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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Time for some home cooking (1/19) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Kraken 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. Well, if it's.
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Speaker 2: Home cooking the Seattle Crack and Crave beginning today soups
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Speaker 2: on a season high six game homestand opens up today
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Speaker 2: for a two pm matine between the Kraken and the
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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Penguins, where the Kraken will also begin playing in
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Speaker 2: twelve to the next seventeen games on home ice all
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Speaker 2: the way up until March fourteen. Certainly a lot could
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Speaker 2: be decided where the Krakens certainly have matters in their
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Speaker 2: own hands and in their own building as well. Mike
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Speaker 2: Betton with you for cracking this morning. On a Monday,
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Speaker 2: January nineteenth, Martin Luther King Junior Holiday game coming up
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Speaker 2: here for the Kracken and Pittsburgh Penguins, also featuring the
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Speaker 2: annual Kraken Kids Game that is presented by Watt fed Bank,
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Speaker 2: where we'll have kids coming into crash the party with
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Speaker 2: different roles throughout the entire game, including junior. KJR radio
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Speaker 2: host will welcome Yetti later on here for the broadcast
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Speaker 2: today Again, the Cracking Kids Game presented by why fed Banks,
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Speaker 2: certainly gonna be a fun one going down here at
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Speaker 2: Climate Pledge Arena for more info, including the anchor auction.
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Speaker 2: You can also check out NHL dot com slash crack
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Speaker 2: in Ian Fornasca and join us here in just a bit,
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Speaker 2: of course, TV host on the Crack and Hockey Network,
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Speaker 2: he's got the TV call for today's game. By the way,
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Speaker 2: as we'll gather more reaction from this last Saturday where
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Speaker 2: the Craken fell to the Utah Mammoth, and we'll hear
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Speaker 2: more comments after a Sunday practice with Cracking Captain Jordan
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Speaker 2: every a rare practice in the middle of seventeen games
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Speaker 2: going down this month. Jordan Everley's comments coming up in
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Speaker 2: just a bit. Before we get to all of that,
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Speaker 2: here's how the crack and maneuver through the road trip
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Speaker 2: finale against the Utah Mammoth, showing once again a strong
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Speaker 2: start was possible and also what would it take to
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Speaker 2: dig out of a second period.
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Speaker 3: Hole cock go left circle.
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Speaker 4: Matt Emaneers once again throws it on goal.
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Speaker 3: Turn the side in front of the rebound. Beverly sczes
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Speaker 3: the first shot on goal. The Malka thought he had it,
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Speaker 3: Seattle kept it loose.
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Speaker 4: The captain puts the craken on the board first eighteen
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Speaker 4: fifty one to go.
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Speaker 3: In the opening period.
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Speaker 5: What's u Eperdy parked out front as Cockle comes behind
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Speaker 5: the net, finds him on his forehand, puts it right
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Speaker 5: under the bar in Vimelka and Jordan Nibery gets his
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Speaker 5: seventh first goal of the game. And that's exactly what
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Speaker 5: you're looking for. Take that that crowd out of it.
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Speaker 5: One nothing cracking.
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Speaker 4: Done left circle shot right on turn aside Scoos, Matt
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Speaker 4: Evaniers Jordan Everly both crashing the goal.
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Speaker 3: One of them will get it.
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Speaker 6: The cracking ball back to within one, three two, four
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Speaker 6: forty nine left in the second well.
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Speaker 5: It starts with a beautiful pass by Berkeley, cat and
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Speaker 5: over on the far wall. Back if it's done on
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Speaker 5: the point. Vince Dunn gets so many of his systs
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Speaker 5: off of shots, he puts this one hard on Vimelka.
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Speaker 5: Vimeilka struggles with the rebound. Maddy Bineers finds it three
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Speaker 5: two utah.
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Speaker 3: Now Freddie Gadro skates it out to center.
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Speaker 4: Vandler Stevenson finds a line behind the Nettos. Stevenson behind
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Speaker 4: the defense, swalks over the blue line and slides one
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Speaker 4: five hole on Vamelka from down three to one to
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Speaker 4: tie three three two seventeen left here in the second.
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Speaker 5: Well Ellie tobahen with a great pass to Chandler Stephenson
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Speaker 5: as they crossed the blue line. There he draws attention
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Speaker 5: to him, puts it over to Chandler Stephenson sends him
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Speaker 5: in all alone on Vimeilka and Chandler. Stevenson goes five hole.
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Speaker 3: This game's tied.
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Speaker 6: It's Ray Schmidt near side shot blocked rights to Keller,
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Speaker 6: left circle, Keller to.
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Speaker 3: Crows down the slide.
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Speaker 6: He scores, Cracking lose the face off loss of Krause
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Speaker 6: Fitis is up the play. They spid a three point
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Speaker 6: night check that a four point night.
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Speaker 3: It's now tough way to end that one.
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Speaker 2: Where a crack And fell six three to the Utah
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Speaker 2: Mammoth and the game tied heading into the final ten
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Speaker 2: minutes of play of regulation, the Mammoth pulling away with
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Speaker 2: three unanswered goals and special teams playing a big role
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Speaker 2: in this one. The crack And Power play coming up
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Speaker 2: zero for three and also squandering a five on three
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Speaker 2: two man advantage after Utah scored shorthanded in period one.
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Speaker 2: After practice on Sunday, Crack and captain Jordan Beverley met
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Speaker 2: with the media while organizing his thoughts coming home from Utah.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think, in my opinion, obviously left
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Speaker 7: some points on the table. In the road trip, you know,
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Speaker 7: Carolina lost to comeback, and then the Jersey game, I
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Speaker 7: thought we had and you know we're we you know,
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Speaker 7: didn't play our best hockey and you know we salvage
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Speaker 7: the point. But the Boston game, I thought we played
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Speaker 7: well sometimes to come away with losses. And then last
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Speaker 7: night obviously again you know, we give one up tied
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Speaker 7: with what or what was its five six minutes left.
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Speaker 7: So you know, I think we left some points on
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Speaker 7: the table. That's my opinion. If you look at the standings,
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Speaker 7: you can't really afford to do that. You just draw, right.
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Speaker 7: So you know, we got an important homestand that we
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Speaker 7: need to you know, really key in execute on and
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Speaker 7: starts tomorrow.
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Speaker 8: Mentally.
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Speaker 2: What's the right kind of message for this room right now?
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Speaker 7: I think it's just recharge. I mean, you know, obviously
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Speaker 7: you understand, you know, the past five and leaving, Like
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Speaker 7: I said, leaving points out there. But at the end
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Speaker 7: of the day, we're in the mix and we've that's
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Speaker 7: where you want to be. We've created an opportunity for
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Speaker 7: ourselves to you know, have a chance to push and
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Speaker 7: not just stick with the pack, to try and pull away.
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Speaker 7: So that's exciting for me. That's the hockey you want
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Speaker 7: to play all the way till the end. Yeah, I
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Speaker 7: think that's what makes.
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Speaker 3: Us game fun.
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Speaker 8: There's been kind of some high highs and some low
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Speaker 8: lows in the last they're so I mean, what do
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Speaker 8: you kind of make of that with this with this team,
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Speaker 8: kind of the streakiness and how do you make sure
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Speaker 8: that you know this road trip doesn't balloon. I guess
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Speaker 8: it is something something worse.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean they've been higher highs and higher lows
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Speaker 7: than generally you want. At the end of the day,
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Speaker 7: I think there's every team you go through that's just
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Speaker 7: the reality of an eighty to two game schedule. There's
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Speaker 7: adversity at some point. I don't know if I'd ever
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Speaker 7: want a year where you didn't have adversity. I mean,
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Speaker 7: you get to the playoffs and you're going to reach
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Speaker 7: it at some point, so you know, I think regardlessly.
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Speaker 7: For me, it's we've overcome some pretty big lows, which
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Speaker 7: is impressive, and we fought our way back and got
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Speaker 7: ourselves in their position, like I said, where we're fighting for,
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Speaker 7: you know, try and get you top of the division.
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Speaker 7: So that's that's what it comes down to for me.
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Speaker 7: It doesn't matter how you get there. If anything, you know,
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Speaker 7: this way, I've seen that we've you know, been able
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Speaker 7: to streak and put together wins, and you know that's
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Speaker 7: a side of a really good hockey team. So I
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Speaker 7: think the biggest thing is it every game third Pier,
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Speaker 7: we're tighter in the lead or you know, going into it,
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Speaker 7: and we're finding ourselves in a lot of one goal
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Speaker 7: games and we're fairly comfortable in those situations.
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Speaker 9: Jordan, you just touched on it. You guys have found
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Speaker 9: yourself in that situation right the third so often I
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Speaker 9: was there something missing I guess on some of those
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Speaker 9: tight games on the road trip or is it just
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Speaker 9: pay that sometimes how it could be crumbles in a way.
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Speaker 7: No, I fully believe that you kind of control your destiny.
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Speaker 7: It comes down to you know, tie games, It comes
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Speaker 7: down to details, whether it's a stick or getting your
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Speaker 7: man or closing quick or breaking the bucket, whatever it
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Speaker 7: may be, a little details as part of the game's
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Speaker 7: face offs that you know, really you look at it,
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Speaker 7: those are the mistakes. One little mistake and it ends
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Speaker 7: up in the back of your net. So you have
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Speaker 7: to try and be as completely dialed as you can it.
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Speaker 7: I mean, it's hard, it's Hockey's a game of mistakes.
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Speaker 7: It's the reality of it. But you know, it's the
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Speaker 7: team that can, you know, focus and give up the
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Speaker 7: least amount and be as details as possible and bounces
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Speaker 7: the are gonna go here and there. You can deal
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Speaker 7: with that, and that's the game for me in my opinion.
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Speaker 7: In Boston, we made a few mistakes. They ended up
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Speaker 7: in the back for a net, but we won't be
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Speaker 7: able to come back. But we kept pushing, So I mean,
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Speaker 7: if you can control that, you're gonna have a more
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Speaker 7: chance to win the not.
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Speaker 10: I know, the power play has obviously been great for
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Speaker 10: a while. It looks like you guys have really found
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Speaker 10: a way to capitalize often those face offs. Has that
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Speaker 10: been either a point of emphasis or is it just
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Speaker 10: you guys being able to be cleanly execute from the
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Speaker 10: drum well.
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Speaker 7: I think the first part of that is winning the
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Speaker 7: face off, but obviously, yeah, you want to try and
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Speaker 7: create right off the bat. Generally teams are to position
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Speaker 7: off face offs. But I mean, for the power play
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Speaker 7: has been great for sure, no question. It's one of
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Speaker 7: us games and you know, it's been moving. I think
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Speaker 7: the last couple of games obviously giving up for shorties.
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Speaker 3: Which has been disappointing.
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Speaker 7: But we have to find a way to you know,
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Speaker 7: create momentum for our group, regardless of we scored or not,
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Speaker 7: just creative momentum.
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Speaker 8: When you guys get veteran players back in the lineup,
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Speaker 8: always that's a that's a positive. But is there a
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Speaker 8: little bit of having to find the kind of story
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Speaker 8: again sometimes when you get guys back in.
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Speaker 7: No, not necessarily, I think, you know, I think you know,
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Speaker 7: you guys get hurt and it always takes two or
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Speaker 7: three games to try and find your legs and you know,
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Speaker 7: get up to speed. I think, you know, for us,
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Speaker 7: we have a pretty good depth in our in our group,
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Speaker 7: I'm pretty comfortable with all four lines and sixty and
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Speaker 7: having everyone out there and you know, everyone contributing. That's
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Speaker 7: how we've had success. So you know, I think as
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Speaker 7: we've gotten healthier, we've we've had obviously a lot of
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Speaker 7: injuries and injuries with key guys, and you know, as
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Speaker 7: those guys come back in and they start contributing, and uh,
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Speaker 7: you know we're going to continue.
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Speaker 3: To keep holding.
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Speaker 7: I just see this shift pieces.
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Speaker 2: But Jordan, good starts can come in different forms. We're
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Speaker 2: just feel the other day at Utah measure up and
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Speaker 2: what you guys want to get after here for the
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Speaker 2: two pm based off and there.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it starts have kind of been the last few.
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Speaker 7: You know, we we haven't had the greatest starts to
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Speaker 7: let you know. Obviously last game we did get up
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Speaker 7: to good starting, not just to the goal, but we
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Speaker 7: kept moving after that even when they score the shorthanded
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Speaker 7: when we kept going. But yeah, it starts are always important,
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Speaker 7: you know, I think I don't know.
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Speaker 11: What the statu is.
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Speaker 7: The first goal, we generally have a big success in
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Speaker 7: winning the game. But in the last game, you obviously
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Speaker 7: get that they've made a big push. I was probably
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Speaker 7: the group we fought back and then they kept going
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Speaker 7: so we got a final. Every game has its different
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Speaker 7: you know, momentum shifts and different way to play it
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Speaker 7: and it's just a matter of finding a way to win.
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Speaker 2: All right, been a while, but the mayor of Maple
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Speaker 2: Valley pleasure to have him join us here. Very courteous
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Speaker 2: to have him join us here because he's got places
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Speaker 2: to go, people to see.
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Speaker 3: Also, by the way, yes, he's got the TV.
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Speaker 2: Play by play call coming up here for today on
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Speaker 2: the Crack and Hockey Network. Side Ian Forness joining us now,
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Speaker 2: head of the Kraken and the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mayor, great
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Speaker 2: to have you appreciate this. As usual, I first have
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Speaker 2: to begin this about a week from now. We've got
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Speaker 2: quite the Seattle Sports doubleheader going on here on Sunday
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Speaker 2: coming up, don't we.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, and nice that the NHL honored the request by
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Speaker 11: the Kraken to move the game time, so you know,
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Speaker 11: next Sunday, six days from now, we'll have have a
10:54
Speaker 11: noon game instead of a one o'clock game. So that'll
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Speaker 11: give everybody plenty of time. Games over about and get
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Speaker 11: your home by three thirty by ready for kickoff. So
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Speaker 11: where we go.
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Speaker 2: And then if you do the doubleheader, then I have
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Speaker 2: no idea how you're going to be even a live
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Speaker 2: by about ten pm that night.
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Speaker 11: I'd be crazy.
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Speaker 3: That shall be a Crey study.
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Speaker 11: If you can do that, good for you. But yeah,
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Speaker 11: I probably a lot of people doing one or the
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Speaker 11: other and watching the other one on TV.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, fun I tried that with the Sounders and
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Speaker 2: the Mariners. But this is back in twenty sixteen when
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Speaker 2: I was in my mid thirties, and now at the
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Speaker 2: stage of life, it's like never again.
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Speaker 3: One's one's good enough. One's good enough for me?
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Speaker 2: Uh, one three and one road trip mayor to me
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Speaker 2: this home stand will be critical.
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Speaker 3: But to you, how critical?
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Speaker 11: Well, I think, you know, I think we see how
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Speaker 11: valuable points are, so I think it's really I mean,
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Speaker 11: it's very critical. It's very important, you know, especially heading
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Speaker 11: into the Olympic break you know, I mean you've built
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Speaker 11: up a cushion again, but now that Christian went away,
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Speaker 11: and you know, so you get three, you know, when
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Speaker 11: you get three points out of a possible ten on
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Speaker 11: that road trip, and that's just not good enough. You know,
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Speaker 11: opportunity lost on Saturday. I think in Utah for sure
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Speaker 11: that was there was a point there to be taken, uh,
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Speaker 11: and it just didn't happen for whatever reason whatever breakdowns.
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Speaker 11: But however, we want to get into it. But yeah,
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Speaker 11: I think it's I think, Mike, I think it's really important.
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Speaker 11: I think it's very important. You just gotta you gotta
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Speaker 11: stacked points. You know. We talked about that on the
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Speaker 11: Crack and Hockey Nowler called the time just stacking points.
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Speaker 11: And you know when you let all those points go
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Speaker 11: to waste on the road trip, you know, and you know,
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Speaker 11: there was a couple of disappointing ones, not just the
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Speaker 11: Utah game, but some other ones as well. So yeah,
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Speaker 11: when you came home, you got to take care of
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Speaker 11: some business and you got to you got to get
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Speaker 11: right and you got to get right quick.
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Speaker 2: And the frustrating part of this is I go back
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Speaker 2: and think of the Boston game. I was sitting up
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Speaker 2: above the corner and it it it's it's it's it's
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Speaker 2: a gut punch when you go down to nothing. But
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Speaker 2: the matter of fact, as they came right back on
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Speaker 2: a power play goal. Ultimately I was shocked. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: too too by the end of the first period. That's
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Speaker 2: how well the crack hand played. And apparently the timeout
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Speaker 2: from Laine Lambert worked and it worked like a charm.
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Speaker 2: And then I go back and think of the frustrations
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Speaker 2: that you go through. Period three was frustrating enough, but
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Speaker 2: I think to me as equal, if not more frustrating,
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Speaker 2: was period one, where you go up in a little
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Speaker 2: over a minute plus into the hockey game, and then
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Speaker 2: you then come right back with a great chance to
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Speaker 2: go up to nothing on the power play, and then
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Speaker 2: give up a shorthanded goal on an out numbered attack
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Speaker 2: like a hot knife through butter, and then you get
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Speaker 2: a five on three and no dice that to me
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Speaker 2: to find the tone for the rest.
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Speaker 3: Of the day.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think that was the way to the opportunity
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Speaker 11: that happened. And when that did happen that you know,
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Speaker 11: I mean still came back and had a chance to
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Speaker 11: get a point later, but I think that was that
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Speaker 11: was a critical part of the game. The five on
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Speaker 11: three after giving up a shorty was really frustrating. And
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Speaker 11: just the power you know, it's hard to see anything
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Speaker 11: negative about the power play has been so good, you know,
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Speaker 11: I mean before Saturday was working at forty percent of
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Speaker 11: the month of January, is the third best in the
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Speaker 11: league in the month, and the power play for the
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Speaker 11: most part has been fine. But yeah, they give up
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Speaker 11: the shorty, just back and on top of that, you know,
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Speaker 11: you know what happened at the end of the game
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Speaker 11: on Saturday too, you know, a couple of breakdowns. I
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Speaker 11: think one was an unlucky bounce off official, but you
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Speaker 11: still can't leave the guy alone in front, you knowly
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Speaker 11: two shots from the slots that were goals. So a
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Speaker 11: little frustrating in that regard. But I you know, I
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Speaker 11: think all on all, like the one thing that I
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Speaker 11: kind of came away with from the road trip is,
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Speaker 11: you know, Seattle played with everybody and never felt including
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Speaker 11: the Boston game, which was some of the numbers will
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Speaker 11: tell maybe a different story, but I never watched a
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Speaker 11: game hw they're just completely overwhelmed, and bost would have
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Speaker 11: been that game they were. That was a that was
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Speaker 11: a schedule loss, second half of the back to back,
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Speaker 11: you know, by the way we're gonna uh you know
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Speaker 11: Hunter the jar that night, you know, it was that
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Speaker 11: was a tough one.
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Speaker 2: The building was full ninety minutes before face off.
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Speaker 3: It was unbelievable.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, that was crazy. So I think, you know, I
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Speaker 11: just I felt like they played well most of the time.
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Speaker 11: It's just one of the things that happens with this team.
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Speaker 11: It just feels like if they make a mistake, it's
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Speaker 11: in the back of their net. It doesn't matter when, where,
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Speaker 11: how or why they make a mistake. It's in the
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Speaker 11: back of their net, you know. And they probably needed
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Speaker 11: a savor too that they didn't get. They didn't get
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Speaker 11: for a while, and you know, a lot of those
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Speaker 11: stays for a long time. And I don't think they
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Speaker 11: got the staves they wanted for a couple of those games.
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Speaker 11: But overall, Mike, I just the points weren't there. But
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Speaker 11: I think that there were some good signs. And then
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Speaker 11: you know the other thing that changed, the fourth planets
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Speaker 11: shaken up and it's not what it used to be,
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Speaker 11: and you know, the Drome moves down and Mallatson set
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Speaker 11: back down to Coachella, and you know, I mean, they
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Speaker 11: they're they're playing ross Roulette and I think, you know,
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Speaker 11: we had Chris Taylor on intermission with us one of
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Speaker 11: the games and they all kind of run together in
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Speaker 11: my apologies, but you know, he said the should be
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Speaker 11: some good internal competition. Yeah, maybe there will be. You know,
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Speaker 11: I mean, Fleury came out, Ryker went in after Riker
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Speaker 11: had come out and all that. So there's we see
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Speaker 11: that on the backside. See if anything happens on the
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Speaker 11: front end too.
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Speaker 2: I'll get to Jacob Malanson in just a bit. But
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Speaker 2: Lane Lambert going back to after the Utah game on Saturday,
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Speaker 2: was straightforward and blunt with referencing two mistakes the Krack
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Speaker 2: and made which had Utah break a three to three
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Speaker 2: tie and then pull away in period three. One was
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Speaker 2: off the failed clearing contempt and the other was blown
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Speaker 2: coverage man, a man off a face off when leading
16:42
Speaker 2: the last and Crass's goal to make a five to three.
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Speaker 2: Following up on that, here is Lane Lambert with the
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Speaker 2: media after practice on Sunday. We're talking there shit about
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Speaker 2: the third period in Utah, A few details onto.
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Speaker 3: A couple of breakdowns, you know, moving forward.
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Speaker 2: How much do you look at that from like a
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Speaker 2: mental thing versus.
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Speaker 12: Well, it's hard to you know, I guess it's hard
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Speaker 12: to decide how much is mental how much is physical?
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Speaker 12: To me, you know, if you look at a third period,
17:13
Speaker 12: if you average maybe four or five shifts a guy,
17:18
Speaker 12: it's pretty hard for me to accept that you can't
17:21
Speaker 12: stay mentally focused for four or five shifts before you
17:23
Speaker 12: get on the plane and go home after a nine
17:25
Speaker 12: day road trip.
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Speaker 3: So I get it.
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Speaker 12: It's it is a grind, but that's where our team
17:32
Speaker 12: and our group has to get over that hump, and
17:36
Speaker 12: that's part of playing winning hockey.
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Speaker 2: And this tells me more, I think than anything about
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Speaker 2: who could play key minutes and ultimately who could be
17:45
Speaker 2: staying in the lineup.
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Speaker 3: What's your reaction.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, he's obviously, you know, kind of telling you right
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Speaker 11: there that that some guys need to step it up. Yeah.
17:56
Speaker 11: I don't know that that third period was and it
17:58
Speaker 11: wasn't even a third period, you know, Mikey, it was
18:00
Speaker 11: the final five minutes of the third period, right, I
18:03
Speaker 11: think you know, I mean it was a tie. You
18:04
Speaker 11: get a point in your hand until until what four
18:07
Speaker 11: and a half or five and a half to go? Uh,
18:09
Speaker 11: and they, you know, they gave up the goal that
18:11
Speaker 11: ended being a game winner and then don't want able
18:13
Speaker 11: to come back. So I I just I think sometimes,
18:17
Speaker 11: you know, I can sense the frustration with Lane. We
18:20
Speaker 11: sensed it a couple of times on the road trip.
18:22
Speaker 11: To frustration he had. Part of it. I think too,
18:25
Speaker 11: is that Lane Lambert's trying to change a culture. Yes,
18:29
Speaker 11: and and I think I think he's there's gonna be
18:32
Speaker 11: times when he's trying to change a culture, you're probably
18:34
Speaker 11: going to become frustrated as a coach. And I kind
18:36
Speaker 11: of sense that.
18:37
Speaker 2: There what difference going back here to the fourth line
18:41
Speaker 2: do you see in this lineup so far with and
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Speaker 2: without Jacob Allanson?
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Speaker 11: Well, it's it's it's definitely not the same. And that's
18:51
Speaker 11: not to say that, you know, Millanson. You know, it's
18:54
Speaker 11: not for me to say who should be in the
18:55
Speaker 11: lineup or not. But when Jacob Allanson was in that
18:58
Speaker 11: lineup and it was you know, Milanson and Myers and
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Speaker 11: winter ten or Karsier, it was kind of an interesting thing.
19:04
Speaker 11: We had a fourth line that had four guys. You know,
19:06
Speaker 11: sometimes Wentz would move up, uh and it would be
19:09
Speaker 11: you know, car Shia. But nevertheless, that line was a
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Speaker 11: tone setter physically, you know, I'm a four check and
19:17
Speaker 11: they pressed guys and defensemen had to have their heads
19:19
Speaker 11: on a swivel on their own end. I don't think
19:21
Speaker 11: you have that right now with that fourth line. Maybe
19:23
Speaker 11: you can make an argument you have a little bit
19:25
Speaker 11: more skill and if it drows down there, you have
19:27
Speaker 11: a lot more skill.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 11: Freddie's a really still player. It's got to be hard
19:31
Speaker 11: for him, right. I mean you're playing your top six
19:33
Speaker 11: one day, top nine next, next, next, and you're now
19:36
Speaker 11: in a fourth line again. So you know, I think
19:39
Speaker 11: Lane's still trying to find what combinations work. Obviously we
19:41
Speaker 11: had some blind juggling in Utah as well, so I
19:46
Speaker 11: think with all those things being said that it's still
19:48
Speaker 11: work in progress. Mike, it is, and and you know,
19:52
Speaker 11: I think Lane's trying to figure like you just talked
19:54
Speaker 11: about the you know, whether the effort that you have
19:57
Speaker 11: when trying to figure that out, and he's trying to
19:58
Speaker 11: figure out what but uh, a line combinations work in
20:01
Speaker 11: which guys are really willing to pay the price, and
20:04
Speaker 11: it's going to be something that he's gonna I said,
20:06
Speaker 11: he's building a culture and that probably doesn't happen overnight.
20:09
Speaker 11: We're gonna ask highs and lows. But I still like
20:11
Speaker 11: what these guys are. I really like where they're at.
20:13
Speaker 11: I mean, they're they're fine, They're they're in the mix,
20:15
Speaker 11: and that's that's what you ask for in a very
20:18
Speaker 11: tight Western conference. They're in the mix. And as you mentioned,
20:21
Speaker 11: I think it's a great point. And this is the
20:23
Speaker 11: this is a big homestand coming up.
20:25
Speaker 2: Who surprises you the most as far as who's in
20:27
Speaker 2: this next whether it might be Utah or still even
20:30
Speaker 2: San Jose or Anaheim hanging around, the King's hanging around,
20:34
Speaker 2: or even Nashville hanging around as well.
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Speaker 11: Well, Nashville kind of coming on lately. And I think
20:40
Speaker 11: it's hard to answer because it feels like every week
20:42
Speaker 11: it's somebody different, you know, I mean before before they
20:45
Speaker 11: started last week, it was Seattle right right, and you know,
20:50
Speaker 11: as you go through there, it's like basically everybody at
20:52
Speaker 11: the conference except for Vancouver seems to have like their
20:55
Speaker 11: glimpses or their glimmers of both. So, uh, maybe Calgary
20:59
Speaker 11: with the moves they made on uh, it's kind of
21:01
Speaker 11: tapping out, I guess. But you know, I think I
21:06
Speaker 11: don't even know, because it just it seems like it
21:08
Speaker 11: changes by the day and maybe by the week. It changes.
21:10
Speaker 11: Like I said, like two weeks ago, Seattle would have
21:13
Speaker 11: been that team this past week San Jose, I mean,
21:15
Speaker 11: it just it changes every week.
21:17
Speaker 2: Matchup two coming up here against Pittsburgh where the Kraken
21:20
Speaker 2: will face Sidney Crosby and Evgetty Mulk and the crack
21:23
Speaker 2: And won the first matchup three to two back in
21:26
Speaker 2: November in sudden death over time man. The Penguins, no surprise,
21:31
Speaker 2: second best power play in the NHL, penalty kill, fifth
21:34
Speaker 2: best in the NHL, goals allowed ten best in the
21:40
Speaker 2: NHL as well. The Penguins also six to two and
21:44
Speaker 2: two in the last ten games. Just I mean, when
21:47
Speaker 2: you think about it, me for as good as Lane
21:49
Speaker 2: Lambert has been here for the crack and to get
21:51
Speaker 2: them in the playoff next. I mean, Dann muse my goodness,
21:53
Speaker 2: he is doing a bang up job right now keeping
21:56
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh in the thick of it right now, third place
21:59
Speaker 2: in the Metro Division. Sidney Crosby is once again doing
22:02
Speaker 2: Sidney Crosby things of getting Malkin producing as a winger
22:07
Speaker 2: on the second line. So Ian I kind of tee
22:09
Speaker 2: this up here. Chandler steven sending getty matchups this season,
22:13
Speaker 2: Maddy Banier is getting key matchups this season. How much
22:17
Speaker 2: do you look at this as far as this game
22:19
Speaker 2: coming up where matchups could matter.
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Speaker 11: Well, I think it's obvious Laning likes to match when
22:25
Speaker 11: it can, especially with Chandler Stevenson. I was specifically with Stevie,
22:30
Speaker 11: but you know you mentioned it, you know, Malkin's on
22:33
Speaker 11: that so called second line, you know, and they've got
22:37
Speaker 11: you know, their top their top six really hot. You know,
22:40
Speaker 11: it's kind of heavy in terms of talent level. It
22:44
Speaker 11: drops off a little bit after that's off six. You know,
22:48
Speaker 11: they've got they have. It's interesting. Their fourth line is
22:51
Speaker 11: kind of what you want to have. The fourth line
22:53
Speaker 11: got a little bit more skill, you know, they got
22:55
Speaker 11: a little bit more skill, and they got they got
22:57
Speaker 11: some more more scoring. But they they therefore line as
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Speaker 11: a tone setter. So yeah, I I but I don't know,
23:04
Speaker 11: it'd be interesting to see because I think the biggest
23:06
Speaker 11: thing is just you mentioned it to the only box thinks, right,
23:10
Speaker 11: you just gotta say stay out of the family box.
23:12
Speaker 11: Don't do that. The interesting I'm assuming we'll see Skinner. Uh,
23:16
Speaker 11: since they've been they've been alternating their goalies a lot.
23:18
Speaker 11: Uh and she Laves went on on the last game,
23:22
Speaker 11: so I would assume its Skinner, and Skinner's been kind
23:24
Speaker 11: of yes and no, I mean Philip Skinners and right, yeah,
23:31
Speaker 11: so but I mean, I it's it's the start of
23:35
Speaker 11: a home stand, it's a day game. It's a little
23:37
Speaker 11: bit different in that regards. It's funny back to back
23:39
Speaker 11: two pm starts uh for Seattle and and low two
23:42
Speaker 11: pm local time. At least it was three obviously in Utah.
23:45
Speaker 11: So yeah, I gotta sail the money box because you
23:47
Speaker 11: put you put that group, uh, because is their power
23:51
Speaker 11: play is what you would expect, you know. I mean
23:53
Speaker 11: it's especially with you know, with an injury. Let's hags
23:57
Speaker 11: back on the number one power play, Quel is you
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Speaker 11: can finish Malkin obviously, Sydney Cross, Ryan Ross, they got skill,
24:06
Speaker 11: they got a lot of skill.
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Speaker 2: And speaking of that fourth line, by the way, Noel
24:10
Speaker 2: Achari Blake Lazatte in the Middleland, a name familiar to
24:14
Speaker 2: the Pacific Northwest. Yes, Connor Doer as well.
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Speaker 3: Gonna be a fun one two pm.
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Speaker 2: Mattine coming up, Mayor, appreciate you have a great show,
24:23
Speaker 2: have a great.
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Speaker 3: Call, my friend.
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Speaker 11: Thanks Mike Y else at the rink.
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Speaker 3: All right, Mayor, thank you very much.
24:28
Speaker 2: Dad, See and for Nest joining us once again heard
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24:39
Speaker 2: coming up here for today's game. This matchup is the
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Speaker 2: second of two coming up here for these two teams
24:46
Speaker 2: pretty evenly matched up as well as far as Holman
24:48
Speaker 2: road record the Crack in ten seven and five on
24:52
Speaker 2: home ice, the Penguins eleven seven and four on the road,
24:56
Speaker 2: and those two centaters who we talked about who could
24:58
Speaker 2: be in a matchup situation, they've also got a bit
25:00
Speaker 2: of a hot hand coming into this game. Bo Chandler
25:03
Speaker 2: Stevenson and Sidney Crosby looking to push their goal scoring
25:07
Speaker 2: streaks now to three consecutive games. Stevenson right now second
25:13
Speaker 2: on the Crack and with thirteen goals in forty five games.
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Speaker 3: Crosby, no surprise.
25:19
Speaker 2: Twenty six goals in forty seven games, also with fifty
25:22
Speaker 2: three points on the campaign. On the injury side, goaltender
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Speaker 2: Matt Murray remains on injury reserve, but Lane Lambert telling
25:29
Speaker 2: the media on Sunday that he is quote progressing end
25:33
Speaker 2: quote to the point where he's quote almost ready, so
25:36
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens end quote. The Penguins also down
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Speaker 2: defenseman Eric Carlson, losing into a lower body injury just
25:43
Speaker 2: this last week, but within a two week timetable, he's
25:46
Speaker 2: already making rapid progression showing back up in a recent
25:49
Speaker 2: practice in a non contact jersey, and reports say he
25:53
Speaker 2: will travel on this road trip here with the Penguins.
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Speaker 3: Gonna be a fun one.
25:58
Speaker 2: The only time Sidney Crosby of Getty Malkin and Crew
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Speaker 2: rolling to climbate Pledgerina.
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Speaker 3: For this regular season.
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