 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. You guys round up the regular season. You guys still have a bid into the CHC tournament. Probably not the seed that you were looking for heading up the SUNY Ken with a loss and a tie to round out the three seed. Yeah, we had a hard fought weekend against Morrisville in order to put us in a position where we controlled our own fate and controlling whether we had an opportunity to have a buy in the first round. So obviously we go into that week with the mindset that we wanted to earn that and it just, it didn't go our way. And I try to tell the team, we're defined by our opportunities, even the ones that we don't take and the ones that we miss and unfortunately we didn't take that opportunity that we had and now we just have to focus on the next one, which is the opportunity to host, the opportunity to put ourselves into the final four weekend. And that's what we have to focus on. It's all looking forward now and we can't dwell too much on our missed opportunities and just focus on the ones that we need to take moving forward. You absolutely don't want to dwell on the missed opportunity there, but if you had the bi-week, we know what you guys do out of a bi-week. You just fill in the net. What are the things that you guys get the correct in this week preparing for Johnson and Wales? I think understanding that playoff hockey is a time, you ideally want to be on as much of the season as you can, but when it comes to playoff hockey, teams are gonna be tough. They're gonna be grinding things out. They're gonna be scrappy. They're gonna be battling in the corners. And I think just focusing in on the fact that we're gonna need to be physically tough but mentally tough as well and being able to push through those kinds of things and controlling what we can. And we just have to raise our compete level in practice so that we're ready to turn it on during the game. And goaltender play and defensive play is gonna be awfully important headed into this week and just touch on those key elements and players involved in that. So whenever we don't have the puck, we wanna make sure that we're disciplined and everybody knows their job and they take pride in doing their job. And so we have to just revisit what it takes to be disciplined and making sure that everyone knows what their role is and letting each other and having the trust in each other to fulfill their role. And I think that's what we definitely just need to make sure that we're focusing on. That focus has been there in games this year, especially in the Morrisville games, it really was honed in. Talk a little bit about what our schedule has led up to this point. All the tough out of conference games that you guys scheduled had prepared you for making a deep run in the CHC and hopefully back-to-back CHC champs. Right, and that's the goal. And that's why when it comes to scheduling, we wanna play the best competition that we can because that we can build that confidence to know that we've seen some of the best teams out there. And I think that that's only gonna help us going into this playoff run. What does Johnson and Wales bring to the table that you guys are gonna have to defend against and that you guys can overcome to continue this run? They're gonna be a hard-working team, disciplined team, and they've got great cool-tending. So we have to, we've gotta find a way to find the back of the net and that's definitely something that we are gonna be practicing all week. But they're gonna be a good competition for us and it's gonna be a great game. And I just really hope that we come in with the mindset that we need and I'm confident that we will. You guys have goals scored like Chelsea Blackburn. You guys have the opportunity to fill the net for sure. You guys have some firepower with Chelsea and Monica and everybody else on that offensive line. Right, and we have to be ready to not necessarily get the pretty goals, but get the ones that we have to get gritty in front of the net for and just be ready to get physical in front and power through that and bury the puck. So it's gonna come to whoever wants it more and I'm feeling like, I'm hoping that's us. And like I said before, I'm confident that it will be, but it's playoff hockey, so anything can happen. You took the words out of my mouth. That's what I wanted to mention. Playoff hockey is the best hockey. Yes. And you guys will be starting your CHC run 530 at the Riserstown Sportsplex against Johnson and Wales. Yep. Coach, good luck to you. Thank you. She's Tracy Johnson. I'm Joe Wamba. This has been the Tracy Johnson Show.