November 19, 2025 • 20 mins
Coach Cav and the Conference leading Huskies take on the Wildcats Friday in Durham and Saturday Night in Storrs
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, coach, turning our attention to New Hampshire home
and home beginning Friday, up and up and Durham. Just
want to get your thoughts heading into the weekend series.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, it's always, uh, you know, a tough game when
you play up at New Hampshire. You know, Mike sus
always has his teams prepared. They're very well coached. It's
a tough building to play in. I think they have
a very talented freshman class that they've added to that team,
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you know, and then you have the returners in La
Clerk and you know Winters. I think Fitzgerald on defense
is someone we're going to have to pay attention to,
and they're it's just a It's a tough place to play,
it really is. And there are no easy weekends in
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this league. And New Hampshire's going to pose another really
tough opponent for us come Friday night.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Awesome, We'll open up for questions show get us going.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Thanks Thanks Klein.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Cav so many come from behind wins this season. What
does that say about your leadership and the belief in
the room that no deficit is too big, even though
that might add some gray hairs to the head coach.
If I had hair, Joe, trust me, I can relate
to that.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, if I just think, yeah, we you know, I've
talked about it quite a bit that you know, we
have seven seniors and there's not many teams I think
that are going to have seven seniors because just the
way that college hockey is today, with guys leaving early
for pro or transfers or those types of issues. It just,
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you know, you it's hard to keep you know, the scene,
the freshman class that you recruit. To keep that entire
class intact for four years is very difficult these days
in college the college sports pretty much. So the fact
that we do I think they're very experienced and they
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don't panic when we get behind in a game. And
it's been evident this year as you alluded to, that
we've been able to you know, come back and whether
tie a game or even win some games coming from behind.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Anthony Elaine Sumaki really young kid. What did you see
in him when you were looking at him? And how
has he progressed since the start of camp till now?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, Well, he's an elite skater for one, and he's
by far, I think the youngest kid on our team. So,
you know, I guess one of the things we saw
in him, Joe was his ability to handle the pock,
ability to skate. And he doesn't get enough defense. Excuse me, Uh,
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he doesn't get enough. I think praise about his defense.
He's really strong and good down low as well, especially
for being one of the youngest kids in Hockey East.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Ask question for me, and can you talk a little
bit about how Mike helped you as your assistant for
the first two years and kind of getting your program
running you off the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, he was a kid that I definitely well some
I had worked with him previous when when he was
he might have been a senior at u n H
and I was taking a team Massachusetts out to the
national development camp in the summer and Mike was my assistant,
so I got to know him there. And then when
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you know, I got the job and I was looking
for he had just started at Brown, I think it
was his second year at Brown, and he was someone
that I was familiar with. It was someone that neew hockey,
so that was important to me. I wanted an assistant
coach that knew the league. And he came in and
he had played you know he had played a lot
of pro hockey. He never actually played in the NHL,
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but played a lot of American League games, played overseas,
had a lot of experience, and he was great to
have as a right hand man those first couple of
years because it wasn't easy and he was it was
you know, like I said, I thought he did a
really nice job here. He's a personal friend, and you know,
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I think he's done a nice job at New Hampshire.
Thanks Kav.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Damn Booth, go ahead, Good morning, coach, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So I'm working on a story with Jake Percival about
him being a Connecticut kid, about his impact on the
program over the years. So my first question for you is,
with this programs continue to scent over the years, how
important has Jake's impact been on the ice, in the
locker room and ever since he stepped foot in stores.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, he was a kid that we saw out at
the USHL. I didn't really know much about him, and
he caught my eye out at the opening tournament out
at the USHL. He was playing for Cedar Rapids and
Mark Carlson, who does a great job with his players,
and I knew that if he could play for Mark
Carlson because he's a tough, demanding coach that he'd be
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a type of kid that could fit in here. And
he skates really well. He's got a excellent shot that
he probably I want him to shoot more for sure,
And I'm glad he did last weekend because he finally
broke through last weekend. But he just he's a superb
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penalty killer. He competes every day. One of his I
think most unique as a player is his stick is elite.
He's very very good at baiting people into passing a
puck into a lane that he can either deflect the
puck or intercept the puck. And it's it's something that
he does really well. It's probably what makes him not
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probably it's one of the things that makes him an
excellent penalty killer as well.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know, And in terms of continuing to build the
culture that you want here with the Huskies, how important
has he been to building that culture and being a
part of something that you know, you guys have been
ranked several years in a row now and continue to
be a force in Hockey East.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, it's interesting, you know everybody that's such a buzzword,
the culture word. I think it's I think it's got
to be a given if you're going to be a
winning program. Like it's no one invented culture, you know,
Like I get a kick out of some of these
coaches to say, once they buy into my culture, no
one invented culture. You either you do things the right
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way or you don't. And fortunately we've had a lot
of kids here that do things the right way because
they're here for the right reasons. And I think it's
evident really in all of programs at Yukon. You know,
if you look at Jim Calhoun's programs, or Geno's programs,
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or Danny Hurley's programs, or Jim Pender's or Nancy Stevens,
and you can go right down the list. When Ray
Reid was here and now I see and BONDI doing it.
Things just get done the right way. There's a Yukon
way that you do things, and you know we all
have to adhere to that, you know, I mean, Chris
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McKenzie's doing it with our women's program. So Jake's just
a kid who came in here and as a Connecticut kid,
I know Yukon's important to him. It means a lot
to him and he's going to do things the right way.
Awesome coach. Thank you, Daniel. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Just since we're not going to get you again until
or before you play stone Hill. David was your predecessor
as an interm here at Yukon. How well do you
know him and did you talk with him at all
when you were taking over?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah? I knew him, you know very well. We're going
back to god. He's assistant at Providence to start, I
think right away, and then I know I went out
to Lake State with Scotti Borick for a while and
then he came back to Providence, I believe. But I've
known him on the recruiting trails for years.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
When I did get the job, I did talk to him,
you know, and he did give me a little bit
of insight. And then he got you know, the job
at holy Cross and went back to Providence again and
now he's at stone Hill. But he's a very meticulous,
detailed coach. I've had a chance to watch stone Hill
play because we've played Northeastern and they played Northeastern and
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they played they played someone else that we were playing
I can't remember. So I've watched your team play a
couple of times, and you know, they are extremely disciplined,
you know, methodical about the way they play. They don't
beat themselves and it's kind of how David coaches. And
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you know, I'm not We got in New Hampshire first
this weekend, but you know, I think you'll have a
chance to ask me about Stonehill on Monday.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Dan, Well, just less about their team, but just how
they end up on the schedule, and is it are
you going to be going to play them next year
or is this just a one off.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Well, Brian Regolo, who played for US, is one of
their assistants as well, and you know, we needed one
game and they needed a game, so it worked out.
And yeah, I'd love to play them in the future. Sure,
and I will go there. I think if they're building
a new rink, and once they build a new rink,
we'd be happy to go there.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Thanks, Randy, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Thank you, Colin more than cav Good morning. How are you, Randy,
I'm great, I'm great, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
I want to ask you about your defense as far
as your attack. You've got four on the blue line
that have four points this year, and I know at
the beginning of the year you said it would bet
you want all five guys, you know, on the attack
in the ozone. How would you assess what the defense
has brought to your offense this year?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, I think they're doing a great job. I think
Tyler does a fantastic job with our defenseman, you know,
first and foremost, I want them to defend. That's why
they called defenseman. So that's going to be number one.
But yeah, we want to have an attack that brings
all five people into it. And one of the things
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I think that is really unique about our team. As
you know, our leading scorer has eight points, but we
have fifteen players within four points of that, so that's
a lot of balance scoring and that's the type of
team I want to coach. I think that when you have,
you know, a one line team that you have to
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rely on for scoring, you know, some nights they're not
going to have it and you might struggle. On our
team the other night against Northeastern and that comeback, we
got goals from each line in that in that comeback.
So it's something that we pride ourselves on and our
defensemen are also part of that. So the more players
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that we can get contributing I think the tougher team
we are to play, just the just the second and
final one for me.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Joey, of course, scores the game winner in overtime back
in there to Zay and Scott they were a couple
of weeks ago, got back in there and score big goals.
When a guy you know gets back in the lineup
and scores big what does that do for everybody? Because
you could kind of see your team seems to really
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get behind those guys all the more when they when
they pot a big one.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, I think it's always great for them and coming
back and their confidence. You know. I told this story
the other night on the radio show. I didn't think
Joey was playing very well in the game. I just
wasn't that he wasn't playing well. I just thought it
was tough, like he had n't really practiced or played
in a week, and he looked a little tentative, and
I almost didn't play him in overtime. We debated it
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on whether we were going to play him, and then
Tyler Helton had sent me a story about Nick Saban
saying the first coaching lesson he ever learned was it's
not about the play you call it's about making sure
it goes to the right player. And you know, I
thought about that and I said, how the hell can
I keep a thirty goal scorer on the bench in overtime?
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So luckily I listened to my assistance and it was
you know, he wound up winning it for us.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Thank you, We'll see you Friday.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Great Elaine to go ahead morning.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Coach with pert of all, what is the difference do
you think that's led him to have his breakthrough recently?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Jake Percival, Yeah, I don't think anything. I think he's
been playing a solid brand of hockey the whole time,
and in this sport, I don't care who you are,
you're going to go through I don't even want to
call it slumps. I don't think that's the proper word.
It's just hard to score goals. And you might go
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through you know, three, four, five games without scoring a goal.
That doesn't mean you don't have an impact on the game.
One of the greatest players I ever coached was Brian Gionta,
who scored more goals than any player I ever coached
in college hockey. I think one hundred and twenty goals
in four years when we won the national title in
OH one. Through the national tournament, he didn't have one
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goal in three games, not one and we won a
national tournament and he was our most important player because
the impact he had on the game in so many
different areas helped us achieve the goal of winning a
national title. Jake Percival has such an impact on the game,
whether he's scoring or not. Last week he was rewarded
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and that was great. You know, he went to the net,
he got deflections, but some of those definc deflections that
he scored on last week get saved sometimes that does
you know, that doesn't mean he's playing poorly. So I
think he's been playing very consistently from day one and
last week it was great he got rewarded.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Thank you. I have another one coming off of a weekend sweep.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
What are some things that you've been working on that
can benefit you guys going into this weekend versus and.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Each Well, we need to work on a lot of areas.
I think we continue to need to work on our
special teams. I thought they were solid last week, but
I don't think they're at the level where we're capable
of playing. I think we need to continue to work
on our offensive zone play and you know, creating multiple
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shots shifts. I think that's what wears teams down and
get you goals. I think we've got to continue to
work on our our communication between our f three and
our defense so we're not giving up odd man rushes.
So there's still a lot of aspects of our game
that we need to retool and get better at.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Thank you, coach, sure, Calvin, go ahead, Good morning, coach?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Are you good morning, Calvin? How are you good?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Myself? Pete and Elena are the broadcast team on Friday night?
At you and h right, A couple of questions for you.
Kind of touched on this earlier, but you return eight
of your nine to point getters from last season is
kind of like an anomaly in college hockey in twenty
twenty five. How much has that helped your guys help
your team here early in the season.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Wow, tremendous. I mean, we had a tough schedule. We
opened up, you know at Colorado College, Ohio State, and
bu I mean all ranked teams last week. It's you know,
it was a tough schedule and if we didn't have
that type of experience, it could have been crippling. To
be honest with you, But because we had that type
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of experience coming back, we were able to play really
well in those games and go three and three in
those six games, So I think that was important, you know.
And then we couple followed it with Providence, who was
a really good team, and Northeastern was seven and one.
So it's been a tough schedule to start and we've survived.
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I think that tough schedule and a lot of it
has to do with the experience that we brought back.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You mentioned the splits in there, but last weekend you
got your first weekend sweep over Northeastern. How big was
it for your team to get too in the win
column in one weekend?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It was I think it was, you know, important for sure.
I tried to let the players know that, you know,
one weekend doesn't make a breaker season, so you have
to stay just really focused on one game at a time.
It's like, we're not thinking about sweeping New Hampshire. We're
thinking about playing really well Friday night, Like that's where
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our mindset has to be. But you know, when the
weekend ends, Calvin, yeah, we're pretty excited about this week.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You might not like this next question then, because you're
focused on one game at a time, but you guys
are about to enter a stretch of three games in
five days, five games and nine days before the break.
How important is is a strong finish to the first
half of your season.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, it's always important, you know, but it does Like
I said, it's not going to the first half of
the season. You can't win any trophies. You can make
it really hard to win trophies if you don't play well,
but you want to play well kind of figure out
the identity of your team and put yourself in position
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to win trophies in the second half of the season.
So that's why it's important. But I believe last year,
I believe we were five hundred when we got into
Christmas break. We're very close to it, somewhere near there.
So it's again, we're just focused on Friday night because
I know this in this league, if you start looking three,
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four or five games ahead, you're just gonna overwhelm yourself
and you're not going to play very well. So we're
just focused on playing really well up at the WIT
on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
We can look at you know, your guys's box scorers
and lotips and see Joe in the scoring that he provides.
But who on your team do you feel like goes
under the radar and deserves more recognition for what they
do to help you guys win?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh well, I mean look at Taber Heath slip. If
you look at our senior class like you look at
Taber Heath slip, you look at Jake Percival, you look
at Tristan Frasier. This year, Houston Cartman has been dressing
every game for us, pretty much up front, providing when
he's on the ice. He's played very well, but he
provides an incredible leadership on the bench. Tom Sinio, that
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whole senior class, Tyler Muslik, that senior class has been
They don't get a lot of accolades and they're just
basically the heartbeat of our team.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Last one for me has has there been an underclassman
who has surprised you or impressed you here early in
the season.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Not really. You know a lot of people will point
to Mike Murtagg, but it doesn't surprise me because I
watched him last year in practice and we had such
a good team last year. He probably didn't get the
minutes in playing time that he deserved. Uh I shouldn't
you know? There was just really we had some really
good players that were ahead of him. But this year
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you're seeing the impact he can bring on a nightly
basis and it's been fun to watch him play.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Awesome, coach, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Sure, awesome, well, coach, thanks for joining us. Good luck
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Okay, guys, have a great day. Thank you, Thank you.
All right, coach, turning our attention to New Hampshire home
and home beginning Friday, up and up and Durham. Just
want to get your thoughts heading into the weekend series.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, it's always, uh, you know, a tough game when
you play up at New Hampshire. You know, Mike sus
always has his teams prepared. They're very well coached. It's
a tough building to play in. I think they have
a very talented freshman class that they've added to that team,
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you know, and then you have the returners in La
Clerk and you know Winters. I think Fitzgerald on defense
is someone we're going to have to pay attention to,
and they're it's just a It's a tough place to play,
it really is. And there are no easy weekends in
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this league. And New Hampshire's going to pose another really
tough opponent for us come Friday night.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Awesome, We'll open up for questions show get us going.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Thanks Thanks Klein.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Cav so many come from behind wins this season. What
does that say about your leadership and the belief in
the room that no deficit is too big, even though
that might add some gray hairs to the head coach.
If I had hair, Joe, trust me, I can relate
to that.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, if I just think, yeah, we you know, I've
talked about it quite a bit that you know, we
have seven seniors and there's not many teams I think
that are going to have seven seniors because just the
way that college hockey is today, with guys leaving early
for pro or transfers or those types of issues. It just,
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you know, you it's hard to keep you know, the scene,
the freshman class that you recruit. To keep that entire
class intact for four years is very difficult these days
in college the college sports pretty much. So the fact
that we do I think they're very experienced and they
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don't panic when we get behind in a game. And
it's been evident this year as you alluded to, that
we've been able to you know, come back and whether
tie a game or even win some games coming from behind.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Anthony Elaine Sumaki really young kid. What did you see
in him when you were looking at him? And how
has he progressed since the start of camp till now?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, Well, he's an elite skater for one, and he's
by far, I think the youngest kid on our team. So,
you know, I guess one of the things we saw
in him, Joe was his ability to handle the pock,
ability to skate. And he doesn't get enough defense. Excuse me, Uh,
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he doesn't get enough. I think praise about his defense.
He's really strong and good down low as well, especially
for being one of the youngest kids in Hockey East.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Ask question for me, and can you talk a little
bit about how Mike helped you as your assistant for
the first two years and kind of getting your program
running you off the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, he was a kid that I definitely well some
I had worked with him previous when when he was
he might have been a senior at u n H
and I was taking a team Massachusetts out to the
national development camp in the summer and Mike was my assistant,
so I got to know him there. And then when
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you know, I got the job and I was looking
for he had just started at Brown, I think it
was his second year at Brown, and he was someone
that I was familiar with. It was someone that neew hockey,
so that was important to me. I wanted an assistant
coach that knew the league. And he came in and
he had played you know he had played a lot
of pro hockey. He never actually played in the NHL,
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but played a lot of American League games, played overseas,
had a lot of experience, and he was great to
have as a right hand man those first couple of
years because it wasn't easy and he was it was
you know, like I said, I thought he did a
really nice job here. He's a personal friend, and you know,
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I think he's done a nice job at New Hampshire.
Thanks Kav.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Damn Booth, go ahead, Good morning, coach, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So I'm working on a story with Jake Percival about
him being a Connecticut kid, about his impact on the
program over the years. So my first question for you is,
with this programs continue to scent over the years, how
important has Jake's impact been on the ice, in the
locker room and ever since he stepped foot in stores.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, he was a kid that we saw out at
the USHL. I didn't really know much about him, and
he caught my eye out at the opening tournament out
at the USHL. He was playing for Cedar Rapids and
Mark Carlson, who does a great job with his players,
and I knew that if he could play for Mark
Carlson because he's a tough, demanding coach that he'd be
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a type of kid that could fit in here. And
he skates really well. He's got a excellent shot that
he probably I want him to shoot more for sure,
And I'm glad he did last weekend because he finally
broke through last weekend. But he just he's a superb
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penalty killer. He competes every day. One of his I
think most unique as a player is his stick is elite.
He's very very good at baiting people into passing a
puck into a lane that he can either deflect the
puck or intercept the puck. And it's it's something that
he does really well. It's probably what makes him not
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probably it's one of the things that makes him an
excellent penalty killer as well.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know, And in terms of continuing to build the
culture that you want here with the Huskies, how important
has he been to building that culture and being a
part of something that you know, you guys have been
ranked several years in a row now and continue to
be a force in Hockey East.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, it's interesting, you know everybody that's such a buzzword,
the culture word. I think it's I think it's got
to be a given if you're going to be a
winning program. Like it's no one invented culture, you know,
Like I get a kick out of some of these
coaches to say, once they buy into my culture, no
one invented culture. You either you do things the right
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way or you don't. And fortunately we've had a lot
of kids here that do things the right way because
they're here for the right reasons. And I think it's
evident really in all of programs at Yukon. You know,
if you look at Jim Calhoun's programs, or Geno's programs,
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or Danny Hurley's programs, or Jim Pender's or Nancy Stevens,
and you can go right down the list. When Ray
Reid was here and now I see and BONDI doing it.
Things just get done the right way. There's a Yukon
way that you do things, and you know we all
have to adhere to that, you know, I mean, Chris
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McKenzie's doing it with our women's program. So Jake's just
a kid who came in here and as a Connecticut kid,
I know Yukon's important to him. It means a lot
to him and he's going to do things the right way.
Awesome coach. Thank you, Daniel. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Just since we're not going to get you again until
or before you play stone Hill. David was your predecessor
as an interm here at Yukon. How well do you
know him and did you talk with him at all
when you were taking over?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah? I knew him, you know very well. We're going
back to god. He's assistant at Providence to start, I
think right away, and then I know I went out
to Lake State with Scotti Borick for a while and
then he came back to Providence, I believe. But I've
known him on the recruiting trails for years.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
When I did get the job, I did talk to him,
you know, and he did give me a little bit
of insight. And then he got you know, the job
at holy Cross and went back to Providence again and
now he's at stone Hill. But he's a very meticulous,
detailed coach. I've had a chance to watch stone Hill
play because we've played Northeastern and they played Northeastern and
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they played they played someone else that we were playing
I can't remember. So I've watched your team play a
couple of times, and you know, they are extremely disciplined,
you know, methodical about the way they play. They don't
beat themselves and it's kind of how David coaches. And
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you know, I'm not We got in New Hampshire first
this weekend, but you know, I think you'll have a
chance to ask me about Stonehill on Monday.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Dan, Well, just less about their team, but just how
they end up on the schedule, and is it are
you going to be going to play them next year
or is this just a one off.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Well, Brian Regolo, who played for US, is one of
their assistants as well, and you know, we needed one
game and they needed a game, so it worked out.
And yeah, I'd love to play them in the future. Sure,
and I will go there. I think if they're building
a new rink, and once they build a new rink,
we'd be happy to go there.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Thanks, Randy, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Thank you, Colin more than cav Good morning. How are you, Randy,
I'm great, I'm great, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
I want to ask you about your defense as far
as your attack. You've got four on the blue line
that have four points this year, and I know at
the beginning of the year you said it would bet
you want all five guys, you know, on the attack
in the ozone. How would you assess what the defense
has brought to your offense this year?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, I think they're doing a great job. I think
Tyler does a fantastic job with our defenseman, you know,
first and foremost, I want them to defend. That's why
they called defenseman. So that's going to be number one.
But yeah, we want to have an attack that brings
all five people into it. And one of the things
(10:59):
I think that is really unique about our team. As
you know, our leading scorer has eight points, but we
have fifteen players within four points of that, so that's
a lot of balance scoring and that's the type of
team I want to coach. I think that when you have,
you know, a one line team that you have to
(11:19):
rely on for scoring, you know, some nights they're not
going to have it and you might struggle. On our
team the other night against Northeastern and that comeback, we
got goals from each line in that in that comeback.
So it's something that we pride ourselves on and our
defensemen are also part of that. So the more players
(11:41):
that we can get contributing I think the tougher team
we are to play, just the just the second and
final one for me.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Joey, of course, scores the game winner in overtime back
in there to Zay and Scott they were a couple
of weeks ago, got back in there and score big goals.
When a guy you know gets back in the lineup
and scores big what does that do for everybody? Because
you could kind of see your team seems to really
(12:11):
get behind those guys all the more when they when
they pot a big one.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, I think it's always great for them and coming
back and their confidence. You know. I told this story
the other night on the radio show. I didn't think
Joey was playing very well in the game. I just
wasn't that he wasn't playing well. I just thought it
was tough, like he had n't really practiced or played
in a week, and he looked a little tentative, and
I almost didn't play him in overtime. We debated it
(12:39):
on whether we were going to play him, and then
Tyler Helton had sent me a story about Nick Saban
saying the first coaching lesson he ever learned was it's
not about the play you call it's about making sure
it goes to the right player. And you know, I
thought about that and I said, how the hell can
I keep a thirty goal scorer on the bench in overtime?
(13:00):
So luckily I listened to my assistance and it was
you know, he wound up winning it for us.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Thank you, We'll see you Friday.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Great Elaine to go ahead morning.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Coach with pert of all, what is the difference do
you think that's led him to have his breakthrough recently?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Jake Percival, Yeah, I don't think anything. I think he's
been playing a solid brand of hockey the whole time,
and in this sport, I don't care who you are,
you're going to go through I don't even want to
call it slumps. I don't think that's the proper word.
It's just hard to score goals. And you might go
(13:45):
through you know, three, four, five games without scoring a goal.
That doesn't mean you don't have an impact on the game.
One of the greatest players I ever coached was Brian Gionta,
who scored more goals than any player I ever coached
in college hockey. I think one hundred and twenty goals
in four years when we won the national title in
OH one. Through the national tournament, he didn't have one
(14:08):
goal in three games, not one and we won a
national tournament and he was our most important player because
the impact he had on the game in so many
different areas helped us achieve the goal of winning a
national title. Jake Percival has such an impact on the game,
whether he's scoring or not. Last week he was rewarded
(14:28):
and that was great. You know, he went to the net,
he got deflections, but some of those definc deflections that
he scored on last week get saved sometimes that does
you know, that doesn't mean he's playing poorly. So I
think he's been playing very consistently from day one and
last week it was great he got rewarded.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Thank you. I have another one coming off of a weekend sweep.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
What are some things that you've been working on that
can benefit you guys going into this weekend versus and.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Each Well, we need to work on a lot of areas.
I think we continue to need to work on our
special teams. I thought they were solid last week, but
I don't think they're at the level where we're capable
of playing. I think we need to continue to work
on our offensive zone play and you know, creating multiple
(15:18):
shots shifts. I think that's what wears teams down and
get you goals. I think we've got to continue to
work on our our communication between our f three and
our defense so we're not giving up odd man rushes.
So there's still a lot of aspects of our game
that we need to retool and get better at.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Thank you, coach, sure, Calvin, go ahead, Good morning, coach?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Are you good morning, Calvin? How are you good?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Myself? Pete and Elena are the broadcast team on Friday night?
At you and h right, A couple of questions for you.
Kind of touched on this earlier, but you return eight
of your nine to point getters from last season is
kind of like an anomaly in college hockey in twenty
twenty five. How much has that helped your guys help
your team here early in the season.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Wow, tremendous. I mean, we had a tough schedule. We
opened up, you know at Colorado College, Ohio State, and
bu I mean all ranked teams last week. It's you know,
it was a tough schedule and if we didn't have
that type of experience, it could have been crippling. To
be honest with you, But because we had that type
(16:30):
of experience coming back, we were able to play really
well in those games and go three and three in
those six games, So I think that was important, you know.
And then we couple followed it with Providence, who was
a really good team, and Northeastern was seven and one.
So it's been a tough schedule to start and we've survived.
(16:51):
I think that tough schedule and a lot of it
has to do with the experience that we brought back.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You mentioned the splits in there, but last weekend you
got your first weekend sweep over Northeastern. How big was
it for your team to get too in the win
column in one weekend?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It was I think it was, you know, important for sure.
I tried to let the players know that, you know,
one weekend doesn't make a breaker season, so you have
to stay just really focused on one game at a time.
It's like, we're not thinking about sweeping New Hampshire. We're
thinking about playing really well Friday night, Like that's where
(17:28):
our mindset has to be. But you know, when the
weekend ends, Calvin, yeah, we're pretty excited about this week.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You might not like this next question then, because you're
focused on one game at a time, but you guys
are about to enter a stretch of three games in
five days, five games and nine days before the break.
How important is is a strong finish to the first
half of your season.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, it's always important, you know, but it does Like
I said, it's not going to the first half of
the season. You can't win any trophies. You can make
it really hard to win trophies if you don't play well,
but you want to play well kind of figure out
the identity of your team and put yourself in position
(18:13):
to win trophies in the second half of the season.
So that's why it's important. But I believe last year,
I believe we were five hundred when we got into
Christmas break. We're very close to it, somewhere near there.
So it's again, we're just focused on Friday night because
I know this in this league, if you start looking three,
(18:36):
four or five games ahead, you're just gonna overwhelm yourself
and you're not going to play very well. So we're
just focused on playing really well up at the WIT
on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
We can look at you know, your guys's box scorers
and lotips and see Joe in the scoring that he provides.
But who on your team do you feel like goes
under the radar and deserves more recognition for what they
do to help you guys win?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh well, I mean look at Taber Heath slip. If
you look at our senior class like you look at
Taber Heath slip, you look at Jake Percival, you look
at Tristan Frasier. This year, Houston Cartman has been dressing
every game for us, pretty much up front, providing when
he's on the ice. He's played very well, but he
provides an incredible leadership on the bench. Tom Sinio, that
(19:25):
whole senior class, Tyler Muslik, that senior class has been
They don't get a lot of accolades and they're just
basically the heartbeat of our team.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Last one for me has has there been an underclassman
who has surprised you or impressed you here early in
the season.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Not really. You know a lot of people will point
to Mike Murtagg, but it doesn't surprise me because I
watched him last year in practice and we had such
a good team last year. He probably didn't get the
minutes in playing time that he deserved. Uh I shouldn't
you know? There was just really we had some really
good players that were ahead of him. But this year
(20:10):
you're seeing the impact he can bring on a nightly
basis and it's been fun to watch him play.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Awesome, coach, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Sure, awesome, well, coach, thanks for joining us. Good luck
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Okay, guys, have a great day. Thank you, Thank you.
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