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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert with Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken/Mammoth game (1/17) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike Lane. Entering game five with this five game trip,
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  Speaker 1: yere one two and one so far on the trip,
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  Speaker 1: what have you made of these first four games? What
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  Speaker 1: have you liked about your team's performance, and where do
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  Speaker 1: you feel the krack and have left something on the table?
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  Speaker 2: Ah, I think you know, overall, if you look at
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  Speaker 2: the four game stretch, you know, I've liked a lot
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  Speaker 2: about our game. I didn't like the New Jersey game
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  Speaker 2: much at all. I thought that we left something on
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  Speaker 2: the table there. We could have been better, and if
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  Speaker 2: we were better, we would have, you know, won that
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  Speaker 2: game in regulation. Certainly giving up the lead in Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: you know that hurts, so I mean would have, could have?
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  Speaker 2: Should have? You know, we've actually had opportunities to win
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  Speaker 2: every game on this trip, and you know we got
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  Speaker 2: to find a way here to to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: In Utah today, you've talked a lot about starts and
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  Speaker 1: needing to get off to better starts. You do over
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  Speaker 1: You've overcome a couple of deficits to nothing. In Boston,
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  Speaker 1: you battle the entire night. What do you feel has
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  Speaker 1: been the biggest reason why the Kraken haven't been able
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  Speaker 1: to start on time? So to speak in this on
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  Speaker 1: this road trip.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think that, you know, there's situation where
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  Speaker 2: maybe we need a timely save. I haven't liked two
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  Speaker 2: of the goals that they've scored, the first Ranger goal
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  Speaker 2: in the first Boston goals, So you know, if those
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  Speaker 2: if those don't go in the net, we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: a different story on the starts. So you know, at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, our goaltenders have played extremely
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  Speaker 2: well for us. We need to help them out right office,
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  Speaker 2: right off the start of the game and not put
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  Speaker 2: them in a situation where they have to make a sicky.
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  Speaker 1: You were asked earlier today about the schedule, and I
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  Speaker 1: know you've talked so much about it, but now going
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  Speaker 1: home for the next five games, even though you're playing
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  Speaker 1: every other day, you're still going to get some time
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  Speaker 1: in your own bed, around your families, what have you.
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel that's going to do for the
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  Speaker 1: Cracking as they try to continue to maintain that third
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  Speaker 1: spot in the Pacific Division.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to find out, aren't we. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we are road records good this year. Home record is
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  Speaker 2: pretty good this year as well. You know, we had
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  Speaker 2: that stretch in December where we faltered, but we're certainly
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  Speaker 2: going to need some home cooking here and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to need to, you know, make some hay at home,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak. Got some important hockey games coming up
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  Speaker 2: and we need to win them.
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  Speaker 1: Your power plays jumping into the top ten in the NHL.
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  Speaker 1: What's been going right for this group?
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  Speaker 2: I would say that certainly it starts with, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the message to the guys, and they're executing that message.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're moving the puck quickly, and I think
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  Speaker 2: we're scoring. You know, our percentage of shots and our
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  Speaker 2: sort of sniping ability has been pretty good. Certainly, Jared mccannback.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about this guy when he wasn't on our team.
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  Speaker 2: I've really watched him play a lot here lately in
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  Speaker 2: terms of not knowing his game because he was injured.
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  Speaker 2: Full respect for this guy. He's an elite player, He's
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  Speaker 2: an elite thinker. There's little things that he does out
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  Speaker 2: there on the power play that you know, people that
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  Speaker 2: don't know the game quite as well and don't understand,
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  Speaker 2: but the littlest of things and they're making a big difference.
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  Speaker 1: Boston was the first time all season the crack and
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  Speaker 1: have had a healthy compliment of skaters. What does that
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  Speaker 1: mean for this team moving forward? When you look at
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  Speaker 1: the potential and the possibilities of your lineup, matchups, jumbling
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  Speaker 1: up the lines, things that you can do. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is an obvious question, but how does it feel,
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  Speaker 1: finally forty five games into the season to finally have
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  Speaker 1: all your skaters healthy?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know again, it's interesting when you say it's
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  Speaker 2: forty five games of a season and you finally get
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  Speaker 2: all your skaters healthy. Now there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a situation where none of these guys have played together. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and so you're back to a little bit of finding
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  Speaker 2: some chemistry again. Even though you've got everybody. It sounds
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  Speaker 2: like it's a great thing. It can be a great thing.
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  Speaker 2: But we need to gel here really quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Utah has been playing well here as of late, sitting
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  Speaker 1: one point ahead of Seattle. Didn't get the win last
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  Speaker 1: time here in December when you played this group. What
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  Speaker 1: do you feel is going to be the most important
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  Speaker 1: factor for the krack in here tonight.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to make them defend. We've got to put
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  Speaker 2: them into a position where they have to spend some
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  Speaker 2: time in their own zone as opposed to spending time
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  Speaker 2: in our zone. That's the first and foremost, and the
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  Speaker 2: second thing is we've got to manage to puck. Their
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  Speaker 2: transition game is off the charts.