 Hello and welcome to the Dominic Dodds show. I'm Joe Wamba joined now with Dominic Dodds head coach of the men's ice hockey team. And coach, happy new year to you, first of all. And secondly, you guys have had some time off, some time to practice, get things corrected. How do you feel headed into this first series of 2017? I think we're excited and happy new year to you as well. But I think we're excited. The guys came back earlier in the week. We've now had four or five practices under our belt and getting ready to get back at it tomorrow. But I think any time you have the break, especially for us, it seemed to be a little bit of a long break this year. We've had three or four weeks off in terms of playing. It's just kind of rejuvenate you a little bit. And I think you can kind of just see that and the guys getting back and being excited and not being in class, just kind of hear able to focus on hockey a little bit. With that rejuvenation that you have this year, what is it that you're going to be focusing on and getting things going in the first series? I just think for us it's consistency. That was the big thing for us in the first semester. And now having some time to kind of evaluate the first semester, taking the steps from there, kind of correcting the things that we weren't so good at and building off the things that we were good at. Now everybody knows what to expect. Now that team full of freshmen isn't freshmen anymore. Now they've all got some experience under their belt. And it's time to kind of take steps forward. And a chance to rest and mend those bruises and bones and everything, how important was that for the team? For sure. I think every year it's important for every team, because you just need that. We play a physical game. And over time you're going to have bumps and bruises and things like that. So for guys to be able to take a couple of weeks and just kind of heal up, again, it kind of becomes a new season in a sense. Well, Coach, when you talked about it, this first series is against Fredonia State. What is it that you're looking in these first two games? I just think for us, especially going into our night, focus needs to be on us and executing what we want to do and play the game the way we want to play. And then I think kind of going from there. Again, every game for us this year, every day, we've kind of talked about trying to improve and trying to get better. And trying to honestly keep the focus on us and not worry about who we're playing. But I think this is the first game back after a long layoff. I think it just needs to kind of get BS, getting back to basics, doing what made us successful out of the gates at the start of the year. Playing with energy, being aggressive and being hungry. Well, Coach, we'll be looking for that energy and that hunger out on the ice this weekend. And best of luck in these games. Looking forward to it. He's Dominic Dawes. I'm Joe Wama. This has been the Dominic Dawes Show.