January 8, 2026 • 47 mins
In the Jan. 8, 2026, edition of the PodKaz, hosts Nicole Haase and Todd Milewski look ahead to the IIHF Under-18 Women's World Championship, which starts Jan. 10 in Nova Scotia. The rosters are packed with players committed to play NCAA hockey in the coming seasons, making it an important look at what's to come on campus.
We also take a quick look at how many NCAA teams will be sending players to the Olympics and discuss the impact on the college game.
Our look back to last week's games includes a home sweep by No. 2 Ohio State against No. 4 Penn State and a tournament championship for Boston University in Belfast. Hat tricks were plentiful in other lopsided nonconference games.
And this week brings three series between ranked teams in the WCHA and an important set of ECAC Hockey contests.
Here are some links to follow Nicole's coverage of the Under-18s:
https://victorypress.org/2026/01/02/2026-iihf-u18-womens-world-championships-rosters-and-college-commitments/
https://victorypress.org/2026/01/07/2026-iihf-u18-womens-world-championship-introduction-and-how-to-watch/
https://x.com/NicoleHaase
https://bsky.app/profile/nicolehaase.bsky.social
https://www.instagram.com/nicolehaase14
https://www.instagram.com/thevictorypress
The PodKaz is a production of USCHO.com. Have a question for us? Reach out to Nicole (@NicoleHaase) or Todd (@ToddMilewski) on social media or email todd.milewski@uscho.com.
We also take a quick look at how many NCAA teams will be sending players to the Olympics and discuss the impact on the college game.
Our look back to last week's games includes a home sweep by No. 2 Ohio State against No. 4 Penn State and a tournament championship for Boston University in Belfast. Hat tricks were plentiful in other lopsided nonconference games.
And this week brings three series between ranked teams in the WCHA and an important set of ECAC Hockey contests.
Here are some links to follow Nicole's coverage of the Under-18s:
https://victorypress.org/2026/01/02/2026-iihf-u18-womens-world-championships-rosters-and-college-commitments/
https://victorypress.org/2026/01/07/2026-iihf-u18-womens-world-championship-introduction-and-how-to-watch/
https://x.com/NicoleHaase
https://bsky.app/profile/nicolehaase.bsky.social
https://www.instagram.com/nicolehaase14
https://www.instagram.com/thevictorypress
The PodKaz is a production of USCHO.com. Have a question for us? Reach out to Nicole (@NicoleHaase) or Todd (@ToddMilewski) on social media or email todd.milewski@uscho.com.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Usccho dot com. Hi, had, Welcome to the first edition
of the podcast for twenty twenty six. My name is
Todd Mollusky. I'm here with Nicole Hosey. We are from
us cho dot com and we will be talking college
hockey a little bit later in today's show. And well
(00:25):
that's really what we do here, but we wanted to
start this edition with an event that's coming up this weekend. Well,
Nicole is not here in the US, Nicole, where are you?
And for what?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I am in Sydney, Kate Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada for
the U eighteen Women World Championships. So I am this
is We were just talking about this offline. I am
four hours east of Halifax, was it? Which isn't the
thing I knew you could do. Like I planned to
fly to Halifax, but it's a four hour drive. So
(01:00):
I am an island like past the mainland, but not
actually I think I asked technically past meeting east of
Prince Edwarg Island as well, closer to Greenland than I
am to Wisconsin. Way out east Atlantic time zone. Holy
time zoned me h. Yeah, So tournament starts on Saturday,
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and I got here a couple of days early to
get settled in and explore a little, and then we'll
be off with another version of the U eighteen World Championships, which,
as most of our listeners know, is super relevant because
tons of the players from this tournament will go on
to play in the NCAA. Several of them are already committed,
pretty much everybody from US and Canada except for the
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ones that are not like age eligible yet, and then
several players from all of the other teams as well.
I have those lists and where those players are committed
up on the Victory Press, so you can check those
out there. But yeah, so it's what my fifth the
U eighteens in a row. So pretty excited to just
be here and cover this tournament. I think it'll get
(02:04):
a little more attention when we're in Canada, but that
it has maybe one. I'm overseas and I'm the only
one there, so that'll be exciting. But yeah, I love
coming to see these players. You know, several players have
gone right from their eighteen teams their senior national teams.
I'm not done with my previews yet, so I'm not
positive there may be somebody playing here that's not an
(02:25):
Olympic team, but probably not just because of the closeness
of the tournament to the Olympics this year. But you know,
this is like Chloe Fromurano played in this tournament last
year while she was already at Minnesota sou Yeah, that's
where I'm at.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So yeah, there's a lot of reason, like you said,
to pay attention to this and to kind of, you know,
to understand where these players are coming from and going.
But I think one of the things that I always
appreciate that you come back with from this is just
a little bit more of an understanding of what these
countries are doing to kind of we know what the
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US and Canada are doing, we see them all the time,
but the other countries that are part of it and
what they're doing to kind of try and take steps
and to make their national programs, especially at these younger ages,
a little bit better. What do you feel like you've
seen over these last couple of years and the four
previous years you've done this in person of just maybe
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how some of those other you know, the Czechias and
Slovakias have grown and kind of put more importance on
this event to help kind of foster that yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I think what's really interesting is all the countries will
say what they're doing, but we've seen sort of different outcomes.
Chechia sort of still being the benchmark for what some
of the European countries have done in terms of really
investing of their women's program, and for them that went
down to YOU eighteens and even U sixteens, and so
we've seen that from them. They won their first two
medals in a row, the back to back medals, so
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they won bronze last year and silver the year before.
So for them, I think they continue to be the benchmark.
We see that at the senior level. It's no different
at YOU eight teens. One of the biggest things is
that their You eighteen coach Dushan is on Kyle McLeod's
coaching staff with the senior team, like that is a
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fully integrated They all work and talk together. They know
that some players from You eighteens will probably be playing
at the senior level, and just the conversation and sort
of the flow of information and the way that they
are all tied together. And again down to U sixteen.
I don't know that coaches them off the top of
my head, but they are all in conversation at all
times and Dushan, as far as I know, is the
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only U eighteen coach that is also on the senior
coaching staff. So I think that rate there is just
a really huge Chadia just made that that full odd investment,
you know, bringing in Terre's a Sadalova as their as
their GM, and she just really you know, sort of
forced their their federation to say like this is what
we're gonna do, and they put in the investment and
they started from the ground up. So we've seen that
(05:01):
payoff for them at the senior level and it's been
the same at EU eighteen's two. We were in Sweden
in twenty twenty three, o't been getting those numbers right
and they, you know, it made a big pushed and
talked about their sorry, their federation and their investment. And
one thing it's with Sweden is they're very focused on
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and this was pre the p WHL launching or maybe
even being announced, was that like they need to focus
on homegrown talent, and so that means like when players
were coming to the SDHL, they still wanted to make
sure that a large portion of most SDHL rosters were
Swedish born players. I'm not sure they've seen the same payoff,
but you know how we kind of talk about like
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that next level jump, maybe like the WCCHA. I feel
like that's where Sweden is. I do feel like we've
seen improvement from them. Particularly two years ago. They had
a poor quarter finals showing and that was just like
sort of unacceptable to them, and it went from like,
you know, we could be playing for a medal to
finishing I think seventh in the tournament. It just it
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really was, you know, the matter of like one poor game,
and so I felt like they really pushed quite a
bit last year. They lost to the US in the
semifinals to one, they lost to Chechia in the bronze
middle game to one, so ultimately the only improved they
went from fifth to fourth in the overall standings. But
I felt like they set a goal for themselves, which
is to improve from what they had done, and I
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really think that they've shown that over the past two seasons.
So I feel like the growth is maybe a little
slower there, but I do think they put that attention
on and really did it. And then you know, kind
of the other end of the spectrum is someone like Slovakia, right,
who just has Nella and Nella the Pashnova and the
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nobody else in her team really reaches that level of talent.
And that's absolutely nothing against her team. She's you know,
at a higher level than most anyone that will hit
the ice this weekend. But you know, she she clearly
has put in the individual work to raise her game,
but I'm not sure that the federation is done sort
of the same thing. And she has talked about years
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ago that like you know, she means she was leading
the senior big in Slovakia is like a fourteen and
fifteen year old, and so I think I think she
and a couple other teammates have come over to the
US both for prep school and leading into the NCAAs.
So hopefully we see that continued growth from them, sort
of that trajectory that we saw maybe from Czechia ten
(07:30):
years ago, where a couple of players came first and
then it started that that rolling it down the hill,
you know, pick it up all momentum. But yeah, I
think that's sort of where we're at. And then an
interesting one for me this week will be hungry because
we've seen a couple of Hungarian players, you know Emma
Christ at Minnesota and a few others. And they do
have two players that are committed to the NCAA that
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I know of so far, and so they're just a
program and a federation. I don't know a ton about.
We haven't seen them at eighteen is a ton. They
made a and pushed. They were kind of head and
shoulders above everybody at the level below this to win
that tournament. And so I'm hoping to talk to somebody
from their federation and sort of learn more about what
work they're doing.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, we know that Canada and the US are the
dominant teams at this tournament. Canada won last season's championship
beating the US in the final. That's typically the way
it goes, but not necessarily always it's a those two
teams being in the final. We've seen a couple of
years where it's or at least one year where.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Checking upside Canada.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yes, Canada and make it in that one. But those
two teams being the big players here, what do you,
I guess, what are you looking forward to seeing out
of the US and Canada for this tournament?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I think in this m with the US's senior team's
focus on young kers illiant. It puts like kind of
a different perspective. I'm looking at these players and seeing
them as that next gen that like if somebody that
is heading into college next year could would be part
of the next Olympics cycle. And so to me that
(09:12):
just sort of makes me look at the group with
maybe a little bit more focus or I'm not sure
how to say that, but it does just sort of
change the way that I look at I think for
both teams in the last two years, they really some
of the players I think graduating because of college, but
like the players that aged out are some of the
biggest names that have been on those teams in recent years.
(09:33):
And are you know it's Chloe Privoriano, it is Josie
Saint Martin, Mahi skianal Bell Finale, Like, there have been
these really big names that have like people knew sort
of outside of those of us the pay attention to
you eighteens, and I'm not sure that there's like super
huge names that either of these teams. I feel like
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it's a little more niche. There's definitely great players, don't
get me wrong, but for me, I'll be looking to
see who stands out and who sort of steps into
that new role. There were a couple of players last
year that were on the younger side on their rosters
that had flashes of brilliance and also some boneheaded boobs
because they're still teenagers. And so for me, I'll be
watching for some of those returners to see how they
(10:17):
have grown their game. Like on the USA May April
is a third year player, and so I think we'll
see a lot more from her, But she's not the
same sort of like big personality, so I think she's
going to be more of like that quiet leader. She's
been like a fible London defender since she was like fourteen,
Like she's just she's she's a defender in the style
of Leila Edwards. Right, So now that we sort of
(10:40):
know and see how Layla works in that position, I
think I'll be looking for those parallels in terms of
like the long reach and the stick and that sort
of stuff and what you can do from the point.
But yeah, I think it's about maybe seeing like who
steps up and who stands out out of this next generation.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So this tournament starts on Saturday, runs through Sunday, January eighteenth,
So over those eight days, there's I mean, I think
there's four games right away on Saturday, and then at
least two every for all the days between then unless
there's a day off, so we'll get there off days. Okay,
how can people follow what you're going to be doing
(11:17):
throughout the tournament?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, so all of the games will be all of
the US and Canada games. OD this gets so complicated.
TSN is the one that covers this, so folks in
Canada should be able to always sign it on TSN
US games and they will carry US games. Canada games
and then quarterfinals on US games should also be on
(11:43):
NHL Network and they will carry the TSN feed. I
will say that what I went looking for links for
NCAA games to get prepared for next weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
There were some.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
World Championship things on ESPN Plus, no details, they were
on the calendar, so obviously you will know until it happens,
but I have hope for folks and that it'll be
at ESPN Plus, which is at least easier to zee
a lot of times. The Finland Games will be available online,
so obviously it's finished commentary, but at least it's free
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online and I have all of those that was linked
up on Victory Press, and then I will be live
tweeting for lack of a better word, on both Blue
Sky and Twitter. I would love to get off Twitter,
but that's where all the highlights get shared IHF and
all the veterans. Uh, So that's so I will be
(12:37):
sharing IHEF does not allow video taken during game time,
so I'd up personally taking video, but I do try
to get like school celebrations and things like that non
gameplay stuff and then lots of pictures. So definitely follow
along on both Blue Sky and Twitter where I am
at Nicole Hasey, and then also on Instagram, both the
(12:57):
Victory Press Instagram and my own personal which is Nicole
has fourteen. I will try and share both tournament stuff
and the things that I'm doing my side plusts while
I meet.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, that's that's as for me. Almost as entertaining as
the hockey is is what you get, what you find,
and some of your travel excitement of how you get places.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, yeah, I have a car this time, so that's
at least nice, and they're more in one city, but
we are, you know, super remote. My the place of
veryting has snowshoes, and they are supposed to get some
more snow, so I'm hoping we'll do some some nature
stuff falling here.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Sounds good. Okay, So that's the U eighteen tournament. But
we're also getting some news lately about the Olympic rosters
for the tournament that will be starting in well just
about four weeks now in Italy. I have seen seven
of the ten teams with rosters. Haven't seen Canadas in
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Italy yet. Canada is coming on Friday as I understand it.
The other two not totally sure of the timing there.
But from the rosters I have seen, I've counted twenty
nine current NCAA Double A players from sixteen nca Double
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A teams that will be in the Olympics this season,
which is I mean, you think that there's forty five
programs playing top level NCAA women's hockey. To have sixteen
of them sending at least a player to the Olympics
is telling you something that there's there's some pretty good
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the talent is around the country for college hockey. That
at least that was the the what I took out
of that when I was just kind of counting around
seeing there's a DOUBLEHF page that is tracking all of
the rosters are being really and so having seen that,
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it's that stood out to me.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, I mean it's not certainly not surprising in terms
of we know that we've seen the growth of NC
players coming from international schools, but yeah, or from international
you know what I'm trying to say, rosters I haven't
paid as much of attention. It's just because of the
eight teens and traveling on trying to keep up with it.
But yeah, I think it's just really exciting, and it
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continues to show the importance of paying attention to the
collegiate game and the role that it plays in developing
international talent, particularly when the federations are putting in that
type of time and effort. So yeah, it's it's why
I think all I mean, there's a through right here.
Right like we started with you eight teens, and I
normally talk about college and talking about the Olympic. There's
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like there's a very clear connection and through line, and
it's it's why we love, you know, talking about it
and making sure people know about these players because these
are the ones that are going to make be in
bad hm on.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The US roster. There are seven current collegiate players out
of that group of twenty three, which does tell you,
like you're talking about there's a youth I don't know.
I don't know if the term youth movement is right
because there's still a lot of real quality veteran players
on that team.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
But there's not that young anymore either, Right, there's pretty
when they were sophomores at the World two years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But yeah, right, But Wisconsin has four current players going
to the US team Minnesota as one Ohio state, as
one pet state has won. So that's a pretty good
indication of that there's some well right there in the
w c h A, there's there's six players who are
going to be gone for a month, and we've talked
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about how that's going to change the dynamics of the league,
but it's also going to be a pretty good raising
of the level of their play for when they come back,
and they get in the playoffs too that I'm really
looking forward to seeing that of what they come back with.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, well, and I one of the interesting things will
be how I mean they all talk about the speed
of the game being different when you come back for
fast slow that game is going to feel nice and
slow to that to down and like someone like KK Harvey,
who the game slows down for her anyway, right, like
the way that she's it what it is actually physically
slower too. Like that feels scary for anyone that has
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to face some of these players just because it is
going to allow them. They're going to have so much
more time in space than they're prepared and used to.
So can you you know, you mentioned those were just
the US players, like all of the teams you mentioned
are missing players from other countries as well.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Right, we will have more to talk about the Olympics,
probably after the UA teams as we kind of start.
You know, we got to handle things in the order
that they arrive right right, one thing at a time here,
So let's let's get through the UA teams, but also
be on the lookout for those rosters that I We
will have a full rundout on usc jo dot com
eventually of where all these players are are coming from
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and where they're going, yes, because that will be important
as we're looking towards the end of January and then
in the start of February. Really, you know, the good
portion of February, while those players will be gone from
their teams, and that's obviously going to have an impact
on the way the final weeks of the regular season
play out here in NCAA hockey. So that is going
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to wrap up our first segment. When we come back,
we're going to look back at what we missed over
the break, and then we'll look ahead at what's coming
up ahead here at NCAA Women's hockey. Stay with us
on the podcast. Welcome back to the podcast. Todd and
Nicole with you for another look back at what we
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didn't kind of have a chance to talk about during
the break that we were off for a couple of weeks,
or a couple of games that we missed during that time.
But really it was last week when things picked up
again around NCAA Women's hockey. And I want to start
with a a series between number two Ohio State and
number four Penn State Ian Columbus last week. The Buckeyes
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come out with a pair of wins in that one
five to one on Friday and for to one on Saturday.
That Saturday game, Testigianiky cut the deficit of two to one,
but Mira Junker scored right after that to make it
three to one and late in the first period, and
off the Buckeyes went for that win. This is a
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I was looking forward to this to see, we know
how good Ohio State is, we still want to know
where Penn State fits in that picture, and I think
we saw that. You know, there's they're not at Ohio
State level. It's it's could you say they're just a
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little bit below that because they're right there with teams
like you know, Northeastern when they went to Boston and
played them and split a series there. Yeah, I mean
that's that's that next level. But I feel like maybe
they they Penn State, got a little bit of knowledge
of where they need to be agreed.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, I would. You know, we should preface this all
by saying, like Penn State's still a very good team,
Like no offense to them, but like it's just clear
there's a gap, and I think it's very hard to
try and bridge that when you never play at that level.
Like again, like there's it's hope. We always I always
feel guilty and feel bad having these conversations like we're
calling people out, But I just like Pen State does
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not get the opportunity to play at the pace that
that game was or with the pressure. I mean, I
think a lot of teams give a lot of pressure,
and I think Ohio Date is the one that does
it the most. Like that is the hardest sort of
test you're going to get in terms of like losing
time and space and having to make quick decisions and
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sort of resetting. I feel like those scores are maybe
a little generous to a how to how close those
games actually were. I think Penn State just really struggled.
I mean, if they got the pup out of the zone,
then they immediately had to go chat and then Ohio
State was sort of right back at it again. And
so I think you said, I think it's it's a
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huge learning opportunity and it shows you exactly like where
you need to be in three months time. Like it's
a really good time to go do that and get
that gut check and know like what you have to
work on. Penn State has you know, made the NC
Tournament twice now and then not gone as far as
they would like to, and so what is it going
to take to make that next step? And like I
think it was just sort of very clearly on display
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in that series what they would need to do. I
thought katid Sub played really well. I thought the defense
played pretty well. But Ohio State just owned pup possession
for most of those two games, and it was good
play from the defense and the goalie that kept them
from being you know, sort of more of a blowout
than they were.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Penn State did get a one nothing win over an
over ten Cornell right before New Year's December thirtieth. Disa
made thirty five staves to that shut out, and that
was a you know, every one of those wins where
they they beat a team that's still kind of in
the upper levels of the NPI, it's going to be
important for them as they build kind of that that
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numerical argument for for you know, being in the top
five spot in the NPI when it when it's all
said and done. So that I thought that that was
a even though it came before that Ohio State series,
that was a point in their favor that they did
get that one done. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, I think for them now it's about bouncing back
to eight. Like you got you got snapped on a
little bit, like you you know, lesson learned, Like how
do you react to that and what does it do
for you? Into you who adds the season goes out. Now,
let's talk about the.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Friendship Series in Belfast, Northern Ireland last weekend, where the
four team field included number five Minnesota Duluth and number
eight Quinnipiac. And they did play on the second day
of the tournament, but it was for a third place
because they both lost well, they both did not advance
to the championship game. Duluth lost three to two in
overtime to Harvard, Quinnipiac tied BU two two and then
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lost in the shootout. That of course doesn't count towards
the result, but counted towards who made it into the championship.
Quinnipiac did win that third place game three to one
over Duluth. Emerson Jarvis s broke a one to one
tie with thirteen fifty seven left and Killin Marsh scored
her twenty fourth goal of the season into an empty net.
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We'll hear that number twenty four again in a minute,
because we're getting up there with a lot of players.
And then BU won the championship with a three to
two win over Harvard. Neelie Nicholson with the goal ahead
goal seven to fourteen left in that one. So we've
talked about bu not having the first half the way
I would have thought, right, and yet here they are
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winning the championship the hop in the second half, So
that's something for them to build on. It's it's a
real uphill battle for the Terriers in the second half
given the record that they had in the first half.
But is there some concern here for Minnesota Duluth in
that I had to come from behind in the game
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against Harvard just to force overtime. We're down to nothing,
scored twice in the third, got fifty seven shots on
goal and only scored twice. Ainsley Toughie with fifty five
saves in that one, and if you were watching that
that the gentleman who was doing the play by play
was doing an amazing job of calling out those saves. Yeah, yes,
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yes it was. And we'll talk a little bit more
about this in a couple of minutes. But now de
Luth comes home as Wisconsin coming into their building, there's
really no time to wallow in things right now for
the Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
No, I think I think the concern probably needs to
be about like shot selection and sort of puck protection.
Like if you just shoot the puck because you can
and you wildly, you still net and then the other
team gets it, Like what was that shot for? What
did it accomplish besides a turnover? And so UMD is
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not a team that usually puts up fifty seven shots
that stuck like not their mo o. So the whole
thing was just really weird. I mean, they hit some post,
they had some bad pup luck for sure, but yeah,
I will be it will be for now. It's a
hump and I'll have some questions. But I feel like
it could be the first data point and in some
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you know, something as time goes out. I mean you
could it Could it be traveling and could it have
been you know, obviously can You and I were talking
about being sick. They were going through you know, every
team's going through the same thing. But yeah, it is
also bigger ice, and I did feel that at times
you could tell that, like people were exhausted on all
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four teams, to be fair, but like Minnesota Ta Blooth
plays at sat Club State. It's not like they never
play on big ice. So of those four teams, the
Bluth should have been in the best position for it. Yeah,
I don't know, I thought it was weird, but I
felt like it was one of those things where like
then they just started gripping their sticks too tight and
they were just really trying to force it and then
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they really got out of their game and what they
tried to accomplish. But I think, yeah, but big thing
has to be about just sort of smarter decisions with
the puck overall. And then you know, like in that
overtime they had a th reda on one where they
didn't even get a shot, Like what happened there, it
was just like so out of it's it's not what
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I expect from them, it's not what we use are
used to seeing, and so stuff like that makes me
think that there was you know, sort of maybe more
going on or that it's you just get in your
head at that point. But yeah, that they did that,
and pretty much the next play Harvard went down and
wanted like, hey, good for Harvard, And I feel like
Harvard is having there's a lot of going on, and
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Harvard you know, probably isn't going to lean a thing,
so maybe we like not getting enough attention. But the
turnaround there over the last two seasons, like they're having
a stellar season compared to where they were in the
last two years, right, so that's a huge win for them.
But also I just wanted to say, I think it's
really funny that be you and Harvard went to Belfast
to play each other for a championship game. Like there's
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a mile and a half between those two campuses, right, well.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Long way to go, but I mean, but it looks
like an awesome trip. I would I'd love to do
that at some point.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
To I want to just go sit next to the announcer. Well, yeah, no,
I mean, aside from his absent, which was a plus,
he just there was an enthusiasm about like every bit
of it. He was so excited to be watching high
level women's hockey, and it came across in everything and
like you said, every great block, every safe that up
he made. It was like the most fun I've had
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watching a sort of like regular game and just like
a game with nothing on the line. Just because his enthusiasm,
it was joyful. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yes, love to hear that. We had a a rash
of hat tricks over the weekend as well in some
games that were really really uncompetitive. Clarkson beat Saint Michael's
twice fifteen to nothing and then nine to nothing. Sarah
Manis with the hat trick in the first game, Edrew
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Andrea Trinkova five assists in that first game. Princeton beats
stone Hill ten nothing. On Saturday, is he wondered four
goals and to assist Mackenzie Alexander three three six, and
Minnesota beat Sacred Hard fourteen to two on the road
on Saturday, Abby Murphy with three goals and four assists.
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Nellie Layton in three goals to assists Abby Murphy. That
three goal game got hurt a twenty four goals so
for the season, so that that races is continuing to
evolve as we get into the second half here. But
there were there were some big numbers put up over
the weekend in the a non conference start to twenty
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twenty six that wasn't exactly pretty sometimes.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I mean, we rehad We went over this at Thanksgiving
with the in games in Nashville. So I don't know
that we want to go too far on it, but
just to point out that like that was not a
one off and we should stop doing this. It's bad,
it's not good. It's I don't I just I don't
like it. Saint Michael's has one win all year, Like
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there's just there's no they don't they don't deserve having
to go through that. And uh, you know we went
back and forth and you know about all of the reasons,
but I just seeing all those scores this that this
past weekend, it was like I and then you know,
then when we start talking about awards and things at
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the end of the year. You know, we we had
this conversation last year about like should some of like
the blow wins not like should those goals be counted different?
I don't know how you want to say it, but
like if you're gonna if you're talking about Amie Murphy
Dway was scoring numbers, well seven points and fun game
is like a you know, kind of absurd for anybody.
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So like, well, it just it's used things a big
things toffen Colton also, I just like it's just this
isn't fun for anybody. Let's stop doing it. Can we
stop doing it? I will get done. You know, we
gotta talk to who are.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, who are the people who are making these decisions.
We needed to get get to them with that information.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Could we also say though what was in Minnesota doing
in the first gear?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
How is that? I just thought, get from four to fourteen?
Or was it four? I think of the first day?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Yeah, four, Not that I'm like, why didn't you blow
them out more? But also like I have busted them.
I did not get to watch, but I have watch.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I wouldn't imagine that at some point when you're trying
to chase around Minnesota for one day, the second day
of trying to chase around rough you get pretty tired
of of of doing that.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, kind of how I figured the second day in
belt Pass weren't like you're all jetlagged and pointing on
big ice and over time, and I don't think those
second days a result, say much?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Right, one more result I want to get to. On Tuesday,
number fourteen, Yale beat number six Northeastern three nothing. Samson
Fry with a twenty two save shutout for Yale, which
I mean we we had talked about Northeastern before the
break kind of going in on a pretty good run
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and the a midweek game kind of you know, when
they ended up hurting them in the numbers. As as
it as it progresses through the season.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, I feel like that is you know what we've
talked about in terms of like ECAC games, where they're
all really important rate and you can't overlook them, and
I feel like they got it by that year. Yeah,
I again unfortunately didn't get a chance to watch, what
with the traveling to Far East Canada.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
But yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Don't I don't know that there's that it's anything we
haven't covered, which is that like these games just are
really important. Yale's been flirting with the bottom of the
the standings, the pull, you know, for the last three
or few weeks. I think it's just it's on any
given day. I mean, hockey sloves those Tuesday games, and
I think they've got to be really difficult. So I've
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always thought that's not really fun for those student athletes.
But yeah, I don't know. Do you have many thoughts
on this one?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
My thought is that Yale is I don't think this
is the last we're gonna hear of Yale either. I mean,
they feel like there's gonna be a team that's gonna
throw a real challenge at a lot of the yeah,
at the top of ec AC as the second half
goes on. So that that's my thought on it. Is
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I I don't know how much to put into these
first games back after break necessarily all the time, because uh,
you know, for a team, if a team's been off
three weeks, four weeks, sometimes it's nuts. That's rough that
try and get the speedback right away when you're playing
another team instead of just practicing against your own team.
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And so I feel like there's some grace there on
the Northeastern side, but I do like, right right, that's
that results gonna count no matter what.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
So yeah, like I don't think that's anything bad about
where Northeastern is in their production, but I do know
that it's gonna hurt them.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
So it's what it's yes and yes, exactly. Okay, we're
gonna step out for another quick break when we come back,
look ahead to what's coming this weekend in NCAA Women's hockey.
Stay with us on the podcast. We're back with the podcast.
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Todd Nicole wrapping things up this week with a look
at what we have coming up on the schedule. Let's start.
Let's start a w c h A this week where
we've got three series between teams that are ranked in
the top fifteen. Ohio State playing at number fifteen Saint
Cloud State, number three Minnesota with a home and home
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series against number twelve Minnesota State and then number one
Wisconsin at number eight Minnesota Duluth. And we talked a
little bit about this before, but I am really looking
at d Luth and how they bounce back from losing
a couple of games in Belfast last week, and you know,
knowing that they probably should have beaten Wisconsin in Lebon
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earlier this season, had a lead in going into the
last minute of a game and somehow lost it in regulation.
I feel like there's you know, obviously a team there
that can beat Wisconsin and can put up the goals
and be you know, physical enough to throw Wisconsin off
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of its game. We just need to see whether that's
gonna be the loot team that we see on the
IIS week.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yeah, And like maybe a mend a little what I
was saying before in that, like I do think um
D needs to take more shots against Wisconsin. I do
think they can get a little picky. So I think
it's about finding that balance, right, So maybe maybe I
amend that a little, But it's about putting all of
those bits together. It's like I feel like when they
play really great defense against the Badgers, then that really
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takes away from their offense, and they haven't been able
to and against the team like what good than you
simply have to score goals Like I don't mean like one,
I mean several goals. You're gonna have to put the
buck in the net. And so I feel like they
haven't progressed to the point where they're putting all of
those little bits together, where they're playing great defense, where
they're being really physical, and where they're being their best
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offensive selves. And so it's a matter of them if
they We've seen them do all those things in other games.
It's about if they can put all those bits together.
But also Minnesota Louth, there's almost like all of the
other top w c h A teams, maybe the one
that's given Wisconsin the most regular trouble year after You're
the last four to five years, which you said, I.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Mean Ohio say, it's obviously been a pretty consistent foreigner
Wisconsin's side, But yeah, I mean de luth says, uh
if not taken gave them the overtime a couple of
times from whatever they've they've won a couple of games
in the Luth and I feel like they did they
win a one nothing game at lebon A couple of
years ago too, So yeah, there there's been opportunities for
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for the Bulldogs to, you know, to show that they're
right there on that same page and and they've done
it a few times.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yeah, so I it'll be interesting. Like there's just there's
wal going on, Like the Wisconsin players have had all
the little bit bnouncement and there's stuff there, and those
players have been off doing other things and you know,
like we talked about, luth has to do has needs
this dis bounce back a little, and so I think
there's a lot of sort of aside from just head
to head on the ice, there's a lot of other
stuff surrounding it. And I think it's how both of
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the teams handle some of that stuff that will really
be important here.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
The Minnesota and Minnesota state home and home. I believe
I'm remembering right that the Mavericks won both ends of
that first time the team's played on a weekend this season,
and I'm sure that the Gophers remember that, and so
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I have to imagine they will be a little charged
up to make sure that doesn't happen again, or that
the Mavericks don't get a win this week.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah, but as you were saying, those first games back
can be really difficult and double checking myself, but I
don't think either of those two games have played yet,
have they?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
The Gophers did play Sacred Heart last week?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Oh? Yes, that's right. I apologize. We did just talk
about that. Can you tell? But too many things happening
at one mm hm, I apologize.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I can't imagine in Minnesota State is able to pull
it off again, just because I go first that a
lot of pride on the line here, and I think
as soon as that weekend finished, this weekend that circled
on the calendar. So yeah, I think it'll be interesting.
Like clearly Mankato had some stuff figured out about the Gophers,
and so usually when you talk to Brad frost about
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playing like Nadine or Mark, it'll talk about the chess
match because they know each other so well that there's
like no secrets anymore. I feel like this one's gonna
be a really interesting chess match in terms of like
what Minnesota State figured out last time and now Frosty
trying to counter some of that, but imagining Minnesota State
has prepared for some of that. So I think there's
gonna be some interesting machinations happening there to try and
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you know, sort of figure out what's the key that
turns of luck.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Yeah, some important games happening E C A C hockey,
uh this weekend involving number eleven Clarkson going on the
road to number ten Cornell on Friday, and then number
thirteen Colgate on Saturday. Uh. These are I just feel
like you're a little bit of a measuring stick right
now for how the second half is going to go
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for for really all three of those teams, they're all
in that uh, that that space that you don't like
to be in in that that that next group of
teams in the rankings after you're looking at you know,
at large bids. Let's let's see if we we get
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in more clarity coming out of this week, because we
know that doesn't always give us that, So we'll have to,
I guess look back into it next week and see
if we know anything more or if we're just kind
of gonna have to push that down the roan a
little bit more to be able to tell who's going where.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Well, I think importantly too, not just in national ratings,
but in conference standings, right, Like, yeah, the ECAC conference
standings have been so crazy. I mean at this point
Colgate is what seventh as with their teeth country, I
mean it's it's the ECC standings are wild at the moment,
and so and we're still popping. So Colgate in seventh
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is less than six points behind Princeton in first, and
so yeah, it continues to be. I feel like we
could end up with ties, and like you said, we
kind of don't actually learn anything when all of a
sudden done, nobody really has pulled away. But I do
think that, I mean, every one of those points and
half points is going to be really important. And so
that I think, more so than than national clarity, is
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we might see some movement in the ECAC standings. And
as we just talked about, like the sort of quote
unquot lower half of their standings are simply dangerous to
that have already beat brings schools this season and so
when it gets down to it, like they have to
be earning all those points. And also the postseason is
going to be I think really scary in the ECAC,
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Like you could really end up getting some damage, you know,
with an early ECAC Tournament loss, and so that's why
those standings I think are ultimately so important.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
In the Atlantic Hockey standings, we have Penn State and
Mercieres one and two. There's a pretty big gap there.
But Mercierris is hosting the Nittney Lions this week Friday
and Saturday. I will be watching to see how Penn
State rebounds. This is a little bit of a like
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we're talking about with Minnesota coming back after having lost
twice to Mankato. Penn State, after having lost twice to
Ohio State, now knows what level they have to play
at and can you know, maybe start to build up
towards that this week. Even though Crean well, I don't
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mean to sound flippant here, but playing Mercis is not
playing Ohio State. But you have to treat it like
it is. And I think that's that.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
That's the only team in their conference that's been able
to beat them over the last couple of years. And
so I don't I do think that Punn State is
you know, above and beyond it. Do you think they're
the best team in their conference? But I don't think
these are Gama games at any point. But particularly coming
off you know, those two losses like this is as
so far as bounce backs go for a uh in
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in ah a conference like this is the stuff as
it gets for Penn State. So yeah, I think there's
there's a lot here that they have to I mean,
can they afford to drop the points, Absolutely, But I
just think in terms of for conference standings, but in
terms of their MPI and also just in terms of
their like mentality, I really think they have to have
a strong weekend here.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yeah, and just to look ahead to next week early
in the week the bean pot starts on Tuesday, semifinals
at Walter Brown Arena, Boston College, who gets Harvard and
then Northeastern against BU so could be a no idea
what's going to happen? Yeah, I mean I feel like
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that's that's a wide open field. I mean, Northeastern is
obviously the the highest ranked of those teams, but right
and we will, we'll find out more a lot more
about Northeastern through the second half of the season, now
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that they're the nomads of of college hockey without a
home rink of their own and having to play the
rest of their games somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
So lots to be found out there at least two
for the Olympics, possibly more my head someone right for Switzerland.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Don't they have a French player as well?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Well, now I'm going yeah, and now I'm going to
my spreadsheet that I've put together here, I had, you know, eighteen.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Hour traveled it yesterdays. I really we really should not
rely on my.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Right. I see one as I'm looking real quick here,
but that may be h well, anyway, there maybe.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
More Lassie a bachelor from Switzerland.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Yeah right, so yeah, so that'll be fun to have
some Tuesday night hockey next week to to watch, and
we will, uh, I'm not sure. We're not totally sure
what our schedules are like with you'll maybe noticing that
the podcast is coming out a little later in the
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week than the normal, you know, Nicole being traveling and
and us both being sick and having others schedules.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
I listen to us with how we sounded earlier in
the week, at least for me, So I apologize for
the schedule, but know that I would have been a
frog in your ears and you would not have enjoyed it.
So our apologies. But yeah, things are a little little flexible, right,
now with the U eighteens, I was just going to
pull up the schedule again. Four game days at the
U eighteens are or well, So yeah, well, we'll do
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our best to keep bringing everything. But yes, we'll be
on an interesting schedule for the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yes, but make sure you follow Nicole on social and
follow the tournament her coverage at Victory Press, and make
sure you check everything out at us h O dot com.
We will have more Olympic coverage as as those rosters
get finalized and look ahead to that tournament when when
that happens as well. But we'll make sure to keep
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you updated on the NCAA Gays follow all they scores
and standings and stats and everything over there, and we
appreciate you listening and or watching the podcast. So for Nicle,
I'm Todd. We will talk to you next week.
Usccho dot com. Hi, had, Welcome to the first edition
of the podcast for twenty twenty six. My name is
Todd Mollusky. I'm here with Nicole Hosey. We are from
us cho dot com and we will be talking college
hockey a little bit later in today's show. And well
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that's really what we do here, but we wanted to
start this edition with an event that's coming up this weekend. Well,
Nicole is not here in the US, Nicole, where are you?
And for what?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I am in Sydney, Kate Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada for
the U eighteen Women World Championships. So I am this
is We were just talking about this offline. I am
four hours east of Halifax, was it? Which isn't the
thing I knew you could do. Like I planned to
fly to Halifax, but it's a four hour drive. So
(01:00):
I am an island like past the mainland, but not
actually I think I asked technically past meeting east of
Prince Edwarg Island as well, closer to Greenland than I
am to Wisconsin. Way out east Atlantic time zone. Holy
time zoned me h. Yeah, So tournament starts on Saturday,
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and I got here a couple of days early to
get settled in and explore a little, and then we'll
be off with another version of the U eighteen World Championships, which,
as most of our listeners know, is super relevant because
tons of the players from this tournament will go on
to play in the NCAA. Several of them are already committed,
pretty much everybody from US and Canada except for the
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ones that are not like age eligible yet, and then
several players from all of the other teams as well.
I have those lists and where those players are committed
up on the Victory Press, so you can check those
out there. But yeah, so it's what my fifth the
U eighteens in a row. So pretty excited to just
be here and cover this tournament. I think it'll get
(02:04):
a little more attention when we're in Canada, but that
it has maybe one. I'm overseas and I'm the only
one there, so that'll be exciting. But yeah, I love
coming to see these players. You know, several players have
gone right from their eighteen teams their senior national teams.
I'm not done with my previews yet, so I'm not
positive there may be somebody playing here that's not an
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Olympic team, but probably not just because of the closeness
of the tournament to the Olympics this year. But you know,
this is like Chloe Fromurano played in this tournament last
year while she was already at Minnesota sou Yeah, that's
where I'm at.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So yeah, there's a lot of reason, like you said,
to pay attention to this and to kind of, you know,
to understand where these players are coming from and going.
But I think one of the things that I always
appreciate that you come back with from this is just
a little bit more of an understanding of what these
countries are doing to kind of we know what the
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US and Canada are doing, we see them all the time,
but the other countries that are part of it and
what they're doing to kind of try and take steps
and to make their national programs, especially at these younger ages,
a little bit better. What do you feel like you've
seen over these last couple of years and the four
previous years you've done this in person of just maybe
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how some of those other you know, the Czechias and
Slovakias have grown and kind of put more importance on
this event to help kind of foster that yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I think what's really interesting is all the countries will
say what they're doing, but we've seen sort of different outcomes.
Chechia sort of still being the benchmark for what some
of the European countries have done in terms of really
investing of their women's program, and for them that went
down to YOU eighteens and even U sixteens, and so
we've seen that from them. They won their first two
medals in a row, the back to back medals, so
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they won bronze last year and silver the year before.
So for them, I think they continue to be the benchmark.
We see that at the senior level. It's no different
at YOU eight teens. One of the biggest things is
that their You eighteen coach Dushan is on Kyle McLeod's
coaching staff with the senior team, like that is a
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fully integrated They all work and talk together. They know
that some players from You eighteens will probably be playing
at the senior level, and just the conversation and sort
of the flow of information and the way that they
are all tied together. And again down to U sixteen.
I don't know that coaches them off the top of
my head, but they are all in conversation at all
times and Dushan, as far as I know, is the
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only U eighteen coach that is also on the senior
coaching staff. So I think that rate there is just
a really huge Chadia just made that that full odd investment,
you know, bringing in Terre's a Sadalova as their as
their GM, and she just really you know, sort of
forced their their federation to say like this is what
we're gonna do, and they put in the investment and
they started from the ground up. So we've seen that
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payoff for them at the senior level and it's been
the same at EU eighteen's two. We were in Sweden
in twenty twenty three, o't been getting those numbers right
and they, you know, it made a big pushed and
talked about their sorry, their federation and their investment. And
one thing it's with Sweden is they're very focused on
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and this was pre the p WHL launching or maybe
even being announced, was that like they need to focus
on homegrown talent, and so that means like when players
were coming to the SDHL, they still wanted to make
sure that a large portion of most SDHL rosters were
Swedish born players. I'm not sure they've seen the same payoff,
but you know how we kind of talk about like
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that next level jump, maybe like the WCCHA. I feel
like that's where Sweden is. I do feel like we've
seen improvement from them. Particularly two years ago. They had
a poor quarter finals showing and that was just like
sort of unacceptable to them, and it went from like,
you know, we could be playing for a medal to
finishing I think seventh in the tournament. It just it
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really was, you know, the matter of like one poor game,
and so I felt like they really pushed quite a
bit last year. They lost to the US in the
semifinals to one, they lost to Chechia in the bronze
middle game to one, so ultimately the only improved they
went from fifth to fourth in the overall standings. But
I felt like they set a goal for themselves, which
is to improve from what they had done, and I
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really think that they've shown that over the past two seasons.
So I feel like the growth is maybe a little
slower there, but I do think they put that attention
on and really did it. And then you know, kind
of the other end of the spectrum is someone like Slovakia, right,
who just has Nella and Nella the Pashnova and the
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nobody else in her team really reaches that level of talent.
And that's absolutely nothing against her team. She's you know,
at a higher level than most anyone that will hit
the ice this weekend. But you know, she she clearly
has put in the individual work to raise her game,
but I'm not sure that the federation is done sort
of the same thing. And she has talked about years
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ago that like you know, she means she was leading
the senior big in Slovakia is like a fourteen and
fifteen year old, and so I think I think she
and a couple other teammates have come over to the
US both for prep school and leading into the NCAAs.
So hopefully we see that continued growth from them, sort
of that trajectory that we saw maybe from Czechia ten
(07:30):
years ago, where a couple of players came first and
then it started that that rolling it down the hill,
you know, pick it up all momentum. But yeah, I
think that's sort of where we're at. And then an
interesting one for me this week will be hungry because
we've seen a couple of Hungarian players, you know Emma
Christ at Minnesota and a few others. And they do
have two players that are committed to the NCAA that
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I know of so far, and so they're just a
program and a federation. I don't know a ton about.
We haven't seen them at eighteen is a ton. They
made a and pushed. They were kind of head and
shoulders above everybody at the level below this to win
that tournament. And so I'm hoping to talk to somebody
from their federation and sort of learn more about what
work they're doing.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, we know that Canada and the US are the
dominant teams at this tournament. Canada won last season's championship
beating the US in the final. That's typically the way
it goes, but not necessarily always it's a those two
teams being in the final. We've seen a couple of
years where it's or at least one year where.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Checking upside Canada.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yes, Canada and make it in that one. But those
two teams being the big players here, what do you,
I guess, what are you looking forward to seeing out
of the US and Canada for this tournament?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I think in this m with the US's senior team's
focus on young kers illiant. It puts like kind of
a different perspective. I'm looking at these players and seeing
them as that next gen that like if somebody that
is heading into college next year could would be part
of the next Olympics cycle. And so to me that
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just sort of makes me look at the group with
maybe a little bit more focus or I'm not sure
how to say that, but it does just sort of
change the way that I look at I think for
both teams in the last two years, they really some
of the players I think graduating because of college, but
like the players that aged out are some of the
biggest names that have been on those teams in recent years.
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And are you know it's Chloe Privoriano, it is Josie
Saint Martin, Mahi skianal Bell Finale, Like, there have been
these really big names that have like people knew sort
of outside of those of us the pay attention to
you eighteens, and I'm not sure that there's like super
huge names that either of these teams. I feel like
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it's a little more niche. There's definitely great players, don't
get me wrong, but for me, I'll be looking to
see who stands out and who sort of steps into
that new role. There were a couple of players last
year that were on the younger side on their rosters
that had flashes of brilliance and also some boneheaded boobs
because they're still teenagers. And so for me, I'll be
watching for some of those returners to see how they
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have grown their game. Like on the USA May April
is a third year player, and so I think we'll
see a lot more from her, But she's not the
same sort of like big personality, so I think she's
going to be more of like that quiet leader. She's
been like a fible London defender since she was like fourteen,
Like she's just she's she's a defender in the style
of Leila Edwards. Right, So now that we sort of
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know and see how Layla works in that position, I
think I'll be looking for those parallels in terms of
like the long reach and the stick and that sort
of stuff and what you can do from the point.
But yeah, I think it's about maybe seeing like who
steps up and who stands out out of this next generation.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So this tournament starts on Saturday, runs through Sunday, January eighteenth,
So over those eight days, there's I mean, I think
there's four games right away on Saturday, and then at
least two every for all the days between then unless
there's a day off, so we'll get there off days. Okay,
how can people follow what you're going to be doing
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throughout the tournament?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, so all of the games will be all of
the US and Canada games. OD this gets so complicated.
TSN is the one that covers this, so folks in
Canada should be able to always sign it on TSN
US games and they will carry US games. Canada games
and then quarterfinals on US games should also be on
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NHL Network and they will carry the TSN feed. I
will say that what I went looking for links for
NCAA games to get prepared for next weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
There were some.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
World Championship things on ESPN Plus, no details, they were
on the calendar, so obviously you will know until it happens,
but I have hope for folks and that it'll be
at ESPN Plus, which is at least easier to zee
a lot of times. The Finland Games will be available online,
so obviously it's finished commentary, but at least it's free
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online and I have all of those that was linked
up on Victory Press, and then I will be live
tweeting for lack of a better word, on both Blue
Sky and Twitter. I would love to get off Twitter,
but that's where all the highlights get shared IHF and
all the veterans. Uh, So that's so I will be
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sharing IHEF does not allow video taken during game time,
so I'd up personally taking video, but I do try
to get like school celebrations and things like that non
gameplay stuff and then lots of pictures. So definitely follow
along on both Blue Sky and Twitter where I am
at Nicole Hasey, and then also on Instagram, both the
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Victory Press Instagram and my own personal which is Nicole
has fourteen. I will try and share both tournament stuff
and the things that I'm doing my side plusts while
I meet.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, that's that's as for me. Almost as entertaining as
the hockey is is what you get, what you find,
and some of your travel excitement of how you get places.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, yeah, I have a car this time, so that's
at least nice, and they're more in one city, but
we are, you know, super remote. My the place of
veryting has snowshoes, and they are supposed to get some
more snow, so I'm hoping we'll do some some nature
stuff falling here.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Sounds good. Okay, So that's the U eighteen tournament. But
we're also getting some news lately about the Olympic rosters
for the tournament that will be starting in well just
about four weeks now in Italy. I have seen seven
of the ten teams with rosters. Haven't seen Canadas in
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Italy yet. Canada is coming on Friday as I understand it.
The other two not totally sure of the timing there.
But from the rosters I have seen, I've counted twenty
nine current NCAA Double A players from sixteen nca Double
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A teams that will be in the Olympics this season,
which is I mean, you think that there's forty five
programs playing top level NCAA women's hockey. To have sixteen
of them sending at least a player to the Olympics
is telling you something that there's there's some pretty good
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the talent is around the country for college hockey. That
at least that was the the what I took out
of that when I was just kind of counting around
seeing there's a DOUBLEHF page that is tracking all of
the rosters are being really and so having seen that,
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it's that stood out to me.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, I mean it's not certainly not surprising in terms
of we know that we've seen the growth of NC
players coming from international schools, but yeah, or from international
you know what I'm trying to say, rosters I haven't
paid as much of attention. It's just because of the
eight teens and traveling on trying to keep up with it.
But yeah, I think it's just really exciting, and it
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continues to show the importance of paying attention to the
collegiate game and the role that it plays in developing
international talent, particularly when the federations are putting in that
type of time and effort. So yeah, it's it's why
I think all I mean, there's a through right here.
Right like we started with you eight teens, and I
normally talk about college and talking about the Olympic. There's
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like there's a very clear connection and through line, and
it's it's why we love, you know, talking about it
and making sure people know about these players because these
are the ones that are going to make be in
bad hm on.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The US roster. There are seven current collegiate players out
of that group of twenty three, which does tell you,
like you're talking about there's a youth I don't know.
I don't know if the term youth movement is right
because there's still a lot of real quality veteran players
on that team.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
But there's not that young anymore either, Right, there's pretty
when they were sophomores at the World two years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But yeah, right, But Wisconsin has four current players going
to the US team Minnesota as one Ohio state, as
one pet state has won. So that's a pretty good
indication of that there's some well right there in the
w c h A, there's there's six players who are
going to be gone for a month, and we've talked
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about how that's going to change the dynamics of the league,
but it's also going to be a pretty good raising
of the level of their play for when they come back,
and they get in the playoffs too that I'm really
looking forward to seeing that of what they come back with.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, well, and I one of the interesting things will
be how I mean they all talk about the speed
of the game being different when you come back for
fast slow that game is going to feel nice and
slow to that to down and like someone like KK Harvey,
who the game slows down for her anyway, right, like
the way that she's it what it is actually physically
slower too. Like that feels scary for anyone that has
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to face some of these players just because it is
going to allow them. They're going to have so much
more time in space than they're prepared and used to.
So can you you know, you mentioned those were just
the US players, like all of the teams you mentioned
are missing players from other countries as well.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Right, we will have more to talk about the Olympics,
probably after the UA teams as we kind of start.
You know, we got to handle things in the order
that they arrive right right, one thing at a time here,
So let's let's get through the UA teams, but also
be on the lookout for those rosters that I We
will have a full rundout on usc jo dot com
eventually of where all these players are are coming from
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and where they're going, yes, because that will be important
as we're looking towards the end of January and then
in the start of February. Really, you know, the good
portion of February, while those players will be gone from
their teams, and that's obviously going to have an impact
on the way the final weeks of the regular season
play out here in NCAA hockey. So that is going
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to wrap up our first segment. When we come back,
we're going to look back at what we missed over
the break, and then we'll look ahead at what's coming
up ahead here at NCAA Women's hockey. Stay with us
on the podcast. Welcome back to the podcast. Todd and
Nicole with you for another look back at what we
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didn't kind of have a chance to talk about during
the break that we were off for a couple of weeks,
or a couple of games that we missed during that time.
But really it was last week when things picked up
again around NCAA Women's hockey. And I want to start
with a a series between number two Ohio State and
number four Penn State Ian Columbus last week. The Buckeyes
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come out with a pair of wins in that one
five to one on Friday and for to one on Saturday.
That Saturday game, Testigianiky cut the deficit of two to one,
but Mira Junker scored right after that to make it
three to one and late in the first period, and
off the Buckeyes went for that win. This is a
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I was looking forward to this to see, we know
how good Ohio State is, we still want to know
where Penn State fits in that picture, and I think
we saw that. You know, there's they're not at Ohio
State level. It's it's could you say they're just a
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little bit below that because they're right there with teams
like you know, Northeastern when they went to Boston and
played them and split a series there. Yeah, I mean
that's that's that next level. But I feel like maybe
they they Penn State, got a little bit of knowledge
of where they need to be agreed.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, I would. You know, we should preface this all
by saying, like Penn State's still a very good team,
Like no offense to them, but like it's just clear
there's a gap, and I think it's very hard to
try and bridge that when you never play at that level.
Like again, like there's it's hope. We always I always
feel guilty and feel bad having these conversations like we're
calling people out, But I just like Pen State does
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not get the opportunity to play at the pace that
that game was or with the pressure. I mean, I
think a lot of teams give a lot of pressure,
and I think Ohio Date is the one that does
it the most. Like that is the hardest sort of
test you're going to get in terms of like losing
time and space and having to make quick decisions and
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sort of resetting. I feel like those scores are maybe
a little generous to a how to how close those
games actually were. I think Penn State just really struggled.
I mean, if they got the pup out of the zone,
then they immediately had to go chat and then Ohio
State was sort of right back at it again. And
so I think you said, I think it's it's a
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huge learning opportunity and it shows you exactly like where
you need to be in three months time. Like it's
a really good time to go do that and get
that gut check and know like what you have to
work on. Penn State has you know, made the NC
Tournament twice now and then not gone as far as
they would like to, and so what is it going
to take to make that next step? And like I
think it was just sort of very clearly on display
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in that series what they would need to do. I
thought katid Sub played really well. I thought the defense
played pretty well. But Ohio State just owned pup possession
for most of those two games, and it was good
play from the defense and the goalie that kept them
from being you know, sort of more of a blowout
than they were.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Penn State did get a one nothing win over an
over ten Cornell right before New Year's December thirtieth. Disa
made thirty five staves to that shut out, and that
was a you know, every one of those wins where
they they beat a team that's still kind of in
the upper levels of the NPI, it's going to be
important for them as they build kind of that that
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numerical argument for for you know, being in the top
five spot in the NPI when it when it's all
said and done. So that I thought that that was
a even though it came before that Ohio State series,
that was a point in their favor that they did
get that one done. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, I think for them now it's about bouncing back
to eight. Like you got you got snapped on a
little bit, like you you know, lesson learned, Like how
do you react to that and what does it do
for you? Into you who adds the season goes out. Now,
let's talk about the.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Friendship Series in Belfast, Northern Ireland last weekend, where the
four team field included number five Minnesota Duluth and number
eight Quinnipiac. And they did play on the second day
of the tournament, but it was for a third place
because they both lost well, they both did not advance
to the championship game. Duluth lost three to two in
overtime to Harvard, Quinnipiac tied BU two two and then
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lost in the shootout. That of course doesn't count towards
the result, but counted towards who made it into the championship.
Quinnipiac did win that third place game three to one
over Duluth. Emerson Jarvis s broke a one to one
tie with thirteen fifty seven left and Killin Marsh scored
her twenty fourth goal of the season into an empty net.
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We'll hear that number twenty four again in a minute,
because we're getting up there with a lot of players.
And then BU won the championship with a three to
two win over Harvard. Neelie Nicholson with the goal ahead
goal seven to fourteen left in that one. So we've
talked about bu not having the first half the way
I would have thought, right, and yet here they are
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winning the championship the hop in the second half, So
that's something for them to build on. It's it's a
real uphill battle for the Terriers in the second half
given the record that they had in the first half.
But is there some concern here for Minnesota Duluth in
that I had to come from behind in the game
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against Harvard just to force overtime. We're down to nothing,
scored twice in the third, got fifty seven shots on
goal and only scored twice. Ainsley Toughie with fifty five
saves in that one, and if you were watching that
that the gentleman who was doing the play by play
was doing an amazing job of calling out those saves. Yeah, yes,
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yes it was. And we'll talk a little bit more
about this in a couple of minutes. But now de
Luth comes home as Wisconsin coming into their building, there's
really no time to wallow in things right now for
the Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
No, I think I think the concern probably needs to
be about like shot selection and sort of puck protection.
Like if you just shoot the puck because you can
and you wildly, you still net and then the other
team gets it, Like what was that shot for? What
did it accomplish besides a turnover? And so UMD is
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not a team that usually puts up fifty seven shots
that stuck like not their mo o. So the whole
thing was just really weird. I mean, they hit some post,
they had some bad pup luck for sure, but yeah,
I will be it will be for now. It's a
hump and I'll have some questions. But I feel like
it could be the first data point and in some
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you know, something as time goes out. I mean you
could it Could it be traveling and could it have
been you know, obviously can You and I were talking
about being sick. They were going through you know, every
team's going through the same thing. But yeah, it is
also bigger ice, and I did feel that at times
you could tell that, like people were exhausted on all
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four teams, to be fair, but like Minnesota Ta Blooth
plays at sat Club State. It's not like they never
play on big ice. So of those four teams, the
Bluth should have been in the best position for it. Yeah,
I don't know, I thought it was weird, but I
felt like it was one of those things where like
then they just started gripping their sticks too tight and
they were just really trying to force it and then
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they really got out of their game and what they
tried to accomplish. But I think, yeah, but big thing
has to be about just sort of smarter decisions with
the puck overall. And then you know, like in that
overtime they had a th reda on one where they
didn't even get a shot, Like what happened there, it
was just like so out of it's it's not what
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I expect from them, it's not what we use are
used to seeing, and so stuff like that makes me
think that there was you know, sort of maybe more
going on or that it's you just get in your
head at that point. But yeah, that they did that,
and pretty much the next play Harvard went down and
wanted like, hey, good for Harvard, And I feel like
Harvard is having there's a lot of going on, and
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Harvard you know, probably isn't going to lean a thing,
so maybe we like not getting enough attention. But the
turnaround there over the last two seasons, like they're having
a stellar season compared to where they were in the
last two years, right, so that's a huge win for them.
But also I just wanted to say, I think it's
really funny that be you and Harvard went to Belfast
to play each other for a championship game. Like there's
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a mile and a half between those two campuses, right, well.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Long way to go, but I mean, but it looks
like an awesome trip. I would I'd love to do
that at some point.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
To I want to just go sit next to the announcer. Well, yeah, no,
I mean, aside from his absent, which was a plus,
he just there was an enthusiasm about like every bit
of it. He was so excited to be watching high
level women's hockey, and it came across in everything and
like you said, every great block, every safe that up
he made. It was like the most fun I've had
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watching a sort of like regular game and just like
a game with nothing on the line. Just because his enthusiasm,
it was joyful. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yes, love to hear that. We had a a rash
of hat tricks over the weekend as well in some
games that were really really uncompetitive. Clarkson beat Saint Michael's
twice fifteen to nothing and then nine to nothing. Sarah
Manis with the hat trick in the first game, Edrew
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Andrea Trinkova five assists in that first game. Princeton beats
stone Hill ten nothing. On Saturday, is he wondered four
goals and to assist Mackenzie Alexander three three six, and
Minnesota beat Sacred Hard fourteen to two on the road
on Saturday, Abby Murphy with three goals and four assists.
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Nellie Layton in three goals to assists Abby Murphy. That
three goal game got hurt a twenty four goals so
for the season, so that that races is continuing to
evolve as we get into the second half here. But
there were there were some big numbers put up over
the weekend in the a non conference start to twenty
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twenty six that wasn't exactly pretty sometimes.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I mean, we rehad We went over this at Thanksgiving
with the in games in Nashville. So I don't know
that we want to go too far on it, but
just to point out that like that was not a
one off and we should stop doing this. It's bad,
it's not good. It's I don't I just I don't
like it. Saint Michael's has one win all year, Like
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there's just there's no they don't they don't deserve having
to go through that. And uh, you know we went
back and forth and you know about all of the reasons,
but I just seeing all those scores this that this
past weekend, it was like I and then you know,
then when we start talking about awards and things at
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the end of the year. You know, we we had
this conversation last year about like should some of like
the blow wins not like should those goals be counted different?
I don't know how you want to say it, but
like if you're gonna if you're talking about Amie Murphy
Dway was scoring numbers, well seven points and fun game
is like a you know, kind of absurd for anybody.
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So like, well, it just it's used things a big
things toffen Colton also, I just like it's just this
isn't fun for anybody. Let's stop doing it. Can we
stop doing it? I will get done. You know, we
gotta talk to who are.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, who are the people who are making these decisions.
We needed to get get to them with that information.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Could we also say though what was in Minnesota doing
in the first gear?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
How is that? I just thought, get from four to fourteen?
Or was it four? I think of the first day?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Yeah, four, Not that I'm like, why didn't you blow
them out more? But also like I have busted them.
I did not get to watch, but I have watch.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I wouldn't imagine that at some point when you're trying
to chase around Minnesota for one day, the second day
of trying to chase around rough you get pretty tired
of of of doing that.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, kind of how I figured the second day in
belt Pass weren't like you're all jetlagged and pointing on
big ice and over time, and I don't think those
second days a result, say much?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Right, one more result I want to get to. On Tuesday,
number fourteen, Yale beat number six Northeastern three nothing. Samson
Fry with a twenty two save shutout for Yale, which
I mean we we had talked about Northeastern before the
break kind of going in on a pretty good run
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and the a midweek game kind of you know, when
they ended up hurting them in the numbers. As as
it as it progresses through the season.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, I feel like that is you know what we've
talked about in terms of like ECAC games, where they're
all really important rate and you can't overlook them, and
I feel like they got it by that year. Yeah,
I again unfortunately didn't get a chance to watch, what
with the traveling to Far East Canada.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
But yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Don't I don't know that there's that it's anything we
haven't covered, which is that like these games just are
really important. Yale's been flirting with the bottom of the
the standings, the pull, you know, for the last three
or few weeks. I think it's just it's on any
given day. I mean, hockey sloves those Tuesday games, and
I think they've got to be really difficult. So I've
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always thought that's not really fun for those student athletes.
But yeah, I don't know. Do you have many thoughts
on this one?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
My thought is that Yale is I don't think this
is the last we're gonna hear of Yale either. I mean,
they feel like there's gonna be a team that's gonna
throw a real challenge at a lot of the yeah,
at the top of ec AC as the second half
goes on. So that that's my thought on it. Is
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I I don't know how much to put into these
first games back after break necessarily all the time, because uh,
you know, for a team, if a team's been off
three weeks, four weeks, sometimes it's nuts. That's rough that
try and get the speedback right away when you're playing
another team instead of just practicing against your own team.
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And so I feel like there's some grace there on
the Northeastern side, but I do like, right right, that's
that results gonna count no matter what.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
So yeah, like I don't think that's anything bad about
where Northeastern is in their production, but I do know
that it's gonna hurt them.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
So it's what it's yes and yes, exactly. Okay, we're
gonna step out for another quick break when we come back,
look ahead to what's coming this weekend in NCAA Women's hockey.
Stay with us on the podcast. We're back with the podcast.
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Todd Nicole wrapping things up this week with a look
at what we have coming up on the schedule. Let's start.
Let's start a w c h A this week where
we've got three series between teams that are ranked in
the top fifteen. Ohio State playing at number fifteen Saint
Cloud State, number three Minnesota with a home and home
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series against number twelve Minnesota State and then number one
Wisconsin at number eight Minnesota Duluth. And we talked a
little bit about this before, but I am really looking
at d Luth and how they bounce back from losing
a couple of games in Belfast last week, and you know,
knowing that they probably should have beaten Wisconsin in Lebon
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earlier this season, had a lead in going into the
last minute of a game and somehow lost it in regulation.
I feel like there's you know, obviously a team there
that can beat Wisconsin and can put up the goals
and be you know, physical enough to throw Wisconsin off
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of its game. We just need to see whether that's
gonna be the loot team that we see on the
IIS week.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yeah, And like maybe a mend a little what I
was saying before in that, like I do think um
D needs to take more shots against Wisconsin. I do
think they can get a little picky. So I think
it's about finding that balance, right, So maybe maybe I
amend that a little, But it's about putting all of
those bits together. It's like I feel like when they
play really great defense against the Badgers, then that really
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takes away from their offense, and they haven't been able
to and against the team like what good than you
simply have to score goals Like I don't mean like one,
I mean several goals. You're gonna have to put the
buck in the net. And so I feel like they
haven't progressed to the point where they're putting all of
those little bits together, where they're playing great defense, where
they're being really physical, and where they're being their best
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offensive selves. And so it's a matter of them if
they We've seen them do all those things in other games.
It's about if they can put all those bits together.
But also Minnesota Louth, there's almost like all of the
other top w c h A teams, maybe the one
that's given Wisconsin the most regular trouble year after You're
the last four to five years, which you said, I.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Mean Ohio say, it's obviously been a pretty consistent foreigner
Wisconsin's side, But yeah, I mean de luth says, uh
if not taken gave them the overtime a couple of
times from whatever they've they've won a couple of games
in the Luth and I feel like they did they
win a one nothing game at lebon A couple of
years ago too, So yeah, there there's been opportunities for
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for the Bulldogs to, you know, to show that they're
right there on that same page and and they've done
it a few times.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yeah, so I it'll be interesting. Like there's just there's
wal going on, Like the Wisconsin players have had all
the little bit bnouncement and there's stuff there, and those
players have been off doing other things and you know,
like we talked about, luth has to do has needs
this dis bounce back a little, and so I think
there's a lot of sort of aside from just head
to head on the ice, there's a lot of other
stuff surrounding it. And I think it's how both of
(38:08):
the teams handle some of that stuff that will really
be important here.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
The Minnesota and Minnesota state home and home. I believe
I'm remembering right that the Mavericks won both ends of
that first time the team's played on a weekend this season,
and I'm sure that the Gophers remember that, and so
(38:34):
I have to imagine they will be a little charged
up to make sure that doesn't happen again, or that
the Mavericks don't get a win this week.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah, but as you were saying, those first games back
can be really difficult and double checking myself, but I
don't think either of those two games have played yet,
have they?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
The Gophers did play Sacred Heart last week?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Oh? Yes, that's right. I apologize. We did just talk
about that. Can you tell? But too many things happening
at one mm hm, I apologize.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I can't imagine in Minnesota State is able to pull
it off again, just because I go first that a
lot of pride on the line here, and I think
as soon as that weekend finished, this weekend that circled
on the calendar. So yeah, I think it'll be interesting.
Like clearly Mankato had some stuff figured out about the Gophers,
and so usually when you talk to Brad frost about
(39:30):
playing like Nadine or Mark, it'll talk about the chess
match because they know each other so well that there's
like no secrets anymore. I feel like this one's gonna
be a really interesting chess match in terms of like
what Minnesota State figured out last time and now Frosty
trying to counter some of that, but imagining Minnesota State
has prepared for some of that. So I think there's
gonna be some interesting machinations happening there to try and
(39:53):
you know, sort of figure out what's the key that
turns of luck.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Yeah, some important games happening E C A C hockey,
uh this weekend involving number eleven Clarkson going on the
road to number ten Cornell on Friday, and then number
thirteen Colgate on Saturday. Uh. These are I just feel
like you're a little bit of a measuring stick right
now for how the second half is going to go
(40:18):
for for really all three of those teams, they're all
in that uh, that that space that you don't like
to be in in that that that next group of
teams in the rankings after you're looking at you know,
at large bids. Let's let's see if we we get
(40:44):
in more clarity coming out of this week, because we
know that doesn't always give us that, So we'll have to,
I guess look back into it next week and see
if we know anything more or if we're just kind
of gonna have to push that down the roan a
little bit more to be able to tell who's going where.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Well, I think importantly too, not just in national ratings,
but in conference standings, right, Like, yeah, the ECAC conference
standings have been so crazy. I mean at this point
Colgate is what seventh as with their teeth country, I
mean it's it's the ECC standings are wild at the moment,
and so and we're still popping. So Colgate in seventh
(41:27):
is less than six points behind Princeton in first, and
so yeah, it continues to be. I feel like we
could end up with ties, and like you said, we
kind of don't actually learn anything when all of a
sudden done, nobody really has pulled away. But I do
think that, I mean, every one of those points and
half points is going to be really important. And so
that I think, more so than than national clarity, is
(41:50):
we might see some movement in the ECAC standings. And
as we just talked about, like the sort of quote
unquot lower half of their standings are simply dangerous to
that have already beat brings schools this season and so
when it gets down to it, like they have to
be earning all those points. And also the postseason is
going to be I think really scary in the ECAC,
(42:11):
Like you could really end up getting some damage, you know,
with an early ECAC Tournament loss, and so that's why
those standings I think are ultimately so important.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
In the Atlantic Hockey standings, we have Penn State and
Mercieres one and two. There's a pretty big gap there.
But Mercierris is hosting the Nittney Lions this week Friday
and Saturday. I will be watching to see how Penn
State rebounds. This is a little bit of a like
(42:44):
we're talking about with Minnesota coming back after having lost
twice to Mankato. Penn State, after having lost twice to
Ohio State, now knows what level they have to play
at and can you know, maybe start to build up
towards that this week. Even though Crean well, I don't
(43:07):
mean to sound flippant here, but playing Mercis is not
playing Ohio State. But you have to treat it like
it is. And I think that's that.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
That's the only team in their conference that's been able
to beat them over the last couple of years. And
so I don't I do think that Punn State is
you know, above and beyond it. Do you think they're
the best team in their conference? But I don't think
these are Gama games at any point. But particularly coming
off you know, those two losses like this is as
so far as bounce backs go for a uh in
(43:39):
in ah a conference like this is the stuff as
it gets for Penn State. So yeah, I think there's
there's a lot here that they have to I mean,
can they afford to drop the points, Absolutely, But I
just think in terms of for conference standings, but in
terms of their MPI and also just in terms of
their like mentality, I really think they have to have
a strong weekend here.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yeah, and just to look ahead to next week early
in the week the bean pot starts on Tuesday, semifinals
at Walter Brown Arena, Boston College, who gets Harvard and
then Northeastern against BU so could be a no idea
what's going to happen? Yeah, I mean I feel like
(44:20):
that's that's a wide open field. I mean, Northeastern is
obviously the the highest ranked of those teams, but right
and we will, we'll find out more a lot more
about Northeastern through the second half of the season, now
(44:40):
that they're the nomads of of college hockey without a
home rink of their own and having to play the
rest of their games somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
So lots to be found out there at least two
for the Olympics, possibly more my head someone right for Switzerland.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Don't they have a French player as well?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Well, now I'm going yeah, and now I'm going to
my spreadsheet that I've put together here, I had, you know, eighteen.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Hour traveled it yesterdays. I really we really should not
rely on my.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Right. I see one as I'm looking real quick here,
but that may be h well, anyway, there maybe.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
More Lassie a bachelor from Switzerland.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Yeah right, so yeah, so that'll be fun to have
some Tuesday night hockey next week to to watch, and
we will, uh, I'm not sure. We're not totally sure
what our schedules are like with you'll maybe noticing that
the podcast is coming out a little later in the
(45:53):
week than the normal, you know, Nicole being traveling and
and us both being sick and having others schedules.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
I listen to us with how we sounded earlier in
the week, at least for me, So I apologize for
the schedule, but know that I would have been a
frog in your ears and you would not have enjoyed it.
So our apologies. But yeah, things are a little little flexible, right,
now with the U eighteens, I was just going to
pull up the schedule again. Four game days at the
U eighteens are or well, So yeah, well, we'll do
(46:24):
our best to keep bringing everything. But yes, we'll be
on an interesting schedule for the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yes, but make sure you follow Nicole on social and
follow the tournament her coverage at Victory Press, and make
sure you check everything out at us h O dot com.
We will have more Olympic coverage as as those rosters
get finalized and look ahead to that tournament when when
that happens as well. But we'll make sure to keep
(46:54):
you updated on the NCAA Gays follow all they scores
and standings and stats and everything over there, and we
appreciate you listening and or watching the podcast. So for Nicle,
I'm Todd. We will talk to you next week.
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