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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from News Talk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: The ice ferns Our, New Zealand women's ice hockey team

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Speaker 2: currently competing in the International Ice Hockey Federation Division two

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Speaker 2: Group B World Champs being played in Duneed and last

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Speaker 2: night they beat Hong Kong four to two to stay

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Speaker 2: unbeaten after three games. Earlier in the week they beat

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Speaker 2: Ukraine four to three in overtime and Belgium three to one.

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Speaker 2: Tonight they play the other unbeaten team, Australia, and tomorrow

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Speaker 2: night they meet Turkey. Joining us on the show head

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Speaker 2: coach Brook, Patron and alternate captain Hope Gregory. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: taking the time on the day of your next game,

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Speaker 2: guys to have a chat to us.

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Speaker 3: Brook.

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Speaker 2: First of all, how happy were you with last night's

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Speaker 2: win over Hong Kong, especially coming back from two nil

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Speaker 2: down to win that one four to two.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I was after the gray Hairs had caused me

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Speaker 4: very a good, good team building win. Like the article said,

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Speaker 4: we we grinded it out and came from behind, but

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Speaker 4: the girls really came together so it was good to see.

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Speaker 2: What about out on the ice, Hope, how did it?

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Speaker 2: Did it play out as far as you were concerned?

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Speaker 3: Initially it was a bit chaotic, but we managed to

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Speaker 3: find our feet coming into the third, which was good.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, get a couple of tucks in net, which

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Speaker 3: always helps.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's look at tonight's game against Australia,

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Speaker 2: which I'm sure is one you've been targeting give us

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Speaker 2: since you saw the draw A Brook, How big a

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Speaker 2: challenge do you expect from Australia tonight that've scored fourteen

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Speaker 2: goals considered just one in their three games. How big

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Speaker 2: a challenge will they present you?

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Speaker 4: A pretty significant one, but the best team's rise to

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Speaker 4: the occasion, So I'm looking forward to the challenge for sure.

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Speaker 4: And I think the sold out crowd will definitely add

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Speaker 4: an extra factor, hopefully an extra player on the ice,

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Speaker 4: even in terms of energy and motivation, So that'll be

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Speaker 4: something to look forward to.

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Speaker 3: Brook.

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Speaker 2: Do you feel as though your team does have another

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Speaker 2: gear to match the Australians tonight?

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Speaker 4: And I think the team knows that too, and I'm

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Speaker 4: excited to see what they bring on the A's.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, what about you, hope in the playing group,

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Speaker 2: how intense is the excitement about coming up against a

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Speaker 2: formidable challenge like Australia tonight.

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Speaker 4: It's pretty exciting, you know.

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Speaker 3: The rivalry that we've always had with Australia and makes

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Speaker 3: it for a pretty intense game every time we face

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Speaker 3: them on the ice. Last time we played them in

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Speaker 3: Aussie we had a couple of games and the second

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Speaker 3: one was quite close. So looking forward to play how

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Speaker 3: we played then and put our best foot forward.

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Speaker 2: Hope. Tell us about the Ice Ferns squad. Have most

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Speaker 2: of you been in the New Zealand set up for

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Speaker 2: a while or are there some new faces as well?

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Speaker 3: This year we have two fresh players, but apart from that,

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Speaker 3: most of the girls have been around for a few years,

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Speaker 3: so there's a lot of experience in depth within the team,

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Speaker 3: which is something that we're really fortunate to have.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about the ice and Dunedan, what's it? What's

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Speaker 2: it like?

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Speaker 3: It's pretty good. Rank have really gone above and beyond

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Speaker 3: this year. It's so good to be playing on hollom ice,

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Speaker 3: Like a lot of us are from this part of

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Speaker 3: New Zealand, so to be able to plan a rank

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Speaker 3: who we've spent lots of time in growing up playing

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Speaker 3: is such a benefit. We know how the boards are

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Speaker 3: going to bounce. The ice surface is nice and hard. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: And you were one of the youngest players ever to

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Speaker 2: represent the Ice Ferns. I think you might have just

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Speaker 2: been fifteen years of age when you first played for

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. Tell us about your your ice hockey journey,

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Speaker 2: how it started and how it's developed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I started playing for the Ice Ferns in

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Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, so I was fifteen. So yeah, one of

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Speaker 3: the youngest on the squad. Since then, kind of just

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Speaker 3: fostered it, like, kept playing, kept putting in the work,

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Speaker 3: it kept coming. It's a great group of girls to

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Speaker 3: be a part of, like everyone's family pretty much. So

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Speaker 3: kind of just foster's you to grow as a player

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Speaker 3: and as a person, and it's pretty exciting.

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Speaker 2: It's a pretty niche sport in this part of the

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Speaker 2: world anyway, Brooke, how do you how do you attract

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Speaker 4: I think if you get them to watch, they can

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Speaker 4: realize how exciting it is and that there's more opportunity

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Speaker 4: than you think. Like if there's a rink in the area,

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Speaker 4: they're always looking for kids and adults to teach, and

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Speaker 4: there's a league to plan, so it's kind of just

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Speaker 4: getting eyes on it and then people discover they love

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Speaker 4: the sport. Anyways, I would say.

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Speaker 2: Do you find that you get players coming to wife's

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Speaker 2: hockey who have been involved in field hockey for example?

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Speaker 2: I guess some of the principles are similar or do

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Speaker 2: they come from all sorts of different backgrounds.

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Speaker 4: I would say all sorts of background. But there does

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Speaker 4: seem to be a lot of inline hockey players that

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Speaker 4: transfer ice hockey pretty often. That seems like a common

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Speaker 4: train if that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: It does, it does. And you mentioned before that you're

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Speaker 2: expecting a big crowd in Dunedin tonight. What's capacity there?

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Speaker 2: How many expecting tonight?

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Speaker 4: Capacity wise, I don't know. I don't know if I

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Speaker 4: should be at liberty to say that and put a

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Speaker 4: number on it, but I think we're expecting around I

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Speaker 4: want to say, eight hundred two thousand people.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic. Well, hopefully it'll be enough to, as you say,

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Speaker 2: get that extra player on the ice for you and

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Speaker 2: get your victory over Australia to I congratulations to you

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Speaker 2: both on what you've achieved so far. Will be keeping

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Speaker 2: eyes on the score tonight and for your game tomorrow

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Speaker 2: night against Turkey as well. Thanks for taking the time

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Speaker 2: to chat to us today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: That is our coach of our ice ferns Brook, Patron

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Speaker 2: and alternate captain Hope Gregory. As part of the International

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Speaker 2: Ice Hockey Federation Division two Group B World Champs in Dunedin,

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Speaker 2: they take on Australia tonight.

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Speaker 3: Ready you