 Coming to the Dominic Dawes show, I'm Joe Wamba. Join with Dominic Dawes, head coach of the Men's Ice Hockey team. And coach, you guys round out your first regular season with a win against Lebanon Valley. You get to play it at home. Can't feel much better than that. Yeah, no, it was a good way to go out and play a pretty good game, a solid game, especially defensively. It's no secret that we've struggled the past few weeks. So right from Monday of last week, we said, all right, this is a brand new season. Monday is going to be the first day of practice of the year. And we kind of built the work week last week like that. And Lebanon Valley would be the one game. And we wanted to kind of go into the playoffs on a good note. And that's what we did. So here we are, trying to get ready for Wednesday. And you spoke of that defensive effort. Kudos to Pierce Dushenko, rookie of the week in these CAC honors, and earning the shutout the only the second one in school history. For sure, yeah, no well-earned. Well, anytime a guy, it's about opportunity and taking advantage of opportunity. So had an opportunity to play and played well. And that's really all you can ask for. Especially at this point in the season, it's been a long year. And you guys are headed into playoffs, playoff, ECAC hockey coming up. It's an exciting time of the year. Oh, no, no question. This is why you play the game. This is why you work hard in the fall and in the off season. It's to put the pads on Wednesday night and kind of see what happens. But at this level, it's one and done. So you've got to be prepared and got to be ready to go. Clean slate for everybody. But if you want to hang back and talk about the times you've played, Hubert, you've come back saying that those were the best games of the year so far. Yeah, no, I think we've had great efforts both times. We have played them. We've made our mistakes throughout the game. But especially when we were up there late January a few weeks ago, and I thought it was a very, very good effort from the team in terms of energy and how we competed. And we need to match that effort and clean up some mistakes and we'll be fine. But we know that they're a good team. And they're going to come to play. And they're playing for us. There's a lot at stake. So we're going to have to bring our best effort of the year. What does Hobart bring to the table that you guys are going to have to combat to get a victory, your first playoff victory? I mean, they're just a team that brings energy and compete level. And you're guaranteed to get that every time you see them from the top of their lineup to the bottom of their lineup. They're going to try to outwork you. And for us, that's a similar game in which we try to play. So we're going to have to outwork them, win puck battles, beat them to pucks, manage the puck properly, make sure we get the puck out of our end and into their end. And whoever scores the most goals wins. And face-offs will be key to owning that puck. And we try to own that face-off dot. And then you're in control of the puck more often than not. Absolutely. I mean, that's where the battle starts. So if you can control the majority of those battles, you're starting off with the puck on your stick and what plays you make from there. You kind of see what happens. But that's definitely a key to the game is making sure that we're hungry on the puck and we're controlling those battles. That way we can give ourselves the best opportunity we can. And you guys, obviously you've played Hobart twice and played them tough. As you go into the first playoff scenario, you guys have kind of been in the playoff scenario since the middle of January. Have you guys been able to feed off of those things, getting ready for this game on Wednesday? I mean, for us, we've talked a lot about this, but our focus is we've tried to keep it. Every week be a new week, every day be a new day and try to really improve and reflect upon what we've done well, what we haven't done well, the mistakes we've made to try to get ourselves to this point and be playing our best hockey at this point to give ourselves an opportunity to win. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck and safe travels up to Hobart on a short week. You guys just played on Friday and now you guys are back at it on Wednesday. That's the fun in it, so we're excited to get on the bus tomorrow and go. And hopefully we got a game on Saturday. Absolutely. Good luck, Coach. Thank you. He's Dominic Dawes, I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Dominic Dawes Show.