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Seg 3 - MHOC Show Oct 23 · Coaches Corner

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  Air with coach cav on the Yukonaky Coaches Show for this Monday night. The
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  Ice bus will head to the Songa Center this weekend for the first of two
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  with u mass Lowe. As conference play begins. We call it Friday Night
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  Ice on our flagship Friday Night. Adam joins me on the broadcast at seven
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  for seven to fifteen. Face off in Game two will be Saturday. That
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  will be on ESPN Plus from the Excel Center and a four o'clock faceoff correct
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  four o'clock Saturday four o'clock and tickets available at the Excel Center box office or
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  the website yukontickets dot com. Question for a listener, This is from Kevin.
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  Do you ever speak with the coaching staff about the implications of the last
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  couple of weekends as far as the pair wisest concerned or do you worry about
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  that this early? That's a good question. You know, I'd be lying
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  if I said that you don't think about it. But you really can't get
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  paralyzed by that stuff right now. You just really have to focus on your
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  next game, because you know, I've seen teams that have great league records
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  and their pair wise is good you know, and there might be five hundred
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  and non league. So I think it's really focused right now just on stay
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  in the course and just you know, winning your next game. Thinks I
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  don't know if we can win all our games, but I expect to win
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  the next one, right right, That's that's the old saying. So that's
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  the where we go. But I understand the question, And you'd be crazy
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  if you didn't think that because we play so few games. In thirty four
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  games that you know, last year, if we had beat we had leads
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  against Northeastern and Quinnipiac at home or in the you know, not Quinnipiac was
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  on the road, but Northeastern at home. If we win those two games,
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  we're in the national tournament. Like that's how tight it can be.
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  So yes and no, we're more focused on if you win your league,
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  it's probably good chance you're going to go. Yes tournament for sure. Defensively,
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  with the fact that you have such a veteran group and then you add
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  one one of the new guys was Saturday their best game so far of the
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  six games. Even though it's a group that's all been together and play the
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  season, you still have to kind of get back in the flow regardless.
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  But does it seem like Saturday may have been the best performance from that group
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  so far? I think they played pretty well. I do. I don't
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  know if it was their best game. They played really well at at home
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  against holy Cross too. I mean, we gave up one goal and that
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  was really a turnover by a forward. It wasn't really a defensive rescue,
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  right, So no, I think they've been playing really well. How have
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  you? We're going to talk to Thomasineo a little later on where you've seen
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  him. Where's you seeing his game grow from freshman sophomore year? So he
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  seems he seems a lot more confident with the puck, that's for sure.
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  I think last year he was really focused on defending and being hard on our
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  zone and just making a good breakout pass, which is great. But now,
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  excuse me, he's really kind of jumping into the offense and he's getting
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  more pucks to the net in our offensive zone, and we need him to
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  do that. He needs to cycle down and pinch when it's available for him
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  because he skates so well and he can get on the opponent really quick and
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  make it hard for them to get out of their own zone of your defenseman
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  who seems to find the net the best as far as you know through traffic.
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  Yeah, I mean we know Spetsy has a bomb of a slap shot,
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  he does. You know, they're all working on it. I think
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  they're all good in different areas. I've been really surprised just because i haven't
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  had him. But Owen Simpson's got pretty good knack for getting pucks down to
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  the net. But you know, Lucas can get him down. Harrison Reese
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  got one down the other night, which was big for us. Jake Flynn,
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  you know, he does a good job of popping in and finding the
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  hole in the defense and getting a shot to the net. As you alluded
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  to Spetsy, they're all at it. Obviously you could get better at it.
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  I'm not sure we have an Adam Fox back there, but there's not
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  many Adam Fox's playing in college hockey either. But they're all pretty decent,
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  and you know, this room for improvement as well as far as defense been
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  jumping up in the play. It's a confidence thing, right to jump up
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  in the play and try to create from defense to offense. I mean,
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  yeah, we I think it has to be coached and encouraged for sure,
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  and we do encourage them to do that, but some of it's also a
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  feel, you know, it's not necessarily you know, one of the best
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  kids I ever coached at it was Tommy Cross and it wasn't like he was
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  a you know, speedster on defense. He skated pretty well, but he
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  just had a great feel of when to jump into the play. And even
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  like here, Derek Pratt, I thought had a good feel for us when
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  he was here. He wasn't the fastest skater, but had a good feel
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  for to jump into the play. And a lot of that's just reading the
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  situation and knowing you can go. Speaking of some of your alums here,
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  have you heard from any recently? How's Wyatt doing with the Wings? I
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  haven't talked to Wyatt recently, but I did. Max Latunov and I were
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  trading text messages today. He's second on his team in the KHL and scoring
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  and Flads on that team and Adam Husker, and Adam has a goals against
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  under two right now. First off, Yeah, wow, Flad first off
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  is there and he's playing pretty well. But Adam Husk is a goaltender on
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  the team in the khl Okay. What about Yakham? Is he still in
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  the national organ No, Yakham went back to Cech. He's playing in the
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  Czech Pro League. But I did see that Ruslan is leading Bridgeport in the
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  American Hockey League and the saying he could be one of the next call ups
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  for the Islanders. Oh nice, Yeah, wolf packer off to a good
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  start. Bruins are five and oh how about that? I know? How
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  about that? I mean, I know you're following your own team, but
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  you keep an eye on him a little bit. Yeah, I do.
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  I was actually watching some of that Bruins game last night. It started at
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  eight thirty Anaheim, and I know Greg Cronin pretty well, the Anaheim head
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  coach. I'd known him from way back. He went to Colby actually,
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  and I went to school with his cousin, so I was happy for him.
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  He got his first pro job when he was sixty years old, so
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  it was kind of neat last question before we break, what's a Sunday like
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  for a college hockey coach. You get a chance to relax a little bit.
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  Are you looking at a lot of video yesterday? I did. Yeah,
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  I relaxed a little bit. And took my daughter to lacrosse. You
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  mean you were actually a dad yesterday? Made dinner? Yeah, what'd you
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  make? We made? We had meatballs last night, Spaghetti meatballs, red
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  sauce, some sausage in there. Nice. And then yeah, I watched
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  some of the football games and I did watch some video last night. I
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  did actually break out the laptop and just kind of glance at Lowell a little
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  bit. There you go while the football was on. Yes, they're always
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  a pain to play. We'll get into that later. But up next we'll
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  hear from Ryan Maschi, who is one of the two grad transfers on the
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