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Good morning, Bill.
How you doing down in the Brighton?
area today.
Oh, nice and sunny down here today, Jimmy.
So we're enjoying the day.
It's going to be home with 80 degrees.
So it's maybe the last little bit of summer before fall really arrives.
I was arriving here.
We had a beautiful weekend, a little bit cooler day when I left the West Houghton quarters early morning for a commute.
Over the weekend, Bill, the Trite Lions.
a pretty bad Arizona team Arizona created Harrison before the game.
The Packers humiliate the Bears past defense as well and the Vikings remain undefeated, which is a neat story in football.
Michigan-Tacocchi splits on the weekend at St.
Claude went and breathed to an overtime.
Friday moves at 3-1 Saturdays, then the Huskies with a huge win in college football Saturday and overtime against Grand Valley State 41-35 and an epic battle of game of 40 ages.
And Bill, before you get the major league...
baseball and your story today on the Penney Lockout and what's going on.
Did you get a chance to see any of that fiasco with the Washington Commanders the New York Giants football game yesterday?
No I didn't but I've read about it so did you watch it yourself and you can brief us on what really happened.
It sounds like the coach made some bad decisions.
Well you know I didn't watch it obviously I was committed to other things and we don't have that on the cable system up there.
They had the ball in overtime.
Gattaboo for the Giants fumbled.
They're inside the Giants
in 30, out of time out, and Daniel's had no idea about fog management.
Snyder had no idea about fog management.
Instead of spiking the ball, which they didn't do, to go for a win in a field goal, Daniel decides to roll out and get back.
It's nobody... I gotta admit, Bill, it was embarrassing for football, and it's all over the stations.
It's more than different football stations.
You don't see that in Pee Wee football.
I think it's safe to say someone... some ads will roll at this, but they say, Bill, coming to a theater...
in the near future.
I'd be surprised if this doesn't cost some people their jobs by the end of the year or during the year.
Washington, one in four, three washes in conference already, and that's almost a kiss of death right off the bat, isn't
it?
It is, it is.
That's what I read, is that it ended up in a tie, but Washington could have won it, but you're quite right.
There may be a special teams guy or somebody's gonna, maybe the head coach, but they're gonna have to put the things back together to celebrate these.
Well, I don't think special teams coach, Bill.
I mean, Niner was clueless.
Nate and Daniels, I mean, you gotta know better as a player, everyone on the offense just like they lost track of time.
And I'm not a fan of, I've never been a fan of Dan Quinn when he's with us, Seattle.
And obviously, when he's head coach at Dallas, he walks around like he's homeless, wears his hat backwards, doesn't look respectful to say the least.
And he looked totally confused and unsure of what to do in that situation.
And Bill, you've seen a lot of football, I've seen a lot of football, Sam's seen a lot of football, but how do you make this miss...
at the NFL level, not just the coaching staff, but the players.
Exactly right.
He's not preparing the players for every eventuality.
You think they'd have that figured out, but they'll give you next weekend for them.
I don't like their chances next week, Bill, going out to San Francisco.
basically undefeated 49ers.
Well, Bill, baseball playoffs were underway.
Brewers win a huge game Sunday night.
They played again yesterday.
ALCS is underway with Tapa Bay and Cleveland.
I took the Dodgers and just to be different, I took Cleveland.
I believe you took the Dodgers and Tapa Bay.
And I think I'm trailing you by one series in our pitch.
Is that correct?
All right.
Yes.
You're trailing me.
You're quite right.
I told you I didn't share mine on Sunday morning.
I picked
Tampa Bay in LA and we'll see what happens.
I think in the last round you ended up two and two and I was three and one.
So we'll see what happens in this next round.
But we've got the difference in that American League.
So that may separate us out, Gibby, but you're going to have a tough time catching me.
I think I'm up a couple of games on you.
Wow, that's why I'm taking Cleveland.
I got to go against the grain.
And whether the underdog is in the World Series, if I can somehow get one win here, but Bill, I could be eliminated by we get the World Series, couldn't
I?
You might be, but that's OK.
That's okay.
At least you haven't bet the house on it, Jimmy.
I
didn't bet nothing.
Well, Bill, speaking of baseball, speaking of baseball, the playoffs are a blast to watch.
I mean, it's intense baseball.
I mean, the drama.
But we gotta remember, this major league baseball...
the union and MLB itself, they're on a glisten course for a pending lockout.
They're reportedly miles apart.
MLB wants to take six games off the schedule next year and make it a more longer playoff.
The bill is, everything I've seen and hearing, they're not even close to settling this and everybody seems to feel that this lockout is pending.
It's more likely going to happen.
What are you hearing about this bill and what do you know more behind the facts that most of us don't potentially?
I think you're quite right.
After the playoff and the crowning of the world,
series, much of the focus of baseball is going to turn to the negotiations over the new collective bargaining agreement, or they call it the CBA.
And the question is, these are going to be a 2027 series.
The current five-year agreement is set to expire December 1, and an impending lockout is expected if no deal is reached.
It was a five year, they, uh, five year agreement.
The last one was signed in, in 2022.
Uh, and the negotiations started in the fall of 21.
They actually expired and, uh, the negotiations broke down.
Um, there was, uh, uh, when negotiations went down, all the major league transactions, the free agent stuff, everything's get frozen.
So it's, uh, and then, and, uh, after that fall of 21, and they went on, went on the lockdown, uh, they declared, they then,
of 99 days delayed the start of spring training until they reached agreement.
The key issues were the salary cap, reviewing the sharing of resources, the free agency, and expanding the playoff field.
And the last big one was in 1994.
That contracted lasted over 200 days.
It expired in December of 93 dating back here, but the season actually began.
as negotiations continued at that time, and then the players went on strike in August of 94.
So they expired in December of 93, but they just kept negotiating.
The players finally went on strike.
That's when the season was never completed.
They canceled the post-season playoffs that year.
They finally agreed in April of 95, and that season had the shorter number game.
I think that was the year the Montreal Expos would have made the World Series that year, but because of the strike and then a couple of years after the Montreal Expos ended up in Washington.
So last week, the Major League
baseball made several proposals to the players' association to consider.
They would like a seven-year agreement this time that would take them to 2033.
They want a salary cap.
The Major League Baseball still wants a salary cap that would set a maximum, but also a minimum.
The players are opposed to a maximum salary cap, and I think that's going to be the breakdown.
The Major League Baseball has also saved a shorter regular season, starting in 2029.
162 games to 154 and the last time they were playing and they want some roster and free agent changes.
They want to expand the division series to a best of, instead of best of five, make it best of seven.
And they've got some little scheme that for playoff selection, the higher feeding teams would pick the lower feeding teams.
So this year in the wild card and division series.
So this year, and they hope to start that in 2027.
The salary cap's going to be the big issue, Jimmy.
Major league baseball salaries have not been rigid.
They say when they go to shorter streams, they're not going to produce the salaries and they're going to co-rate the award bonuses and so on.
But the players are against any salary cap.
Now, when it was said the last time, they had this salary cap.
But if you went above that number, you had the luxury tax.
And so this year, there was $244 million.
And if your salary payroll was over that, you had to pay a luxury tax.
And so the Dodgers and Yankees, they were quite happy to pay the luxury tax.
proposal is a hard salary cap of two hundred forty five million which is basically and the minimum of a hundred seventy one million so that's going to be the big sticking point i think that uh... uh... that's going to really uh... cause a walkout or strike or whatever you call it uh... it's going to be tough make unless there's come quite a bit of shift on that everything that's going to happen the next couple years is the current missionary he's going to this contract uh... expires in a couple years and uh... he indicated he'd like to
and major league baseball uh... thirty two teams before he retires one in the west and one in the east so and they would start playing in thirty two or thirty three so that could be an interesting one to see i think it's going to happen it'll happen
The CBA is finalized or some agreement on that, but it looks like the leading cities are going to be set.
Salt Lake City and Nashville are kind of favorites right now, but they've figured the expenditure fees can be about $3 billion.
But they're really, those aren't holds until the finalize.
So it'll be an interesting fall with the CBA and the future changes in Major League Baseball, Jimmy.
So that'll take us into November and December and January and February.
discussions on major league baseball, but right now I think they're so far apart on this salary cap off.
I think that that's going to cause a lockout or a strike or whatever.
And Bill, you mentioned the changes, obviously, which they want to put in place.
But nothing's approved.
Everything's on hold until they come to an agreement.
So all these other changes, this is almost just cosmetic on top of the real problem, right?
Yes.
The real problem is the salary cap.
I think what they've thrown out is a few other things.
There's all kinds of things, shorter training, all kinds of rules that they have.
I think those are just
of the package but the big thing is the salary cap and that's where the players don't want it and they'll do all kinds of things when the last one they ended up with this luxury tax.
when they tried to put in the salary cap.
It may be something different.
There's up the salary cap, but they've also put in this time a minimum salary for payroll salary, so that doesn't exist yet.
So some say it could be interesting if it's Tampa Bay and Milwaukee in the World Series, where the high price teams have been eliminated.
So some discussion is what's the impact of who makes it the World Series or who wins the World Series this year with the payroll.
So we'll see what happens, but it's going to dominate the stuff in the late fall and in the winter.
This is a collective bargaining agreement.
Last week was when the Major League Baseball Group owners wrote some of the stuff that they were proposing.
Well, in that playoff thing, it's ridiculous.
the highest he can pick who they want to play.
I mean hockey too, I mean remember the old days building out about two minutes, 16 teams, one plays 16, two plays 15, so on and so forth.
I get out of the divisions, out of the banners, you put up, when they get to the playoffs, best plays worse.
I mean look at right now the current situation.
I mean you've got matchups that aren't featuring the best matchups possible, but why does so hard for these leagues is to pit
the
best against the worst, come play off time.
I don't get it.
Where were the stubbornnesses?
It is one of the things they have, because I'm really the other side.
I don't know if they'll ever sort that out, but that's one of the things that will probably come up in the next quarter by the room for the NHL, is that playoff system, and salary cap, so on.
So it's interesting and only different for what's happening now.
Well, Bill, in closing, what do you see coming?
Again, everything I'm hearing, this is almost going to be a lock-up.
So you mentioned some of the other ones, the length of them.
They're so far apart, and we know it's going to go on in the last minute.
I mean, there's no pretty divorces.
There's no pretty union negotiations.
What do you actually see happening, Bill?
Because you follow this a lot closer than others.
What's your gut instinct?
I think there's going to be a lockout in December 1st, and it's going to drag on for a while.
It'll be based on how willingly the major league owners are willing to depend.
I think the salary kept up is going to be the one that pulls up forever for a long period of time.
I can see it getting into spring training, shortening spring training, or delaying the start of the season a bit.
I think it will finally settle.
I think the owners will start to realize, oh, we don't want to shut down the season like we did in the mid-90s.
Sure, too, Bill.
Everything's going to be on hold after the season for agency and everything.
Well, we'll see what happens with this story.
Well, Bill, we're up against it.
We'll get you back next week, and thanks for sharing that information with us, my friend.
You're always fun to share with, and I'm actually giving up to the Copper Country this weekend to enjoy some of the hockey and football and the Hall of Fame banquet up there, so we're looking forward to getting back to the Copper Country to see old friends.
Well, Bill, maybe I'll bump India.
You know, I don't have much going on.
I'll definitely go to the Tech Northern Football Game Center as my game plan.
I'm still kind on the shelf, but I have been cleared for hockey, so we'll touch base this weekend possibly.
Okay, I'm
good Jimmy.
You have a have a great week up there.
Okay.
Thanks Bill our in-house professor Bill Sparrow joining us Thursday the good captain Lou Gamelin will be back on peeking inside a grapevine.
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We are sitting in the Bob Olson Media Center getting ready for a home weekend.
Alaska comes to town.
Eric Largett and his team coming off a split this past weekend.
They stay in the continental United States and we'll head to Houghton.
for a Friday and Saturday series.
Husky's coming off a split at St.
Cloud State University.
Kind of a weird weekend, coach, as far as, you know, do we feel happy about that split?
Or, you know, it's, again, we were talking three and one after those first two weekends before the season.
I think we'd probably say, hey, well, we'll take that.
But I think we still feel there's improvement there, right, coach?
Well, first of all, I just want to know like Don Henley, like he can just blast it out, belt it out.
But can he can he broadcast and announce?
Because I know you can get after it.
So like that's kind of where my head's at right
now.
I don't know his chops as far as his broadcasting ability.
Yeah, I think you got him there.
He puts me to sleep when I watch him interview sometimes.
But
no, good, good stuff.
You know, it's tough to win on the road.
Let's face it.
We didn't get the result we wanted on Saturday night It's it's easy to play the the blame game, but it's it's not about that It's about our group getting better and a little adversity and we're gonna get
Other teams best games and we get some things we got to work on didn't like our face offs didn't like our team discipline Didn't like we had a couple guys that can play better without getting into names or specifics and that's good And when we'll learn from we'll get better You know, we we had a great video session yesterday.
You address some things that you know, I said to guys I said I can be a
You know, it's a democratic process with some things, and some things are, I'm a dictator.
It's non-negotiable for our identity and our brand, and I'll keep those things to our group, and there's stuff that happens in the locker room and discussions, but I think this is, you learn and you grow through some adversity, and that's what we're doing right now.
You know, this lineup for the first four games has stayed
mostly the same but we did inject our other co-captain this past weekend which was nice to see him back in the lineup and he scores the goal.
Yeah, you know, Isaac's such a great kid.
He's such a great leader.
He does so many things for our group.
He's a pleasure to come to the rink.
He makes others around him better.
He does a lot of things outside of the statute, but to get him back, see him score, see him smile, you know, it was really good.
He played really, really well.
I thought Saturday, in fact, you know, first game was Friday, but he even took a step on Saturday, which was really, really encouraging.
As you look at St.
Cloud and we don't want to look back too much, but were they what you expected coach?
I was really impressed with their speed and their forechecking ability on us.
So there are a couple things in that Olympic hybrid sheet that you know gave us their set breakout on Friday night in particular.
It wasn't a factor Saturday.
We made some adjustments and but Friday it was.
a big deal in our neutral zone and even the defensive zone of having three or four extra feet on each side of the rink prevented us from maybe killing and stopping some plays.
I was extremely impressed with their team speed overall, how fast they were.
I don't know if they'll be as effective on a normal sheet, but it was a little bit of a factor, I think also.
You know, not to make excuses, but we had a short week, obviously playing Saturday, Sunday and travel and this early in the year.
I didn't think we maybe hadn't necessarily as much juice as, and maybe that's a little bit of a, for lack of a better term, a hangover coming off a huge weekend.
And you try and say how hard it is to play, but they're a good team.
They're going to win some games.
Um, you know, from an analytic standpoint, you know, we've been on the right side of all four games, you know, if you, if you're an analytic guy, uh, but at the end of the day, um, the scoreboard doesn't lie.
That's, that's the real analytic thing that the, the, the, you know, that's the stat that matters the most.
But, uh, I like a lot of things about our team and our group.
And I, I thought we bounced back Saturday.
We didn't get a lot of.
we had some tough calls even against you know and you're gonna get that but you know I really liked our power plan our PK on Saturday that's growing and that's like you know hats off to Benton and Tyler with with those those things and you know it just we were in a 2-2 game tight in the third period and
you know, maybe we made a couple of mistakes of maybe trying to do too much that ultimately ended up biting us, but we had an unbelievable look, you know, with a, with a minute or so left, you know, Koski made a great play to the goal line and Noel Reinhart and it hits the goalie's shoulder.
I mean, if it's, I don't know if it's an inch higher, three inches higher, I mean, it's clearly it's in.
So we're right there.
and it stings, so it's not sugar coated, but it's tough to sweep on the road.
I'm gonna bring this up one more time and then I'm gonna let it go, because I've talked way too much about it.
And during the broadcast too, I should be blamed for maybe harping on this too much, but the face off thing, go back to that coach.
We really, I don't remember getting dominated on draws like we did this weekend.
When you're on, and I know how much the guys work on this too, when you're on the bench and that's happening,
You know, I'm thinking like old-timers.
Hey, just try to tie the guy up for crying out loud, you know, if you can't wait it.
Is there some of that conversation of just try to equalize it a little bit?
Well, they've, for the, for our fans and for people that maybe don't know, they've changed the face-off rules, you know, and it's, they're trying to get it, how would you say, if you're not cheating, you're not trying, and they've really started to
kick guys out for infractions and different things and you're supposed to be set down and you're supposed to have your stick, your full stick in, you know, on ice.
And, you know, I had sent 13 in to the league after Friday's game and I'd done it the week before.
And so part of it is, is gamesmanship and timing the draw and guys not getting set.
There's a lot of different.
you know, factors that go into it, but make no bones about it.
I'm not making excuses.
We're good enough.
If you had been in our coaching office yesterday morning, I was, I was on top of it and probably unpleasant would be a polite way of saying my demeanor and mood and, and we went, went and addressed it.
And it's a line of scrimmage.
We've won, we've won five or six face offs that they ended up getting in possession because the line of scrimmage and losing a battle because it's a five man unit that's out there.
Um, but there's no question.
Uh, we, we addressed it, uh, and you're not going to, it's a, it's a, that's will, it's want, it's compete, it's hunger and everybody's important with, with that.
And, uh, you know, you're going to have days where it doesn't go your way.
Like we started poor on, uh, Saturday night in the circle, but we actually dominated the last half of the game in it.
And we actually won some key face off six V five at the end when we needed to.
But even on a penalty kill, for say, if you if you win that draw and you can get a clear, you've you've basically chewed 20 seconds off of the clock versus having to kill in there and you can't change, right?
Obviously,
as we
we all know, so it's it's a big deal.
It's a big thing.
We work on it.
We're going to continue before practice today.
But yesterday we had, you know, we're all over it.
We videoed it.
We're here and
And it's just about learning and growing and getting better every day.
And that's the challenge as a coach, as a staff, to our players is not to play the blame game.
What's the techno aspect?
What can we do better?
to, you know, how can we be more effective?
But in that switches, you know, from the technical aspect to the tactical aspect or PK or power play to a defensive zone draw to running an offensive play.
And then, you know, development is it goes into transferable on Friday, Saturday night that it's effective.
So that's that's the process that goes behind it.
Great, great explanation.
Love it.
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Hey, welcome back to the Michigan Tech Huskies hockey radio show on this Tuesday morning.
We can't wait.
It's Hall of Fame weekend Alaska's coming to town Friday and Saturday night a Team that the Huskies have played quite a bit the last few years even since the breakup of the old WCHA and and then being us an independent team right now coach Eric Largan and coach Bill McCault and the administrations have worked out some some great home and home
Years between these two teams coach.
I know you're excited about this Alaska team coming in with beat Boston College and has already played a very difficult schedule up until now
Yeah, no question, you know, it's a every every weekend You know you got to bring your best and it's just gonna be awesome playing in front.
I thought just
our fans, our student section, our community.
I just love coming to the rink.
They give us such a big boost.
The atmosphere is unbelievable.
I know our guys will be excited and looking forward to Friday night.
It's another opportunity of non-conference and it just sets you up so well from
you know, that big dance at the end of the year.
And it's kind of like putting money in the bank.
You go deposit that paycheck and it's going to be hard, but it's all about Friday.
Coach, do the WHL guys and the guys that played in those leagues that are now coming to the NCAA, do they appreciate the importance of these non-conference games?
There's a harder for them to kind of wrap their minds around, you know, this is so such a foundation for going
forward.
Well full full transparency.
I don't think we really understood that enough last year and you can tell Don't touch the stove.
The stove
is hot.
You're gonna burn your hand.
Yeah, but there's no question this group does you know with all the returning guys they understand it they get it It's It's a big deal.
It's you know, it's a premium.
It's
It's everything.
So it's not just a hockey game.
You're playing for something more than just that pride or that night.
That's important of that.
So that's kind of our preparation.
That's our mindset.
And we know the task at hand.
And it's not about Saturday night.
Right now, it's just all about Friday.
Coach Wayne Weller, who won a national championship with the Huskies.
Colin Murphy, who was a finalist.
in the Hoby Baker back in the early 2000s, and of course Darcy Way, who's had his mark on so many aspects of this hockey program.
Well, it'd be a goaltender, a coach, a radio broadcaster with Bob for many years in the home games, and of course, as a fundraiser, these guys are so important to the program and have been for so many years, and we'll get honored this weekend at the induction ceremony.
Yeah, for sure, Durkin.
Just special.
human beings, tremendous players, what they've done to help the legacy, the tradition of Michigan Tech and the hockey program is amazing.
Great story with Darcy Wade.
Two weeks ago, I get a call from one of my best friends in college who's went to school with.
at the University of Michigan, one or two national championships, and he's a neurosurgeon now in Jacksonville at the Mayo Clinic.
He calls me up and goes, hey, do you know Darcy?
Everybody at Michigan Tech knows Darcy.
So his daughter, the nursing program was in the...
operating room and she's doing great.
She's bright and Dr. Fox had so many great things to say about her, but I just think it speaks to the
The legacy of him as a human being, as a dad, and what he's done, and, you know, it was extremely complimentary of her, and she's going to go on and continue to do great things.
But that just speaks a little bit about Darcy and the hockey community and what a small world.
And how about you?
Hang in here, a great hockey division, a hockey coach, but hanging out with neurosurgeons.
Well, you know, you know what?
He slightly had a just a little bit higher GPA and bandwidth in that, that academic horsepower than I did.
You
guys veered away a different, different paths at that point.
Hey, that's awesome.
Yeah.
Just a special, especially human being.
It just goes to show you about the importance of education and going out and outside of hockey and, uh, you know, super proud of, you know, here I am growing up in Williams Lake and.
All these small towns in British Columbia, next thing you know, I'm the best man at a neurosurgeon's wedding, so I don't know, I maybe outkick my
coverage.
Well, when everybody's here at the games this week, if you look up at the big suites, one of the big suites, that's where all of the inductees and their family and friends will be.
for the weekend now the ceremony is Friday evening so they're always late arriving to Friday's game but Saturday for sure and then Saturday on the ice they'll be Acknowledged here at the McGinnis student ice freedom now game time 707 Friday night 607 Saturday night tickets are available There's going to be all kinds of great promotions I'll tell you more about those in just a little bit during the games But get your tickets by huskies tickets.com coach.
We're really looking forward to this week And I know the guys are to get back on the home ice and
try to get a couple of big, good games against a really good Alaska team.
Yeah, no question.
We know it's going to be races and battles and compete.
I'm looking forward to it.
Our guys are looking forward to it.
Our fans, it'll be a great weekend and it's another step.
They're in our way and kind of just flush everything out, learn, grow, get better every day.
We talk a little bit
There's adversity in the season, there's adversity in life and it's about the grit.
It's not, you're gonna get hit, you're gonna get, but it's bouncing back and fighting forward and it's hard every day to get better every day.
You know, it's easy to be average.
It's easy to be mediocre.
There's no special requirements to be in, you know, for lack of a word, like, you know, when you don't have success, I guess.
But it's, that's where we're at.
I know we have a lot of pride.
I know guys aren't happy.
They're not satisfied.
And, you know, Friday night's gonna be one.
I can't wait.
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
7-0-7 Friday night.
And, of course, on the way, listen to the broadcast starting at 6.30 here on MIX 93.
Thanks, coach.
We appreciate it.
And enjoy the rest of the week.
Sounds good.
I can't wait to, you know, maybe get you out on Don Hanley.
Let's go.
And we'll do that.
Absolutely.
Head coach Bill McCault here on the Michigan Tech Huskies Hockey Radio Show.
Connor Roulette coming up right after the break.
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are joined by Connor Roulette, number 29 for the Huskies on that left wing.
Connor, first of all, nice having you on this team.
I want to go back a couple of weeks to your very first goal as a Husky.
It was a beauty.
I know you already described it a couple of times, but now that you've had a little time to think more about it, how big was it for you and take a
Yeah, I mean it's definitely
huge obviously score in front of the home crowd is sweet
you know, the home crowd that weekend was pretty awesome to see.
And although they were all there for Friday night, I think they were a little more excited for the next two games after being canceled the first night there.
So they brought their energy.
And yeah, I mean, it was just a great play by Millsy.
And you know, just to get that kind of off your off the, you know, get it early and not have to kind of worry about, you know, getting in your head about not scoring or whatever.
So it's nice to get that early.
And like I said, it was a great pass by Millsy.
just to have that deception to pass across.
And I was just able to beat the goalie.
You're known
as a goal scorer.
We've watched a lot of your highlights from over the years before you became a Husky.
At one-time play, though, it's something that's not easy to do, even if you have a perfect pass.
How often have you practiced that?
And how big is that in your game?
Yeah, I mean, one-timers, for me, aren't really my specialty.
I don't really score much from the one-timer.
But it's just one of those things that, before or after practice, a lot of guys
It's just one of those things you work on, just trying to get the puck off as quick as you can, not stopping the puck and stick handling or whatever.
It kind of gives the goalie more time to get there.
So being able to shoot the puck quick is something that a lot of hockey players, especially myself, that practice a lot just to catch goalies off guard.
I think the better the goalies get, the more harder it is to score when you try to make that one extra move.
So being able to shoot the puck off quick was huge.
And yeah, for any hockey player that can score goals, I think being able to do that is a big thing for them.
You're four games into your NCAA career.
Obviously, we played two really good teams already.
What is the difference that you've noticed?
The biggest difference from this level to youth sports and the other levels that you've played prior to becoming a Husky?
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely really fast.
you know, a lot of the, you know, last year for sure, uh, playing new sports, there was maybe a little bit more time with the puck.
Um, and then, yeah, you play, you play against a great team every weekend.
There's no, there's no weekends where, you know, there's a team that's, that's not as good as the next team, you know, it's every team's there and every game's huge.
And I think that's what a lot of teams have in, you know, a lot of pride, a lot of school pride and a lot of teams with their fans and whatnot and having home crowds, home crowded home, home, home ice advantage is, is a huge thing.
And, um, you know, just, yeah, I think it's just every, every night, every game.
and every team brings it and gives it their all every night.
You never know what you're going to get as far
as line combinations as you go through the season, but you had a chance to play with Gordo this past week and talk about him a little bit as that
leadership guy.
Yeah, well, I mean, obviously Gordo being another Manitoban, I was able to skate with him the last few summers.
So even prior to playing with each other on a line, we were able to skate with each other in the summers and get to know each other.
So, you know, he's just a great player and great leader.
I mean, you look at him off the ice, the amount of work he puts in into his, you know,
you know, his career and his hockey skills.
It's really big.
It shows on the ice.
And he's one of those smart players that, you know, he could play with anyone and make anyone better.
And yeah, he's just a great guy and he's a good player to play with.
I think going 3-1
through the first four before the season, we would have taken that.
But a little bit disappointing on this past weekend, because I feel like maybe we think we could have got more out of St.
Cloud.
What did you feel was the difference in our play maybe this past weekend compared to the Minnesota
weekend?
I mean, like I said, you play against teams every weekend where we both have the same goals leading into that weekend.
I think being on the road getting a split is huge for us.
Obviously, Minnesota was a team that had a lot of skill draft picks and a lot of guys that could make plays and play.
And St.
Cloud was definitely a team that just had the speed.
They seemed like maybe they just, I don't know, maybe maybe used to their ice.
Their ice was a little big there.
You know, I thought I thought we played a great weekend and their goalies made some big saves and I think just, you know, a couple more balances that go our way.
I think that we go with that weekend 2-0.
Michigan Tech forward Conor Roulette wears number 29.
He's got a goal under his belt at the NCAA level and certainly hoping for a lot more.
Speaking of more, we've got more Michigan Tech Huskies hockey radio show coming up right after this on Mix 93 WKMJ.
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Welcome back to the Mac.
Dirk Hembrough with you on our Tuesday morning edition of the Michigan Tech Huskies Hockey Radio Show.
Just about ready to wrap it up.
Again, tickets are available for this weekend's contest against the Alaska Nannooks.
Eric Larkin's team coming on in here for Friday and Saturday games.
7.07 Friday night, 6.07 Saturday night.
It is alumni weekend.
Football team is home as well against those Northern Michigan Wildcats.
And there's a noon start on Saturday, so a busy, busy weekend.
Hockey home football home.
It is Hall of Fame weekend miners cup for the football team and It is just just going to be a lot of fun get your tickets for those games now 707 Friday night New start for football on Saturday and if you're going to be getting a VIP ticket for that you need to do so By Wednesday, they like that that they kind of cut that off on Wednesday for VIP single-game tickets
And then, of course, more Michigan Tech hockey on Saturday night with a 607 start.
The Hall of Fame inductees, as we mentioned, Mr. Weller, Mr. Colin Murphy, and Darcy Way will be recognized on the ice on Saturday night.
The banquet is on Friday evening.
And of course, that's for all of the sports too.
And we'll talk more about all of the other inductees.
I've got some great football inductees, and of course, Deidre Irwin and a bunch more.
So looking forward to that Hall of Fame weekend, everybody involved is just top notch.
And what great representatives of Michigan Tech, athletics, Andy Bonk, of course, Lucy Sloik, Mike Horan, Deidre Irwin, as I mentioned already, and Scott Kieser.
are all going to be inducted.
Jason Markott, we all remember him and what a great career he had for the Huskies basketball program.
0105, and I mentioned Colin Murphy.
Sarah Nash Hurley, also for volleyball being inducted.
And of course, Darcy Way and Wayne Weller.
So looking forward to it and hope everybody gets to the games.
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That's going to do it.
Thanks for the head coach, Bill McCult, and of course, a newcomer for the Huskies, number 29.
Connor Roulette who checked in with us on the show.
Thanks to Sam Beck at our studios engineering the program and thanks to you the listener and of course all of our sponsors and we'll do it again next week but we'll see you at the games hopefully if not right here on the radio.
Michigan Tech taking on Alaska Friday and Saturday night right here at the John McGinnis Student Nice Arena.
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