 Welcome to the Dominic Dolls show presented by Buffalo Wildwings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson Men's ice hockey head coach Dominic Dolls and coach let's start with that semi-final series at Wilkes drop the first game team battles back to take the second game You force the mini game Tie go to a fifth period Unfortunately, you drop, you know in that in that extra overtime period Just talk about the resilience and the relentlessness of your team I mean we left out there and that's I think is a coach all you can ask for from the guys You know the first night didn't turn out the way we wanted it to like we were up early, and I thought we ran out of gas late But you know day two we knew we were back sharp against the wall. We knew what we had to do Guys came out and competed. I thought honestly we had one of our best efforts in terms of the 16 minutes of the regular game The year and then I mean the mini game. I thought we played as well as we could have played a lot of chances a lot of opportunities And then when it came to sudden death we lost on goal. That's you know that support so they left it out there They put themselves in a position where you know, we were we were right there and you know, it's what it was I thought you kind of had time to sit back and digest the season a lot of positives a lot of a lot of good things to take Away, what's the one thing that you're gonna take away from this season? I just think we knew we learned a lot. It just wins and losses aside We learned the importance of culture and what what it's gonna take for us to kind of continue to grow as a program You know, we can go back to two years ago a bunch injuries You know all that stuff that kind of snowballed on us and we didn't do as well as we underachieved to this year, you know clean some things up stay unhealthy and The guys, you know putting in the work to put us in a position to be something We've proved my eight wins. I don't know if there's a team in the country that can just took that jump so We've shown that we can play with everybody now. It's it kind of continue to grow and build off of that Yeah, you turn the page now, you know look ahead to the fifth year of the program You do graduate 13 seniors 11 of them or the inaugural class, but you look at who's returning who's coming back You have a lot of young guys, especially, you know those two rookies who really produce points awesome Master Chris Lee, you mean you can go further down this Ryan Patrick Lupinita doesn't go further further But what are these guys have to do to continue the success? I mean they've got obviously take the next steps in terms of their their careers But I mean young guys have always played a key role here as we've kind of built our built our program I think we're pretty excited about the group that we have coming in up to this this point And it's a matter of you know kind of meshing the group Group together and build continuing to build well coach We wish you the best of luck in the off-season and see you back here next year. Thank you for head coach Dominic Dawes I'm Sam Murray, and this has been the Dominic Doll Show