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Seg 2 - MHOC Coach's Show w Mike Cavanaugh 3-4 · Coaches Corner

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  Back in our Yukon Hockey Coaches Show prior to the final game of the regular
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  season that comes up on Thursday. The Huskies will host Vermont coverage right at
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  seven o'clock begins, because we do have a geneo orem a coach a show
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  to get in the final one of the yearback. We're down to the final
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  coaches shows, last one for Gino's Thursday Coach Hurley's a week from tomorrow night.
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  You're recording that one, right, yes, sir, all right,
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  don't forget please to be calling in Theory Championship game. Yeah, I'll hopefully
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  you'll be busy Monday night call the women's Biggiest Championship game at Mohegan Sun here
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  with coach cav Tell me about Saturday's game. The lost to Northeastern is a
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  scoringdicative of how things went. It seems like you guys put in a pretty
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  good effort. I saw you had a lot of shots on goal. No,
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  we actually played better Saturday than we did Friday. Really, yeah,
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  we did. And again it was one of those periods you know we played
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  I think after two per second period, I think we all shot him twenty
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  to eight. We had the whole puck the whole time, in the majority
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  of the time, and uh, we're down three to one. You know,
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  we got the one goal and then start the third period. They scored
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  about a minute into the third period, and we got one late, but
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  we just couldn't. We didn't have as much offensive pressure in the third period
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  as we did in the first two. But it was it was frustrating to
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  play so well in the first period and then you're down to nothing, you
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  know, coming into the locker room. So but you know, we stayed
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  with it and again had a great second period and had it at three to
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  one, and we needed to get that next goal to make it three to
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  two to get the crowd really into it. I think we talked earlier in
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  the year about the main line with the NATO brothers, and then you've got
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  the rich Kobean's for Northeastern comparing contrast the I don't know that that second level
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  of communication that those guys can have with one another because they're siblings and playing
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  on the same line like that. Yeah, they're both good. Lines are
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  a little different the way they play. But I think when you grow up
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  playing with a brother like you have that sixth sense and yeah, know where
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  they're going to be and certainly a familiarity level that other players don't have.
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  So they're good though. And Rascovie and I really the older one, just
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  right, really respect his game. I don't know the younger one as well
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  yet, but the older one he plays a two hundred foot game and he's
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  good on faceoffs. He's a real good player. Yeah, he's one of
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  the leaders. In fact, Northeastern came into that weekend the top face off
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  team in the country and Justin's think somewhere around sixty percent. Yeah, and
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  we beat him on face offs on Saturday. They took it to us in
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  the second period. On Friday night this year, I think I think we
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  only won three draws in that second period, But Saturday we won the faceoff
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  game against them. So for Hudson Chandur, where he was eight of twenty
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  six on Friday and then goes fifteen of twenty four, you said that this
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  is something he takes personally, that he loves the face off and the gamesmanship
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  of it. So how do you flip that? How do you go from
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  one to the other night overnight? Yeah, I think some nights some nights,
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  the other guy has your number, you know, So I don't think
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  there's anything you know, he didn't. I don't think he might have changed
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  his approach a little bit. But some nights the guy just has your number,
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  you know, and it's just not your night. So you got to
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  try to find different ways to get a stalled puck and hopefully your wingers can
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  get you there. Yep. So Mike, how's Chase Bradley doing. He's
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  good. He practiced today and we're hoping to have him for Thursday. Yeah.
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  So you know, for someone like him, what is noticeable when he's
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  not in the lineup? What is the layer that is missing with a talent
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  like Yeah, well, he just plays in so many situations for us of
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  our first penalty killers over the boards. He's such a strong skater and physical
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  player, so we lost a little bit of our physicality with Chase out,
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  but it just he also lengthens our lineup, you know, our lineup gets
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  a little bit deeper when he's in the lineup because you can slot other guys
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  in different areas. So we you know, we certainly missed him this weekend,
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  that's for sure. What do you like about Nick Capone's game this weekend.
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  It sounds like he had one of his better weekends. He didn't take
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  any penalties, so I thought that was good. And it's some reputation though
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  it can be, but some of it's you know, Nick sometimes has a
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  tendency to get his hands up a little high and when and he's working at
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  it, and he made a conscious effort this weekend, you know, when
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  he finished his checks to keep his hands down, because when they ride up
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  high, that's when you can you know, hit a guy's head or it
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  never ever looks good either. No, no, you're given the referee a
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  kind of an easy call sometimes. Yeah. I just I found it interesting
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  that capone has only committed penalties in eight games, and he's committed two penalties
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  in each of those games that he's committed one, So he hasn't committed one
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  penalty in a game. It seems to snowball a little bit when he's taken
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  the first. It's been at least one five minute major too, I think,
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  so, yeah, actually two too, So that's those are the killers
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  too. But he played a very disciplined game and he was good. What
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  have you thought of Sam who's played lately that I thought he's really started to
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  turn the corner for us. And it's funny because I noticed him in practice
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  today and we need him. We certainly need him because he's very good on
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  face offs and he's a big, strong body. I thought he won a
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  lot of battles over the weekend. You know, scored the goal, but
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  also on the given goal. Goal was at the first goal Bob on Friday
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  night. Yeah, you're talking about the play along the board. Yeah,
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  but Sam who made that play? Yes, you know, and he made
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  that little outplay. So he's I've been really happy with his play lately.
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  Oliver Flynn is going to be joining us on the show. Chatted with him
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  earlier today twenty two games, he picked up his first goal. Where is
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  his progression along the start of his career. Well, I mean he's just
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  coming in, you know, to the program, and I know a lot
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  of it's been new, and he's certainly obviously how he is is in the
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  classroom is also how he is on the ice. He's very detailed and doesn't
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  make many mental mistakes, and he's committed to being a good player. He
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  spends a lot of time in the weight room. He does a lot of
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  things. You know, we have a sign in our locker room that says
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  how you do anything, so how you do everything? And I think Oliver
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  is the epitome of that. Like, if he's going to put his mind
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  to something, he's going to do it to the very best of his ability,
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  committed to the process rather than results. It sounds like in many ways,
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  Yeah, I think so, I think, And when you're committed to
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  that process, you usually get the results. Mike back to Matt for a
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  minute. I'm sure he was equally frustrated that the puck wasn't going in the
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  net. For a guy that is has that ability year in a year out
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  to have struggled a good chunk of the year, how's he handled it?
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  Do you think it's been frustrating for him? But I think he keeps working
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  and you know he was on the ice this morning working on his game,
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  and you know he's he's again he's another one committed to be the very best
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  player he can be. So he's always do an extra to become a good
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  player. And I've tried to tell him that you can affect the game in
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  so many different ways. It just doesn't have to be on the scoreboard.
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  You know, you can affect it with your defensive play. You can affect
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  it with you know, setting other guys up. Yeah, you know,
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  finishing your checks and creating momentum. We can affect it face off play.
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  So you've got to be careful not to just get focused on goals and assists,
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  right unders. Yeah, on that note, like a lot of times
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  I Geno's kids because I do their games. Obviously they got a bunch of
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  gym rats. Do you have this where like I'll use Page for instance,
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  tries to find different angles and ways to score with the basketball? How do
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  they do that in practice? If you're out there by yourself working on your
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  game, what kind of things can you Well, Maddy had one net turned
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  over today, so really the only place he could you know, and put
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  that with it, you know, the nets, so all he could put
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  it was upstairs, you know. So he was working on shooting today and
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  hitting certain spots. You know, you can work on it just coming out
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  of a corner, a cutback and come out of a corner and shoot far
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  side. There's certain there's a lot of different ways you can create that.
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  You know, Tyler and Mike and Vince and are on the ice a lot
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  in the morning, feeding them one timers or tipping pucks, you know,
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  shooting from the blue line and tipping pucks. So there's so many different ways
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  to score, and just try to put them in those situations and practice it.
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  We did stage in the season where some of these guys you're making sure
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  that they're getting enough rest between you know, you want to be working and
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  working and working, but their legs have to be tired at a certain point
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  at the stage of the year. Yeah, I think though, you know,
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  we didn't skate yesterday where we're not going very long. We're under an
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  hour right now, you know, with our practices, so it's more about
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  just staying fine tuned. And you know, if Vermont is doing something unique
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  that we haven't seen, whether it's a face off player, something on their
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  power player, a penalty kill, that's something will go over and practice.
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  But for the most part, we're just working on our game. And as
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  I said, they're quick up tempo practices. Now there's not Yeah, we
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  didn't bagskate today. You know where it's late in the season. The kids
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  are in pretty good shape. All right, we will give you a little
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  break. Mister Helton's here in person, so we'll get in for a couple
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  of segments. Awesome, all right, thank you Michael. When we come
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  back, so see Coach Tower. Hilton joins us on the Yukon Hockey Coaches
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