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Seg 2 - MHOC Show w Coach Cav · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Bear Smokeouse Barbecue. It is the Yukon
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  Speaker 1: Men's he Ice Hockey Coaches Show. I'm your host, Bob
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  Speaker 1: Joyce with head coach Mike Cavan. Adam's got hoops tonight,
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  Speaker 1: so it's just me and Cavin. I think I'm solo Friday.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first of our coaches shows for the
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  Speaker 1: second half. Our next one will be the twentieth, which
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  Speaker 1: is a Tuesday here at Bears because we've got women's
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  Speaker 1: basketball and Notre Dame on the nineteenth. Next hockey broadcast
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  Speaker 1: is Friday. We've got Yukon and the UMAs Lowell.
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  Speaker 2: Is that game at in our name or that Oh
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  Speaker 2: that's stores stores yep, so we've got that. But it's
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  Speaker 2: a five o'clock start, so it can't be two places
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  Speaker 2: at once. Your hockey team continues to play well. What
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  Speaker 2: impressed you most about the guys coming off the break
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  Speaker 2: when they come back to campus. When did they get
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  Speaker 2: back by the way for the first game.
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  Speaker 3: On the on the thirty.
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  Speaker 4: First We practiced on the twenty seventh was our first practice,
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  Speaker 4: so most of them came back on the twenty sixth.
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  Speaker 4: There was a storm though that night. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you remember, so we Ryan Town and Owen Simpson
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  Speaker 4: didn't make it back on time, so they missed practice
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  Speaker 4: on the twenty seventh, but we're able to get them
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  Speaker 4: in here late in the afternoon on the twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 4: and they got three practices.
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  Speaker 3: In okay, and then you come away with a good
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  Speaker 3: effort here.
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  Speaker 1: What was the biggest message to your guys when they
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  Speaker 1: went for the break, when they went away, when they
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  Speaker 1: got ready for exams, and then they go away for Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was to just you know, go home,
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  Speaker 4: enjoy the time with your family and your friends, and recharge,
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  Speaker 4: reset and come back ready to tackle, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: second half. Because you know, I tell the players all
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  Speaker 4: the time, the Men's League boot begins in January. It's
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  Speaker 4: a completely different you know, the games just are a
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  Speaker 4: lot more intense, They mean a lot more. And when
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  Speaker 4: teams are playing for a playoff spot or position, you know,
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  Speaker 4: home ice, not having a go on the road, the
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  Speaker 4: games just are more intense and they mean more. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, right now we're in also in the mix
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  Speaker 4: of you know, trying to stay involved with the national
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  Speaker 4: tournament as well. You know, that's just all numbers. So
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  Speaker 4: you have to win your games, and your NPI numbers
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  Speaker 4: got to be you know, if you want to guarantee
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  Speaker 4: that you're going to be in that national tournament, you've
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  Speaker 4: got to be in the top twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what does that look like right now? How does
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  Speaker 1: this new system work? And how do you guys stand?
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  Speaker 1: Because I remember last year during the holidays, I was
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  Speaker 1: in North Carolina. I decided to say, let's see where
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  Speaker 1: they are in the pair wise, and then it's like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, this is doable with what was coming up,
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  Speaker 1: and you took off. Are you in that same good
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  Speaker 1: spot now where you take care of your business?
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  Speaker 3: You'd be all right?
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I think we're fifteen right now. However, you know, if
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  Speaker 4: we had won the Stonehill game, we'd be eleven. You know,
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  Speaker 4: So it's still very volatile right now. It's we're in
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  Speaker 4: a good spot. We just have to continue to play
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  Speaker 4: well and win our games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: True, You've got you Massolow coming up this weekend. Health Wise,
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  Speaker 1: you lost to Houston Cartman to a torn acl You
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  Speaker 1: bring in a young man named Carter Sproll comes out
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  Speaker 1: of Grand Forks, North Dakota, played some time in the
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  Speaker 1: North American Hockey League six three, two oh seven.
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  Speaker 3: What can it tell us about this young man?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was certainly a late ad, but he was
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  Speaker 4: playing in the North American League. He was playing for Watertown.
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  Speaker 4: He's a big, strong kid. He's a diligent player, really smart,
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  Speaker 4: plays two hundred feet and you know, I've only seen
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  Speaker 4: him now for about a week, but I have he's
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  Speaker 4: been impressing me each day that he's on the ice.
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  Speaker 4: I was telling our staff today that he really plugged
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  Speaker 4: in when it comes to drills. And for a kid
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  Speaker 4: that is so new to our program and doesn't really
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  Speaker 4: know our systems or how we're going to play, he's
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  Speaker 4: adapted very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: How old is he is? He is twenty years old.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so he's your typical incoming freshman from junior hockey.
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  Speaker 1: Then all right, no, that's good. Health wise. How you
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  Speaker 1: doing health wise team wise?
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  Speaker 4: Right now? Okay, yeah, knock on wood, we're okay right now.
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  Speaker 4: So the break, with the exception of Houston, who's out
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  Speaker 4: for the season, right now, I think we're in pretty
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  Speaker 4: good shape.
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  Speaker 3: So Trey at the time, did Trey Scott some good?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it did everybody good. I think
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  Speaker 4: it did, you know, even Joey got a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks rest before you had to go play over in
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  Speaker 4: the Spangler Cup.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a real, real good success.
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  Speaker 1: They played some pro teams across the pond, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess what their best finished ever, they finished playing the championship.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's the first time they've ever played the college
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  Speaker 4: select team. So okay, it's the tournament's been going on
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  Speaker 4: for a long time. However, this is the first time
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  Speaker 4: we sent a team of college players and they lost
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  Speaker 4: in the final. They had a great showing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure and I think Joey had an
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  Speaker 1: assist in the first game that they played.
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  Speaker 3: What are some of the with some of the feedback
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  Speaker 3: that he gave you on the experience. It was a
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  Speaker 3: great experience.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the crowds were excellent, you know, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Switzerland's a beautiful country, Davos is a spectacular area. The
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  Speaker 4: rink was He loved the rank, the crowds. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's a very well run and in respected tournament, and
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  Speaker 4: I think it was It would be a it's a
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  Speaker 4: lifetime experience for him mm hm.
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  Speaker 3: And you might see some payoff later on, right.
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  Speaker 4: I hope.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we met, you mentioned Cayden, and we did talk
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  Speaker 1: about Cayden. He probably has taken I'm sure a few
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  Speaker 1: other guys have taken significant jumps from freshman to sophomore year.
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  Speaker 3: You've talked about this, Joey did it last year. Where
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  Speaker 3: have you seen Caden's game get better?
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  Speaker 4: I just think he feels a lot more comfortable playing
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  Speaker 4: within our system. He Uh, He's always had great speed,
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  Speaker 4: he's got great compete, he shoots the puck extremely well.
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  Speaker 4: And now he's playing I say all the time, the
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  Speaker 4: really good players can play without thinking. You know, they
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  Speaker 4: think without thinking, if that makes sense. He's not don't think,
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  Speaker 4: just playing, just he's just playing. And his two line mates,
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  Speaker 4: he's had a lot of chemistry with Des and Blazer,
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  Speaker 4: and like I said, they were by far I thought
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  Speaker 4: our best line uh Saturday down to Long Island.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they have played really well all year. I
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  Speaker 1: mean they have a nice chemistry, those three. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Kan had a good, good chemistry with the Ethans last year.
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  Speaker 1: Right now he's taken these two under their wing and
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  Speaker 1: just taking it to a different level.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And you know the Ethans now playing with Mike
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  Speaker 4: Murtag who's taken his game to another level as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so he's been playing lights out hockey for us, and
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  Speaker 4: we've moved him to center, and he's done a nice
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  Speaker 4: job on the dot for us as well.
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  Speaker 1: What about the veterans, Tats obviously still putting up good numbers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Tristan, I mean the goal he's scored against Merrimac.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is the one that made it four
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  Speaker 1: or five two. Yeah, absolute from between the circles. They
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  Speaker 1: just got and continue to do their job. Tabor too,
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  Speaker 1: and they just continue to be the foot soldiers.
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  Speaker 4: They do that line, the dirty work Tabor person phrase
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  Speaker 4: you oh the night. They just give you an honest effort.
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  Speaker 4: They're really really hard to play against. I trust them
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  Speaker 4: out there against any line that another opponent might throw
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  Speaker 4: at us. They just they play the game the right way.
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  Speaker 1: You had a lot of speed last year. As the
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  Speaker 1: speed increased team wise this year from a skating standpoint.
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  Speaker 4: I would it certainly hasn't decreased. So I think, you know,
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  Speaker 4: when guys that have taken that jump, you know, when
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  Speaker 4: you're a freshman, sometimes you don't play as fast as
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  Speaker 4: you're capable because you're still trying to learn a new system.
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  Speaker 4: Now that those guys know the system pretty well, I
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  Speaker 4: think they're playing faster. So I would say this team
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  Speaker 4: is probably a bit quicker than last year.
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  Speaker 3: Your team. What about special teams? You're happy where that
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  Speaker 3: where that's at at the school.
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  Speaker 4: You know we I thought our penalty kill was outstanding,
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  Speaker 4: uh against Long Island, and then you know, we got
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  Speaker 4: a big power play goal to get us started. And
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  Speaker 4: I thought that power play was dangerous both games as well.
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  Speaker 4: But was that tat goal that tatchoal Yeah, shot it
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  Speaker 4: from the flank, went five hole and uh, but we
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  Speaker 4: had some really good chances besides that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, puck wooman good.
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  Speaker 4: It was excellent.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah good. All right, we'll take a break.
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  Speaker 1: We'll come back and uh more with cav little later
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  Speaker 1: on it'll be Karlin Dezayne and Brendan Dumpy as The
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  Speaker 1: Yukon Hockey Coaches Show continues life from Bear Spokehouse Barbecue
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