 Hello and welcome into the Tracy Johnson show. I'm Joe Wamba joined now with Tracy Johnson head coach of the women's ice hockey team And coach you guys get the weekend off opportunity to go home You got to stay here visit with some friends players get to go home visit with friends as well How important was the time off and getting ready to head back out there this week? Yeah, I think anytime you get a few days to you know recover get some rest in and and step away Especially over the holidays, you know, it's a good break to be able to come back refreshed bring some intensity going jumping right into a game week and so I'm excited for what the week has ahead and Hopefully looking forward to a great weekend for us and it was definitely a special this this time because it's a holiday that you get off and You guys will actually be playing on a holiday in January, but we'll talk about that later Let's talk about this weekend Johnson and Wales on Friday Looking for a little rep retribution from the last time you guys met Yeah, I'm really hoping you know the way we ended our series against them in Rhode Island was not how we wanted to So I'm hoping that we take that fire and that intensity and that Feeling with us going into Friday and you follow it up quickly with a game against Manhattanville What are you looking for hopefully a little bit momentum getting back into the swing of things in the rest of December Yeah, we've played Manhattanville a few times in the history of the program and haven't beat them yet So, you know, we're really hoping to go into That game with some intensity from hopefully what we get on Friday like you said, you know, we want to build that momentum and just go from there and It starts with with practice this morning And I thought we brought some good intensity and just need to take that into this week And I'm excited to see what we do Is that going to be the key to success and getting the results that you want in these games as far as playing with intensity what are the areas of you know precision that you need for To get these W's I think we need to just come out flying, you know Keep it simple and and play simple hockey get the puck to the net keep our feet moving We need to get back to basics for sure You know, we want to turn things around and it starts with this weekend And I think that the way we do that is is keeping things simple and and play hard and play fast and play smart Well coach, we wish you the best of luck in these two Non-conference games that you got coming up Um getting that puck to the net and hopefully it'll go in Hope so too. Thank you so much. She's Tracy Johnson. I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the Tracy Johnson show