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Seg 3 - MHOC Show Oct 21 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back on the u Kon Hockey Coaches Show for this
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  Speaker 1: Monday night with head coach Mike havan Off. Five games
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  Speaker 1: into the season. One thing, and we were just talking
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  Speaker 1: about this off here. There's not been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: movement as far as moving players around with lines. It's
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  Speaker 1: been Ethan Hudson and well, I should mention Ethan Gardula
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  Speaker 1: Hudson schandor Kayden Shahan who can just skate like the Dickens,
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  Speaker 1: Jake Richard, Ethan Whitcomb, who's big boy six ' four
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  Speaker 1: skates really well, Joey Muldowney, Jake personal taper heat slip.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the change. Early on in the season it was Larkin.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's Mike Murdtag and then you've made one adjustment
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  Speaker 1: on the on the d. Tray Scott plays his first
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  Speaker 1: game against holy Cross and he gets what proves to
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  Speaker 1: be the game winner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Hugh Larkin was back in this weekend playing with
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  Speaker 2: Tabor and Perceval. Okay, so yeah we did.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Tray Scott got in. He's had a really good preseason
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  Speaker 2: and scored the game winner against holy Cross, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought he played extremely well against PU as well.
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  Speaker 3: When you are assessing lines and whether or not to
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  Speaker 3: mix things up. You know, if you're getting shut out
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  Speaker 3: in consecutive games, I'm sure that's okay, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: mix things up. But you're scoring goals. So are you
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  Speaker 3: checking in with players to say, hey, I know you
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  Speaker 3: guys scored last night. How did you feel working together?
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  Speaker 2: You know, yes, when you're putting your lines together, it's
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  Speaker 2: an amalgamation of a lot of things. It's not just
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  Speaker 2: some You like to have some speed, and you like
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  Speaker 2: to have some skill, and you have to have some size.
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  Speaker 2: There has to be some chemistry between the players, so
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  Speaker 2: it's not there's just so many factors that go into
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  Speaker 2: it that you try to find that mesh. And we've been,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, so far this year. You make little
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  Speaker 2: tweaks here and there, but so far this year we've
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  Speaker 2: been getting contributions out of all four lines.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, your centers other than Ethan Wickham are veteran guys.
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  Speaker 1: Hudson of course is the veteran on the most veteran,
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  Speaker 1: but Tabor and Ryan Taddle, who we'll talk to here,
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  Speaker 1: doing a decent job in the face off circle. But
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  Speaker 1: I imagine there's always room for improvement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the you know, you try to we have you
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  Speaker 2: always try to be like fifty five percent of more
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  Speaker 2: most teams when they go into a game. If we
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  Speaker 2: can be fifty five percent of more, that's pretty good
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  Speaker 2: on the faceoff dot because like the best of all time,
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  Speaker 2: if you look at the best centers of all time,
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  Speaker 2: they're about I think, like Patrice Bergon might have been
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  Speaker 2: sixty percent or fifty eight to fifty nine percent. You know, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: there's so much that goes into a face off. It's
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  Speaker 2: not just snapping it back, it's your wings helping out
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  Speaker 2: and everything else. So the last three games we we've
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  Speaker 2: been right around fifty. So it's an area that was
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  Speaker 2: certainly always looking to improve.
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  Speaker 1: What about the face offs and the special teams, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I think that was one of the issues that you
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  Speaker 1: had in one of the games earlier in the year.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, uh, you know, it's so important on the penalty kill.
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  Speaker 2: If you can win it and ice the puck, you're
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  Speaker 2: killing twenty seconds right away. On the power play, it's
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  Speaker 2: even more important because you can hem teams in by
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  Speaker 2: winning that face off and you know, having a multiple
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  Speaker 2: shot shift and retrieving pucks with the extra guy. So
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  Speaker 2: it's really important to get those face offs on special teams.
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  Speaker 3: Especially when you're on the power play, so you're five
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  Speaker 3: on four. How many different calls are there where the
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  Speaker 3: center will say, hey, this is what we're about to run.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to send it to the corner, dig it out,
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  Speaker 3: per sending it back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, we're the center's trying to win it back
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  Speaker 2: on the power play. We want possession, and most of
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  Speaker 2: the time, you know, they outnumber you four to three,
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  Speaker 2: so there are times where we'll bring another guy down
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  Speaker 2: on that face off, so your wings have to help out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you do lose it, like you have
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  Speaker 2: to have pressure on their d right away so they
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  Speaker 2: can't get a clean icing. So we're going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to work on it.
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  Speaker 1: When you're on the rush on the power play, coming
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  Speaker 1: out of your own zone, is there a key or
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  Speaker 1: keys that you want your guys to look at, whether
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  Speaker 1: to a try to carry it over the blue line
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  Speaker 1: or B try to dump a chase.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, some of it's dependent on the kills for check
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  Speaker 2: as well. If you know, like Bu was very aggressive
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  Speaker 2: down ice, so we were making a quick pass right away,
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  Speaker 2: like you'll see sometimes if it's a team that's going
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  Speaker 2: to sit back in the neutral zone in a box.
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  Speaker 2: We may go to a drop where you're bringing one
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  Speaker 2: guy up and then you're dropping it, so you're getting
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  Speaker 2: speed coming at guys standing still. But it's all, you know,
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  Speaker 2: veries dependent on our opponent.
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  Speaker 3: So we're about to talk to Taber he slipping Ryan Taddle.
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  Speaker 3: They both got a couple of goals under their belts
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  Speaker 3: each this season. What have you liked about the growth
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  Speaker 3: that you've seen year over year and those two guys specifically.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they've always been great competitors and good skaters. They
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  Speaker 2: you know, they put pressure on the opponent quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: I've just liked to watch how they've matured as players
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  Speaker 2: and how they you know, providing different roles for us.
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  Speaker 2: You know, both have become really good penalty killers. Ryan
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  Speaker 2: has stepped in on the power play every now and then.
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  Speaker 2: Tabor has become a big locker room leader and a
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  Speaker 2: voice in the locker room. So I always say one
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  Speaker 2: of the greatest joys of being a coach is just
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  Speaker 2: watching those kids mature over the four years and watching
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  Speaker 2: them grow and become, you know, basically from adolescents into
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  Speaker 2: young men.
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  Speaker 1: And Ryan growing into the center spot too.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he's always been pretty good in the on the dot.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he can play left wing, he can play center,
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  Speaker 2: so he has a lot of versatility as a player.
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  Speaker 1: Before we go to break. When freshmen come in, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously they've played junior most of them in your time,
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  Speaker 1: but convincing them to play two hundred feet it can't
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  Speaker 1: be that hard, can't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean, listen, guys that like to score goals.
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  Speaker 2: They score goals for a reason because they're driven to
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  Speaker 2: score goals and that's their number one focus. So you
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  Speaker 2: can't take that away from them. But you have to
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  Speaker 2: teach them. And we talk about it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at teams that win the Stanley Cup,
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  Speaker 2: if you look at Los Angeles when they were winning,
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  Speaker 2: they had Onse Kopatar. It was one of the best
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  Speaker 2: two way centers in the game. Patrese burser on for
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  Speaker 2: the Bruins when when they won the Cup, Jonathan Taves
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  Speaker 2: for Chicago, like Matthew k. Chuck's a two way player,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a good two hundred foot player, So that
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  Speaker 2: you see the stars on teams that win a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the time, like Sidney Crosby, great two way player,
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  Speaker 2: so very rarely do you see the one trick pony
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  Speaker 2: who just scores and is minus thirty on the year
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  Speaker 2: winning trophies.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we will get to a break when we
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  Speaker 1: come back. Our player interviews commence. Tabor, he slips up first.
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  Speaker 1: The young man from Frisco, Texas is the Yukon Hockey
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show continues from Bear Smokehouse Barbecue here Onlearfield.