 Welcome to the Dominic Dahl Show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Murray, joining now with Stevenson Men's ice hockey coach Dominic Dahls, and coach already a third of the way through the year sitting at five and three. How would you assess your team's play so far? I don't see, I think it depends on the day. I think we've had some good days and some bad days and I think for us it's, we got to find some consistency in day and in day out. That's where we've kind of struggled here early on to just, you know, I think get into a little bit of a groove and, you know, obviously we haven't scored a lot of goals and that's a big part of our game. But I think we just need to find some consistency day in and day out to kind of take the next step. Yeah, five of the eight games have been one goal games. You're four and one in those one goal games. Just a statistical thing of 60 program games, 20 of one of them have been one goal games. How do you seem to find a way to grind out those close games? I mean, that's kind of been, yeah, in the three years here, that's been the story so far. But that's honestly something we talk about every day. And that's, I think, in the consistency part where we need to get better. You know, we need to, there's some games in there that we should pull away from and win by more than one goal. And then there's some games in that where we've, I think overachieved or underachieved a little bit. And we need to find the consistency day in and day out to put the effort in so that when push comes to shove, we're more prepared. Yeah, talking about goals, 12 different players have scored a goal this year. 21 players have a point. Talk about, you know, is that something you want to see or you want someone to step up and be more consistent of a goal score? I mean, you want balance up and down the lineup because you never know who's going to be in and out of the lineup in our sport. So it's good to have different guys contributing. I just think offensively we need to, we need more guys to step up and produce. Yeah, that rookie class that you have is kind of, they stepped up already big through eight games. Riley McVeigh has been in net. And then you've got, you know, a couple other guys, Ryan Patrick, Dritt Roman, talk about that freshman class. Well, I mean, that's, again, we're a young program. And the goal here every year is to get better. And, you know, the, the, the sell to them in the recruitment process was, you know, we, you need to help us get us better. And that's, they've all kind of stepped in and made an impact in their, in their own way. And that's big, you know, especially for us, you know, moving, moving forward. We need to, we do need to get a little bit, a little bit better and a little bit more consistent. And that's, you know, that's why those guys are here. Yeah, you have four games left before break. What do you want to see your team improve on? Consistency. And that's kind of been the main, the main topic or the, or the main theme. We've got a big weekend, a big road trip, you know, ahead of us. I think we're all tied with nine points, you know, you, the costs and NAS. So it's, these are huge, huge points going into the weekend. And we've got to make sure that we're, we're ready to go. You, because obviously a great environment, you know, to, to play in. And we've got to be excited about that. But we've also got to be prepared for, for NAS on, on Saturday. Well, coach, we wish you the best of luck in the remaining 2018 games. And we'll see you back here after the new year. Sounds good. Thank you for head coach, Dominic Dawes. I'm Sam Murray. And this has been the Dominic Dawes show.