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Recapping Boston College vs. Cornell and Ohio State's shutout sweep · The PodKaz: USCHO Women's Hockey

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  Speaker 1: Uscho.com. Hi and welcome to the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Todd Mulesky here with Nicole Haase from uscho.com. We're
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  Speaker 2: here to talk about this week's activity in NCAA women's
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  Speaker 2: hockey and Nicole it was a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: lighter schedule last week. We're getting into those couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks where teams have scheduled around international breaks and around
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  Speaker 2: international play coming up for the world championship and We
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  Speaker 2: did have the Icebreaker tournament happen last week. That was
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  Speaker 2: won by Yale after a shootout win over Minnesota State.
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  Speaker 2: We had number one Ohio State playing number eight Colgate
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  Speaker 2: in a series that did not turn out like.
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  Speaker 1: A number one versus a number eight at all. Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State really ran through that one.
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  Speaker 2: But one of the big series I thought last weekend
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  Speaker 2: was was.
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  Speaker 1: Cornell and Boston College.
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  Speaker 2: And it turned out where Boston College got a 2-0
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  Speaker 2: win in the first game. Cornell earned the split 5-3
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  Speaker 2: in the second game. That one was a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a proving ground for Boston College, which we've seen
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  Speaker 2: have a decent start to the season. But here was
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  Speaker 2: a real challenge. And it looked like they did really
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  Speaker 2: well on Friday getting the 2-0 win. Sarah Power was
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  Speaker 2: scoring a power play goal in the third.
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  Speaker 1: To break a tie.
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  Speaker 2: They did get outshot pretty significantly. Ava Sador made 39
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  Speaker 2: saves for the shutout. So it's a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a question there still of, is this a team that
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  Speaker 2: can really challenge for an upper spot in Hockey East?
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  Speaker 1: Are we really knowing much more.
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  Speaker 2: About them, about the Eagles going into this week now
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  Speaker 2: after last weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, those are good questions. I do think, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's great when you're, you know, you're struggling.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I.
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  Speaker 4: Cornell outshot them like 20 to 4 in the second
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  Speaker 4: period and like that game was still scoreless when we
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  Speaker 4: came out of that frame so I think being able
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  Speaker 4: to withstand that kind of you know sort of prolonged
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  Speaker 4: pressure and and not you know get down and and
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  Speaker 4: obviously Avisador had a huge role in that but I
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  Speaker 4: think like to some extent yeah that's a I think
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  Speaker 4: you have to know that you learn that you can
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  Speaker 4: win those kind of games and that like you can't
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  Speaker 4: give up and that you know those are the sort
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  Speaker 4: of like grind you down games that you have to
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  Speaker 4: be able to pull out. So, I mean, yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: think so. I think they've proved they're at least going
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  Speaker 4: to continue to be in the conversation for.
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  Speaker 3: The top of the league.
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  Speaker 4: But I also, you know, like they also didn't get
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  Speaker 4: a weekend sweep.
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  Speaker 3: So there's that.
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  Speaker 4: But Cornell is ranked in the art. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I'm always a little scared to go on Boston College because.
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  Speaker 3: I just feel like the.
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  Speaker 4: Sort of what they show they're capable of and what
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  Speaker 4: they end up reaching is are often incongruous bits of information.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm still in the wait and see, but I
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  Speaker 4: thought they showed themselves really well this weekend. I do
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  Speaker 4: think that they're going to be in the conversation at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the season. But yeah, it'll be interesting
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  Speaker 4: once we get into Hockey East play, which is where
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  Speaker 4: things have in the past fallen apart in that I
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  Speaker 4: don't know that they're always taking the points they're supposed
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  Speaker 4: to take away from other opponents. So, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 4: it's great getting, you know, an upset win over a
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  Speaker 4: ringed opponent. I think that helps, you know, all of
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  Speaker 4: their sort of math at the end of the season
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  Speaker 4: and also just the confidence and the belief and all
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  Speaker 4: that sort of thing. So it's not as though, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Cornell came back and just, you know, ran over them
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  Speaker 4: the next day. So I think, you know, that's a
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  Speaker 4: tough team. It's a really defensive team. And the fact that.
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  Speaker 3: They still managed to get those two in and eke
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  Speaker 3: out a win.
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  Speaker 4: When they were being way outshot, I think All of
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  Speaker 4: the little details of that game is what sort of
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  Speaker 4: proves or shows what they might be capable of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, BC scoring five goals in two games
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  Speaker 2: against Cornell is not anything to be sneezed at, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that second game, Cornell winning 5-3, Piper Grover
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  Speaker 2: and Delaney Fleming both had a goal and an assist
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  Speaker 2: for the big red. Important bounce back for Cornell. You
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  Speaker 2: don't want to let something slide. And, you know, especially,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know you're going to....
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have some bumps, but when you're.
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  Speaker 2: Able to bounce back, that kind of soothes and calms
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  Speaker 2: the waters a little bit. And it's like, okay, we're fine.
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  Speaker 2: Early in the season, we're still building. I think Cornell
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  Speaker 2: is going to be happy with that response. Agreed.
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  Speaker 4: And I just like that bounce back is what we
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  Speaker 4: oftentimes don't see from BC, which is why I'm only
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  Speaker 4: bringing it up because you specifically said it about Cornell there.
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  Speaker 3: But the point is that you are going to lose games, right? Totally.
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  Speaker 4: You have one undefeated season in all of, you know,
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  Speaker 4: women's college hockey. So you're going to lose games. It's
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  Speaker 4: how you respond to that. Did you learn from it?
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  Speaker 3: Did you like come back out the next game looking
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  Speaker 3: like you're pissed off?
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  Speaker 4: You lost the one before. And that's a thing that
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  Speaker 4: something does sometimes doesn't happen from BC. So not to
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  Speaker 4: go back to them, but yeah, Cornell, I thought that's exactly,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that's a tough game for them. Cause on paper,
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  Speaker 4: they shouldn't have lost that first game, right? Like all
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  Speaker 4: the stats sort of were in their favor. They didn't
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  Speaker 4: give BC a lot of time with the puck and
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  Speaker 4: BC pulled it out. And that's why it's a great
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  Speaker 4: win for them. And I think one where Cornell can
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  Speaker 4: learn their lessons and say, sometimes you don't, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you don't get the bounces and things don't go your way.
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  Speaker 4: And how do you handle that and take it in?
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  Speaker 4: And they did all those things and came out and
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  Speaker 4: won the game the next day, which is like you said,
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  Speaker 4: sort of exactly as a coach, what you want to
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  Speaker 4: see that resilience and that ability to sort of flush
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  Speaker 4: that and keep moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: Quinnipiac has gone to the top of the CAC very, very,
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  Speaker 2: very early in the season because there's only four games
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  Speaker 2: in on the schedule there so far. Both of them happening,
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  Speaker 2: or all those games happening last week. Quinnipiac swept Union
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  Speaker 2: and RPI 4-2 against Union, 3-1 against Rensselaer to move
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  Speaker 2: to 7-1-1 on the season. Princeton right behind, but only
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  Speaker 2: because the Tigers... had a 2-1 overtime win against Union
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday after beating RPI 4-0 on Friday. Chloe Brinson
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  Speaker 2: scored both of those goals for Princeton in the Saturday
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  Speaker 2: win over Union. So they get five points on the
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  Speaker 2: weekend and Quinnipiac gets six. Very early in the season,
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  Speaker 2: but I think those are, you know, the the expected
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  Speaker 2: results and you just wonder is Princeton going to rue
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  Speaker 2: the one point loss of not winning in regulation at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the season but there's a lot more
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  Speaker 2: weekends to worry about losing points and gaining points back
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  Speaker 2: and things like that it's just good to see some
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  Speaker 2: traction being made on the ECAC schedule early in the
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  Speaker 2: season we're starting to get some games we'll get some
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  Speaker 2: more here again this next weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Too think union's a team that's probably going to steal
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  Speaker 4: some points from people on and off all season um
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  Speaker 4: we sort of talked about that in the previews the
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the ecac i think the the gap
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  Speaker 4: from them to the top of the the conference is
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  Speaker 4: is on the smaller side or one of the smaller
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  Speaker 4: gaps we've seen in recent years i think those are
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  Speaker 4: you know that's not a role over game by any
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  Speaker 4: means anymore i mean like they took they took princeton
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  Speaker 4: to overtime but um Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They very well might rue that, but I.
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  Speaker 4: Just don't think that's the last time one of the
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  Speaker 4: top few teams in the ECAC is going to drop
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  Speaker 4: some points to Union. But I want to shout out
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  Speaker 4: Chloe Brinson, as a freshman, her second straight weekend with
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  Speaker 4: an OT game winner. We were looking at the Princeton roster.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know a ton about Chloe Brinson. We were
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  Speaker 4: talking about some of the returners, and you sort of
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  Speaker 4: never know with the freshmen. We've talked about freshmen needing
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  Speaker 4: time to get up to speed. Then you add in
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  Speaker 4: the Ivy League of it all. And so she has
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  Speaker 4: come out firing and definitely suddenly very much on the
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  Speaker 4: radar for rookies in her opening two weekends.
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  Speaker 3: So good for her.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get to the top 10 series that we had
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  Speaker 2: last weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, Ohio State hosting. Number eight, Colgate.
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  Speaker 2: And I can imagine Ohio State had a challenging week
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  Speaker 2: because after going to Minneapolis, losing a game, and then
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  Speaker 2: having to really struggle to win a second game and
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  Speaker 2: rebound from that. That had to be eye-opening, and that
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  Speaker 2: had to be something that would capture their attention. And
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  Speaker 2: then they come out with a 3-0 and 8-0 wins
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  Speaker 2: against a good Colgate team and show that, look, this is.
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  Speaker 1: this is maybe who more we are.
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  Speaker 2: Just in terms of controlling games and, and not letting
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  Speaker 2: things get out of hand in, in their own zone and,
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  Speaker 2: and being the team that everyone expects Ohio state to be, frankly.
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  Speaker 2: It just felt like a look at, we talked about
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  Speaker 2: responses before Ohio state getting back to what they do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: It even like, not just the, I would say a
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  Speaker 4: 3-0 win is, like, it's perfectly fine. It's probably not
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  Speaker 4: what Ohio State wanted to do. I think the fact
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  Speaker 4: that they came out and did that and then felt like, nope,
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  Speaker 4: we can push harder and came out with the 8-0
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  Speaker 4: win in the second game is sort of what makes
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  Speaker 4: Ohio State who they are.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about sort of.
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  Speaker 4: The instinct they have in the third period to step
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  Speaker 4: it up, but, like, this is that similar idea that, like...
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  Speaker 4: they made a statement this weekend like yes there were
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  Speaker 4: some you know some falters last weekend but they played
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  Speaker 4: the number 18 country in the country uh like they
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  Speaker 4: were an unranked team like they just they took control
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  Speaker 4: of that series um and I think you know when
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  Speaker 4: they didn't think they controlled enough in.
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  Speaker 3: That first game they came out and controlled.
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  Speaker 4: The second even more so um you know they only
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  Speaker 4: had the 1-0 lead after intermission even though they were
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  Speaker 4: out shooting the Raiders like 19-2 and I just think
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  Speaker 4: that was all the little things that they would then
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  Speaker 4: go back and talk.
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  Speaker 3: About and say, like, we can do better than this.
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  Speaker 3: And then they did on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, bit of a, I think, a little statement,
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  Speaker 4: a little putting a period at the end of the
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  Speaker 4: sentence there for Ohio State to say, like, nope, this
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  Speaker 4: is what happened, you know, on Saturday or Friday and
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  Speaker 4: what happened the weekend before.
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  Speaker 3: That's not it. This is who we are. So scary
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  Speaker 3: for everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that was interesting to me is
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  Speaker 2: that Taylor Crescent scored or played both of those games
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  Speaker 2: for the Buckeyes. Yes. make nine saves yeah nine saves
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  Speaker 2: in the first game 15 in the second so not
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  Speaker 2: a ton of work but getting both shutouts um she
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  Speaker 2: was not i don't believe uh you know first choice
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  Speaker 2: to start the season or even a week ago uh
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  Speaker 2: she came in as the third goalie to play yeah
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  Speaker 2: against the gophers kind of shepherded that second game to
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  Speaker 2: the end, gets another chance these last two games against
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  Speaker 2: Colgate and does what she needs to do. I wonder
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  Speaker 2: how much that changes the future picture in goal for
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  Speaker 2: the Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 4: It will be interesting to see, like, does that mean
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  Speaker 4: she earned the starting job? Was it about, you know,
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  Speaker 4: how she did in that first game? And then, you know, earned, like,
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  Speaker 4: was the plan for her all weekend? Like, I think
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  Speaker 4: there's a whole lot of question marks there still. Because obviously,
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  Speaker 4: you know, playing those three goalies at Minnesota means things
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  Speaker 4: were questioned not that long ago.
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  Speaker 3: Good for her for earning it.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I also think I can see Nadine using
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  Speaker 4: different goalies based on sort of the relative strength of
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  Speaker 4: the opponent.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Particularly because one of the reasons they're in this position
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  Speaker 4: is because they had one goalie that played all the games.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, you know.
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  Speaker 4: you have to make sure that your other goalies are
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  Speaker 4: getting starts at times just to make sure that they
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  Speaker 4: get some experience and you're not starting from zero when
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  Speaker 4: someone graduates. So, um, I do think we'll continue to
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  Speaker 4: see some moving around, but yeah, it does feel like, um,
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  Speaker 4: Crescent at least earned the spot for now and, and,
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  Speaker 4: and is going to get those opportunities, uh, maybe until
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  Speaker 4: they think she doesn't, she's not earning them anymore. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: We will see, uh, the icebreaker tournament at, uh, Walter
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  Speaker 2: Brown Arena in Boston last weekend had finished with Yale
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  Speaker 2: winning a five-round shootout after a 3-3 tie with Minnesota State.
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  Speaker 2: The Mavericks had to come back from a two-goal deficit
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  Speaker 2: in the third period of that game.
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  Speaker 1: With a Zoe Lopez goal.
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  Speaker 2: With an extra attacker in the final minute to tie
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  Speaker 2: and force overtime. But the Bulldogs come away with the
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  Speaker 2: title after the the 2-1 win in the shootout. Boston
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  Speaker 2: University won third with a 2-1 win over Robert Morris.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get a chance to catch any of those games.
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  Speaker 2: It does feel like, you know, when you go to
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  Speaker 2: a shootout for a championship, it's, eh, no one loves that.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, that's the rules. That's what you have
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  Speaker 1: to play by. I.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think getting a tournament championship is, is a, a,
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  Speaker 2: something that can be a real boost for Yale. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're a team that's kind of on that bubble of
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  Speaker 2: like how, how, how, how nationally significant are the Bulldogs
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  Speaker 2: right now? I mean, they're ranked, but they're in that
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  Speaker 2: ranking area of, you know, not NPI top 11 rank.
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  Speaker 1: Is going to, is going to be what it turns,
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  Speaker 1: what it comes down to.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like we were, we were just, with so
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  Speaker 4: much chaos in the poll, I felt like voters were
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  Speaker 4: just like, Oh, the Ivies haven't played yet.
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  Speaker 3: Just keep voting for them. So like, yeah, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure yet. Are they a poll team or are they,
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  Speaker 3: you know, sort of, they.
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  Speaker 4: Hadn't lost a game yet. So they got to still
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  Speaker 4: be ranked, which is about, I'm not laughing at Yale.
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  Speaker 4: I'm laughing at sort of the poll situation that happened
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  Speaker 4: coming into the last few weeks. Yeah. I, I'm, I
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  Speaker 4: think an, I don't know that I learned anything about Yale.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I learned quite a bit about Minnesota State, right? Like,
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  Speaker 4: I think that was a really good performance for them.
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  Speaker 4: And if Yale is a nationally ranked team and is
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  Speaker 4: one of the top teams in the ECAC, then Minnesota
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  Speaker 4: State played a heck of a game and sort of
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  Speaker 4: proved their point is like, I mean, at this point,
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  Speaker 4: we're talking about them.
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  Speaker 3: As like sixth in the WCHA. Fifth or sixth, depending
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  Speaker 3: on the week between them and St. Cloud State.
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  Speaker 4: So like, that's a, that's a, putting five goals up and,
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  Speaker 4: you know, taking that to the overtime.
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  Speaker 3: And the penalty shootout.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like I want to, like, put a
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  Speaker 4: pin in this game and come back to it when
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  Speaker 4: I know more about what Yale is this season because
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure that we have a full.
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  Speaker 3: Grasp on that yet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's fair because, and we could probably
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  Speaker 2: say the same thing about a couple of dozen teams
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  Speaker 2: really right now because.
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  Speaker 3: Fair, but they're quite literally Yale's first games.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we're at that point where we've seen some games,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't know... I don't know that a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the games we've seen were sure of the level
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  Speaker 2: of competition between both sides yet. And that's something where
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  Speaker 2: it really does shake out when you get in November
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  Speaker 2: and when you come back in January that those games
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  Speaker 2: start to like, okay, now we know who... If you
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  Speaker 2: look back at the October games, these games might have
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  Speaker 2: meant more than these other ones because... these teams have
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  Speaker 2: really proven themselves throughout these first couple months of the season.
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  Speaker 2: And it's hard to say that now. We know, though,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a Wisconsin-Ohio State, a Wisconsin or, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State-Minnesota or those kind of games are going to
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  Speaker 2: be significant because of the quality that we know they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be at the end. Northeastern games are going
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  Speaker 2: to be big. It's going to be, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: Cornells and Quinnipiacs of the world are going to be
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  Speaker 2: important games for teams.
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  Speaker 1: To match up. in, and from there we'll kind of
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  Speaker 1: see it shake out the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 4: Right, the fight for like 8 to 11 is going
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  Speaker 4: to be all of those teams that are currently ranked
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  Speaker 4: somewhere to from 7 to 15 or not ranked at
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  Speaker 4: all yet. I think too, we at that point, as
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  Speaker 4: we've been kind of been joking about the polls, the
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  Speaker 4: polls early on are very Vines-based. It's like, what did
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  Speaker 4: they look like last year? Do I think that their
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  Speaker 4: freshman class looks decent? So like, It can be hard
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  Speaker 4: to shake off, like, a game is only surprising if
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  Speaker 4: you had different expectations going into it. So, like, every
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  Speaker 4: team is playing with our expectations of what we thought
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  Speaker 4: they'd look like coming into the season. And so, like,
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  Speaker 4: right now it's hard to be like, oh, yes, I
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: did or did not expect that outcome. And so something
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  Speaker 4: that may be surprising now might not shake out that
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  Speaker 4: way and vice versa. We might look back and be like,
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: that should have been, that should have surprised us at
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  Speaker 4: the time.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's unfortunate, but it's just kind of how it is.
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  Speaker 4: You can't with the nature of college sports is the
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: roster is going to turn over. So you can't, you know,
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  Speaker 4: do anything but look at what they did before and
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  Speaker 4: try and predict based on the incoming players. And so
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  Speaker 4: I do think that sometimes we get caught up in
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  Speaker 4: what we expected a team to do versus versus what
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  Speaker 4: they're actually doing in the season.
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  Speaker 2: You wanted to mention, I believe, a Manist sister double
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  Speaker 2: from last week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Clarkson definitely. Well, I was unsure.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like maybe I got a little bit of
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: a soft spot for Providence based on we interviewed their
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  Speaker 4: interim coach and just sort of how things went for
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  Speaker 4: them in the offseason. And so I've been thinking like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: maybe this is a team that's going to cause some
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  Speaker 4: waves and be one of those teams that can steal
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  Speaker 4: some points. And so I was unsure what this matchup
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: was going to look like. And then Clarkson did pretty
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  Speaker 4: securely handled it with 5-1 and 6-1 wins. And on Friday,
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  Speaker 4: The score chart goes Kate Maness, Sarah Maness, Sarah Maness,
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  Speaker 4: Audrey Knapp, Kate Maness, Kira Hurry. So it was a
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  Speaker 4: Maness sister double-double, I guess. And yeah, Sarah made the
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  Speaker 4: Canadian national team.
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  Speaker 3: They're young and really.
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  Speaker 4: Talented, and they're going to make some big waves here
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  Speaker 4: for the Raiders. the Golden Knights, and so, yeah, something
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  Speaker 4: to watch out for there is just what we keep
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  Speaker 4: seeing over and over, and it's Les Codons, I believe,
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  Speaker 4: or Les Codons, if we go French-Canadian, don't know, sorry,
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  Speaker 4: but also on the line with them, and they're just
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: working really well together right now.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else jump out at you after last week's slate
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  Speaker 2: of games?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Mercyhurst and UConn? Mercyhurst got a tie with the Huskies.
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  Speaker 4: If we're talking about sort of BC and what the
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: top of Hockey East looks like, I feel like maybe
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  Speaker 4: UConn struggled a little more than we would have thought
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  Speaker 4: or might have planned on at 3-4-1 at this point. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they got those two big wins over Clarkson,
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  Speaker 4: but then the two losses to Princeton, both by a goal,
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  Speaker 4: one in overtime, and then bounced back this week with
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: a win over Mercyhurst, but then a tie. So they
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: head into Hockey East play next week. They got Holy
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Cross this week, a coming weekend in Boston College the
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  Speaker 4: weekend after. So I feel like they're going to get
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: right into it and see what happens. But I feel
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: like they need, you know, a couple wins, a couple
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: conference wins to really feel like they're a team that's
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: going to, you know, push Northeastern at the top of
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  Speaker 4: Hockey East this year.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been a little up and down.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that being said, they scheduled a pretty tough,
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  Speaker 4: ranked early season, and so good for UConn in that way,
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  Speaker 4: and they came out with some wins and losses. But yeah,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: the Mercyhurst tie, I feel like the AHA is surprising
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: me overall, right? Like, we've seen Syracuse get some wins,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: we've seen Lynnwood be more competitive, and now Mercyhurst getting
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: this tie with UConn. Could be interesting to be paying
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  Speaker 4: a little more attention to what the AHA is doing
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  Speaker 4: out there.
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  Speaker 2: That's important, just in the big picture, is that the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: AHA has a a place at the table really of
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: being a, not just a Penn state conference of being
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  Speaker 2: a conference that can have some teams that are able to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at least be competitive and be in mashups with,
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  Speaker 2: with higher ranked teams. And I think that's going to
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: end up being a really important part of how the
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: season plays out is, you know, what, who's going to
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: get dinged by, by some AHA teams and we've seen
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: it happen already and there's a decent chance it's going
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: to happen again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, not to say, like, Minnesota beat Lindenwood
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  Speaker 4: 11-0 on Thursday, but only won 5-2 on Friday. And,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: you know, obviously it's still a loss for Lindenwood, but, like,
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  Speaker 4: that's a really competitive game for them against the number
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  Speaker 4: two team in the country. So, you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: it's all those little things you have to look at.
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  Speaker 4: I think, you know, you look at that matchup with Minnesota. Sorry,
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: I keep saying all the wrong team names. Minnesota versus Lindenwood,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: and you think the 11-0 result. So I was impressed
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: with Lindenwood. Like, that was a decently close.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Game for a while. They played a Thursday-Friday series.
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  Speaker 4: So Friday's game, the second game in the series, was
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: not just a huge blow. And to come back after
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: that kind of loss, I was impressed with Lindenwood for that. So, yeah,
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: like you said, just to be competitive and to not
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: be sort of a wash on the schedule. And I
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: think we just, we need to keep seeing that. And
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: I also think, you know, Penn State is its own
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: beast all on its own, but also then you add
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: in the Big Ten.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: School of it all, like the AHA schools are quite small.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: And so I think it's good to see some of
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: the smaller schools being able to make that push when
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: we're talking, you know, it's like why it's great that
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: like Quinnipiac and Clarkson and maybe Northeastern is on the
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: edge of enrollment. We're talking about some of this, but
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: you know, like, UConn, kind of a big school, like
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: some of the teams that we talk about. So it's
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: really good when we see some of these smaller universities,
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: even Syracuse, like hockey, they don't even have men's hockey.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: So like, yes, it's a good big athletic school, but
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: not on the hockey side. So yeah, I think it's
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: just good overall for like, this sport is maintained by
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: those smaller programs and those smaller universities. And so I
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: think those players and those programs can feel pretty maybe
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: put upon or just like depressed against some of those
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: big state schools. So it's always good to see when
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: we're seeing that from some of those other programs.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: All right, that's going to wrap it up for our
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: early edition of the podcast for this week. For Nicole Haase,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Todd Molesky. We will talk to you later this
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  Speaker 2: week with a look ahead at this coming weekend's games.