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PREGAME: Everett Fitzhugh with Lane Lambert at Washington (10/21) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike, We're back with cracking heead coach Lane, Lambert Lane.
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  Speaker 1: Your first regulation loss of the season last night in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: Just take us through those sixty minutes in a game
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  Speaker 1: in which it seemed the Kraken just couldn't find their
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  Speaker 1: footing against the Flyers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we couldn't quite find our footing. I thought
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  Speaker 2: we started the game well, we scored, you know, gave
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  Speaker 2: up a tough goal on a on a mistake I guess,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak, you know, to let them back in
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  Speaker 2: at one one, but then had a couple of chances
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  Speaker 2: short handed, had a breakaway, you know, I had a
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  Speaker 2: two on one shorthanded, and you know, we didn't bury those,
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  Speaker 2: and when you don't, you know, at times, things can
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  Speaker 2: come back and haunt you a little bit. They ended
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  Speaker 2: up scoring right away after that on the pedal on
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  Speaker 2: the power play, and and you know, the game just
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  Speaker 2: kind of it got away from us a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I thought we made some maybe some uncharacteristic mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day too, when I
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  Speaker 2: look over that game and I analyze it, it's never
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  Speaker 2: as bad as you think it is, and it's never
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  Speaker 2: as good as you think it is, so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the game was fairly even, to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: when we analyze all the scoring.
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  Speaker 1: Chances first time this season, I guess the crack and really,
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  Speaker 1: at least from a press box view, have gone through
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  Speaker 1: a bit of adversity and couldn't get to that system
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  Speaker 1: and that style. You know in the manner that you
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  Speaker 1: would like. What's the mindset going into back to back?
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  Speaker 1: Some coaches will tell you that, hey, I like the flush,
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  Speaker 1: it put it behind me and move on. What's going
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  Speaker 1: to be that message going into the nanscape.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we talked about it this morning and we you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's certain areas that we have to be better. For me,
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  Speaker 2: it was about individual battles. We weren't hard enough, we
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  Speaker 2: weren't any plays, and we're playing against a team that,
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, is bigger than the team we played
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  Speaker 2: last night. And so what's the message? You know, you
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  Speaker 2: better be ready to go and we've got to win
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  Speaker 2: more battles.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, the Kraken winlessen game two's of back to backs,
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  Speaker 1: different team, different coach. This year, what is your philosophy
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to back to backs and how you
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  Speaker 1: approach these games?
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  Speaker 2: No, excuses. You know, you can get into these games
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  Speaker 2: and you get a rhythm going, but this is where
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  Speaker 2: your structure comes into play. Is there fatigue, Sure, there's
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  Speaker 2: fatigue sometimes, but that's where you have to make sure
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  Speaker 2: they're in the right spots all the time and you
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  Speaker 2: need your goaltender to play well. There's not too many
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  Speaker 2: teams that have a good back to back record that
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  Speaker 2: don't get good goaltending from their goaltenders.
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  Speaker 1: Berkeley Catton is NHL debut last night, gets his first
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  Speaker 1: NHL points. What did you make of his game and
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  Speaker 1: how he's been progressing here through his time practicing, watching
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  Speaker 1: being around this team.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he played for the most part, I thought
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  Speaker 2: he played well. He made a couple of plays, made
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  Speaker 2: a nice playoff of face off, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's like any other player that plays his first
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  Speaker 2: NHL game. You know, the eyes are a little big,
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  Speaker 2: and things are coming at you fast, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see, we'll see where he goes from here tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Looking forward to seeing him in his second.
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  Speaker 1: Game with the Washington Capitals. They returned twenty of their
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  Speaker 1: twenty three players from last year, one of the best
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  Speaker 1: teams in the NHL for the last few seasons. What
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  Speaker 1: do they bring that can be so difficult for your
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  Speaker 1: team to come back? And of course alex Ovechkin still
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  Speaker 1: kicking at forty years old.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they have a you know, like I say,
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  Speaker 2: they got a big lineup. They got a solid defense
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  Speaker 2: group that Scott size. Their forwards are big protus of Vetchkin,
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  Speaker 2: Tom Wilson. You know, they play with pace and they
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  Speaker 2: play hard at the net, and we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to be prepared to get into a war around the
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  Speaker 2: around the paint and our zone and in their zone.
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  Speaker 1: Last one here, Alex Ovechkin closing in on nine hundred goals.
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  Speaker 1: You've had a chance to coach him. I'm sure you've
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  Speaker 1: watched him as a fan as well. What makes him
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  Speaker 1: such a special player and why has he been able
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  Speaker 1: to be so successful, so consistent for so long.
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  Speaker 2: He's just good. You know, he can shoot the pocket
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  Speaker 2: like no other. And I guess really the thing about
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  Speaker 2: it for me is take away everything you know he's
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's two hundred and forty pounds, two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty five pounds. You know, he can play the
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  Speaker 2: game anyway you want to play it. Just sort of
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  Speaker 2: a unique player nobody's ever seen the likes of it.
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  Speaker 2: He is the best goal scorer of all time in
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  Speaker 2: my mind, no question about it. And he loves the game.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably the most most unique thing. That's why he's
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  Speaker 2: been doing it so long. He loves it. He loves
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  Speaker 2: when he scores, he loves when his teammates score, he
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  Speaker 2: loves when they win. So he's just good. He's a
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  Speaker 2: good human being.