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Episode 11: Bryce K | Battle at the Beach Recap · College Hockey Mouth

• speaker-0: Hey everybody, Devin here from the Post Edit Bay. Before we bring you this week's episode, we wanted to acknowledge that during the late stages of our recording, we experienced some technical difficulties during the game recaps section. Don't worry, you will still hear the interview in its entirety, but we will have a shortened edition of College Hockey Mouth. Regardless, we hope you enjoyed This week's episode as we sit down with Bryce K. Welcome back, everyone, to the College Hockey Mouth Podcast, a College Hockey Self series, episode eleven. Happy Halloween, everybody. We are in a Halloween theme episode. Lizzie's got a costume. I got one on, and Gavin's got a headset costume. Guys, how was your past weekend? Battle at the beach was going on, Lizzie. You were playing games? Tell us about it. speaker-1: We played U UF, USF played UF. It went pretty well. It was a really fun game. It was a little bit ratchet. We didn't have referees, so we had to poach them from another game and we were kinda waiting for like twenty minutes before. And so all everybody's warm ups were just gone. So I was super like I wasn't physically cold, but my muscles were cold. So it was a little ratchet, but it was really fun. speaker-0: So finding a ref, what is this, twenty minutes before? What like is the guy like prepared? Man, okay. So you guys were scrambling, I'm sure. How do you do? Was it just you know, we're talking about what, Rough and Linesman at the same time here? speaker-1: just one ref. We couldn't find anybody else. They were supposed to they were scheduled to come on well, they were scheduled to come on Sunday when they were supposed to be on Saturday. So it was a little it was a little ratchet, but that's okay. ⁓ it was a little fun because we had our photographer Matt Brady, who's my goat and we were kind of just messing around. Like we were laying on the ice making stars, ⁓ snow angels. We did a little Stepbrothers photo shoot. Yeah, that was it was it was fun. speaker-0: So you got away with all of the offsides because you're a defenseman, obviously. Yeah. speaker-1: ⁓ actually I got called well I didn't get called for offsides, but I was skipping up and we got one offside, which was a little sad, but it's okay 'cause we recovered. speaker-0: Gavin, how was your weekend? Fun meeting you at the Battle at the Beach. Yeah, I was gonna say, met ⁓ Devin in person at Battle at the Beach, covered great games, covered two ⁓ two new champions. So something ⁓ new for Battle at the Beach this year with the two divisions. So got to see some upsets that maybe people didn't g ⁓ didn't expect, and then some games that went exactly as we expected. So it was ⁓ a good weekend at Battle at the Beach. But I'm just ready to talk about it more later. You told me That game with Tampa and Lynn was the Donny Brooke. And then you had seen everything there was to see with Florida Atlantic as well. And and you know, that those guys got upset by Embry Riddle. But ⁓ man, what a time out in Croll Springs. And we're gonna talk to a man that was directly involved with one of those games. In fact, he is now part of the champion Tampa Spartans from the ⁓ three team that took home the battle division trophy. Let's welcome to College Hockey Mouth, Bryce Krause. Bryce, welcome. speaker-3: you guys pleasure being here. It's been ⁓ it's been a crazy great weekend. ⁓ I'm thrilled we won the championship for the c ⁓ for the Ball of the Beach. ⁓ you know very, very exciting. It's our first title for Ball the Beach in program history. ⁓ and just, you know, looking forward to not being done yet with the year. I gotta keep you know, keep keep the steam re just keep on pushing to get to hopefully nationals and keep it keep it good with conference. So we're not done yet. We still got eyes on bigger prizes. So we got work to do still. But yeah it's been a crazy great weekend. I'm you know excited that we speaker-2: Keep rolling and just speaker-3: Took it home. speaker-0: Bryce, it's our pleasure to bring you on this. A lot of people know you for your content. Your team is rolling, but introduce us to to Bryce Cross for people that aren't familiar. Tell us about ⁓ yourself and ultimately how you got into hockey. speaker-3: Yeah, ⁓ so you know, my name is Breath Krause. ⁓ mostly formerly kno mo most formerly known as Bryce K, TikTok, YouTube, all that social media jay. Yeah, I mean, I just been playing hockey my entire life. ⁓ you know, my it started with my dad, who actually is a CEO of Scrub Daddy. So shout out to my dad. He got me into the sport of hockey ⁓ when I was like two years old. I got my first pair of skates and he started training me right from the bat. And you know, he played he played hockey for Syracuse, so but wasn't like any club or ACA back then. It was just like ⁓ you know speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-3: Pretty much wrecked for fun. And he found out that he's I know I came in play. I decided to help, you know, take take in the ⁓ you know the generation of playing hockey in our family. And, you know, my dad started teaching me when I was two years old, started playing, you know, in house league to start when I was younger. ⁓ played travel for, you know, multiple different teams. Didn't ever make it to the triple A level. ⁓ you know, I'm a hockey speaker-2: Crew's been it's been it's been bouncing back and forth in terms of how matters is to speaker-3: You how it's been. But all that all that matters where I'm at now and how hard I've worked to get here and, you know, just been playing for my entire life playing every day to get better. I really didn't the thing is that people don't really understand is that I haven't taken hockey seriously until three years ago when COVID happened, or five years ago about. This actually happened because my other job besides ho hockey is to be, you know, a YouTuber, a content creator. I've always wanted to make videos and there's so much fun to make and entertain people. And you know, I just Kept going from there. I actually didn't even make hockey content back then. I was just, you know, making regular vlogs as ⁓ actually this could be ten year anniversary, November fifth, for starting my own YouTube channel. My old OG channel, that's why I'm bringing the OG vlogs back. And you know, I just started from that and I found out in twenty one I had a video blew up on TikTok. My first ever viral grinding struggling to go viral for on YouTube for years. And then when TikTok started becoming popular, I like, shoot, I gotta like, you know. So I did. ⁓ speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-3: My one hockey video playing double A and sixteen Us in less than a week. Insane. I was like, okay, manage this. You know, I gotta start posting more. So I was like, I just found out, you know, I might as well start making hockey videos. So I trained harder and I practiced harder and I started making great videos to where I'm at now and the cow's like speaker-2: level four point two million views which is I gotta take I take I take an advantage Yeah, I mean just it's just been it's been it's been interesting. So the thing is that, you know, the white speaker-3: But also the reason why I've been training my hardest out to, you know, get better at the sport is because social media, you know, people do, you know, judge, people do hate and that's okay. It just 'cause, you know, I wasn't fully trying to, you know, to a level I'm at now with just because of that. I still wanted, you know, make vet better videos and, you know, show people that, you know, it's possible to go from eighteen UA to juniors to college. It's possible to do anything you want as long as you put your mind to it. ⁓ and I just, you know I played, you know, junior Last year for UT. ⁓ and you know, just kept making videos and I started getting better because I realized, you know, it's a cool journey to inspire people that, you know, it's possible to do what you can as long as you put your heart and mind to it. And I like, Yeah, I'm just gonna keep pushing. I'm gonna keep running and I'm at now, I'm at I'm at the odds level and then Kalazaki South, my second year, and I'm on a roll this year so far, and so is our team. speaker-0: Yeah, and you mentioned obviously where you are now, college hockey south, playing U T. What drew you to Florida from New Jersey and to play at U Tampa? speaker-2: To be fair, a lot of and to be facts, you know, stating facts, a lot of people I've not a lot of peoples people at Utapa are from Jersey, which is crazy. You'll ask someone from Utapa that's They'll be like from Jersey. So I'm like I'm blending in right there. speaker-3: There and it wasn't even just that. It was just that's a funny part of, you know, going to to the school in Florida, a lot of people from Jersey and like you know, New York and Long Island. I just, you know, I was taking, you know, what college to go to for film as my major is film. So I'm studying film and you know the arts. And I found Utab hockey and they, you know, reached out to me. I was like, you know, you wanna come like try out, you wanna come like take a look at us, you know, how you wanna come there the program? I was like, Yeah, for sure, I would love to. This is when I, you know, played Hershey Cubs, ⁓ senior year of high school, I actually moved to Hershey, stayed in my apartment ⁓ for the ⁓ for the s for most of the season, not the whole school year. I went back to my high school in March when, you know, the season ended. ⁓ and actually this is not my first rodeo being in an apartment 'cause I'm actually in my single apartment right now, off campus, which is great. And so I, you know, have the responsibility of being by myself and, you know, taking th taking care of things. And, you know, that's how, you know, real man should do it. And, you know, yeah, I just, you know, played juniors. Wasn't wasn't the greatest season. Had to brush it off. Things happen. You know, we all have our moments. And, you know, just wanted to bounce back and find a the light at the end of the tunnel somewhere. So I found New Tampa. And then I was like, yeah, I'm I'm gonna definitely, you know, try out for them, see if I make the team. I made the team, freshman year. ⁓ first couple games hockey, it's my you know, it was AU, so it was my you know, debut, Kalataki debut, I should say. More on a swap greatest debut. You probably saw my YouTube videos. Hard start until the third game. speaker-2: Wasn't great, you know kind of keep my head trouble. It wasn't the great I was using two videos. It's it's been a hard speaker-3: And in the third game, I got my first ever goal. And not just my first college hockey goal, my first college hockey hat trick, which was insane. And that's actually going to be a year ago already, which is unbelievable. I don't know how time flew that quick, but it's crazy. But anyways, focus on the future now. And here I am, you know, second year, and I got six points in six games so far. So keep it keep the train rolling and I'm just gonna not stop right now. I'm gonna keep going. And the team is is rolling, so let's keep going. speaker-1: ⁓ I just wanna say really quick, I love your mindset. I think it's so good. I'm loving the positivity that's coming from you. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with like your team. How's the culture of Utampa hockey? speaker-3: We're very positive, very like motivating, ⁓ like highlighting culture. We we always have that one mindset and multiple mindsets, I should say. When our coach ⁓ introduced us to when I was at my f first meetings freshman year, ⁓ we had, you know, a a team meeting, you know, to welcome like an orientation. And our coach is like, we have that one goal and we wanna win the national championship. We wanna become national champions and we wanna get that job done. It takes ⁓ game by game, day by day, practice by practice. Every moment on and off the ice, it's a team effort. And I believe he really said, I believe we can get that done. And I was like, Yeah, I agree too. The whole team agreed. ⁓ we were so close last year for our D three team. ⁓ D two SA, D two AU. We made the semifinals and unfortunately lost. But at least the D one team for AU last year stuck home the the national championships. So shout out to the D one team, D two, Acha now for becoming the national championships. Champions? I know why I keep saying championships. National champions. But I'm glad they ⁓ they got the job done. Same mojo happened with them, ⁓ same motivation. And we're looking to do that for Dacha this year as well. And hopefully college hockey south. But yeah, we wanna become better. We wanna become better hockey players, we wanna become better as a team and we just wanna, you know, keep winning. And we wanna keep pushing ourselves to do better. That's all. speaker-1: think that we had a little talk earlier about Ratchet Club hockey life, you know, like not having refs and stuff. You were there for the Clearwater Ice Arena sprinkler incident. How was that? speaker-2: ⁓ it was it was crazy. It was definitely something to ⁓ to speaker-3: be a part of. I was out there, it was the third year we were playing Emmy Riddle, it was Macha debut and first, you know, sophomore year game. And it was two to one and we ac you know, it was a close game. I felt bad, you know, that I mean if the spring wouldn't happen speaker-2: So you speaker-3: You know, it would have been you know, it would could have been a different game, but then one of the players in Ember and it hit sprinkler when I was out there on my shift soaked and I was like, ⁓ my come come on. At least I got good content. So I'll take the content. That was definitely fun to make videos off of, you know, taking two hundred thousand views from that moment. You know, Acha reposted it, hockey house podcast posted it. I think you guys posted it too. It was pretty cool. Yeah, it was just speaker-2: And my teammate got s like and that just paused speaker-3: It was funny. ⁓ but you know, it happens sometimes, but doesn't really always happen like that. But that was definitely interesting. speaker-0: Last year at the ⁓ Battle at the Beach, you had your video went viral with the ⁓ carbon monoxide poisoning, you know, this past year or this year of course, the the sprinkler system and now like, dude, like you've seen pretty much everything there is now to to incorporate Acha hockey. How do you, you know, relate that to the content you make and seeing what the league is and and you know, club hockey is college hockey, how does that dictate what you have for content and how do you spark ideas from what you've seen now? The past year and a half in the league. speaker-3: Yeah, I mean there's been, you know, really good moments. There's been very, you know, funny accidental moments like the gas leak and speaker-2: The sprinkler. Most of my content it speaker-3: ⁓ but yeah, I mean not all of it is pretty much, you know, game day footage or like you know, ⁓ aside my short form videos like TikTok and Instagram Reels or Shorts on YouTube. It's mostly just like ⁓ you know, right off the right off the bat, ⁓ posting videos from the game day game day videos, like a whole vlog on game day. I've just vlogged the entire game day, whether it's a home game or a road trip. And I just, you know, I get mic'd up. It's very fun. I love to throw chirps and that's just part of the game. It's ⁓ not like part of hockey. I love it. speaker-2: Games. I don't get tripped a lot too. It's all fun and speaker-3: I love the competition. But it just we off the spot. I just think speaker-2: Most think about these ideas sometimes, but most of the times, like for example from a nice light game. speaker-3: Like the gas leak, ⁓ the car last year, last battle of the beach, I was like, Yeah, this is a great idea for for content. I'm just gonna edit this together and I was like, Yeah, we'll just post it. And I went viral as well on Instagram and TikTok. ⁓ and especially YouTube, my long form videos have been doing pretty good. ⁓ and you know, especially this year with the sprinkler it was definitely ⁓ funny, but it was definitely, you know, another idea I just had to get out there. So it was cool. But most of these things are just accidental and they just happen. ⁓ and I just felt like ⁓ the idea that you know putting speaker-0: Mother. And so you mentioned the different types of content that you put out, long form, short form. What is your favorite type of content that you've gotten to put out in your college hockey career? speaker-3: Well, the bet my favorite is probably in terms of what does better reviews and engagement. Yeah, short form videos crush the YouTube long videos. But the long term long term YouTube videos, the long form content gets a really good amount of views. For example, my hat trick video got like ten thousand views. ⁓ you know, I'm also monetizing YouTube, so it's cool, you know, a little side hustle. Let's make some, you know, money off that. ⁓ you know, I just it's pretty much YouTube I wouldn't say like a full time job, but it's it's just like a part time job, you know, just a little side hustle to make, you know, some money and it's cool just, you know, to work for that and speaker-2: It's speaker-3: It's like a personal career, it's like my own business, it is my brand, and it's like Bryce K is my thing, you know. So I just you know speaker-2: Long term videos do better if you know speaker-3: No, most money and engagement in terms of like making money off it. But you I get paid on YouTube shorts as well. ⁓ but you know, obvious and TikTok but like ⁓ in terms of the views on short form content, they do crush the long term views for sure. speaker-0: wanna ask you man, ⁓ you know, the editing style you do, like what do you ⁓ think like would be like a long term goal? Like if you wanna do YouTube and stuff, like where do you see the content going from here and what's your ultimate dream with that? speaker-3: Yeah, I mean, I'm probably not gonna be making the NHL at this point. I understand the fact that I accept that fact. ⁓ not going pro at this point, but I I'm very thrilled and excited to be part of the club college level. And you know, just ⁓ I might play overseas just for fun, just for like more content, or I might play my own team or I might hang ⁓ up and just, you know, keep making videos as a hockey influencer. I just wanna be a no hockey influencer. Like, you know, a lot of hockey influencers right now, ⁓ you know, I I just realize that most of them aren't playing pro anymore. It's not true that most of them are, but it's just, you know, I see them, you know, doing their own thing, like their own brand, and that's just one I wanna do. ⁓ even though I know people think I'm taking it really seriously. So making it to, you know, this level. I probably I understand my time sadly isn't gonna last too long. I got like less than two years or two and a half years left and you know, I just wanna make the best of that moment possible. But I wanna become like a sports videographer and, you know, like a full time editor for someone. I just wanna just, you know. Showcase my other half of my talent in my life besides hockey. And that's just who I am. ⁓ speaker-1: Along with the hockey thing. I think you've been doing a great job. Me personally, I love the videos. Bryce K all the way, big dog. Go. I know. It's so great. But you've built a really strong following as a hockey influencer. So what was it that inspired you to start creating content? 'Cause I know that you said that you're like a film major, but what what was it that like staffed you into it? speaker-2: Well for hockey content it was just speaker-3: 'Cause you know, ⁓ I've been playing hockey my whole life and I also made videos when I was very young. Just like this were fun vlogs, like I said, on YouTube. I started out as YouTuber. ⁓ didn't even get a hundred subscribers until like well, I started twenty fifteen, November fifth, ten years almost ten years is crazy. And you know, it's twenty sixteen I hit my first hundred, so it took a year to get hundred subscribers. I didn't even get to a thousand until twenty nineteen, which is crazy. It's been that's how long I've been just working for and you know so you know YouTube algorithm, just it's it's interesting, you know, but it's cool how you can sometimes figure it out. But sometimes there's areas where you need to just like, you know, think about what to change and what the content what no niche of content to change. And so I was like, Yeah, I'm just making regular vlogs, like challenges, skits, pranks until like twenty one. In COVID, I made a bunch of skits with my friends that were funny. Until then, I just, you know, found out why not put a sport into this? Why not make hockey videos? I was like, All right, let's do it. And I started, you know, posting videos in speaker-2: twenty twenty twenty. speaker-3: late twenty twenty, twenty twenty one for hockey content and I found my love for making those videos and I was like, Let's keep doing it. And I saw like the inspiration of, you know, all the hockey influencers around me with millions of followers. I was like, I wanna take I want to take in, you know, to that one day and I was like, Yeah, here I am. And it's it's crazy how much I've grown in over three years or five years of, you know, really taking hockey videos seriously. I managed to grow up to home over a hundred thousand followers combined. And it's really cool, you know, just how that, you know, happens. And I just wanna keep doing it. And so I just really found my love for this niche of hockey and I wanna keep doing speaker-1: Well, congratulations on the one hundred thousand. I didn't know it was that big. So good job on that. speaker-2: Thank you so much. speaker-0: Bryce, you know, we're we're talking about your content, which is awesome in the vlogs. We love ⁓ For your team and the battle at the beach performance you guys put on, that is quite the impressive wins you had over Lynn and then, you know, at the game two with ⁓ Embry Riddle. How do you assess how your team did a battle at the beach? ⁓ you got a couple assists in there. First championship I saw you posted in a while for you. So ⁓ how good does it feel to get on ⁓ the ice and and win that tournament? speaker-3: Yeah, I mean our team is very, you know, great culture. Like I said before. ⁓ I personally, even though it's even though this is a team game and I want everything to be about the team only. And that's no obviously there's no I team. So you know, I don't wanna, you know, people think that I'm just, you know, 'cause I posted me snapping my ⁓ six year drive out of the championship. That's true. But I'm glad that me and the boys w won the trophy, brought it home, and you know, had so much fun, you know, celebrating with it and it was just it was great. But also, you know, I was just like it was it was a dominant weekend. We had a dominant weekend. Like we really we really showed the contender that we can be, especially later in the season, February, March when, you know, nationals and conference playoffs hit. Like we we got this. Like we are on a roll right now, but we gotta like I was telling the boys, we gotta s we gotta keep this going. We can't stop now. Every game I I play, whether I'm starting, scratch, or playing, I'm like, Yeah, guys, we we are not we can't stop now. We won't stop now. I motivate the team, gotta keep rolling. Yeah, we we have like, you know, upset losses here and there. It happens. Like for example, we did take our first loss to U Miami at home. It happens. It's we brush it off and got back to taking care of business the next game we won that game. So we even the series with them. And then we came to Battle of the Beach and we we definitely did our best. We went so dominant and you know, especially against Lynn and that and those were some physical, crazy games, you know. And I was like, Yeah, we we definitely we definitely showed who we are. speaker-0: Yeah, and you guys obviously we saw a dominant battle at the beach. You talked about it when ERAU, not even close wins, pretty much just blew the game wide open, coasting in the third period. But you guys have a big series this weekend taking on USF. And this is a matchup I've been waiting for. You guys are sitting one point behind USF, so this is a big weekend. What is the mindset for the team coming off of Battle at the Beach and heading into arguably one of the biggest series of the season? speaker-3: Yeah, I mean, ⁓ it's definitely gonna be an absolute battle. It's gonna be a war and you know, we know what USF has to handle and we just gotta stay true to our game and keep focused on on what we can do. You know, whether we're playing, you know, a team with the a losing record or might not be as skilled as USF, or is a really contender with us. Just it doesn't matter that we play the same way we treat everyone else. We just gotta keep, you know, playing the same game that we play. speaker-2: We're playing US F. speaker-3: And we can't just take it light work like light w like lightheaded. We can't play like that. We gotta play, you know, tough, aggressive. And yes, it's definitely it's fun. The Battle of Tampa. It's it's definitely a cinema. It's definitely cinema. It's great. It's gonna be great for a video too. So stay tuned for the video again. That's gonna be cool. We're playing Halloween. So coming up Friday, we just gotta lock in and we gotta keep it grinding here. And we can't look we can't get cool now. We gotta stay hot. So speaker-1: Yeah. Really quick, do you have any Halloween plans? Do you have any costumes planned out? speaker-2: Don't really have a costume planned out. ⁓ speaker-3: ⁓ if you But I would rather keep it hockey or late 'cause you know, that'd be fun. Maybe I can just figure it out. speaker-2: Well you know, mostly I speaker-1: Not gonna come into the rink like full like face paint or anything. speaker-2: Probably not face paint, but I'll probably stuff we do. speaker-3: probably have to and I'll probably do something. I'll definitely do something for a costume. I haven't done a costume in a few years. I've just been myself as a costume. So I've been me. I've been Bryce K, so speaker-0: Rice, we gotta ask, have you ever worn a costume related to Scrub Daddy or anything related to like dishwashing appliances? speaker-3: You're thinking there. We actually are selling Scrub Dye Halloween cost Spirit Halloween now, which is pretty cool. We are yes, we're in Spirit Halloween. speaker-2: Just have me So I'm probably you know, I might as well just do it. I might as well wear the scrub that speaker-3: costume into the rink. So that was actually that idea actually, but so you just got me thinking there. I'll just get a call. speaker-2: Actually might be the best speaker-1: You have to embrace it. speaker-3: I probably will do it. I definitely will do it. And I gotta do it for my dad, you know? You le have a crack at that one. He'll laugh at that one. That'll be fun. speaker-2: Yo diapo speaker-3: Yeah, I mean so. speaker-0: On quickly on that, what impact has your dad made on you? Of course everybody knows him from the Shark Tank pitch and making Scrub Daddy into what it is, but as your dad and how supportive he is, what kind of role has he played in your career and your your decision to go to college? speaker-3: Yeah, I mean, like I he's it started with him and then you I just he just, you know, hanging him up and s wanted to figure out that he wasn't, you know, really w wanted to go pro. Kinda like the same with me when I was younger. He started, you know, taking action in business and that's where he finessed in. That's where he dominated in. Business is his his life right now and he just and entrepreneurship, he just he's the best businessman I've known ever. He's my my dad is just such a true legend to me and he's so supportive. And I want to say thank you to him for everything he's done for me. And he won't every weekend. He's flying down to my games, whether it was at Battle of the Beach or a Way game or home game. He's always there supporting me. Cheering me on, whether I'm scratcher playing. He's here for me and the team. And he loves me and he loves everyone on the team. He's like such a great guy. speaker-2: Stop coming to my games. And ⁓ from from like a while speaker-3: And career wise, you know, he he was the one that really inspired me to make the juniors and keep pushing it. Like I was younger, I wasn't really I just ⁓ I get like it's in my story, I just didn't listen to him. I should have. Now I realize I really damn I w I wanted to go to NHL. Like damn, I really wanted to, you know, take it seriously when I was younger. And it's a little bit late now that I realize. Obviously nothing's impossible. Everything's possible as long as you put a mind to But he really wanted to meet he w he really wanted me to go to NHL, especially 'cause we're f big Philadelphia Flyers fans. He's huge f diehard Flyers fan. And, you know, he wanted Flyers, he wanted me to be in the show. And I was just not that was not me when I was younger. I was like I lacked, you know, the skill because I wasn't taking it seriously. I did not really want to show up to practice. I didn't even want to try. I just I d not that I didn't like the sport of hockey when I was younger, which is surprising. I just didn't take it seriously. I didn't even speaker-2: Play for the fly. speaker-3: Go to my dad wanted me to go to clinics. I kept complaining about it. I like, This is I want this to be over ready. I want I clinics. I don't want to skate anymore. I just wanna, you know, do my thing and play video games and make other videos, not this stuff. And that's where I that's where the regret and remorse comes in now. I'm like But I don't regret being the college level now, but I'm like, damn, if I really took it seriously when I'm younger, if I looked back now, I would have probably made the NHL or w at least would have made a minor level, like a minor league semi pro level. ⁓ but I'm proud proud to be where I'm at now he speaker-2: It is to a speaker-3: He got me into playing the juniors from eighteen UA, which is crazy. I went from the lowest level to making it possible when I got called up middle s mid season in twenty twenty three to play for the Philadelphia Low Flyers when EHL premiere. And I was like, I mean my dad's like, You got this, BK. You you this is an opportunity. If you want to take it, it's definitely a big jump. It's very big transition from what you're playing now. And it's it's up to you if you want to take this this risk or want to take this opportunity. I'm like speaker-2: Travel. speaker-3: I did I thought about it for a second and this was actually when I was still making videos. I was like, All right, I'll do it. And I was like, I got this and I played juniors. ⁓ I got my in my debut in the EHL premiere. I got my first assist in my first shift, ⁓ which was pretty cool. After that I got a cold streak and I didn't even get any points in ten games I played. I had decent play really good playing time, ⁓ playing for them. And then in the I actually got injured for first of all, I got injured ⁓ in Connecticut and he was this is how much he supports me. speaker-2: Playoffs. speaker-3: He was freaking out in the middle of the night. He was across the country in Asia for business. I got injured on live broadcast. He watches it. He's watching the broadcast. He like that's how much he loves me. He so he supports me. He's watching the broadcast. He's like calling me. He spam called me about a hundred times. I got like knocked out on the ice and I had my teeth chipped. I got I got straight speaker-2: Are you okay? Are you okay? 'Cause I speaker-3: the head and I was out. ⁓ and yeah, it was I was on the ground for like good ten minutes on ice I say. He so worried. I'm like that. I'm all right. It's it's that was my welcome to juniors. And yeah, he just I know I'll keep talking about it. I know I keep talking a little too much, but it just you know, it's just great to talk about how much he loves and supports me. speaker-0: And we're thankful you're part of it, Bryce. We've got some lightning round questions for you, so just quick fire, rapid, as quick as you can answer. we're gonna rip ⁓ off here. We gotta know what what's the pre game. speaker-2: Hello. speaker-3: Well, pasta with chicken. That's pretty much my meal. I just gotta have some protein in there and you know, probably some good rigatoni pasta. Not too not too crazy with sauce. Just, you know, something, you know, protein wise, carbs, maybe have a banana, something good, you know, and I'm going on the ice, I'm locked in. speaker-1: Yeah, potassium. All right. Go to pump up song. speaker-2: ⁓ that's a if I were to probably go somewhere speaker-3: Tough one. If I were to more besides rap, 'cause my favorite genre is always rap and a lot of kids love rap, my teammates love rap. ⁓ I'll be enter sandman. That's a that's a that's a fire ⁓ that's a fire like go crazy. Yes, it's a classic rock song and it gets me fired up every game. speaker-2: What's that good pump up song? speaker-0: Can't go wrong with Metallica. Now I gotta ask, and this is a kind of a crazy question, but what is your best chirp you've heard or delivered on the ice? speaker-2: This one this one I actually and I so far it was last year. speaker-3: Just got me thinking last year and I was much before it I was outside for the Buffalo ⁓ classes like in Niagara. We played them Niagara University in Buffalo, New York last December, my freshman year. I got shoved into the front of the net cross check from if you guys probably speaker-2: my so probably some my videos are cool. And ⁓ we were if you're speaker-3: Yeah, the kids were like I was in a brawl basically on his I was You're so stuff. That wasn't my chirp. ⁓ until the kid me it's fun, it's part of hockey, you know. And I literally said to them, or the kid I was talking to, kid you know, call me out, call me out, call me out. I was like, You might know me, but I'll know you. So a little, you know, little crazy chirp, but you know, it's part of the game, you know. It's all love. It's fun. But that's just what, you know, a little chirp I said. But 'cause he's like, He's who are you? speaker-2: Kids like you're awful d there's ch you know 'cause speaker-3: So I all right. speaker-0: I think I remember actually seeing that video. So I do remember seeing the Mike Dub video of that church. speaker-3: Yeah, I did post it on Instagram too, a little readel. And ⁓ yeah, it was it was definitely ⁓ definitely that was a heated game. And then we played them in nationals, and that was heated too. But yeah, I love those heated games. I love, you know, titling my videos heated to that. It just shows how much of a battle we play these games. It takes a lot. So yeah, it was fun. But mostly I don't don't really like chirp too much, but I've been more awake now since I'm in the college level and you know, kids are going to chirp me 'cause I for who I am. speaker-2: I don't know speaker-3: It's all love, like I said. It's just fun, it's part of the game. But I was just like you know in personally I'm not as a hockey player, I'm not really a big chirp guy, even though I get Mike Duff reads. I'm just I'm more of a just guy who's quiet on the ice and does my thing and I play my game. I stay true to my game and help my teammates out. I'm not really a big enforcer or talker. That's all. speaker-0: If you weren't playing hockey, what sport would you dominate? Hm. speaker-3: ⁓ that's that's tough. I did play lacrosse for high school and I did play lacrosse well, lacrosse for high school. I played baseball for one year in senior year high school. ⁓ you guys might have seen my baseball, you know, funny highlight. I was playing for just one year in senior year ⁓ for AM Academy or high school in PA and they just called me as like, you know, do you wanna be on a baseball team? Like speaker-2: That that's that's tough, but ⁓ What? Baseball? I don't know if I'll be good at that. So the reason why I would just join speaker-3: I like, all right, I'll go for but the reason baseball, 'cause my hockey shot power, is because I would just want to be a DH, you designated hitter. And I was like, Yeah, I'll just go for the swing. That's it. If I strike out, if I just crush a ball, then yeah, I'm here for it. I'm not really good at defense or out in the outfield or anything. But yeah, I got a I got a basically home run my first time ever at bat. I went two and two and then I s I got a triple. I smashed it with my hockey power and yeah, it was a crazy game. I have it on my highlights too. It was it was cool, but I did play lacrosse for high school see and All four years of high school. I actually was pretty gross at the cross. That's kinda similar to high school, but not fully. ⁓ I'd say it's pretty brutally physical too. ⁓ it's definitely rough. No, especially you can slash a lot better instead of, you know, in hockey you just you're in the box for that. But ⁓ yeah, definitely ⁓ definitely physical too. That's why I like the cross for high school. I it's very physical and it's very fun, fast paced. I actually had some insane highlight goals and you know, our senior year we upset we actually went winless for f all my years, so we actually were not really good. speaker-2: Okay. speaker-3: But we were private school. We weren't really like playing with like big p public schools or like in a real big league. We only had like four teams or five teams in the league. We went ⁓ and five, ⁓ and six, ⁓ and eight, junior, senior year. I came back from Hershey after juniors and I was like, Yeah, I'm not not gonna stop playing sports now. So I was like, I'm playing ⁓ for high school one more year, finishing out senior year, playing lacrosse and I had like six goals in the year and then we we made the playoffs. I was like, shoot. I don't know if we're gonna do anything now, but I told my team like we just we got this. We have to keep like I said, that mentality I have for hockey, had it give it to the cross. I like, Yeah, we got this. Let's let's upset some teams here. And we upset the number one seed school and our first ever win in program history, which is crazy. But we got our first win, my first win four years. Yeah, and we made it to the championship. Unfortunately lost the championship. It's on my YouTube. ⁓ but that just gave me more fuel and hunger to put that in the hockey. So that's where I won my championship this past weekend. So I took all my anger and my fuel motivation and put it to hockey and here I am. speaker-0: Do you have any like ⁓ like like things you do, like hobbies that people don't know about? speaker-2: I wouldn't say much going on for me besides hockey content. speaker-3: But I do love pickleball. So I do play a little bit of, you know, another s fun side sport I should say. I'm really good at pickleball. ⁓ you know, play on the course here in Tampa. They're fun. ⁓ there's a beautiful court at the riverfront and you know, I'm playing my friends, my ex roommate. So yeah, we're really good friends still. And yeah. Pick pickleball's another cool sport I dominate in. speaker-2: No I've playing for like six months. speaker-3: But ⁓ I did post a pickleball tournament video on my YouTube. ⁓ yeah, besides content and life, that's all. That's all I'm focused on. speaker-0: Bryce, it was a pleasure talking with you, man. A lot going on. We look forward to seeing ⁓ you and the Tampa team continue your season and keep up the great post, man. We we love the content and ⁓ keep being you, keep being original, man. Thanks for coming on the pod. speaker-3: Thank guys so much. I really appreciate your time. It's an honor to be here. First Kill the way. speaker-1: Thank you. speaker-2: There you speaker-0: That was a fun interview with Bryce K. Guys, what a ball. We got we got an absolute ⁓ chorus here. We got ⁓ Ricky Bobby, Jason Voorhees, and ⁓ hello from Smurfland, guys. ⁓ golly, ⁓ Halloween's ripping this year. ⁓ Lizzie, I love the movie Talladega Nights. Great job with the Wonder Bread suit. Thank speaker-1: Thank you. It's so great. I love it. I I got a positive on. So we've got there's Gabby heavily breathing into the microphone. Holy speaker-0: So we ⁓ It's my bad. I it I'm wearing a Jason mask right now. What do you expect? speaker-1: Yeah well I have sideburns on, so what do you expect, huh? Moment of silence for this. speaker-0: He's also got the jersey. Like the double points for the jersey. For he's on the back. Very good. Let's go. I think I've seen that at Walmart a time or two. Thirteen on the sleeve. speaker-1: See them at Spirit Halloween for like a hundred and eighty dollars. speaker-0: This was ⁓ this was sixty bucks. I don't know what spirit of Halloween you're going to, but don't shop there anymore. speaker-1: I don't shop there. I make my own or I get it from a sweatshop. speaker-0: Guys, we ha we are really hoping Bryce will wear this the Scrub Daddy costume by the time this comes out. Cause this is we're recording this Wednesday. So if this comes out the Halloween night, we hope Bryce is wearing the Scrub Daddy costume or whatever he's got with it. and a fun, fun interview. I think what people don't see too is is how dedicated he's talking about, right? With like double timing, ⁓ building content, you guys know like it's not easy. So ⁓ we really commend Bryce for coming on. I really hope our ⁓ our audience liked it as well. Yeah, it was a it was a great interview and you know, you get a you see a lot of Bryce's content and to hear the story behind it and growing up and how his dad was so instrumental in his career as a hockey player and even making content, I think that was my favorite part. speaker-1: I mean my favorite part was just kind of getting to know the the kid 'cause I don't know, I'm used to him being all hype and being like, What's up guys? Blah blah blah. Bryce K all the way, you know? But it was so interesting like hearing all of the instruments behind all of that and all of his thought processes. It's a good kid. It was a good good chip. speaker-0: I love too the the ⁓ side note. You'd think he'd be like a big chirper and I I don't know if that's true. You know, I haven't been on the ice with him, but you know, I'll I'll take his word for it and that ⁓ you know, he he does his own thing. It's showing they're off to a great start, that Tampa team. We're gonna talk about them and more. But we gotta recap the battle at the beach. And guys, what a tournament. Gavin, we are on site for it. So much fun, starting with the Florida and Florida State game, which is our game of the week. ⁓ Man, Florida State controlled the pace of play. They come out on top with a five three dub. And ⁓ we'll get to their championship winning game in a minute. But ⁓ man, Alex Alexander Jensen played phenomenal. Yeah. And that whole team, you know, when we had Ryan Chombre on earlier this year, after Battle of the Beach, you know, we you mentioned they won the championship. I went back to one of the clips we had of him talking about the team and what you could expect, and they backed it up. And it's a big part. To like you mentioned, Alex Jugensen, big game, scoring three goals. I mean, that was that was huge for that team to propel them past one of the strongest teams in ACDC so far this season, based on the amount of games played. I know Florida State recently started their season, so they're a little bit behind in terms of games played, but they came out and showed why they're going to be a tough team this season to beat. Guys, before we get to the rest of these game recaps, gotta rate the jerseys because Battle at the beach, half the appeal is the jerseys, the tropical themes. So I want to go from left to right. Starting with you, Gavin. Rank us your top seven because Florida Atlanta had copies in the M3 and M2 team. Where what did you like most out of the the kits this weekend? All right. I I'm a little untraditional. Most people don't like bold colors on hockey jerseys, but this will be a hot take. Well, actually, maybe not. Lizzie's got the same thing. But ERAU came out with six six sweaters. I mean I love the palm trees and then tying the jets in. I mean, most of those guys playing on the ice are gonna be pilots. So you tie that into getting fighter jets on your jerseys. I don't know. Something about that was different for me. And then we mentioned it last week. Florida Tech with the little T's came out with their jersey, put some stars on ⁓ you know. Those were clean. We we mentioned new jerseys for them. So that was exciting. And this one, this one's also a little bit of a hot take. Florida coming out with something. You don't see too often, I feel like. And those those jerseys were clean, plus their ⁓ jersey reveal, you know, with ⁓ number six sevens, Derek Zelmansky out there. And then FAU coming up with the powder blues and Tampa, we they got new jerseys and this might like be ⁓ groundbreaking news, but their jerseys didn't come in time and they tried to get them on a truck for the championship game and they were gonna be able to switch. mid ⁓ mid game if they got ⁓ but they unfortunately didn't make it in time. And then round out six and seven was FSU and Lynn. FSU, I mean their jerseys are clean. They just d I don't think they came out with a battle of the beach jersey. So that's why they're kind of where they're at. You went down the line the whole way there. ⁓ Lizzie, well y what's your takeaway? 'Cause I I think you got a real opinion on this. I speaker-1: Agree 110% with Gavin for Embry Riddle. I I'm a huge sucker for like dark blue and yellow. I think it's such a solid combo. And again, with the jets, like that's so wicked. FAUs, again, I do like bright colors on jerseys. And it's like the powder blue, I think was cute. Like it's a probably not the right word to describe a a hockey jersey. But I don't know. It kind of served. I liked it. ⁓ let's see. Next, Lynn, I mean I just thought Lens was cool, so I had to put it three. ⁓ then Florida Tech. Florida Tech, I mean, like the deep crimson color. I thought it was kinda cool. I like the little like dot details. FSU, then UF, then Tampa. I will say I did not know about the whole Tampa jersey mishap. I was I was looking at the pictures and I was just like, ⁓ Tampa has the same jerseys. ⁓ so that's the only reason why I put it there because I have not personally seen those yet, but UF, I'm I think I've seen I mean, like in the women's league, I'm used to seeing like orange on Tennessee and stuff. So I j I just like it when colors are spread out more and we have like a bunch of different colorful teams without the like within the league. So that's pretty much the only reason why I put it at six. But I still think I still think that all the jerseys were sick. I think Tampa's were cool too, but I just wasn't sure if there was a difference, which now I know that there wasn't, but I'll have to go and take a look at what they were supposed to be. speaker-0: I'm very similar with that appeal. Like Tampa I still love the black jerseys, so I'm putting them at number two, ⁓ just for the kid alone. Florida Atlantic, and unbiased here. I know I I talk about ⁓ and I'm the you know, doing some of their their knowledge on the team, but like, you know, the powdered blues were sick. I've seen those with Liberty University. Love that color. Tampa two, Florida Tech Three, I I I'm big on this one too, because it's different. You know, the the Florida Tech Gray, they were kind of due for that jersey upgrade and Gavin, we previewed last week. It lived up to the hype. I think the stars on it were awesome considering that they are close to Space University, like UCF. Embury Riddle, four. I don't like how busy the front of the jersey is. I like just a clean logo. But ⁓ the Jets on the side were sick. So I I like them at four. Florida State, I'd say five. Then Lynn. And Florida, I f I feel bad doing this because I really love that team. ⁓ Steve Case built a great program, but like The jerseys were hard to read, man. Like the numbers on the back. I couldn't tell the difference with some of the ⁓ the sixes in there and the sevens. I saw you did that earlier too, Gavin. You didn't you didn't slot. You weren't slick. This is taking over the internet too, and it really frustrates me because there's like three other numbers that I'd rather put above that. But hey, we're I digress. ⁓ solid kits though. Thanks to everybody that participated in the new sweaters this week. Lizzie, when are we getting new USF sweaters? I love your guys' look, but like Are we gonna follow the trend here for like gasparilla? speaker-1: So Gasby, I'm not sure. I know that next season we are getting new like regular season games. So ⁓ Gasby, I'm not sure. We might go with something similar, like with the slime green we had last season, but I know that we have to revamp the logos because of USF club sports rules. They don't want us to like use those logos anymore, which I think kind of sucks because They're cool and I really, really like the jerseys, especially the greens. Like the dark greens are growing on me after looking at all the pictures from Grace Kelly again. Big shout out to her. ⁓ she was one of the photographers at the Columbus Classic. ⁓ but I just got those pictures in and I think that they look really, really nice. ⁓ but I know next season for sure we're getting new light and dark jerseys. So excited for that. But I'm a little antsy too, 'cause I really like the ones we already have. But hopefully that means I get to keep them. So speaker-0: And you mentioned those gasparilla slime green. Maybe ⁓ maybe next year maybe those become regular and you get some glow in the dark like the Kraken did. Get some glow in the dark hockey jerseys. Those are speaker-1: So cool. I saw those. Those are so wicked. I would kill someone for that. Huh. That was a joke 'cause it's Halloween. Maybe it's not, but speaker-0: Fabrero, ⁓ better get on ⁓ glow in the dark hockey jersey train than you are Ricky Bobby, so ⁓ I I wouldn't want to be on the same road as you for the next three days. speaker-1: I am Ricky Bobby. It is me. I have sideburns. That means I'm speaker-0: Him. But I should contradict myself 'cause Ricky Bobby is the greatest driver that ever lived. I digress. I digress. Well, ⁓ part of our game recaps, ⁓ we're gonna rip through these in the bottle of the beach. Tampa took down Lynn. Big Donnie Brook happened in this one, went viral on social media. ⁓ we'll just leave it at that unless Gavin, you got a word about this game. Yeah, I mean we talked to Bryce Kay and he talked about he's not a big chirper, but ⁓ if you've watched that Tampa squad either on a stream in person You know, there's there's some characters. They do a ⁓ I mentioned it last week, do a good job getting under your skin and they did that to Lynn in a big way, you know. Two players were taken out of the game for Lynn and that's a product to that ⁓ that Tampa's team ability to get under your skin and they do it really well and then they put goals to back it up. So yeah, and I think the biggest moment for me in that game was there's a shift where Reagan Lyon gets out there. lays down the body in front of the Tampa bench and then takes the puck and go puts it in the back of the net. So went from physicality to scoring goals. And I mean he was hyped up. I think if I remember correctly, he might have been one of the players. He ended up getting a a ten minute penalty in that game. I could be wrong about that. But yeah, he was ⁓ he was fired up for ⁓ the Spartans in that game. They probably that into ⁓ a championship. On the other side of the bracket, FAU took down Florida Tech. ⁓ six to three, Sam Watson with a hat trick in that way in that game. And ⁓ Braden Curry, our two time star of the week, did not play in either of Florida Tech's games. Hopefully that's not a cause for concern for Panthers fans as we continue on the middle part of the season. FAU and Embry Riddle. This is the ⁓ two versus Embery Riddle, ⁓ three. How about the podcast bump? We're gonna make it known, make it we're gonna acknowledge this, Gavin, okay? Six straight wins this was for the E for the Ice Eagles. They're rolling. They continue to roll. Bob Joyce is our guy. Loving it. Give us your reaction. We mentioned this one could be a physical game last week when we were previewing this. And it really it was a clean physical game. There was one penalty, and that was in the first period. After that, pretty clean hockey. I mean, that's if you want to watch a game as a hockey fan, that's the game to watch. A clean game, both teams going back and forth, doing a really good job of just Laying physical checks down and keeping it clean. No real no real fights, maybe a couple times where a player slid into the net and you they got into a little bit. But ultimately one of the cleanest games that we saw at the tournament. And it came down to the wire. Yeah, it did. And Ember Riddle scored with 36 seconds left. Get the empty netter to seal it. This program has struggled the last couple of years. And to see what they're doing right now is pretty dang special. Hats off to that group on the win on day one. But day two was Just as exciting, right? We had some third place games go on. Florida Tech and played ⁓ Florida ACDC. ⁓ the Gators get a bounce back winning that six to one and really dominated puck possession throughout. FAU M2 and Lin got their rivalry game. FAU expectedly won six to nothing, and Rico Bruno got another shutout on the year. Good to see for him considering he's had a couple of tough games with Tampa a couple weeks ago and then that Embry Riddle loss. Christian Cuccia arrived, two goals for the former M3 player of the year. Florida State and FAU M3. Now, the championship on the beach division side, congrats to Ryan Chombre and the Seminoles in that. And he scored the final two goals, including the game winner with one fifty-one left in the second. Just at a a pronounced ⁓ game. And you know what? We were talking about jerseys. I thought this was actually the best jersey matchup, one of the best we got all weekend. Yeah. And Florida State FAU was exciting. I mean, it was a good matchup. You know, we t I mentioned it earlier. Ryan Chombray said this is what we were gonna get from this team is winning big games, winning championships, bringing trophies home. And they've delivered on it. It's an early season, but they delivered early. And you know their sights are set way higher than this, but this is a great way for that team to start and back up the talk that they've ⁓ they've already put out there. They talked to talk, but now I've walked the walk. Florida State rolling ⁓ to a victory in the battle at the beach. And guys, first time ever we've had a champion, not Florida Atlantic. I think that's pretty exciting for the whole conference. Embry Riddle in Tampa. Boy, what a dominant game from the Spartans. Rice K mentioned it, right? Their team threw down in this. ⁓ I mean, Gerard Keane was the only goalscorer for Embry Riddle, considering that Eddie Zane had a bit of a goaltending. Ms. Happen, Gavin, I think you can talk all about this because you called this game. Gerard Keane scored with twenty seven seconds left in the second and he ended up sliding into Eddie Zane. So that's how the goal happened. He got it between Eddie Zane's ⁓ legs and then slid into Zane. And ultimately Eddie Zane, you know, most of the time a team will defend their goalie. Eddie Zane took to doing it himself, threw a punch, and if you look at the score sheets, you know, that's a automatic game right there. So they threw him out and it didn't matter for the Spartans. Luke N came in and ⁓ one of the highlights of this game honestly was ⁓ Tampa Spartan tried to block a goal by throwing their stick. And if you know hockey rules, that's a that's a penalty and that's a penalty shot. And so Jake McCaw gets a penalty shot and Luke N, who this isn't his first two minutes of being on the ice. He sat down for forty minutes, comes out, makes a big penalty shot save. So it was an interesting one. I mean, obviously ERAU didn't have Ian Holland who dressed in the first game of the tournament. He didn't dress in the second. So not sure if something happened there, but Tampa ended up taking that one six one and just it was a clinic on both ends of the ice by the Spartans. Lizzie, gotta be wild to see just how many Donnie Brooks we had out of this. Like you'd think a tournament game people were gonna lock in, but like God, like it seemed like every game we had a little kerfuffle. speaker-1: Personally, I love kerfuffles. If you've seen my record, you know I love kerfuffles. Crazy word to use for that, by the way. ⁓ But yeah, I mean I like when things get a little bit dirty. I love watching like dirt goals when you're out in the front and just messing around and pissing people off and then it just goes in and everybody's like, How the hell did that happen? ⁓ so I was a big fan. Love this tournament. I didn't watch any of the games all the way through. I saw a lot of highlights though. ⁓ big fan of the highlight reels. Pretty wicked. I'm sure that Bryce K will have a bunch of stuff coming out, so I'll be binging all that. ⁓ but yeah, wicked job boys, nice ⁓ going, awesome jerseys. ⁓ kudos to all the designers for that. speaker-0: Yeah. Thank you all so much for listening and watching this week's episode of College Hockey Mouth, a College Hockey South series. We'll see you all next week. Have a good one.