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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Looking ahead to Utah with Al Kinisky (4/2) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the Kraken
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  Speaker 1: Audio Network and Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 2: All right, nine games left, Dan, it's getting close to
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  Speaker 2: no tomorrow kind of time. The Seattle Cracking though, get
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  Speaker 2: going here with a two game homestand taking on the
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  Speaker 2: Utah Mammoth again. This is a big one. They're all
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  Speaker 2: big at this time of year, but Utah is solidified
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  Speaker 2: into a playoff spot and getting closer to locking one up.
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  Speaker 2: So for the Crack end, the stakes are getting raised
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  Speaker 2: against a very tough alp and we'll have all the
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  Speaker 2: coverage for you. Opening up a six point thirty pregame
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  Speaker 2: show served up by Frost Brewed, Course Light, Choose Chill,
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  Speaker 2: Everett fits you and al Kiniski in the booth with
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  Speaker 2: the call a little after seven o'clock Pacific time. We
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  Speaker 2: are your only local source, by the way, for broadcast
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  Speaker 2: covered cheer for this game, So catch us of course,
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  Speaker 2: ninety three to three KJRFM, the Global Credit Union, Crackin
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  Speaker 2: Audio Network, and the iHeartRadio app. We certainly hope that
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  Speaker 2: you can join us. Al Kaniski is going to be
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  Speaker 2: here in just a bit to go through matters heading
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  Speaker 2: into this evening's game, plus also a chancey to remind
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  Speaker 2: you Adam Larsen to be saluted for his one thousandth
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  Speaker 2: career NHL game. He achieved that against the Florida Panthers
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  Speaker 2: on the previous road trip March twenty fourth, becoming the
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  Speaker 2: twenty third suite in NHL history and third skater the
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  Speaker 2: twenty eleven NHL Draft class to reach that milestone. Larsen
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  Speaker 2: to be saluted right before the opening face off, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll have more of that coming up for you here
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  Speaker 2: this evening. Additionally, the Kraken will be hosting Green Knight,
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  Speaker 2: presented by Boeing as a final Kraken Common threadnight of
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  Speaker 2: the entire season. More info on specialty jerseys, the design,
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  Speaker 2: the message, the designer as well at Seattlecraken dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Fans can also be on each player's signed specialty jersey
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  Speaker 2: via the anchor auction and pick up merchandise by purchasing
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  Speaker 2: through Cracking team stores as well.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: The Kracking ending their road trip with a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a thud three nothing in their loss to the Edmonton
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  Speaker 2: Oilers on a night where you figure you keep Connor
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  Speaker 2: McDavid and their power play off the board, you're in
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  Speaker 2: pretty good shape. Unfortunately, the Kraken found nothing as far
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  Speaker 2: as offense and squandering three power play chances. It led
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  Speaker 2: to Edmonton claiming two of three in the regular season
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  Speaker 2: series and leaving the Kraken with just a one to
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  Speaker 2: three and two record ending their six game road trip.
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  Speaker 2: Now with nine games to play, five at home and
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  Speaker 2: four on the road, here's reaction before we get to
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  Speaker 2: al Koniski from Crackingead coach Lane Lambert in Edmonton.
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  Speaker 3: I thought there were some good things. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: know that they you know, they're a bit of a
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  Speaker 3: handful of the so I thought we for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: kept their opportunities to a minimum. I think we had some,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not a lot, but we had some good
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  Speaker 3: enough chances to score low scoring game, and we did
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  Speaker 3: not convert on our opportunities.
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  Speaker 4: You seem to increase the offense and the scoring chances
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  Speaker 4: after the first period. What was a messaging after that
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  Speaker 4: that opening period?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, clearly wasn't the start we wanted
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  Speaker 3: in terms of, you know, they dump the puck end
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  Speaker 3: and we you know, we end up trying to bat
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  Speaker 3: it out goes off there, it's going to eight feet widen,
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  Speaker 3: it goes off their back. You know this kind of
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  Speaker 3: the way it's going right now. Certainly wasn't anything necessarily structural.
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  Speaker 3: A bit of a fortune to break for them, and
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  Speaker 3: then you know we'd make a mistake offensive blue line
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  Speaker 3: when we've got complete control of the puck ends up
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  Speaker 3: in the back of Ournett. So you know you come
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  Speaker 3: in as a year down too. I thought again, I
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  Speaker 3: thought we I didn't think we played terrible in the
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  Speaker 3: first period, but you know, we find ourselves down again. Jason,
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  Speaker 3: a game it's not easy to do. Why do you
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  Speaker 3: think they had trouble scoring?
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  Speaker 4: I know that you said, and Jordan also said that.
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  Speaker 3: You know you like the chances, but is there something
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  Speaker 3: that you point to as to why it was hard
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  Speaker 3: for them to find the back of the net. Well,
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  Speaker 3: you know their goalie made some saves and were missing
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  Speaker 3: having a couple of good opportunities.
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  Speaker 4: You would jar it up to the top line. What
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  Speaker 4: were you looking to get out of him and what
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  Speaker 4: do you think he was able to give you there?
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  Speaker 3: I thought, I thought we had again. I thought Maddie's
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  Speaker 3: line had a slow start to the game. I switched
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  Speaker 3: it up a little bit to try and create a spark.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I thought they created some opportunities, certainly in
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  Speaker 3: the second period, Yeah, you know, and I thought that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I thought we had a couple of good
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  Speaker 3: opportunities Ebbs had at one point that they missing that on.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, there was some there was a little
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  Speaker 3: bit offense out of that line.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned the opportunities and some of the misses and
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  Speaker 4: the bad breaks at times, like, how do you how
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  Speaker 4: important is it for the team not to carry this
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  Speaker 4: with them now into the following games, to let this
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  Speaker 4: build with nine games to go, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, you can't. You gotta have a short term memory here,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Like I said, I thought we did some
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  Speaker 3: good things in the hockey game, and we have to
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  Speaker 3: build off of that, and we've got to find a
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  Speaker 3: way to put the buck in the back of the
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  Speaker 3: net and get some wins.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go nine games left in the regular season,
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  Speaker 2: two coming up at home, and as we said on
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  Speaker 2: Cracking Weekly, you have got to make every ounce of
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  Speaker 2: hay as possible in this playoff race. Al Kiniski joining
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  Speaker 2: me right here on Cracking this morning to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: But Al first, off Adam Larson one thousand NHL games.
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  Speaker 2: To you, what defines his legacy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, backbone of the blue line, backbone of the team.
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  Speaker 5: He's a guy that doesn't celebrate things too high and
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  Speaker 5: doesn't get up seven things are too low. To me,
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  Speaker 5: he's he's definitely a big part of the leadership of
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  Speaker 5: this team. Leads in block shots. I'm probably more excited
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  Speaker 5: than any other player on the team when I see
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  Speaker 5: Adam Larson score. I think that he is so excited
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  Speaker 5: when it happens. I like his humor around to putting
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  Speaker 5: him on the shootout. He's just a great human being.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up, this will be the final matchup of the
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  Speaker 2: season against the Utah Mammoth, and we have seen as
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  Speaker 2: far as the kind of damage that Clayton Keller can do,
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  Speaker 2: Nick Schmaltz can do. I mean, their back end got
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  Speaker 2: better with not just Mikhail Sergachev but also with McKenzie Wieger.
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  Speaker 2: But again, I go right back to what played the
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  Speaker 2: krack in here for this last road trip, and it
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  Speaker 2: was falling behind four of six games and then finding
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  Speaker 2: ways to let a team like Buffalo right back into it.
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  Speaker 2: So for me, I would think again, we talked on
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  Speaker 2: Cracking Weekly about the value of getting production out of
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  Speaker 2: your top line guys, and there was some shuffling here,
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  Speaker 2: but I think for me, it's just find a way
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  Speaker 2: to seize control first five minutes, first ten minutes. If
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  Speaker 2: you get out of the first period scoreless, totally okay.
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  Speaker 2: This team's mo has been kind of like an eighteen wheeler,
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  Speaker 2: start out slow, gradual pace and then really get rolling
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  Speaker 2: in the second and third period.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if you watch the first two periods of
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  Speaker 5: the Edmonton game. The first period, there was a real
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  Speaker 5: hesitation to shoot the puck, there was a real lack
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  Speaker 5: of shots on goal, and then you saw some switch
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  Speaker 5: get flipped between the first and second and all of
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  Speaker 5: a sudden, they're shooting from all over the ice. And
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  Speaker 5: I think they put up thirteen in the second period
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  Speaker 5: as opposed to six in the first, and I think
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  Speaker 5: the krack and have to find a way to have
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  Speaker 5: that second period mentality they had an Edmonton right from
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  Speaker 5: the puck drop. They've got to come out on the attack.
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  Speaker 5: They've got to come out with that intensity, with that
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  Speaker 5: for check, with that physicality, put the other team on
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  Speaker 5: their heels. Yes, you're going to have to play defense,
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  Speaker 5: and yes, they're going to attack when they can as well.
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  Speaker 5: But I think if you jump on them quickly, it
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  Speaker 5: does not give them many opportunities in that first period,
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  Speaker 5: and there's a much higher likelihood that you end that
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  Speaker 5: first twenty either tied or in the lead.
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  Speaker 2: There's often an indicator of the value of a goals
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  Speaker 2: in the NHL by often times we talk about in
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  Speaker 2: his ability to quote drive a line end quote. Bobby
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  Speaker 2: McMahon came in proverbial guns blazing, playing with Matty Beniers
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  Speaker 2: and Jordan Everley, Lane Lambert switching things up, then putting
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  Speaker 2: McMahon with Chandler Stevenson and Coppocaco newest flash. Nickcmahon is
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  Speaker 2: still scoring, he's helping drive play. But what about Coppocco
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  Speaker 2: with now four points last three games. He has a
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  Speaker 2: great since the Olympic break. And I thought Lane Lambert
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  Speaker 2: had a great point on this about a couple of
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  Speaker 2: games ago. I want to say, where in contrast to
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  Speaker 2: other players going into the Olympic break maybe helps them
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  Speaker 2: with some rest. This was a benefit to Copocaco to
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  Speaker 2: continue the rhythm he's had in the Olympics and then
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  Speaker 2: coming right back out and picking up right where he
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  Speaker 2: left off.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that second line of Stevenson, Cocko and McMahon, I
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  Speaker 5: think is your your power line. I mentioned before that
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  Speaker 5: Bib McMahon is a prototypical power winger on this team.
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  Speaker 5: Coppo Cocco is as well. I think the difference is
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  Speaker 5: is McMahon might be a little faster on his feet,
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  Speaker 5: but Coppo Cocko plays that same kind of game as well.
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  Speaker 5: He wants to work the boards, he wants to be
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  Speaker 5: in front of the net, he wants to get his
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  Speaker 5: shot off, he wants to drive to the net. And
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know, if I'm Chandler Stevenson and I
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  Speaker 5: got guys like that on either of my wings, I'm
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  Speaker 5: looking to get them the puck all over the ice
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  Speaker 5: so they can do that, and I can follow it
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  Speaker 5: up with maybe putting in the rebounds or resetting. And
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  Speaker 5: that's exactly the way Chandler Stevenson's been playing with these
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  Speaker 5: two guys.
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  Speaker 2: So nine games left here in the regular season, eighteen
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  Speaker 2: points in the table, you're still calling this the same
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  Speaker 2: fourteen points? I then gets the job done.
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  Speaker 5: I think, so fourteen points now, it doesn't have to
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  Speaker 5: have to be you know, seven wins. There could there
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  Speaker 5: could be some some extra points in there for ots,
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  Speaker 5: but I think fourteen points gets you in.
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  Speaker 2: All right for the Seattle crack In. For that goal.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get cracking. By the way, Al, we'll talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: More than I appreciate you, buddy, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You got to make you beat awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Al tot tonight. Appreciate you, Al Koniski joining us
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  Speaker 2: the Krack and will need it appears each and every
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  Speaker 2: one of those points because the climb just got a
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  Speaker 2: bit steeper uphill. Last night, only three games in the NHL,
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  Speaker 2: two bearing significant consequence in the Western Conference playoff race.
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  Speaker 2: The San Jose Sharks beat the Anaheim Ducks for three
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  Speaker 2: after the Sharks scored two goals in the span of
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  Speaker 2: one minute and nine seconds get this, in the final
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  Speaker 2: two minutes of regulation. Then the Los Angeles Kings took
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  Speaker 2: Saint Louis to overtime three point game at play, the
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  Speaker 2: Kings surviving the Blues to one the final in sudden
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  Speaker 2: depth overtime at Crypto dot Com Arena, which now puts
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  Speaker 2: the crack In three points out of the playoff picture
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  Speaker 2: in the Western Conference again, with nine games to play,
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  Speaker 2: they have seventy five points the Kings have seventy eight,
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  Speaker 2: and now the krack And have two leapfrog Winnipeg, who
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  Speaker 2: was one point ahead, Nashville who was two points ahead,
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  Speaker 2: and the Sharks, who are also two points ahead. The
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  Speaker 2: Kraken have faced to Utah twice at Climate Pledge Arena.
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  Speaker 2: They won both those meetings back last season. This is
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  Speaker 2: the first and only visit for the Mammoth into Climate
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  Speaker 2: Pledge Arena all season long, as the crack And look
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  Speaker 2: to salvage a win in the three game head to
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  Speaker 2: head series. Utah comes off a six to two win
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  Speaker 2: in Los Angeles last Saturday. This is game two of
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  Speaker 2: a three game road trip on their side. After that,
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  Speaker 2: the Mammoth home for five of their final six regular
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  Speaker 2: season games. Utah right now with a pretty solid lead
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  Speaker 2: into Wildcard spot number one eighty two points and that
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  Speaker 2: clearing San Jose and Nashville by five. We'll talk more
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  Speaker 2: about this one, including Adam Larson's build up here to
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  Speaker 2: the ceremony to salute one thousand games of his NHL career. Tonight,
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  Speaker 2: We're on air six thirty face offs a little past
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  Speaker 2: seven o'clock Pacific time. Everet now on the call. I'll
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  Speaker 2: join you bank by the course light landing in section twenty. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: join Al and for postgame right across the street at
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  Speaker 2: Tom's Watchbar, up to an hour after the final horn.
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  Speaker 2: We'll look forward to having you once again. Big thanks
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  Speaker 2: to Al Kadiski. We'll talk to you this evening for
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  Speaker 2: Kraken this morning, I'm Mike Benton. Have a happy Thursday.
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