be able to kind of switch off how we play. Yeah, we've been just ⁓ working on everything and just like no matter what game we're playing, we're just gonna go in playing Tampa hockey. ⁓ not worrying so much about like who the opponent is, but like what we do as our team and just ⁓ how well we play our game. speaker-0: Yeah, you talk about that Tampa brand of hockey. It's worked well for you back to back seasons where you're the runner up for the national title. That was an old league, of course, and and now you're coming to a new one. Tell us what you're looking forward to most and ACHA and if that's affected your team's ⁓ approach at all. speaker-2: We're definitely really excited to be part of ACHA and ⁓ just getting the opportunity to play more teams ⁓ that do have like a higher skill level. Like up north, ⁓ hockey is just different, ⁓ just a different skill level. So we're excited to get to experience those teams and just ⁓ also learn from them, see ⁓ what they bring out of our team. Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I think playing these b I shouldn't say better, but like these northern teams is definitely a completely different experience for us and Again, we just played Liberty last weekend and obviously the out score was not the outcome we wanted, but it showed us just kind of where we're at and where we kind of need to be at and playing the better teams only makes us a better team. speaker-1: We got to know you a little bit ⁓ last year, ⁓ working on a story about ⁓ your relationship with your your friend Avery Bowen, who played with South Carolina. She decided to ⁓ step away from hockey, at least in a p player ⁓ sense this season. But she's gonna be behind the bench for South Carolina. This is gonna be a different experience for you. What are you ⁓ looking forward to with that? speaker-2: I'm looking forward to the fact that when we're on the ice, she won't tell me ⁓ that my skate's untied. When we were in the face off she used to just go, two five, your skates are tight and we'd exchange some choice words. But I'm definitely excited to see her hockey sense ⁓ behind the bench and how she can implement that to her team. She is such a good natural leader and since I've known her since our freshman year of high school and she's always had ⁓ a good like hockey IQ and hockey sense and is very good at ⁓ teaching others and so I'm excited to see What she implements behind the bench for South Carolina. speaker-1: Lauren, you spent most of the last season playing on the same line as freshman Molly Braga, who led your team in scoring last year. What kind of impact did she have on your game? speaker-2: She makes me such a better player. I always say that. Like when I'm not out there with her, it's so bad. But like I I get lost without her. She is one of like the best players I've played with in a sense of like I don't even have to think twice about her having my back. I just know she has it. So we she knows what I'm about to do before I even know what to do. And that has just helped us tremendously make plays. And I cannot wait to kind of see what we have this season going 'cause I'm her liney again. So I'm very excited. speaker-1: And it's gonna be exciting to see what you guys do at Columbus, especially to start off. I mean, I know you guys started with Liberty, but obviously starting off CHS play at Columbus. speaker-2: Yeah, it's gonna be a really fun weekend. speaker-1: You guys are are gonna be ⁓ game of the week this week, your game Saturday against Alabama. ⁓ you guys had a bunch of good games against them last year. Would you say there's there's like ⁓ of respect between you guys or is there a little bit of bad feeling? So you guys sniping at each other in the comment section at Nationals last year. speaker-2: I definitely think obviously I tell everyone on our team that we are always respectful and we're all kind of under CHS, but I definitely think there's some redemption that we want to get and that will definitely not be hidden, but obviously respect over everything. But I would definitely say that it's gonna be a good game. It's gonna be fun. We don't forget the comment section, don't worry. They might have got deleted, but we still remember that. speaker-1: Little ⁓ bulletin board material. Exactly. Love that. Lauren, you spent last year as an assistant captain, but this off season you were named co captain alongside Annika Gendrin. Do you feel any increased responsibility or did you see yourself as a captain already? speaker-2: Good question. I would definitely say being titled Captain is definitely a great r responsibility and accomplishment that I'm very happy to fill. But I do think my overall attitude will not change. And I just want to make sure all the girls are obviously having fun, but we are a growing and competitive team. And that's kind of what our priority is this season is yes, we might not be people might not be happy if they're not getting as much playing time, but we kind of made some decisions in the off season that we want to put winning first and so it's just kind of my overall motto is just like make sure everyone is happy, but we are playing to win this season. speaker-0: Lauren, question for you. You come from the Massachusetts area, played with Salvagina in the NCAA Division III. Tell us about kind of that experience and what translated for you from NCAA game to A now ACHA. speaker-2: ⁓ it's definitely a from ⁓ my freshman to sophomore year, you definitely really saw that kind of difference in speed of game. ⁓ NCAA is definitely every line is good and every goalie is outstanding, every backup goalie is very good. So you kind of come from that to never really having a break to my first year, obviously here at Tampa, we were a well dominating team and so we definitely played those easier games where it'd be fourteen fifteen blowouts, which was just not a thing back home. ⁓ so that adjustment, but now I really The competition, I see so many girls now down here when we play, who I used to play with at NCAA are so it's kind of merging now in a sense. I think a lot of girls could keep up with a lot of skill back home. Just the hockey skill around the board ⁓ down south is growing so much. And I really can see a lot of similarities ⁓ from the end of last season, especially with nationals into this season. Definitely see a lot of the same skills in those first few lines down here. speaker-1: You guys were were both all stars at the first ever women's all star challenge back in April. ⁓ Avery, are we gonna see you in the fastest skater again next year? Yeah. speaker-2: You know, that's a good question. If they get my skate sharpened, ⁓ I think there there might be a possibility of that one, but ⁓ speaker-1: A little background, Devin and Gavin. Avery was in Fast the Skater back in April and someone left someone left a tripwire behind the net or something and poor Avery speaker-2: I went flying. It looked like like a cartoon the way I fell and smashed into the boards, but I mean I got right back up. I didn't I honestly got snubbed for winning fastest skater, but I That was a quick speaker-1: Well, I mean, my follow up question is is how long did the lap take? Did they like count the sliding the getting back up? Did you even speaker-2: I did. I got back up and like I did. I was just like like freaking out and like trying not to like be embarrassed. So I was just like, Yeah. And like See, you're better than me. I would have stayed on the ice. I would not have gotten up. speaker-1: Called the ambulance taken out on a stretcher just if you go down, you might as well stay down. Right. Another another great ⁓ moment from that weekend. That that it was a really fun weekend in Nashville. Looking forward to it ⁓ next year as well. But you got in I think it was the second half of the third period as goalie. How did that come about? speaker-2: I did. So one of the girls from Miami, she plays goalie for them. I I just had gotten to know her over the weekend and she's telling me about how she ⁓ actually volunteered for Miami to play goalie for them because they didn't have a goalie and she was originally a skater and just after talking to her, she was just like really eager. It was she's a senior graduating. ⁓ she really wanted to just like get a opportunity to skate on the ice as a skater one last time. So I said to her, I like, You wanna switch gears? She's like, Really? I said, Yep. So I took her gear, hopped in net and ⁓ I gave the best performance that I could ⁓ in the in the time I was given. That was that was a fun experience, ⁓ open in net. Haven't done that, I think, since I was in like middle school. So that was pretty cool. speaker-1: What was the ⁓ say percentage in that game? In that one period. speaker-2: I let him one goal. I let some shots. I got some shots on me. Yeah. I let him one goal. But it was it was we it was on the blue line, it was like a pass. We got to get those stats. Went right right there. speaker-0: What's the what's the most difficult part of ⁓ doing that? Your glove? Is it getting down into the butterfly? Like what's difficult about that? speaker-2: ⁓ I think the most difficult part was just like I didn't want everyone to be like, ⁓ we let Avery net here she is letting in twenty goals. So I was mostly just freaking out like all right, just stop as many as I could. I didn't care how I stopped them, just like I just kept getting my body in front of it and I honestly was just praying. I just hope for the best. speaker-1: Side story, Kyle Nell, our lovely commissioner, was behind the bench for Team South and he put me in charge of ⁓ deciding who the MTT was gonna be. And I think I think Avery had an assist earlier in the game. And I went up to Kyle, I was like, If if she shuts the door here, she's gonna get MVP. She has to be. Like who gets an assist as a defenseman then goes in and plays goalie and and shuts the door? But that goal, that goal, I had time To order food at the concession stands, let it sit there and it get cold and the Pak wind hit the back of the net. speaker-2: Yeah, this is ⁓ not my best performance, but ⁓ I'll be I'll be back next year better prepared. speaker-1: Well you gotta play a ⁓ a a whole game. We're excited for that. Whole game in the net. speaker-2: I'm glad one I'm glad you guys are. speaker-0: This sounds like quintessential. I'm stealing a phrase from Danny. This is taking a hit to make the play. speaker-1: Absolutely. Right. speaker-2: Someone's gotta do it, so it's not gonna be me. speaker-1: And so we just have one last question. Over the past week, obviously fundraising's a big part of club hockey. And we saw your guys pie a player fundraiser. So who came up with that? How did it go? And where were the funds going after the event? speaker-2: think it was ⁓ brought up a few years ago when I think it was the boys team or some someone did it on campus and we're like that is hysterical. So we started doing it last year. ⁓ and it's like an easy, very cheap for us to kinda do. We do it in the center of campus, ⁓ right in between freshman dorms. So it's a lot of like freshman foot traffic. And you say you want to buy one of the players and it's a quick Venmo or cash and It's very fun, very messy. Definitely a lot of showers happened after. It's fun and we all the money just goes to our team, whether it's travels or new merch. A lot of our expenses are with like the new players, bags and jerseys and stuff like that. So it all goes to that. So it's a fun way to get the team together. A lot of laughs happen, a lot of aggressive pie throws, but it's fun. It's very fun to watch. speaker-1: Was there a any friendly fire going on or was it mostly just students throughout the fundraiser? speaker-2: ⁓ we had a couple of ⁓ teammates come like just smack each other. At a left field. At a left field, just like smack each other. But ⁓ yeah, every everyone th took it like a champ and mostly most of the time people are pretty nice, but you get the occasional ones that just they got something against one of us and you get you're gonna get speaker-1: Is Kylie McDonald, I think that's who it was. Is she in concussion protocol from from from the pies she took in the face? Those were those were pretty vicious. speaker-2: Doing all right. She recovered, but ⁓ definitely sh she took the brunt to the work at Pi A player. She got a she got a lot to the face. speaker-1: I know. I my favorite part was the videos were the before and afters and some of them just sounded like they just couldn't breathe. Like they were just completely completely shocked by the scenario. Yeah. speaker-2: Yeah, most of the time it like just like gets in like your ear and you like can't hear anyone anyways and you're just like you're just covered in shaving cream. It's really off. Yeah, well, we had a little trial and error with it. Usually it's ⁓ whipped cream, but in the Florida heat, it ⁓ starts to melt and then it's just n it gets sticky. It's just not a good, not a good scenario. So ⁓ we moved to shaving cream. speaker-1: So a shaving cream. speaker-0: Hold the phone here. Hold the phone. We're talking about smacking the face, up the nose, in the ear, eyes, mouth. You're putting shaving cream in your in your face as a substitute. Yeah. Burn? speaker-1: Did it? speaker-2: If I got in your eyes, but ⁓ I have yet to ever be pie or I it probably shouldn't even be called pie anymore 'cause we have shaving cream, but it should say so. No. speaker-0: I did not. speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-3: Yeah, you guys, how about that? speaker-2: And it will be an actual pie. I'm not doing cheese and cream. That's the deal. If we win speaker-0: Yeah, yeah. speaker-2: I'll send it. I'll do it in the parking lot. speaker-0: Somebody's got a speed deliver the pies to ⁓ Columbus, so we have ⁓ on tap. Exactly. Now that can be motivation or it can be the opposite. You decide. speaker-1: I definitely think we'll have him sitting right next to the trophy at the end. So it doesn't matter who wins it, someone's getting pie. Like that's just conditions. speaker-2: Yeah. We can do it. We can do it. speaker-0: Well, new traditions may be s restored or maybe incorporated here at ⁓ the Columbus Classic. Thanks for coming on here, Avery and Lauren. Good luck in the Columbus Classic. Good luck the rest of this season and ⁓ thank you so much for your time here on Kalachaki Mouth. speaker-2: Yeah, thank you guys. Thanks for having us. Thank you for having us. It's fun. speaker-0: Thanks to Avery and Lauren for coming on this edition of College Hockey Mouth. We'll see if they have the black magic for the third year in a row and take care of things in Columbus. And that is our top story on this episode, the third annual Columbus Classic starting this Friday from the Columbus Ice Rink in Columbus, Georgia. Boys, we're gonna kick this one off with the women's try hockey event. It's hosted by The great head coach over at Auburn, Jack Rosenhammer. He's a great guy. Had a chance to talk to him a couple of weeks ago. What an event to start things off. speaker-1: Yeah, it it's a great way to to start our tournament season. I I know talking to some of the players ⁓ who were a part of the girls' try hockey event last year that it was really special for them. But to see that that spark in the eyes of of the the young girls that were trying it out for the first time and it reminded them of of their beginnings. So, you know, a huge shout out to to Coach Jack Rosenhammer for organizing this and now kind of running it alongside CHS this year. ⁓ hope hoping for an even bigger turnout and ⁓ creating more opportunities for for girls in the south to play hockey because you know this sport's awesome. It's why we're here, it's why people are listening right now. Hockey's awesome. Really excited because we've obviously have seen the growth of the women's division and then moving to the ACHA. So hopefully that brings some notoriety that obviously we've already had it. We've seen the success of the Columbus Classic in the last two years. But hopefully we see more people come out. more girls come out and just watch the games and get excited about hockey. And I remember watching a hockey game in person for the first time and I loved it. And that's why I'm here doing this now, because I got the experience to watch hockey in person and I just think it's gonna be super cool for a bunch of people to come out and get to see some amazing competition and maybe see Tampa three P. I don't know. They sounded like they were ready to go in that interview, so speaker-0: Just hope that Savannah Prefontaine puts on some mitts and gets the skates on and gets active in this one. This is gonna be an awesome deal. The details are Sunday, September twenty first. So this is gonna take place right before the championship game at ten fifteen AM Central time. It'll run for an hour, so till eleven fifteen AM. Equipment will be provided on site. For more details, be sure to head to the link in our Instagram bio as well as our other social media platforms to find the signup link and get those last-minute registration forms in. You won't want to miss this free event and an all hands-on-deck approach for all of the staff for the conference, all of the interns. Excited for them to have this opportunity and great to see the game growing for the third year in a row with College Hockey South. The conference tournament itself, though, is The big story because we're gonna have for the first time ever, eight teams participate in this Columbus Classic. It's a three day tournament. First two days determine the matchups for day three, guys. And starting things off, day one is Auburn and Georgia at 115 PM, followed up by South Florida versus Alabama at 3 30. First two matchups are already knocking the doors down because these sound like they can be ⁓ some great games. speaker-1: I think you look at Auburn and Georgia, obviously they've they have ⁓ big rivalry across all sports. Deepest ⁓ rivalry or the deep South's oldest rivalry. But a couple of teams that are looking to take another step. You know, the the first year, both teams really struggled. Last year added a little bit more skill, and Georgia kind of had some issues with with their roster size, and ⁓ that that's something that's increased. And they they've already got a couple of W's under their belt. Went out to Knoxville and picked up some wins against Tennessee. This will be an interesting one alongside Alabama and USF, which was conference semifinal last year. Two of the best teams in the league. So we're we're getting we're getting into it immediately. Yeah, and like Danny said, I'm just really excited to see kind of a little bit of a showcase of what w maybe we see from the women's division or maybe it changes over the course of the season. I mean, this could be either what you expect or maybe some team shows up as a dark horse and runs away with the with the weekends. So I'm really excited for day one just to kind of get this rolling. speaker-0: Shout out our friend Lizzie Pennagen, who will be playing in that game at three thirty. They've got a tough test. Frozen tide won this game between those two last year on day three. Claire Carson had a hat trick and nodded four points. This game will be followed up by Miami and Tennessee at five forty five, and to close out day one, Tampa versus South Carolina. speaker-1: Yeah. ⁓ Tampa and South Carolina, which is the other conference semifinal ⁓ last season, and Miami and Tennessee are two teams that missed the playoffs last year, looking to ⁓ turn that around and make it this year. Like we talked about earlier, ⁓ Tampa's excited. They seem ready to go. They they're very confident, obviously, going into this one. They've gone back to back looking for that three P. I just I'm excited to see if a team really uses this tournament to kind of set the tone for the rest of the year. speaker-0: Following up day two, promises even more. Great matchups. Saturday, September 20th, 11 a.m. We're getting started with Miami and Georgia. Now, this was one of the best games from the tournament last year. It was a barn burner. Back and forth. Game went to the to the very end with about eight minutes left. Georgia's Page Oaks scored the game-winning goal to complete a hat trick with two assists to go with it. Miami's got some talent on that other side too. One of the teams that can really Make some noise. speaker-1: What's exciting about this year's tournament, which you didn't have the year before, is that after day two, you don't know who you're playing on day three. And that that creates some intrigue. ⁓ and you can set yourself up for a really, really big game on Sunday. And you know what? Even if you don't have a good first two days, you still get a game that matters and carries weight in the standings. Fun fact about the Miami and Georgia game features the top two all time leading scorers in the women's division, Paige Oakes and Megan Malolepsy. So ⁓ that that game promises to be fireworks again, I bet. And I'm excited. I mean, like Danny just said, it's gonna be fireworks. It's gonna be a dynamic game. I love having two teams play that have a history against each other and just obviously there's probably respect on the ice, but at the same time, there's there's obviously a little bit of bitter feelings there. I mean, with the way that Georgia pulled off the win. And so Miami's looking to come back and get revenge this year at the Columbus Classics. speaker-0: And Megan had a goal and assist in that game. So expect a high scoring affair with this one between two of Kaj hockey South's best. Auburn versus South Florida follows that one up at one fifteen. Then Tennessee versus South Carolina and a close out day two, Tampa versus Alabama. We're gonna get to see it. We're gonna get to say it again. That rematch from the conference final. Yeah. speaker-1: Our College Hockey South week three game of the week. They played a trio of games last year. They were all very highly anticipated and exciting. You know, these two may be destined to do this forever. I'll say one one player to look out for. And I've I've I've been looking for a player comp for her because she's probably my favorite player to watch in the entire women's division. Ava Johnson of of Tampa. The way she she plays, she's got a wide skating base. She knows where her teammates are at all ⁓ at all times. She can fly. Great skater, very defensively conscious. How about this one, Devin? Sergey Fedorov. ⁓ speaker-0: I was waiting for it. You you alluded to it before we started recording. Look, if she can twist and dangle around and make this look way too easy, I'll give you credit for the for the Federov reference. And then also hold the special blazemar. I don't know if you realize the Red Rings are gonna retire Fedorov's numbers. So you're making a comparison of a of a player being retired here. We'll see if she's she's that up to the test in this game. We'll get into this in a little more detail later in the show when we start previewing our games this week. The tournament format a four tier point system with three points being awarded for a regulation time win, two points for an overtime or shootout win if we get there. Danny, clarify a bit. Are we gonna have a limited time on these games? And if so, do you know how much? I believe speaker-1: we g we're five minutes of three on three overtime, pretty much the the standard overtime rules nowadays. So I ⁓ honestly I'd be excited to see a shootout. I'd I'd love to see some of the one on one moves that ⁓ the pla these players can make. ⁓ who knows if we'll get there, but those provisions are in are in place just in case we ⁓ need some tiebreakers. speaker-0: There will be one point awarded for an overtime shootout loss. So it's still important, even if you lose in that game, but you go to overtime, you still get a little bit rewarded. Zero points for the regulation loss. So obviously, you only have two days to set yourself for the field on day three. Very, very crucial to get that first game win and then parlay it into day number two. The tiebreakers will be interesting. First tiebreaker is goals against, second, goal differential. Third is goals four, fourth, fewest penalties, and fifth, fastest goal scored. And as a reminder, all these games, including Sunday's Championship and Consolations, will count towards the conference standings. speaker-1: Obviously the classics are gonna be a big deal. There's three games for each team. And so that that's a lot of bulk really early in your season. So it's very crucial to get some of these early games. Like you mentioned, even just for the tournament itself, getting that first game, but at least getting hopefully two. Like every team realistically should be shooting for two games. And because this will affect the playoffs. later this year. So it's important to get these first two games. Well, obviously the the focus will be on winning the tournament itself. But what this tournament also offers is the ability to move up in the standings. ⁓ you you end up on Sunday not with just a consolation game. It's a opportunity to, you know, potentially jump a team that you may be jockeying for a position with for a playoff spot come January. So these games aren't meaningless. And that was something we we brought up the Miami and Georgia game from last year. Miami missed out on the playoff by one point and the team that was ahead of them was Georgia. So if they ended up winning that game, they would have been in that final playoff spot. So Sunday, those games will be important for sure. speaker-0: It sets the stage for a fantastic Columbus Classic. Good luck to all of the teams out there. College Hockey South will be on full tilt social media. The fans are gonna travel. College hockey south is taking over Columbus. So hopefully they're all ready. Segwaying into some of the things that happened last week is now we are into the regular season. We've gotten week one down, we've gotten week two down. Let's talk about some things that went on. Eastern Kentucky and Austin P. restarted their rivalry to ACDC teams. Eastern Kentucky took it to Austin P in the first game. I think some people might have been a little bit surprised by the disparity in this result. speaker-1: I would say yes and no. ⁓ if if you wanna factor in how last year's games went into ⁓ that thinking, then for sure. ⁓ because Austin B won those games handily. But at the same time, you know, both of these teams were starting up their season. So who knows what each team has to offer. And, you know, it looks like maybe Eastern Kentucky is leveled the playing field a little bit. speaker-0: They split this series. Both games were five to two. And quite honestly, it seems like total both games were a total reversal of each other. speaker-1: Yeah, and I think you just see it with like obviously in the first game, Eastern Kentucky, you didn't see one guy carrying the weight. You saw five different scores. And I feel like that's not something we see a whole lot in CHS. You see one guy kind of carry the weight, or typically in one game, a guy will have two goals, three goals, and then it'll and then it'll spread out. But no, in that first game, five separate scores, and then obviously Austin P came back in the second game and kind of flipped the script and we're able to able to split that series. speaker-0: I love that you bring up the five different goal scorers because that was the story of that game. Eastern Kentucky really credit to them for making a statement in this one and playing a really balanced forecheck to come out with the win in game one and then splitting the series overall. Jacksonville and St. Leo played their first series against each other. Jacksonville's first weekend is a program, and they showed up and showed out with 10 to one and seven ⁓ four victories over the Lions. speaker-1: Even though it was a late start there at the community first igloo in Jacksonville, their students showed up and you know were rowdy from the drop of the puck. It was late, so they they had to be really invested and they were. And you know, they came out with a really rambunctious and inspired win there Friday night and carried it over to Saturday. Congratulations to ⁓ Coach Lodermeier and ⁓ Michael Gugliata, the captain and the Pellini brothers who had a great weekend. Me and Danny talked about this team earlier this season when we first saw their schedule coming out. And they've just they've just jumped into it. I mean, no didn't hold back. ⁓ have a strong schedule against some strong CHS teams. So to kind of come in and set the program against St. Leo, which like they're still establishing themselves, but I mean Both of these programs have a lot to look forward to in CHS, but Jacksonville started off and looked really good in their first two games. speaker-0: The Dolphins also parlayed that with an awesome photo shoot that we saw on socials. They've got a nice uniset. speaker-1: Their store just opened up today. So I might, I might lose some money tonight and I might have to go buy a jersey. Cause like you said, that photo shoot, those jerseys were insane. And I like I love seeing a team kind of not break the mold, have a different you like you a dolphin, that's great. Like I love the jerseys. They came out so clean. Let's do that. Yeah, I loved it. speaker-0: Beautiful, beautiful effort by all involved. And like you mentioned, they get posted on social, the dolphin carrying the shopping cart. Get your dolphins merch now. Awesome to see for those programs. Talking about more of some blue bloods per se in college hockey south now. Middle Tennessee and Clemson in immense three game. First one for middle Tennessee. And they had a bounce back performance getting the sweep over the Tigers. speaker-1: Yeah, big time. ⁓ came up empty in a in a series with ⁓ UNC Wilmington last week and followed it up with ⁓ you know, Clemson had a strong season last year, even though it was abbreviated. And Middle Tennessee went on the road and had two really impressive performances. Yeah, and Middle Tennessee is a team that I really like to watch. They're fun, they play good hockey, they move around. To see ⁓ kind of get swept in week one, but then bounce back in week two was huge. I mean Like Dane mentioned Clemson short season last year, but middle Tennessee was one of the best teams in CHS last year. Playoff run, like I expected them to bounce back and not stay in that kind of what's gonna happen. They really came back and set the tone for what they want their season to look like. speaker-0: One of those guys that was really important to their team in that championship run. Matt Siciliano had the hat trick in game one. Big stick taps to him on that effort. And Grant Williams, 35 save shutout in game two. This wasn't just Clemson rolling over. They brought it to Middle Tennessee's goaltender and he stood on his head and made that score look really good to see Middle Tennessee get their season in the winning column early on the right foot. Our women's division had A bit of a lot more lopsided affair for an out of conference team. Liberty handed Tampa their first regular season loss in programmed history. Seven to one final out there. We talked about it last week. Liberty is a team that routinely makes nationals. They're a good test and a good benchmark for where Tampa's at. And I I think that's what Avery and Lauren were talking about as well. speaker-1: Yeah. And and hear hearing them talk yesterday when we when we had a chance to interview them, you have you got the sense that it's not sitting well with them and that they're jonesing to get back out on the ice in Columbus. It's it's not up to the usual Tampa standard across all of their teams to lose seven to one. So Liberty came out and earned it though. They came down to Tampa and and got a win against a really good program. You know, props to them. Yeah, and it's still early in the season, so I think we'll see the ⁓ Rust kickoff for Tampa this weekend. I mean, like you said, that was a tough opponent. Liberty goes to nationals and is always up there for a chance to win it. So Tampa just first game, probably just need to kick the rest off. I'm sure if these two teams played again, we'll see a much closer, different outcome potentially. Hopefully we'll get to see another another game like that later this year or next year. speaker-0: Yeah, and people are gonna outside of the world talk about the level of competition and what is the compete level. I I don't think that was the story in this one. Like you said, Tampa is a really talented group and it's so still early here again. Seeing competition like that, like you said, Danny, getting handed a loss like this can be a good thing for your program because it can set the tone to work harder the rest of the year and and take care of business where you can. speaker-1: And one last thought on that, Devin. One one last thought on that. When you have the kind of regular regular season success that Tampa's had in their first two years, some maybe you don't come into a game like that the most motivated. You kind of just show up a little bit complacent. And then a result like that, it it's the proverbial smelling salts. So we'll see. We'll we'll see. speaker-0: Talking about a team that was looking to take care of business and looking at another program that is also undefeated in their history, South Carolina remains that with squeaking out a sweep over Vanderbilt. This was really a test for the Game Cox as Vanderbilt brought it to them. South Carolina won the first game five to two, but it took overtime in game two for Joey Broshew's group to stay without the L mark. speaker-1: Yeah, you know, harping back on on the the point we just talked about with Tampa not having a loss in the regular season, you know, maybe you kind of show up like and take it for granted that you can just, you know, play at your seventy five percent and beat a team. But that that didn't happen. They had to come from behind in both games. Vanderbilt was maybe a little bit motivated by their football team going and handing it to South Carolina. No, I I don't want to talk about that too much, but ⁓ yes. South Carolina's winning streak hits twenty-five in a row. Yeah. And USC last year, obviously a lot of games, they they won those with their defense. And that kind of had been their their tone that they'd like to set is that their defense is going to win them games. And this time the offense came out and won both those games coming from behind. Obviously, not this position they wanted to be in, but they showed that while they their defense can shut down when it needs to, their offense is also there this season. To put up five goals if necessary, if that's what it takes to win. speaker-0: And and just credit to Vandy for for bringing it here. This is I think a lot of people expected a game to to be really one sided and they made this one close. Good luck to the Commodores, especially in this early slate of the year. Had an A C D C game, Florida State, Embry Riddle in A C D C. We talked to Captain Ryan Chambray for Florida State last week, boys, and they get back on the right foot as well to start their year against a really tough Embry Riddle team. speaker-1: Yeah, got got the boys fired up in the comment section. ⁓ if you saw that clip get posted on Instagram, the boys were fired up. You could tell they were ready to go. talking up their captain. And yeah, they they ended up taking both against Embery Riddle. Yeah. And it's exciting because like you said, they practice maybe maybe once a year and they show up to the rink and that they get fifteen minutes for warm up and they're ready to go. And it's it showed in game one taking that one six to three and then obviously game two a little closer, but When you're putting up eight goals, I mean, you get a game like that. We see it in the NHL early in the season where sometimes you've got thirteen goals in a game and that and that's insane. And you you kind of saw that here with FSU and Emory Riddle. Put up fifteen combined goals and I mean, we see that a little bit more in the CHS, but not normally do you get up to fifteen and it'd be neck and neck kind of the whole game. speaker-0: Yeah, neck and neck and Embry Riddle. They've had some really close games. And not just talking to the score. They've had some physical bouts. The Eagles deserve to get a win out there in Daytona. And I think it's coming for them very soon. UCF and Citadel, very surprising game. Split series. There was a hat trick by Thomas Killer in first one, but Citadel's goalie stopped all 63 shots by the Knights and got the shutout. Peter Green hell of an effort against a UCF group that looked like they were gonna take care of business. speaker-1: Yeah, the the tail of two games, right? I mean, UCF pretty well controlled action, I think it's safe to say. I think I think they picked up sixty seven shots in the first game, you know, because I saw their little trendy TikTok thing. I'm an old man, so I d I don't I don't get the I don't get the sixty seven joke. But ⁓ no, I mean ⁓ the six goals in the first game and then the door was shut in their face in game two. Shout out to Peter Green. Peter Green needed some electrolytes after that one. Sixty three saves, my god. speaker-0: This might be a little bit of a a tough look. I don't know. The six seven thing, it it's kind of taking the swarm. They might have had an opportunity to get more shots, but you think they just kept it six seven for the brand? speaker-1: You know, I know UCF and those that team just naturally puts up a lot of shots. I mean, last year there was a game they put up eighty one. So I think that was on purpose because they definitely probably could have gone over. UCF, you kind of you kind of get that personality from them when you see like we talked about earlier and on one of our first episodes, The Road to the Beach, you kind of see that like they like to have fun, they'll leave jokes there. Like I think that was intentional. What just blows my mind is Like we talked about Peter Green having a shutout after a hundred and thirty shots in two games. Like that's ridiculous. I just can't even imagine seeing the puck come at you that much. Like I don't know if the stats she got boosted, like what was going on, but UCF does put pucks on net. And that's what teams are gonna have to expect when they play UCF. speaker-0: Last game we had to recap was Florida Atlantic and Miami. First men's three game for both of these teams this year. FAU gets the sweep in the series, but another one that you don't expect it to be as close. And Miami makes things tough. They played the SCDC team night one. Night two, men's three, overtime loss for Miami. But credit to them for making this a series. speaker-1: Yeah. ⁓ wanted I wanted to s see how FAU would perform defensively. I think that was one ⁓ knock on them last year is while they were able to put up incredible ⁓ goal numbers and offensive firepower, ⁓ you know, powered by Christian Cuccia, who won division three MVP, where their weakness was was in the defensive ⁓ department and they they could give up some goals ever every now and then. you know, l a little too much to compete at a championship level. And unfortunately they they were a little leaky in these first two. ⁓ had to come from behind in in in both games and ⁓ had to flex those offensive muscles. So maybe it's just more of the same from FAU. ⁓ the it the offense is contagious down there, I guess, Devin. speaker-0: Could say that, but this is nothing to take away from Miami Group. Of course, former national championship team. Tomelo runs an awesome program. And I think Miami's gonna be a pretty solid team in men's three, considering that this is still guys in the group that have championship experience and they can still skate with the best of the best. In their minds, they're gonna walk away from the series saying we had it because they held on to those leads. FAU heroics get them over the hump. Switching gears to Our previews, and we alluded to it when you were talking earlier with the the game, the day two preview of Alabama and Tampa. That is our game of the week. The rematch from the conference championship for both sides. And I feel like everyone going in, this is on everyone's radar circled as the game to watch out in Columbus Ice Rank. speaker-1: We talked a lot about Tampa in in this episode, but you have to think about it from the viewpoint of Alabama. ⁓ the they ended up losing the the trilogy, if you want to call it, to Tampa last year two to one. Bama was able to win the conference championship game over Tampa, but ended up losing to Tampa at nationals. And Alabama probably wished they could have had a better showing at nationals. They, you know, had a couple of tough games there. ⁓ So there ha the the fire has to be burning for this one. Yeah. And we and we saw it when they talked about the comments earlier, like how they don't forget about those. I think that kind of set the stage even before the season was ever like before schedules came out, before I mean those matchups were written in on their calendars before we even had a schedule for them. So I think both teams are ready to go. And I I'm excited to one get to be in person for this because I just think it's gonna be a nice little chippy game, but there's gonna be some great scoring. speaker-0: No doubt. And I feel like whoever comes out of this game is going to be headed to day three, looking at a title game opportunity. Of course, we don't know what's going to happen between the other games, but this one takes place as the final game on day two, five forty five PM Central Time from Columbus, Georgia. Looking also at games around the conference. Awesome stuff happening on the men's side of things. Tampa and South Carolina will play a former college hockey south team. Tampa's gonna raise their banner from their championship in Division I, which was AAU. And also, like you said, Danny, the opportunity to debut those buckets. Ooh! speaker-1: The new buckets. Yeah, they'll they'll hit the ice for not only conference champion Tampa, national champion Tampa. This is gonna be a great night for for ⁓ Tampa and Coach Nick Kuzlik, who who's a Tampa Spartan through and through. It's gonna be the culmination of, you know, an unbelievable season last year. And I'm sure the emotions will be high. South Carolina was one of the teams that Tampa was able to dispatch on the way to their conference championship. You know, these two always seem to have chippy games and fun ones when Day face off. Yeah, it's an exciting week, ⁓ obviously for Tampa. I mean, I live in the Tampa area, so hockey kind of runs through UT is what it seems like in this area. I mean, after they won the Natty, they were at a lightning game on the bench. So obviously they get a lot of respect in the Tampa area and it's it's earned. I mean, I we got to watch them at nationals and they kinda kinda handled business. I mean, just no days off, came in, handled business all the way down to the moment they lifted the trophy. It's ⁓ it's gonna be exciting to see what Tampa has in store for the season. speaker-0: It's a rematch between two former national champions and South Carolina, from what I heard, is a pretty young team. Tampa is a pretty experienced group. This is gonna be also one that people want to find. I think Tampa has a live stream, if I'm not mistaken. So you should be able to watch this game. Yes, thank you. On Black Dog Hockey, make sure to subscribe and check out Tampa and USC Friday and Saturday at Clearwater Ice Arena. Looking at some other high-caliber men's two teams, this is a big week. speaker-1: Black Dog. speaker-0: The first, we're seeing some real men's two competition between the three Kalach hockey South Men's 2 groups at FAU in Florida. Can't think of a more awesome opening series for the reigning national champions in men's two. Their old rivals, they take on in the Gators, Friday at Boca Ice Center, and Sunday at Baptist Health Ice Plex in Fort Lauderdale, also known as the practice facility for the Florida Panthers. Boys, this could have been our game of the week had it not been for the Columbus Classics. speaker-1: Totally. This this is a this is a big one. You're not going to get many opportunities at your division opponents for the division two teams. Obviously, there's only three. So these are big ones. It's early in the season, but you know, these are big ones. And, you know, you want to make that impression early on other teams ⁓ around the country. Fl hey, Florida, you know, go and spoil that party. Hey, FAU, you wanna, you know, celebrate your national championship? That was last year. You know, let's focus on this year. Let let's play a freaking hockey game. I'm I'm stoked for that one. Yeah, I'm really excited for this. Obviously, we got to talk to ⁓ Rocca Bruno earlier this season. And I mean, I know he's ready his off season, he's been training. But like I said, I mean, I love this Florida team. I love the way they look. They came out in in week one, had a little bit of rust, you know. I did put away Amory Riddle pretty handedly, but FA use a whole different beast, I mean That team has just as much offensive power and great goaltending to match. So this one's gonna be amazing to see which team really kind of comes out and sets the tone for ⁓ two. speaker-0: Both teams have a pretty experienced roster. I I mean on the Florida side, you're talking about Nicholas Katz, Evan Edwards, Michael McCoy, who's been terrific for them the last couple of years. FAU, they get to add that player of the year from men's three and Christian Cuccia. It'll be fun to see him out there. Rocco Bruno trying to go for the three peat this year is goaltender of the year. We'll see what they have Friday and Sunday for both of these squads. Also worth mentioning FAU plays in the middle, Georgia Tech. Saturday at four thirty at Boca Ice Center. This game was canceled last year due to Hurricane Milton, which swept through Florida and southeastern part of the United States. speaker-1: former conference ⁓ opponents and you know some awkward scheduling ⁓ I would say for FAU to have a series interrupted by a singular opponent. ⁓ Georgia Tech FAU wants to make an impression and set the tone for their division two season at the ACHA level, beat another division two opponent and Georgia Tech set the tone. I mean if FAU can go and win three games in a weekend, I don't think of a better way than to set the tone. You go out And you play Florida, go beat Georgia Tech and then go and beat Florida again, like that's just impressive to play three games in a weekend and just win each one. And especially if they win them handedly and it's not even close games, then that's what's really gonna be impressive about FAU. speaker-0: Yeah, and Georgia Tech's gotten their season rolling. They they played some good opponents, Alabama to open their season, lost that one, but then resoundingly defeated Kennesaw State ten to four. Very young season, but they're another team now in Georgia Tech that it is looking to take that next step as a program. And now this one we can really talk about with you, Gavin. Florida Southern taking on South Florida, runner up South Florida team from the conference tournament last year. Friday, 7 p.m. from Advent Health Center Ice. Bulls open their season against the Mox. Gavin, they dominated ACDC Florida, but this is a good, really good opponent. What are your ⁓ what's your take on it? speaker-1: I think this really sets the tone for where FSC is at, ⁓ Florida Southern, where they're at this year. Obviously, they have a lot of firepower. They've added 10 new guys to the roster since last season. So basically retooled the whole roster, added a couple goalies. I mean, we got to see Ethan Fisher and Vincent Simonean in game one against ACDC. And they gave up Vincent Simonean had a shutout, and Ethan Fisher only gave up two goals. And some of that might be nerves, is first college games. But it it really just comes down to can Michael Wool and Will Marshall really come out, set the tone, play their physical brand of hockey, and and run the game the way that they do. I mean, we'll talk about it later. Will had an amazing game against AC D C Florida and they added a new guy, six five, Michael Izzo, just as another bruiser to that team. And he had five assists in that AC D C game. So they've got people who can put the puck in the back of the net this year outside of just Will and Michael. So This this game really sets the tone for if Florida Southern's gonna return to the playoffs and make a run. I understand what you're saying about Michael Wool and Will Marshall ⁓ needing to to perform and produce and absolutely they do based off their last two seasons. But I think what will set them apart and potentially put them over the top is where whether or not they get depth scoring. And and ⁓ in a series against USF, who made it all the way to the conference championship game, fell short to the middle Tennessee, but they They had a heck of a season USF and made it to the conference championship game. Florida Southern's gonna need depth scoring and they're gonna need the goaltending and defense and everything outside of Michael Wool and Will Marshall, who are wonderful players. Some even in various group chats have ⁓ suggested they might be the McDavid and Dry Sidal of of CHS. Is that a little bit too far of a jump? I don't know. But you know what? Dry sidle and McDavid needed secondary scoring, defense and goaltending as well to put themselves over the top. So We'll see. speaker-0: you are slightly colorblind and you squint your eyes, you can see a little bit of blue and orange there in the moccasins. I think this is another one people should get really excited about considering that USF is coming off one of their best seasons in program history. And Grant Deets is the man. Some high octane top forwards in both of these sides out there in West South Florida. Our three stars of the week, Will Marshall, our first star. For Florida Southern, five goals against A C D C Florida. speaker-1: John, pump his tires. ⁓ I mean, Will Marshall is just a scoring machine. I think anytime it's him one-on-one with the goalie, the puck finds the back of the net. Honestly, a lot of this came from puck movement. Normally you see Will and the goal says unassisted, but in this game, I think every goal that he scored had an assist on it. It wasn't him making one move, two moves, and finding the back of the net. It was coming off of passes and getting front of the net, which is where he excels. He gets in front of the goalie and it's It's pretty hard to stop Will from finding the back of the net. Second star of the week for College Hockey South from Middle Tennessee State University defenseman Tommy Chenchikov. He had a goal and five assists for six points in two games against Clemson in that two game series where Middle Tennessee was able to pull off the sweep. This is a first year player, Tommy Chenchikov. Didn't reach quite the heights. Of this in their first series against UNC Wilmington, but you put up six points as a defenseman. You're gonna the eyeballs are gonna be drawn to you. And he got our attention this week. Six points in two games. Shout out to Tommy Chenchikov, first year Blue Raider. Obviously a big deal putting up five assists. And I'm a big fan of using the defensemen more offensively and allowing them to kind of run the offense and set plays. And we see that now with Kale McCarr stuff like that. It's exciting to see ⁓ offensive defenseman who can move the puck and create opportunities to score as well as getting back and playing great defense. speaker-0: Speaking of offensive defensemen, our third star of the week went to Sam Watson from Florida Atlantic's men's three team. Two goals, four assists for six points over the weekend against Miami ACDC and Miami Men's Three. He's a defenseman that's taking more of a leadership role with some of the guys that moved up to that men's two FAU group. And what really impressed me is his poise, sort of helping quarterback those plays and keep everyone in line in their system offensively. They've got a very Promising guy. Andrew Yagoda, their head coach, talks highly of him in his effort and his ability to raise guys around him and their game. He's someone that FAU is going to rely on a lot this year. And if he does his job well, we might be hearing about him a lot more when we do these game recaps. Those are our three stars of the week. Bunch of beauties and awesome stuff to recap in what I believe is now what was week two in College Hockey South. speaker-1: Sponsor beauties. speaker-0: The Columbus Classic, it's here, it's now. You guys will be down there in Columbus for this one. Guys, give me some of those things that are on your to do lists for Columbus, Georgia. speaker-1: ⁓ man, well I I got duped into thinking that ⁓ the the Columbus City Fair w was happening this weekend. Shout out to Google AI. It turns out that's not happening at all. I was complete I was I was completely misled. But what are we gonna do in Kolga that's colloquially colloquially referred to as? ⁓ I don't know. I think we're gonna s watch a lot of hockey games, Devin. ⁓ we're gonna watch a lot of hockey games, ⁓ get very little sleep. And I don't know, we might have a few cold beverages of, you know, different varieties. If my feet aren't hurting, maybe maybe we'll hit the Columbus Riverwalk. I think after fourteen hours of watching hockey and standing and walking up and down the rink, following the puck, I think I'll be exhausted enough. I don't think ⁓ that'll that'll be my plans. But if someone's looking for something to do, there's a river walk, there's a space science center. I don't know. Those are just some things that I saw when I was ⁓ Looking at things around Columbus. speaker-0: When this was first circled and I I was discovering this tournament, I could not, for the life of me, get Columbus, Ohio out of my head. It's a it's an okay place, Ohio State, obviously. But ⁓ look, I mean, if Columbus, Georgia has anything to say about it, it sounds like an electric town, and you're not gonna want to miss what's going on there with the third annual Columbus Classic happening at the Columbus Ice Rink. Boys, we'll see you next week for the recaps of that tournament. Be safe, have fun, and good luck to all of the teams out there this weekend. And thank you for listening to another episode, episode five of College Hockey Mouth, a College Hockey Self podcast.