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ECHL Post-Game Interviews: Adirondack Thunder vs. Norfolk Admirals 1/29/2025
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Jan 31, 2025
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what's kind of the message kind of going
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now you guys H the road for a couple
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weeks keep playing hard try to build the
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back together you had a a bunch of new
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guys kind of join the lineup in these
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last few days what's the message to a
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guy coming from the SP that you recently
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sign when they get into the lineup uh
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you're here for a reason and don't play
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to anyone else play your game play to
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your strengths don't turn the puck over
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and work hard speaking of the two new
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guys that got in lineup obviously your
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base with the goal uh Müller as well did
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you think about these two guys coming in
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yeah Jes is what we expected he's going
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to get better and better as he gets his
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touches back and the game
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reps he's going to score goals and he's
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going to do a lot more than that too
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he's an agitator um so really excited
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mother's versatile he's got size and
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he's heavy which he understands got an
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elite level shot and he plays center and
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Wing so the more he gets comfortable
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with the pace of play you'll start to
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see the the type of player that he is
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any chance mus is going to get a little
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bit of a Runway here at the recent
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struggle from brenon we will see as move
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forward obviously you know going away
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this weekend with Worcester uh what do
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you tell the guys what's the message
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after a tough loss like this at home
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stay together take away the positives
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you know after a tough start a two to2
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game until the last goal there but the
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integrity was lost when we get down by
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three and 8 minutes into the game you
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know it's really hard to but they stayed
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with it could have been real real ugly
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you know what I mean so stay together
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how tough is that for not just this team
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but any team going down 3 early to try
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and come back and and put together a
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positive type of game yeah it's tough
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but the way the game is nowadays like
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it's it's a softer game it's Instagram
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hockey out there um so you could score
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you see those leads get erased all the
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time but it's that it's belief just like
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anything you got to manifest it and you
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got to visualize it and then you got to
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go execute and it's easier said been
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done but by no means is it
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impossible the power play gets a goal
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tonight but you know one for six one for
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seven I believe what can you guys touch
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up on you know as you get ready for the
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road I think the power play is getting
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Great Looks um maybe sometimes they
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force but that's four or five games in a
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row with a goal um and I think that we
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were very close to getting across the
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line leaders so they're moving it well
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we're pretty happy especially with our
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narm presence maybe some more purposeful
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shots but again we're super young too
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it's hard to learn how to connect on
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power play at the pro level but we like
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what we've seen in the last handful of
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games for sure boomhower young for I
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know there a couple THS any of them
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making the trip for uh and possibly
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going to make itom will be around not
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not uh not young for sure forto is
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closer he's cleared for contact so we
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got to take it really slow with him
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because of the situation that it was so
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but he he is getting closer so probably
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end of the road trip at best maybe I
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don't I don't know depends on what
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happens we got ban here he's going to
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draw into our lineup on Friday um so add
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some another piece on the on the on the
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blue L got a little bit of ehl
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experience yeah he's got a ring and he's
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versatile he's got some size he skates
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well and he's smart um so that'll help
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uh but yeah hopefully boom gets back in
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I know he's pretty sore right now he's
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definitely a big big X Factor for us
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changes the momentum of games when he
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goes out there and plays so hard so but
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yeah Young still um a couple weeks away
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but he's starting to get on the ice and
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just move
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around what the move for on kind of with
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the gosl an injury yeah we were back and
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forth all year about Adrian with Florida
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and then now push kind of came to shove
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and he's was looking to get closer to
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home and it was able to work out and
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obviously we we've preached these last
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couple years of how good Mike Bergen is
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with the penalty uh kill unit tonight
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how tough is it when you're down 53
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consecutively to to make those plays for
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you guys yeah our PK's been we've been
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getting smoked lately and he do we hit
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on it every single game right before the
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game and when things aren't going well a
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lot of times you can look at the Special
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Teams and the power play hasn't been
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good enough as a whole and now the PK is
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in the same situation but hey that's the
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challenge we find ourselves in there no
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time to hang our heads and and look over
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our shoulders and think that help's
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coming we got to keep watching the video
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every day and sending a clear message to
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these guys sh showing them that we're
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not giving up it's just hockey right
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comp it's probably the easiest thing
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you'll do in your life like okay we're
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not doing well okay well you're going to
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have something not go well that's more
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important than hockey so hopefully our
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special teams can get back on the right
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track and get over a 100 and I think if
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we can do that obviously the results are
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going to change is that uh onless his
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chess going to stay there the rest of
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the year
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yes good so first CL M here I really I
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put you guys in a hole that's got to be
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to come out out of yeah definitely tough
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to come back from that um we battled
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okay for the rest of it but uh yeah we
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got to start on time and be ready to go
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against good team he tell J's first game
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as a Defender not a bad debut yeah
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pretty good debut brought some energy
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obviously got that goal uh made a nice
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play so yeah we need more of that with a
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match up like Norfolk when you're
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playing three games uh you know having a
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little break between you think that guys
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helped you or hurt you in this
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situation um I don't know if it went
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either way I I think for myself it
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helped any rest you can get is good
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obviously they're getting some rest as
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well and uh I don't know the schedule is
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what it is kind of and we got to be
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ready to go whenever the schedule gets a
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little tougher here here on out it's a
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lot of road games uh what's the group
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preparing just kind of get set for the
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road and try and win some important
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games yeah definitely we got a few big
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ones this weekend um against some teams
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that we can definitely beat and uh I
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don't know just trying to take a day by
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day I mean that's all we can really do
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there's going to be some horrible travel
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and a lot of sleepless nights and things
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like that so just got to do what we can
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to get ready to go and again it you know
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seems seems like this lineup's rotating
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still a little bit with new guys coming
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in as a leader on this team what do you
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say when they get here and you expect
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from them when they get into the line
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yeah you just try and welcome him in
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make him feel comfortable with the group
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I mean that's a big part of it um
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coaches kind of go through the systems
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and things like that of what they expect
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and from the locker room I mean all we
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expect is work your hardest you know you
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might not have your best shot or or your
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best hockey game that day but you can
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always move your feet and work
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hard is that
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yeah Mr been nice to get on the
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scoreboard in your first game as a
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bender yeah it was definitely um it was
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a great experience you know coming in
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today but um ultimately doesn't really
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matter without the victory I wish we
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could have got that
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instead you know you you have this
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team's got a lot of score you know you
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look at Ryan Francis Kevin O'Neal what
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do you kind of bring to this team I Look
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to be a guy that brings a lot of energy
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to the team um I like being a guy that
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likes to get the boys going whether it's
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with a hit a goal wherever I can and I
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just like to get on the four check and
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use my speed and create offense in that
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way obviously you've been here for a
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couple weeks kind of dealing with the
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injury how good does it feel to finally
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get back on the ice though it felt
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amazing after doing the rehab with jazz
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she did an amazing job helping me stay
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ready and stay prepared um you know we
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had to wait on a brace the brace finally
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came in and it was just an exhilarating
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feeling being able to be out there with
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the guys and get out of that suit for
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once kind of talk to me a little bit
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about what it's like to come here you
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know the first opportunity that you get
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what's the coaches saying what's the
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players saying when you get into that
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around de um they just kind of tell you
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about the place the history of the team
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how crazy the fans are and you know I
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like feeding off uh energetic crowd all
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the guys in the room right away were
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really welcoming the coaches were
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welcoming and they made it really easy
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to be comfortable so it was an easy
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adjustment and you know I'm really I'm
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really grateful and blessed that I'm
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here because this is a first class
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organization that I'm really happy to be
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a part of you know a big road trip for
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you guys you think maybe just being on
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the road to will help you guys Bond and
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kind of maybe change the momentum here
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for you guys yeah 100% um one of the
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best things in hockey is road trips you
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know like you said you get to bond with
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the guys you get to come a lot closer um
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you know so we're just going to use that
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and Chip Away each game we're not going
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to look uh we're not going to look down
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the road we're going to take it a game
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at a time and I really have confidence
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in this group our coaches have
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confidence in us and I feel like we can
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really turn it around this weekend you
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have a tough weekend for you guys to
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start off a Friday night wer then
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Saturday and Sunday and writing kind of
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what's kind of the the uh message kind
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of going into the weekend before you
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guys head out west just stay positive
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you know kind of scrap whatever's
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happened behind us you want to go in
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with uh with a confident mindset you
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don't want to go in feeling sorry for
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yourself so we're going to go in we're
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going to put in the work we're going to
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work hard and we're going to do whatever
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we can to to get those points against
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those teams and you know we're we're not
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going to sit back cuz we know this is
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crunch time and we want to get as many
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points as we can you know you look at
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one the positive here a few guys the
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power play starting to collect the last
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couple games what's been working uh just
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getting the moving and getting uh bodies
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in front of the net I know lover got a
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couple goals just from getting gritty in
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front of the net and you know when you
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get when you get opportunities like that
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and when you snap the puck around like
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that it builds confidence once you score
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one power play goal you get more and
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more confidence so I think the that
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level is just growing and you know
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moving forward we just want to keep
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doing the same thing it's got to be
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great to see guys like like Le like you
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said come from the SB the way he's
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played this year oh yeah 100% um I know
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how it is in the SP it's it's absolute
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grind so um for guys like lovey other
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players that are on this team that come
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from the they're coming in they're
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playing really well and you know they're
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not looking out of place whatsoever like
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when I got here I didn't even think
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there was any SP guys here so um just
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the way they've been playing bringing
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that energy chipping in offensively like
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it's it's a grind down there and they're
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really making making it known that
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they're ECHL players than Lu awesome
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obviously just getting the opportunity
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to come here and play what has it kind
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of been like so far for you in these
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first couple days here in at on De oh
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it's been a great experience so far
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everyone has been great to me and room
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is great and I so yeah everything good
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and then getting on the ice tonight uh
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wearing the sweater what was that like
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stepping on on the ice in an ECHL game
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that's a really cool experience
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something I've been working for so
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really happy it's come true now what do
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the coaches kind of say when they bring
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you up here what are they what are the
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expectations like for you uh just play
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my game play Simple for for bodies with
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or not you think it helps you you know
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having a lot of guys like smov loving a
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couple other guys who made their way up
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from the SPL to kind of be here with you
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who to kind of help you through the
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experience yeah I know for sure that
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helps a lot having other guys that's
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been that's been down there and helped
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me out with all the new things and stuff
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that comes with being here so yeah
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what's kind of the mindset for you guys
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you know you you T you know you guys
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take one out of three here but you know
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it must be nice to be able to go on the
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road kind of help bond with the boys and
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kind of you know kind of get away and
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make hopefully get some momentum on the
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road yeah I know for sure it be fun
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going to the road get to know the guys a
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little bit more and get together and win
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some games what's the mindset just going
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into into Friday night uh win win and
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beat them
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down I appreciate it thank
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