Latest / Coaches Corner / Seg 2 MHOC Show w Coach Cav Oct 5

Transcript

Seg 2 MHOC Show w Coach Cav Oct 5 · Coaches Corner

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Back with Coach Cab on the UConn Hockey Coaches Show.
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: We launch the season Friday night, 645 on the radio
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: from Toscano against the Penn State Nittany Lions. I'll have
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: all the action for you right here on the UConn
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Sports Network, the Varsity Network app, and the VarsityNetwork.com. Well, Mike,
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Joey Muldowney has lost his line mates, but he comes back.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: He worked with a skating coach or two in the offseason, put.
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: On 14 pounds.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Have you seen that translate to what he can do
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: on the ice? Because I'm excited to see what that
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: does for him and his talent.
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Joey's been a very consistent player. And
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: right from the get-go, he was a kid that came in,
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: he had to cut his teeth a little bit on
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: the fourth line. I think that helped make him a
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: better 200-foot player. And as I've mentioned many times, even
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: the year he had 29 goals. And then I think
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: last year, what did he have last year? I know
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: he was in the teens.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: 17.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: 17. Yeah. But he doesn't compromise his defensive play to
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: score goals. And that's the thing that I appreciate about
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: him the most.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: And he plays in all assets of the game, not
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: just five on five power play.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: And he's even a pretty good penalty killer.
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: The penalty killer, he's a five-on-six. I would say over
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: the last two years, he's probably scored the most empty-neck
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: goals for us. And, well, I mean, people might smirk
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: or laugh about that, but that's a skill. If you
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: want to win games, you better have guys that can
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: execute five-on-six and put games away.
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: Right, and a great example would be the BU game
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: in the quarterfinals. I mean, great play off the boards,
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: just passing it to himself, getting a run at a fenceman.
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, that takes some craftiness.
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: Right, and he buried in the Connecticut Ice game against Quinnipiac.
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: He got the 5-on-6 goal to secure that victory as well.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: Now, when you go work out in the offseason and
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: you deal with a skating coach or work with a
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: skating coach, and I'm sure I'll ask Joey the same
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: thing here, what are they trying to emphasize? What are
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: they trying to improve in the skating?
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I think they're all so specific,
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: but I would say you're trying to get quicker, you're
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: trying to get balance, and you want to have more
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: strength on your skates, I would think. But I don't know.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: I haven't gone to a skating coach in a long time,
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: so I'm not sure what the newest methods are these days.
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: Did you have skating coaches when you played?
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: Sure. We had Paul Vincent's Power Skating, yeah. Okay.
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned the two Ethans and Caden Shahan. They
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: played a lot last season, and they had solid seasons.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: Do you expect them to be together again, or are
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: you going to break them up a little bit? And
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: what are your expectations for these three to step up
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: and play some new roles?
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that we're still kind of mixing and
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: matching our lines a little bit. We'll get some continuity
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: this week in practice. I'm sure at some point they'll
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: play together, but whether it be on a power play
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: or special team or even five on five, but, We
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: certainly need those guys to make a jump, just like
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: Ryan Tattle and Tabor Heaslip and Jake Percival made big
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: jumps from their sophomore to junior year. We're going to
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: need that from those guys.
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: Mike, Brennan Dumphy, Trey Scott, guys like that on the
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: blue line. Obviously, Anthony Alain Samaki, too. They bring back
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of veteran players. work on the blue line here,
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: but now it's time for another step up. Like for
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: Trey Scott, he jumped in, never got out of the
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: lineup in his first year. Quarterback, the power play. Kai
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: Janvry is in that list too. What do you see
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: next for these guys?
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: Actually, I think Trey sat his first couple games, which
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: before he started getting into the lineup and then he
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: basically worked his way onto the top power play because
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: of his play. So much like our forwards that I
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: just alluded to, they're going to have to take big
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: roles and they're going to have to take leadership roles.
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: Trey was just elected a third captain last week by
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: the team convincingly. So we're expecting him to take a
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: vocal and leadership role on our team. Kai is, a
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: lot of people look at Kai and, Think, oh, he's
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: an undersized defenseman. He's got to be a really elite
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: offensive defenseman because he's undersized. He might be our best
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: defensive defenseman. He is so good. His feet are so good.
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: His stick is good. His compete level is second to
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: none on our team. So, again, he's going to have
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: to play. He might have led our team in minutes
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: last year, and I see him playing a very similar
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: role this year.
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: Well, Kai certainly took a big jump in the plus-minus department.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: I think he was around zero, maybe even minus freshman.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: I think he led the team last year, plus 16,
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken. I know he and Castillo were
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: pretty close.
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: Which reinforces my point on his defensive play. He's outstanding defensively,
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: and he can chip in offensively, too. He's out there.
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: Because his defense is so good, you hear this all
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: the time, great defense leads to offense.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: I think that's true for Kai.
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: Mike, who's your goalie on opening night? I know it's
• 5:32
  Speaker 3: only Monday.
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: Usually when we have the weekly media discussions, it's like
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: wait till Friday. But I imagine everyone, the three guys
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: have really competed hard for a shot to start the opener.
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: They have. And true to form, I'll make that decision Thursday.
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: Well, we know about the other two, but tell me
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: about this young man from Finland that you have on
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: your roster between the Pipes.
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, VT is a fifth-round pick of the Devils. He's
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: got great size. He's 6'4. Had a really good year
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: for Chicago last year in the USHL. He's got a
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: lot of promise. He handles pucks very well. So, you know,
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he'll be playing Friday.
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: He might.
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: He might not. But at some point, he'll certainly see
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: game action.
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: You mentioned handling the puck well.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: Did I not hear a rule change about the trapezoid
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: coming into– College hockey, too?
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it has come in. So the goaltenders can only
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: handle it in the trapezoid. They can't be outside it. Okay.
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: See, we've got rule changes from Cav. Any other significant
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: rule changes whatsoever for the upcoming season?
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: I think it fades off. So you're going to see
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: your sticks have to be down. You'll see guys, I think,
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: get thrown out early on in the season. You can
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: make a defensive hand pass right now, which was a
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: new rule. So timeouts. You can no longer call a
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: timeout after an icing. So there are certain little rules
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: that they put in. I'm not remembering all of them
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: right now, but there's a few. We got schooled on
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: it last week by Brian Murphy, our commissioner of officials.
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: Well, that timeout thing after an icing, that's a big one.
• 7:11
  Speaker 3: That's a huge one.
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Certainly.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: All right, more with Cav as we continue. This is
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: the UConn Hockey Coaches Show for a Monday night here
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: on Learfield.