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Seg 3 - MHOC Coach's Show w Tyler Helton 3-4 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome back to the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show. We're live at bear Smoke House
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  Barbecue. We gave CAV a few segment off segments off because taler Helton,
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  the associate coach, has joined us actually in person. Dan Connelly's here.
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  Nice to see Dan from the Yukon blog and love it. Tyler's here here.
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  Let me just move that there off your microphone. There are you go?
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  First time? Or first of all, thanks for coming in. How
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  you doing good? How are you? I'm doing great things? So tell
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  us what your your roles are as the associate coach? What are some of
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  your responsibilities? So I work mostly with our d and then both special teams
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  right now and then obviously recruiting a lot now like I'll go to Iowa next
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  week. So for the US watching the USHL stuff, yeah, just go
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  checking out a couple of our guys. How is that league? I mean,
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  you see a lot of kids recruited from the USA HO But what about
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  the style of Hockey's brand of hockey there? Yeah, it's a unique brand.
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  It's heavy, it's fast, it's hard to score. It's a very
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  defensive league. So if you're able to put up points, in that league,
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  you're going to be a good college hockey player for us with the USHL
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  versus, say, you know, the BCHL one of the other big ones
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  that I think we see. Do those leagues bring in kids kind of knowing
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  the style that the league itself is, or can guys kind of end up
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  in either league? Doesn't really matter? Yeah, I think guys end up
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  in either league. Yeah. I think especially in the USHL you get drafted,
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  so you don't really have a choice of the team you go to,
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  and the BC League you can kind of go wherever you want, so it
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  gives you a little more freedom to do what you want. Both leagues are
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  really good. Obviously, we got good players from both leagues. So are
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  there anyone you could talk about that's coming in next year? Yeah, we
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  have I think all of them are signed. So we have Katan Shahan,
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  who's leading the USHL and goals right now, okay, and then Ethan Wickcomb
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  he's top ten in scoring in the USHL. And then Ethan Garduola is from
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  mass he's about a pointing game in the USHL. So we're gonna have some
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  Ethans and Jakes next year. Yeah, we're gonna have a lot of Ethans
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  and Jakes, and then Mike Murtaz up and the BHL. He second in
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  scoring for upfront. So I think we're bringing us pretty good forwards and we
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  feel good about the d we're bringing in. All three of the d that
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  we have right now are playing in the USHL. Wow. Yeah, now,
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  okay, go ahead, And I don't want to put you under the
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  gun here, but the you know, are any of those guys drafted already
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  property of or are they still potentially Oh, there's still potential. Yeah.
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  I think probably three of them have a chance to go, and if they
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  don't, I think they all have opportunities to play pro after right, right
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  point and sign Tyler. What's your most fun spot to go recruiting? The
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  Northwest? The Pacific Northwest? I mean you can't. Yeah, I start
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  at the top. I like going to the Pacific Northwest. I don't mind
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  the Midwest. I grew up in Colorado, so I don't mind going out
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  to a little while on Lincoln and stuff like that, so feel a little
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  more home. We're gonna have Oliver Flynn on and then a couple of segments
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  here, and he mentioned he was he committed early you always wanted to play
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  here, lived in North Carolina for a few years after he was born.
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  Was a big Eric Stall fan. But tell me about your recruitment process of
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  a young mister Flynn, mister four point oh as I like to call him
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  now. Yeah, it was kind of interesting because I knew him for a
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  while. I've known him since he's like fifteen years old. And then there
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  was a rule change of he couldn't offer kids till August first, and he
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  was repeating his year at Loomis and he drove up and before he enrolled to
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  be a sophomore Agan and said, I really want to come to Yukon and
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  that's where I want to be. And I guess the rest is history.
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  But so I've seen him since he was basically fifteen years old now, so
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  it's been pretty cool to see him grow up. There you go, and
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  he's six to one, like two o five. Yeah, he's a big
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  kid. He's put in a lot of work, came in early in the
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  summer and put it on in a lot of work, and he works on
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  his game quite a bit and I think his best hockey's ahead of him.
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  So for you know, you talk about the recruiting and all of that as
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  you take over as the associate head coach. Mike Pereira left to go to
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  Boston University, Joe Pereira, Sorry, thank you, Joe Perera left to
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  go to Boston University. How much did you pick up from where he left
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  off and just that whole transition of making sure guys were staying in the loop.
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  Yeah, I think it was. I think Joe was great for us.
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  I learned a lot from Joe. I was fortunate to be around him
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  for a long time, so I learned a lot about recruiting. I think
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  he's one of the best recruiters in the country, and I think he does
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  a really good job. And I learned a lot from him, and I
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  try to use a lot of that stuff now. And I think, so
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  you see this class come in, I think is a really good class coming
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  in. And a lot of that has to do with a lot of things
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  I learned from Joe Tyler. What things you pick up when you're watching a
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  recruit or somebody that you're thinking thinking of recruiting to come here. I think
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  the big thing is like do they play with pace? How hard do they
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  play, what type of teammate, they are like body language stuff for us.
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  I think that's really important. Yeah, I think when we're going to
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  watch players, it's just the way we want to play is we want to
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  be fast and heavy. So when we go watch kids, we make sure
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  that and they're fun to be around at the rink. I think all the
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  guys that we recruit are they always have a smile on their face. They
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  want to be a pro hockey player at the end of the day, and
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  they come to work every day. So whether you want to lose a hockey
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  game, it's they've always got a smile on their face, which is good.
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  How do you how do you gauge that necessarily? So you go out
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  on a recruiting trip, right, You're going to go to Iowa and say,
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  it's the first time you've seen somebody not checking in on a guy who's
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  already committed. How do you balance saying, Okay, we're talking to a
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  kid after a game. He might just be exhausted, he might just be
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  you know, and try to figure out if he's your type of player.
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  Yeah, that's a hard thing. I think it's a lot of phone calls
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  and relationships with other people and talking to their coaches because they get to be
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  around him every day, similar to our players, like we get the opportunity
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  to be with them every day of the week. And then a lot of
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  people get to see him on game day and sometimes kids have bad games.
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  That's going to happen, and sometimes there are our games will go to and
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  the kids just okay. But then you've got to trust go back again and
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  see how he looks the next time, and trust the people that you have
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  relationships with. All right, take quick break, We'll have one more segment
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  with Tyler, then you'll hear the Oliver Flynn interview. We're doing the Yukon
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  Hockey Coaches Show for the final time this season live at Bear Smoke House Barbecue
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  and you hearing it on Learfield. Stay with us.