The 29/1
Official Podcast of the West Ottawa High School Athletic Program. 29 Sports, One Team. The show that brings you into the lives of student athletes, coaches and other faces in the Panther Sports Community. Bringing you the stories you might otherwise never hear. Join Rodney Vellinga and Athletic Director Bill Kennedy as they dive in with you to get to know each other a little bit better.
The 29/1
Jimmy John's & A Bag Of Chips: The Brotherhood of Panther Hockey with Tyler Noblett, Krue Anderson & Tom Carey
Hockey is more than just a game; it's an arena where friendships blossom, brotherhood flourishes, and experiences are shared. The West Ottawa Hockey Team embodies this in its every move, showcasing the intricacies of relationships among teammates, coaches, and family. This episode delves into the strong bonds formed on and off the ice, narrated through vibrant stories of Tyler Noblett, Krue Anderson and Coach Tom Carey as they navigate through highs and lows in their hockey journey.
As conversations flow, this group of young athletes discusses the impact of family in their journey and the chemistry amongst teammates. Coach Tom Carey passionately describes his dual role of being a mentor while nurturing his brotherly bonds with other team members. He shares experiences mingled with playful anecdotes, illuminating how these relationships foster a supportive atmosphere.
We spend time delving into the player's love of hockey from an early age, and the fascinating origin stories of how hockey became a part of their lives.
Having 5 sets of brothers on the team creates a unique dynamic, providing these siblings with an uncommon experience in sports.
Transitioning into lighter topics, Tyler and Krue reminisce about the quirks, humor, and traditions that make the hockey experience so fulfilling. Pregame rituals, food preferences, and those unforgettable game-day suits roll into the discussion, creating an engaging landscape where the atmosphere is filled with laughter and camaraderie. The episode leaves riveting impressions about connections forged in the locker rooms and on the ice.
This insightful episode truly elaborates on not just the victories, but on the shared laughter, struggles, and the steadfast unity of a team determined to support each other through thick and thin. The West Ottawa Hockey team is a living testament of how family, friends, and shared passion contribute significantly in shaping not just players, but remarkable individuals.
Teagan Johnson, Ethan Moore, Carson Arens, Charlie Moungkhoun, Tyler Noblett, Krey Anderson, Conor Reidy, Aidan Reidy, Kyler Comment, Ethan Noblett, Jake Griffith, Nate Bean, Krue Anderson, Jason Hoort, Eli Bean, Connor Haley, Harrison Butcher, Will Nagelvoort, Tom Carey, Dan Carey, Darin Mihelac.
This episode was recorded on February 6, 2025.
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Special thanks to Laura Veldhof Photography.
everyone's in a super good mental space this year. I feel like everyone's got a good friend to sit with at lunch, everyone's got someone to talk to and I feel like outside of the rink that's super, super important. But going into more me and Ethan's relationship, I feel like especially the car rides home even after like a bad game or even a good game. I remember the first game he scored on the road. I remember sitting in the truck and just going crazy or playing some music I. But I remember sitting in the truck and just going crazy or playing some music.
Speaker 3:I told dad we were going to go get ice cream.
Speaker 1:It was super awesome to just have him in the car and just know like, hey, we're living in the same household, we're sleeping under the same roof. That's someone to be proud of.
Speaker 4:Hey everybody, this is Rodney Valinga with the West Ottawa High School Athletic Program and you're listening to the 29.1 Podcast 29 sports, one team, the show that brings you into the lives of student athletes, coaches and other faces in the Panther sports community, Bringing you the stories you might otherwise never hear. Join myself and Athletic Director Bill Kennedy as we dive in with you to get to know each other a little bit better.
Speaker 5:Five sets of brothers all on one team, From the head coaches all the way down to the entire roster, Panther Hockey is a brotherhood.
Speaker 6:Today we are joined by Panther Hockey coach Tom Carey, senior Tyler Noblet and junior Crew Anderson Fresh off a first-round win in the OK Conference Tournament. The boys join us to talk about the season thus far and look ahead to a big rivalry game against Grand Haven.
Speaker 5:Whether it's Jimmy Johns and a bag of chips, or spending time in the lab perfecting their shots, these guys do it together Coach Tom Carey, senior Tyler Noblet and Junior Crew Anderson.
Speaker 6:Up next on the 29.1 Podcast.
Speaker 5:Let's get it you've been to a west auto varsity home game. That's the sound that's familiar to you senior assistant captain charlie mon coon ripping out the star spangled banner on electric guitar on the ice, on skates. He's got his amp near the home bench. It's a great way to get a game started and, uh, even better way to start off this podcast. Uh well, welcome, uh, to another episode of the 29 one podcast. I'm your host, rodney valenga. I'm just a west ottawa parent, like many of you listening, and I'm here with former francis scott key high school outside linebacker William Lee Kennedy IV correct, that's right. Also known as Athletic Director Bill Kennedy. It's no doubt winter, and it has been for a while. Today we have three members of the West Ottawa Varsity Hockey Team with us. They are coming off a really big OK Red Conference tournament win last night and are gracious enough to join us today. And it's our pleasure to ask who is it?
Speaker 1:Tyler Noblet.
Speaker 2:Curry, anderson, tom Carey.
Speaker 6:Awesome, Super pumped to have you guys here today. Check the score as soon as I get up this morning to make sure that we were all going to be in a good mood as we got together as we had this scheduled Big win to get us into the semifinal the conference tournament, and we have a little bit of a rival waiting for us on Friday night, so super fired up for that.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we're excited for that and we're also excited to kind of be here. We are taking the 29-1 podcast on the road. You guys are are. Where are we fellas at the?
Speaker 3:at the rink at griff's yeah and uh, the hope film room it looks like yes uh, griff's ice house west, this north side of holland, just off at 31.
Speaker 5:Have you guys been in this room before?
Speaker 1:uh yeah, we've done a lot of film up here before, especially growing up playing for the ice dogs. Sometimes we'll get the room and be able to do film upstairs and it's a sweet place to be I love. We've done a lot of film up here before especially growing up playing for the Ice Dogs.
Speaker 1:Sometimes we'll get the room and be able to do film upstairs and it's a sweet place to be. I love being up here. You were doing film as an Ice Dog. How old were you when you were doing that? I mean ages from like 9 to 15. Whenever we get the chance to come up here, we'd come up and try and do film up on the TV they have up here.
Speaker 6:No kidding, this is the first episode of the 29-1 not recorded at West Ottawa High School. So you guys are pioneers in the podcast space on the road.
Speaker 5:Coach, this is pretty much your guys' second home during this. What, from November forward, at least with this team, right oh?
Speaker 2:for sure. Yeah, I mean, I pretty much live here. It seems like and same with these guys.
Speaker 5:Crew. What's the craziest time you've been at this arena? Either day or night, it's. What time is it right now we got what little after 3 3 in the afternoon. What are some of the craziest times a day you've been in this building?
Speaker 3:we did a lock-in for ice dogs like my travel team, I think, a couple years back, and we were here all night oh, let's go. I think we got on the ice at like 2 am for a little skate and uh, yeah, that was pretty fun. We've been here crazy times, though.
Speaker 5:For sure, yeah, ice is cheaper at 2 am oh, yeah, probably let's talk about, uh, last night's win, um, last night's wins got you to what? 8, 11-11-1. I went on max preps. Hopefully that's accurate. That was a really big win last night, hard-fought win against Forest Hills Eastern Northern. Scoreless first period to start crew. What was the pace of that game early on?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean there was a bunch of chances here and there, but good goalie for them. And then we also had Willie Ann Nett, so that kept us in it. But yeah, I mean we were looking to get one and then started the second. We got one pretty early on the power play and then finished with another.
Speaker 5:So yeah, pretty good. I want to personally thank the Anderson brothers for doing the goals that we're going to talk about the brotherhood of this team a little bit later.
Speaker 1:So you guys scoring too, tell me about those second period goals they were super awesome to be a part of being crew score his like our second goal of the game that it shot seriously iced in my veins and I was super excited to see him score and throw his hands up. So it was a really good feeling, especially getting up to well in the second period so that was super awesome for us.
Speaker 5:Coach you get to that third period will's playing really nice and that he was standing on his head a little bit last night. Uh, they score what four or five minutes into the third period.
Speaker 2:Then you guys really got to go to work yeah, we, we talked about going in, uh, going into the third period in the room that we're trying to keep it from being a game all over again where you're up to nothing and coming back out there and kind of get a little loose in that first couple shifts and try and just keep the pace our way and of course three, four minutes in we give up one and our heels are kind of pressed and they gave it to us for a couple minutes there and we ended up calling a timeout late and I think it was like five, six minutes left in the third and readjusted some of our four check in our neutral zone and kind of went to a 1-3-1 and was able to hold them off and then made it interesting for the last 30 seconds or so with the tripping down there with somebody sitting here, yeah.
Speaker 5:I saw hey man, I was behind the net watching. I'm like where was that penalty? Was it a trip? Yeah. I definitely got him. That was bad. Well, you had to with 12 seconds left. I mean you can't let them get a scoring chance that late in the game.
Speaker 6:Yeah, and then we're going to turn around after the conference tournament and we're going to see these guys again next week prior to heading into regionals. What is that like? Kind of circling back and getting to see that team again?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean we know what to expect from like a four check or a neutral zone kind of standpoint, but I mean anything can really happen. I know they were down their starting goalie, I think. So you know they could come out stronger.
Speaker 5:But yeah, I mean we'll see that was a really they have some really big players, some of those forwards. I mean, can we? Just give a kudos to Tegan Johnson for a minute. Pound for pound. This kid is tough, tyler, maybe you can talk about him a little bit.
Speaker 1:I've been playing hockey with Tegan seriously, like nine years in a row. We've been on the same team growing up all throughout, playing Highland Ice Dogs and playing West Ottawa. It's been a crazy experience, had the ups and downs, but he's always, pound for pound, had the most amount of effort I've ever seen out of a hockey player. Coach, what do you think about him?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's been great. I mean, he's really filled a much bigger role this year. He was probably right around our 50 last year and now he's moving his way into the top three. He's getting a lot of minutes and, yeah, he's playing great he's. He's a lot tougher in the corners and moving pucks up the ice and, yeah, I've never coached a kid that gets hit as much as he does, but he gets back up and gets out to the next shift.
Speaker 5:So yeah, he took a big hit in that third period over on those far boards and he was down for I don't know 30, 40 seconds or so. It's crazy how long it takes because a trainer is going out on their running shoes or whatever. I mean, if you're going down in hockey, you're down for a little bit, right, tyler? I mean no one's getting there quick, I mean it always sucks going down.
Speaker 1:It's a little embarrassing, but I mean, if you can't stand up, you've got to stay down. Make sure you're doing okay and just play it safe at that point you know, and you got hit in that third period.
Speaker 5:I think you hit legs with somebody right.
Speaker 1:Yeah Over by the circle. Yeah, he hit me clean, but I mean, I just had a little knee-on-knee contact and then I had knee issues before that. So I mean, just re-injuring what already happened, I went in the locker room, I threw a brace on that I thought I didn't need put a bunch of tape on it and said you know, I'm going to suck it up and try and play the rest of this game. And that's hockey, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 6:Especially you get to this point of the high school season. You know we're a couple of weeks away from postseason starting. There's virtually nobody in the locker room. Coach that's walking around 100% at this point of the year, right.
Speaker 2:No, we've been battling injuries all year, which is tough. We lost Carson at the Jenison game so we're missing him for the last five games. Now Tyler took a knee-on-knee against Caledonia so we lost him for that game and then took a week off. It was kind of scary yesterday seeing him take another knee and then trying to figure out if he can go or not. But that's just the heart that Tyler has playing on basically one leg all day yesterday, not all day, but that's just the heart that Tyler has playing on basically one leg all day yesterday and not all day, but in the third. So it's great to see these guys. They want to get out there and get whatever they got banging up, injuries or whatever it is.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I noticed you went to the locker room right to check on him. Yeah, for sure I saw you leave the bench.
Speaker 2:I gave Darren the reins for the five minutes and went in and checked on Tyler to see what he wanted to do and I said, hey, it's up to you, it's your call. Like, if you want to go, I'll put you out there, if you don't, then you can just hang out on the bench. And he's like no, I'm going, so crew you're uh, he's in the locker room.
Speaker 5:You're trying to hold the fort for your team. What's it like seeing him come on and back to the bench and jumping over the boards there?
Speaker 3:yeah, it's definitely a spark we needed. You know, he's a pretty electric forward, to say the least, so that definitely helped, especially with, like him, being a good buddy of mine. Don't want to ever see him hurt.
Speaker 5:So right, yeah, it was good, let's get to you guys a little bit. Coach your second year here at west ottawa, 30 years old, so nice young coach. It must be nice for a player to have a younger coach. Uh, talk about who your assistants are and how. That's kind of cool yeah.
Speaker 2:So so we have Darren, who is a West auto grad. He coached prior to me coming in. So I gave, he called me and he was like, hey, I really want to keep going. And I was like, all right, that's fine, like we'll do a summer trial. And I think I had him on the bench for one day and and talk to him right afterwards and said, yeah, we're good.
Speaker 5:You knew right away, I knew right away, that's nice.
Speaker 2:Just a couple of things that he was saying on the bench. He was engaged, the kids all liked him. He knows what he's talking about, so that goes a long way. Then my brother is our other. He's our D coach. That's your little brother, right? Yeah, middle brother.
Speaker 1:Did we say younger or?
Speaker 5:little. I was always called the little brother by my bigger brother and I always took offense to that. So you guys are pretty nice guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I say younger, I mean Dan's not much, he's not little anymore. He probably can take me now, so he's definitely a little bit bigger than I am. These guys like to give him grief.
Speaker 5:You played a lot of hockey yourself growing up right. You played over on the east side of the state. Can you tell us a little bit about your playing career?
Speaker 2:yeah, so I'm. I'm from livonia. So on the east side, um started gotten skates at three and played for livonia growing up and then played at victory honda and then played four years at livonia churchill and then went over and played one year in canada and then, uh, went right to the acha after that, after realizing that, yeah, I was just to play in a subway D3 and couldn't really afford it. So, yeah, I went to the ACHA and nothing better.
Speaker 6:Yeah, my nephew actually got to play juniors in Canada for a couple of years, lived with a couple of families and then played out in Long Beach, california, for a while, got traded to a team in Chicago. He's actually playing for a team out of Alpena right now. Interestingly enough, though, like growing up, he was a goalie from Alabama Huntsville, so where UAH really kind of started their hockey program. Junior hockey is just a crazy world, right, and you guys have aspirations, junior hockey.
Speaker 1:I mean like moving forward. I would love to have aspirations. Junior hockey I mean like moving forward, I would love to go play junior hockey. Obviously college is in the future, but if I could get like a little taste of some tier two, tier three juniors, I would love to be able to do that yeah, yeah and I think to.
Speaker 3:To play at the college level? I want to. I think juniors is a step I need to take and it's been. It's been good. I know ty Tyler and I have both been able to practice with the junior team out of this rink, the Fresh Coast Freeze, so that's been pretty good just to get a feel for it, but yeah yeah, I saw them at the jenison game.
Speaker 5:They were out in the crowd. I didn't know who was there. So just because I know hockey a little bit, I know when people show up in suits there's somebody yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 5:So the fresh coast. Uh, what, I'm not saying it wrong, what's it called? Again, fresh coast freeze, it is okay, so it's fresh, because they were there in suits. I'm like, okay, I've got somebody here today, so how do you guys feel about having? Uh, what do you guys? What do you guys like about your coach? I like about your coach and like about your coaching staff I love tom.
Speaker 1:Tom's always got a different kind of energy than stone did, because I played my sophomore year we had a different coach and tom just brought a different, more level-headed kind of energy to the game and kind of showed me like, hey, hockey can be really simple, hockey can be really fun if all you got to do is trust me. And tom definitely brings that aspect of hey, I'm a guy, just do what I say and we'll move forward. Drew.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think one good thing is just the age we already kind of talked about. They're all good friends with them, but also we're here to play hockey and they're all good coaches. They know what they're talking about. And then also when we're in the offseason, I'll text Tom almost every day with questions, whether that's like shooting form or just like teams and stuff like that, and he's always there to answer and kind of help me out with that.
Speaker 5:So well, speaking of shooting, I was able to talk to your pops on the phone the other day and he's. I said hey, tell me a little about crew. I don't really know him at all. You have a setup in your garage that is quite extraordinary. I heard right. Can you give me the breakdown? The breakdown, uh, your dad said you practice at least 200 shots a day, at least seven days a week, sometimes eight days a week, apparently. Uh, what's it like in that garage, yours?
Speaker 3:yeah, I call it the lab. You know I'll work on whatever I want, but I got a couple pads and pull them out in the driveway and then I got a tarp in the garage and a couple nets and about 200 pucks and call it good. So yeah, and then my dad also set up like a speaker system. So I got that going for me too and it's been fun. And then I've also been able to have a couple friends come over and teammates too, so get them going on shots. But yeah, I think that's definitely been a a good thing for my shot, especially Tyler you uh, uh, taken, been over there check that out.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, I've been invited.
Speaker 1:I've. I remember the first time crew had me over to shoot, he was like alright, do you guys want to just mess around or do shooting drills? I was like shooting drills, I was a little intimidated at first and we ended up getting through it. But I just remember 1% better every day and that's a prime example of that.
Speaker 6:We need a sign in there that says the Lab that is legit.
Speaker 5:What's really funny, too, is when you love a sport like that's not work to you. Is it like you're as pure enjoyment?
Speaker 3:right. Yeah, it's something I do in my free time. I mean, obviously, like if I had a bad game or miss a certain shot, I'll work on that, but other time it's just. It's just the want to get better or just to have fun.
Speaker 5:Really, your dad also had. Like, everybody has an origin story when they start a sport, right, like, how did you begin? So can you tell me if you still remember this? He said you probably will the double stroller moment at a community arena. Do you remember that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it was my older sister. It was back in Detroit where we grew up and it was like a dance studio or something like that, connected to a hockey rink, and I think my older sister was there, and then I ended up like wandering off and I think I ended up in the rink. My mom caught me there and I just told her that I wanted to skate, and then I think I was like three or two at that time and then I just kind of grew from there, I guess, yeah, yeah at that time and then, and then I just kind of grew from there.
Speaker 5:I guess yeah, yeah, it's pretty classic. I just have all these like interesting stories how somebody gets started. Um coach, big move for him this year moving from playing forward back to defense. Can we, can you talk about him a little bit being able to do that for the team and what it means?
Speaker 2:yeah, um, I think it was a tough sell at first. I think we started at mona. We were struggling and we were having issues trying to get pucks out of our zone and crew wasn't really getting the puck a whole lot up at the wing. So going into like that, did you going into the third, we kind of just said, no, I'm just, we're just gonna try it out. I mean, crew can handle the puck, he's a good skater, he's a big body, like yeah, we'll just toss him back there and see how he does.
Speaker 2:And it was crazy. He went from maybe touching the puck like for 10, 15 seconds to shift to now the puck's on his stick for 20, 30 seconds and he does a really good job of buying himself time and coming back and finding the small areas being able to get pucks out of our zone, able to get pucks out of our zone. So it's, it's crazy how what of a difference it's made and and it was a tough sell for him at first. But and we, uh, we we joked. I joked with them at the Chelsea showcase that I was like crew, you've had two goals as a forward in nine games and now you got six or seven as a defenseman in nine games. So I think we're doing the right things here yeah, that was a tough sell for you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for sure, because sure. Because I mean at home I'm just training to be a forward, just like shot and the drills I do. And then also like in the fall season, like I played MDHL, which is that league, and I was a forward the whole time. I was pretty successful there. So I didn't know, like, what my future would look like as a D. To say so, it was definitely a little bit rough, especially, definitely a little bit rough, especially because the season didn't start out how I necessarily wanted to and I was just kind of still mad about that. But now I got no problem with it. I get the puck and then, if I really wanted to, I could just skate it up or just make it good, you don't win last night's game if you're not playing defense.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I'm serious, it's not even close, yeah.
Speaker 6:I mean, the team definitely helped there. Uh, yeah, it's, it's something. Hey, everybody has a role to play. Yeah, and tyler, what's that like for you to see one of your buddies, one of your teammates, kind of be selfless, right, and really thinking about the team first and making a move like that?
Speaker 1:I mean it's super awesome to see that we have guys on the bench that are willing to do stuff and put the team first. Crew especially. Especially moving back to d, I mean I've played my fair share of d when I was a little kid, but it's nothing like what he's doing now, being able to have the skills that he has on the back end, especially as a forward, being able to get out of the zone. You have confidence, knowing the puck's going to go where he wants it to go coach you want to speak to that.
Speaker 5:There was some late third period last night. There was a lot of pressure deep in our zone, right. Anyway, it was intense and this guy here is getting the puck out a lot. I mean it was, it was tough but he was getting it done. What's it like having him back there yeah, I mean it's, it's great.
Speaker 2:I mean it was probably the one of the better things we've done this year is putting him back there. Uh, I mean he probably we play the game 51 minutes and crew Kru probably logs like 40.
Speaker 5:That was my next question. It's awesome.
Speaker 2:Like I said, early in the year, we struggled really bad of getting pucks out of the zone. Since we put Kru back there, he has the capability of finding that time and finding the guys out. When we're stretching wings. He's able to put the puck on their stick. Like you said, he can get the puck out when needed. It's been awesome to see him do it.
Speaker 5:Just watching it, I think it's even as a. If I'm on the other team as a forward going in, I'm like, oh, this guy, I know this guy has offensive skills. So it changes even you as a forward going into forecheck, because you'll just do a sharp turn and head the other direction like nothing, right. Not every defenseman does that.
Speaker 2:Right. It just shows that he has the puck skills and the skating skills right, so it goes a long way with us.
Speaker 6:It's all about time in the lab, yeah.
Speaker 5:Without the lab, where would we? Be, Tyler, I have some apologies to make for you. I announced lacrosse over the last few years and I've always said noblet, so my apologies. It's Tyler Noblet, so my apologies. It's Tyler Noblet everybody, but you're also a lacrosse player. One thing I noticed about you last night other than you're great, you know, coming back from injury, your unique face-off style is really something to behold. I mean, I maybe I'm wrong on this, but you hold that stick like 90 degrees. It's almost like straight down. Where'd you learn that?
Speaker 1:I'm gonna be 100% honest. I learned like my sophomore year. My dad pulled up a video of dylan larkin taking face offs and just trying to be aggressive get as low as possible, put your head in the center of the dot and I was like, hey, maybe I'll try it. And it ended up working out for me.
Speaker 5:So coach, that's not common to take draws like that.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen before of you or even around hockey more than me, but I mean you can take them as long as you're winning. I'm like whatever works for you, works for you, but yeah, there's certain ways you can take them, but as long as we're winning the face-offs like, I'm not gonna. If it's not broke, don't fix it.
Speaker 5:So yeah, yep, you have a unique uh story too, for starting uh, when you were a little fellow, you guys used to live out in muskegon. Talk about you know kind of how you became familiar with hockey as a little kid.
Speaker 1:Oh, I remember my parents have always been super close around hockey. They both went to Michigan State and Michigan State was pretty dominant in hockey at that time. So always when I would be just I mean I was like two, three, four years old there'd always be hockey on the TV. And I remember just wanting to see, get mini sticks or go to a game or at least put skates on. And I remember my first actual experience with hockey is we have a little cottage up in Muskegon, yeah, and we went over there and it's on the lake. It's super like in the woods lake, like not very good ice. And I remember going over there with a shovel and I told my dad's like hey, dad, I need skates, I need to try this. And I mean I couldn't get skates, I need to try this. And I mean I couldn't get skates right then and there and then I kept pushing him and pushing him. But eventually, like a year, year and a half later, he got me skates and straight to learn to skate and instantly fell in love.
Speaker 5:Yeah, once you get familiar with getting on the ice and hitting the ice I know I grew up with a lot of hockey players and it's just like when you get on the ice it's just the best feeling, isn't it, coach? I mean, is it kind of a thing for you?
Speaker 2:growing up too. Oh yeah, I mean. I love being at the rink like it was. If you're having a good day, bad day, like you get an hour, two hours at the rink and nothing else really matters. You get to hang out with your buddies, or just being on the ice is awesome, and that's why I enjoy coaching so much. It's great being able to come here if you have a bad day at work, or even a good day. Just being here with the boys is a lot of fun. Look forward to it every day.
Speaker 5:There was an alumni game a little while ago. What maybe a month or so ago? Yeah, about. Her coach laced up and was playing. He can still hold his own, you guys? What's he like?
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, yeah, he can definitely hold his own against us.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know. I talked to my mom after and she kept wondering who was on the ice, because I think he had the Max Schwartz jersey on from last year and she just kept talking to me wondering who it was and I told her it was Tom, and yeah, I mean he's fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've definitely lost a touch or two and just getting older and a little bit wider. Yeah, I mean, we all get that, but at age 30, you still got most of it Trying to keep up with these guys.
Speaker 6:So we have a real family affair going on with hockey right now. Tyler probably nobody more than you, right, because your mom and dad are also helping to run the hockey program right now you know the administrative stuff, making sure chuck a puck gets taken care of. What's that experience been like? To kind of bring them along and have them be a part of your senior year.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, it's such like it's just a part of our family. It's something that we can all relate to and all tie together on. It's so cool, especially having my younger brother, ethan, on the team. It's super cool to see him progress and accelerate and learn to love the game and make new friends. And then having mason uh, also playing ice dogs be in the stands and just be supportive and seeing my mom wear my jersey. It's just. It's such that it ties our family together so well and I absolutely love it yeah, it was a real long road to get here.
Speaker 5:You guys mentioned the Ice Dogs a few times. Did you guys play together a lot growing up? I mean, you're what? A year apart, so what's that like for you guys?
Speaker 1:We played together a couple years maybe two years but we're both born in 2007. So we ended up being on the same Ice Dogs team most of the time, or at least in the same age group.
Speaker 5:How many games a year with Ice Dogs?
Speaker 3:I think it was around 50, I think for most seasons, and then playoffs would sometimes lead it to more, but I think around 50.
Speaker 1:Around 50, and then you'd have some tournament weekends that would go a little further than 50.
Speaker 5:This must feel like a light schedule to you guys.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but the games are a lot more intense.
Speaker 5:Yeah, a little.
Speaker 3:Just what you get from it. Just taking all the hits and playing as much, it definitely takes a bigger toll on your body, for sure, yeah the high school game tends to be pretty physical.
Speaker 6:Yeah, right, and that's why we don't see a ton of freshmen really play high school hockey. We have one on our roster, is that right, coach? Oh, three, we're young. What is it like, kind of introducing those younger players into the world of high school hockey, where kids are a little bit bigger and they're going to be a little bit more aggressive?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's, um, I think we're probably probably one of the youngest high school teams, honestly, I mean. But that's that's kind of what we, what we have right now, just with. I think we had what maybe 18, 19 guys try out for our team this year and we've we've started with 17 and then connor got hurt, then we're at 16, so now we're back to 17. So, yeah, I mean to be able to try and compete like the younger guys. You got to get them in early and get their feet wet. They've all been great for us. They've been, honestly, almost in every other shift Between Aiden and Eli and Connor. They play a ton. It's good to see the young guys getting in there and actually contributing to the team.
Speaker 6:You guys spent a lot of time with Frank through the offseason up in the weight room. What is that, tyler? Maybe you can speak to this first. What has that done for you? As the season has gone on, have you seen the benefits of all of that strength training in the offseason?
Speaker 1:yeah, I mean definitely the boys have gotten a little bit stronger. Um, I feel like, adding on to that, it's brought us together to be more of a family and unite because we're all up, like when we would do our lifts it'd be really early, like 637 in the morning, and nobody wants to get up at 630 in the morning, especially in the summer and to see everyone turn out and want to be a part of this family. It really brought everyone close together because we're going through the hard times together and that's super special to see.
Speaker 6:Yeah, that's the Dawn Patrol right there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think for me it's been yeah, a lot of the team stuff with Frank. Like we were just in there today and we hit a light lift and then Frank was in the wrestling room with us and we did like 20 minutes of stretching and meditation. So I mean he's been great because he knows everything to do. But also, like I think when I was playing in MDHL, one thing I kind of noticed was my speed wasn't where it was, wasn't where it needed to be, I'll say just playing with all those Detroit guys. And then I texted Frank and said I was just looking to get faster and he legit sent me like a 10-step routine of plyometrics and I did them for the entire fall after that and then I've definitely seen progress in my speed since then. So I mean he's great.
Speaker 6:Coach. That's Darren's role, right, Like he tends to be the coach in the weight room with the guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, him and I both were going in the summer near the end of summer when the rules kind of kick in and stuff like that. Yeah, darren pretty much took over from there. But yeah, we just did early in the morning. So I think we started at 6 30 and that way. That way these guys can have the rest of the day and that way I don't get in trouble at work. I can actually get to the office at a decent hour.
Speaker 6:So I guess that's another thing I'd be interested to hear from you about. What is it like kind of juggling this full-time you're full-time professional and trying to be there for the boys and the team and practice schedules and all of that is that. What is that like during the hockey season for you?
Speaker 2:it's chaotic, for sure, um, but no, it's, I love it, like I wouldn't. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't love it, um, but yeah, it's, it's definitely a lot, working 40, 50 hours a week and then coming to the rink. So I go, go from work to the rink, sometimes back to work, but no, it's, I wouldn't change it, I love doing it and these guys make it special and we have a. We have a good group in the room this year and not too many issues and we get the business. But then outside of the rink, like, we have a good time and, like I said, I love doing it yeah, let's talk about some other players on the team.
Speaker 5:Maybe let's talk about your goalie First of all. Yeah, let's talk about Will Nagerwort for a second, because he is really fun to watch From my perspective. Last night, during the third period, I kind of stood behind the net and there was a few saves that he made, I'm like, and that was elite. There was one blocker save that he made real late. That puck was heading right into that top corner and he got it. Tyler, if you want to start talk about Will a little bit.
Speaker 1:I mean, Will and I have been super close for super long. Him and I seriously, we live eight houses apart. So every single day we go and either I'll take him to school, he'll take me to school, and it's seriously like family. My family loves his family I'm assuming his family loves my family. But I mean, I absolutely love being around, will you seem fairly pleasant? Oh, I mean, I love spending time with Will. I sit right next to him in the locker room and all we do is joke around. It's great.
Speaker 5:And, as a hockey goalie crew, what's he like to have back there?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I mean, he's definitely pretty special, he's definitely gifted and I don't think our team is as good without him. He's definitely kept us in close games and kept not so close games pretty close yeah.
Speaker 6:Have you guys seen him hit a golf ball?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, he's elite too.
Speaker 6:Oh he's legit.
Speaker 2:I played with him this summer. He beat me.
Speaker 6:He's legit. He'll lead our team in the springtime here. He's a really good golfer. How?
Speaker 5:far is he hitting off the team?
Speaker 2:Farther than me.
Speaker 6:He puts it out there.
Speaker 1:He puts it out there. I've seen him hit 300 before, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, willie's awesome. He's definitely the backbone or the heart and soul of our team. Like Cruz said, he's definitely won us some games, especially last year. Just only being a sophomore and pretty much playing every game, I think he ended up playing like 22 and a half of our 25 and, yeah, he stole probably four or five of those games himself and then this year like, yeah, he's, he's been awesome. It's I mean, we had to rely on him every game. We only have one, so he's uh.
Speaker 5:Like I said, he's uh yeah, I was checking out that team picture.
Speaker 2:I didn't see a second set of pads anywhere we have two younger guys that will practice with us, so that way we have two to three goalies every practice.
Speaker 6:Yeah, so we opened up the podcast today with a little electric guitar star spangled banner. There's another guy, and you know, hockey is one of those unique sports where a lot of programs are electric guitar Star Spangled Banner. There's another guy. Hockey is one of those unique sports where a lot of programs are co-op. You've got multiple schools coming together. Can you talk a little bit about Charlie Moncoun, our Black River representative, and what he brings to the team other than those luscious locks?
Speaker 3:I know he's pretty special. He's a big PK guy, he's a workhorse like. He gets hit probably just as much as tegan and he draws penalties, like if you want a power play, you got to put charlie out there and he'll draw you one. But yeah, he's a character, for sure he's. I mean one time my car uh shut down here at the rink and he jump started in with his electric guitar yeah, maybe but no, uh, I I would have no idea.
Speaker 3:He knows everything and he's a senior and I talk to him a lot and he gives me pretty good advice, so he's great.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you've got some other seniors on the team, right, so we've got Aarons. We just talked about Charlie. How about Moore? He's graduating this year. Are you good friends with him too?
Speaker 1:I mean you guys all are close. Yeah, ethan moore is seriously a brother from another mother.
Speaker 5:He was seriously. There's always one. As long as you have somebody in your life that is that guy.
Speaker 1:It's a good thing like seriously, just today we had the workout with frank and he called I'm driving home, I'm going to walgreens to go buy a knee brace. He calls me and goes hey, can I come over to your house for a little bit? Go shoot some pucks. And I was like, yeah, sure I won't be there. And then, not thinking anything of it, I didn't see his car in the driveway and I called him and was like, hey, did you come over? He's like, yeah, I was at your house by myself and I was just shooting pucks and I left before you got back. So hopefully that out of our house he's just another kid in our family. I absolutely love being around Ethan. He's super funny.
Speaker 6:We touched on it a little bit earlier about the brotherhood that is within the program right now. Dan Diodana from the Holland Sentinel did a really nice article for us a couple of weeks ago talking about all the combination and the brother combos. All three of you are part of that combination Coach combos. You guys are well, all three of you are are part of that combination coach. Maybe you can give us a start here. What has that been like, kind of not only coaching with your brother but then coaching a team that has so many brother combos within it?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's uh. I could talk about the team part first. I've never been anything, I've never had anything like it. I've I played on teams where we only had maybe one set of brothers. So seeing this is pretty special, it's crazy. It's a half-hour roster, it's just brothers. And then, yeah, being able to coach my brothers, it's different Like I've never. We've always missed each other by a year. We're four years apart, but we're also four grades apart. So we never. In high school I graduated, he became a freshman and then in college we both went to Grand Valley, but I had graduated and then he came in to Grand Valley. So, yeah, we just missed each other by a year. I mean, we grew up playing hockey with each other down in the basement and stuff like that, but we never actually did anything hockey-related in an organization. So having him is pretty cool. He definitely gets the short end of the stick between myself and Darren because he's my brother, so it's a little bit easier to snap on him than to snap on a couple of other people.
Speaker 5:You can always go at your brother no questions asked, because you've done it before and you'll do it again and tomorrow will be just fine, right, right, yeah.
Speaker 2:So there's been a couple incidents the last two years with that, but he takes it well and he just moves on.
Speaker 5:All right. So we've got you and your brother Crew. You have you and Cray.
Speaker 3:Yep. Yeah so I think it's definitely been pretty cool. I think he's progressed this year for sure, just gaining more confidence, but like just the whole team wise with the brotherhood. I think it helps with chemistry so much because we all know each other so well and like just to have a guy you can kind of rely on, just because you know him so well, definitely helps.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean to tie into that like everyone's in a super good mental space this year. I feel like everyone's got a good friend to sit with at lunch, everyone's got someone to talk to and I feel like outside of the rink that's super, super important. But going into more me and Ethan's relationship, I feel like especially the car rides home even after like a bad game or even a good game. I remember the first game he scored on the road.
Speaker 1:I remember sitting in the truck and just going crazy or playing some music, told dad we were gonna go get ice cream it was super awesome to just have him in the car and just know like, hey, we're living in the same household, we're sleeping under the same roof, like that's someone to be proud of, so yeah that's awesome.
Speaker 5:And then also, as you got, uh, nate and eli bean and then connor and aiden reedy, so it's, it's really something. You know what I? Uh, I hadn't watched you play this year until I went to the jenison game, and what's really funny is that it stood out there. So, as I mean, I'm not looking at a program, I think I'm like, wait a minute. I saw that name twice, I saw that name again, I saw that name again. It was like the same names kept repeating themselves. Then I pull out the program. Sure enough, it's, everybody's got a brother on the team. It's pretty crazy, crazy. Let's get into the some of the fun things about hockey, cause hockey has so many really fun, cool things that are kind of part of the culture. First we're going to go to the hair, which is also known I think I'm I'm an old guy, so if I'm wrong on this, let me know but it's also known as the flow or the lettuce. Yeah, who has the best hair on the team? Best hair?
Speaker 3:Best hockey hair.
Speaker 5:We'll go hockey hair first. Hockey hair Is there anybody but Charlie? I mean yours comes out of your helmet crew a little bit, I was watching last night I could see it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, if Will wore a player helmet, he'd have the best hair. That's my opinion.
Speaker 5:Oh, no, kidding yeah.
Speaker 3:And then I got a shout out to the freshman. I got to go, eli Bean. That middle part's pretty sick. I will say, oh, he's got the middle part, yeah, he's got it.
Speaker 5:No, kidding it looks nice. All right, all right, so a few different ones there. Another part of hockey, of course, is suits on game day. You guys do that regularly, coach.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for the most part, much wears a suit every day.
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, on the home games we do suits, and then on the away games we do like pretty much the same stuff. It's just a woe jacket instead of a suit.
Speaker 6:Oh, that's pretty nice, yeah, and who suits in the in the building over the years? Like dudes go all out like they're just not throwing a suit on, like they are getting after it. I mean some necklaces, yeah, is it?
Speaker 5:there's no need to look bad if you're putting a suit on, especially hockey players. There's a lot that goes on with hockey and having that suit on for hockey is sweet. Who does the suit the best on the team coach in your opinion.
Speaker 2:I don't know. A lot of guys have some good ones. I'll give Kru some credit. He rocks the floods a little bit at the bottom, so show off the ankles.
Speaker 6:Nice. Is that just because you haven't upgraded your pant game I?
Speaker 3:would say mostly my mom. She doesn't really like it when the pants are too high on me, so leave it at that. I don't think it looks too bad. I guess Coach kind of likes it too Good style.
Speaker 5:There's a lot of tradition hockey too with pregame meals putting on equipment, taping your stick. What do your guys go to meals pregame?
Speaker 1:Every single game, jimmy John's, jimmy John's sandwich and a bag of chips. It's like seriously, you go ask any one of the brothers on the team like every single kid walks into the rink with jimmy johns every single kid, yeah and I think I gotta shout out to my mom here.
Speaker 3:She's a great cook, so pretty much whatever she makes for me I'll eat. But uh, we've been going with chicken alfredo for this season. It's been been working pretty well, I'd say.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I mean shout out to her you're gonna talk about your lunchbox at all, or?
Speaker 3:oh yeah. Yeah, she makes me a pretty good lunch too. It keeps me fueled for the day, but yeah, she's great. Gotta love moms, man, yeah man gotta love moms.
Speaker 5:Anybody quirky with uh, you know, stick taping or the order putting on equipment. You notice anything like that, coach? Anybody quirky that way?
Speaker 2:no, I I kind of stay out of the room when the boys are in there. I think that's important for them to have their time together and, um, like our, our coaching office is on the other side of the hall so we're quite far away, and then for game times and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:the coaches pretty much hang out on the outside. We give these boys some space and it's good for them to have an hour to themselves and close doors and just talk as a group and just be younger guys and have some fun in the room.
Speaker 5:That's pretty cool that you do that, you guys. That's is that. Does every coach do that?
Speaker 3:uh, I don't necessarily know, but it definitely gives us time to like mentally lock in, I would say, just because we just focus on whatever we're thinking about.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean, yeah, there's some coaches that do that, but with the equipment dressing, there's some guys that have their routines. Like Kyler Comet's got to be dressed 30 minutes before the game no kidding.
Speaker 2:Every single game.
Speaker 1:He walked out of the room yesterday before any of us even went into the room.
Speaker 5:He's got full gear on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the guy gets dressed in like five minutes, that's crazy Well he is a ball of energy, that's to say energy.
Speaker 6:That's a state of the least he was at. Uh, you know, we started some student run um live streams now and he's part of this kind of group of kids in wobian that are doing some live streams and he was there for the first one the other night. Man bouncing off the wall, he's got a hundred ideas throwing them at me. I'm like kyler man, we gotta slow down. This is the first live stream like that's baby steps, baby.
Speaker 2:Is he on the penalty killing unit? Yeah, he's out there, he's on the PK.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that would help. It's a good place for a guy with high energy.
Speaker 2:I'm not a big rah-rah guy myself, so I'm happy we have Kyler.
Speaker 5:Well, you know what I noticed yesterday too. Do you remember Jacques Demers way back in the day? I know Red Wing coach but anyways but I you're sitting, you're standing there and I mean it's getting hectic in the third period, like they're in the zone a lot. There's a number of times where it's like we couldn't you know you couldn't clear the zone. The puck staying in it's good and you're like just very stoic, taking your time Does. Does his calmness calm you guys down?
Speaker 3:yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean to be honest, like 100%. Honestly.
Speaker 3:I'm not really paying attention to Tom, I'm just kind of doing my own thing, but I mean it's definitely okay, it's definitely nice to not have him like yelling at someone the whole time, like getting on someone's butt about something yeah, I think for sure like especially like when I make a mistake it's better that he's more calm and trying to help me fix it, rather than just screaming at me and telling me I did bad. So that's definitely pretty helpful.
Speaker 5:Best shot on the team Tyler. Who's got it?
Speaker 1:Crew Anderson for sure, I know 100% he's in the lab.
Speaker 5:He's in the lab. Two bucks, coach, best passer. Yeah, probably knobs. Hmm, nice, best skater crew well true, 100%.
Speaker 2:We got some decent, we got some good guys. Yeah, knobs good skater crew's a good skater. Give Eli Bean, yeah, there too, pretty quick. I mean, yeah, I mean, if you can't skate, you can't really play no, you can't, you have to skate.
Speaker 6:Yeah, that's why I can't play hockey. Yeah, you gotta.
Speaker 5:That's why I can't play hockey. You've got to be able to skate. Funniest guy on the team Kuro. Who is it?
Speaker 3:In some moments I think I've got to give it to Kyler just because he's the big energy guy. He's always buzzing. And then I think Tegan's pretty funny and Kray has some good one-liners. He's kind of known around the room as that. He just randomly pops in, says a quick one and he's out and then we're all just laughing that's pretty great if you can pull off the one liner and leave the room.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm gonna agree with the cray one. Like last year, he didn't really talk much. It was hard to get him to open up, but even like, even like we're trying to have like a serious meeting or something along those lines he always, he always found a way to like kind of slip in like a one-liner and I just couldn't keep myself from laughing and he's really opened up this year. There's more and more one-liners coming out.
Speaker 6:He's hilarious Dirtiest locker.
Speaker 1:Ethan Moore. Oh, my goodness, we got the snack. We got the refrigerator in there with Gatorades. Every single time it's one empty Gatorade bottle. Got some Goldfish wrappers in there, or something? Ethan Moore?
Speaker 3:He's pretty much got the trash can in his locker. He's not been cleaning it too much, I'll say.
Speaker 5:There's lots of some other fun things of hockey. Of course you've got your bus rides, especially when you get a charter. That's always a great part of hockey just chilling like that. I always love the hockey team photo. I played hockey when I was, I think, until about age 15. But I always remember just having that team photo was always really fun. You guys got a great team photo here. That's a pretty good one, yeah, I kind of look like a doofus.
Speaker 4:I don't know why.
Speaker 2:I wore a hat. Oh, you do have the hat on.
Speaker 5:Your beard's not really in there either, is it?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 5:Or is it, Maybe it is. Anyways, I always like the hockey team photo. It was just kind of a great thing. It's a very weird thing to do as a hockey player to sit there with your skates and your gloves and sit like that. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 6:Last year's fake mustaches were some of my favorite that I've ever seen in a photo.
Speaker 2:Worst things. I've seen Waukes and Brondyke Waukes and Brondyke. They had maybe five hairs on their lip and they took some mascara to it.
Speaker 5:It was so good. Oh, that's pretty classic. There's one other thing I want to do about hockey. What, uh, being a fan of hockey, what a great part of what hockey is the sounds of hockey. There's not other sports that have these sounds. This is one of my favorite. I mean, it's the horn. You know it's a goal. That's actually crew, that's your goal versus jenison on senior night actually.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:So that was pretty awesome.
Speaker 6:We comboed with Hope a couple of years ago to get the horn in to try to add that atmosphere to our home ice.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's great. Yeah, it's nice to hear when it goes off.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's definitely pretty cool. I don't know many other high schools that have that and, especially because it's just kind of ours, it's like the sound you know when you hear that sound, there's been a goal scored for West Ottawa, so it's pretty cool.
Speaker 5:You know what's cool? I was checking out on Spotify the other day and I was going just through. Every like NHL team has a different style of horn.
Speaker 3:It's just a little bit different. I didn't know that unique sound, but yeah, it's pretty cool to have, for sure.
Speaker 5:Then you go to a neutral game yesterday and there's nothing. Yeah, it kind of just takes away from the nature of hockey a little bit.
Speaker 6:So this is the first year that we, as kind of OK Conference, have come together and put this tournament together. From an AD's perspective, it's a logistical nightmare because we're trying to figure out bus times like 12 hours before we need a bus. We've got to make sure that the home team's got to provide the trainer, the away team's got to provide the scores table people, so there's a lot of moving pieces. What's it been like for you guys to kind of go through it for the first time and have this kind of tournament mentality? Our thought was that it would prepare our teams better for postseason.
Speaker 2:I really like it. I think it's pretty cool. It's a lot better than what we did last year, right, like you kind of just play your games and it's kind of over. Now it kind of gives you a chance to actually play for something. So I think it's good for our group too, especially like Kruen mentioned earlier. We've left a lot on the table kind of so far this season on a couple of games, and now it kind of gives these guys something to play for and gears us up for regionals right. So I I like it a lot and hopefully they decide to keep going with it yeah, I think I think it's here to stay.
Speaker 6:It's interesting to hear you guys, crew. What do you, what do you think I?
Speaker 3:think it definitely helps, like our mindset, like it's win only, like because if you lose, like you'll play, but I mean you're out of the contention for playing for something. And then that definitely leads into like regionals, for example, where you just have to win, or your season.
Speaker 1:So for sure that definitely helps I mean I just love the mentality of, hey, we're gonna go play a tournament, like, pack your bags, we're gonna go play, and I absolutely love that. And I also like that it's at a different rink and it's kind of mutual. So I do enjoy that, mostly because there's games before, there's games after. You can kind of see everything that's going on. I love the atmosphere of it.
Speaker 6:And it's given us a great opportunity to avenge a loss from earlier in the season against our rivals from up the road, kind of. What are your thoughts as we go into that tomorrow night, coach?
Speaker 2:My big one is going to be we've got to stay disciplined. We got ourselves in some trouble in that game. We went down early 3-0 with some penalty trouble, and I think if we clean that up we'll be all right. We went up, going down I think it was 5-1, and then we climbed back 5-4. And we had a chance to tie it and the crew actually put one off the post with eight seconds left. So that goes an inch out of the way. We tied it up 5-5. And we take it to OT and maybe good things happen there. But yeah, our big thing is going to have to stay disciplined and just stick to our plan but stay out of the box.
Speaker 1:I'm super excited for the Grand Haven game just because I can't stand losing to some of my good buddies Playing Ice Dogs. There's a lot of kids from Grand Haven that played for the Ice Dogs as well and it's kind of cool Got split up. Some of the kids are at West Ottawa, some of the kids are at Grand Haven. It's like, hey, I'm playing against one of my good buddies from up the street, so I can't stand losing to them, so I would love to beat them yeah, it'll definitely be pretty cool.
Speaker 3:I will say I didn't really have like the smartest game wise. I think I definitely got into some of that discipline trouble, that game, which definitely costs us, but it'll be cool to get some revenge, hopefully, and play my game.
Speaker 5:So yeah, all right. Well, let's get in close to hockey time. It's uh 4 24. You guys are both to have to pull a Kyler comment to get on ice by four 30, five minutes.
Speaker 5:There's so much more we could talk about but we don't have time. But it was great sitting down with the three of you. A real pleasure to meet all of you, really really nice to do. Just remember everybody, we are West Ottawa, we are community, we are each other. Game um, this tournament will be wrapped up and this will probably air after that, but there's more hockey coming up and we wish you guys all the best.
Speaker 1:Uh, moving forward so thanks for taking time with us, thank you. Thank you, guys, so much thanks guys.
