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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: McMann your battle stations (10/28) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: It's been cool coming to Seattle because I think so
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  Speaker 1: many people are excited for how new this team is
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  Speaker 1: and it feels like there's deep roots of being fans
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  Speaker 1: of this team and the energy in our rink has
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  Speaker 1: been exceptional.
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  Speaker 2: I think this team feeds off that energy. I think
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  Speaker 2: we feel that.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a really nice home crowd that I felt
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  Speaker 1: coming here which has been super special and I feel
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  Speaker 1: like that's been propelling us to.
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  Speaker 2: The start of the season and even late last season.
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  Speaker 1: Where things weren't going as well for us, we were
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  Speaker 1: still feeling support of that crowd that was that was
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  Speaker 1: something that was really special so it's definitely an adjustment
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  Speaker 1: going from such a historic organization where they have so
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  Speaker 1: many systems in place and things have been there for
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  Speaker 1: a long long time we're here we're still trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure things out a little bit and find our find
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  Speaker 1: our rhythm, but we're definitely excited about the culture that's
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  Speaker 1: being built here and the guys that we have around here.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Kraken This Morning, a presentation of the Kraken
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  Speaker 3: Audio Network and Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 4: The words you just heard came from Bobby McMahon, formerly
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  Speaker 4: of the Toronto Maple Leafs, now with the Kraken on
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  Speaker 4: a brand new six-year deal and facing his former teammates,
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  Speaker 4: for the first time since last year's trade in March.
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  Speaker 4: Should be a fun one tonight. Welcome to Kraken this
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  Speaker 4: morning on a Wednesday, October 28th. The Seattle Kraken take
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  Speaker 4: on the Toronto Maple Leafs for the first of two matchups,
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  Speaker 4: and we have all the action for you coming up
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  Speaker 4: this evening, 7 o'clock Pacific time from Climate Pledge Arena.
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  Speaker 4: Everett Fitzhugh, Al Koniski, of course, on the call. I'll
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  Speaker 4: join you once again back by the Coors Light landing
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  Speaker 4: in Section 2630 Airtime. with post-game coverage up to an
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  Speaker 4: hour after the final horn. From Tom's Wash Bar, hope
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  Speaker 4: that you can certainly join us on 93.3 KJRFM and
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  Speaker 4: the Global Credit Union Kraken Audio Network. We will hear
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  Speaker 4: from McMahon shortly. He was part of a media conference
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  Speaker 4: call on Tuesday. Plus, also we'll hear from Scott Laughlin
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  Speaker 4: of SiriusXM, NHL Network Radio's Morning Skate, crystallizing the whole
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  Speaker 4: experience with McMahon, turnover on the roster, Gavin McKenna's immediate impact.
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  Speaker 4: And what are the odds that Kirill Marchenko, who's out
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  Speaker 4: to a hot start, sits or plays after suffering a
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  Speaker 4: scary lower body injury against Calgary on Monday night? The
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  Speaker 4: meaning of this game for the Kraken simply lies in
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  Speaker 4: the fact they can finish their homestand on a very
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  Speaker 4: strong note and pick up their third win in four
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  Speaker 4: games and start the year 4-2 on home ice. There
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  Speaker 4: will be some change, of course, in their lineup, most notably...
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  Speaker 4: Yanni Newman, recalled from AHL Coachella Valley last Saturday, going
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  Speaker 4: to be pressed into duty because Jarrett McCann will be
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  Speaker 4: missing the next 10 weeks with a lower body injury,
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  Speaker 4: taking one of the most accomplished point producers in Kraken
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  Speaker 4: history out until possibly after New Year's Day. Pretty ideal
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  Speaker 4: time for Newman to jump in. He's off to a
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  Speaker 4: red-hot start with nine goals in nine games at the
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  Speaker 4: American Hockey League level. That leads the entire league. And
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  Speaker 4: if practice lines serve any indication, there will be no
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  Speaker 4: sheltering Newman. Taking reps at five-on-five with Chandler Stevenson as
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  Speaker 4: his center is and Mackie Samuskevich on the opposite wing. That,
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  Speaker 4: in effect, also moves the Kraken bottom six right back
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  Speaker 4: to working order where it was previously before last weekend
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  Speaker 4: with Capococco on the left wing, Berkley Catton in the middle,
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  Speaker 4: and Shane Wright on the right wing. That trio had
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  Speaker 4: turned plenty of heads and had been very productive. surface numbers,
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  Speaker 4: and analytically. Additionally, the bottom six reunites Ben Myers on
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  Speaker 4: the left wing, Freddie Goudreau in the middle, and possibly
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  Speaker 4: Ryan Winterton on the right wing, leaving your only other
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  Speaker 4: change out of the top line with... Andy Beneers at center,
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  Speaker 4: Jordan Eberle on the right wing, and guess who on
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  Speaker 4: the left wing? Bobby McMahon, who takes a spotlight here tonight.
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  Speaker 4: He'll face his former team in the Leaves, previously off
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  Speaker 4: a 5-2 loss to Calgary. They had won four games
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  Speaker 4: in a row, but are going through a massive injury bug,
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  Speaker 4: just like the rest of the entire league. Out right
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  Speaker 4: now include the following. Nick Blankenberg, Chris Tanev, Max Domi,
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  Speaker 4: Miles Wood, Dakota Joshua, Marshall Riffey, goaltender Elvis Merzlikens, John Tavares,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll wait and see on Kirill Marchenko, who's got
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  Speaker 4: 14 points in his first 14 games, but exited Monday
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  Speaker 4: in Calgary with a lower body injury. His timetable... undetermined
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  Speaker 4: as of the end of Tuesday night. Aside from that,
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  Speaker 4: the Kraken had to deal once again with Austin Matthews
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  Speaker 4: off to a 20-point and 14-game start. William Nylander just
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  Speaker 4: one point behind. Easton Cowan, the youngster at 21 years
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  Speaker 4: of age, 13 points in just 14 games. And Prodigy
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  Speaker 4: forward Gavin McKenna picked first overall this last summer and
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  Speaker 4: at just 18 years of age already owns eight points.
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  Speaker 4: in his first 14 games. Special teams could be a
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  Speaker 4: big part of the conversation. Toronto owning by the end
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  Speaker 4: of Tuesday night the fifth best power play in the
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  Speaker 4: entire NHL at 28% and the top ranked penalty kill
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  Speaker 4: squashing 44 of their first 47 chances. So the Kraken
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  Speaker 4: trying to make it three wins in a row over
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  Speaker 4: Toronto in this head-to-head series and doing so now with
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  Speaker 4: two foam reliefs on their side in McMahon, and of course,
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  Speaker 4: head coach Lane Lambert, who was an associate coach two
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  Speaker 4: years ago under Craig Berube. To get ready for McMahon's
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  Speaker 4: first game facing the Leafs, he joined a media conference
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  Speaker 4: call Tuesday offering his thoughts on facing his former team
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  Speaker 4: for the first time since last year's trade deadline.
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  Speaker 5: It'll be good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for it.
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  Speaker 1: Always like playing familiar teams, playing against guys that I've
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  Speaker 1: seen a lot, obviously, in practice and stuff, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited for it and should be a good one.
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  Speaker 6: How do you look back on your time with the Leafs?
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  Speaker 6: What stood out the most?
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  Speaker 1: I think just the memories of that city and how
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  Speaker 1: much people care about the team there. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: special every game you get to wear that jersey with
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  Speaker 1: how historic that organization is. I was thankful for that
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  Speaker 1: every time that I was able to do that. And
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  Speaker 1: then you just feel the energy around that city and
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  Speaker 1: how much people care for every single game, for making
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  Speaker 1: it to the playoffs, for every round that you can
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  Speaker 1: win there. every little bit of effort that you put in,
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  Speaker 1: I think is really rewarded and how much people care.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that that's what makes that place, uh,
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  Speaker 1: special to play in.
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  Speaker 7: First things first, like you, a lot of your, your
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  Speaker 7: close friends, um, you know, Matthew, Joseph, Simone, they've also
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  Speaker 7: left the team. Have you kept in touch with those
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  Speaker 7: guys and what do you make of kind of the
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  Speaker 7: massive overhaul in the roster since you left?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I was just thinking about that a little bit today, um,
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  Speaker 1: about how many guys that, um, I would go to
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  Speaker 1: dinner with or hang around with or spend time with
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  Speaker 1: away from the rink that aren't there anymore. It's a,
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  Speaker 1: it's a pretty crazy turnover. Um, definitely keeping in contact
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  Speaker 1: with those guys. Um, and just, it's crazy to see
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  Speaker 1: the difference in that, the team that, that they have
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  Speaker 1: now there. Um, and it's, it's a very different look. It's, um,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of, a lot of moving pieces and I
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  Speaker 1: think there's a lot to be fit in together there, but, um, yeah, definitely,
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  Speaker 1: definitely a lot of turnover and, a different look.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just curious for you personally, Bobby, like the Leafs
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  Speaker 7: were the only NHL organization you knew. They didn't draft you,
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  Speaker 7: they developed you. What's it been like for you personally
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  Speaker 7: to make that adjustment from Toronto to Seattle?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's different. A very historic organization to
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  Speaker 1: one of the newest ones here. So it's been interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I've been able to pull some stuff that I learned
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  Speaker 1: in Toronto and take it here. And then they're also
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  Speaker 1: very progressive here on how they want to look at
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  Speaker 1: the newest things, the newest performance things, the newest strategies,
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  Speaker 1: the newest ways of coaching, like all those things combined
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  Speaker 1: to try and push guys to be their best here
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  Speaker 1: and push our team to be the best and as
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  Speaker 1: competitive as possible. So I think it's been great. I'm
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  Speaker 1: really happy I got to see that side of it.
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  Speaker 1: and how that organization has run for so long and
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  Speaker 1: be a part of that and develop in that system
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  Speaker 1: because they do have a really good set up there
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  Speaker 1: and was able to get my game to a really
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  Speaker 1: good spot and then take that to here where they're
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  Speaker 1: really trying to push for a great culture and try
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  Speaker 1: and be really competitive here. And I'm excited to be
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  Speaker 1: a part of that here.
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  Speaker 8: Just wondering, you know, obviously you locked in the six-year
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  Speaker 8: deal in the offseason. What went into that decision to
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  Speaker 8: sort of lock in long-term and what did it mean
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  Speaker 8: to you?
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  Speaker 2: I think that security is huge.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've always dreamed of signing a long-term deal
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  Speaker 1: in the NHL and playing, knowing that I'd be playing
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  Speaker 1: for a while in this league, because this is, this
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  Speaker 1: is the one you dream as dream of as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that was super special for me. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a lot of work to, to
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  Speaker 1: get to that point. And then now it's, it's been
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  Speaker 1: special because I can continue to work and continue to
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  Speaker 1: try and push to be the best player that I
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  Speaker 1: can be and continue to, to work at my game
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  Speaker 1: and try and contribute to this team as, as much
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  Speaker 1: as I possibly can.
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  Speaker 8: Bobby, just to follow up, I saw, you know, the,
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  Speaker 8: the story out of Wainwright, your hometown recently has been
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  Speaker 8: quite tragic. I just wondered how you process that and
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  Speaker 8: whether or not you knew anybody that was directly affected
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  Speaker 8: by that tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely a tragedy and something that has been hard
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  Speaker 1: for that town.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the.
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  Speaker 1: Canadian Armed Forces are immersed in that town all the
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  Speaker 1: way through that.
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  Speaker 2: Community, a big part of it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a sad day for sure, but also a
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  Speaker 1: lot of great people that jumped up and had all
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  Speaker 1: hands on deck and were a big part of getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people the help that they needed. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that that was something that should definitely be
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  Speaker 1: noted and the amount of people that pull together in
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  Speaker 1: a small community like that to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: saving people and getting them to places where they needed
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  Speaker 1: to go to get the help that they needed. And
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of that community in a nutshell is like
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  Speaker 1: anybody's willing to jump up and be a part of that.
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  Speaker 1: So definitely a sad day and we'll remember those that
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  Speaker 1: were directly affected by it.
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  Speaker 6: Bobby, you mentioned all the turnover. I'm wondering, though, if
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  Speaker 6: you're still in touch with some of the guys leading
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  Speaker 6: into this game, if you're hoping to catch up with
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  Speaker 6: anyone leading.
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  Speaker 4: Into the game.
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  Speaker 2: No friends right now until the game's over.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm sure there'll be some contact with some guys
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  Speaker 1: and just seeing what they're up to and seeing how
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  Speaker 1: they're doing.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm just wondering, just spending time around Austin, playing
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  Speaker 6: with him, what was your takeaway from that?
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  Speaker 1: I think you just see how intentional he is with
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  Speaker 1: everything that he does. There's a reason he scores so
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  Speaker 1: many goals and is so dynamic offensively. He's intentional with everything,
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  Speaker 1: with all of his practice reps, with all of his
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  Speaker 1: game reps, with the way that he approaches the game.
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  Speaker 1: He's a true professional. He tries to get everything he
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  Speaker 1: possibly can out of himself, and he expects a ton
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  Speaker 1: out of himself. So you don't get to that spot
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  Speaker 1: without putting in a ton of work and being very
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  Speaker 1: deliberate with the things that you're doing. So I think
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  Speaker 1: I had a ton of respect for him being there
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  Speaker 1: and I still do. And the way that he plays
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  Speaker 1: the game, it's, it's a very, very competitive style of
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  Speaker 1: game that he plays. And there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: that he does off the puck as well. That's not
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  Speaker 1: just scoring goals. So a ton of good things that
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  Speaker 1: I've learned from him and that I could say about him.
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  Speaker 7: Bobby, if I could just ask you about two of
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  Speaker 7: your boys who were, you know, moved from the organization,
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  Speaker 7: Matt and I's and Joseph wall. I wondered if you
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  Speaker 7: could just share what you've seen from them since their
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  Speaker 7: moves and, and what, kind of communication you've had with them.
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  Speaker 7: And also again, maybe what we don't see about how
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  Speaker 7: difficult it is to move from the only organization you've
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  Speaker 7: known to a new one.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think they've been doing well.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's, there's a, there's a huge curve that
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  Speaker 1: comes with being traded and it's, comes down to like
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  Speaker 1: the littlest things of like what where you go now
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  Speaker 1: that you're at the home side of that rink like
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  Speaker 1: how what door do you go and like who do
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  Speaker 1: you talk to to like know where to go like
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  Speaker 1: all those things are pieces that become second nature eventually
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  Speaker 1: once you start to find your footing in a new
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  Speaker 1: place but all those like little things of the traffic
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  Speaker 1: on the way the rink are all decisions that you
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  Speaker 1: have to make trying to figure out and navigate your
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  Speaker 1: life in a new city and I think that like
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  Speaker 1: talking with those guys that's that's kind of the hardest
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  Speaker 1: part of that adjustment is and going to a new
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  Speaker 1: city because you start to compare it to Toronto and
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  Speaker 1: be like, well, this drive was this long or, um,
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  Speaker 1: I could do this in Toronto and I just have
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  Speaker 1: to find a way to, to make that work in
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  Speaker 1: this new city. But then eventually you do and things,
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  Speaker 1: things start to work out.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, we played Philly this year.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Waller's place, uh, checked out his house
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  Speaker 1: there and, um, and like kind of just talk to
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  Speaker 1: him about.
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  Speaker 2: What it's like being traded. It's just crazy because it
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  Speaker 2: happens so fast. And he's like, nice.
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  Speaker 1: He's little bit harder because it was right before the
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  Speaker 1: season one day before the season so that was that
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  Speaker 1: was harder for him but waller had some time in
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  Speaker 1: the summer to to make the move and get all
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  Speaker 1: his stuff there and find a place and all those
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  Speaker 1: things it's like you're moving if you have kids like
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  Speaker 1: you're moving your family um your girlfriend wife whatever it
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  Speaker 1: is and all those pieces are are difficult and once
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  Speaker 1: you can settle them it's it's a little bit easier
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  Speaker 1: to focus on the hockey side of it um and
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of i think that something like we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about but I think you can find your groove anywhere
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  Speaker 1: that it is, and other teams are offering things that
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  Speaker 1: maybe you didn't have in your previous spot, or you
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  Speaker 1: can make connections that you weren't able to in your
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  Speaker 1: previous spot. So I think there's pieces to it where
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you're going to struggle, but there's also
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  Speaker 1: things that you get excited about as well.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, now that you've spent a significant amount of
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  Speaker 8: time in Seattle playing, I mean, I was just curious
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  Speaker 8: about how would you sort of compare and contrast the
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  Speaker 8: experience of being an NHL player in Toronto versus Seattle?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel, uh, I feel like the, the size
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  Speaker 1: of the city in Toronto and the amount of people
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  Speaker 1: that are hockey fans there is definitely, uh, a bigger
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  Speaker 1: and widespread, uh, wider spread fan base. Um, and you
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  Speaker 1: feel that, but it's been, it's been cool coming to
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  Speaker 1: Seattle because I think so many people are excited for
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  Speaker 1: how new this team is. And it feels like there's
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  Speaker 1: deep roots of, uh, being fans of this team and,
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  Speaker 1: and the energy in our rink has been exceptional.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I think this team feeds off that energy. I
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  Speaker 2: think we feel that.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a really nice home crowd that I felt
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  Speaker 1: coming here, which has been super special. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: like that's been propelling us to the start of the season.
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  Speaker 1: And even late last season where things weren't going as
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  Speaker 1: well for us, we were still feeling the support of
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  Speaker 1: that crowd. That was something that was really special. So
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely an adjustment going from such a historic organization
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  Speaker 1: where they have so many systems in place and things
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  Speaker 1: have been there for a long, long time. We're here,
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  Speaker 1: we're still trying to Um, figure things out a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and, um, find our. find our rhythm, but we're
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  Speaker 1: definitely excited about the culture that's being built here and
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  Speaker 1: the guys that we have around here.
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  Speaker 4: With that conversation in the books, a lot of attention
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  Speaker 4: here in different areas for the Kraken and the Leafs,
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  Speaker 4: and the first time they will square up here for
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: this regular season. Great friend of ours for Kraken this
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  Speaker 4: morning joining us right now, he is Scott Laughlin. He's
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  Speaker 4: a big piece of the core for SiriusXM NHL Network Radio.
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  Speaker 4: and host of Morning Skate. Scott joins us right now
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  Speaker 4: on Kraken this morning. Scott, how are you? And I
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: first have to ask, allegedly two-thirds of the NHL hometown
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: remix jerseys have been leaked here to the public. We
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: know it's not official, of course, until official, but the Leafs,
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  Speaker 4: by all that it appears, cream-colored base and a logo
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  Speaker 4: that literally takes us back a hundred years. So if
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  Speaker 4: this is happening, what's your reaction?
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  Speaker 5: Well, look, I think, Mike, any time that an original
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  Speaker 5: six team decides to get in on this action, and look,
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  Speaker 5: we've seen all kinds of third jerseys come about over
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  Speaker 5: the years, and the Leafs have had a salute to
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: the Toronto St. Pats and teams like that in decades
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  Speaker 5: gone by and years gone by. It always obviously meets
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: with a little bit of skepticism just because a lot
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: of people believe original six, they shouldn't be touched in
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: any way, shape, or form. You should have two sweaters,
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: and that's exactly what the players should wear, so it's
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: We'll wait and see. If and when it becomes official,
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: it'll become a big talking point. And again, I guess
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: we've got to get here into the 2026-2027 sort of mindset.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: And from that standpoint, obviously, it's going to mean a
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: lot in terms of financial revenue that the Leafs and
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: the league can pull in. And from that extent, it'll
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: obviously be a good thing for the Toronto Maple Leafs franchise.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly as a business game, without a question, and
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: bottom line. And it's kind of funny how you kind
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: of put it into a box. It's kind of like
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: how Major League teams are. You don't mess much here
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: with the Dodgers jerseys, the Yankees jerseys, the Cubs jerseys. Leafs, Montreal, Detroit,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: et cetera, in that same boat. But the reaction is
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: going to be very, very. Interesting. Bobby McMahon is going
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: to be front and center of this matchup, of course.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: And we have waited here on this for a while.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: And while the hockey world is a small world, the
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: degree that guys set competitive boundaries, it varies from player
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: to player, Scott, as you know. I mean, McMahon's old school.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: And we're asked in a media conference call today if
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: he's going to be in touch with some old teammates
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: up until game time. He put that to bed with, quote-unquote,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: no friends, end quote, and with a smile. He led
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: the stretch circle after practice Tuesday. So this is going
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: to be fun. How do you define Bobby McMahon's time
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: in Toronto and the measure of this trade that went
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: down last season?
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Well, I think, Mike, when you look at Bobby McMahon,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: a very versatile player. I think his Kraken fans have
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: found out here the last little bit. Very versatile guy.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: A guy that will play on the first line. He
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: can play on the second line. He can play on
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: the third line if He can play with a lot
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: of different players, and you can't really say that about
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: every player out there. You do have to have a
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: particular skill set. You do have to have the ability
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: to win one-on-one battles and to play well with good players.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: I think we're seeing that now in Seattle with Bobby,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: who's really, I think, taken to the crack and what
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: they've had to offer very nicely here as we've seen
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: over the past season plus or so. So I think
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: it's worked out well for him. He was kind of
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: caught in a numbers game, I think, with the Toronto
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Maple Leafs, I think, Mike, when you break it all down.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: They were kind of spoken for in the top six
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: and obviously we've got an injury right now to John Tavares,
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: the least they're dealing with, and now with Kirill Marchenko
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: being banged up to a certain extent as well, they've
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: also got that to deal with. But I just think,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: you know, it was time for a change for him.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: He's making some good money on a good contract out
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: there with the Kraken, and I think that he's with Seattle,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: basically the player that he was with Toronto. And that's
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: a very versatile option that's going to produce for you.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: He's going to score some big goals for you and
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: win those one-on-one battles. So I think he's a real
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: key figure for the Seattle Kraken now and going forward.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, now with Jared McCann out for 10 weeks, here
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: he is all of a sudden, top line left wing
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: with Matty Beneers and Jordan Eberle.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: You mentioned Marchenko. I do want to get to him.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: There has been a ton of turnover, of course, from
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: top to bottom. He's in because out the door goes
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Matthew Nyes, of course, in that trade. So, I mean,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: first off, Marchenko, as you mentioned, banged up last game,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: lower body, it seems, and folks are just kind of hanging.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: on right now with beta breath on his status. But overall,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: 14 points in 14 games. Scott, I would say things
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: are working out right now for him so far in Toronto.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Is there any player maybe, though, from the past on
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: the Leafs that he kind of reminds you of?
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's a great question. That's a great question, Mike.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: He's a big, strong guy that can skate and has
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: got skills. So anybody who fits those characteristics, I think,
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: from years gone by would be a Marchenko type. They
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: went out and made this deal, and I think a
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: lot of people raised their eyebrows. And they kept on
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: asking themselves, why would Matthew Nye even be available in
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: a trade? The last couple of years, there's been a
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: whole lot of trade speculation around Matthew Nye. And the
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: way I always looked at it, Mike, was this. When
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: you look at Toronto, the cupboards have been basically emptied
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: out the past couple of seasons. They haven't had a
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: lot to work with in terms of draft capital, in
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: terms of prospects. They're not exactly brimming with all kinds
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: of prospects, although we can get to, obviously, Easton Cowan
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: and what kind of difference he's making for the Toronto
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Maple Leafs this particular season. And obviously, Gavin McKenna is
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: going to be a bit of a work in progress
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: here as the first overall pick from a couple of
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: months ago at the draft in Buffalo. But that being said,
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: I think they dangled Matthew Nyes out there because they
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: wanted to improve They think that Marchenko is a guy
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: that's been a 30-goal scorer that can get to 40
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: and who knows what after that. The fact that he's
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: banged up right now certainly is a little bit of
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: a monkey wrench going into the game against the Kraken
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: and beyond, perhaps. But I think he's that type of
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: guy that they said, hey, Matthew Nyes is an emerging
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: power forward who's going to be a top-six guy probably
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: the rest of his career and is going to get
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: a golden opportunity over the long haul in Columbus to
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: show his wares. But I think at the end of
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: the day, they just like the prolific, dynamic-type talent that
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Marchenko is. Can he be enigmatic?
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Was he one of those guys who was out of
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: shape that Rick Bonas was alluding to once they got
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: going in training camp and through the preseason and such? Perhaps.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: He could be seen in Columbus as being a little
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: bit moody and maybe not fully committed all the time.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: But when he is committed, we know those types of
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: players are very, very dangerous, as he's proven on a
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: couple of different occasions so far this season. So get
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: well soon. They hope to see him back. I don't
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: think it'll be for the game against the Kraken, however.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: He can certainly shoot the puck no matter how you
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: slice it. Scott Laughlin joining us once again here. from
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: SiriusXM NHL Network Radio as a part of Kraken this
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: morning here for the Kraken and the Leafs. And Scott,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: you mentioned Easton Cowan getting top-line ice time recently with
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Austin Matthews. 13 points so far in 14 games. He
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: is well on his way to obliterating his rookie totals
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: from last season. What have you seen as far as
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: the steps that he's taken here in his second year?
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Well, he's a guy with a whole lot of compete.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: He's not the biggest guy, as you'll see, obviously, and
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: have seen Mike, of course. He's not the biggest guy
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: on the ice, but he's got a real, real big heart.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: He does compete. He doesn't back down. The game against Calgary,
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: I think it was Zane Perak that he was kind
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: of pushing around and shoving, and maybe they were going
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: to get into something. And all of a sudden, Zane
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Perak peeled off, and there was big Martin Pospisil there.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: who's about six inches taller than Cowan is, and he
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: wasn't backing down. Now, granted, in the Calgary game that
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: they lost, he took a couple of undisciplined penalties, got benched,
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: and then came back, was probably going to be better
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: for it in the long run. But he's the type
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: of guy that going back to his junior days with
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: the London Knights, he had a 56-game point streak in
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: the Ontario Hockey League at one point. So that tells
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: you that the kid's got all kinds of skill, and
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: when you combine the skill with the compete and the
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: heart that he shows out there on the ice... And
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: everybody talked about McKenna coming in here for obvious reasons,
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: but Cowan's kind of surpassed him. Whereas Cowan started on
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: the third line and McKenna started on the second, they've
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: kind of flip-flopped at times during the course of this
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: young season for Jim Hiller. So I think that Cowan
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: has certainly earned his responsibility and the increased time on ice.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: He's made the most of it, and this guy looks
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: like he's going to be a player for quite some
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: time to come with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He's been
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: a godsend, especially given lately the injury, of course, to
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: John Tavares.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Gavin McKenna, 18 years of age, first overall pick last summer,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: and he's got eight points in 14 games. How do
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: you define healthy expectations for him this year?
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Well, I said before the season, I think that realistically,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: if you could get 60 points out of him, I
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: think that that would be what you'd be aiming for.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: I looked at something like Conor Bedard in Chicago. Now, granted,
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: you look at a kid like McKenna, and he's got
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: more to work with in Toronto than Bedard did when
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: he certainly started as a rookie with the Chicago Blackhawks
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: a couple of years ago. So, I think 20 goals
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: and 40 assists is what I said. He's more of
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: a playmaker than he is a goal scorer. We saw
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: that in the Western Hockey League, and then we saw
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: it at Penn State going back to last season as well.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: He's that type of guy. I think he can be
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: a 20-40 guy. I think you'll see his ice time
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: go up as the season progresses here. Right now, Jim
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Hiller wants to win games. He wants to get off
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: on the right foot with this new-look team. He returns
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: to Toronto this time as the head coach of the Leafs.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: I think he's right now investing in the veterans who
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: he can trust. And those are the types of guys
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: that Jim Hiller feels comfortable putting out there, protecting a
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: one goal lead that he's really put the trust in
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: right now. About a week and a half ago, there
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: was a bit of an uproar around Toronto and the
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: fact that the rookie saw six minutes and 36 seconds, Mike,
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: of ice time. That's it, 636. And when you're in
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: the top pick of the draft in Buffalo a few
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: months ago, and there's so much of a spotlight on you,
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: the fact that you get lost by your head coach,
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: and that's what Hiller explained it as afterwards. He said, look,
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: I lost him. I lost his line. He didn't get
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: as much ice time. It's not on him. It's on me.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: I think in some way, shape, or form, though. This
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: was just Jim Hiller trusting his veterans. He wanted to
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: play his veterans in a clutch situation, in a clutch period.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: And you know how it works, Mike. I mean, you
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: get a couple of power plays against you, and you've
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: got your PK units out there. He is not a
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: part of that right now, so he gets lost in
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: the shuffle to a certain extent. But to make a
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: long story short with Gavin McKenna, I think you'll look
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: to see him get better as the season progresses. I
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: don't think there's going to be any type of a
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: rookie wall for this guy. Even though he is very
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: slender and slight and one of the smallest players in
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: the National Hockey League, I think he's probably going to
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: use his time away from the rink wisely like he
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: did at Penn State. And I think the reality is
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: that he'll get increased responsibility the more he gains the
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: head coach's trust.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: I was just about to ask you, do you feel
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: differently now versus back then as far as level of
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: surprise when McKenna was benched?
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think in retrospect, you know, it just is
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: going to take time. And look, we've seen it with
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: number one picks overall, right? For the most part, you
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: get selected first overall. For the most part, you're going
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: to step right into the NHL. We know Owen Power
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: went to Buffalo and went back to the University of Michigan,
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: had some boxes he had to check off and so
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: on and so forth. But nine times out of ten,
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: if you're the first overall pick, you get thrust into
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: the NHL. There's a lot of responsibility on your plate.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: And usually it comes, Mike, as you know, with a
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: team that's right down to the bottom of the standings.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: In the fact that the Leafs lucked out and won
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: the draft lottery and won the right to select McKenna
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: in the first place, he doesn't have to be the
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: guy who drives it with the Leafs. He has got
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Austin Matthews to do that and William Nylander and John
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Tavares when he's healthy. Guys like that to do it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: We talked about Easton Cowan and his ascension so far
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: this season, too. Marchenko's now a part of it. When healthy,
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: he's going to be a factor as well. So I
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: think it's the best possible situation for McKenna, but there's
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: a lot expected of the number one overall pick. Actually,
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: take it back to Joe Thornton. When Joe Thornton was
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: in his rookie season with the eventual Hall of Fame coach,
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: the late, great Pat Burns, Joe Thornton with the Boston
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Bruins spent about half the season up in the press box,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: watching from above, trying to learn the game. So there's
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: a little bit of old-school learning going on here with
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Gavin McKenna, and I think that relationship, like I said earlier,
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: with the head coach is a continuously evolving type fluid situation.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Do I ever remember that? 7.55 games as an 18-year-old
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: with the Bruins, 41-60, 71-68. By the time we get
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: into the 2Ks, we're thinking, is this guy a bust? Well,
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: then lo and behold, 0-2, 0-3, boom, 101-point season. Then
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: it gets dealt to San Jose, and then the rest
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: is absolutely history. Some guys just take a bit longer.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: than others that's tried and true Scott finally aside from
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: a mention or two in this chat I can't believe
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: we haven't even touched on Austin Matthews yet but just
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: getting into this right now just on this kind of
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: context he wasn't too happy with a delay of game
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: penalty with closing his hand of the puck on a
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: face-off in that 5-2 loss at Calgary that snapped a
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: four-game losing streak so he comes in here still despite
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Tavares out maybe Marchenko as well on the shelf But
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: what kind of a game are we expecting now as
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: the Leafs roll in with a new head coach in
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Jim Hiller?
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Well, I think it starts with Austin Matthews, right? And
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: I think a lot of people said, hey, with all
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: the changes that took place, and there were 10 new
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: players in the lineup on opening night by 10 as
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: compared to last season. So they've had a complete changeover,
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: new head coach, new front office, of course, with John
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Chaka coming in, with Matt Sundin returning to the organization
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: as well. It's been a total turnover, and to that extent,
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: you have to say, okay, it's going to take time.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: And even with the new faces coming in, everybody said
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: at the end of the day, the buck is going
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: to stop with the captain, AM34, Austin Matthews. Maybe he
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: doesn't need to score 69 goals in a season, Mike,
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: any longer, but getting to 50 would be nice. I mean,
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: it's almost imperative that he gets to be that type
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: of player that gets back to competing at the very
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: least for the Rocket Richard Trophy and to go from there.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: We don't know whether or not the last couple of seasons,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: quite frankly, he's been 100% healthy. A couple of seasons ago,
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: in the middle of the night, it was him going
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: off to Germany, somewhat mysteriously, to get an injury looked at,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: to get a second opinion on something. He came back,
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: he played through it, whatever it was, but he looked
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: to be a little bit worse for wear. And we never,
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: ever have gotten down to the bottom of what that
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: injury was for Austin Matthews. Most suspect it was an
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: oblique injury he was dealing with a couple of seasons ago.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Maybe he's finally getting healthy this time around. We know
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: one thing, too. There's been a smile on his face
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: this season that wasn't there last season. In whatever way
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: you want to read into that, you can. Was it
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: something with Craig Berube last season that didn't mesh with
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: the captain of the Leafs? Is it the fact that
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: Jim Hiller maybe has entrusted him a little bit more?
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: Maybe they've got a better working relationship? I don't really
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: know what it is, but it looks like he's happy.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: The club's a couple games over 500 going into the
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: game against the Kraken. and we'll see what they can
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: deliver from there. But there's no doubt that one of
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: the great signs for the Leafs so far is they
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: try to sort things out defensively, get their goaltending right
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: with Bobrovsky, who's been nothing better than average so far
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: coming in. Anthony Stolarz has been a little bit up
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: and a little bit down between the pipes. Defensively, like
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: I said, they're always a bit of a work in progress.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: If there's anything to take from what we've seen in
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: the first eight-plus of the season so far, it's the
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: fact that Austin Matthews looks like he's happy, content, and productive,
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: and that might be the best news of all for
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: Leafs Nation.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: All right, Scott, appreciate you, my man. Keep up the
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: great work. Of course, you are appointment listening in the morning,
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: but we'll catch you down the road. Thank you again
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: for hanging out.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: Anytime, Mike.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: All right, Scott, appreciate you. That's Scott Laughlin joining us
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: here from SiriusXM NHL Network Radio. First of two matchups.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Coming up is the Kraken looking to close out their
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: four-game homestand on a winning note. Airtime tonight, 6.30, face-off
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: a little past 7 o'clock Pacific time, and we certainly
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: hope that you can join us on 93.3 KJRFM. and
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: the Global Credit Union Kraken Audio Network. Big thank you
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: once again to Scott Laughlin and for Kraken this morning.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: I'm Mike Benton. Enjoy the game. Your home for the Kraken.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.