October 24, 2024 • 15 mins
Cav previews the weekend series with the Minutemen at Amherst Friday & in Storrs Saturday
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, coach, you guys open hockey's play with a
one game matchup against number three Boston University. Fought till
the end, tough one, but turning attention, they got a
two game series coming up against Massachusetts. Just wanting to
get your thought on this upcoming hockey's battle.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, it's gonna be our first weekend series, hockey's weekend series.
You know, last year it was just a one last
week was just a one gamer. So werck uh. You know,
I have the most respect for U mass and Greg
how he runs his program. They've always been a highly
(00:39):
contested games when we play them. It seems like they've
been a lot of one goal games in the past
few years against U. Mass. They play a very upstem,
up tempo style of hockey. They've got excellent goaltending and arable.
I think their forward group is outstanding, and that's led
by you know, who I believe has nine points in
(01:02):
five games already. And then you know, Loch Mellis is
a great player and Sun Ye might be the best
goal scorer in our league. So we're gonna have our
hands full with the minute man, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
All Right, We'll open up for questions, Dan, you want
to start us off? Or how was Tyler doing?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And are you sure if you're going to have on
me up this weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We're not sure if we're going to have Tyler yet.
But he did practice yesterday. We'll see. He hasn't come
in yet and met with our trainer today, so we'll
see how that went and how he responded to playing,
you know, going through a full practice yesterday, but we're
hoping to.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
How much does it just impact the way that you
practice and what you can do and.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Do only what it is?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, we have another goaltender, so we have two goaltenders
for practice, so it doesn't really impact the way we
play or the way we practice. Now, if you only
had one, then it gets a little tougher because you
get guys shooting an empty net down one end. But
for a practice, we've always had two.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Goaltenders, even wen Tyler's then out.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yes, yeah, oh, so you have like a practice guy
now we do? We uh put someone on the roster
last week, Nico Gamara, who is a student here at
Yukon and we've been using him for practice.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
How did you find him?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
He had reached out to Vince SELLETTI, you know, our
goaltending coach earlier in the year, and we told him
at the time we didn't have we didn't have room
for him. But uh, sorry, I lost you there for
a second. We told him that, you know, we didn't
(02:59):
have room for him at the time, but kept his
information and we've had to use it. I mean, it
came in handy, so he's been able to help us
out quite a bit, which is nice. One of the
reasons why I'm concerned about if the NCAA goes to
roster limits. If that's a hard number, I think it's
going to be difficult for a lot of teams, you know,
(03:20):
especially in our sport, in that position when you lose
a goaltender that gets hurt. And Merrimack went through it,
and you know, I think a lot more teams are
going through it, have gone through that, and then when
you lose two, then it becomes a really dicey situation.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Joe, we'll jump over to you.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Thanks, good morning, coach.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
How are you.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I'm great, Joe, you I'm good. Looking forward to Saturday night.
What did you learn about your young team and its
first Hockey East game?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Ah, you know, I think we were very resilient. I
mean it was a good BU team. I thought we
handled a lot of some difficult situations. You get that
five minute major and they score in the first thirty
seconds of the five minute major and we come right
back and get a shorthanded goal. That showed me a
lot about the team's resilience. I thought that we competed
(04:17):
really hard. I thought we skated with BU and you know,
they're the third ranked team in the country, and I
thought we went toe to toe with him. So I
thought it was very promising for a team with you know,
it's turned over half its team. We had fourteen new players,
and I thought we adjusted pretty well.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Your young defense. How do you like the way that
they are that they're coming together? I thought they played
very well. I thought, you know, kai Jan Veriah has
been solid all year long. I think Tray Scott has
given us really good minutes the past a couple of
games that he's played. And you know, Nick Carrabin's been
a seamless transition, and I thought that might have been
(04:59):
Vikings game of the year as well. What does Trade
bring to the table as far as helping on blue Light.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, he skates very well. He's got poised with the
puck and a really high hockey IQ. He can read
plays pretty quickly and there's not a lot of panic
in his game.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Thanks, Natalie, will go over to you.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Thanks Colin, Good morning, coach.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
How are you? I'm great, Natalie, how are you good?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Good to see you again. I have not watched Yukon
yet this year, so I apologize if I ask anything
that needs clarification, but I guess primarily, you know, how
has coaching for you been a little bit different, if
you know, maybe challenging this season with a new personnel
as well as fourteen new players to work with.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You know, Natalie, it hasn't changed that much because you know,
we've had we have great leadership in Hudson schander Or
and John Spetts, who've been around here. I mean, this
is the fifth year here, so they know how things operate,
and they've been able to relay that to the rest
of the team and lead in a way that the
(06:10):
rest of the team knows how we do things at
Yukon and what's their expectations are of players here. So
I've been really fortunate to have that type of leadership
and it's it's been pretty seamless. To be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
That's a great indication and reflection as to what you have.
I think I heard you mentioned preseason you have a
quicker team this year than in years past. How do
you or is there anybody in particular you feel really
goes out there and pushes the pace for this team?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, we got a lot of players I think that
are pushing the pace. I mean, Hudson Chandor has always
played with a lot of pace. But you know, some
of the newcomers, Kayden Shahan skates very well, Ethan Gardula
skates very well, Joey Muldowney, Ryan Taddle. They're all players
who have always, you know, played with a lot of pace.
And those are the types of teams, Natalie I want
(07:04):
to have. I've always enjoyed coaching the teams that can
put pressure on the opponent in all three zones. And
I think that's something we're going to continue to work
at and get better at as the season goes on.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Right and I know it's still early, but I guess
looking at the power play right now one for nineteen,
how do you how do you find production on that
as a coach? How do you kind of encourage anything
different there or how do you approach that?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, I do believe we have to get more pucks
to the net. That being said, some of it's puck luck.
We have got a lot of shots on net with
our power play, they just haven't gone in. So but
maybe with a more you know, shot mentality from our
power play, Like when I watch you mass play, I
mean they get that puck to the net quick, they
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and they they don't mess around much on the perimeter.
That puck's coming to the net, and it puts a
lot of pressure on you as a penalty kill to
sort it out. It's hard, you know, when a team
keeps a puck on the perimeters, it's easy to defend
because you know where you need to go, you know
your rotations. It's hard to rotate off a rebounds because
(08:14):
it's just scrambling and it's chaos. And that's how I
think the good power plays capitalize on on their situations
with you know, getting a puck to the net, going
off a skate and it goes to someone else in bang,
it's in your net. So those are the things that
I think our power play needs to do, probably put
(08:36):
a little more emphasis on getting pucks to the net.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
All right, thanks coach.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Sure, Jay, we'll jump over to you, Hi, Coach Jay Burnham.
I'll be on the TV broadcast on Friday with Johnny Lazarez.
So any complaints on that you can send them my way.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Conolences.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah, Hey, I got three questions if you don't mind.
And talking about that power play, who is that? I
guess the quarterback who really leads that power.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Play for you? On the first unit? Well, we have
two units. I don't know which ones our first unit yet.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I don't think that has materialized to this point. That
being said Kaijian Veriah is you know, as a freshman
as leading one group, and then we have Nick Carabin
and John Spetts interchangeable on the on the next group
up top. So uh, that's probably those would be the
(09:33):
guys that are quarterbacking the power play. Gotcha?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
And then I guess against bu which was there a
line that you thought particularly stood out?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I thought Witcomb's line created a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Uh you No.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
The one thing that's been nice about coaching this team
is I feel very confident in all four lines Ryan
Taddle and like people always ask me, or they'll say
sometimes well, your fourth line was good, and my response is, well,
which ones are fourth line? Because Ryan Taddle and Tristan
Fraser gave us great efforts. I thought Whitcomb's line was good.
(10:09):
Hudson Chandor and you know, Kate and Jahan I believe
had six shots on net in the game, and then
Tabor Heaslip and Jake Percival have been arguably our most
consistent players all year long, so I feel like we
have contributions from every line.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Yeah, that's kind of what I gathered.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And then I guess last one.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Watching that game on Friday, I was just curious on
your opinion the major penalty that kind of happened around
the net. It felt like there was some distance between
the boards. What did you think when you saw that replay?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, you know, I coached the players play in the
refs ref and I try not to do their jobs,
so it doesn't really matter what I think they called it,
and it is what it is. But uh, that would
be more of a I think a question for Brian
Murphy than it is for me. Yeah, all right, I'm
(11:06):
just curious.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Because I'm just trying to understand how how it got
to where it got to it.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It felt like it was they put the offensive player
in a vulnerable position. But I got wound up with
a dissocated shoulder too, so it was was that spets
Yeah so and he's day to day right now. So,
but it is, Hey, that's the game. And you know,
there's a lot of calls in a game that are
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not black and white, and that was clearly in the gray.
And you can see both sides of it now. Whether
I think it was a five or not, you know,
there'll be if you ask ten guys, five might think
it's a five and five might not. There are those
calls in a game that are very gray. And my
point to it is it doesn't matter. We practice penalty
(11:58):
killing all the time. We have to be able to
kill that penalty end and we actually did a pretty
good job. We we gave up one, but we also
scored one, so they wound up not being a factor
in the game.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Sorry, I just asked that question to try and relay
it to the audience because Jim Connolly was like, yeah,
that shouldn't be a major and trying to understand how
to yeah, and the people and you're like, well, I
guess it is.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well, I think that's your job. You know, you can
have an opinion on that, and I can have an opinion.
But as I said, at the end of the day,
it's the ref made the call, and both referees are
excellent referees. I think Marty Hughes and Terrence Murphy do
fabulous job in our league, and that's how they saw it.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
So yeah, awesome, thanks man, Joe will go back to you.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Thanks, Hey, cav What have Jake Richard and Joey Muldowney
added to their games since last year?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, it's clearly developing some chemistry between the two of them.
They're creating a lot of offense. I think I think
they've just matured. They've both gotten stronger, Joe and I think,
as I said, they found a little chemistry playing together.
I think Ethan Whitcomb has also been a cog in
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that line that has helped those two. So right now,
the three of them are playing really well off each other.
They're creating chances. Now I'd like to see, you know,
I do believe defensively they can get better as players.
You know, in the you don't want to trade chances
in a game, and I think against bu I don't
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think that was necessarily the case. I think the first
weekend of the year they were a line that was
trading chances. So they are putting a lot more effort
into the defensive side of their game, but they're excellent
offensive players that can create in the offensive zone.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Thank you, Randy, will go to you. Just one from me.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Good morning, cav How you doing. I just want to
follow up on my partner's question there and Whitcombe. You
mentioned that he's been, you know, like kind of a
positive cog in the.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Middle of those two.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
What specifically could like we look for that, you know,
he does to make those two better, maybe open up
some of that tape to tape passing that we've seen
from the two of them.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He's got great size, he's got really intelligent hockey player.
So they all understand offense and where to be and
you know, there's times where you have to dish and drive,
there's times where you have to curl up and maybe
find a late guy, and they understand when to do
those things. But they also when he the one area
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where I'd like to see eat and get a little
bit better is when he learns to protect the puck.
You know, Aullah like a Joe Thornton type player, because
he's got great size and he's going to be a very,
very dangerous player to handle. I remember when I had
Kevin Hayes that that was an area that he needed
to work on, and then once he did. Like when
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you can't get the puck from those guys, they're just
so hard to defend, and Ethan has the ability to
get there at some point. Great stuff, Thanks coach.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Sure we got anything else for coach, guys?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Awesome?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Well, thanks coach.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Good luck this weekend, all right, Thanks you guys, have
a great day, NICs. Coach
All right, coach, you guys open hockey's play with a
one game matchup against number three Boston University. Fought till
the end, tough one, but turning attention, they got a
two game series coming up against Massachusetts. Just wanting to
get your thought on this upcoming hockey's battle.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, it's gonna be our first weekend series, hockey's weekend series.
You know, last year it was just a one last
week was just a one gamer. So werck uh. You know,
I have the most respect for U mass and Greg
how he runs his program. They've always been a highly
(00:39):
contested games when we play them. It seems like they've
been a lot of one goal games in the past
few years against U. Mass. They play a very upstem,
up tempo style of hockey. They've got excellent goaltending and arable.
I think their forward group is outstanding, and that's led
by you know, who I believe has nine points in
(01:02):
five games already. And then you know, Loch Mellis is
a great player and Sun Ye might be the best
goal scorer in our league. So we're gonna have our
hands full with the minute man, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
All Right, We'll open up for questions, Dan, you want
to start us off? Or how was Tyler doing?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And are you sure if you're going to have on
me up this weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We're not sure if we're going to have Tyler yet.
But he did practice yesterday. We'll see. He hasn't come
in yet and met with our trainer today, so we'll
see how that went and how he responded to playing,
you know, going through a full practice yesterday, but we're
hoping to.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
How much does it just impact the way that you
practice and what you can do and.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Do only what it is?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, we have another goaltender, so we have two goaltenders
for practice, so it doesn't really impact the way we
play or the way we practice. Now, if you only
had one, then it gets a little tougher because you
get guys shooting an empty net down one end. But
for a practice, we've always had two.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Goaltenders, even wen Tyler's then out.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yes, yeah, oh, so you have like a practice guy
now we do? We uh put someone on the roster
last week, Nico Gamara, who is a student here at
Yukon and we've been using him for practice.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
How did you find him?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
He had reached out to Vince SELLETTI, you know, our
goaltending coach earlier in the year, and we told him
at the time we didn't have we didn't have room
for him. But uh, sorry, I lost you there for
a second. We told him that, you know, we didn't
(02:59):
have room for him at the time, but kept his
information and we've had to use it. I mean, it
came in handy, so he's been able to help us
out quite a bit, which is nice. One of the
reasons why I'm concerned about if the NCAA goes to
roster limits. If that's a hard number, I think it's
going to be difficult for a lot of teams, you know,
(03:20):
especially in our sport, in that position when you lose
a goaltender that gets hurt. And Merrimack went through it,
and you know, I think a lot more teams are
going through it, have gone through that, and then when
you lose two, then it becomes a really dicey situation.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Joe, we'll jump over to you.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Thanks, good morning, coach.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
How are you.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I'm great, Joe, you I'm good. Looking forward to Saturday night.
What did you learn about your young team and its
first Hockey East game?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Ah, you know, I think we were very resilient. I
mean it was a good BU team. I thought we
handled a lot of some difficult situations. You get that
five minute major and they score in the first thirty
seconds of the five minute major and we come right
back and get a shorthanded goal. That showed me a
lot about the team's resilience. I thought that we competed
(04:17):
really hard. I thought we skated with BU and you know,
they're the third ranked team in the country, and I
thought we went toe to toe with him. So I
thought it was very promising for a team with you know,
it's turned over half its team. We had fourteen new players,
and I thought we adjusted pretty well.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Your young defense. How do you like the way that
they are that they're coming together? I thought they played
very well. I thought, you know, kai Jan Veriah has
been solid all year long. I think Tray Scott has
given us really good minutes the past a couple of
games that he's played. And you know, Nick Carrabin's been
a seamless transition, and I thought that might have been
(04:59):
Vikings game of the year as well. What does Trade
bring to the table as far as helping on blue Light.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, he skates very well. He's got poised with the
puck and a really high hockey IQ. He can read
plays pretty quickly and there's not a lot of panic
in his game.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Thanks, Natalie, will go over to you.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Thanks Colin, Good morning, coach.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
How are you? I'm great, Natalie, how are you good?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Good to see you again. I have not watched Yukon
yet this year, so I apologize if I ask anything
that needs clarification, but I guess primarily, you know, how
has coaching for you been a little bit different, if
you know, maybe challenging this season with a new personnel
as well as fourteen new players to work with.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You know, Natalie, it hasn't changed that much because you know,
we've had we have great leadership in Hudson schander Or
and John Spetts, who've been around here. I mean, this
is the fifth year here, so they know how things operate,
and they've been able to relay that to the rest
of the team and lead in a way that the
(06:10):
rest of the team knows how we do things at
Yukon and what's their expectations are of players here. So
I've been really fortunate to have that type of leadership
and it's it's been pretty seamless. To be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
That's a great indication and reflection as to what you have.
I think I heard you mentioned preseason you have a
quicker team this year than in years past. How do
you or is there anybody in particular you feel really
goes out there and pushes the pace for this team?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, we got a lot of players I think that
are pushing the pace. I mean, Hudson Chandor has always
played with a lot of pace. But you know, some
of the newcomers, Kayden Shahan skates very well, Ethan Gardula
skates very well, Joey Muldowney, Ryan Taddle. They're all players
who have always, you know, played with a lot of pace.
And those are the types of teams, Natalie I want
(07:04):
to have. I've always enjoyed coaching the teams that can
put pressure on the opponent in all three zones. And
I think that's something we're going to continue to work
at and get better at as the season goes on.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Right and I know it's still early, but I guess
looking at the power play right now one for nineteen,
how do you how do you find production on that
as a coach? How do you kind of encourage anything
different there or how do you approach that?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, I do believe we have to get more pucks
to the net. That being said, some of it's puck luck.
We have got a lot of shots on net with
our power play, they just haven't gone in. So but
maybe with a more you know, shot mentality from our
power play, Like when I watch you mass play, I
mean they get that puck to the net quick, they
(07:52):
and they they don't mess around much on the perimeter.
That puck's coming to the net, and it puts a
lot of pressure on you as a penalty kill to
sort it out. It's hard, you know, when a team
keeps a puck on the perimeters, it's easy to defend
because you know where you need to go, you know
your rotations. It's hard to rotate off a rebounds because
(08:14):
it's just scrambling and it's chaos. And that's how I
think the good power plays capitalize on on their situations
with you know, getting a puck to the net, going
off a skate and it goes to someone else in bang,
it's in your net. So those are the things that
I think our power play needs to do, probably put
(08:36):
a little more emphasis on getting pucks to the net.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
All right, thanks coach.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Sure, Jay, we'll jump over to you, Hi, Coach Jay Burnham.
I'll be on the TV broadcast on Friday with Johnny Lazarez.
So any complaints on that you can send them my way.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Conolences.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah, Hey, I got three questions if you don't mind.
And talking about that power play, who is that? I
guess the quarterback who really leads that power.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Play for you? On the first unit? Well, we have
two units. I don't know which ones our first unit yet.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I don't think that has materialized to this point. That
being said Kaijian Veriah is you know, as a freshman
as leading one group, and then we have Nick Carabin
and John Spetts interchangeable on the on the next group
up top. So uh, that's probably those would be the
(09:33):
guys that are quarterbacking the power play. Gotcha?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
And then I guess against bu which was there a
line that you thought particularly stood out?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I thought Witcomb's line created a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Uh you No.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
The one thing that's been nice about coaching this team
is I feel very confident in all four lines Ryan
Taddle and like people always ask me, or they'll say
sometimes well, your fourth line was good, and my response is, well,
which ones are fourth line? Because Ryan Taddle and Tristan
Fraser gave us great efforts. I thought Whitcomb's line was good.
(10:09):
Hudson Chandor and you know, Kate and Jahan I believe
had six shots on net in the game, and then
Tabor Heaslip and Jake Percival have been arguably our most
consistent players all year long, so I feel like we
have contributions from every line.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Yeah, that's kind of what I gathered.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And then I guess last one.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Watching that game on Friday, I was just curious on
your opinion the major penalty that kind of happened around
the net. It felt like there was some distance between
the boards. What did you think when you saw that replay?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, you know, I coached the players play in the
refs ref and I try not to do their jobs,
so it doesn't really matter what I think they called it,
and it is what it is. But uh, that would
be more of a I think a question for Brian
Murphy than it is for me. Yeah, all right, I'm
(11:06):
just curious.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Because I'm just trying to understand how how it got
to where it got to it.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It felt like it was they put the offensive player
in a vulnerable position. But I got wound up with
a dissocated shoulder too, so it was was that spets
Yeah so and he's day to day right now. So,
but it is, Hey, that's the game. And you know,
there's a lot of calls in a game that are
(11:35):
not black and white, and that was clearly in the gray.
And you can see both sides of it now. Whether
I think it was a five or not, you know,
there'll be if you ask ten guys, five might think
it's a five and five might not. There are those
calls in a game that are very gray. And my
point to it is it doesn't matter. We practice penalty
(11:58):
killing all the time. We have to be able to
kill that penalty end and we actually did a pretty
good job. We we gave up one, but we also
scored one, so they wound up not being a factor
in the game.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Sorry, I just asked that question to try and relay
it to the audience because Jim Connolly was like, yeah,
that shouldn't be a major and trying to understand how
to yeah, and the people and you're like, well, I
guess it is.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well, I think that's your job. You know, you can
have an opinion on that, and I can have an opinion.
But as I said, at the end of the day,
it's the ref made the call, and both referees are
excellent referees. I think Marty Hughes and Terrence Murphy do
fabulous job in our league, and that's how they saw it.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
So yeah, awesome, thanks man, Joe will go back to you.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Thanks, Hey, cav What have Jake Richard and Joey Muldowney
added to their games since last year?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, it's clearly developing some chemistry between the two of them.
They're creating a lot of offense. I think I think
they've just matured. They've both gotten stronger, Joe and I think,
as I said, they found a little chemistry playing together.
I think Ethan Whitcomb has also been a cog in
(13:18):
that line that has helped those two. So right now,
the three of them are playing really well off each other.
They're creating chances. Now I'd like to see, you know,
I do believe defensively they can get better as players.
You know, in the you don't want to trade chances
in a game, and I think against bu I don't
(13:40):
think that was necessarily the case. I think the first
weekend of the year they were a line that was
trading chances. So they are putting a lot more effort
into the defensive side of their game, but they're excellent
offensive players that can create in the offensive zone.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Thank you, Randy, will go to you. Just one from me.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Good morning, cav How you doing. I just want to
follow up on my partner's question there and Whitcombe. You
mentioned that he's been, you know, like kind of a
positive cog in the.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Middle of those two.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
What specifically could like we look for that, you know,
he does to make those two better, maybe open up
some of that tape to tape passing that we've seen
from the two of them.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He's got great size, he's got really intelligent hockey player.
So they all understand offense and where to be and
you know, there's times where you have to dish and drive,
there's times where you have to curl up and maybe
find a late guy, and they understand when to do
those things. But they also when he the one area
(14:52):
where I'd like to see eat and get a little
bit better is when he learns to protect the puck.
You know, Aullah like a Joe Thornton type player, because
he's got great size and he's going to be a very,
very dangerous player to handle. I remember when I had
Kevin Hayes that that was an area that he needed
to work on, and then once he did. Like when
(15:12):
you can't get the puck from those guys, they're just
so hard to defend, and Ethan has the ability to
get there at some point. Great stuff, Thanks coach.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Sure we got anything else for coach, guys?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Awesome?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Well, thanks coach.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Good luck this weekend, all right, Thanks you guys, have
a great day, NICs. Coach
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