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Andre Tourigny Postgame 10-19-26 · ESPN 700 & 92.1 FM | Utah's #1 Sports Talk

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Great win by Kosey, by Seabass. Good to get a
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: win in front of our fans for him. I think
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Dizzy as well played well for a guy who did
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: not play since the start of the season, jump in.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Not a lot of practice time. Happy about this performance.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: That was good and a hell of a performance from
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  Speaker 1: our forward line, I think. Stanny, Booter and Boehner played
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: rock solid, physical, simple, effective, really positive. really happy about
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: their game. How do your team assert themselves net front,
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  Speaker 1: not only in the O zone, but in the D
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  Speaker 1: zone as well, boxing out? The guys are working at it.
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  Speaker 1: We're getting better. We're getting a little bit more organized
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  Speaker 1: in that sense. It's something we had to make some
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  Speaker 1: stride this year, and I think the guys are working
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  Speaker 1: at it. We're much better. We're not exactly where we
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: want to be defensively, but we're we're much better. Offensively,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're doing a good job. We're going in
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  Speaker 1: the net. We're putting pucks there. Everything's a chain connector.
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  Speaker 1: If the puck gets there, the buddy gets there. If
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  Speaker 1: the buddies get there, the puck gets there. It's just
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  Speaker 1: as simple as that. Pittsburgh had waves of pushes throughout
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: this game in terms of the response. Response was a
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: big word in the game tonight. What did you evaluate
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  Speaker 1: out of your team's ability to respond, or what are
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  Speaker 1: the details that you saw, maybe good or bad? I
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: think they're We saw when we had pace. I think
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  Speaker 1: we played a good game. That team on the other
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: side created a lot of offense. And how many shots
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: they had, I don't know. Something like 20 or whatever
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: the number is. 19, 18. Again, one of the top
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  Speaker 1: offense in the league. So we probably did a few
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: things right. Well, I'd love to be a little bit
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: more tuned in on When we had the lead in
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: the third, protecting the lead, I did not like our
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: decision with the puck in the neutral zone. I did
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: like it in our zone. I did like a lot
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: of stuff we did. I wish we'll have keep putting
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: pucks behind in the third period and go grind them
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  Speaker 1: deep in their zone. And we try to make more
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: play with the lead than when we early in the game.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a little bit a part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: We could have done a little bit better, but like
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  Speaker 1: I said, did a lot of good stuff tonight. You
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: mentioned their shots and revolving shots and on the PK,
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: every time PK, you know, they've generated quite a bit
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  Speaker 1: of shots. What do you think of your team's PK today?
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: What do you think you can do better? Well, their
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: first goal, the flag on our player winning, you know,
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: stuff happened. I don't know exactly what to think of
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: that one. I will have to review the entire sequence
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  Speaker 1: to know exactly what could have done better, but the
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: guys missed the net by about 10 feet and hit
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  Speaker 1: our guys and went in. Tough, tough break. The second one,
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: we were way too high on our two-on-one, and that's
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  Speaker 1: too bad because that was pre-scaled. That was addressed after
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: the first period. We knew that was a hole, and
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  Speaker 1: we tried to prevent it and explain how to be
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  Speaker 1: lower and who we're not, and we gave up the
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  Speaker 1: easy walk, and so that's a breakdown that should have
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  Speaker 1: not happened. I've noticed that in both this game and
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: the one in Edmonton, you've had Daniil Booth on the
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  Speaker 1: ice protecting the lead in the last couple minutes of
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: the game. Just how much trust do you have in
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  Speaker 1: that guy defensively as a young kid? You know, I
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: said it many times about Booter. Booter is a win player.
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: He's not a half player. He's a player who gets it.
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  Speaker 1: And it was the same last year. We told you
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: many times last year how smart he is, how detailed
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: he is, how structured he is, how much you understand
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  Speaker 1: the game. You play the game the right way, so
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  Speaker 1: on and so forth. So it's a matter of experience.
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  Speaker 1: It's a matter of having confidence in himself. Example, the
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  Speaker 1: goal they had to score when he was on the
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  Speaker 1: ice in the third period, he was just too nervous.
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  Speaker 1: He backed up for nothing. He just had to hold
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  Speaker 1: his ground, hold his ice. He didn't want to do
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  Speaker 1: too good and he shrank. But, you know, I tried
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  Speaker 1: to go with I think in Edmonton, like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: that line was really, really, really good in the third.
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  Speaker 1: So What's the point to be really, really good if
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  Speaker 1: you're not trusted? And tonight's the same. Booter has two
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: huge block shots tonight who made a difference. We were
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: a little bit underwater, and he came up big, a
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  Speaker 1: two-big block shot. His line played really good. They scored
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: two big goals for us. There were no way to,
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: I will not trust them. And they're committed. For me,
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: it's important. I think they did not do anything in
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: that period or in that game for me to not
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: trust them. Kevin Stanley is one of the most reliable
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: players defensively. Same for Jack McBain. Now those guys I've experienced,
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: they're big, they have length, they defend hard, they take pride,
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  Speaker 1: they care a ton. I don't know which box they
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: don't check. Based on Koza's performance tonight, what do you
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  Speaker 1: want him to have learned from the outcome of this game?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question, but I will need... review the
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: game exactly to give you the right answer to that
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: i think you know like every young player who arrive
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: in the league it's an expression you hear before is
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  Speaker 1: the game has to slow down for him you know
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  Speaker 1: and right now uh the game is probably fast for
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  Speaker 1: him and get surprised in some situation and stuff like
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  Speaker 1: that and and when we say that that has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with your ability to play in that league
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  Speaker 1: it's ability to relax slow down be comfortable you know
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: It's just that. So I think he wants to do great,
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  Speaker 1: win a big game for us. Happy to get back
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  Speaker 1: on his feet and get his leg under himself. Now
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: we'll try to get in a better rhythm. Can you
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  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about Yamamoto and is he impressing
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  Speaker 1: you a lot with his game and everything he's been
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  Speaker 1: doing since he got back in the lineup? Yes, he does.
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  Speaker 1: He's a hell of a pro. he's been put in
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  Speaker 1: a really, really tough situation throughout his career, everywhere he's been,
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  Speaker 1: and he prevailed every time. He's a hell of an
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  Speaker 1: example for me as a human being, as a person.
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  Speaker 1: There's nobody who doesn't like Kyler Yamamoto. It's impossible. I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe that. And his work ethic and ability to
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: stay prepared, you know, the position we put him in
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  Speaker 1: early in the season, not dressing him. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people will have not recovered from that after the playoff
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  Speaker 1: he had and everything. And that showed his character, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm nothing but impressed. Thanks, Coach. Thank you.