 Welcome back to the Tracy Johnson show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings I'm Sam Murray joined now with Steven so women's ice hockey head coach Tracy Johnson and coach an important two games sweep over Newman You jump them in the standing sitting in third place. Let's talk about the Friday night game. That's senior day Chelsea Ellis a hat trick five points talk about her performance as well as the teams She played incredibly well and to get a hat trick on your senior night your first hat trick Of your career is just so special You know your family's in the stands your parents are there the emotions are high I just felt like we came out in that game and just had so much energy and I just knew It was gonna be a game and that we were gonna be playing our hockey for the whole thing and it was just fun to watch again the energy level and Just barely proud of the team's effort proud of the seniors effort On senior night. Yeah, I'll shot them. You had 56 shots seven goals Did you expect that going in especially out shooting them 19 to 1 in the first period? You know, we try to put an emphasis on putting the puck on net. So, you know, that's a good thing I guess if you had asked me before the game, I didn't necessarily expect a 19 to 1 shot deficit, but Super proud of them. That's what we need to do That's what those are the things we need to focus on going into this last stretch of our season and into playoffs so to build off of that momentum and to be playing like that towards the end of the year is what we want and Really excited about that and hopefully we can keep that going You know on Saturday you traveled to Newman for the home-in-home go up 1-0 you guys started late Had an injury delay Newman ties it But then you guys go back ahead head on the scoreboard talk about the adversity of battling through that type of game Yeah, and we knew it was gonna be tough any time you play the same team in a weekend back-to-back like that The second game is usually typically a little bit more of a grind and especially on the road I think we knew going into that that the effort level was gonna have to be there regardless of the any bad bounces There might be or the officiating like you just there's no replacement for effort and they Certainly did that the entire game and it was a good time for our power play to To give us something there and put us a goal ahead and then blackburn Obviously putting in the empty net or to kind of put that seal on the win but just huge weekend and You know, I thought Katie DeRosa did great for us and net really blocking away all those shots Especially in the third. I want to say she saw like 14 or 15 shots in the third period and being able to play like that Is just what we need we need our whole team from you know The the goal tender position out to be playing well And so I thought it was a good cap to the weekend And moving on to this weekend another important two-game series this time on the road for two at Manhattanville It's gonna decide the Mac title and then also you control your own destiny of finishing third or if you slip Yeah, we're playing for a championship So that's always a good thing to kind of put on the line there and know that the emotions that come along with that as well And you know, we're on the road we've played there a few times now so we kind of know what to expect of of them on the road and Just really looking forward. It should be a great weekend a hockey and like I said, especially with how we've been playing towards the end Here I'm just excited to see how that goes and I know my team will be prepared Oh coach, we wish you the best of luck and I can't let you get out of here without saying a happy birthday Thank you. So we'll see you back here next week for coach Tracy Johnson. I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Tracy Johnson show