{"id":144005,"date":"2023-12-13T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T17:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=144005"},"modified":"2023-12-13T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T17:09:41","slug":"maines-barr-talks-black-bears-at-the-semester-break-building-culture-areas-to-improve-uscho-spotlight-college-hockey-podcast-season-6-episode-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2023\/12\/13\/maines-barr-talks-black-bears-at-the-semester-break-building-culture-areas-to-improve-uscho-spotlight-college-hockey-podcast-season-6-episode-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine&#8217;s Barr talks Black Bears at the semester break, building culture, areas to improve: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast Season 6 Episode 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maine head coach Ben Barr joins hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger to talk this year&#8217;s Black Bears, building a culture and work ethic, recruiting, today&#8217;s players, and areas for improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to this podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/uscho-spotlight\/id1437717447?mt=2\">on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/3185680\/episodes\/feed\">your favorite podcast app<\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/user\/uscholive\">Spreaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=57998081&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Check out all of <a href=\"\/podcasts\">USCHO&#8217;s college hockey podcasts<\/a>, including USCHO Weekend Review and USCHO Edge, plus our entire podcast archive.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>About the hosts<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Jim Connelly<\/strong> is a senior writer at USCHO.com and has been with the site since 1999. 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