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January 21, 2025 • 12 mins
UND Head Hockey Coach Brad Berry discusses being swept by Western Michigan as well as having an open week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we welcome you back here to Hawk Talk
as we're into it now, and I tell you what
we should mention. We're at the five oh six Pub
downtown Grand Forks inside Hugo Supermarket. Hugos is the official
grocery store of und Athletics and joined by the longtime
play by play radio voice Northcote, sportscaster of the Year
Tim Hennessy, who had special color commentator with him on

(00:24):
Friday night. His son Colin in your years.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Did the second part. Well, I had said, I think
last summer or whatever YE had said to him, you know,
before I retire from this, I want to get you
on the air with me, right, And I didn't know
when it would be he or whatever, And Mike Lemoine
found out about it, so he arranged Colin. He was
coming to the game anyway, he arranged him to be

(00:50):
up there. So that was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
That is pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
So and he's good because I mean, he played the
game and he's smooth, so it was it was good.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, he's also new attorney, so he's a good speaker,
exact right.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
So I wish you would have saw a better period
than second.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I was just going to get to that. He probably
did a really good job, but probably Michael moyn wanted
to go for hot dog or something, wanted to break
or something.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think he did.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
We welcome in head coach Brad Perry of North Dakota Hockey.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
We have a couple of questions that you and I
have brought up on the Morning show.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Sure number one.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Brad, he's he doesn't think Connor McDavid should be suspended
for three games.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
He said, you can't do that to the best player
in the league. I said, best player in the league
can't hit a guy in the mouth with a stick.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
But yeah, you know what, I'm not going to get
it if he should be suspended or not. But all
I know was that was a kind of a tendency
in the NHL supplementary discipline dependent on who was in
going to take that hit or whatever. And at the
end of the day, I guess it doesn't matter who
it is now, But years pasted it, they took a
look at who it was, and sometimes those guys didn't

(02:00):
get suspended.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Really oh yeah, oh yeah, oh boy, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
So I think I think it's a letter of the
law right now at the end of the day, I
think player safety is a big deal and and uh,
you know, I think it's one rule for everybody.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, my argument is that he can't fight with his hands.
Those are too valuable.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
He said, I said, you.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Know, you can't drop the club.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
You can't drop Then he said, no, you can't drop them.
It's if your economic David case that says.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
That's his bread and butter, that's his moneymakers his hands.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, you know what the like at the end of
the day, Like, I don't know if it wasn't like
truly intentional. Maybe he did stick his arm out a
little bit, but like to me, like Conor McDavid's not
that type of player to begin with. He's not that
if you had a I think when you look at stuff,
if you had a previous history or if you know
that's your game kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
But he's not that.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
And he just I think he got caught in that situation.
And you know, I think the league, you know, good
for the league. I mean, at the end of the day,
they hold the letter of the law of what what's
a suspension and not and it doesn't matter. But I
know in years past, huge huge the fourth line player
used to get suspend in ten games and and the
superstar got zero game.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
So well, I stand corrected.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, well, I was like the guy and the kid
from Saint Cloud that ran over your goaltender. And I
asked Mike Schmid after, I said, this kid has got
kind of a reputation from the us HL of this
kind of stuff, and I said, you ever consider that?
I said, no, I don't think our guys too.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, so I'm not gonna I'm not. You don't have
to answer questions on.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
That, Okay. The other one is, we've talked about this
probably before, and I talked about to Pat mclady about
it today. Paul says, if a kid comes in, he's
a really good player and he wants number, we.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Talked about this last week. He already answered it. Yes,
he already answered it. Will talk about it. Yeah, it
was about a specific number, and you would talk to him.
You gave a great answer. You don't have to give
it again. We're not going to repeat that one, Okay.
I wasn't sure if yeah, we did, be.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Sure if we did or not. All right, but Western
that's a pretty good team. They're a lot like Arizona State.
Don't you.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, they're fast team. They pressure, you know. I think
it's one of those things they they take away a
lot of time and space and they make you get
into situations where you have to make decisions early, and
if you're not ready to do that, then they jump
on you. And uh, you know in all regards, and
you know, one of the things like our power play
hasn't been as sharp as of late, but I know,
you know, going against some high pressure kills, that's what

(04:25):
it does to you. And and and uh and and
and we we have to be better at that elite
at relieving pressure or being supporting on relieving pressure.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, that's what you're going to see, right I mean,
if some one team shows that they pressure your power play,
the next team is going to do it is right.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well one hundred percent. And I think it's a situation
where you got to you got to make sure that
you're playing five guys together as far as being close
support for that short pass support. And if you're not,
you're leaving that guy or that defenseman or puck carrier
on an island where you got to come back and
have that short pass support and try to advance bucks.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
The second period Saturday night just served me to a point, Brad,
because I thought after you got down a couple of goals,
I thought the compete level wasn't there.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
That I disagree on that. I disagree on that side.
I think the air gout left let out of our
and again the PK again, we're at seventy three percent,
it's fifty eighth in the country. It's something that we
need to be way better at. And we gave up
a power PK goal at the end of the first
period in the last minute. It kind of knocked us
back a little bit. But to me, I think you

(05:30):
got to get up and dust yourself off and get
back after it again. And for me, I think it's
a situation here of just being mentally strong and sustaining
play and trying to stack shift together. Here. It's not
going great for a power playing penalty kill right now,
and at the end of the day five on five,
that's where we have to be strong and make sure
that we stack shifts together well.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
The penalty kill is I don't know what you can say,
because I mean it's like you're doing everything right and
the other team is just executing better.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
I think you had to sacrifice your body a little
bit more. I think you got to get in shooting lanes.
I think you got to You got to make sure
there's clear as there there's there's situations of the habits
and the details of what we have to do, and
if you get lax on them, then that's what happens.
Good teams Alex Bump, five guys on a power play
take advantage of that, and I think we gotta we
got to take a little chapter out of their book,

(06:19):
a little bit about taking away time and space and
getting in shooting lanes and making them move pucks quicker
than they have to.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, you practice it, right, yep. I mean there's no
doubt about that at your practice it. It just has
been kind of disappointing that when it comes to execute.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Well, I think when it comes to the penalty kill,
we have to change our system, like, yeah, we do
one hundred percent. We do because we're a system or
a pushdown system that lets a guy go downhill on
a flank like Alex Bump did numerous times this weekend
and give him a free look at the net. I
think in a situations where you have the most dangerous guy,
you have to number one, getting in a shooting lane.
Don't let them have it lean to the net for

(06:56):
a shot because you're trying to I guess what our
current system is. We're trying to protect the middle of
the ice for funnels and different cross ice seam passes.
But the most dangerous guy is a guy coming down
the flank, and I think at the end of the day,
you got to get in a shooting lane to make
him distribute it to go somewhere else. They come down late,
well yeah, well yeah they do. They get in the
middle top put it down. But you know again, I'm

(07:18):
not going to give away kind of the changes that
we're going to try to do, but at the end
of the day, I think it's a situation more pressure
and getting shooting lanes.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right, all right, So we talked a little bit
this morning when we were able to visit with you
then as well about kind of how the week shaped up.
You're you're going to utilize it like a relatively normal week.
You've already utilized your open day, so to speak, by
the rules of compliance, right, so now it's just what
regular practice essentially with just no games.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, you know again, I'll go back into the time
we're allocated compliance wise that we can do. That's that's
stayed the same, but we've changed practice as far as
going to like a mini training camp again, like going
through going through a system and struck sure and you know,
compete in battle, puck races, puck battles and and our
system at structure and starting from ground zero again and
trying to sharpen the habits and details again. I think

(08:08):
we have time over two weeks to do that. And
I think at the end of the day, if you
if you just go into a normal week of practice,
I think yet you're not utilizing the two weeks fully
on what you need to do, especially at the time
of season we're in right now.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
I thought it was interesting, Louis Jammercks that you talked
about consistency and shift to shift. I bet you win
pushing on.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
That a little bit, Yeah for sure. And you know
what for me, like you know, you bring up compete
and and and like at the end of the day,
I'm with this team all the time, this team cares
and and I don't. I don't believe in and you know,
you see it all the time, but I don't believe
it's a compete factor a compete situation, I do think
it's it's uh, certain players need to give a little
bit more, you know. And I always go to the

(08:51):
fact that our best your best players have to be
your best players and your most consistent players in order
to win. And I think it's a situation where we
probably need a little bit more from our better player
on a consistent standpoint, not the compete and care standpoint,
but the consistent standpoint going forward.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, the consistency is the biggest thing. You've said that
for many weeks here now, Yeah, for sure, you know,
because you can do a lot of things really well
for a long time, but if you just stub your
toe a little bit on one and not quite come
out with that consistency, it costs you, right.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, And again it's the it's the next shift mentelly,
It's like, you know, you score goal, like, let's try
to get the next one. If you give up a goal, well,
let's let's get back at it again. Here, Like there's
got to be resolve and a resiliency of just trying
to stack shift together to gain momentum again. And I
just find that sometimes if the momentum goes the other
way it goes maybe two or three ships where you
get hemmed in a little bit where hey, you got

(09:43):
to stop it, you got to nip it at the butt,
you got to take charge, and you got to you
got to get the momentum back.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Brad, you made a comment I think after Saturday's game
about talking about maybe having one goal tender that you
can that you can go to explain that a little bit.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Well, I you know, like I said, I think what
we've done here and I think TJ's played more games
at Hoby obviously, but at the end of the day,
trying to ride a goaltender that has a little bit
of consistency and you know, I think he can hear
market as you know, trying to get wins in a row,
but having having constant I guess a body of work
that lends into getting that next start. And you know,

(10:18):
for me, like at the end of the day, if
it's Hoby, if it's TJ, you know, hopefully having somebody
that can reel off a couple of two three wins
and then just keep moving forward here and like to me,
we got an experienced guy and TJ, and we've got
a second year player in Hobi. Both very good goaltenders,
but just trying to see if one can elevate to
be the guy you'd run with one if you if
you got on, I think eventually we will. Yeah, for sure, absolutely, I.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Mean because there's and it's funny because there's a lot
of teams that Matt Davis at Denver he plays them
all yeah, and then you have Western You've got Cameron
rowand Slulkinski.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
But they split.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, but who knows.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
But to me, Denver has Matt Davis and then it
drops off exponentially after that when when you got Skulkinski
and Role. But that's one A and one B. Like
to me, it depends what you have after Like for me,
I think we have two very good goaltenders. We got
to find out which one's the one that's got here.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
That's the bottom line.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
When you're hot, Well I tell you what you got?
You got one more? Are you ready to go?

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's all I was gonna say. We're gonna make it
a short one since this open week, we'll get into
game week next week. We appreciate that you would swing
on by coach, and we wish you a good week
of practice and a good open week for you. We
look forward to cranking her back up next week.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yep, absolutely yes, thanks all.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Right brad Berry, everybody, Brad Berry head coach North to
go to hockey. When we return, We're gonna dive into
hoops action, that's right. You and he men's basketball with
two this week, one at home against Southdakota, then Saturday
in Fargo against NDSU. They got to win on Saturday
against Kansas City. Head coach Paul Sather joins the program
next as we continue with hoktok inside the five oh

(11:53):
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