September 29, 2025 • 10 mins
Four of the Top 5 scorers from a season ago return, but it guarantees nothing in the 25-26 season
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Bear smokew S Barbacue.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show, our first of
the year, as we preview the twenty five, twenty sixth
edition of the Ice Bus. It starts this weekend at
Colorado College and they'll take a week off and then
the home opener is on October seventeenth against the Buckeyes
of the Ohio State University Friday game and stores Saturday
game at the Excel. We're hoping, let's go Red Sox
(00:23):
that our first radio broadcast for hockey is October seventeenth,
because as long as the Yankees go, that makes life.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Tough for us, so let's eliminate them exactly. And that
starts tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Speaking of which, the Football Show will be six five
to six tomorrow night on the network, So if you'd
like to listen to the Football Show before Yankees Red Sox,
you get that chance.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
To do that, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
A lot of familiar faces, obviously, the offensive weaponry is
there from last year, led by Joey muldonne, Jake Richard
and Ryan Taddle, but there's also a lot of new
faces and some new rules that were in a place
we talked about last year, like the major junior hockey
leagues in Canada now our fair game for college. You
have a couple of those you did not hit the
(01:04):
portal this year, now, Now, was that part of it
because of roster size and the fact that you got
the kids from the major junior you know, a couple
of the junior hockey leagues the major leagues that you
got or is that just just didn't work out this year.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, I don't think the portal is our first choice
in bringing players into the you know program. I think
it's certainly I'm not Dabo Sweeney where I'm gonna say
we're never going to take a transfer, yep. But if
it's the right one and it's the right fit, maybe
we'll take it. I think the majority of the transfers
(01:39):
we have taken over the last few years were more
COVID kids, you know, whether it was you know, Tai
Amanti or Kevin O'Neill or Justin Pearson or Nick Carabin.
There were all kids that you know, graduated from school
Darien Hansen and they wanted to play one more year,
(02:00):
so they had already graduated from the university they were at.
They weren't allowed to go back to those universities of
most of them IVY leagues because they graduate. There's no
fifth year in the IVY leagues. So it worked out great.
I think I'm not saying I would never do it,
but I think you've got to be very, very careful
when you're looking at an undergraduate transfer, because why do
(02:24):
they want to leave? You know, if a coach leaves,
that's a different story. Like Viking, we took as a transfer,
but his coach left. You know, he was coaching the
Hartford Wolfpack now, so the guy that recruited him wasn't there.
So I think that made sense. But if it's a
situation where a guy's not happy with his playing time
at school X, you know a lot of times I
(02:46):
think that's just going to become my problem after that. Yes, right, Really,
I think you really have to do your homework on
in college hockey. I think you really have to do
your homework on undergraduate transfers.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
When looking at the returning talent Rishard, Joey Muldowney, two
really incredible forwards, and the missing Lincoln there is Hudson
schandor how do you go about positioning a third person
between those or maybe even exploring the offense. The option
of breaking those two up, which based on their friendship,
doesn't really seem like an option.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, it has nothing to do with their friendship. I
don't really care about that. It's there. The way they
work together on the ice, it's more important. So and
they have great chemistry on the ice, so that's one
of the reasons why they're together. But you don't replace
Hudson Chandor as a player. Maybe, you know, we ken
Hudson was certainly good player, but there's a lot of
(03:39):
good players. I don't think we replace his leadership and
what he brought to this program. That's just and that's okay,
because you know we can I don't want Tabor. He
slipped to be Hudson Chandor. I want Tabor he slipped
to be Tabor. He slipped and he has a lot
of great qualities in his own right that is going
to be beneficial for our team. So we'll find somebody though,
(04:02):
that can play with Jake Richard and Joey Muldowney. That's
that's not one of my concerns this season.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know, number nine did a pretty good Jeb filling
in for him last year, especially in the Hockey East tournament.
They have that and because of that mentality that you
have now, because you are so much quicker than you
were even a few years ago, the four check game
was part of the success.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
There's a lot of reasons why you were so good
last year.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Power play obviously was big, but the way your team
four checked, and I'll use the bu game in the
Hockey E.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Semifinals as exhibit a of that though.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I think the last goal that Joey scored, or the
second goal that Joey scored, was just off great four
check with tats On along the boards. He gets it
to Jake Rashard, who's got that long long stick. I
don't know if people have ever really focused on that.
He's got a super long stick. He just waited out
your go off and there was Joey Muldowney open. But
the four check was so good last year.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, well, I think that's a staple of our team.
You know, when we're four checking, well, we're well and
you know we're a team that doesn't trap. We're pretty aggressive.
We're going to come after you. And when we are
playing really well, we're creating turnovers off the fore check.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Joey Muldowney is someone who talked to the assembled media
a week ago and he was asked about a twenty
nine goal, eighteen assist forty seven point season numbers that
are off the chart.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
How do you get.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Somebody like him to improve without maybe necessarily worrying about
some numbers last year that you'd love for him to replicate.
But he could still be as good of a player
even if he's not maybe hitting all those marks.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, Joey and I have spoken about it and actually
holds true to a lot of our players. Just keep
becoming a better two hundred foot player. I don't I
mentioned it last week. I don't care if Joey gets
twenty nine thirty nine goals, nineteen goals. If he's playing
(06:04):
the right way and he's creating a lot more scoring chances,
then he's giving up when he's on the ice than
those are the things that we're concerned about. That to
me is more telling, because sometimes goal scoring is lucky,
like sometimes the puck goes in, you know, and you
make great shots and you hit a post, or you
(06:25):
make a great shot and it hits a stick. I
mean he had he hits a post against Penn Stadia
is another one that hits a defenseman stick that's going
in the net. So you know those didn't go in
for him. That doesn't mean he's not playing well. He's
creating great chances. So and Joey's not going to put
that type of pressure on himself, and I'm certainly not
going to put that pressure on him either.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Senior class, you got a lot of seniors and I
think of three of them are off the top of
my head, Jake Personval Tabor, Heath Slip and Tristan Fraser.
They have been through the wars. I like to call
him your foot soldiers is because of the way they play.
They grind, they get after it. They're good defensive four
as they play two hundred feet. So, well, what are
your expectations for them to take their next step in
(07:05):
their development for this year? Mae, because now now they're seniors.
I mean, everybody's a leader, as they said in the
press conference last week, But what would you like to
see from these guys now?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And you can add Houston Cartman to that list too,
because I think we're expecting him to, you know, add
value to our team as well. So I just think
that they have to continue again to play the right
way as long as our team is focused on winning
hockey games and not and I think that's where they
are now. They understand they've been through a freshman year
(07:38):
where it was a pretty good year, then a sophomore
year that was a little disappointing, and then a junior
year that was a really good year. I think they
understand we don't want to go back to a disappointing year.
So right now, I believe all they're focused on is
winning games, and they know what it takes to win games.
They know if we turn the puck over in the
(07:58):
neutral zone and give up odd man rush's, that's not
winning hockey. They know if we don't finish checks on
the for check, that's not winning hockey. They know if
we're out of position in the defensive zone and we're
giving up second and third chance opportunities, that's not winning hockey.
So I think it's incumbent on them to make sure
(08:20):
that the rest of the team and the younger guys,
the six seven younger guys that we have on our
team are new guys, that this is how we have
to play and this is what your expectations are.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Talk about the seniors, Well, last year you had Ethan Whitcomb,
Kayden Shahan, Ethan Gardula. Is the freshman line moving into
their sophomore years. What do you anticipate seeing out of
them in terms of growth?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I think more of I think they need to have
more of an impact on the game. I think last
year it was almost whatever they brought to the game
was a bonus. Now they're going to be lied on
because you can't count on Muldowney and Rashard's line every
night to carry the mail. There's gonna be some nights
(09:09):
that Wickcomb's line has to and they did that last year.
At times, there's gonna be some nights where Tattles line
might have to carry. You know. The thing that I
like about our team as I really believe we have
four balanced lines. When you watched the Stanley Cup playoffs
last year, I thought the biggest difference Florida's top end
players were not better than Edmonton's top end players. Mcdateavid
(09:31):
and dry Suttle might be the two best players in
the world, but when McDavid and dry Suttle have to
play twenty five to thirty minutes a night, for you
to be successful. And Kachuck only has to play twenty,
and Sam Bennett only has to play twenty, you know,
and Barkov only has to play twenty.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
They had four lines that just wore you down, and
that is something that we've tried to build. I don't
know who our first line is. I don't. Of course,
you have Joey and Ja and a lot of people
will say those are the top guys, but all right,
go concentrate on them. And Ethan Wickholm will beat you guys,
or maybe Ryan Taddles line are gonna beat you guys,
(10:09):
or you know Tabor, he's slipping his line's gonna beat you.
So that's what we want to create, is to have
a team that's just gonna wear you down. We might
not win the first period, we're not win the second period,
but it's eventually gonna wear you down.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'm reminded of Paul Maurice. Start banging him. Now.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It's not for now, it's for game seven when they've
got nothing left right, ex exactly, all right, more with
cav we'll get into the fence and we'll also chat
about the newbies on this Husky team. When we continue
It's the Yukonachey Coaches Show live from Bear Smoke. How's
Barbecue on Learfield
Welcome back to Bear smokew S Barbacue.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is the Yukon Hockey Coaches Show, our first of
the year, as we preview the twenty five, twenty sixth
edition of the Ice Bus. It starts this weekend at
Colorado College and they'll take a week off and then
the home opener is on October seventeenth against the Buckeyes
of the Ohio State University Friday game and stores Saturday
game at the Excel. We're hoping, let's go Red Sox
(00:23):
that our first radio broadcast for hockey is October seventeenth,
because as long as the Yankees go, that makes life.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Tough for us, so let's eliminate them exactly. And that
starts tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Speaking of which, the Football Show will be six five
to six tomorrow night on the network, So if you'd
like to listen to the Football Show before Yankees Red Sox,
you get that chance.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
To do that, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
A lot of familiar faces, obviously, the offensive weaponry is
there from last year, led by Joey muldonne, Jake Richard
and Ryan Taddle, but there's also a lot of new
faces and some new rules that were in a place
we talked about last year, like the major junior hockey
leagues in Canada now our fair game for college. You
have a couple of those you did not hit the
(01:04):
portal this year, now, Now, was that part of it
because of roster size and the fact that you got
the kids from the major junior you know, a couple
of the junior hockey leagues the major leagues that you
got or is that just just didn't work out this year.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, I don't think the portal is our first choice
in bringing players into the you know program. I think
it's certainly I'm not Dabo Sweeney where I'm gonna say
we're never going to take a transfer, yep. But if
it's the right one and it's the right fit, maybe
we'll take it. I think the majority of the transfers
(01:39):
we have taken over the last few years were more
COVID kids, you know, whether it was you know, Tai
Amanti or Kevin O'Neill or Justin Pearson or Nick Carabin.
There were all kids that you know, graduated from school
Darien Hansen and they wanted to play one more year,
(02:00):
so they had already graduated from the university they were at.
They weren't allowed to go back to those universities of
most of them IVY leagues because they graduate. There's no
fifth year in the IVY leagues. So it worked out great.
I think I'm not saying I would never do it,
but I think you've got to be very, very careful
when you're looking at an undergraduate transfer, because why do
(02:24):
they want to leave? You know, if a coach leaves,
that's a different story. Like Viking, we took as a transfer,
but his coach left. You know, he was coaching the
Hartford Wolfpack now, so the guy that recruited him wasn't there.
So I think that made sense. But if it's a
situation where a guy's not happy with his playing time
at school X, you know a lot of times I
(02:46):
think that's just going to become my problem after that. Yes, right, Really,
I think you really have to do your homework on
in college hockey. I think you really have to do
your homework on undergraduate transfers.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
When looking at the returning talent Rishard, Joey Muldowney, two
really incredible forwards, and the missing Lincoln there is Hudson
schandor how do you go about positioning a third person
between those or maybe even exploring the offense. The option
of breaking those two up, which based on their friendship,
doesn't really seem like an option.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, it has nothing to do with their friendship. I
don't really care about that. It's there. The way they
work together on the ice, it's more important. So and
they have great chemistry on the ice, so that's one
of the reasons why they're together. But you don't replace
Hudson Chandor as a player. Maybe, you know, we ken
Hudson was certainly good player, but there's a lot of
(03:39):
good players. I don't think we replace his leadership and
what he brought to this program. That's just and that's okay,
because you know we can I don't want Tabor. He
slipped to be Hudson Chandor. I want Tabor he slipped
to be Tabor. He slipped and he has a lot
of great qualities in his own right that is going
to be beneficial for our team. So we'll find somebody though,
(04:02):
that can play with Jake Richard and Joey Muldowney. That's
that's not one of my concerns this season.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know, number nine did a pretty good Jeb filling
in for him last year, especially in the Hockey East tournament.
They have that and because of that mentality that you
have now, because you are so much quicker than you
were even a few years ago, the four check game
was part of the success.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
There's a lot of reasons why you were so good
last year.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Power play obviously was big, but the way your team
four checked, and I'll use the bu game in the
Hockey E.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Semifinals as exhibit a of that though.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I think the last goal that Joey scored, or the
second goal that Joey scored, was just off great four
check with tats On along the boards. He gets it
to Jake Rashard, who's got that long long stick. I
don't know if people have ever really focused on that.
He's got a super long stick. He just waited out
your go off and there was Joey Muldowney open. But
the four check was so good last year.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, well, I think that's a staple of our team.
You know, when we're four checking, well, we're well and
you know we're a team that doesn't trap. We're pretty aggressive.
We're going to come after you. And when we are
playing really well, we're creating turnovers off the fore check.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Joey Muldowney is someone who talked to the assembled media
a week ago and he was asked about a twenty
nine goal, eighteen assist forty seven point season numbers that
are off the chart.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
How do you get.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Somebody like him to improve without maybe necessarily worrying about
some numbers last year that you'd love for him to replicate.
But he could still be as good of a player
even if he's not maybe hitting all those marks.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, Joey and I have spoken about it and actually
holds true to a lot of our players. Just keep
becoming a better two hundred foot player. I don't I
mentioned it last week. I don't care if Joey gets
twenty nine thirty nine goals, nineteen goals. If he's playing
(06:04):
the right way and he's creating a lot more scoring chances,
then he's giving up when he's on the ice than
those are the things that we're concerned about. That to
me is more telling, because sometimes goal scoring is lucky,
like sometimes the puck goes in, you know, and you
make great shots and you hit a post, or you
(06:25):
make a great shot and it hits a stick. I
mean he had he hits a post against Penn Stadia
is another one that hits a defenseman stick that's going
in the net. So you know those didn't go in
for him. That doesn't mean he's not playing well. He's
creating great chances. So and Joey's not going to put
that type of pressure on himself, and I'm certainly not
going to put that pressure on him either.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Senior class, you got a lot of seniors and I
think of three of them are off the top of
my head, Jake Personval Tabor, Heath Slip and Tristan Fraser.
They have been through the wars. I like to call
him your foot soldiers is because of the way they play.
They grind, they get after it. They're good defensive four
as they play two hundred feet. So, well, what are
your expectations for them to take their next step in
(07:05):
their development for this year? Mae, because now now they're seniors.
I mean, everybody's a leader, as they said in the
press conference last week, But what would you like to
see from these guys now?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And you can add Houston Cartman to that list too,
because I think we're expecting him to, you know, add
value to our team as well. So I just think
that they have to continue again to play the right
way as long as our team is focused on winning
hockey games and not and I think that's where they
are now. They understand they've been through a freshman year
(07:38):
where it was a pretty good year, then a sophomore
year that was a little disappointing, and then a junior
year that was a really good year. I think they
understand we don't want to go back to a disappointing year.
So right now, I believe all they're focused on is
winning games, and they know what it takes to win games.
They know if we turn the puck over in the
(07:58):
neutral zone and give up odd man rush's, that's not
winning hockey. They know if we don't finish checks on
the for check, that's not winning hockey. They know if
we're out of position in the defensive zone and we're
giving up second and third chance opportunities, that's not winning hockey.
So I think it's incumbent on them to make sure
(08:20):
that the rest of the team and the younger guys,
the six seven younger guys that we have on our
team are new guys, that this is how we have
to play and this is what your expectations are.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Talk about the seniors, Well, last year you had Ethan Whitcomb,
Kayden Shahan, Ethan Gardula. Is the freshman line moving into
their sophomore years. What do you anticipate seeing out of
them in terms of growth?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I think more of I think they need to have
more of an impact on the game. I think last
year it was almost whatever they brought to the game
was a bonus. Now they're going to be lied on
because you can't count on Muldowney and Rashard's line every
night to carry the mail. There's gonna be some nights
(09:09):
that Wickcomb's line has to and they did that last year.
At times, there's gonna be some nights where Tattles line
might have to carry. You know. The thing that I
like about our team as I really believe we have
four balanced lines. When you watched the Stanley Cup playoffs
last year, I thought the biggest difference Florida's top end
players were not better than Edmonton's top end players. Mcdateavid
(09:31):
and dry Suttle might be the two best players in
the world, but when McDavid and dry Suttle have to
play twenty five to thirty minutes a night, for you
to be successful. And Kachuck only has to play twenty,
and Sam Bennett only has to play twenty, you know,
and Barkov only has to play twenty.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
They had four lines that just wore you down, and
that is something that we've tried to build. I don't
know who our first line is. I don't. Of course,
you have Joey and Ja and a lot of people
will say those are the top guys, but all right,
go concentrate on them. And Ethan Wickholm will beat you guys,
or maybe Ryan Taddles line are gonna beat you guys,
(10:09):
or you know Tabor, he's slipping his line's gonna beat you.
So that's what we want to create, is to have
a team that's just gonna wear you down. We might
not win the first period, we're not win the second period,
but it's eventually gonna wear you down.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'm reminded of Paul Maurice. Start banging him. Now.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It's not for now, it's for game seven when they've
got nothing left right, ex exactly, all right, more with
cav we'll get into the fence and we'll also chat
about the newbies on this Husky team. When we continue
It's the Yukonachey Coaches Show live from Bear Smoke. How's
Barbecue on Learfield
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