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ECHL Post-Game Interviews: Atlanta Gladiator vs. Cincinnati Cyclones 1/12/2025
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Jan 14, 2025
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what everybody okay Andrew S Community
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Solutions and L Pence podcast first off
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coach Nez walk through us your take on
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how the team is able to just be more
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locked in second and third period today
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yeah I I well four and five is our
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fourth week of three and threes in the
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world it's been a tough stretch um
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obviously a tough weekend for us but I
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just thought we got more assertive and
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then we have in the last few games like
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we got to we're going to have ups and
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down for the season um now is a tough
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stretch uh since he's playing really
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well right now too Jacksonville is
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playing really well right now uh Soo is
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a good team so that's that that's a
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tough weekend and and to get behind in
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games I thought we were chasing a lot um
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I thought the second we we just got more
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surf like back to a little more
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physicality and I thought the ice really
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tells okay second question you guys been
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the 500 Mark you guys are in the mix not
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only division wise conference rise Etc
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what's one key theme that you think if
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the team locks in on this is going to
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have that domino effect you know and put
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you in positions where you have the
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outcomes that you want yeah just be
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simple playing on our toes moving on our
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heels and we're we're we got to stay
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with our game like if we get sucked into
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some other team's games that are maybe a
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little more high flying and and uh call
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it track meet style like that's that's
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not our game that's not sustainable and
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that's not how we want to go especially
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in the playoffs you don't we get that X
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next to our game and that's that's the
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goal is to is to keep battling here
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until we have that acent
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St hey coach this is Karen Zer from
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inside the rink what do you think is the
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biggest difference difference um between
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last night and going into today's game
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oh I think it's said we just we were
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more engaged more assertive I thought
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not maybe not early on in the game but
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we we we we got to it and got to it I
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mean like I said the four and five uh to
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find a way at the end like this has been
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a team that hasn't quit all year and and
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it's been a character side of us and I
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and I just think that um we just got to
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find ways to be more consistent again
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you know not be down ourselves and and
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no one's going to feel sorry for you uh
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in this game so um
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more consistent in that effort and the
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assertiveness that we saw near the end
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of it now you mentioned being assertive
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today I noticed even in the first period
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that started out probably towards the
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middle of that first period is that
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something that you know when you went
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into the intermission after the first
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that you guys talked about yeah we want
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to be more physical I thought especially
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against a team like that who's you know
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they're getting guys behind us and
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sending guys they look for odd man
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rushes like if we can slow them down at
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all and then you got you got to get some
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skin on them and and and do that okay
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great thank
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you question me coach Cody Sylvester
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with the hattrick tonight when your team
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struggling a little bit on the offensive
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side of the puck what does it mean to
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know that you have number 16 on that
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first line win whether you're on the
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power play or at even strength you need
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a big goal you can get one out yeah I
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thought our power play was good
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obviously I mean we gave up a couple
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breakaways against and that's where Hees
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came up big so he's part of that power
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play tonight too uh but just the the
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shot coming off the wall then uh I
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thought the second was it's great play
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by Army coming around the net and we get
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both the guys at the net and that's we
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need more of that we need more dirty
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goals like it's it's not going to be
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pretty every night especially when
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you're trying to get back on the on the
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winning side and and uh no that was huge
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tonight like good like the face off at
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the end with the empty net great Jump by
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Neils off the to get that stick on that
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and then obviously you know freebie down
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the down the wall is just cuz we're
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jumping off draws East Armstrong skates
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alongside Eric NE and Cody Sylvester in
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today's game can you walk me behind the
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decision uh to move Army up in the
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lineup yeah just a try it I mean it's
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you know there's like I said we're three
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games down and and more to to move sippy
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around I know he'd been he'd been just
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just squeeze a little bit he's hard on
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himself he's a really detailed player
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and and a really good teammate and and
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that can play anywhere in the lineup so
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it was to give him a chance to breathe a
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little bit too and and just concentrate
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on what what makes him him and I thought
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he was great tonight as well we talk a
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little bit about Ethan Haider like you
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touched on a little bit in the previous
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question he made a multitude of big
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saves especially in that third period to
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keep it a one goal score and then of
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course the glads come back to take uh to
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take the win at the end there so what
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has his impact been I know he took the
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loss in Jacksonville a tough game on the
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road but for him to be able to come back
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on home ICE bounce back and get a much
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big yeah he was great tonight um but on
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the same side like the last few nights
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we we didn't give our goalies any help I
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mean I know a couple like partial
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breakaways there on the on the on the
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power play but but overall five on five
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we were a lot better defensively tonight
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keeping more Puck to the outside and
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then when they did get inside he was
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there for us so um you know both our
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goalies have been great for us we just
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if we're if we're good in front of them
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we're going to get a lot of help there
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and it should help us win more games
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Conor Galloway scores his first pro goal
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tonight he had to be happy for him
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during that moment he's been he's been
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awesome and uh gripping the stick maybe
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a little bit with no goals up to this
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point but he found the back of the net
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on that one time BL yeah I don't he's
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gripping it but he's getting a lot of
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chances CU he he moves his feet and he
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works hard um honestly for me just to
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see him knowing him a long time was was
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it was awesome heck of a shot just a
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good shift All Around by those three on
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that play and then uh just the the the
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reaction of the bench kind of Set It Off
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than
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thanks cool appreciate you all right
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thank you guys you thank you
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all right congratulations Cody um okay
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yeah all right congratulations Cody this
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is Karen from inside the rink um tell me
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a little bit about getting that hat
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trick what was that like for you um yeah
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it's always fun scoring three goals in a
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game um my teammates made some good
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plays you know immediately at the end uh
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got the puck out of the zone and was
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kind of a easy empty net for the hatrick
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and um second one just C myself R the
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net and arm kind of threw it threw it at
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the goalie and it bounced off my chest
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in in so we were the previous bowls but
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um like I said it's always fun to SP
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three to game and what do you think is
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the biggest difference from last night
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to today as far as how the team played
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throughout the game um yeah I mean I
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don't like to use excuses uh for for the
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guys but um we had some pretty bad
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travel coming in from Jacksonville
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tonight so maybe uh a little bit of BU
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legs you guys were tired but um you know
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we got some good rest last night and we
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knew that we had to come out and play
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tonight thought guys all right thank
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you all right Cody Andrew snort PR
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Solutions and lence podcast obviously
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congratulations on the win walk through
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how the team seem like they got their
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focus back in the second and third
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period in order to get the outcome that
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you wanted to for today yeah we knew we
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had to come out uh Stronger in the
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second and the third um you know we to
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play Simple game like I said it was four
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games and five nights and um I thought
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the guys did that in in the second
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period and just kind of pulled it into
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the third period and guys stuck together
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and them to do and again like you said
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earlier look whether it's beautiful or
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pretty a goal is a goal and describe to
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us look it's hard to score a goal so
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describe I don't know the focus or just
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placement or what have you in order to
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get the
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Hatcher um yeah I mean first first goal
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was uh not bad I guess it was a a pretty
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decent shot from from the dot but um the
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the other two like I said before I was I
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just pled myself in front and you know
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when you go to the the hard areas in
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front of the net you're going to get
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recorded and that's what to happen
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tonight for me and then obviously that
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Neil made a good play walk out and
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pretty mad at myself me
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out thank you Cody can you talk to me
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about the difficulty of facing off
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against the NATA division team in the
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Cyclones they had a tough start to the
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season but they were on a five-game
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winning streak entering today's game
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what was have like playing against them
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and a little bit of a different style um
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yeah I mean it's always tough when you
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don't uh see see the teams that you're
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you're playing that often and um like
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you said they've been playing well
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lately and and we knew they're a good
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team we watch video on them and um they
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won won nothing against Savannah and
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Savannah's a good team as well so um we
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knew what we're up against and um I I
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don't think we liked how we played in
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the first game against them and umos to
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them they played well they work hard
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they're a fast team but um I think
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tonight we just Stu with the play as a
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team and
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to you played alongside Easton Armstrong
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for the first time in his pro career
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what do you like about his game he
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what's it like playing alongside him
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with be on the other one yeah you know I
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mean he's kind of found found his move
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lately he's playing playing really well
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he's he's uh crashing that well he's
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scoring goals so um he's just going to
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he's going to keep doing that and
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playing hard I know he's a young guy but
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I think he's he's got his well on the
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[Music]
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team final question Cody the gers now
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with a 1717 3 and one record right in
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the thick of things in the South
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Division in your mind what is the club
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have to do to get into the playoff push
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as we head towards the
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tail um we just got to play like we did
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tonight in the second and third um
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obviously we can't take nights off it's
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a I think it's the best division in the
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league and um you know we're facing good
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teams every night and I mean if we play
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like that like we did tonight we're
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going to put ourselves some good spots
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to win games and um we just got to keep
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fuing forward thank you so much
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congratulations on the
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way appreciate you have a good night
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thank you
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back up a little bit that's good
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Perfect all right afternoon Andress
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North crav Community Solutions in lens
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and Pen podcast first off
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congratulations on the win tonight three
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games in three nights four games in five
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nights how do you guys keep it together
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It's a Grind like coming from college
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it's a big adjustment but I think just
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taking care of your body you know the
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right nutrition sleep just trying to do
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what you can to feel as close to 100%
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every single night it's kind of been the
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key that I learn so far so just doing
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the little things right trying to just
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try to trick yourself into feeling like
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you're 100% is kind of what I found and
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what I've kind of learned from some of
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the older guys too is just coming into
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these games especially with a 3:00 at
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the end of a four and five it's it's
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you're not going to feel great but just
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doing whatever you can to feel as close
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to that as you can is kind of the key
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that I found so far okay and my second
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question it seems like late in the first
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period and then definitely the second
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and third period you guys got back into
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your style of play all that type of
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thing just walk us through I guess where
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the switch kind of clicked in in order
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for you to get back on track and how can
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you carry this over into your next game
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I think when we just play our style of
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hockey I think you know like you know we
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were being more physical we were getting
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to the dirty areas getting to the front
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of the net you know I think that's when
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we're playing our best hockey I think
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you know at times like we might at kind
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of be a little more perimeter we're not
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being as like hard on the four check you
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know not banging guys around I think
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when we get away from that I think
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that's when we tend to struggle so we're
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doing those little things right I think
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that's our brand of hockey you know
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we're a hard physic team and we play
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like that we wear teams down I think you
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know it shows towards the end of the
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game you know we get two big goals in
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that third period And I think it's just
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the constant wearing them down
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throughout that period and we were
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getting to the gritty areas and so
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that's where we were getting our goals
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there so when we play that style of
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hockey I think that's when we're playing
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our best and it's just continue to do
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that night in and night out that's when
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especially we had our big win streak
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there for a bit too we were doing those
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things night in and night out too so
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just kind of being consistent with all
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that when we have our
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success Karen serer for inside the rink
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um tell me a little bit about that last
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power play where you're able to like tip
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up that shot on the net and keep the
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guys in it and almost for like the the
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other man on the power play for that one
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I'll us do that a little bit just you
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know like you don't really expect you
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know chances like that but when they do
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you know you just got to come up big
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find way you know there there's not much
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to it you know like the guys are playing
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really good in front of me you know
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especially with that five on three at
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the end of the second there and to start
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the third you know like they you know
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they help me out a lot there so for me
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my mindset is you know it's my turn to
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help them out now so you know just
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finding a way you know get hit with that
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puck you know read the play just you
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know find a way to keep it out so know
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that was my job there and you know happy
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to be able to do that for the guys there
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and talk about defensively you mentioned
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the guys were able to help you out up
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front like what did you see when you
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were in the net as far as what the guys
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were able to do to help you out a couple
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big block shots there especially you I
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had a little spill there in the third
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period you know the guys came up with a
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huge block shot for me and you know I
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think even when shots were getting
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through like they were doing a really
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good job of giving me sight lines of the
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puck along me to see it you know guys
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weren't really getting sticks on Puck so
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it was just clear shots for me I just
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had to control the rebound so you know
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it's little things like that you know
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it's like they were helping me out a lot
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tonight with those things and you know
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like if there was a clear shot you know
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I was just you know had to do my thing
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and just control the rebound and you
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know I think you know it show especially
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that third period like I said you know
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like it they made my job a lot easier
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and so it just kind of had to be in my
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groove and you know it was it was a lot
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like you could see it there like guys
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were you know doing their jobs and it
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just made it so much easier for me and
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it looked like you had a little bit of
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fan support I don't know if you noticed
12:55
before the game today you had a fan in
12:57
the crowd with a nice little sign
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with your head on it did you get a
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chance to see that yeah I I saw it
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yesterday I gave him some props for it
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yesterday like today was a little bit
13:05
more having to be focused into the game
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but it's always cool seeing little
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things like that you know I always
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appreciate and when the guys see the
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signs about them too you know we love
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seeing little stuff like that we talk
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about in the locker room and get little
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laughs out of it so it's always really
13:17
cool you get that a little bit of
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support there great thank you PR more
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questions for hi do we in your 13th
13:24
victory of your first professional
13:26
season tonight can you discuss just how
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your first Pro year has gone uh up to
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this point uh it's been you know good so
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far I think just learning a lot trying
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you know every day especially with like
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the older guys just trying to pick up
13:37
little things you know there's so much
13:39
experience on this team especially with
13:41
our veterans and our captains just
13:42
trying to learn from them as much as
13:43
possible I think you know having a
13:45
partner like Drew who's you know gone
13:47
through this since last year I think
13:48
just trying to learn little things from
13:49
him too of you know what it takes to be
13:51
successful at this level and you know
13:53
learning from you we have Mitch Korn
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that's been here so much and he's been a
13:56
great help for me just that adjustment
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from college to Pro
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it's been a big one but I think you know
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I've been learning little things that
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you know what I'm able to get away with
14:04
what you know I've had to learn and
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adjust in my game to be able to have
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success so it it's been good so far and
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I'm looking forward to the rest of it
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can you expand a little bit about the
14:12
impact of Mitch K and his presence with
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the team because he was here uh early on
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seen you working with him oneon-one on a
14:18
multitude of different occasions how has
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he helped you along during the this Pro
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year he's awesome like just the wisdom
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and the knowledge and all the experience
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he has is second to none I think you
14:28
know his resume speaks for itself and
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you know the guys that he's worked with
14:31
in the NHL like it's it's a pleasure to
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be able to skate with him when he's here
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and you know having him mark up all the
14:36
video and just getting little things
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from him every single time he's here it
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it's been awesome and you know I'm very
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grateful that I've had this experience
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of working with him this year it's it's
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been tremendous and I think it's really
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helped me grow my career and it's going
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to pay dividends down the road as I
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continue my pro career Ethan thank you
14:51
so much congratulations on the way thank
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you thank
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