 Welcome to the Dominic Dawes show. I'm Joe Wamba joined now with Dominic Dawes head coach of the men's ice hockey team And you guys travel on up to Lebanon Valley play at Hershey Park arena. There's a kind of a treat for you guys Yeah, you know what? It's a it's a historic old barn and a pretty unique place and You know, it's it was a you know, it's a fun atmosphere. Let's talk about the game a little bit You guys jump out early Take 24 shots in the first period and three of them go in you got to be feeling good about Changing up the mindset and getting the shots to net. Yeah, you know our goal going into the game was We wanted to get 15 shots period or 45 shots total and we wanted to play hard for 60 minutes with energy for 60 minutes and The first period that's what we what we did We got 24 shots because we worked hard and we had the had the puck but then after that completely different story and That's kind of been one. That's been our ammo here of late We are inconsistent our habits and our effort and I think it kind of showed as that game we're on and Talk about an overall feeling from the beginning of the season you guys are 55 and one Heading into this little mini break before we come back in the new year What are the points of emphasis as you guys go into this mini break and get ready for the new year? Oh, I think we need to have a gut check here over over the break Because that's I think again that kind of what I just said is a little bit of what our ammo is and where guys have struggled is Consistently working hard and learning how to win and compete At this level and that's you know, we've The good thing over the first half is we've shown we can compete and compete with with anybody The bad thing at the you know in the first half was we've we've shown that we are inconsistent and You know, we're not we're not young We're not freshman anymore. We've we've got 11 games Our belt we've we've seen, you know, some of the best teams in the country. We know what to expect every night We know what we have to do every night. It just becomes a matter of us No going out there and and doing it for a complete 60 minutes You guys sit at two four and one now in the conference schedule coming back We're gonna be the points of those just in those conference games that you guys will be having Well, I mean, we've talked about it from from day one our goal here this year is to make the playoffs And the top six out of the eight make it So our goal and to go into every game is to figure our way to win on that given night You only play 15 league games So it's tough to it's tough to play catch up if you need need be but we're not in a bad spot right now We're a couple points up on on the bottom two teams But you know that becomes us doing our job when we when we get back Well coach, we wish you the best of luck and enjoy this little mini break as the student athletes get ready for finals And then their winter break not much of a break for hockey. You guys are still gonna be practicing, but no competitions Yeah, we practice this week and then hit, you know head home for the holidays And then we'll be back on on New Year's Day ready to go So what that means for us on these coaches shows we won't be back until the new year So coach, we wish you a very happy new year and Successful first half of the season for you. Absolutely. Well, happy holidays. Thanks. He's Dominic Dawes. I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the Dominic Dawes show