 Welcome back to the Tracy Johnson show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Murray join now a Stevenson women's ice hockey head coach Tracy Johnson and coach Team started winless in your first seven games of the season. You're now unbeaten in 11 of your last 12 Talk about the resilience of your team as a whole Yeah, I give the credit 100% to the players because that is a difficult stretch to have to go through and I knew that Scheduling it also that it was going to be challenging, but they've really risen to the occasion and Just persevered through that that tough beginning and have turned things around and I think that that adversity early on has made them a better team and a Better and closer family Yeah, now that you're getting down to the end of the season all games are big games It was a big UCHC series this past weekend versus Utica you won one tied one talk about your performance in those games Yeah, really proud of the team for playing against a really tough really physical opponent at home and you know both games were very physical and I just felt like our team did a great job of of playing through it and Just staying gritty staying resilient everything that they have been You know the whole season and obviously ideally you don't want to give up that lead in the second game But regardless, you know that there's huge three points for us And I'm really proud of the team for that talking about the resilience of your team to be mentally tough at the in the overtime period Your team took two penalties So you're essentially almost killing on the penalty kill the whole the whole overtime talk about how mentally tough that was for your Team to get away with the tie. Yeah, I tell them all the time being on the PK you have to have a warrior mindset There's really no other way to put it You have to be willing to block shots take them for the team stop and start sometimes You're out there for a minute minute and a half and play through that and they just did a great job and kind of adds to Just how proud of them I am moving on to this weekend You host a home-in-home series versus Lebanon Valley both you CHC and Mac games your home on Friday Which is also a whiteout cancer game talk about the importance of hosting a cancer awareness game. Well We talk about it a lot on our team on you know being a part of the program is bigger than just the game of hockey it's bigger than any one person and You know cancer is something that I think everybody either knows someone or knows someone who knows someone who's been affected by That and you know, it's a good opportunity for us to really Support a cause and and recognize and honor those that we have lost or the ones that are still here and battling and You know, we're just looking forward to Bringing an emotional game for sure But bringing the energy to supporting a cause like that and talking about the game itself What are what is the key thing going into this matchup versus level that you want to see from your team? Ah, it's similar to what we talk about every week. It's it's a