 Welcome back to the Dominic doll show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson men's ice hockey head coach Dominic dolls and coach It's been almost a month since a regular season game But you guys had the unique opportunity of heading over to Europe for five exhibition games for in France one in Switzerland Talk about that experience. I mean, I don't think there's enough words to describe the experience I think on and off the ice. It was it was unbelievable. We were over there for eight days We got to play we played five games in five days, so we were busy on the hockey side of it But just in terms of you know being able to see different places Different towns different cities guys to kind of experience the culture a little bit. I thought I was it was great for our group I think we only had maybe a handful of guys that have ever been been to Europe before So it was a I think it was a tremendous experience. How does the experience bet if you're not only on the ice? You get to play five extra games against Professional teams over there, but then you guys spend eight days together I think that's the biggest the biggest value and it was the guys got to kind of spend the time together be a little bit more, you know A little bit more of a relaxed atmosphere experience some different things together kind of create some you know Some stories and some things that they're always gonna gonna remember and on the hockey side of it I think it was an opportunity for guys that, you know, maybe haven't played as much To get to play a lot more and for us to try some things Transitioning back into NCAA hockey you guys head on the road for for two-game series at Fredonia Talk about this week and getting back into the things you want to do for for the rest of the year Well, we hit dice yesterday for the first the first time, but I mean it I thought we had a pretty good practice yesterday Pretty good pace, but we've essentially only been really off for eight days So the trip I think helped kind of break up the monotony of the break and kind of keep a little bit of the The rust off so I think we have high expectations going into this this half Yeah, if you look at our our league standings everything is extremely tight So it's it's kind of for us Picking up, you know, I thought we were playing well at the end of the half. We just weren't scoring goals I think the trip enabled us to you know, maybe get some it out of our system and start to score some goals So, you know, hopefully we start to contribute a little bit more offensively and get going here All right, coach We wish you the best of luck this weekend and we'll see you back here next week sounds good for coach Dominic dolls I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Dominic doll show