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Seg 6 - MHOC Show w Mike Cavanaugh Dec 1 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: At Jardino with you here at Barrett Smoke House, Barbecue
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  Speaker 1: and downtown Hartford to wrap things up on the Yukon
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  Speaker 1: Hockey Coaches Show with head coach Mike Kavanaugh. Big thanks
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  Speaker 1: to you than Gardula and kaijan Veria for hopping on
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  Speaker 1: with us earlier today. Just a couple of really well
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  Speaker 1: spoken young men we got there.
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  Speaker 2: They are they you know, that's a great class we
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  Speaker 2: have there too, and both of them are instrumental and
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  Speaker 2: making that, you know, a very productive group, you know,
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  Speaker 2: between Ethan and Mike Mertz and Kai and Trey Scott kayden.
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  Speaker 1: Z.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good group.
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  Speaker 1: We got some social media questions, we solicited some and
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  Speaker 1: here we go.
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  Speaker 2: H nothing from Dan Toscano, right.
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  Speaker 1: No, nothing from Dan. One from Dan Frank though. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what is the thing that.
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  Speaker 2: You liked?
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  Speaker 1: Which player is your first half, most surprising, most impressive
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  Speaker 1: player for you in terms of a guy that you know,
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  Speaker 1: really put it all together so far.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a tough question to answer, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's probably you know, Mike Murtaga. I thought
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  Speaker 2: he was a good player. I knew he was going
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  Speaker 2: to be a good piece of the puzzle for us.
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  Speaker 2: This year. If you told me that he was going
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  Speaker 2: to be one of our leading scorers to this date,
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  Speaker 2: that would have surprised me. So that's why I would.
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  Speaker 1: Say him at this point. Andrew Larkin on social media said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, last year you talked about the NCAA tournament
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  Speaker 1: and how that was a goal or are you still
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  Speaker 1: putting those type of goals in front of the guys
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  Speaker 1: here in early December.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're focusing more on right now a
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  Speaker 2: regular season championship. You know, I think we start focusing
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  Speaker 2: on the NCAA tournament in the second half of the year.
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  Speaker 2: We certainly haven't played our way out of it. The
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  Speaker 2: first half of the year. You don't win any trophies,
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  Speaker 2: but you can certainly play your way out of some
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  Speaker 2: of them. And I think we've played well enough that
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  Speaker 2: we're in contention for all of those trophies. But right now,
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  Speaker 2: with our opponent coming up, Merrimack College, they're a league opponent,
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  Speaker 2: and those are you know, that's six big points we
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  Speaker 2: have in front of us this weekend, so that's what
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  Speaker 2: we're focused on.
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  Speaker 1: One more it was Nathan s game on the line
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  Speaker 1: penalty shot, Joe Dan Brosio or Bob Joyce, which of
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  Speaker 1: the two broadcasters are you sending out there to take
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  Speaker 1: the penalty shot? To neither? I think the look on
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  Speaker 1: your face is neither.
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  Speaker 2: Can I send Dan Conley?
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  Speaker 1: There you go? Randy actually plays?
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  Speaker 2: Why? I think I'm gonna send Randy?
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's perfect. We were talking with Ethan Garduella
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  Speaker 1: and he had mentioned about Sioux City and just how
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  Speaker 1: that's a place that he spent some formative years and
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  Speaker 1: that there are five guys on this aster from there.
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  Speaker 1: Is there something to that? Because I know sometimes coaches
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  Speaker 1: build relationship with other coaches. Is there anything for us?
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  Speaker 2: I certainly have a great relationship with coach Kurzner out there,
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  Speaker 2: But I think some of it's coincidental because Cayden was
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  Speaker 2: there before Ethan got there, and Taber was there before
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  Speaker 2: any of them got there.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Kevin Fitzgerald.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's just kind of I think coincidental that
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  Speaker 2: they all wound up there in some ways. Now, we have,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, a great relationship with him, and if
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  Speaker 2: he asked us about a player that we have committed,
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  Speaker 2: I'll say, sure, yeah, we'd love to have him go
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  Speaker 2: with you. So with all this, we don't. We don't
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  Speaker 2: they have to draft the players. It's not like we
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  Speaker 2: can say this is where we want you to go play.
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  Speaker 1: So, having said all that, is there a favorite restaurant
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  Speaker 1: when you see sus City? Is there's like do you
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  Speaker 1: have on all these different spots and juniors, do you
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  Speaker 1: have restaurants.
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  Speaker 2: Certain places that you like to go to. I can't
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  Speaker 2: say there's one particular one. It's city. A couple you
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  Speaker 2: know's wanted debut Omaha, bove it, you know, Lincoln.
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  Speaker 1: Some sponsor like the coach, thanks so much. He'll get
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  Speaker 1: a full all right six points this weekend against Merrimack,
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  Speaker 1: and then enjoy your almost month well away from games,
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  Speaker 1: but plenty of work to be done.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, well when did we back on again? January?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, some time in January.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll give you some time away from enjoy the holidays,
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  Speaker 2: Happy new Year, and we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: You in twenty absolutely, and we'll see you at the
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  Speaker 1: rink on Saturday, four o'clock puck drop three forty five
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  Speaker 1: pre game show for Wyatt. Poor Chris. I'm adam so
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  Speaker 1: long from Bear Smoke Cole's Barbecue.