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Seg 1 - MHOC Show Dec 4 Coach Cav · Coaches Corner

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  And we're here at Bear Smoke Cow's Barbecue and Hartford. It is the final
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  one of the first semester, as the first semester for the Huskies ended yesterday.
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  Bob Joyce, Adam Jerdy, you know, my broadcast partner, and
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  Coach cav with you till seven later. We'll hear from two guys that have
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  made some waves lately in a good way. Along with Joey Muldowney. That
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  would be Ryan Taddle and Tristan Fraser, who have played really, really well
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  down the stretch here in the first half of the season. And Coach cav
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  is with us. Good thing. I'm glad he didn't have any weather issues
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  coming home from Maine yesterday because there was snow up there yesterday. No,
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  it wasn't too bad. We have a great domingos Are bus driver. I'm
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  not going to try to pronounce his last name at Chaveria I think it is,
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  but he's fantastic. We've had him for a while and he got us
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  through the little bit of snow we had in Maine, and we got some
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  rain I think in New Hampshire, but it was pretty much by the time
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  we got to Connecticut, we were good good Splitsville on the weekend two nothing
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  over Lowell and then yesterday seven three against Maine. And from what you were
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  telling us about the game, it was not a seven to three game per
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  se, but it basically seems like it capsualized the entire season for the Iraqi
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  team so far. Yeah, it was a really bizarre game. I said
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  that afterwards to the press. It was a game where we were playing so
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  well. I mean we had, you know, chances in the house were
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  two to one in that game, and it just seemed like we'd have a
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  chance to score and tie the game up, and then they'd come down on
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  a Russian score. We had a lot of zone time. I was saying
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  to you, Bob, it was like having a seventy five yard drive and
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  throwing a pick six on the five. It was frustrating because we were playing
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  really well and we had puck possession, we were doing the things we wanted
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  to do, and we'd have a turnover and next thing you know, it
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  would be a two on one and it's in the back of our net.
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  And we've certainly got to address that. I think why we were giving up
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  the two on ones, and that's something we'll look into a little bit further
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  here over the break, but that that actually hasn't happened to us a ton
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  this year. We've been pretty good about not giving up a lot of odd
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  man rushes, but last night that was the case of the game. They
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  scored on their scoring opportunities and we didn't. The team seven nine and one.
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  Now this season, how do you manage your post game message to the
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  team in a season where things should be going better based on play, but
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  the results aren't there. It just feels like it's a tough job in your
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  shoes to try to make sure you're delivering messages to these guys. Yeah,
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  I think you have to focus on what you're doing pretty well, and I
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  think the best way to sum up our first half, hey, listen,
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  we're in a results driven business, and you know, Bill Parcels used to
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  say you are what you are. You know we're seven nine and one,
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  and I think the reason that we're seven nine and one and not say ten
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  six and one is because not because of effort. The effort's been there,
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  night in and night out. I think there's maybe one game. I think
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  our first game up at Vermont, I didn't think our effort was to our
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  standard. However, for the rest of the time, and maybe the third
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  period of the Merrimack game, you know, was not indicative of the type
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  of team we want to play. So the effort's been there night in and
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  night out, it's just the execution hasn't. So the good thing is you
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  can't execute without effort. But right now we've got to figure out a way
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  when we have open nets. You can't miss the net. You got to
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  bury your chances. Right it's in basketball, you got to make your free
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  throws. You got to you know, get timely hitting. In baseball,
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  you got to get two out hits if you want to be successful. And
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  right now we're not executing at the level you need to execute at to be
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  you know, a winning team in the first half. So that's something we'll
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  focus on second half. Friday night, a two to nothing went over Lowell,
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  typical low scoring yukon Lowell game. Tristan Fraser scores off a clear attempt
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  up the right side. He's just coming off the bench and he waited just
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  enough to get a little bit of a screen beat Henry Welsh, something that
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  the Oskies have had issues with this year. Scoring against Welch, and then
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  you got better as the game went on, and finally Jake Percival off of
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  face off win by Lowell face off win then went right between the two defensemen
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  went to skate race two nothing. You get a win in a shutout for
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  Freath and Higher. Yeah, that was a big win for us because one,
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  it gave us a season series versus Lowell right points wise. And two
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  the thing I liked about that game was we didn't have a great start.
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  You know, I thought Lowell got the better of us in that period,
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  and that's gonna happen sometimes in this league, for sure. But Ethan made
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  some great saves early on to keep it at zero zero, and then we
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  continued to get better as a game went on, and with a one goal
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  lead. The best part of that game for me was with a one goal
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  lead in the third period, we didn't sit back and play kitty bar the
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  door and try to win the game one nothing. We you know, Chase
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  hit a post. I think Tattle hit a crossbar. We were really pushing.
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  You know, we're playing on our toes, we weren't playing back on
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  our heels. So that was encouraging for me in that game. Yeah,
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  that's that is what I was going to ask because the goal that made it
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  one nothing was scored exactly midway through the game, So you had thirty minutes.
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  You knew you had thirty minutes to try and close this thing out against
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  a tough opponent. Where you go into a game against U Mats Lowell won,
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  nothing's very much on the table. I mean, that's just the style
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  of player that they played. So what did you see starting with that Tristan
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  Fraser goal from the team where you thought, Okay, this team's this team's
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  got what it takes over the final thirty I think the biggest issue in that
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  game and what turned it around for us was in the probably the second half
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  of the game, we started winning faceoffs. You know, the third period
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  we were eleven and three in faceoffs, and I think that's a huge part
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  of the game. So when you're not winning faceoffs, you're chasing the game,
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  you know, and there you're letting the other team dictate how the game
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  is going to be played by dumping the puck in and then you've got to
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  go get it and break it out. So I thought that was probably,
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  you know, the biggest difference in the game at that point, and we
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  started, you know, when we start winning face offs and we're dictating you
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  know, the tempo of the game, then that plays into our you know,
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  the style of hockey we want to play, and we're playing better when
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  we're doing that and we're getting multiple shot shifts and having teams in their own
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  zone. All Right, we'll talk about a few of the guys that are
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  playing well as of late, and also two of the guys that will interview
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  their line is outstanding the last four games. It's the Ucott Hockey Coaches Show
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  from Bear Smokehouse Barbecue Bob Joyce, Adam Gardino coach cav till seven o'clock here
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  on the Yukon Sports Network from Learfield