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Episode 8: Nicole checks in from Switzerland, Cornell makes a move in ECAC · The PodKaz: USCHO Women's Hockey

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  Welcome back to the podcast on Todd Molluski. Nicole Hasey is with us as
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  always, but she is in Switzerland. Nicole, how are things in Switzerland?
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  And remind people why you're in Switzerland here please? Yeah. Absolutely,
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  I am in Zook, Switzerland right now for the IHF twenty twenty four eighteen
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  Women's World Championships. So we are. We just completed day four work.
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  It's a little after midnight here, and yeah, so we have one more
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  day of group play tomorrow, quarterfinals on Thursday, and then we have an
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  off day on Friday. So I am exhausted, but it's great. It's
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  a great place to be and uh yeah, looking forward to the off day
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  for sure. But yeah, it's just been a lot of time in a
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  hockey arena in the middle of Switzerland where it's warmer and less snowy than it
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  is back at home. Well, yeah, we're getting a bit of a
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  snowstorm in the Midwest today. But what's the best thing you've seen there so
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  far? Either in the rink on the rink ooh, the best thing I've
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  seen? Well, I was on top of a mountain outside of Zurich at
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  a little hotel that like basically everything in Zurich. Zurich does winter really well,
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  so like you expect the Christmas markets and things, but those clothes before
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  New Year's and then basically they still everywhere still has like outdoor seating and fire
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  pits and like lap blankets and fur coverings, and it's just like they continue
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  to live outside now. As I said, it's like quite comfortable for people
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  that you know, experience winter. I mean, most of the time I
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  was in Zurich, I didn't even wear my winter coat. But yeah,
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  just this, it's like it's just such a vibe. It's just so cozy
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  and comfy, and you're just sort of like, yes, I would like
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  to live winter like this. I feel like when there just gets really dreary
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  and it's actually been kind of drizzly and not snowy here, and so like
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  that could have been really depressing and it wasn't because there's just like cozy vibes
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  everywhere. So that's the best non hockey thing I've seen. The best hockey
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  thing I've seen is Chloe Perano. Yeah. I was gonna bring that up
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  as kind of the natural transition to inside the ring because we mentioned last week
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  that This tournament is made up of all kinds of people you're going to see
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  in the college level. It's starting next year and then years beyond. Uh.
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  And Chloe Primurano is showing herself to be acad He's ready for that,
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  I think. Yeah. So the it's been interesting. Some of the best
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  players are have been her, Kaitlyn Kramer of Canada, who I'm sorry Chloe
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  is committed to Minnesota. Kaitlyn Kramer is committed to UMD. Abby Stonehouse for
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  Canada is committed to Penn State. I'm doing the sof memory, so I
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  really hope I'm getting it right. And whom Oh, Josie Saint Martin from
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  the US, who just is this like small, bubbly, outgoing, wonderful
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  person that goes out there and just picks her shot with this like lethal,
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  deadly precision that you're just sort of like, well that's not fair. So
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  yeah, the way that she can just whip off a shot sort of off
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  balance, being pushed away, having the pope checked. And did I say
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  she has committed to Ohio State. So those are the ones that have stood
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  out to me specifically this year. Emma of the Nucio, who's a Wisconsin
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  commit has been quite good. She was very good last year. She's just
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  got this crazy shot from the blue line. And there is a Yukon commit
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  on Canada that I'm missing. Adela Chapelova from Chechia has also been great.
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  We knew, no, she's great. She's played several USE eighteen tournaments and
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  senior tournaments. At this point she's seventeen and has I think two Senior World
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  Championships under her belt. She committed to Wisconsin, so it's actually interesting.
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  And then I've just gotten to see a couple more players that are playing in
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  North America, either at Shaddocks or Stanstead College or a few of the other
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  prep schools, and so I think that we'll be seeing some of those players
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  coming into the NANCA system soon as well. And then sort of non committed
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  players players from other countries. Hill dispense In from Sweden has just been been
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  off the charts. Good Finland is struggling this year, but they have an
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  outstanding forward that was leading in points through the first couple of days. I
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  think it's Emma Echo Luolmo, and she's been really fun to watch, like
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  a great scoring release, but also really quick, really fast and so yeah,
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  it's been a lot of fun so far. I think there haven't been
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  too any surprises. Really. US started slow, but I think I expected
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  that. I don't know if everybody else did, but just looking at their
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  younger roster, and they were they were really sloppy to start their first game,
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  looked much better by the end, and looked even better in their second
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  game. So they play Sweden tomorrow, I'm sorry, they play Sweden,
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  so we don't know. So on Wednesday, I think Sweden, which is
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  a rematch of the bronze medal or I'm sorry. The semi final match from
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  the twenty twenty three tournament in Sweden that Sweden won upset the US and kept
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  them from their first ever the first time they didn't the US didn't make the
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  gold medal game, so US definitely has a little revenge in mind. But
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  Sweden has returned most of their players, and so they they felt like last
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  year they went in with a lot of returners but didn't know what they were
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  capable of. Now they know they can play in the gold medal game,
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  and so they are looking for revenge as well of their own, not in
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  the US. Just they want to they want to be competing for a goal,
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  right, so yeah, it would be really interesting. But Canada is
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  stupid good. Yeah I knew coming in, but like they're probably even better
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  than you could have imagined, so I can't imagine they're going to be dethroned.
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  It's it doesn't seem like there's been much that's gone contrary to what we
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  expected going into this so far from a results wise team, right, results
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  wise, and maybe losing that early game Techia being one and two in their
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  opening round is probably the most surprising, but that's not super surprising. But
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  like that's that's as far as it gets. Like, it's it's been pretty
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  as we expected. And like I think Germany is better than you would expect
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  from a team that just got promoted. Mm hmmm, just like from a
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  skill like they match up. Obviously, they're they're still losing their games and
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  you know, it's not been going great. But having watched them in Switzerland
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  back to back, I was like, is Germany the better team? Is
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  Switzerland the one that's going to get relegated? I don't know so well,
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  And like you mentioned, there is one day to go. We're recording this
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  Tuesday night in the States. And when early, very early Wednesday morning where
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  Nichols in Switzerland, and so the US Sweden game is the early game Wednesday
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  morning, so probably this podcast probably going out right when that game is going
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  on. And uh, then so that's for the top two spots in Group
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  B, and then Switzerland Slovakia for the bottom two spots. Then we start
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  going to the quarterfinals and then it's one game knockout, so a lot of
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  heading into the quarterfinals and then we received again heading into the semi finals.
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  So the women U eighteen used to have a different format and this is like
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  what people are more familiar with with like World Juniors and things like that.
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  It's the same format this time around. So yeah, that US Sweden game
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  is important in terms of where they end up in the quarterfinals and what opponents
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  o'll get. Yeah, well let's take a real quick break here. When
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  we come back, bring it and talk about what's happened in the NCAA hockey
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  landscape in the last week, and we will look ahead to what's coming up
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  this week, So stay tuned for the more on the podcast. Welcome back
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  to the podcast. Todd Maluski here, Nicole Hasey there. As in really
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  there. She's joining us from Switzerland, as we just mentioned before the break,
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  she's over there for the U eighteen Women's Worlds. But let's bring it
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  back to the US now. What we saw last weekend, and there were
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  some really consequential in theory games in THECAC hockey between the top four teams playing.
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  You know, it got the travel partnership going, and this was the
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  weekend that they all met up. And I don't know that we necessarily saw
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  a lot of clarity out of it, other than Cornell coming away with two
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  wins, beating Clarkson in overtime on Friday and then beating Saint Lawrence three to
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  one on Saturday. The other results Colgate beating Saint Lawrence on Friday and then
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  Clarkson beating Colgate won nothing on Saturday. I guess maybe as much what was
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  that I thought that's clear as much thank you, yes that that that's a
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  better way of getting at what I was trying to to say there that we
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  we had a little bit of of After Friday, it is starting to think,
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  well, okay, here's here's a direction we're going in ECAC, and
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  then on Saturday it's like hit the Brakes. Let's let's wait for some more
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  results to come in. Uh. The Friday game that the Cornell over Clarkson
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  UH, that is Lily Delianidis with the overtime goal. UH. And then
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  on in at Colgate the seven three win darg Greg with a goal in three
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  assists. Saturday, Cornell winning three to one over Saint Lawrence Analie Bergmann twenty
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  eight saves. And then the one nothing Clarkson win at Colgate, Dominique Petrie
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  with a first period goal, Mischelle Passechnik thirty five saves for the shutout.
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  Those are I mean, that's that's a big time effort for a one nothing
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  win in a game that you know is going to be close like that going
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  in pretty pretty good effort for clark But I know they're gonna be kicking themselves
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  for not getting the two wins on the road, going to overtime and losing
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  on Friday at Cornell. Anyhow, they were looking ahead much and just overlooked
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  that one or I mean, I'm sad, that's one of those games that
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  I was looking forward to watching, So I was really sad that it sort
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  of overlapped with that. I when I was in the rink here. But
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  yeah, frustrating for me just in terms of like it felt like, oh,
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  we're gonna get some clarity, they're going to play each other, and
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  then like to split all those all those ways makes it harder. We're exactly
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  where we started. Yeah, there's there's more coming this weekend, which we'll
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  get to in a minute. But one other result I wanted to touch on.
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  We had a series between number six minnesot Duluth and number eight Quinnipiac in
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  Connecticut, and Quinnipiac got a two to one win and the first game on
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  Friday, Nina Steakoff with a third period tie breaking goal. Now on Saturday,
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  the luth went up to nothing. Quinnipiac rallied from that deficit in the
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  last five forty four with two goals Mattie Semaskavich with one, Sadie Pert with
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  the other, and then that ended up to two tie. So really it's
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  that's a good result for Quinnipiac overall, getting the win and then rallying to
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  get to negate a loss in the second one. Really, if you I'll
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  look at it, not points like it would be in a conference play,
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  but you're you're avoiding a loss on your record, but on the Dluth side,
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  that's a that's a rough weekend to absorb there, going on the road,
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  being right there in the first game, having a lead in both games
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  and not coming out with anything but a draw in the second game. That's
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  that's gonna hurt the resume a little bit when you're when you're looking down the
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  road. Yeah, especially when you're talking about like your opponent's opponents. Right,
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  It's one of those when you rarely get outside the conference, those games
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  just they seem to stick out a little bit more. You know. Quinnipiac
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  is one of those teams that was much higher rank to start the season and
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  had a tough stretch. But I do think they have all the talent,
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  so it's not a surprising result from them. But it'll be interesting to see
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  what they're going to do in the second half. Yeah, the I think
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  we're just starting in things here. I mean, this is really we just
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  started the second half. There's a long way to go. It seems like
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  there's a long way to go, but there really isn't when you get down
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  to it. We're like six weeks away, five six, seven weeks away
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  from being done with the regular season, and that's that's a little crazy to
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  think about. So long way to go, but not really so looking ahead
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  then to this week, we have another one versus two matchup that coming in
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  the w c h A. Ohio State returns from a rather long break.
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  They didn't play last weekend, they didn't play the weekend before. They've they've
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  been off since I believe the second weekend in December, and they get right
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  back into it at number two Minnesota on Friday and Saturday. And that's a
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  if. If someone's going to push Ohio State off the top of the WHA
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  standings and out of the number one ranking, it's it's going to have to
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  be in a series like this. I would imagine where Minnesota gets them in
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  their building and uh, that's that's a big opportunity for for the Gophers to
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  to, uh to chip away at what Ohio said is built in terms of
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  a standings lead. Yeah, and I think Minnesota's got to show what they're
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  made up, right, Like I think that they've been able to. I
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  mean early in this season, I was like, well, Abby Murphy can't
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  do it all, and like, well, obviously she can't. But I
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  think they really in this series, they need their younger players to really step
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  it up and become, you know, sort of a bigger part of the
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  equation. I don't I don't know that that they're going to get points out
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  of this weekend without that, and you know, just moving forward, they
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  need those players to step into those bigger roles, like, not just this
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  season, but in future season. So, yeah, I think Ohio State
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  is going to it's I think it's going to be a really physical game.
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  I think they're going to try and antagonize Abby and pull her into making mistakes.
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  And yeah, so I think it's hard for me to say anybody can
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  neutralize Murphy because they all should know that that's the goal right now and nobody's
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  been able to do it. But I do think that if anybody can do
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  it, it's Ohio State. And so I think that's kind of going to
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  be their main focus. And if Michigan Michigan, sorry, if Minnesota is
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  going to put points on the board, it's I think the scoring is going
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  to have to come from elsewhere in the lineup. Where did Michigan come from?
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  I don't know that We're dialing it back a few weeks ago when we
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  were talking about Michigan not having no Michigan school is having Division One win with
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  hockey teams. But when I am here, I'm that's what I'm going with.
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  Let's get it's just another reason to bring it up as to like,
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  hey, let's shame them again. So I think that you can win a
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  national championship in football, I think you've got the money. Well right now,
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  yeah, let's uh, let's let's see the wallet open up a little
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  bit more for for some some other sports. I deserve it yet, uh.
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  Dialing it back to eca C hockey coming up this week, another home
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  and home series, or this one is a home and home series. Number
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  five Colgate, number eight Cornell. Maybe now we get a little, a
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  little another opportunity to see some some moving around in the standings. The first
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  games at Cornell Friday, then at Colgate on Saturday. This is a I
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  think, you know, we're, like I've been saying, we're waiting for
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  some some clarification here, and maybe this is where we get it. I
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  think there's if Cornell can can use what it did last week in getting two
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  wins, you know, maybe there's there's an opening there now for them to
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  make a climb in the standings and challenge for one of the top two spots.
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  Yeah, I mean it feels like this is to some extent, this
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  is one of those series where it's like the lead or the having the primary
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  position for you know, heading into the rest of the season is sitting there
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  on a planeter at a two going to take it. You know. So
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  I think I can't wait to watch more of Cornell now in the second half.
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  Again, I think like they've had all that potential and they you know,
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  have some of the younger talent, and I think it took a little
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  while for alis Bergman to make the transition but and just be fully comfortable.
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  So, you know, the the interesting thing is to me, I think
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  that's a really defensive team from Cornell versus the offense that Colgate can put up.
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  And so where that gives I think will be a really interesting part of
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  how that series plays out. Yeah. One other series I wanted to mention
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  Yukon, which which lost twice, went to Minnesota last week and lost twice,
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  gets back in the Hockey East play the first game they play. I'm
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  just flipping through the schedule here because I know the second game is against BEU
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  at home, but the first game they play Friday is ad Merimack, so
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  there's a chance for the Huskies to rebound this week. And we saw Northeastern
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  come back into the Austro top fifteen at number fourteen, tied for number fourteen
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  with the Ale this week. So there's Yukon and BC at thirteen and Northeastern
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  at fourteen representing Hockey East and that's you know, there's some someone's gotta gotta
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  got to make a charge there, I would think in the second half to
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  make Hockey East a a two team representative in the tournament. I think it's
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  pretty long shot now, but that's we'll see if there's any there's anyone that
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  can that can you know, make that much of a move through the next
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  few weeks to really move up, move up in the pairwise. Yeah,
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  And what's interesting to me how different the pair wise well, I mean not
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  like massively, but the poll this week did not match up with the pairwise
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  very much at the bottom. So definitely some folks voting by by my vibes,
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  only by their feeling of where they all stand. So that is just
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  interesting in terms of like you're talking about the the bids and where whether or
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  not Hockey East is going to have someone that could be talking, you know,
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  could be knocking on the door of that eleven spot because at the moment
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  that that's not the case in the barrel eyes right. Well, that's uh,
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  unless you have more to mention about the U eighteen tournament, Uh that
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  we that'll wrap it up here for us. And I mean, I know
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  it looks like you're you're having a pretty good time in the ring from what
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  we see and on Twitter from you, uh seeing a lot of updates,
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  but anything else happened in there, absolutely no. I mean the you know,
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  the games are great. Ts N is streaming them in Canada. NHL
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  Network's got the US games, but there are you know, alternate ways to
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  find some of them. In Slovakia also bought the TV rights from TSN,
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  so those games are also being broadcast. So just highly recommend people try and
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  find them. I know it's not the easiest, but it is it is
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  well worth it. We apologize for the sound of me doing this on my
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  phone from the outdoors in Switzerland at one in the morning. And definitely follow
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  me on Twitter. You can also follow my Instagram which is Nicole Hasi fourteen.
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  I've been trying to post stuff. The ICHEF has a lot of rules
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  about videos, so I've been trying to post pictures and try and keep some
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  updates and find some new angles and things to take pictures from to make it
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  a little more interesting. So yeah, just trying to share as much as
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  I can. Again, I'm the only North American you know reporter here,
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  so TSN he isn't even on site. They have producers here, but they
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  are commentating from Canada, so when we go to the mixed own it is
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  occasionally a person from the home country of one of the things, and then
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  me and the IAHF reporter. So I just am really thankful to be here
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  because I just think it's so important that these stories keep getting told and that
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  you know, it's not just what the team is telling us, that Jeff
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  is telling us, and that the you know, it's more than one story
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  per game, so the girls get the attention they should be getting. Yeah,
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  glad you're doing it. Glad you're getting the chance to do it.
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  And hope that the rest of the term. Yes, thanks everybody for following
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  along. All right, We'll talk to you next week on the podcast