Interview with Sheffield Steelers' head coach Aaron Fox following his team's win in the 2024 Elite League Challenge Cup Final against Guildford Flames
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00:00 How does that feel? You've been here before?
00:09 Yeah absolutely but it's been a while and to do it in front of this home crowd, atmosphere
00:14 is electric, guys played their hearts out, I felt like we played really really good in
00:19 the first 40 and then we absorbed some pressure in the third minute, we knew they were going
00:22 to push, Greener held firm and it was a great 60 minute effort.
00:26 I was going to say it was a tough going wasn't it? It wasn't an easy game was it?
00:30 No absolutely not, we go up 3-1 then we have a breakaway, we miss a breakaway, probably
00:34 could have changed the dynamic of that game but they never quit, that team plays hard,
00:39 they play fast, they've got some real speed on the wings and they'll make you defend hard
00:45 which we did tonight so it was a huge 60 from our group.
00:48 It's the first of three trophies that you're looking for, now the talk can begin about
00:52 being in the picture for more, obviously the tension turns back to the league but I imagine
00:56 you're going to enjoy this one for a short while yet?
00:59 Yeah we'll have to, we won't be able to have such a long celebration here like maybe you
01:06 would like to with the midweek game, if it was a Sunday maybe you'd have a couple of
01:09 days but we'll let them celebrate tonight and rest tomorrow and come back on Friday
01:14 and have a good skate and be ready for a huge weekend because we're in a good spot right
01:19 now but nothing's finished and we've got to make sure we don't take our foot off the gas.
01:23 As a coach how satisfying is it to see your plans come to fruition?
01:26 Yeah of course, you start the year hoping for everything and we fell short the last
01:34 couple of years, we were in it in every competition until late and just weren't able to get it
01:39 done so unreal feeling to get the first one out of the way here and hopefully there's
01:44 more to come.
01:45 For you as a team is it the starting point of something, a special period for the club?
01:48 Absolutely I think so, I don't like to get too far ahead of myself that's for sure, I
01:54 don't take for granted the season we've had and the group of guys we've got and I can't
01:59 tell you what will happen in the future but I love our group, a bunch of character guys
02:04 in there, good people on and off the ice and couldn't be happier.
02:09 I'm going to say you've said that quite throughout the season that it's a bunch of character
02:12 guys, how pleased are you for them?
02:13 Huge, there's some guys in there that might have won trophies in their career and for
02:19 them the commitment and work effort and some of the stuff we've went through as a group
02:25 this year as well hasn't been easy but they've persevered and like I said just an unreal
02:32 group of guys.
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