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Seg 2 - MHOC Show Jan 8 Coach Cav · Coaches Corner

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It is the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show live for Bear Smoke House Barbecue and Hartford
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will do another one in a couple of weeks. On the twenty second.
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Anim will host that one because I will be in route to Milwaukee. Then
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Adam will join me hopefully as long as the weather's good for the Yukon Women's
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game this weekend Maine Friday and Saturday, our first game of the second semester
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on the radio Friday night Ice we like to call it. It'll be Yukon
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and seventh rank Maine six forty five on the air for that one for seven
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o'clock face off and then Saturday afternoon at three o'clock for Game Club on Saturday.
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And they're trying to pack the place, so get your tickets Yukon tickets
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dot com. I would imagine the Xcel Center box office also for availability for
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tickets. Brian Williams is back in the studio taking care of us tonight.
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I think Zach Linfield might be at the championship game tonight. Michigan, Michigan
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alum. Yeah, yeah, Michigan alum. And he took his dad to
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the Rose Bowl. You like Michigan to night correct, I do. Yeah,
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I'm rooting for Michigan tonight. Okay, yeah, Adam's going for what
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Yeah, give me Washington. We're taking the Huskies, the West Coast Husky
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here you go. Okay, all right, there's only one Huskies. Well
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I set the West Well, the West Coast Huskies. Hey, you know,
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when you come play as Northeastern, you can't say Huskies. You know
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that's kind of hard. Can You can? But you don't know which one
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you're referring to? And when I do, I immediately specify which team.
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Okay, never easy. Joey Muldowdey, who will have on later, got
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his first goal as a Husky. But his line since the BC series has
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been playing really well, haven't they. They've been playing great, Yeah,
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they really have. They've been asked to do a lot of different things,
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and they bring a lot of energy and they get in on the fore check
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and they're creating a lot of scoring chances for us and playing great defense.
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So there they are a line I think that you know, when people probably
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look at our line sheet, you know, they're always looking for where's Matt
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Wood or where's samu or where's Chase Bradley And and that line kind of flies
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under the radar, but they've been really really good for us lately. It
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makes a good four check. I'm Mike, Well, it's just skating and
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a great stick you know, stick pressure being stick on puck, So trying
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to deflect the pass, you gotta skate, you like, all three guys
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got to skate. So if two of them are skating and one's not,
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you know, teams will be able to make two passes and beat you.
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But when all three guys, it's hard to make three passes. Like if
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guys are really on top of you right away, so and then they do
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an excellent job of that. For Joey Muldowney, nineteen year old I'll be
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turning twenty over the summer. When you saw him and when he first got
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on your radar, what was the thing that made you go, Okay,
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I'm going to keep my eye on this guy. Well, he's always been
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a goal scorer, you know, he's been a kid that's been able to
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uh. When he was playing up in Buffalo, he scored a lot of
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goals. And when he got drafted by San Jose that was the primary reason
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because of his play up there. And then he went out to the USHL
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and that's a tougher league, but he still scored goals out there. And
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again, he skates, he gets on people. He's a lot stronger.
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I mean, he doesn't look like he's physically imposing at all, you know
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when you see him, but he's very very strong on his skates and he's
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got you know, good core strength balance. So he's a kid that I
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think he's just only going to get better and better. We've hit the start
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of the second half of the season or weekend of the second half. But
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is there a player or two that you really have been impressed by taking big
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steps maybe from the start of the season. Yeah, well, certainly that
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whole line. You know, Ryan, Taddle and Fraze. I'm trying to
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think, you know, Tabor Heaslip I thought had a really good weekend this
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past I thought he played well against Harvard and he played well up at UMass.
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So he's a kid that's coming and we're going to need him. And
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Percival's playing outstanding hockey right now. Yeah me sure is. Yeah, And
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talking to him today, he really raved about what mode did I mean?
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Obviously Jay's are Jake's person, Uh, an Avon kid, so he's close
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to campus and he spent a lot of time on campus. It sounds like
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working with Mo Butler getting ready for the season. Yeah. She does an
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excellent job with our team. And the guys that stay for the summer,
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they're always they're always in great shape. So but he's just so committed.
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Uh, you know, he had a perfect four row GPA as well.
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We had two players, Oliver Flynn and Jake Percival had perfect four rows first
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semester. So he's doing it in the classroom, he's doing it on the
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ice, and those are the type of guys we want. He's just you
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know, we have a sign that says how you do anything, so how
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you do everything? And he epitomizes that tomorrow. Most of your hockey players
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financial guys. I know, there's a lot of them, and they go
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to was it one of the goalies? Was it Matt pisqually who Yeah,
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yeah, he is for sure. In the I think we're probably split,
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you know, in the business school and then liberal arts and calm. Okay,
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anyone with the particularly unique I mean like a bio science type track,
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right, No, I don't think so practices or anything or that has to
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No, we've had some engineers in the past, but that's about the extend.
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But I think we've only had two kids that went down that route.
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You mentioned Oliver Plynn. He's somebody we haven't really asked you a whole lot
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about. So he's a full word. He's a freshman from Connecticut, homegrown
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kid, but doesn't have a point yet this season in his fourteen games.
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So what's the thing that's going to let him take that next step and start
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contributing in that way? Yeah, it's just, you know, we're pretty
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deep up front, and he's contributed. He always comes ready to you know,
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he shows up every day. His practice habits are outstanding, he's got
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good size, he's a smart hockey player. It's just right now, we're
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pretty deep up there, and he's going to help us, and he may
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very well have to step in and help us quite a bit this year.
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We'll see. We got a long way to go, but I'm pretty confident
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down the road he's going to be a really solid player for us. How
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soon we're gonna see Jake Valou play for the first time this year, Well,
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he practiced full up for the first time last Thursday and he practiced today,
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so we'll see. We'll see how this week goes, but it's certainly
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getting a lot closer than it was. He played thirty three games last year,
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so this was someone who would theoretically have plugged in and been a piece
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every single night for Yeah, and he's a very disciplined, smart hockey player.
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He's a guy that you can trust, you know what you're going to
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get every shift from him when he's on the ice. When we come back
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on the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show, we'll ask about a few of the guys
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that you normally don't hear about on the Yukon roster, and we'll also ask
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him about the goaltending of Ethan Hyder, that's been a big plus for the
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Huskies trying to make a surge here in the second half of the season.
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The con Hockey Coaches Show live at Bear Smokehouse Barbecue on Learfield