Well, there's a lot of excitement around this Michigan hockey program as they head to yet another frozen four.

Josh Ernessy joins me next on Conquering Heroes.

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I'm joined by Josh Ernessy, who is a senior on the men's hockey Frozen Four team heading out to Vegas to play here in just a couple of weeks.

And Josh, first of all, thanks for joining me.

And as soon as you popped on the screen, it instantly, I mean, it hits everybody.

And everybody's got to be able to see it.

It is a magnificent beard.

And I got to know, is this something that's just playoff beard or is this standard

operating procedure for you? Yeah, thanks for having me. I'd say it's mostly a playoff beard,

but if you ask the guys, we did no shave November to help Luca Fantilli raise some money

through November.

And so I had grown it out then and kind of kept it till the end of the first half.

And then I shaved it and there was a lot of controversy about it going away.

And so then we brought it back for the playoffs here.

The whole group is doing no haircuts and no shaving.

And so it's back.

And it's a lot bigger than it was before. But it's awesome. And it's been kind of fun to grow it out. So, okay, they gave you a hard time for shaving the beard. I got to ask, because I know this has been a great year for you guys. Not a lot of losses on the schedule, but after you shaved, was, was there a loss or two that may have followed that?

I don't think so.

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