 Welcome back to the Tracy Johnson show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stephenson women's ice hockey head coach Tracy Johnson and coach in the first half of the season with a non-conference series versus Buffalo State you fall in the first one and then rally to come back and tie and finish in a 2-2 overtime tie in that game take us through that that series. So first game a little bit of a roller coaster experience I would say you know we started the comeback scored a couple of quick power play goals you know going into the third I felt pretty good about the momentum that we had and just couldn't finish the comeback and a little bit of a disappointing performance for us in the third being held to two shots you know it's just it's one of those things like I said that was just roller coaster in that game and you know it's always a challenge to take a look at that and you know how we're gonna bounce back we don't have much time to to feel bad or fixate on the negative but you know what can we bring into the next day so you know we we had to play behind and came back and tied it you know it was one nothing than one one then two one then two two so you know we fought back to to finish the first semester on the best note that we could. Yeah you also finished the first semester on a good note on special teams in that series you finished four for 14 on the power play only allowed one short penalty kill killed off I think seven of eight on the PK so special teams really coming along in this back half of the first season. Yeah and that's something that we struggled with game after game and we were starting to gain some traction there so to end on that kind of high note with special teams is is definitely something that we want to carry into the start of next semester and you know for the remainder of the year. I know it's someone we talked about quite a bit year after year but Chelsea Blackburn we have to we have to we have to mention her she got her 100th career point finished with four points in the weekend three of them on assists and then was named the Mac as well as the UCH player of the week. Talk about her contribution especially this weekend and getting that milestone. Yeah I mean we do talk about her a lot but there's a reason that we do. She you know she I think in the beginning of the year was struggling to find the back of the net you know was really starting to get a little bit more into her groove and and the Chelsea were used to seeing so for her to finally reach that milestone was an exciting moment for her exciting moment for her teammates you know pretty incredible backdoor power play goal to cap that 100th point but you know we're going to see there's a whole another half of the season to go through and I think we're going to certainly see much more from her and she's going to set new new personal best new career records and ones that I think will will stand tall for a while. Speaking of career marks I think other seniors are setting career highs but also one person that stood out to me was junior Sierra Samasko she has three power play goals this season talk about the contribution across the board. So with her in particular one of her goals this year was to produce more in terms of putting the puck in the net and I think she's one of those players that is just very gritty willing to you know take the hits in front of the net and score those goals that we need you know those are the ones that we're going to need our entire team to get on board with being willing to get in front of the net get gritting in front of the net get those rebounds and she's one that just has always been willing to do that and so for it to see that show up on the scoreboard for her has been pretty cool because that's been one of her goals this year. In terms of the the rest of the depth and the rest of the contributions I mean we've had lots of seniors that have stepped up and have wanted to contribute you know Kellan who's kind of a senior slash junior in that class obviously showing up on the score sheet a lot too and the more depth you can have them the more of an offensive force you're going to be and that's going to have to be something that we really focus on going into the second half. Yeah you guys are idle for the rest of December so we'll preview that Newman game on in January after the New Year so happy holidays to you and happy New Year. Thanks so much looking forward to it. For Coach Tracy Johnson I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Tracy Johnson Show.