I certainly like to start by one thanking Hockey East. I thought they put on a tremendous tournament this weekend. Steve Kate, Brian, the whole staff. Brian Murphy thought the games were really well refereed. The whole red carpet thing was a great touch. It was just a first class tournament and great crowds. Hats off to the main fans for times. I felt like I was up at Alphont today during that game. And then secondly, Ben and his
staff and his team, they deserve to win tonight. I thought they played better than we did, and you know, congratulations to them. But we had a tough start, I thought. But I thought we got it back in the second period and were playing a lot better and we had some chances. But it was one of those nights when when you had a great a we missed the net.
Just wasn't really our night. But I think it's a great learning experience, And like I told the kids in there, the last time we were in this position, our season was over and it's not the case this year, and I think it's something that we can learn from. And when you compete in this league and you can compete for a championship. I think you can compete against anybody in the country. So I told all our players that we just got to regroup, refocus, and get back at
it next week. Thanks coach. We'll take questions for coach. Just raise your hand high so I can see it. We'll try to line you up. We'll start with Josh. Go to Ragel and Dan Okay, Josh pidoshot call taking news yesterday. We talked a little or you talked a little bit about John and Hudson. Obviously how they've been here five years ago. One do you have an update on Hodson's status? And then two like what do those two players or what have they meant to this team,
especially this season. We're not here if they don't come back, not even close. And not because they're really good players for us, because their leadership we couldn't have done when we're playing. I think, what do we have tonight? Eight seven eight freshmen maybe in the lineup. You're not going to win a lot of games if you don't have that type of leadership showing them the way and letting them know what the expectations are of the team that
wants to compete for a championship. So from that standpoint, they're invaluable to me for this program. I have the utmost respect for him because in today's world, you don't see many kids, you know, coming off the season that we had last year, and they could go transfer wherein they wont stay for a fifth year because they didn't like the way their career ended and they wanted to they thought it could end better, and already it has because we're going to the first national tournament we've ever
been to. So from that standpoint, that's great. And as far as Hudson's status, it's a day to day type thing. And Mike, which saw I'm a mess life kind of on that theme on Sunday, You're going to be rewarded for your entire season, not just what you did in
this tournam but what didn't happen in this tournament? Right Yeah, And then I'm really I told the group, I'm really proud of them, and I've been doing this a long time and I've been in this game a lot on both sides of it, and you know, sports can humble you, and we got humbled tonight. I thought Maine jumped us early and it was hard for us. You know, we wanted to score first and try to take the crowd out of the game, but that wasn't the case. Daniel Connolly,
ukon of Hockey. What did Maine do in that first period that made it so difficult for you guys? They didn't allow us to get our four check going. They did a really good job of Part of that was because we were in our own zone a little bit. So if you spend in twenty seconds in your own zone, it's hard to get a four check going. And I thought we were just disconnected on our four check. We'd have one going, but two wasn't there, and you need five guys connected to really establish it. Now, we got
to go on in the third. You know, we got some turnovers in the third, and you know, if that play isn't off sides, It was close and it was off sides, but you know, if it stays on sides there and we scored that goal all of a sudden, it could have been four to three, you know, and then it's a different game. But I thought we started to establish our four check a little bit more in the third period, but it was a little too late. We'll go Cole bridget Yahn Colpaslano EML Sports. You guys
challenge with about eleven ish minutes left in regulation. I'm just curious what you saw on that or you guys we got radio down that there was a contact to the head. There was eleven minutes left. We were down three to one. I think at the time, you know, when we kind of took a chance. If you get a five minute major there, that could change things a whole lot. It wasn't. It wasn't like I was going to get a penalty for challenging at that point. I didn't see the need to save it. It was close,
you know, more than just said it wasn't five. It probably should have been a penalty, but it wasn't five. Okay. Did health play a backer at all in your goaltending decision today? And what went into deciding to play music? We've switched all year long. That was a decision we've rotated all year long. Chrazy John Doyle, usco coach, imp think was that second main goal Not only did it come late in the first period, but down to nothing, was also on the only power play in the game. Yeah,
and it was off the rush. We had done a good job against them in zone and Nato made a great play and you know, we probably didn't handle it as well defensively as we should have it. It was a one on two that he made a great play and turned into almost a you know, he beat both guys and shot back against the grain. It was a really nice goal. We'll go Luca right in the middle the Tedesco The One Tea podcast. How close was Hudson
to be being ready to go? Was? Did you kind of know before warm ups or was it really a last I didn't think that he wanted to try warm ups again because he's such a competitor, But I was confident that he was gonna be able to play. But I let him try because he's had some chandor and he's given everything he has to this program. So if he asked me to try warm up, so I'm gonna let him