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MHOC Coach Cav Avail Feb 11 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: All right, coach, coming off of hockey this weekend. Played
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  Speaker 1: U Mass Friday, UMSS Little Saturday, bounced back overtime victory
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  Speaker 1: Hudston Shander with the game winner. Midweek matchup Wednesday night game,
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  Speaker 1: last non conference game of the season. Just want to
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  Speaker 1: get your thoughts heading into this Alaska Anchorage game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've played. I think this will be five games
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  Speaker 2: and ten days for us, So we've had a big
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  Speaker 2: stretch of hockey here and we certainly want to finish
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  Speaker 2: it off I think the right way before we go
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  Speaker 2: into a little nine to ten day break. So it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a really important game for us. And
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  Speaker 2: we played these guys two years ago in a very
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  Speaker 2: similar situation and the game went to overtime. So I
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  Speaker 2: have that most respect for the way Matt runs his program.
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  Speaker 2: And the Alaska Anchorage team that's going to be coming
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  Speaker 2: in here is going to be a formidable opponent for
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  Speaker 2: us on Wednesday night, And just like many of the
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  Speaker 2: other teams we played during the season, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to be really sharp and at our
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  Speaker 2: best if we want to obtain the result that we
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  Speaker 2: expect to and.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: How we want to finish this five game stretch, that's
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we'll open up for questions. Show you can
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  Speaker 3: start us off.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, good morning, calv. Too bad you couldn't put down
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  Speaker 4: a way drave the Super Bowl. You'd be a richer
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  Speaker 4: man today, right, I told you the Eagles, I know,
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  Speaker 4: I know wise man physically coming through a stretch like
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  Speaker 4: this where you play practice, play, practice play, seemingly, what's
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  Speaker 4: the most important thing guys have to do to just
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  Speaker 4: stay on top of your game.
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  Speaker 2: I think they have to get rest and take care
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  Speaker 2: of themselves away from the rink.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I try to put myself in their shoes. When I
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  Speaker 2: was in college. It's not always the easiest thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: You get caught sometimes staying up late watching games or whatnot,
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  Speaker 2: just shooting the breeze with your roommates, and next thing
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's twelve thirty one o'clock and you're got
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  Speaker 2: to get up at eight the next morning. So the
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing for me is that they're getting proper rest
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  Speaker 2: and they're taking care of themselves.
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  Speaker 4: When you look at the whole of what's going on
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  Speaker 4: this year, your freshmen have performed really, really well. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: you recruited them with confidence they could do that. But
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  Speaker 4: have they even kind of exceeded expectations.
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  Speaker 2: Well, just you know, to some extent, you never know
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  Speaker 2: what you're going to get.
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  Speaker 5: From freshmen. Even some of the.
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  Speaker 2: Really terrific players I've coached in the past that have
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  Speaker 2: gone on to have great NHL careers, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: a Nathan Gerby or Cam Atkinson, they only had eight
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  Speaker 2: goals nine goals as freshmen.
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  Speaker 5: You know. Now they had thirty goal seasons too before
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  Speaker 5: they turn pro.
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  Speaker 2: But coming in as a freshman, it's a it's an
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  Speaker 2: adjustment in a lot of different ways, and I think
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  Speaker 2: our guys have handled it exceptionally well.
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  Speaker 4: And it seems like Viking is starting to find his
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  Speaker 4: sea legs as far as offensively is concerned, the same
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  Speaker 4: as the same as Nick. They both seem to be
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  Speaker 4: getting a lot more pucks on goals. What have you
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  Speaker 4: seen from them as far as becoming more offensive defenseman?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think they've been somewhat consistent this
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  Speaker 2: year getting pucks down in the net. That's certainly, you know,
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  Speaker 2: point of emphasis for us in the offensive zone when
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  Speaker 2: the puck gets kicked from low to high to the defenseman.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be able to get those pucks down
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  Speaker 2: to the net. You got to get it past that
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  Speaker 2: first wave, and those two have been doing it pretty well.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Adam will go over to you.
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  Speaker 6: A coach with fifteen goals allowed in the last three games,
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  Speaker 6: what is the focus moving forward to kind of get
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  Speaker 6: the defense and the goalie play where it was, you know,
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  Speaker 6: outside of the teeth of the hockey schedule.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just.
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  Speaker 2: Think sometimes you go through these stretches. We went a
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  Speaker 2: long stretch without giving up much at all. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think we gave up one goal a weekend in
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  Speaker 2: Connecticut ice.
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  Speaker 5: So it just sometimes it's just stretches where you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's a byproduct of.
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  Speaker 2: Backchecking sometimes, like you've got to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 2: getting four and five guys back on the you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the rush against in the defensive zone. It's doing
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  Speaker 2: your job and not chasing the puck all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of different factors that go into
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  Speaker 2: defense and defensive schemes, and I think we just got
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  Speaker 2: to probably tighten up in a couple of different areas.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think we have the overhaul anything.
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  Speaker 6: When we talked, I think it was before the weekend
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  Speaker 6: and you sounded like you wanted to overhaul the face
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  Speaker 6: off situation, and then you won fifty six percent on
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  Speaker 6: the weekend. So what did you see out of that,
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  Speaker 6: because I know it was a point of emphasis.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just sometimes it's again it's making sure that
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  Speaker 2: the not necessarily the center, but the guy's helping out
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  Speaker 2: on the draw, whether it's the wings of the defensemen
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  Speaker 2: that are getting in there and help win those fifty
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  Speaker 2: to fifty puck battles. Very very rarely a puck's snap
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  Speaker 2: back clean. You know that there's always a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a battle for that puck, and you've got to
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  Speaker 2: be able to get in there and win those battles.
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  Speaker 6: Is John Spets available for tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think he'll play tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, And if it was the NCAA Tournament Round one,
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  Speaker 6: would he be available, And then it's just kind of
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  Speaker 6: just gives him an opportunity to get a couple of
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  Speaker 6: weeks off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I don't want to spend it
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  Speaker 2: like that. I just think he's not healthy to play
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see it being a season ending injury, but
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  Speaker 2: he's definitely not healthy to play tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Night, got it?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, Dang.
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  Speaker 3: We'll jump over to you.
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  Speaker 7: Just a little bit in that regard. But I think
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  Speaker 7: you've been going every weekend for the most part since
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  Speaker 7: going out to Milwaukee, So you know, once you get
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  Speaker 7: through this game, is there just gonna be some value
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  Speaker 7: in getting a weekend off and resetting before you hit
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  Speaker 7: down the final stretch.
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  Speaker 2: No question, I think we've been talking. It's been not
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  Speaker 2: only that, it's just I feel like since we started
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  Speaker 2: playing New Hampshire and then Maine, and then the Connecticut
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  Speaker 2: Tournament in Providence, and then the the UMass teams, both
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  Speaker 2: of them Lowell end Amherst, it's just been a really
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  Speaker 2: intense stretch of hockey for us, and it'll culminate tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: night with the last coming in here. So I do
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  Speaker 2: think it'll be a good time for us to reset
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  Speaker 2: and take a few days off before the real stretch run.
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  Speaker 7: I think you went up to Alaska once or twice,
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  Speaker 7: if I remember right when you were at BC. I
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  Speaker 7: went once, Yeah, which which of the two cities did
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  Speaker 7: you go to?
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  Speaker 5: And I went to Anchorage?
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  Speaker 7: So what do you remember from going up there?
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  Speaker 2: I remember the hotel was great, The captain cookhouse. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's a beautiful area, it really is. And
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  Speaker 2: I remember it took forever to get home, so it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a tough trip. It's we left on a
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  Speaker 2: red eye after the game on Saturday night. You don't
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  Speaker 2: get home till five pm the next day. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: a long day getting home.
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  Speaker 5: And but.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's a cool town and it's got
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  Speaker 2: beautiful scenery out there. I haven't been back since so too,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm sure it's changed quite a bit.
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  Speaker 7: On the hockey front, Hudson hit thirty points last game,
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  Speaker 7: and he had that two years ago. Last year it
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  Speaker 7: dipped obviously with the rest of the offense, But just
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  Speaker 7: how much stronger is the offense and your attack when
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  Speaker 7: Hudson's producing at that level and consistently putting up points.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're getting certainly, he's had a fabulous
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  Speaker 2: year and I'm hoping to continuous form because no one
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  Speaker 2: deserves it more than he does, you know. That Being said, though,
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  Speaker 2: I think we're getting a lot of balance scoring too.
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  Speaker 2: We've got people chipping in from every line that we've had.
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  Speaker 5: Guys have been chipping in goals, So.
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  Speaker 2: That's something we're going to need to have all the
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  Speaker 2: way through. You can't rely on one line to score
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  Speaker 2: all your goals. Some teams that are one line dependent,
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  Speaker 2: and if that for some reason, that line's not going
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  Speaker 2: that night, it's really hard to win. So I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: that he's having a great year, and also a lot
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  Speaker 2: of other people are having career years this year.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, one of those guys, Joey sixteen goals is tied
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  Speaker 7: for the second most in a single year since you've
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  Speaker 7: been here. I remember when he came in that you
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  Speaker 7: said he was a goal scorer, and that's why the
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  Speaker 7: Sharks picked him. Just what makes him so good at
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  Speaker 7: putting the puck in the back of the net.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of those things that it's a hard
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  Speaker 2: thing skill to teach. It's just some kids have a
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  Speaker 2: knack for scoring goals, and one you got to put
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  Speaker 2: yourself in position, and Joey skates and competes and goes
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  Speaker 2: to the hard areas to score goals, and he's got
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  Speaker 2: a terrific skill set around the net.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie, go ahead, thank you, Good morning, coach.
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  Speaker 8: Nice to see you again.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Natalie, Nice to see you.
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  Speaker 8: It's been a little while, but I guess just just
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  Speaker 8: kind of catching up here. Someone I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 8: about was Ryan Tattle. You know, he behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 8: He was actually seemed to be in the conversation for
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  Speaker 8: Player of the Month in January before Ryan Leonard took
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  Speaker 8: that honor. But for him to just you know, come
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  Speaker 8: in this season and really have such you know, a
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  Speaker 8: strong year and maybe you know, looking at the month
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  Speaker 8: of January in particular, you know what has he displayed
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  Speaker 8: this year as opposed to years prior that you've really
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  Speaker 8: kind of seen fall into place for him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I started to see this coming at the end
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  Speaker 2: of last year. I thought both he and Joey Muldowney.
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  Speaker 2: I thought they played a lot together at the end
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  Speaker 2: of last year and they started to, I think, take
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  Speaker 2: their games to another level. And then this summer they
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  Speaker 2: both put in a lot of work this summer and
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  Speaker 2: it's just continued and he really works at his game.
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  Speaker 2: He's out here all the time. Last night he was
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  Speaker 2: talking to me about he didn't feel like he played
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  Speaker 2: a great two hundred foot game over the weekend. So
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  Speaker 2: he's conscientious kid that he's not just driven by scoring.
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  Speaker 2: He's driven to win and a lot of times you know,
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  Speaker 2: the most successful people or the people that love showing
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  Speaker 2: up at the rink every day just trying to get
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  Speaker 2: better and not focused on a destination or a goal.
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  Speaker 2: They just focus on how can I get better today?
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's who he is every single day.
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  Speaker 2: He's just trying to get better. He's super coachable and again,
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy he's having such a great year.
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  Speaker 8: When you think about that off season, you know training
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  Speaker 8: that you mentioned, what did you really see him fine
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  Speaker 8: tune during the summer months that he brought back, Well, Moe.
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  Speaker 2: Butler does a great job with our guys, and he
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  Speaker 2: was he all of July. I think just working on explosiveness,
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  Speaker 2: he's working on strength. One area where I.
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  Speaker 5: Think he's really improved is he's winning battles down low.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's not a physically imposing guy, but he's
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  Speaker 2: very strong on his skates and he's got an excellent
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  Speaker 2: stick and you have to have you know, he uses
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  Speaker 2: his leverage and he gets strong and he goes into
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  Speaker 2: battles ferociously, which which helps him win a lot of
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  Speaker 2: battles and in turn get him He'll see more scoring
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  Speaker 2: chances when that's the case.
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  Speaker 8: And then I guess the last guy I kind of
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  Speaker 8: wanted to ask about was Taber Heath slit more in
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  Speaker 8: particular the UMass game and the defensive side that he displayed.
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  Speaker 8: You know, what kind of a value does that have
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  Speaker 8: when he's playing like that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it takes all different types of ingredients to
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  Speaker 2: have a successful team, and he is one that, without
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  Speaker 2: a doubt for a long time, you can count on
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  Speaker 2: him to one. He's excellent penalty killer. Uh, he's another
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  Speaker 2: one who's really strong on his skates. He wins a
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  Speaker 2: lot of battles, and if we're protecting a one goal
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  Speaker 2: lead or you know they've pulled the goaltender, he's on
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  Speaker 2: the ice like there's no question because he can win
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  Speaker 2: face offs, block shots, and he wins battles. So Uh,
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons why he was elected captain, I
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  Speaker 2: think because there's another one that just wants to win
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  Speaker 2: hockey games.
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  Speaker 8: Awesome, thank you so much, coach.
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  Speaker 4: Joe, go ahead, Uh, cav with with John out again,
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  Speaker 4: I guess that means Pascucci will will will play again.
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  Speaker 4: He hadn't played in a long time. What did you
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  Speaker 4: what did you see from him on Saturday? Yeah, we
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  Speaker 4: haven't made a decision yet who's gonna play? But uh,
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  Speaker 4: he hadn't played in a long time, so it's sometimes
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  Speaker 4: tough coming into those situations.
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  Speaker 5: But uh, you know, we'll see. I'm not sure yet
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  Speaker 5: who's gonna go tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Yet we all what a possibility everyone is. So's Bower Smith.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Bower Swift.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, thank you, Dan, go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Just kind of on the defenseman front, you started the
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  Speaker 7: year with ten of them, and obviously that's been whittled
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  Speaker 7: down a little bit, but it does feel like the
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  Speaker 7: depth you have is stronger than it's been in years past.
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  Speaker 2: On the blue line, I would agree with that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I would agree with that one hundred percent. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's been you know, we've been very good at moving
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  Speaker 2: moving the puck.
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  Speaker 5: I've loved the way we've I think that's been.
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  Speaker 2: A really upgrade to our game. That we've offensively been
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  Speaker 2: able to exit our zone a lot more cleanly, which
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  Speaker 2: allows you to get, you know, better chances to play
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  Speaker 2: he's the puck in the offensive zone, or better yet,
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  Speaker 2: carry the puck in, which gives you a better chance
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  Speaker 2: I believe to score goals. So yeah, I would agree
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  Speaker 2: Dan that our defensemen this year have been a lot
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  Speaker 2: more mobile and offensively gifted.
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  Speaker 3: Do we got anything else for coach guys? Awesome? Well,
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  Speaker 3: thanks everyone for joining Coach. Good luck tomorrow all.
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  Speaker 5: Right, Thanks guys, have a great day.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Cap