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Episode 6: Will Marshall | Florida Southern Hockey, and Columbus Classic Recap · College Hockey Mouth

• speaker-0: Welcome back to the College Hockey Mouth Podcast, a College Hockey South series. My name is Devin Sara, joined alongside our producer, Gavin Coker. And welcoming back, Lizzie Pennogen, who was on the inaugural College Hockey Mouth episode. Lizzie, welcome back. Are you amped up like always? speaker-1: Yeah. I'm actually I'm so energetic. I just got back from playing like from being on the ice like I think this is nine days in a row now. So I have so much energy and I just drank like four Cokes. So yeah. speaker-0: The ever personable Lizzie Penn, you know, we we actually asked Danny if we could get you on sooner. And ⁓ this felt like the perfect segue to get you through ⁓ to us. We're glad to have you back on here. It's gonna be a fun episode. We got a lot to recap on Columbus Classic, but Gavin, tell us a little bit about your time in Columbus. speaker-3: Yeah, I mean, obviously not I wasn't on the ice, but I got to watch a watch a lot of great hockey. ⁓ got to work with the broadcast team, amazing crew. Shout out to everyone on the broadcast team. Really shout out to ⁓ everyone who was there, social media, all those teams. Made it work. ⁓ I think for me favorite part of the event, and this can't go unset it, the girls try hockey event hosted by Auburn. I mean, that was amazing. Just to take the time. See some ⁓ see some girls get out on the ice who haven't played hockey, see the players invest back into the game that they love so much was just ⁓ it was inspiring and it was a really awesome experience to just get to be around that and to get to watch that. speaker-0: It really was and shout out to coach Jack Rosenhammer for that. Did you end up getting to explore Columbus? I think you said you might of wanted to go to like a river walk or a boardwalk or something. speaker-3: Yeah, unfortunately, ⁓ twelve hours in the rink ⁓ doesn't leave much time for ⁓ after hours activity. So it's pretty much ⁓ hockey hotel, hockey hotel. But you know, I honestly that's that's all I could ever ask for. I I'm doing my dream job right now, so it was a great time. Didn't get to explore too much, but I got to see, like I said, a lot of great hockey. speaker-0: Love it. And that was the main thing talking about last week and into this week. We've got a great interview lined up with one member from the men's side of things, the Florida Southern Moccasins, who you know very well, Yavin, Will Marshall, took us a little bit into what he has going on and some of his experiences abroad in Europe. We'll bring that to you now on this edition of Kala Talkie Mouth interview. Welcome into the College Hockey Mouth interview segment. We're sitting down with a member of the Florida Southern M3 team, the Moccasins, Will Marshall. Will, welcome to College Hockey Mouth. Happy to have you here, stud. It's been a treat to watch you play on the ice. You are one of the best players on the ice every time we see you on a broadcast, at a tournament. You are one of the stars of this league, and it's great to have you on here. Tell us a bit about yourself and your upbringing in hockey. speaker-2: Yeah, sure. So I guess I've been playing hockey since I was two years old. So ever since I could walk. I was born in Chicago, so I started playing there. And then I moved when I was eight to Connecticut. And then right around when I was ten, I started playing, maybe ten, eleven, started playing triple A at the Westchester Express. So I guess that's kind of when I started to play hockey a little bit more seriously. ⁓ and then I moved to St. Louis at fourteen and played for the St. Louis Triple A Blues then. So I played or sorry, I moved at thirteen, so I played for two years in St. Louis. And then I went to Cobra Academies, which is in Indiana, and I played three years there. So U sixteen two years and then U eighteen one year. Then after that I went to play in the Knoll at the Odessa Jacalope, so I played two years there. And then I ended up at Florida Southern. So I'm in my third year at FSC right now. speaker-1: Do us a favor and tell us about ⁓ your time in the knoll with the jackalopes. What was it like exactly? Give us some detail. speaker-2: Yeah. So I mean junior hockey's pretty ⁓ interesting. Obviously, you know, being in high school for four years and kind of all you really know is, you know, going to school every year and hanging out with your friends at school and then playing hockey afterwards. It's kind of a total switch up because your only job is to play hockey at that point. ⁓ so it's very interesting. And obviously, I mean, living with with guys that you play with and guys that, you know, you're really good buddies with. ⁓ and just playing hockey all day and I guess enjoying the environment of junior hockey was a lot of fun. Obviously it's it's pretty difficult. You're always competing for a spot. So again, pretty stressful. But being in Odessa was a super cool spot. I've never really been to Texas before, but I got to travel to pretty much every place in Texas. We went to New Mexico. and ⁓ really fun experience, really difficult experience, but definitely made some lifelong friends. speaker-3: And you mentioned obviously being in Saint Louis and playing there and Pee Lee kinda triple A. And you and Michael Wool both played there. Did that affect you coming to Florida Southern? speaker-2: Yeah. So we we came to Florida Southern together. Oddly enough, when we were thirteen, fourteen, we weren't really good friends. We played with each other and, you know, obviously knew each other, but we weren't best of friends like we we kinda are now. So when I went away to Cobra the year after he went to Mount Saint Charles. And so we'd kind of see each other tournaments and stuff like that. And kinda kinda became friends because we both lived in St. Louis but didn't really play for for the team that our old buddies played for. So we'd hang out a lot in the summertime. And then we both ended up going to juniors. ⁓ so he went to ⁓ the northeast to play in the knall for a little bit. ⁓ and I went down south, so we kinda kept in touch and and stayed good friends. And then we both committed to Nesscax after our second year. So I was gonna go to Amherst. He was gonna go to Williams and ⁓ we had both visited and it was just it was too cold. Like I I had no interest in living in in ⁓ Massachusetts. And just not enjoying the weather, a lot of cold people. So last minute, kind of a couple of days before the deadline, we called those coaches and said we don't want to go there anymore. And ⁓ we had originally applied FSC kind of just as a safety net because it was a free application, just in case we got injured at juniors. And ⁓ last minute took a trip down to Florida, came on campus for maybe thirty, forty five minutes, and ⁓ just decided we were coming here. We didn't even really know there was a hockey team. That was just kinda I guess a a secondary benefit. And then yeah, I mean freshman year we loved it together. It was it was probably the best year I've ever had. speaker-0: That's insane to go from potentially another moving situation. You're sound like a guy that's no stranger to being a journeyman now, and you end up playing for a school and now the ACHA. What's the transition like from going to the knall and now playing in one of the most southern places in all of club hockey? speaker-2: Yeah, it was really interesting. Obviously, you know, coming in didn't really have any idea what to expect. We had some buddies that played club hockey, but they played, you know, Indiana, Miami, Ohio, you know, schools that took it really seriously. So obviously they had a far different experience than than we might have to start, you know, being D three in the AAU. ⁓ but you know, we connected with the Jills, the the head coach. Got on a quick phone call, got a little bit of information. His son plays at UConn and is a draft, ⁓ draft pick. So You know, he kind understands the the level of hockey that we are kind of accustomed to. And ⁓ you know, first practice, it was it was interesting. We came to a stick and puck and met ⁓ our team manager, Gavin. I I think you know Mikey, Mikey Caden, and ⁓ met him at the rink for a stick and puck and and our goalie came out, Jason Cribs, who's awesome, and ⁓ kind of got the first taste of club hockey in the AAU. But you know, it was it's definitely a different environment. You know, no one's trying to take your spot day to day. ⁓ it's just a lot of guys who are having fun together and and trying to win games and get better. ⁓ so I mean, overall it was it was definitely a big switch up, but it's it's a good switch up, especially as you get a little older and you get in college, you know, the junior hockey's tough on your body. So kind of switching up and playing club hockey was was a good transition. It was a lot of fun. speaker-3: Yeah, and you haven't had much difficulty at the ⁓ club hockey level as we see it. I mean, second all time on the Mox scoring list, only behind Matthew Frommer, who obviously graduated last season. He's at one forty four, you're at one twenty five. That might be one thirty now. I don't know how updated those are, but ⁓ you think you're gonna pass that this season? I speaker-2: I hope I get twenty points this season. But ⁓ yeah, I know Matt, I mean the team when the team at FSC first started, I think they had like eight skaters or something. And ⁓ I know Matt's been kind of there since the beginning and honestly I'm I'm jealous of that start. I'm just kinda being on with eight guys, some guys who have never even played before, ⁓ and just kind of putting a team together. I thought I thought it was super cool when I heard the story. But I know Matt's been one of those guys that kinda held the team together to start ⁓ which is super cool. ⁓ and I know he still he still comes ⁓ and says hello occasionally. But I mean obviously Matt's a guy that's been on the team for a long time. So if I pass it, I'm I'm lucky. speaker-1: Will, you were named the CHS D three MVP and AAU player of the year in your first season. What was that first season like for you? speaker-2: First season was fun. ⁓ we were D three AAU, so it was a little bit different. I mean, the the difference in skill between a lot of guys was really interesting. We'd play a team one night and ⁓ you know, there'd be guys that are definitely newer to hockey. ⁓ and then, you know, the next night we'd we'd play guys that were pretty much the same skill level as us. And it was it was really weird going from what was more like a stick and puck game one night to the next night. speaker-0: We were speaker-2: going and playing like a really hard game. So it was it was kind of interesting and and not something that I was used to. But it was a lot of fun. I mean, I know Mike and I played together first year and we had a bunch of other guys on the team that that were still really skilled. I don't remember how many games all Regalini played, Riggs played first year, but he's a stud. I mean he's a little he's a little older, so he's he's getting up there in in terms of what he's doing now. But he was a stud in my first year and he was there from day one. So it's it's kind of cool that he's still playing. But I mean, yeah, first year was a ton of fun. I don't know what the AAU was like before, but the transition between that first year for me and this year now is really kind of kind of crazy to be honest. I mean, the the development of the league and the players and the teams every year has been substantial, which is pretty cool. I mean, we're playing the same teams that we played first year, but it is a completely different team. And I know we are too. So it's it's been really cool to see that development, but Overall first year was was probably the most fun I've ever had in hockey. speaker-3: You just mentioned it. You guys are a whole new team as well as all the other teams adapting and lots of new faces on the roster. How have you been adjusting? Obviously getting to know some of the new guys who came in then the offseason. speaker-2: Yeah. I mean it's been awesome. Everyone everyone's been great. And I think the fun thing about club hockey is the expectation of, you know, trying to take someone's spot and and, you know, trying to be friends but still trying to, you know, push ⁓ off the roster is gone. And so everyone's just there to have fun and win some games. So I think it takes the stress off everyone's shoulders a little bit. So everyone like I've never been on a team where everyone was friends. Like since I was, you know, twelve playing triple A when I was in juniors, when I was at you know, prep school. Like it's just it's competitive and when it gets competitive and everyone's trying to take each other's spot, it's hard not to have, you know, beef or whatever it is. But I mean everyone on the team I love. And I enjoy everyone immediately. Everyone's nice to everyone. Everyone enjoys being in the locker room. So I mean I love getting new guys 'cause kinda changes the dynamic in the locker room. It's kind of funny when you first meet ⁓ you know, you don't really know what to expect 'cause they're a little shy. ⁓ and then they kinda open up and they have a big personality. Like it's it's a lot of fun. And I I'm glad that every year we're we're getting more and more guys. speaker-0: What I love hearing about that is the fact that you come from a really high level on your team, know what it's like to be in a position as playing a role, and then you come to this team and you're a leader in your own right and you've left everybody up. I think that's the beautiful part of club hockey is that it is still very serious and every player takes it ⁓ the best they can. But there's not a whole lot of that politic on. You don't see that among even coaches leaving your potential bumpage. It's an all collective effort. I wanna ask you about more of a serious comparison though. You and Michael Wool obviously lighted up. You had lean scores on that Florida Southern team. You get a lot of attention. People have said, and by people me, that you're like McDavid and Dreisidel from the Edmonton Oilers. What do you what do you think of that comparison? ⁓ speaker-2: Definitely a stretch. When we have fun and we played played together for a long time. So we definitely had that, you know, a a connection and we we've always played on each other's line for the past three years. So we've definitely, ⁓ you know, kinda learned where each other's gonna be. But ⁓ definitely definitely a bit of a stretch. That's funny though. speaker-1: All right. So you've played in a lot of different leagues, as we've heard throughout this podcast. ⁓ now you're here with Acha. So what are you most so excited for this season playing in? speaker-2: Nacha. I'm excited to, you know, after playoffs, from what I've heard, ⁓ because I guess I'm still a little confused on how everything works, but I I'm excited for the opportunity to play teams that we haven't played in the past. It is fun, you know, playing the same guys. I mean, I I know someone on every team now that we've played, you know, in the past in in AAU, but I'm excited to play guys that I don't know. I want to see what other schools are like. It is fun playing the same teams. Buck can get a little repetitive knowing what you know you're gonna get into. So just kind of seeing what some of those bigger schools play like and and meet some of the guys in that team I I'm excited for. speaker-0: We know you got to travel around. You went to Europe, part of that all star team. Explain to us some of those travels and your favorite parts of going over there. speaker-2: Yeah. I mean, I definitely didn't expect to ⁓ take a a hockey Europe trip when I decided to go play club hockey. So I've I've never heard of anyone doing that. So I'm glad that I got the opportunity to do it sometime. I didn't do it when I was younger. But I I honestly I was shocked when when we heard it was a thing 'cause we went to the to the All Star event, I think it was at the FAU rank down in in ⁓ Fort Lauderdale. And, you know, Kyle was kind of our coach in a sense and we were doing Pretty well against most teams. Obviously, College Hockey South, best division. But going into I guess like the final championship match, I don't even remember who we were playing. But it was a closer matchup. And I think we're in between the second and third. We're in the locker room. I think we're winning maybe like three to two or two to one or something. And Kyle, we all thought he was joking. He was like, If we win this game, we'll all go to Europe. And we were like, let's go. Like it was the coolest thing, but no one really took him seriously. I mean, Who expects to to take a Europe trip and when you're playing club hockey. And ⁓ we win and he says, you know, we're going to Europe. And we're like, cool. And didn't really hear anything for a couple months. Because I mean the All-Star event was in I think like April. And then, you know, a couple months later, once once things died down a little bit, he sends out an email. And we, I guess, I can't remember if all the guys that were on the All-Star team ended up going, but it was a majority of the guys on the All-Star team ended up going to Europe. And You know, we get to the airport and we're all just meeting up and we remember most people and we're honestly just kind of shocked it was happening. It was my first first like overseas trip in general, to be honest. I've never been to Europe or anything like that. ⁓ so we took a long flight, got to know the guys a little bit better on that plane. ⁓ and then we land at this tiny airport in honestly, I don't I don't even remember. It was somewhere in Germany. and ⁓ Grab all our hockey gear. We had we got all the cool CHS gear, got gloves, socks, jerseys, shell, bag, got all the goodies, and ⁓ found a found a way onto a bus and we start just driving through these mountains. I have no idea where we are. I'm just kind of just enjoying the ride, I guess. And I mean, it was it was sweet. I mean, the mountains were just covered in snow. And it was almost like we're in a valley driving about four and a half hours. ⁓ and we make our first pit stop on the way to Graz, Austria. And it was at this place. Honestly, we got scammed because it was like sixty Euros for a little bit of food. So our bus driver definitely took us somewhere just to, I guess, get a little commission check on the side. But I was you know, first experience, I was like, What's going on? Like sixty euro for a little bit of food and it was it was bad bad start, bad start. And then we get in gras and we all just start exploring a little bit and just kinda over time, like the connection that we made with all the guys was was awesome. Like again. Loved everyone on that roster, which I think the cool thing about club hockey. All those guys like I still talk to, we still text in the chat occasionally, and especially now that, you know, this upcoming trip's on the on the table. Chat's, you know, blowing up a little bit again. But, you know, we played a a large, again, variety of skill over there. One team we played was like a mixture of there were some like fourteen year old kids out there and then like a 35 year old coach. So it was like it was really weird the level of talent. But then one game we played a legit team and they were they were definitely pretty good. But just kinda getting to explore Graz, Austria. ⁓ and then I went to Vienna. My my parents came and and Michael's ⁓ mom came, so we kinda spent some time with them, went to Vienna. ⁓ but just overall like getting to experience Germany and Austria and then also getting to play some hockey and play with some play with some guys that can definitely play and and know how to have fun. It was it was a good time. speaker-1: Doc, I saw that it said that you played for the Atlanta Capitals. Did you actually? speaker-2: So my first year I tore my A C joint in my shoulder. Mm-hmm. So I got put on the IR. And then for some IR loophole I had to go, I guess, play a game for our affiliate. So I was on their roster. So I I played but I didn't really play. speaker-1: Okay, I was freaking out because when I was little, we like we had a ton of Billet brothers who were from the Atlanta Capitals and that like made me so excited because I was like we were like number one fans of the Capitals because I was like nine and we were like, ⁓ my god, they're so cool and tall. speaker-2: Yeah, no, I just I don't know exactly how it works, but yeah, I was on the IR for for a long time and my coach was like, You need to drive down to Atlanta and get dressed. And I get there, I have no idea what's going on. I drove like six hours to Atlanta. And I got there and they just handed me a jersey, like didn't even really know like what was going on. Give me a jersey. It was like, you can you can play, you can sit on the bench, you can do whatever you want. And I was like, well, I mean, you know, give me a shift or two. Let me let me play a little bit. I didn't get dressed for nothing. So I played a little bit and I think I played I think I ended up dressing for two games. But it was it was pretty cool just I mean, again, meeting new guys. But yeah, I d I just kinda drove there for for a for like I think one night and then drove back. But ⁓ I guess yeah, I technically I was on the roster for a little bit. speaker-1: Rock on. That that made me really excited when I saw that on the question sheet. I was like, What is I was like, there's no way. Coaches, did you know this guy and that guy? No. speaker-3: So I only have one last question. What team would you say is your biggest rival in CHS and how did that rivalry start? Good one. speaker-2: I mean Florida Southern in general is rivals with Tampa. So I guess, you know, ever since I got here is always like Tampa, Tampa, Tampa. And I don't think we ever like we had never beaten Tampa. So like the whole first we didn't beat him first year. We beat him one time last year. And it was after we lost like eighteen to three the night before in Tampa. And then the next night we were playing at home. I I don't remember what we beat him by. I know we beat him though. And it was it was just kind of crazy 'cause I don't know how a team loses eighteen three and then the next night beats that same team. ⁓ so I think I'd say probably Tampa. But to be honest, I the Tampa D one boys, those are probably some of my favorite guys. Those guys are awesome. ⁓ but ⁓ everyone in our school hates Tampa for some reason. To be honest, I think it's a sick campus. I don't I I drive through there sometimes and I'm like, I don't know how anyone could complain going to school here. But I guess Tampa. I'm not a fan of UCF. Those guys are annoying. Not a fan of Miami. Those guys are annoying. They don't like a lot of teams don't like us. We're pr we're pretty disliked, honestly. I think we're probably one of the most disliked teams. Refs don't like us. A lot of people don't like us. I don't know. Kind of been an interesting experience. Every every year I feel like I'm just experiencing hate from from some teams. But Tampa is is definitely our school's ripe. speaker-0: Well, you picked the right time to talk about that 'cause you're gonna play the ⁓ three team coming up this weekend. Tell us about yeah how much you guys get up for that and what that game feels like when you play that Tampa ⁓ three team. speaker-2: It's exciting. I mean, majority of of the time when we're playing Tampa, it's when we have the most fans. Again, as I said, our school hates Tampa. So for some reason, that's usually when our school shuttles kids to the rink and actually advertises our games. ⁓ so obviously like a lot of people are there and it's just kinda always been something like since first year, like we're playing Tampa. No one is talking about anything but beating them. It's always been the biggest thing. Like we needed to beat Tampa. Like I I don't think Out of all the years that we played Tampa, we never beat them, especi except for that one time last year. So, you know, all the guys that were on the team for like four years, losing to them every year, there was definitely some ⁓ some hate going on there from them. I mean, that definitely kind of trickled off into everyone else, especially the new guys. But now, I mean, I'm I'm pumped to play them this weekend. We've only played two games so far and ⁓ One high, one really low. So I'm excited to kind of see what ⁓ what kind of talent Tampa's got 'cause I know they got, you know, a couple new guys. ⁓ so I'm excited to see that. ⁓ and then I'm excited for ⁓ for hopefully a good amount of fans coming out. speaker-0: I guess the last one we'll we'll ⁓ we'll leave you with is Florida Southern not necessarily known as a hockey school, but we know you guys had success, especially nationals of n front number of years ago, and your program is evolving. So what would you say to people that are looking at Florida Southern and potentially thinking about playing hockey? What's your pitch? speaker-2: Yeah. I mean it's definitely a different school than, you know, some of the other ⁓ hockey schools in Florida. I mean, you got FAU, Miami, ⁓ you know, some larger schools that are definitely a different environment. But overall, like I l I love Florida Southern. I wouldn't want to go anywhere else. I think, you know, the the smaller environment of everything for me is is something that I enjoy. ⁓ it's it's just big enough to where I don't know everyone, but I still see the same people and I can still kind of become friends with everyone. And then on top of that, Kind of the camaraderie because we are a smaller school. Like everyone's connected and everyone wants, you know, everyone else to win. So I mean, you see all the sports teams. Majority of the time, every sports team has another sports team in the stands. So kind of having that camaraderie between the sports teams. But in terms of, you know, coming here for hockey, we are the only program that is free to play that I know of. Cause everyone else that I talk to pays three, four, five grand. Some teams don't have a locker room. We have a very nice locker room. ⁓ and I from what I've heard, maybe I'm a little biased, but I think we get the best treatment. ⁓ obviously we're a newer team. I don't know how old some of some of the other schools teams are, but being a newer team, being a private school, like we get some nice things. I mean, we get nice buses for every trip, nice hotel rooms, nice clothes, meal money, stuff like that that I know, you know, a lot of the other teams don't get. So I think you know, we're liked by the school and they want to see us win. And, you know, at not to toot our horn, but I definitely think we're on a uphill trajectory. ⁓ you know, going from D three to D two last year. Hopefully, you know, I mean now you know kinda switched a little bit. Technically, we're back to I guess D three. I hopefully in the next couple of years you go back up to D two in in ACA. But I think in terms of teams, like from what I've seen, we've probably grown the most in the past three, four years. And I know we we probably get some of the best treatment. speaker-0: Good stuff. And we look forward to seeing Florida Southern, the Makazins doing well. Make sure you keep Gavin on a string. Don't let ⁓ get too hot when you guys are ⁓ are winning soon, 'cause we know it's coming. Thanks so much again, Will. Always a treat. And you're welcome back anytime. Thanks to Will Marshall for coming on the pod again. Fun weekends, it sounds like for everybody. Lizzie, you your team has has had a lot of fun. The football team is the talk of the world over there. speaker-2: Awesome. Thanks, Devin. speaker-0: Have you guys been tailgated? You guys been team bonding? What's been going on? speaker-1: I've just been watching the games by myself because I get really angry. But I know that a couple of the girls have been like hanging out and watching the games together. ⁓ unfortunately I've just been busy with that. But we've done a like a a lot of team bonding outside of the football, but the every time there's a game, the group chat blows up. Like absolutely blows up. And we all have the most false confidence anybody could ever fathom. We're like USF is the best. US F is gonna win everything. But it's cause they are. Go bowls. Go bar embrown. speaker-0: Y'all came into Miami and got a reality check, but that's a different sport, different day. Congrats on weekend. We're talking about Puck. We're talking Puck on this pod. And y'all have a squad. And we got stuff to talk about. Your team and a lot of others. Columbus Classic, third annual, wrapped up this weekend in Columbus, Georgia. Fun days, fun games. First one we wanted to talk about was your own, Alabama. Mm-hmm. Bamo wins this one eleven to five, but some news in this game was your goaltender, Anastasia Jarayas, went down with an injury. So you had to go to the e-bug. One of your defensemen, Summer Garcia, steps in, and I'm told it's the first time since Pee-Wee hockey that she's played goaltender. So tell us just how she did and how your team rallied around her. speaker-1: I mean, if I'm being honest, I I was so proud of her, especially like at the end of the Auburn game, I'm gonna keep it a buck fifty. I teared up a little bit when I went over to give her a hug 'cause I was just so proud of her performance and how she stepped up and like helped help carry the team. 'Cause it takes a lot to to change up your position that you've been playing for such a long time and something that you're so comfortable in and to like s like be willing to step aside and lock in and help your team win. And I think that's kind of a testament of how our team works together. Like we do what we need to to like support each other. And Summer really stepped up and she did great. And I'm so proud of her. If she's watching this, I love you, Diva. She's my speaker-0: We love a good e bug in the Acha, and this was no exception. Day one saw Auburn take down Georgia 5-2. Miami squeaked one out against Tennessee 4-3 on day one. And Tampa won against South Carolina 10 1. Parlay into day two, massive win for Georgia in a comeback performance, 10 0. Miami seemed like they were missing a few players and had a bit of a shortened bench. That game was followed up by What we just talked about with you, USF and Auburn. The Bulls win this eight to seven. This was the game of the week that went down. One of them up there. Back and forth. Really exciting stuff. USF had a bunch of these rush goals. Auburn was chipping away at the e bug, Summer Garcia. Gavin, you were on the call for this game. Did your voice get scratchy at all from having to yell so much? speaker-3: I think ⁓ I think I remember s getting off the call right as we ended the stream and I couldn't feel my stomach because I couldn't breathe because I had been so amped Because I mean, it feels like the whole third period the game was just back and forth. I mean, at one point USF had a two-goal lead and then two power plays real quick, turned that around. So and then after that, every time a team scored, it was just back and forth. But really the standout on that one was ⁓ Chloe Valente and Cassie Cross. I mean, they were going back and forth. Both were all over the score sheet. Chloe, three goals, three assists. Cassie had five goals, one assist. I mean, and then not even to mention like Sky Tittle also had a hat trick. So two USF hat tricks in that one. That that was my game of the week. If if we watched any of those games, that was the one. speaker-1: To say that huge shout out to Skye, by the way. She's an incoming freshman this year from The Crunch. She's one of our three girls, I believe, who's coming in from The Crunch, along with Kaylin and Alexa, who isn't able to play yet. But when she is, she's gonna be a total baddie out there. But Skye, she's so so quiet. But when she gets out there, she's such a weapon. And I'm so so proud of our team. I'm so proud of Sky and I'm so proud of Chloe and Summer. So speaker-0: Lizzie, in a game like this, you just told us off air that all of you collectively hadn't played a full sixty minute game with twenty minute periods. Are the legs burning? Are you churning in this game? What was it like from your vantage point? speaker-1: Yeah, so ⁓ I guess all of us didn't really read the Acha rules and none of us realized that we were gonna have twenty minute periods and like halfway through the first one I remember all of us looking up and being like, Shouldn't this be way more over by now? Like we were pretty tired. We we still had legs, but we had to kind of lock in for the rest of it. But I I do think it was way more fun because you gotta push through more of the pain, but it's like not like it's not like terrible pain, it's like competition. And I think that kinda heals it. But it was it was low-key kind of unexpected, but I'm not mad at all. I'm not mad at all. I enjoyed myself every single moment of all three games that I played. And for a bunch of the games that I watched, I thought it was great. So twenty minute periods all the way. Yeah. speaker-0: We discovered on episode one that you were somewhat of the glue teammate. So you had to be good on the ice, but more importantly off on that bench, trying to get through this one i in what was a a total heavyweight fight. Really fun to see. Congratulations. And Chloe Valente, former player at Northern Michigan, now I believe a grad student at South Florida. Real awesome to see you guys come out with that one. This game was followed up by Tennessee and South Carolina. South Carolina wins big, 10 0. Zoe Elwell and Grace Seaman both had hatties in this one. And then our game of the week was Tampa versus Alabama and Gavin. Some quick goals by Tampa early in this one. As you like to say, set the tone. And Tampa does great things in another win. speaker-3: Yeah, Tampa took control early. Lucky bounce probably got the first goal for them. They put the puck in the back of the net again, really, really set the tone, like you mentioned, and they just kind of rolled with it. Bama couldn't get rolling in the offensive zone as Tampa played complete game at both ends of the ice. I mean, this is what we expected a little bit from Tampa after the Nationals game last year, CHS playoffs, really getting back, getting some revenge, and you know. There are a lot of ⁓ Instagram reels that got posted. ⁓ I saw one Bye Bye Bama. So a little ⁓ a little chirping after on the socials too. But that's good that's good for the women's division, good for club hockey. It'll it'll s it'll be a good season. speaker-0: Avery Gugliata and Lauren Clordy sort of alluded to us that we could get some of that. They'd keep it respectful, but you could tell in the comment section they they were they were talking their stuff. And Natalie Kutz had a 44 save performance in this one. Complete team game by the Spartans and showing again why they are one of the best teams in college hockey south. That was parlayed with day number three, the final day. Started all things with A very interesting one. I don't think one that people expected to be as good as it was. Tennessee gets the win over Miami three to two. This one went to the shootout and it was a long one. speaker-3: Yeah. Ten rounds. It was insane to watch. You know, it was back and forth at the beginning. We mentioned Miami had a shortened bench, so they kind of had to recycle their players, Tennessee a little deeper. And Tennessee ends up getting that one as Madeline Lambert scored her first goal, won the game, and I I have a picture on my phone of Tennessee running out there, super pumped, knocks the goalie over. It almost looked like a Stanley Cup celebration, you know. I mean, we like I said, we haven't seen a shootout all tournament, so Tennessee goes out there, gets a shootout win. Mylan Lambert scores her first goal. Morale was high for Tennessee after that win. speaker-0: It's good to see because the Lady Voles have had a tough start to the year. We know that they had a really, really not so great series against Clemson and Newar's program, second year in the league. And that's that's the stuff you love to see with a group that came to this tournament wanting to get something out of it, and they did in a big way. Follow that up by our event of the week, the girls try hockey for a free event. Jack Rosenhammer, the Auburn staff, the rest of the college hockey south, women's division staff, Lizzie. You were part of this. God, it it had to have been so fun to be out there. Share with us what kind of experience that was. ⁓ speaker-1: Absolutely. It's so great. I was there last year. ⁓ and the vibes are kind of the same. It's honestly just s genuinely the most heartwarming thing ever. I don't think I frowned at all during the I don't even think that I like broke past like a big smile on my face. Cause it's so it's so great seeing like girls pick up hockey. Cause like when I was little we had probably like two or three girls on like a team maximum. ⁓ and it just wasn't like a very common thing to see. And it's so amazing that College Hockey South is like actively like not just promoting like hashtag grow game with like posts, but they're actively trying to and they're trying to bring girls in, new generations of players, big and small. We had some like younger girls and some older girls, but they were all there. We had tons and tons of different station, lots of fun things. Ended up by splitting the ice. Half of it was playing a hockey game, the other half was more so for like the littles playing tag, which I kind of hopped back and forth between, but You can tell the little girls were having so, so much fun. And yeah, it's just such a great event. I just keep like thinking of this year and last year's. And it just brings me so much joy. Cause I like all of these like little girls, they looked so hopeful. And I saw some girls hanging out with Bama and some girls hanging out with UT. And all of them had like kind of a glow in their eye. And they were like, wow, look at these like big college hockey players. They're with me. And they're like like learning, helping me learn how to skate and helping me like enjoy the sport. And I know that like I have actually got like a DM a little bit ago from last season. I got an okay from this girl's mom to talk about it ⁓ and post about it too. It was her and her two little sisters. And she got a I got a DM from her saying she's like full on locked in on hockey this season. And she's playing in two different leagues, I think, now. And she's got like three different helmets for each team. She's got like two pink ones and one white one, and she loves them so much. And she has so much fun and she plays forwards and she enjoys herself. And it I don't know. It made me like cry a little bit. It just made me so excited to see like little girls joining in on this sport. Especially with the P PWHL now. So it's like really getting going. I don't know. I just I love it. I'm so grateful for Kalachocke South for hosting something like that. Sorry, that was a lot, but I ramble. speaker-0: I love hearing about that, Lizzie. And thanks for sharing too. That's that's what it's all about. That's the thing that all of these teams to collectively wanted to chip in for. And hats off to everybody involved because it looked like a terrific success. Looked like a great turnout and some great things for the future too, and more to come from Kala Chi South and everybody involved. Shout out to Savannah Prefontaine as well, who was running around like a chicken with her head cut off, trying to make this all work from what I heard. And They did a flawless job. So congrats to everyone involved. That event was followed up with the championship for the Columbus Classic. Tampa versus Georgia. And Georgia, who came into this game one and one, lost to Auburn, was able to get above Miami. They they walked into a ⁓ Goliath here with Tampa, an eleven to three final. The Spartans get their third straight Columbus Classic Championship and Gavin Seeing this, being around it, Tampa's still the best of the best. And give us your assessment of what was a championship total performance from the Spartans. Yeah. speaker-3: And it was like I mentioned earlier, both sides of the ice, master class. There were a couple of times where maybe they got tripped up, caught on themselves. But I mean, you score eleven goals, you can you can afford to let one or two maybe find the back of your net. It's not ideal, but Georgia did have some great players who got breakaway chances and were able to find the back of the net. But Tampa played a complete game, continues to play a complete game, showed that They can go from offense to stingy defense. And no, we mentioned where they talked about switching their identity. They found ⁓ the happy middle ground where they can go put eleven on the board or they can put up three and shut you down and play really good, clean defense and not give up all power play opportunities. And we just saw a complete Tampa team that has a chance to go really fast. speaker-0: Congratulations to the Tampa Spartans again on running now a three-peat for the women's tournament. And also good to see them come off losing to Liberty, bouncing back in a big way. Two more games to follow up the day. South Carolina and South Florida. The Game Cox win this one nine to six. Another barn burner, Lizzie, you're part of. Chloe Valenti has the hat trick along with Grace Seaman for USC. It's ultimately a nine to six game. I mean Seeing this many goals now, I don't know if you guys are going to have this many goals in a game the rest of the year in consecutive ones. Talk to us about this one. speaker-1: I mean, honestly, hopefully we don't. ⁓ like me personally, I prefer like low scoring games that are like pretty I feel like those are really, really intense and I kinda like that feeling of that pressure. I mean that game that game started off rough. We had some like problems within for like the first two periods in between the intermission. We all kind of locked in. We like started communicating with each other and we figured things out. We had a couple of I Feel like this is important to say because it's like part of like having a team. We had some like disagreements on the bench with each other. Some voices were raised, but in the intermission, we started communicating. And when we came back in, we played as a team and we played as friends. And we had some like silly moments. Like Kaylin came flying in and like slammed into the net, full on, like net went flying. She was stuck in. We have kind of an inside joke with her because she sounds like Tater from Yellowstone. So we call her Tater. We were yelling at her, Tater, what are you doing? The ref got in on it too. He was like, Tater, get up, which I didn't expect, but that was really funny. We had, I don't know, we all just kind of I feel like bonded in between the second and third period, and we started like full on playing together as a team. And I think that's when we started scoring like our our best goals because we were actually like working together instead of just being on a team and playing for ourselves. We were being on a team and we were playing for USF. We were playing for the name. So I am I'm proud, especially of like that third period. I think that we did good and I think we can only get better from there. But it was a good game against USC. I was excited to play them. I saw their game against Tennessee. Got a little scrappy so I was excited for that. But it was a good game. I'm very proud of our team and I'm excited for what comes up in the future. speaker-3: And one thing I just want to say about Summer Garcia, we mentioned first game since Pee-wee. Her butterfly, immaculate. Like playing in the butterfly. I think every time she dropped down into the butterfly, she saved the puck. I don't think she let a single puck in and going into the butterfly. And you probably if you listen to the broadcast, you hear me mention it a thousand times 'cause I was just that impressed by the ability to react and get down and stop the puck in that. And that that's an impressive skill for an NHL goalie to have. So for Sonna to not have played goalie for who knows how many years and just have a great butterfly form, amazing. speaker-1: I know we were kind of shocked ourselves because ⁓ in like practice, like she wasn't dropping as much. So we were her blocker saves were just on it. Like she'd just block everything. It kinda pissed me off a little bit because I nothing went in. ⁓ but I wasn't sure if she how she was gonna use dropping, how she was gonna Butterfly, if she was gonna butterfly, I kind of went insane. I don't know if the broadcast crew could hear me, but every time she dropped down, I lost my mind and I got so excited. So yeah, I don't know. I was I was I had such a great time at the Columbus Classic this year. And I'm so proud of everybody and how we kind of rose to the challenge. But yeah. Great butterfly summer. Love you. speaker-0: The final game of the Columbus Classic weekend was Alabama versus Auburn. So you get an Iron Bull rematch here and the Morgan's Message dedication game. Bama wins this one seven to nothing. So they get redemption from being shut out by Tampa. They get their own shutout over their rivals in the Auburn Tigers. Transitioning to the rest of games around the conference on the men's side. Starting with Florida Atlantic and Florida, two heavyweights and M2 going at it. FAU with a 6-0 Rocco Bruno shoutout, the fourth of his collegiate career. And then Florida answers with a three-to-one win from the Florida Panthers practice facility. Three to one. Great win for head coach Frank Bisqually in that group. Fun stuff. And these two teams are going to do this four more times before it's all said and done. speaker-3: It'll it'll be exciting to see FAU in Florida. I mean, obviously earlier this on the podcast, we got to talk to Rocco Bruno, talk about his process in the offseason and just how he goes about it. So he came out obviously the offseason training has been working 42 safe shutout game one to start the season. And then Florida, Florida's a good team and they've got good offense there backed by veterans with some freshmen scoring well, sophomores scoring now. But they came back. One by one, three, one, and it's gonna be exciting for the rest of the season to see the rest of these games between these two teams. speaker-0: Florida with an answer, good to see for that group. They've got some tougher games coming up, including a South Carolina team that won the national championship in men's division one just a few years ago. Speaking of the Game Cox, Tampa raised their Division One banner this past year at Clearwater Ice Arena and got a split with South Carolina, seven to two on night number one and six to three the following night. For South Carolina, I guess that's just the way the wind blows. One team wins big and another comes and punches right back. speaker-3: Yeah, and Tampa, South Carolina, obviously two big programs of both the nationals last year. Tampa, big night for them. I saw the rings on Instagram, the video for them. Probably one of the coolest things I've seen. Made me want one. I need a replica a replica ring or something. Maybe they should get those on their website. Maybe I'll buy one. But and then South Carolina roaring right back night two, winning six three. I think it'll be an exciting back and forth this season as Tampa has a lot to prove as they were dominant last season. And especially dominant wouldn't have mattered most. So South Carolina coming though in and getting that game two win. While they probably wish they would have spoiled banner raising night, they did come out and win game two. Well it's nice to split a series against the defending champs. speaker-0: And ⁓ big props to Tampa as well on their look. They had the new buckets out, the Spartan word mark with the red and the white stripe. Looks really good, fellas. Keep it up. Can't wait to see more of the combinations for the kit this year. Love it. Love it. Potentially our biggest news of the weekend, guys, minus Columbus Classic. The ⁓ three South Carolina team lost their first game as a program. We're talking a year and a half plus. speaker-1: Wicked Styboys. speaker-0: Kennesaw State, a huge win, five to three. The Owls finish this one. South Carolina comes back with a seven two win on night two. But we've we've talked up, we we've pumped the tires of Joey Brochy's crew, and a Kennesaw State group, which was feisty at conference tournament last year, comes in and knocks off the reigning champions from the conference. speaker-3: Yeah, big deal for USC. Obviously, you know, never lost a game, but they didn't really take time to dwell on it. They roared right back, you know, you lose a game after winning for so long. They can be like, Whoa, culture shock, hold on, we've never done this before. But they didn't let that get to them. They came back and won seven two, handled Kennesaw stay in that second game. So a big deal for USC obviously to lose, but even even bigger deal that they didn't allow it to get them down and they were just able to come right back and take that second game. speaker-0: Crazy stuff. And they had they had a close call last week with Vanderbilt. And we thought the boys, Commodores, were gonna get that game over them. Nothing to take away, South Carolina's still gonna be the team that we're talking about late in the year. Congrats to everybody over there on the KSU side of things. I know how proud that program is. They've got some good stuff brewing over there and solid series for them. The Bulls had a series with split opponents, took on Florida Southern. your moccasins Gavin and Belt. Do you know what? 12-0, the final in this one. Grant Dietz shines, but they, as we talked to Will Marshall, are still figuring things out over there. I don't know how reflective this score is considering Florida Southern took it to Florida A C D C. speaker-3: Yeah, there's a lot to be talked about. I mean, obviously Grant's Deets is a ⁓ big part of that USF Bulls culture over there. ⁓ bigger dude. Really ⁓ lays the body down, sets the tone physically. There it is, sets the tone. But Grant Dietz just he r he kind of runs that program and when he gets going, he gets hot and Florida Southern just wasn't able to get going, you know? It's a new roster, learning new faces. It's gonna come with its ebbs and flows. So USF really commanding win there and they continued rolling and they took on FAU D three next night at home and and Grace Deets once again just continues to roll. Showed why he was ⁓ V P last season for division two of ⁓ college hockey South. So it'll ⁓ it'll be exciting to see this US F team after they just won their home openers this past weekend. speaker-0: They follow that up with another thumping. Nine to one over Florida Atlantic, who's a very talented team, young group, but also very skilled in a penalty field one on the FAU side of things. Lizzie, it sounds like we got a wagon over there in Tampa. speaker-1: I mean I've just seen my fair share of clips from people who are broadcasting that. ⁓ 'cause I know the guys who do that. ⁓ I mean, yeah. All I can say is go bulls, roll bulls, baby. I was pretty content with all that I saw. Obviously I think USF has kind of worked out a lot of kinks so far. I think that they have more to work on. ⁓ twelve ⁓ nine one over two days. Not much to say. There was kind of a There are there are a couple of penalties, I'll say that. ⁓ but yeah, I was kinda more occupied with the Columbus Classic, but I saw my fair share of clips and I was pretty content with how the Bulls played. So yeah, rock on. speaker-0: Big shout out to our boys over there, Vashish and Cam Charilla. Those guys do a terrific job. And it was fun to meet those guys at conference tournament last year. Hope get to connect with them down the line and have one or both of them on the pod at some point. I can make that happen. I will second you on that and we will have a USF moment here. What what if we what if we did a full USF episode? What if we just had like no Gavin, no Danny, just Lizzie, Grant Steets, Vashish, Cam. We'll have a cell phone to party. Everyone will hate it. That's not from South Florida, but we'll have it. speaker-1: Absolutely I would hate it and I am from South Florida. Absolutely not. We need some people to be mediators. I'm not not doing that. I love Vashish and Cam and Grant, but that's that's no. Absolutely not. I could do if we had like you and Vashish and Cam and then Gavin, that would yeah. speaker-0: No. What could go wrong? But if Lizzie's telling me it's a bad idea, Lizzie doesn't say a lot of things are bad ideas. So this one, if she's saying it's a bad idea, then we'll we'll have to we'll have to stick to her on it. speaker-1: There would be a lot of overlapping. There already is, because I talk a lot, but US just full blown USF podcast would be it'd be great, but also it'd be like too chaotic. I think people would just get too invested. And by people I mean me, and maybe a fishy speaker-0: That's fair. Someone get the bull's head out. I'll wear the head. So, final game, final game recap of the weekend. Miami versus Lynn. M3 bout here. This one was so much fun. This made our article this week for the Kalachaki South recaps. By the way, go read those on our website, KalachockeSouth.com. Miami's Ellian Astuli tied the game with seven second left, but it was ultimately Lynn who got the dub and overtime from Cole Dickinson who added an assist to that O T winner. Guys, this one takes the cake because this one could have gone either way and two really well coached teams. speaker-3: Yeah, it's a it's a little bit of a South Florida matchup. Two teams that have potential to be really good in M3 this year. Miami's kind of a ⁓ back and forth team every year. They kind of win a couple games that you don't expect them to and then maybe lose a couple that you don't expect them to. So they're kind of trying to get over the hunt this season and really make a push into the playoffs this season. As I'm pretty sure they were just left outside of it last season, if I'm correct. I could be wrong. But both of these teams will be ⁓ trying to make a push and And it all starts with this rivalry right here in South Florida. It'll be a fun one to watch. speaker-0: Miami with Tom Eminello is a very talented group. And it took them time. And as we get rolling in this, we'll talk about some of the more standings as we get going. I believe Miami still gets a point out of this game for the overtime. Good stuff from the hurricanes and the fighting nights over there. So looking ahead now, our game of the week for College Hockey South on Friday at 8 45 p.m. Central Time, Alabama and Middle Tennessee State. Feels like Middle Tennessee is getting A lot of love from us on this pod, deservedly so. Car short does a great job with the content over there. They have a wagon of a team, ranked conference champions, but Alabama's off to a good start this year and they've got a lot to say about it. speaker-3: It'll it'll be good for both of these teams to see each other this early because this is a matchup we could see down the line in the playoffs. So getting to matchup this early in the season really figure each other out and see where each team's at. Cause come CHS playoffs, you could see two different teams. It could be the same team. I mean, likely a lot of teams make adjustments throughout the season and that's what makes the CHS so great, is because you never know what you're gonna expect. Sometimes there are those Teams that you expect to win in a in a dominant fashion, but also you see a little bit of back and forth sometimes. I think we'll see that here with this game on Friday. Yeah. speaker-0: Alabama gonna need to get out of the gates early in this one. Middle Tennessee, though, has had a tough go of it early in games this year. So you could see this one come down to the wire on Friday, September 26th. Followed up by Florida Southern and Tampa. Also the same night at Lakeland Ice Arena on Friday and then Clearwater Ice Arena on Saturday. Gavin, you've always got something to say about the Makka's ends. So give us our preview against a team that Will Marshall said they really do not like. speaker-3: Yeah, and he mentioned it in their interview. It's a big ⁓ it's a big school pride thing. I know this is club hockey, but when you get into D two athletics, Florida Southern and Tampa kind of go back and forth, baseball, lacrosse, sports like that. It kind of goes throughout the school. Tampa is a ⁓ big rival for Florida Southern. They don't want to see him win. And last year, obviously Florida Southern, Will mentioned it, big loss on the road in game one, eighteen three. And they turned it around though, getting back on home ice. And winning that one three to two. So the home fans at Lakeland Ice are gonna do really show up and show out. And I think it's gonna be a tale of two home rinks in this one. speaker-0: Tampa is coming off a two-to-one to win against Embry Riddle. Sweep of the ISEGO's there. Hopefully, their rank holds up. I don't know if you guys saw this. They had a puck from an Embry Riddle player in game two flip into the air and knock into one of the sprinklers at the rank, halfway through the third period. It delayed the game. We had this all over social media. The hockey house reposted it. We had fire trucks, firemen, signals going off. Lizzie, Gavin, either of you ha have you ever seen something like this go down? No. speaker-1: I I was pretty hyped about it. I saw Bryce Kay posted something, ⁓ and I watched that multiple times. ⁓ I was kinda giggling to myself 'cause I thought that was such like a silly thing to happen. I know that the Zamboni broke down I think in playoffs last year. ⁓ and now we've got a little sprinkler, so both water issues ending and starting off the season. So I think that's a pretty good sign. But it was pretty funny. So I'm not gonna argue with it. speaker-0: Lizzie, I I feel like you're the type of player though that would knock a puck into the sprinkler and delay a game. Have you ever delayed a game before? speaker-1: To be on I'm gonna say no because I can't remember anything, but I probably have. I know I've gotten delay of game penalties because I've been lazy skating up to the face off dot. I almost did this past tournament because I wasn't expecting the 20 minute periods, but I didn't, which is an important thing, but I know when I was little I used to be able to flip Puck's backhand like really high up and really far for some reason. Surprised I didn't hit a sprinkler now that I know that that's possible. So I I guess that's good, but I I don't know. Anything's possible. I probably will at some point, but as of now I'm I'm in good standing with delay of games because of sprinklers or silly things like that happening. speaker-0: Well, Lizzie, if you get a chance to play Tampa in Clearwater, be on the lookout for that. Apparently it's not the first time that's happened at this rink. I think it gives it a lot of character and it's one of the first viral moments for the conference this year. By the way, do you guys play Tampa in Tampa? ⁓ you're so close to them. speaker-1: Yeah, we I know that this season, especially since we have like the different leagues, we have like South and and North for College Hockey South. ⁓ we play a lot of Florida teams. Next weekend we're playing Miami and then after that it's gonna be FSU and UT. We've always had quite a couple of UT games on our schedule. I know that we I think that we're playing them in November at some point. Don't quote me on that. If it's not in the schedule now, they're definitely will be a game 'cause it's kind of like a Tampa thing. Kind of like territorial, I guess, 'cause it's University of Tampa and USF. The Battle of the Bay speaker-3: The Battle of the Bay. Mm-hmm. speaker-0: Also happening this weekend, South Carolina. We talked about it earlier, taking on Florida. Those games happening Friday on the 26th and Sunday on the 28th. Florida gets a rare home game. They've only got, I think, as many as four left the entire season, and we're not even a quarter way through it yet. So it'll be fun to see the Gators play a former champion in Jacksonville. Also happening the Battle of the Knights. Lynn and UCF going out against each other Friday and Saturday. Palm Beach Skate Zone. Lynn is coming off the split we just talked about with Miami in that thrilling OT dub. But UCF has won two of the last three matchups dating back to last season. speaker-3: Yeah, and UCF's a good team, you know. Andrew Cass back in between the pipes for them. And this will be the first ⁓ CHS matchup for UCF this year. So it'll be fun to watch UCF get into CHS play. speaker-0: UCF also went viral for their locker roanigans. They shot on Citadel exactly sixty seven pucks. And I think that was on purpose. Now we I just saw both of you do the thing. No. Don't you what that's speaker-3: Don't you catch me in the act like that. But I will say there was a moment during the Columbus Classic where I'm pretty sure it was Bama, got to sixty seven shots and they mentioned it. You know, they were waiting. They were waiting for that moment. They saw they looked up on the scoreboard and all you saw was the motion. And you just you just knew that and I thought they were gonna keep it there. They ended up shooting a few more times, getting to seventy shots. I was wondering if they were gonna do what UCF did and just just hold it there for the rest of the game. speaker-1: I know that we had a point in one of our games. I I think it was Auburn when scoreboard said s six to seven and everybody couldn't stop doing that. I was looking at over at Auburn they were doing it. I looked over on the ice, Summer was doing it. And every time there was a stoppage in play, everybody go six seven. Yeah, I'm glad that that's made its way into this league. speaker-3: Hey, trends take over and ⁓ when they do, they take over big. So it's ⁓ it's making its rounds through college hockey south right speaker-1: Yeah, I can't lie. There's definitely a video of me out there on the bench that was taken of me doing that for a very long time. Kind of an embarrassingly long time, but you know it's trendy, what can I say? speaker-0: Between that and the throwing a fit, I'm kind of sick of seeing these two things. I think the throwing a fit is a little more tolerable. It's just at a certain point this gets outdone. I don't mean to sound like the old man here, but I kind of am. And like, like we're gonna we're gonna I guess we can keep the six seven tracker on. That's two games now, including the Lizzie's you talked about. We we're at six seven here and shots or goals or whatever it is to score. But if your team features it and you Have content, share it with us, and we'll we'll highlight it somehow. Womans, Tampa, back on the division side, takes on Florida State, both at Clearwater Ice Arena, and Gavin. This one has a little bit of ⁓ history between the two teams. speaker-3: Yeah, former ⁓ University of Tampa coach Lee Zarfus will be behind the FSU bench. The ⁓ made the switch in the offseason. So it'll be interesting to see that matchup with the Tampa's old coach behind the opposite bench. speaker-0: Juicy stuff. And we're looking for a team to give Tampa some fight. That's all I could say to that. Florida State and Tampa going up against each other all the way down from Tallahassee. Final game to talk about here in the previews is the M2 Tampa team taking on Liberty. This is a one game Sunday on the 28th at Clearwater Ice Arena. Now, the conversation around Tampa is does this team come out of College Hockey South as the one that can compete in the new league, that can go toe-to-toe with some of the other great squads around the country. This one right here is a great test because Liberty has made nationals for the ACHA each of the last five seasons. speaker-3: Yeah, it'll be interesting. Tampa really was dominant when they were at nationals last year playing within AAU. But with the ACHA having so many different teams, we're going to see a much different set of opponents. And what we've heard from all the players that we've talked to is their favorite part of being a part of the ACHA is getting to play against some of these new teams. Maybe getting outside of the Miamis, the Floridas, but getting to play Liberty, teams that right now may see them once a year. Next year maybe they're playing them three times a season. I mean, it's just so exciting to see CHS go into these other conferences. And I'm excited to see Tampa get out there and compete. I think they have a chance to be a really good team outside of what we know in CHS. speaker-0: Now Lizzie, we saw the women's Liberty team crush Tampa Women's seven to one. So I'm curious if you have heard anything about Liberty University and how good they are. And would you be somewhat if you if you played a team from the north right there, how would you go into expecting that? speaker-1: mean if I played a team against the North I'd start off by rounding up defense and playing a very conservative game. Don't give ⁓ too much room to mess around with, but also don't commit too much to anybody. I did hear about the UT and the Liberty game. I mean, it's a northern team. It's like northern states are hockey states. Southern states they're starting to be hockey states, but we don't have exactly like the same like hockey culture, so I guess it's sort of expected that it's a more difficult time. But regardless, I mean, hockey's hockey, so I guess just lock in and commit to whatever you're playing with and do your best. I saw the game I saw parts of the game that was played between U T and Liberty and I saw them doing their best. It was a lot of hard skating, a lot of hard passes, a lot of hard shots, but Liberty came out on top. So I guess that just means all everybody has gotta work harder. If we can get to that same level. speaker-0: Northern team ish. They're from Virginia, but they play out of La Haye Ice Center and they have all of the bells and whistles. Their men's teams pack the bar and the women's one team has won, I think, eight national championships, something crazy like that. That woman's team makes nationals every year. Plus not to mention ESPN plus broadcast, the the full shebang. And then they're gonna travel all the way to Tampa to play in Clearwater Ice Arena, who we just put through a blender and said they don't have nothing over there except leaky sprinkler systems. So this is ⁓ this is some home fit advantage. I mean, Lizzie, how much how much do you think that plays in? The the home the home ice advantage here? Well I mean speaker-1: Clear we practiced at Clearwater like two seasons ago, and it was definitely special. I know there are some pretty big hot spots of that rink that would kill me, and the lighting is a little bit off. So maybe that'll give Tampa or who's playing? Yeah, Tampa. Maybe that'll give them a little bit of a boost. Cause it's definitely not La Haye, but it's it's beautiful in its own way. speaker-0: Okay, do you root for last thing about this, do you root for Tampa being part of the conference? Or is this sticking to your guns here and thinking about the Liberty side? speaker-1: Let's go Liberty. The Fark? No, yeah? I'm not I'm not I mean, here's the thing. South Florida and Tampa, like, I don't know, we kind of have like an unspoken thing. Well I th I it's very much spoken to within like the teams themselves, I think. So Liberty all the way, go Liberty. I don't know what their mascot is, but whatever that is, rock ⁓ the flames. Hey, maybe they'll do good with those hotspots on the ice. I don't know. Maybe they're used to that then. But yeah. speaker-0: The flames. speaker-1: They'll have fun on that. They'll have fun on on the the rimming the puck and trying to pick it off the boards with like the divots and with the unedged ice that's on the Yeah. So I hope both teams have fun, but I'm going for liberty for s speaker-0: Sure. Not sure where that was going, but hey, all's fair love and war. We can't wait to see this one. Out of clear water, men's two Tampa versus men's two Liberty in a big game across the ACHA. Looking at our three stars of the week, Chloe Valenti, former Northern Michigan star, now with USF, insane tournament, as we know. Ten goals, six assists over the Columbus Classic, sensational. Generational even performance. speaker-3: Yeah, had a hat trick in all three games throughout the tournament. When she had the puck on her stick, you could just guarantee she was getting in front of the goalie. I mean, had one of the craziest ⁓ sharp angle shots I've ever seen. Gets it right over the ⁓ right shoulder of the goalie and puts it I'm pretty sure it went bar down, if I remember correctly, over the shoulder of the goalie and goes bar down. So Chloe Balende, very strong tournament. Connor McDavid speed through the zone. And s similar stick skills when she got in front of the goalie. speaker-1: Yeah, no, she's gross, absolutely disgusting. The way she skates is so fat. I love watching her skate and how she just jumps over people. Like like a full-on cricket. Like she just springs up and like jumps over people. Like I've never seen somebody do that before in so many times. She just she jumps a lot. And I think it's so fun to watch. But yeah, sixteen points in three games. Not speaker-0: Too shabby. Like a cricket. I love it. Yeah. That is sensational stuff from Lizzie Pinjan. Awesome to see there. And somebody that gets busy, we saw on our Instagram that she likes to go fishing and is an outdoors person. Lizzie, I think we gotta see you go out and ⁓ get busy in the bay. speaker-1: would love to have a USF fishing trip. I saw she like posted like a little list of all that she caught. She got like two sharks. She got a couple fish. I want to catch a shark for sure. And I know that we have two girls now, Chloe and Maddie on our team that are both like crazy fishers. So we're we're about to go hard on that. All Z I'm saying. Go to Saint Pete. Saint Pete campus, paddle board out maybe and fight like a twelve foot shark. I think we could do it for sure. speaker-0: Second star of the week went to another USF player, Grant Dietz. And this is not on purpose. We have a USF person here. Eight goals, five assists, 13 points. A lot of this came from his performance against Florida Southern. So shout out to Gavin on that one, who's grinning over there for his team's performance. Third star went to Molly Braga from Tampa. Four goals, five assists in the Columbus Classic. Those are your three stars of the week for college. Hockey South and what a fun week. A lot of great things. And we're gonna have some more awesome games coming up now. And then as we get into the later stages of the first semester, you know, some teams get a little bit of that break around the Thanksgiving time. This is when a lot of squads start to differentiate. We're into the season. Teams are know their systems, they're understanding each other. And Lizzie, your team's on the clock. Now's it ⁓ time to get going. You you open your season with the Columbus Classic and Hey, you got Miami, Tampa, and Florida coming up. What's ⁓ the outlook for the Lady Bulls? speaker-1: I mean My outlook's pretty confident seeing what we've been working on on practice now that we've had our three games in the Columbus Classic, we know what we're good at, we know what we need to work on. And we've already started on that and so far we're looking pretty dang good if I do say so myself. Can't wait till we have all of our lineups back with Summer back on defense, even though she did a great job. I do miss having Anna on the ice. ⁓ hopefully she'll be back soon, ⁓ cause I miss her in her all green pads. I think the sty is so crazy with that and it looks great. Can't wait for media day with that. But I'm just ready for us to have all of our lines sorted out, everybody sorted, ⁓ and us working together and continuing how we left off in that third period against ⁓ South Carolina. speaker-0: Great stuff. As we get into closing time here, anything coming up with you guys this week? speaker-1: This weekend, no, next weekend, October second and third, we'll be going down to Miami to face off against them. I know in Columbus they were ⁓ missing I think five players, so we're accounting for that. We're ready for a tough matchup and we're ready to play some good hockey, some good three twenty minute period hockey with a cut in between the second intermission. So speaker-3: Yeah. Yeah, and for me, ⁓ I'll be at Lakeland Ice Arena on Friday before Clearwater Ice Arena on Saturday. I catch a might catch a double header on Saturday, you know, some some light ⁓ club hockey action. Florida Southern versus Tampa and then Tampa versus FSU for on the women's side of things. So a good little ⁓ good little double header for me. Love midnight hockey by the way. That's honestly my favorite. Friday night, ten fifteen at Lakeland Ice Arena. Again, I'll be gone 'til one AM. It'll be amazing. speaker-0: Good stuff. We've got all places in Florida covered this weekend. I'll be seeing Florida Atlantic M2 take on Miami three and the M3 team takes on Jacksonville, who's been a big story. I'm excited to see the Dolphins come through. And be sure to follow College Hockey South on socials and keep up with everything going on in another great week. We are into the season, guys, full fledged and cannot wait for what's to come for both of you and all of us here at college. Hockey Mouth, you've been listening to episode six of sit down with Will Marshall. We'll be back next week. Have an awesome rest of your weekend.