 Welcome back to the Tracy Johnson Show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Ray joined now with Stevenson women's ice hockey head coach Tracy Johnson and coach season might not have ended the way you had hoped one point shy making the conference playoffs but kind of ended the season on a high note. You faced number two Elmira for a two game series to end the regular season. Talk about those games. So those are some pretty exciting games. You know you go in playing the best in the country and you always kind of go into that wondering you know how are we gonna stack up to that and I think that we went into it controlling everything that we could and that was bringing in high energy being positive celebrating the little things block shots which there were a ton of them anytime that we successfully executed our D zone so just the energy and the positivity that I saw on the bench is really promising and exciting in terms of what we can carry over from that and what we learned from that and bring with our team project a few postseason athletes you have five players named to the all-conference team on the max side. Kellan Whitman was a co-offensive player of the year on that side and then she also earned UCHC honorable mention Nikki Kendrick rookie of the year on the max side and talking about Nikki and her class that first-year class from start to to end it's got to be pretty exciting you know moving forward with her you have Allie Gibson Taya Ferrera and a holes box back in that so talk about that class yeah they came a long way from the start of the season to the end of the season and that's what you want you want you want to see progress throughout the year obviously you know results wise wasn't wasn't a great season for us but when you are in it every day and you're seeing that improvement and certainly from the individuals that are going to be the future of your program is extremely exciting and you know I'm just I'm already ready and ready to go and excited for the next season and what we can carry over and bring into that year know you've kind of had time to digest the season what is one of the biggest things you take away from the year I think the importance of making sure you can focus on what you can control I think just seeing how our team came together and performed in those last two games against the number two team in the contrary we have brought that energy and focus you know earlier in the year I think that we would have definitely solidified a spot in the class we just missed it by one point but you know I think that that's something that we're certainly going to remember and carry forward and really have an emphasis on the things off the ice and in terms of culture and in terms of mental performance that are going to be important for us to be successful and control the things that we can. Now that the offseason has begun what do you tell your team moving into this offseason for the next year? That there is no offseason you know what they want to put into it starting right now is what they're going to get out of it from the fall so I think that they're again ending the way that we did not to keep you know stressing those games but with the way that we ended I think is a good indication for them of when they put in the hard work and when they can control what they can good things are going to happen so I think it's just getting ready for the other long road of the offseason ahead and it's an offseason even though there's not one but getting prepared for for next season and I think that they're ready to do that and ready to come back even better and stronger and just excited to see what they're ready to do. Well coach thank you for your time today and all season long wish you the best of luck in that off season and we'll see you back here in October. Thanks. For head coach Tracy Johnson I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Tracy Johnson Show.