 Welcome back to the Tracy Johnson show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson women's ice hockey head coach Tracy Johnson and coach traveled to Boston for the codfish Bowl Fall in the opener to end a cot but bounce back with a win over Wesleyan to take third place take us through the weekend Well leading up to the weekend, you know, it's been a rough road so far You know, we've played some good competition, which I think is a great You know, obviously the outcomes haven't been what we've wanted them to be but it's been a good Way to kind of set the tone and and try to elevate our pace right out the gate And so going into the codfish and we're playing against end of college is always going to be a big game No, no matter what even though we're not in the same conference anymore and you know, unfortunately I had to I had to watch from from back home, you know with some family circumstances But you know, just just proud of the energy they brought and what I was able to see and some of the good things that we did, you know, finally a hundred percent on the on the PK and You know, we really carried that over again into the next day It's easy to let the frustration take over and and spiral down But we you know bounce back as a team and and we're able to pull out our first win So I think that was a cool moment to see the heart that they brought into that second game And we just need that to to carry over into the rest of the semester in the rest of the season Yeah, you mentioned end of college receiving votes in the latest poll So that's eight games this year Six five of them against teams ranked or receiving votes and then you also mentioned that PK the penalty kill was perfect through the weekend talk about the Production of that the penalty kill units. Well, we had decided You know, we needed to stop beating a dead horse and try and you know, what can we change up with this? So we kind of our traditional PK was a little bit more of a rotation and we decided to kind of go back to Traditional roles of the Dean forward when they're out there being just very specific on what they needed to execute while they were out there And so I think that's that has helped and it's been good to see that pay off in terms of the production of that So we just got to keep that going to because you live and die by special teams And we're just going to keep riding that momentum and keep working at it and keep practicing it With a purpose like we have the past couple weeks And we haven't really mentioned her name much this year, but Chelsea Blackburn scores two goals over the weekend She has ten goals in three years at the codfish bowl Scored her 18th career game-winning goal against Wesley and now six points shy of 100 talk about her production and what she brings to the team Yeah, she's no stranger to game-winning goals or goals in general. I should say codfish bowl has been kind to her over the past four years She just plays with this intensity and this spark that Can ignite an entire team and when we need her to come up big for us She has a tendency to be able to do that and you know is getting towards the end of the game there It's tied. It was like three and a half minutes left She comes up big for us and and and makes a big play by putting the puck in the net and Can't say enough about what she's been able to do over the course of her career And now is starting to find the back of the net more consistently over this past weekend Yeah, looking ahead you guys have been on the road a lot six of your first eight games But you're home the next two weekends and this weekend you welcome Kings getting back into conference play both UCHC and Mac What do you expect from this weekend's matchup? You know Kings is their new program. They they bring that level of Enthusiasm with they're gonna be trying to get their first win They haven't gotten that yet for their program. They've tied but though they'll be bringing some energy into this weekend I think it's always fun to be playing within conference And this is a unique Situation where we're in two so this is our first time competing against a team that's in both But we've got to be ready to play our game and bring a lot of energy and and not have this mindset of their new program This is gonna be a different kind of game than what we're used to playing That's not the mindset we need to have going into it So I think like I said, they're gonna have a lot of energy And we've got to be ready to counter that with some energy of our own Well coach wish you the best luck and we'll see you right back here next week. Thanks so much For coach Tracy Johnson, I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Tracy Johnson show