out

there? Different.

Trying to find ways to score goals.

She's someone that you know that I literally can look down the So we're going to try to find ways to manufacture offense by committee this year, which is different, but it's also exciting.

I think our players are hungry for it.

We all love Murph, don't get me wrong.

But I think our players are hungry for that opportunity too.

What are you looking forward to most this season?

And who have been the important people in your life, in your coaching life, to kind of help you stay grounded, stay directed in the way you want to go?

Yeah, that's a good question and a big one, too.

To answer your question short, yes, absolutely.

I have felt, not that I've been drifting, but going back to probably 2020, right around COVID, when I was with Bob and the men's staff at Minnesota, I was in this ops role.

And I had previously been an athletic director at the high school level.

Right.

So I kind of had my one foot in the athletic administrator path.

Maybe extrapolating a little more out of that, can you just talk about transitioning to the women's side and maybe how that part of your career came about and just like what you like about being able to coach the women's team?

Hey.

She's got ...

We joke in practice all the time.

Um, she's got this innate ability to go post-in.

And it's kind of like that knee-high post-in shot, and we, we joke together in practice, 'cause a lot of times it's just right off the bar and doesn't go in.

Um, but when it comes to games, it seems like it always, it always works in her favor.

Um, but and then her other ability just, she's got a really innate ability to break pucks out on the wing, and her and Abby Murphy played together a lot the last few years.

What, what message would you have for, uh, any GM that's, uh, thinking about selecting her on, on draft day? Um, there's lots of talented forwards, but what, what kind of sets this player apart?