 Welcome to the Dominic Dawes show. I'm Joe Wombo joined now with Dominic Dawes head coach of the men's ice hockey team and coach. It's been a month since you got to be at home and play some home games. You're going to get the opportunity to do that this weekend. But first, let's talk about how that stretch of road games went for you. Just talk a little bit. I mean, real tight games down the stretch. All of the last four. That's it. I mean, it's playoff time. And that's really what it comes down to. Everybody's got a little something extra at stake here. That's really what it's kind of all about this time of year. Oh, man, I think we've played seven overtime games out of our 21 or 22 games that we've played. And we also lost one to 30 seconds left. So we know every night it's going to be a battle. It's going to be a war. We've just got to make sure that we're taking care of the little things and not shooting ourselves in the foot and taking untimely penalties and not giving ourselves a chance to win. Because honestly, in the games that we have lost, that's contributed to it. Just wrong thing at the wrong time and maybe wearing us down down the stretch and not giving us a chance in the end to be at our best. And we need to be at our best at this point here. So these games have been really tightly contested. And that's the way the conference has been. The standings are tight. Anything can happen at this point. Yeah, I mean, that's the nature of playing in the ECAC West. It's been like that for years. It always comes down to the last game on the last weekend. And that's kind of where we're at. So our mindset is, we've got to win our games. And we win our games. We control our destiny. And that's our focus. We don't need to look at where the other teams are at or what they're doing. Let's just focus on what we need to do and we can go from there. And that focus on what you can do is going to be awfully important with Utica and Nazareth coming in. Teams that are going to have an extra game in conference after this weekend, being able to handle these games is going to be awfully important for you. Absolutely. I mean, Utica is at the top of the league and it's kind of running away with it to some degree. So we need to, I mean, that would be a big win for us. It would be probably our biggest win of the year at this point. So we need to get off to a fast start. We need to play disciplined. We need to play smart. We need to do the little things in order to give ourselves a chance to win. And focus is on Friday. And we'll worry about Saturday when kind of Saturday comes. And that focus for Friday and Saturday. You get to play them at home, like we said at the beginning. How important is it going to be to have those crowds here for these big games? I think it'll be great. I think it'll be great to kind of get the atmosphere, get the students in the rink. Obviously, now that classes are back going, we did play a few games over the break. But I think it'll just be a little bit nicer to kind of for guys to get into their routine. I mean, we were gone for four straight weeks. I think we went over, like, 1,800, 1,900 miles. So we were kind of a little bit of hearth here and everywhere. So I think it'll just be comforts of your own bed and getting yourself ready to prepare and play. And don't have to miss a day of classes for travels, either. That's awfully important for our student athletes. Absolutely. Hey, coach, well, good luck this weekend. We'll be out there with you in the tundra that is Reicherstown Sports. Absolutely. Looking forward to it. That's exciting. Good luck, coach. Thank you. He's Dominic Dawes. I'm Joe Wamba. And this has been the Dominic Dawes Show.