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Princeton's on a roll and Abbey Murphy has a terrific juggling act · The PodKaz: USCHO Women's Hockey

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Speaker 1: Us cho dot com. Alli, welcome back to the podcast.
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Speaker 1: My name is Top Moluski. I'm here with the gole Hosey.
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Speaker 1: We're from us cho dot com. You're here to talk
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Speaker 1: about NCAA women's hockey and a little bit of international hockey.
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Speaker 1: Because the cole is still in Nova Scotia. Correct. I
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Speaker 1: feel like I was going to say that wrong where
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Speaker 1: the tournament is this year, But the U eighteen Women's
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Speaker 1: World Championship in Nova Scotia, Nicole is still there. The
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Speaker 1: tournament's moving into the quarterfinals as we're recording this on
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Speaker 1: Wednesday night. That'll be starting Thursday morning. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: that a little bit more as the show goes along.
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Speaker 1: We wanted to get into right away what's been happening
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Speaker 1: with the NCAA program here over the last few weeks,
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Speaker 1: and really Princeton has shot to the top of ec
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Speaker 1: A C hockey on an eleven game winning streak. They're
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Speaker 1: up to number seven in the NPI. This is everything's
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Speaker 1: coming off Tigers right now, which is is pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: Is he Wonder scoring five goals in two games last
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Speaker 1: week wins at Union and RPI. This is a a
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Speaker 1: lot more than I think a lot of people expected
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Speaker 1: from Princeton, even with Izy Wonder. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Well, you know, they had some graduations, they had
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Speaker 2: Sarah Paul transfer out. Like it was a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a slow start. You know, they started with losing
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Speaker 2: three of their first four and now they've only lost
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Speaker 2: one more since then, So yeah, it was it was
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a slow start, but goodness, have
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Speaker 2: they built speed and you know, it's just been really impressive.
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Speaker 2: I mean, is he Wondered really came on in the
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Speaker 2: second half last year as well. She ended up being
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Speaker 2: a Pattykaz top ten I believe, yep. And it feels
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Speaker 2: like maybe it's just that whole IVY League starting late
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Speaker 2: getting things move in. They just took them a little
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Speaker 2: bit to find their stride.
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Speaker 1: And I think this is a season where maybe there's
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Speaker 1: some spots up for grabs and towards the top of
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Speaker 1: the ECAC. So seeing that opportunity and taking it through
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Speaker 1: the middle of the season here obviously there's a long
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Speaker 1: way to go, but Princeton's really I think, kind of
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Speaker 1: taking advantage of of an opening in that we've seen
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Speaker 1: that there isn't necessarily a dominant team or hasn't been,
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Speaker 1: and they've kind of filled that role in the last
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Speaker 1: couple of months, and we assume.
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Speaker 2: That that will only sort of open up more in
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Speaker 2: the second half. Is teams are missing players towards the Olympics, right, So,
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Speaker 2: I mean we talked about this in the beginning. There
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Speaker 2: will be opportunities we you know, talk to where it
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Speaker 2: maybe more Olympics related, but generally we felt like nothing
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Speaker 2: was written in stone this year, and I felt like
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Speaker 2: it feels like Princeton is one of those teams that
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Speaker 2: really just sort of saw the opportunity and went for it.
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Speaker 1: I would. Yeah, So I'm I'm I'm interested to see
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Speaker 1: how how these next couple of weeks go, because you
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Speaker 1: start to get into that that range of winning, you know,
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Speaker 1: you get too close to a dozen games and it
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Speaker 1: feels like everything's going. When the bump hits and maybe
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Speaker 1: it's not a loss, but maybe it's a two goal
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Speaker 1: deficit or something like that, how are you going to respond?
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Speaker 1: What's the reaction going to be? Is it, uh uh,
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Speaker 1: we're in trouble, or is it look, we're fine, We've
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Speaker 1: we've done this before. Those are the kind of things
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Speaker 1: I think if if we see Princeton doing you know,
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Speaker 1: getting through those situation as well. Then I think we
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Speaker 1: know a little bit of okay that maybe is a
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Speaker 1: team that's that's growing some maturity and it's really has
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Speaker 1: a chance to be a big factor toward the end
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Speaker 1: of the season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and put it a pen in those thoughts, because
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Speaker 2: we'll come back to what do you do when you
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Speaker 2: haven't face diversity when we talk about the U eighteens.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I agree, it's it's a bit of a
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Speaker 2: time poster. How are you going to say it? Like
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Speaker 2: you do? I the prestige of going undefeated for a
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Speaker 2: long time is great, but I do think you don't
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Speaker 2: learn as much about yourself as a team. You obviously
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Speaker 2: are getting everybody's best and that helps, but I do
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Speaker 2: think that you need to go through some of that
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Speaker 2: stuff and learn how you react in those situations and
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Speaker 2: also learn to trust yourself and trust your instincts and
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Speaker 2: that you're sort of well trained and well practiced enough
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Speaker 2: that you don't like you don't lose those things if
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Speaker 2: you're not using them like you just you have the instincts,
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Speaker 2: you know what to do, you know how to react
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Speaker 2: in that situation, and particularly when we're talking you know,
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Speaker 2: younger players, collegiate aged players who you know are in
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Speaker 2: some of these situations, you know early on in their careers.
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Speaker 2: I think it's really important to go through that bout
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Speaker 2: back and learn to trust yourself and so yeah, I
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Speaker 2: think there's massive things that can be learned through a
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Speaker 2: stretch like this, so be interesting.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we will return to Acca hockey in a minute,
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Speaker 1: but I want to get to the first round of
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Speaker 1: the bean Pod that happened on Tuesday at Walter Brown
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Speaker 1: Arena in Boston. A couple of weeks go bu Boston
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Speaker 1: University and Harvard played for a championship and that was
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Speaker 1: all the way over in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Well, they're
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Speaker 1: gonna play for one a lot closer to home next
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Speaker 1: week Tuesday at TD Garden in Boston because they both
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Speaker 1: won semi finals. Harvard won two to one over Boston College.
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Speaker 1: Kaylen McDonald with the goal ahead goal in the second
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Speaker 1: period and easily tough. He stays on a pretty good
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Speaker 1: heater here, making forty saves for the Crimson to get
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Speaker 1: through the semis and then be you upsets the Northeastern
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Speaker 1: two to one in overtime. May carry with a power
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Speaker 1: play goal in overtime to win that one. Mary Peterson
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Speaker 1: thirty five saves and so it's be you at Harvard
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Speaker 1: again for a championship. That's I don't know that we
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Speaker 1: necessarily would have predicted that in Belfast or in the
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Speaker 1: Bean Pod.
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Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. Yeah, the whole thing again, eya chaos
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Speaker 2: and that's not all hockey's but okay, happy East raigns
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Speaker 2: with the chaos. But yeah, I you know, maybe that
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Speaker 2: was the we should have taking. That is the sort
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Speaker 2: of what it foretold of what we were going to see.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure they're much happier. They don't have to have
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Speaker 2: flown overseas to have done this, Not that it wasn't
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Speaker 2: a fun trip, but I think they'll be much happier
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Speaker 2: playing at TV Garden. And yeah, I think it'd be interesting.
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Speaker 2: I think, you know, I was just looking at stats
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Speaker 2: and it says Ainsley tough. He's only played eight games,
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Speaker 2: but the way that she has played, man, I feel
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Speaker 2: like she's going to be in some end of the
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Speaker 2: season conversations and we're going to get get into that,
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Speaker 2: you know, how many games versus right opponents, you know,
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Speaker 2: like when someone's played a whole season or not. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: she has just been standing on her head outstanding for Harvard.
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Speaker 2: But I also, you know, just want to show it
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Speaker 2: like they're not a team I thought was going to
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Speaker 2: score a bunch either, and they're They're not winning the
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Speaker 2: games just because of her, So yeah, I would not
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Speaker 2: have predicted it. I think it's gonna be a lot
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Speaker 2: of fun. I think it's cool. I don't think it's
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Speaker 2: great for anybody when the same people win over and
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Speaker 2: over again, and like we see that in the w
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Speaker 2: c CHA. I think at some point we need to
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Speaker 2: see au switch up there too, right for people to
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Speaker 2: to not be sort of sick of it. But it's
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Speaker 2: good to see different teams getting this opportunity. And I'm
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Speaker 2: glad that. I think it's very hard for us. We
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Speaker 2: talked about this the best hard for us in the
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Speaker 2: Midwest to wrap our head around the import of the
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Speaker 2: bean Pot book. I'm glad that it's teams that you know,
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Speaker 2: on paper aren't the ones that people thought were going
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Speaker 2: to raise it. One of them is going to get
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Speaker 2: the chances year and that's pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've gone this far into the show this week
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Speaker 1: without mentioning what may be the play of the season
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Speaker 1: and That's why I apologize for that, because well, Abby
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Speaker 1: Murphy is is. I talked about heaters man all season long,
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Speaker 1: has been a heater for Abby up to fifty points now.
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Speaker 1: But her assist on Bella Finale's first of two goals
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Speaker 1: in a four to three win against Minnesota State on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, go go find it. It's
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Speaker 1: if you haven't, I mean it's it's all over social media,
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Speaker 1: it's always been on TV. It's I mean it's it's
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Speaker 1: a juggling act really, the puck. She lifts the puck
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Speaker 1: up and then swats it down between the the defender's
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Speaker 1: legs on a rush. Not like she's standing still, she's moving.
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Speaker 1: She's on the rush up the left side.
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Speaker 2: It was a lacrosse move. I'm not familiar, but I
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Speaker 2: guess I could see it.
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Speaker 1: But yes, I guess.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a better word.
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say it's better in hockey because it's
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Speaker 1: a little trickier probably in hockey. But yeah, and then slides. Yeah, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: And if Bella doesn't finish that one and and we
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Speaker 1: we miss out on that highlight, it's so good for
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Speaker 1: her for I.
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Speaker 2: Mean, she did get it. Out of bladder. It was
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Speaker 2: a pretty the perfect passover.
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Speaker 1: Just un But that was a the finish of a
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Speaker 1: a series that the Gophers got some revenge against Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: say who swept them earlier in the season eleven of
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Speaker 1: three on Friday and Mankato the Gophers one and then
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Speaker 1: four to three back home in Minneapolis on Saturday. But
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Speaker 1: that play is we're.
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Speaker 2: In touchdown dunes that like that game is still in question.
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Speaker 2: Like to me, that adds to the I mean, nobody
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Speaker 2: is surprised that Abby has either the skilled nor the audacity.
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Speaker 2: But also Abby's not Abby's got very a lot of happyaque.
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Speaker 2: She's very smart. Like to do that you have to
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Speaker 2: know in that situation, like when your team is still
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Speaker 2: fighting for a win and it would be a very
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Speaker 2: bad loss to lose to them again, Like you have
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Speaker 2: to know you're going to pull that off, and she
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Speaker 2: does like to have the wherewithal to do it on
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Speaker 2: its own. It's you know, it's like when we've talked
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Speaker 2: about Nela Lupushinova from from Slovakian and some of the
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Speaker 2: stuff she's done, Like to know that you can do
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Speaker 2: that in a game and actually have the hutzpud do
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Speaker 2: it is it one thing, it's a whole other thing
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Speaker 2: to actually pull it off, and then a third to
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Speaker 2: have done it in this situation where like it would
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Speaker 2: have been massive if she was pulling stuff like that
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Speaker 2: screwed it up and her team lost, like you don't
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Speaker 2: be back, adds a whole different level. So yeah, I
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Speaker 2: just this is the sort of stuff that makes Abby
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Speaker 2: a player that everybody loves and everybody loves to hate.
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Speaker 2: This is the stuff where I'm like, when you can
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Speaker 2: do that, please stop with the other silly stuff and
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Speaker 2: just be the spectacular player that you are. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: like audacity is the best word I have, Like the
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Speaker 2: audacity to just be like yep, noobiy beale.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's no way that we don't see that
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Speaker 1: on a Patty Cas Top ten you know video or
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Speaker 1: you know whatever, whatever we get to the Saturday showing finalists,
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Speaker 1: whatever she is by that point, and when she gets flucked,
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Speaker 1: you knowing.
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Speaker 2: The Olympics, when she gets selected to the feed up,
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Speaker 2: like that's following.
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Speaker 1: Her right absolutely, and and good for her. I want
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Speaker 1: to say this, Abby, good for you for doing that
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Speaker 1: on a night when there are more cameras in the
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Speaker 1: building because that was on BTN.
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Speaker 2: Yes, this is Big ten network, not just on BAT Plus.
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Speaker 1: So it was a televised so there's extra cameras. There's
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Speaker 1: an ISO shot of it. Was it was great perfect,
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Speaker 1: absolutely had to have those extra cameras in there to
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Speaker 1: capture that a few different.
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Speaker 2: Ways this happened. In another rink, we'd have one very grainy,
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Speaker 2: distant view of it, and so like rit Or alone,
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Speaker 2: we would have had better. But the fact that it
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Speaker 2: was the BTN broadcast one like listen, I'm not saying
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Speaker 2: Addie knew that, but I just think, like, gosh, where's
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Speaker 2: the lucky because imagine that happened and we didn't even
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Speaker 2: get like the camera view to get to see it.
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Speaker 2: The fact that we have it from like seven different
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Speaker 2: angles just a plus all around. I just Abbie can
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Speaker 2: rum everybody's nerves the wrong way, but I just think
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Speaker 2: you cannot deny what a special player she is. Spectacular
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Speaker 2: and like the conversation about this went huge, Like what
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Speaker 2: this did for women's college hockey this week, just a
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Speaker 2: plus massive.
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Speaker 1: Yes, let's build on that more and more. I mean
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Speaker 1: not saying you're gonna get plays like that every week,
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Speaker 1: but there there's usually something every week that you're like, oh,
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Speaker 1: that was pretty cool, and it doesn't always reach the masses,
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Speaker 1: and that you know, we'll try and help amplify a
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Speaker 1: lot of those plays when we see them, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: this one didn't need it didn't need our help to
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Speaker 1: get amplified. It was that good on its own. I
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Speaker 1: want to get to a couple more results before we
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Speaker 1: take a quick break. Penn State and Mercy Herris played
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Speaker 1: two top teams in Atlantic Hockey America. Penn State obviously
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Speaker 1: with a huge lead in the league, so I don't
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Speaker 1: think there's a lot of question there of who's finishing first.
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Speaker 1: But Mercy hers came back after a three nothing Penn
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Speaker 1: State win on Friday last week to get a four
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Speaker 1: to three overtime win over the Niitney Alliance on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: coming back from a goal down three times. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Julia Paerhus a hope, that's right, something like that with
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Speaker 1: a six on four goal with minute seven left to
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Speaker 1: tie it, and then Peyton Evans scores in the last
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Speaker 1: minute of overtime to give the Lakers that win. Didn't
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Speaker 1: hurt Penn State in the NPI. There's still fourth, but
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Speaker 1: it's you know when you when you see lost in
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Speaker 1: a while, I know that right well, I mean it
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Speaker 1: is an overtime loss, so it's not a full loss,
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Speaker 1: but yes, that's that. That to me is a I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it was an off day for Penn State.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a really good day
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Speaker 1: for Merciers, combination of them both, or just the kind
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Speaker 1: of one of the results that you get. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you play enough games against each other, there's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a lot of familiarity. You're gonna know where you
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Speaker 1: need to push another team, and I mean you get
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Speaker 1: that point.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes, and there's no team that wants to beat Penn
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Speaker 2: State more at that point than Merciers. You know, they've
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Speaker 2: they've taken control of the league, but Mercierhurst has beaten
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Speaker 2: them on occasion in recent years, and so like they
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Speaker 2: know that what they're capable of. And yeah, the coming
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Speaker 2: back down is the part that made it so good.
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Speaker 2: I think just mercier Is showing like they were not
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Speaker 2: going to lose that game. Every time Penn State to
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Speaker 2: the lead, they fought back. So I wish I could
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Speaker 2: have seen more of it, but yeah, it was it
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Speaker 2: was a lot of fun. Either texted dot after like, oh, Merciers,
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Speaker 2: just because it's fun to see these when when it's
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Speaker 2: a foregone conclusion who's going to win, you know, the conference.
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Speaker 2: It feels like it's fun to see these types of
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Speaker 2: these types of games, and that is a big boost
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Speaker 2: for Mercy Hurst.
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Speaker 1: Yes, let's that I said didn't hurt Penn State. But
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Speaker 1: there are some results that did hurt teams last weekend.
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Speaker 1: Clarkson's down to number thirteen in the NPI now after
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Speaker 1: five times five to five tie with Cornell on Friday
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Speaker 1: and then a five to two lost to Colgate on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: This is a a team that we've kind of been
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Speaker 1: on the lookout for all season. It feels like it's
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Speaker 1: like there's been officers, been downs. It's it's kind of
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Speaker 1: trended a little but the wrong way recently, and now
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Speaker 1: they're they're in a spot where they're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: do some digging to get into a UHN at large
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Speaker 1: position for for the NCAA tournament if if uh if
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Speaker 1: that's where they want to get.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that five to five tie was Those are two
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Speaker 2: teams that are usually very defensive, so yeah, it cut
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Speaker 2: certain for now. Five five tie was a fascinating result. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I E C A C is gonna be
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Speaker 2: hard and you can't drop points you need to have
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Speaker 2: and yeah, I don't know. I you combine the fact
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Speaker 2: that the e c AC was going to be like
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Speaker 2: this anyway with Princeton going on their heater, and it's like, uh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: those are suddenly and because all of them have dropped
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Speaker 2: in the rankings, suddenly they're the NPI. It's are just
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Speaker 2: that much harder. But yeah, I the bottom seven or
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Speaker 2: so of the poll right now is is fascinating and
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Speaker 2: uh definitely. Uh feels like there's just a lot of
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Speaker 2: meant and be a lot of opportunity. I feel like
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Speaker 2: we're gonna get ended up with some very surprising final
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Speaker 2: at large bid just based on how volatile that bottom
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Speaker 2: bit has been.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, seems like it. In the w c H a
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Speaker 1: Ohiose State got a sweep at Saint Cloud's State four
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Speaker 1: nothing Friday and five to one on Saturday, and then
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Speaker 1: in Duluth, Minnesota, Luth got a one to one tie
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Speaker 1: with with Wisconsin on Friday and then won the shootoutv
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Speaker 1: gascon made thirty eight saves and then stopped all three
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin tries in the shootout in that one to one draw,
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Speaker 1: and then Wisconsin came back with a five to one
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Speaker 1: win on Saturday, Leila Edwards gold in two assists and
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Speaker 1: Lacey Eden three assists. We were talking a little bit
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Speaker 1: before we started recording that, you know, which which the
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Speaker 1: lift team are we going to see day to day?
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Speaker 1: And I don't know that we have an answer to
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Speaker 1: that there. It's what we kind of what we saw
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Speaker 1: a little bit at the tournament in melf Asked was
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Speaker 1: surprising at points. Then you know they're they're pretty good.
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Speaker 1: And when they when they came back in the third
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Speaker 1: period in that first game against Harvard, correct if I'm
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Speaker 1: remembering that right. But and then we see them play
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Speaker 1: some really good stretches against Wisconsin and they only get
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Speaker 1: two points out of six for the weekend, which you know, okay,
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Speaker 1: it does something, but absolutely, but you felt like there
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Speaker 1: was more available to them in that series.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I guess my thought is like, why why
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Speaker 2: is it only against Wisconsin or in the third period
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Speaker 2: of a game that you should have been dominating from
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Speaker 2: the beginning based on you know, Raygiek, isn't your output?
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Speaker 2: Like why what do they need to be doing to
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Speaker 2: showing up for those full sixty minutes, because I think
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Speaker 2: even in the TI against Wisconsin, like you said, I
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Speaker 2: think that probably should have been their game to win,
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Speaker 2: and only getting the tie and the shootout out of
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Speaker 2: that is like probably a bit of a disappointing result
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Speaker 2: having watched some of that game for them, And so, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I it's you know, I mean that's mostly mentality, right, Like,
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Speaker 2: that's not about skill. I mean, obviously I think f
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Speaker 2: Gascon playing the way that she does plays a huge
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Speaker 2: part in being able to keep teams like you know,
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Speaker 2: Wisconsin off out of out of the net. But uf
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Speaker 2: D can score more than that too, Like so they Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I said to you, I was like,
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Speaker 2: is there anything to say other than like wtf, Like
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Speaker 2: which team are you? I don't know that I have
18:35
Speaker 2: like a lot further analysis other than like I wish
18:38
Speaker 2: they or else could figure it out because I'm very
18:40
Speaker 2: confused by m D at this point.
18:44
Speaker 1: Added to the list of teams that are using for
18:47
Speaker 1: me this season. Honestly, I feel like there's been a
18:50
Speaker 1: lot on that on that list.
18:52
Speaker 2: Yes, we could say conversely to like Wisconsin, you probably
18:55
Speaker 2: should have if you could go out and win five
18:58
Speaker 2: to one in the second game. What were you doing
18:59
Speaker 2: in that scene where you were like on the verge
19:02
Speaker 2: of losing it? So I think you could make that
19:04
Speaker 2: argument in the opposite direction as well. Wisconsin seems to
19:07
Speaker 2: only show up fully what like two thirds to three
19:12
Speaker 2: quarters of the time, and I think they're getting they've
19:15
Speaker 2: they've gotten some of their wins based on being a
19:17
Speaker 2: very talented team as opposed to playing a good game.
19:20
Speaker 2: So that's team itself that I can have that conversation about.
19:25
Speaker 1: Sometimes absolutely new hot results in the last few weeks
19:30
Speaker 1: have have made for an interesting situation top of the
19:33
Speaker 1: standings there. It was not that long ago that sant
19:37
Speaker 1: Anselm had a pretty comfortable lead. So much anymore, Yeah,
19:42
Speaker 1: not so much. Now it's only one point over Franklin Pierce.
19:45
Speaker 1: After last weekend, Franklin Pierce beat Sacred Heart three to
19:49
Speaker 1: two in overtime with a Kaylee Murphy goal, and then
19:51
Speaker 1: three to one, I mean, while st Anselm lost to
19:54
Speaker 1: stone Hill four to one and then four to three
19:56
Speaker 1: in overtime. So all of a sudden, Franklin Pierce eight
20:00
Speaker 1: to one to one in their last nine and Saint
20:02
Speaker 1: Anselm O four and one in their last five and
20:06
Speaker 1: game on I.
20:07
Speaker 2: Mean, herefore, I hate that. You know, two weeks ago
20:11
Speaker 2: we were ready to write it off like bad on us.
20:13
Speaker 2: But yeah, but I like Franklin Pierce to me, is
20:17
Speaker 2: I just ever since that I think I've said this,
20:19
Speaker 2: but they had that postseason like two years ago where
20:21
Speaker 2: they just went nuts like they shouldn't. There was no
20:24
Speaker 2: reason they should be winning the games they were. They
20:25
Speaker 2: should absolutely were believe in themself is when nobody else did.
20:29
Speaker 2: And so I just think there's just kind of an
20:31
Speaker 2: aura there in a belief in a way that that
20:34
Speaker 2: allows them to just really go out and not feel
20:38
Speaker 2: like they're out of any game, which is an amazing
20:40
Speaker 2: mentality to have. So again, there's almost an opportunity for them,
20:44
Speaker 2: and they've they've taken it, like because a lot of
20:45
Speaker 2: people could have looked at that hugely and been like
20:47
Speaker 2: it's over, you know, and and san Anselm isn't taking
20:52
Speaker 2: care of their business, and Franklin pierces so good on them,
20:55
Speaker 2: and things could be really fun next six weeks or so.
21:00
Speaker 1: That's that's what we're here for when it comes out
21:02
Speaker 1: to the end of the season. Yeah, all right, we're
21:04
Speaker 1: gonna take a quick break. When we come back, it's
21:05
Speaker 1: time to talk to the U eighteen tournament. Where Nicole is.
21:08
Speaker 1: What's what we've seen so far and what's coming ahead?
21:11
Speaker 1: Stay with us on the podcast. Welcome back to the podcast.
21:22
Speaker 1: Todd Nicole here with you to talk about the U
21:25
Speaker 1: eighteen World Championship that's going on in Sydney, Nova, Scotia.
21:30
Speaker 1: What's the other city that's in Sydney, Nomber two.
21:34
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, that's where we were to start and
21:36
Speaker 2: move to Sydney for right, Yes.
21:38
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, exactly. So we've seen the US pretty much
21:46
Speaker 1: dominate three games that it's played. Jane Daly hat trick
21:50
Speaker 1: in all three games, the Ohio State commit that's pretty impressive. Yes,
21:58
Speaker 1: sixteen year old. We've seen Canada win three games, get
22:03
Speaker 1: challenged early in a couple of them, but end up
22:05
Speaker 1: with pretty comfortable margins. Where does that leave us as
22:09
Speaker 1: we're going into the quarterfinals starting on Thursday, then with
22:12
Speaker 1: the semi Saturday and the metal games on Sunday? What what?
22:16
Speaker 1: What are you feeling about how things are looking there? Now?
22:20
Speaker 2: Two things. The first is that we have seen that
22:23
Speaker 2: a team that gets beaten in grew round by a
22:27
Speaker 2: squad can still come back and give that same team
22:32
Speaker 2: all kinds of trouble in the metal rounds. You know,
22:35
Speaker 2: check you upsetting Canada two years ago, things like that.
22:40
Speaker 2: So like, it's not everything these opening round results. I
22:43
Speaker 2: think teams this is I always say this is the
22:46
Speaker 2: weirdest tournament because it both goes very fast and very slow,
22:49
Speaker 2: like it is only a week long, but it feels
22:51
Speaker 2: when you're in it. I mean, and there's you know,
22:53
Speaker 2: up to six games and there's a lot that can
22:55
Speaker 2: happen and learn and grow and change over the course
22:58
Speaker 2: of a tournament for a team, which feels ridiculous to
23:01
Speaker 2: say about a week, but it is very true that
23:03
Speaker 2: you will see you will have watched the team day,
23:05
Speaker 2: wanted the team on the last day, and have seen
23:07
Speaker 2: that growth. So I don't want to put too much
23:11
Speaker 2: on the opening round results. That being said, I like
23:17
Speaker 2: we all thought Chechia in their first period against Canada
23:20
Speaker 2: was like showing that they are here to stay and play,
23:23
Speaker 2: and then they ended up losing what nine to two,
23:26
Speaker 2: and afterwards the Chechia coach was like, yeah, that gap
23:28
Speaker 2: is bigger than ever, So that was like really surprising.
23:33
Speaker 2: And it does feel like we're on a crash course
23:36
Speaker 2: for US and Canada. Again. US has allowed just one
23:40
Speaker 2: goal it was uh nolla on the power play. They
23:44
Speaker 2: have not faced any adversity, they haven't had to come
23:47
Speaker 2: from behind. They've been in base of control of every
23:51
Speaker 2: game they've played. Even when you know sort of the
23:53
Speaker 2: coaching staff is like, oh, there were things we didn't
23:55
Speaker 2: like or whatever. I wasn't heavy with that period like this,
23:58
Speaker 2: there's still scloring four goals in that period. It's like, okay,
24:01
Speaker 2: I mean I get it from a coach's side, but like,
24:03
Speaker 2: you know, they're fine. And then I would say I
24:07
Speaker 2: would have said that about Canada as well. But yesterday,
24:09
Speaker 2: so we didn't score it first, and then I think
24:11
Speaker 2: at one point pull it down to a three two
24:14
Speaker 2: lead right after that, and then Canada pulled away. And
24:17
Speaker 2: I think that's the sort of stuff, like I said,
24:18
Speaker 2: put a pin in it, we'll come back to it.
24:20
Speaker 2: Is that part where you go down by a goal
24:22
Speaker 2: when you've been blowing out opponents, like how do you respond?
24:25
Speaker 2: How do you react? And so I think important part
24:27
Speaker 2: for their for Canada was not just reacting to the goals,
24:30
Speaker 2: but also like not getting pushed out of their system
24:33
Speaker 2: or not playing panicked or any of those sorts of things.
24:35
Speaker 2: Like they actually got better when they were pressured, and
24:38
Speaker 2: so that sort of I think helped settle them into
24:41
Speaker 2: their game and sort of push out the noise and
24:43
Speaker 2: let them focus on doing what they know best. So
24:46
Speaker 2: I think, you know, the question mark for the US
24:48
Speaker 2: is is what will they do when they get pressured
24:51
Speaker 2: like that? And for them, it's most likely going to
24:52
Speaker 2: be in the semi finals, which it's it's rough to
24:55
Speaker 2: have that be the first time. Uh, And if you're
24:58
Speaker 2: gonna need to make a jo usman's or have a
25:01
Speaker 2: gut check, there's not a lot not a lot of
25:04
Speaker 2: rooms for her for mistakes or error. Is there. You
25:07
Speaker 2: either win that came and play for a gold, or
25:08
Speaker 2: you lose the game and play for bronze or nothing.
25:10
Speaker 2: So that I think is the biggest concern. But the
25:14
Speaker 2: US is probably as deep as I've seen them. They're
25:18
Speaker 2: just there's kind of scoring at will on all their lines.
25:21
Speaker 2: Like you said, Jean Daily, it's just absolutely skating circles
25:24
Speaker 2: about everybody and like they're not it's not like empty netters.
25:28
Speaker 2: They're not like cherry picked like She's scored some pretty goals,
25:32
Speaker 2: so yeah, nine goals through three games is just absolute bonkers. Again,
25:36
Speaker 2: she's sixteen, just kind of nuts. Yeah, So I think
25:41
Speaker 2: for the question is can someone upset those two teams?
25:45
Speaker 2: And I mean the closest team to do that is
25:47
Speaker 2: Sweden or Chechia, And so those are the teams that
25:50
Speaker 2: I'll be paying attention to through quarterfinals and semifinals. And
25:54
Speaker 2: then what happens with US and Canada when they're not
25:58
Speaker 2: sort of able to play and move the pucket will
26:00
Speaker 2: which they have both pretty much been able to do.
26:04
Speaker 1: All right, So the quarterfinal schedule Thursday is Sweden against Slovakia,
26:10
Speaker 1: Chechia versus Switzerland, US against Hungary, and Canada against Finland again.
26:15
Speaker 1: Then there's a day off Friday before we get the
26:19
Speaker 1: semifinals with the championship game on Sunday. Do you I
26:25
Speaker 1: mean it feels like it's a US and Canada. We're
26:29
Speaker 1: careening towards that. Again, like most years, not to say
26:32
Speaker 1: it's it's a given like we saw two years ago.
26:37
Speaker 2: Well, I mean two of the last three years US
26:39
Speaker 2: or Canada didn't play in the final game. So like
26:43
Speaker 2: I do think that it's a possibility, and I don't
26:45
Speaker 2: want to downplay that, but both teams are just really
26:49
Speaker 2: strong and really deep and really fast. And I think
26:54
Speaker 2: what everybody has said. We asked them, the Swedish players
26:57
Speaker 2: and the Swedish coach sort of what's the difference between
27:00
Speaker 2: playing in the SDHL and here, and they said the
27:02
Speaker 2: SDHL is more physical, but this is faster. So this
27:05
Speaker 2: is the U eight eats even faster than the Swedish
27:08
Speaker 2: Pro League, which is just interesting, like just a good
27:11
Speaker 2: comparison to know. But the biggest thing that all the
27:15
Speaker 2: teams like have an issue with or or struggle with,
27:20
Speaker 2: is yeah, not having that time and space to make decisions.
27:22
Speaker 2: And so at the top level they're going to adjust
27:24
Speaker 2: to that. At those those top teams, the lower levels
27:27
Speaker 2: don't really know what to do there. They are still
27:29
Speaker 2: at a speed of game where they they are stopping
27:31
Speaker 2: and thinking about everything, and so when there is no
27:34
Speaker 2: space for that, like they're just they're kind of frozen.
27:37
Speaker 2: And so that's, you know, that's what makes it difficult,
27:39
Speaker 2: and that's really the biggest thing that happens. It's like
27:42
Speaker 2: you can't muster any offense and you can't pull onto
27:45
Speaker 2: the pucket there's constantly someone in your pocket, and if
27:48
Speaker 2: you're not sort of at that level and if you
27:51
Speaker 2: and your team aren't meshed enough where you can just
27:54
Speaker 2: make a pass to know that somebody is going to
27:55
Speaker 2: be there, then you're constantly just turning the puck over.
27:57
Speaker 2: So that's really the biggest difference that see sort of
28:01
Speaker 2: between the levels. And then so the four teams that
28:04
Speaker 2: lose the quarter finals the two with the lowest seeds,
28:06
Speaker 2: and the teams were seeded after the round, the group round,
28:11
Speaker 2: that's how they kind of figured out. There's a one
28:13
Speaker 2: through four in each of Group BANG, Group B, and
28:16
Speaker 2: then we cross anyway, the two lowest seeds left will
28:18
Speaker 2: play in the relegation game. So last night's game, the
28:21
Speaker 2: very last game of the group round was Hungary versus Switzerland,
28:24
Speaker 2: which was honestly one of the most fun games of
28:26
Speaker 2: the tournament for you to watch, just because they were
28:29
Speaker 2: they were all matched, they're at a similar place and
28:32
Speaker 2: just a lot of heart, and those teams were playing
28:34
Speaker 2: to not play in the relegation game. I mean, technically
28:36
Speaker 2: one of them could upset, there could be things, but
28:38
Speaker 2: like in the end, one of them needed to have
28:40
Speaker 2: a win to be seated higher to not be the
28:42
Speaker 2: fourth team in their group and bopefully not playing the
28:45
Speaker 2: relegation game, and so playing with that heart and playing
28:49
Speaker 2: with that pride just really made that just a spectacular game.
28:53
Speaker 2: And you know, their fans that are here are family,
28:55
Speaker 2: and so just the crowd is so involved, the hockey
28:59
Speaker 2: dad along the r we're a plus the whole time
29:02
Speaker 2: it was. It was a lot of fun to watch,
29:04
Speaker 2: and I felt really bad for Hungary, who are up
29:06
Speaker 2: for the first time in fourteen years, that they ended
29:10
Speaker 2: up losing a very close game, So good for Switzerland.
29:13
Speaker 2: The pure joy they had on the ice was great
29:16
Speaker 2: for a regular group round game. But also it's just
29:20
Speaker 2: we mostly get the team that was promoted last year
29:23
Speaker 2: gets relegated this year, and Hungry will be looking that
29:28
Speaker 2: in the face again this year. So kind of a bummer.
29:31
Speaker 2: Always one of the harder parts about it, because you
29:33
Speaker 2: do really want to pull for these teams, but I guess.
29:36
Speaker 2: And then the secondary this prize has been Finland, who
29:39
Speaker 2: has done not a whole lot with their games and
29:42
Speaker 2: honestly could be also on a course for the relegation
29:45
Speaker 2: of the game, which is kind of shocking to be quite honest.
29:49
Speaker 1: All right, before we move on, I want to just
29:52
Speaker 1: get some thoughts on, like, what's the atmosphere like there?
29:55
Speaker 1: What what do you what are you noticing? What are
29:57
Speaker 1: you feeling? What's what's it like being in that building
30:00
Speaker 1: for I mean, there's a couple of days there, it's
30:02
Speaker 1: four games, there's a couple of days, whereas two games,
30:04
Speaker 1: I'm sure the two game days are are lovely when
30:07
Speaker 1: you only have the two as opposed to back to
30:10
Speaker 1: back and missing out on games because you're in the
30:12
Speaker 1: mix zone and things like that. But just give us
30:14
Speaker 1: a feel for what it's been like.
30:16
Speaker 2: This is probably the one that's been the most supported
30:19
Speaker 2: by like local folks, meaning that like the local team
30:22
Speaker 2: is selling out the arena when they're playing. We did
30:25
Speaker 2: see that a little in Sweden, but not so much
30:26
Speaker 2: in the group round games. But one of the weird
30:29
Speaker 2: things out of a four game days like we had,
30:31
Speaker 2: Canada is the third game of the day and then
30:33
Speaker 2: Switzerland Hungry is the fourth game, and the energy level
30:37
Speaker 2: inside the arena was slightly different. You know, it fills up,
30:40
Speaker 2: it's very loud, all the Canada fans are there, and
30:42
Speaker 2: then it feels incredibly quiet after. But ticket sales wise,
30:47
Speaker 2: we've sold out every one of the Canada games, which
30:50
Speaker 2: at the arena was like twelve fifty. I don't I
30:52
Speaker 2: think there were still, you know, quite a bit empty
30:54
Speaker 2: because corporate sales and things like that. But so it's
30:57
Speaker 2: been a full and loud building and then a lot
31:00
Speaker 2: of the country parents bring you know, the Swiss have
31:03
Speaker 2: cow bells and the Slovakia parents have a drum and
31:06
Speaker 2: some horns which you said you can hear very loud
31:10
Speaker 2: through the rabost.
31:11
Speaker 1: You could very very well on TV as you can.
31:14
Speaker 2: And so it's fun and it is. There have been
31:17
Speaker 2: some school kids for some of the day games, which
31:19
Speaker 2: has been fun. So and there's just a well, this
31:22
Speaker 2: is the first time that I've been doing this. So
31:25
Speaker 2: Member two is part of Native First Nations Land and
31:29
Speaker 2: I am not going to attempt to announce the tribe.
31:31
Speaker 2: I apologize for not saying it, but I would rather
31:33
Speaker 2: not say it than screwed up. But there's been a
31:36
Speaker 2: very large presence. Like the player of the game, we're
31:37
Speaker 2: getting hand beaded flowers, which is the flower of I
31:41
Speaker 2: think Novascoptia. It might be where I'm Cape Bretton, which
31:43
Speaker 2: is a separate Island, which is part of Nova Scotia,
31:45
Speaker 2: but it's also its own thing. That's where I keep
31:47
Speaker 2: getting confused. Doesn't matter, So they're they're getting that, and
31:51
Speaker 2: there's been a there's just a presence with First Nations
31:54
Speaker 2: and so that's just been a very cool and important
31:56
Speaker 2: part of this. So that rink is is on First
31:59
Speaker 2: Nations Land, and I'm I think it's really cool that
32:02
Speaker 2: we did that and made that a part of this
32:06
Speaker 2: tournament this year. And so now we will move into
32:08
Speaker 2: Sydney proper for the They have a well I don't
32:11
Speaker 2: remember the league, but they have a team here, like
32:13
Speaker 2: they call themselves Hockey Town here and we're in their rink,
32:17
Speaker 2: and I keep laughing because I keep hearing radio commercials
32:19
Speaker 2: about their team on their extended road trip, and it's like,
32:22
Speaker 2: I know that's happening, but I know the gold Mill
32:25
Speaker 2: game is sold out and that ridenc has about six
32:27
Speaker 2: thousand seats, so that should be amazing. And people in
32:30
Speaker 2: town know, like they're like, oh, why are you here,
32:33
Speaker 2: because people don't this is a stumber destination. People do
32:36
Speaker 2: not come here in the winter. So that's been fun
32:39
Speaker 2: and talking to some of the Nova Scotians, I mean,
32:40
Speaker 2: they never could have imagined a tournament like this happening
32:45
Speaker 2: in their hometown when they were younger, Like the idea
32:47
Speaker 2: that young girls get to see this, and I think
32:49
Speaker 2: we feel that everywhere, but like in Canada, where hockey
32:52
Speaker 2: is so big, Nova Scotia is sort of so removed
32:55
Speaker 2: and so far to the east, and we don't see
32:57
Speaker 2: a ton being out here. It's like why Willian's World
33:02
Speaker 2: was supposed to be a Halifax and got canceled. That
33:03
Speaker 2: was a big deal because this is a growing area
33:07
Speaker 2: of girls hockey participation and I've heard locals talking about
33:10
Speaker 2: like they you know, they didn't have girls when they
33:12
Speaker 2: were younger and things like that. So the town has
33:16
Speaker 2: been super supportive and that's been fun, and people have
33:18
Speaker 2: just been really excited that we're here, which is nice.
33:22
Speaker 1: Great. All right, we will get the full rundown of
33:26
Speaker 1: the the the final three rounds of the tournament the
33:30
Speaker 1: next week's show, and I'm sure we'll get maybe more
33:33
Speaker 1: of the feel of what the metal ceremonies are like
33:38
Speaker 1: from you after that then too. We're gonna take another
33:40
Speaker 1: quick break and when we come back, we'll talk about
33:42
Speaker 1: what's coming ahead this week in NCAA Women's Hockey Stay
33:44
Speaker 1: with us on the podcast. Welcome back to the podcast,
33:55
Speaker 1: Todd and Nicole with you. Let's wrap things up this
33:58
Speaker 1: week with the look at some games to watch this
34:01
Speaker 1: weekend and then into Tuesday. I say Tuesday because that's
34:05
Speaker 1: the bean Pot Final day at TD Garden in Boston,
34:09
Speaker 1: the third place game Northeastern against BC Championship game Harvard
34:13
Speaker 1: and BU. That third place game is important for Northeastern.
34:19
Speaker 1: It's head well. I believe it has lost two of
34:22
Speaker 1: their three games since break. You don't want that to extend,
34:26
Speaker 1: especially when they're in a pretty good position in the NPI.
34:30
Speaker 1: You don't want that slip. I don't want to, you know,
34:34
Speaker 1: have a game here or there hurt you. Maybe take
34:38
Speaker 1: a take a sure thing in the NCAA tournament at
34:43
Speaker 1: the end to a question going in the last couple
34:46
Speaker 1: of weeks. But the final should be pretty good. And
34:50
Speaker 1: I hope that the crowd is as good or better
34:53
Speaker 1: as it was last year at TD Garden. I think
34:55
Speaker 1: there was thirteen thousand some last year, a really good
34:59
Speaker 1: showing and and let's hope that repeats itself.
35:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, and I hope that even if it
35:07
Speaker 2: isn't like even if your team didn't make the final
35:11
Speaker 2: that people were expecting or hoping to be able to
35:13
Speaker 2: be there that like go for both games and stay
35:15
Speaker 2: and really support and show out for women's hockey college
35:18
Speaker 2: hockey in Boston.
35:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, ECAC. There's a number thirteen Yale hosting Number
35:26
Speaker 1: twelve Colgate on Friday, and number ten Cornell on Saturday.
35:31
Speaker 1: Kind of in that next range of ECAC teams looking
35:35
Speaker 1: to make a jump. Obviously a lot of work to
35:39
Speaker 1: be done by all three of those teams really to
35:43
Speaker 1: make the second half a little bit better than the
35:45
Speaker 1: first half was in terms of being up and down.
35:47
Speaker 1: And I'm sure they'd like to get to a more
35:49
Speaker 1: consistent a set of results in a positive way, but
35:55
Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily seem to be the way things are
35:58
Speaker 1: going in this mushy middle and ecuh, I guess middle
36:02
Speaker 1: the upper middle of the standings where it's it's really
36:07
Speaker 1: tough to figure out who's who's uh, you know, got
36:11
Speaker 1: a leg up on anyone else there.
36:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're all on the border of the NPI
36:20
Speaker 2: and the ability to the tournament, right, Like, it's not
36:23
Speaker 2: just about conference standings, but every one of those teams
36:25
Speaker 2: is probably on the outside looking in at the NC
36:29
Speaker 2: Tournament at this point. So yeah, at Colgate has done
36:33
Speaker 2: that thing again where they're they're winning important games, and
36:37
Speaker 2: I it's hard to believe them right now. I just
36:40
Speaker 2: I don't know. I want to see them, you know,
36:44
Speaker 2: be pulling out there those men's consistently. But alos the
36:46
Speaker 2: Biederman has been having a great season and continues to
36:50
Speaker 2: sort of be pulling that team and hopefully they put
36:54
Speaker 2: a run of them together because it feels like a
36:56
Speaker 2: little like UFD, like they're playing well in the good
36:58
Speaker 2: games and then maybe not bringing their full arsenal when
37:02
Speaker 2: it's an unlinked opponent and then those games are hurting them.
37:07
Speaker 1: Yeah. Number two Ohio State back on the road this
37:11
Speaker 1: week at number fourteen Minnesota State. I would I remember
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Speaker 1: Minnesota State being close to a win last season at
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Speaker 1: home against Ohio State. I think was it an overtime
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Speaker 1: game something like that. They had a chance to win
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Speaker 1: an overtime and but to Ohio State came down and won.
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Speaker 1: That's what I have stuck in my head. Anyway, So
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Speaker 1: we know that Minnesota State has the potential to do this.
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Speaker 1: I just am wondering how much last week's the first
37:42
Speaker 1: game against Minnesota was a shock to the system, but
37:47
Speaker 1: then again they came back and more right in that game.
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Speaker 1: The second day against Minnesota, had the lead but then
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Speaker 1: did lose the lead, lost the game. They need some results.
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Speaker 1: It's me a lot. It's not going to be any
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Speaker 1: easier this week against how State than it was against
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Speaker 1: Minnesota though, No, but I was.
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Speaker 2: Sorry talking about this made me realize we should talk
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Speaker 2: about how Joy Dunn played defense last week and was
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Speaker 2: the WHA defender of the week. I believe that's because
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Speaker 2: of injury. Ohio State has been down some numbers all
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Speaker 2: seasoned with different injuries, and since I'm here, I did
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Speaker 2: not get the time to go look at different line
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Speaker 2: sheets and do some of that detective work. But yeah,
38:26
Speaker 2: it'd be interesting to see what happens there. Again, I mean,
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Speaker 2: obviously she's a threat from everywhere on the ice, and
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Speaker 2: also like they're not missing, like there's plenty of other
38:37
Speaker 2: people that could score les up front. So but that
38:40
Speaker 2: is an interesting turn event and it would be kind
38:43
Speaker 2: of funny to me that if we were seeing between
38:45
Speaker 2: the Layla transition and now Joy, just that it's happening
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Speaker 2: in the same year. Obviously for some different reasons. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that was a one off experiment
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Speaker 2: or by necessity or a more permanent transition, but something
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Speaker 2: to look out for if you watch those games.
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Speaker 1: Yes, uh, Saint Cloud State is playing at number eight
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Speaker 1: Minnesota Duluth. I'm I'm curious to see which both which
39:11
Speaker 1: of both of these seems we get agreed. Yeah, Saint
39:14
Speaker 1: Cloud State can can be right there with teams. They
39:18
Speaker 1: can also look like they're really far away from teams,
39:21
Speaker 1: and I can really I can say the same about Duluth.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes they take care of games that they should and
39:30
Speaker 1: they make some games a lot more difficult than they
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Speaker 1: should be. So there's a there's a little bit the
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Speaker 1: watch on both sides of this one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I still think that Minnesota Dalluth is scoring
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Speaker 2: fewer goals, and I think maybe they should based on
39:45
Speaker 2: who's in their lineup and feacing Saint Cloud State with
39:48
Speaker 2: a strong defect and consistently good goaltending, it's not going
39:51
Speaker 2: to get any easier. And I think I think that's
39:54
Speaker 2: a thing that maybe I didn't talk about before with UMD,
39:57
Speaker 2: but I do think that if they're going to be
39:59
Speaker 2: a team that wants to do more and go further
40:01
Speaker 2: and possibly put you for a title this year. They've
40:04
Speaker 2: got to find a way to get the puck in
40:06
Speaker 2: the net more often. And it can't just be Caitlin Kramer,
40:10
Speaker 2: but there are talented goalstup scores on that roster and
40:12
Speaker 2: they've they've just got to be putting up more than
40:14
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, what was it the two goals
40:16
Speaker 2: last weekend, Like that's just it's not gonna cut it.
40:20
Speaker 1: Princeton puts that loven game winning streak online against Harvard
40:26
Speaker 1: on Friday, Dartmouth on Saturday, both of those home games
40:30
Speaker 1: at Hobie Baker Rink for Princeton. Let's see how how
40:34
Speaker 1: far this goes, right I I would think you know
40:38
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be they would be favored to win
40:40
Speaker 1: both of those games. You do never know how how
40:43
Speaker 1: one night's gonna gonna go. But yeah, if they can
40:48
Speaker 1: get the thirteen wins in a row, you're starting to
40:50
Speaker 1: look at Yeah, that's that's a third of or more
40:53
Speaker 1: than a third of an ECAC team season. So that's
40:57
Speaker 1: that's impressive.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. On the interesting room is another team where I'm
41:01
Speaker 2: never sure, Like obviously they've they've won some big games
41:03
Speaker 2: and shown how they can play. But also they played
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Speaker 2: on Tuesday, and they're going to play again on Tuesday,
41:09
Speaker 2: and now they're playing in the middle of that, and that's
41:11
Speaker 2: that's just a lot. And and you know they've been
41:14
Speaker 2: on from overseas for ten days and just all of it,
41:17
Speaker 2: so that will also be interesting to look at as well.
41:19
Speaker 2: I think I think that could be a game that
41:22
Speaker 2: is either going to be super close or I think
41:23
Speaker 2: going to be a blow and I don't feel like
41:24
Speaker 2: there's any in between.
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Speaker 1: None. The more I think of it, ivy teams play,
41:31
Speaker 1: is it only thirty games, so they're they're already a
41:35
Speaker 1: third of a winning streak of a third of their season.
41:38
Speaker 1: So no, that's truly when you put in those those
41:42
Speaker 1: those that perspective, that's that's pretty impressive. Okay. You can
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Speaker 1: see all the schedules of all the games on us
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Speaker 1: c h O dot com. What uh you want to
41:55
Speaker 1: mention some some more about the UA Team Tournament and
41:57
Speaker 1: where you can find those games to watch as are
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Speaker 1: coming up this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, USCA games have been on NHL Network because it's
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Speaker 2: TSN in Canada the broadcast set, but in doing putting
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Speaker 2: up the links for Victory Press for tomorrow. I saw
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Speaker 2: that all of these games are listed on ESPN ESPN
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Speaker 2: Plus for this week, so starting with tomorrow's US Hungry
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Speaker 2: quarterfinal and the Canada Finland quarterfinal. I believe this show
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Speaker 2: is local to me times, so five o'clock here, I
42:29
Speaker 2: the time sounds me on but anyway, which is an
42:33
Speaker 2: hour ahead of Eastern, right, yes, that's why that's why pause.
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Speaker 2: I was like, I don't even know, because what time
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Speaker 2: lifelsted with rank tomorrow, nobody knows. It is scheduled at
42:40
Speaker 2: five o'clock here, so four o'clock Eastern, three o'clock Central,
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Speaker 2: et cetera. And then the Canada game to follow right after.
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Speaker 2: Those are both listed on ESPN Plus, as are the
42:52
Speaker 2: games on Saturday and Sunday. So if you do not
42:55
Speaker 2: have NHL Network like I do not, that should be
42:59
Speaker 2: a much easier, less extensive way to watch those games.
43:02
Speaker 2: So that's on ESPN FUS. As I said, I've looked
43:05
Speaker 2: up like they're the schedule and it's upcoming and filtered
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Speaker 2: it for hockey, and those are all showing, So good
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Speaker 2: luck with that. I hope that's true and that people
43:14
Speaker 2: are able to watch it. IHEF also has something you
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Speaker 2: can subscribe to. I am writing about everyone of the
43:21
Speaker 2: games on Victory Press and both tweeting and using blue
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Speaker 2: Sky to share stuff from within the rink, and then
43:28
Speaker 2: also putting photos and things on Instagram. My Instagram is
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Speaker 2: at Nicole Hasey fourteen, blue Ska and Twitter are just
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Speaker 2: at Nicole Hasey. Uh follow year. IHF does not allow
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Speaker 2: a video from inside, so I'm not sharing video. It's
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Speaker 2: all tell photos. My apologies.
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Speaker 1: Well that's why you got to watch the games, yeah
43:49
Speaker 1: on ESPM plus or NHL net work or follow along
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Speaker 1: on your Twitter, right all right? Uh, well, hope you
43:56
Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of your trip and the safe travels
43:59
Speaker 1: back and enjoy you know, the rest of the games. Uh.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's it's fun stuff and it's gonna
44:05
Speaker 1: get really interesting towards the last few days. Yeah, all right.
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Speaker 1: For Nicole on Todd, thanks for listening to the podcast.