 and welcome to the Dominic Dawes show. I'm Joe Wamba, joined now with men's ice hockey head coach Dominic Dawes. And coach, let's talk about the weekend a little bit. First of all, with that game versus Newman? I mean, well, it was, I think, a tough weekend, all in all. But first night with Newman, I thought we played hard. We just, again, we get in little funks in terms of taking some bad penalties and doesn't kind of help us scratch and claw our way back. We took a five minute penalty, about 30 seconds into the game. And I think that put us back right out of the gate. And I think just guys got tired, worn out, and we struggled to fight back. I think the difference in the game was we just couldn't generate chances or quality chances. And I think that was a big difference. And that might be the evidence of the maturity level. Are you still growing the program and the mentality and getting things going as well? Yeah, I mean, they had 15 seniors, and we had 25 freshmen. But honestly, we're well into this now, and nobody's a freshman anymore. And we've got to find ways. If we're going to win games, we've got to find ways to be successful. And there really ultimately is no excuse. We just, I think, to some degree, got all worked. And that's the mentality to have, instead of just relying on puck luck, try to get things going your own way. For sure, yeah. And I think the puck luck thing was definitely at its impact the second night. Again, we took a couple untimely penalties that hurt us in terms of battling back. But I thought the Manhattanville game, I don't think, was indicative of the score. We thought it was one of the better games we've played in a while in terms of energy and pace. And we just couldn't find much luck. And they got a couple of good bounces. We're not, you know, scored a power play goal. I think their second goal of the game, just throwing it at the net and one of our guys in the skate. And sometimes that happens. But we told our guys is, you know, we start putting more pucks than that. You start to get that luck yourself. And you've got to make your own luck. Yeah, almost no shot is a bad shot. Exactly, yeah. Now let's talk about the road trip that you guys got upcoming this week headed up to Buffalo State long road trip. Yeah, headed up to Buff State should be a good fun trip. But a good chance for the guys to get on the bus and be together and spend some time together. But we'll play two up there. They're off to a very good start. They've consistently, over the last couple of years, been a pretty strong program. So we're excited about the challenge. We'd like to get back in the win column. But for us, it's always kind of one day at a time. Well, coach, good luck with this opportunity upcoming this weekend. And we'll talk to you next week. Thank you. Talk to you next week. He's Dominic Dawes. I'm Joe Wamba. And this has been the Dominic Dawes Show.