 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 take a northern trip up to Middlebury first of all and 26 block shots in that game is an incredible number talk a little bit about that defensive effort Yeah, we that's something we take a tremendous amount of pride in his blocking shots and being willing to you know Take a little bit of pain only hurts for a second for the team and we knew that was our game plan going into that We knew it was going to be a very hard-working game defensively And I think we did a good job with that and the block shots certainly reflected another hard-working effort in the game that followed against St. A's They go 0 for 3 on the penalty or you guys kill off all three chances. Yeah, they have a really strong power play I think they were at like 28% which is really really high in the game of hockey going into that game And you know we were down a player and we killed all three and that's another area of our game that we take a lot of pride in so you know Very some positives to take away for sure It's definitely a point of pride and a point of emphasis that you've had all season long talk a little bit about those other points of evidence Emphasis that you'll have heading into your series this weekend with Sacred Heart yeah, we just want to continue to to get better and and We we have to be a conditioned team. So continuing to work on that every day and continuing to work on our skating and You know our creativity is something that we've been really trying to Hammer away at this year offensively So, you know, we're hoping we've got eight games left and hoping we start off this weekend with Seeing the kind of the kind of team we can be and these teams that you're playing against our really strong team St. A's was a division 2 team and Sacred Hearts going to be a division one that plays an independent schedule Talk a little bit about what that does for the program for the girls You know morale as they play well against these really strong teams Well, I mean you're only as good as your opponents and you know if if you're playing against Weaker teams and beating them, you know, it's kind of you you want to get those tests against the good teams And so I love playing against strong teams because it takes a lot to put yourself out there and see, you know How good are we? You know, where do we need to be? Where do we need to? Work towards what do we need to work towards? So I think it's it's a good Thing for our players to see what kind of hockey is out there and what kind of what good teams look like so that we can Aspire to that and work towards that and that's exactly what our goal is and what we're trying to accomplish And now we get into a couple non-conference games and we're right in a conference play So we're excited to tackle the next phase of our season. Well coach We wish you the best of luck in this next phase and tackling those points of emphasis that you've been talking about all season Great, thanks so much. She's Tracy Johnson. I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the Tracy Johnson show