 Welcome back to the Dominic Doll Show presented by Buffalo Wildwings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Steven Simmons, ice hockey head coach Dominic Dolls after quite an exciting weekend. You guys take care of business versus Kings on Friday 3-1 win to give yourself a chance to take the inaugural Mac title. What you do and to come from behind win over Manhattanville. Talk about the resilience of your team in that game and what that championship means to your program. I mean first the championship is big, right? It's the first time we've had the opportunity to play for one and We talked about right from the start of the year, you know If the Mac was a big thing only one team would able to be win it for the first time and To the guys credit they hung with it and that's what they what they did in terms of the resiliency I think that was big for us as a team because we've we've given away a few games in the past couple weeks and You know for us to show our best in what's been, you know to this point our biggest game in our program is is big You know the guys stuck with it the whole time there was definitely some highs and lows with some of the penalties, but That they showed some mental toughness and battle through it and you could just sense it You know get sense it in the room from before the game that they were they were ready to go And you could sense it on the bench during the game that they they weren't going to quit Not only were they big Mac wins their big UCHC wins You're quietly sitting at the top of the standings right now I know you've played a few more games than the other teams But you're giving yourself a chance to take one of those top two seeds going into March Yeah, I mean that honestly is the bigger picture You know we focused on the Mac for the week because that was in front what was in front of us and The Mac obviously took care of the UCHC, but in terms of the UCHC Yeah, we're sitting at the at the top But I think between the top between being first place and being all the playoffs completely is You know about a bad night So what we've kind of talked about moving forward here is let's take it one game at a time You know what's focused on on Myra this week and then if we focus on us and do what we need to do And though in the end will be fine I know last week you talked about your lines your your forwards But your defense gets a little credit here too Jake McNamara had eight block shots in the wind over Manhattanville The weekend before Aaron Murray had seven block shots in a game Alfred panel in Borg has three points in his last four games talk about talk about your defense Yeah, I mean that I mean that was one thing the past couple weeks We've we've talked a lot about to be honest and we weren't really defending well like go back to that Brockport Geneseo weekend where we kind of We didn't really defend well at all And we were losing battles around the net and that's something that we've kind of worked on in practice and kind of got back to what You know, I think has defined us for the most part is we've historically been able to defend well and you know buying into that side of the game has helped I think contribute to the other side, but I mean block shots are a huge part of our game and any time you have I mean those are as big as goals and certain points of the game and Anytime you have a guy willing to go out there and do that That's that's big and then obviously to have the offensive contribution from those guys Helps offset, you know the other stuff. So it's a it's a bonus Hey, you mentioned it that you have Elmira this week on the road just the one game Elmira is unbeaten in their last five. They just upset Utica. What do you have to do to get that road win? We got to defend well first and foremost. I think yeah, I mean if you look at there, they've got a Line that's probably one of the top lines in the country at this point I think there's they got three guys maybe in like the top ten and scoring So we definitely have to you know shut them down But I don't think the focus can really be on them either It's you know, they've got other guys out there and we've got to focus on what we need to do We know if we play hard and we play within ourselves will be fine. I mean, but the three times We've played them. I think we have two overtime wins in the last couple seconds of a game and then we tied earlier in the year, so It's it's gonna be a good game and it's you know, it's a fun place to play So that's that's our focus for the week and we'll go from there coach We wish you the best luck in that game. We'll see you back here next week. Thank you for coach Dominic Dolls I'm Sam Murray and this is the Dominic Dolls show