 Welcome back Lakeland Sports and a chance to visit with freshman defenseman Tommy Muck. Egan has already played some high school hockey and he'll tell us a little bit about how that road to Bemidji State, how it worked out for you? I'd have to say it started my senior year and we played in the state high school tournament. I had heard about Bemidji State. They had shown some interest in me after watching me in the state tournament and then my first year of juniors in Madison, they followed me the whole way. They actually talked to Coach Saratori about the first month there and he followed me throughout the whole season and then we had an orientation camp just before my second year of juniors and that's when he came and he watched me there and I decided, Bemidji State is where I want to go. The recruiting trail, although even maybe years ago you jumped from high school right into college, it's still, coaches are getting in touch with you right at the high school age aren't they? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, for those guys that go from high school straight to college, that's a big jump. From high school to the USHL where I played, that was a big jump. I think it's really beneficial to play a year of junior so that's the path I took. Physical maturity too right? When you're playing against 22 year old men type of thing. You get to Bemidji State and you understand that there's a lot of sophomore defensemen here and a lot of guys working your way into the lineup by how that would go. Yeah, it's a learning process. The biggest thing I noticed was just the attention to details, just the little things. The first few weeks I really had to focus in on that and it helps with the sophomores who went through it last year. You look at them now from where they were last year to where they are now. You just got to kind of follow in their footsteps. They've been great. Both coaches, especially Coach Winders, just helped me out tremendously. So that's copaching has helped a lot. Being a Minnesota kid, did you recall when Bemidji State was in the Frozen Four in those days? Honestly, no, I did not. It wasn't until the first time I came here with my dad, I noticed it and then I saw it on the wall but honestly I can say that I don't remember them being in the Frozen Four. It's all good? Yeah. It's all good. Your career here to get back there and here we are in late January as we headed to Ferris State this weekend and your thoughts and what needs to be done here to close this thing out in league play? We just have to continue to be good on the back end. Bitz is playing well and we've got to do what we have to do in front of him to help him out. We're playing great team defense. We have to continue to do that and ultimately we've got to do what we can in the offense zone to help our forwards create more offense and we just got to continue how we're playing and just keep it simple. Good to get to know you a little better and get to know you as well and thanks so much for this. Thank you. Tommy Muck, freshman, defenseman here at Bemidji State, back in a moment.