 Welcome back to the Tracy Johnson show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Murray joined now a Stevenson women's ice hockey head coach Tracy Johnson and coach had your first UCHC games Maybe not the game you want it in the opener, but you guys bounce back with the 2-2 tie versus William Smith What are the positives you take away from from that weekend? I think anytime the first game goes Not so well You know you you want to see how the team is going to respond to that and see what character They're made out of and they came back Fighting hard the next day. It can be easy to collapse back into oh, I you know We got beat by this this much why why even you know try the next day But they showed a lot of heart coming back out and and putting it all out there You know coming away with the tie Was hoping that we could have held on to that lead or certainly added to that lead But um, you know we we showed some perseverance for sure Your three goals were all by seniors over the weekend talk about that class and the leadership that they bring for the team They've been a part of this program for a while, huh? they've seen a lot of what this program has gone through in terms of ups and downs and To see them kind of take charge and finally get us on the board this season is a good thing And I'm hoping that's something that continues and only carries over throughout the rest of the year Maybe something you don't want to keep talking about but special teams Kind of was the storyline of the weekend. How do you continue to just work at it and improve? We're gonna have to do a lot of analyzing of the video where the breaks downs where the breakdowns happened Where we're just getting mixed up and confused, you know, this has been kind of the the most we've ever struggled with pk at least and you know, we just can't Can't perform that way and I believe I said that you know the last the last week about our first weekend in games But that trend is continuing so we've got to find a way to to push through that and stop it and and Make sure that when we get out on the ice, we know exactly what we're doing We know exactly what everybody else is doing and then executing it So we're just gonna keep plugging away at that a lot of work on our special teams this week for sure going into the weekend Moving forward, it doesn't get any easier You're on the road two games at Elmira who are currently ranked third in the country the new poll hasn't come out yet What do you have to do as a team to get the results that you want? We've got to be willing to work hard we've got to be willing to be relentless and Be persistent on the ice and just do all the little things right and stay disciplined and work our butts off And that's what's gonna give us a chance and if we decide to take a shift off You know, these teams are gonna capitalize on that So we've seen the speed luckily, you know, we opened up that weekend So we we know what we can expect in terms of what a top three teams gonna look like So I'm hoping that that gives them kind of the confidence going into it knowing that we have seen teams like that and we've been able to compete with them to a certain extent so We're just gonna do a weekend to prepare for this and for another matchup against a really strong team Well coach, we wish you the best of luck and we'll see you back here next week. Thanks so much for coach Tracy Johnson I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Tracy Johnson show