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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert with Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken/Predators (3/10) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike.
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: Lane seven and four lost to Ottawa a couple of
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: months ago. Postgame, not too happy, didn't mince any words
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: about the performance of the crack and on that contest.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Just take us through your thoughts and where you felt
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: it went wrong.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: For your group.
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  Speaker 3: It's just, you know, for me, it was a combination
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: of so many different.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Things that I could you know, I could be sitting.
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: Here talking about it for an hour. It was It
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  Speaker 3: just wasn't a good hockey game for a team. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, sometimes you say, okay, let's wipe that game
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  Speaker 3: away and move on to the next one, and you
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  Speaker 3: have to do that. But certainly we went over some
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: things in that game, because for me, this has probably happened,
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: you know, twice in the last six games since we've
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: come out of the break where we're just really not
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: very good and you know, it's crunch time. We need
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: to be better, you know, so they just you know,
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  Speaker 3: they exposed us. They exposed us, you know, defensively, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they made plays through us.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: We weren't physical enough.
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  Speaker 3: But the bottom line is that, you know, we can
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: live with not winning a hockey game as long as
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  Speaker 3: we compete with emotion.
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  Speaker 1: And I just didn't see.
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  Speaker 2: Enough of that in the six games out of the break.
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  Speaker 2: The results probably have not been where I think you
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  Speaker 2: were the scroup wud have liked them to be.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel that there's maybe a larger issue for the.
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: Kraken or is this just something where they have to
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: dial in these last twenty games. Is there something specific
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  Speaker 2: you can point to as to why there's team's been
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: struggling in these last six games?
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: Well, right now, I think going into the going into
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  Speaker 3: the break, we were really connected.
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  Speaker 1: We're a hockey team that you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, we don't have any superstars, and you know we
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: have to be connected with five guys, and I think
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  Speaker 3: for whatever reason, you know, we have played a little
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  Speaker 3: bit disconnected.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know that was the focus of practice yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned earlier this morning that you'd like to see
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  Speaker 2: more from that nine forward group.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: What steps can you take?
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  Speaker 2: Can they take to generate more offense and find ways
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  Speaker 2: to create more offensively for this.
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  Speaker 3: Deep Well, it's like anything else, right you you know,
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  Speaker 3: when you start to you know, not have success, to
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: start to squeeze your stick, they got to play with
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  Speaker 3: some confidence, they got to play with some swagger, and
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: you know, for me, it's make more plays, make more plays,
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  Speaker 3: move our feet, let's run our routes properly. You'll get
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  Speaker 3: the puck back and then you know, let's generate more
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  Speaker 3: opportunities and more shots on that. But certainly, you know,
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: our power play needs to get going here, you know,
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  Speaker 3: since the break, you know, I mean before the break
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  Speaker 3: we had. You know, they really did a great job
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  Speaker 3: through the month of January through February scoring.
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  Speaker 4: Big goals for us. So that's a big piece of
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  Speaker 4: the puzzle, and it always bleeds in with the offensive
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  Speaker 4: guys that are playing on the power play to five
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  Speaker 4: on five you're having success, it bleeds into five on
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  Speaker 4: five success because they.
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  Speaker 3: Feel good about each other and feel good about themselves.
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  Speaker 3: And if they aren't having success, that also leads in.
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  Speaker 1: So you have to have a short term memory here,
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  Speaker 1: and they've got to get going.
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  Speaker 2: Bobby McMahon hit the ice yesterday for the first time
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  Speaker 2: in practice. Sounds like he's a couple of days away
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  Speaker 2: still with immigration and all of that. But what did
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  Speaker 2: you think about his first turns with the krakend yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And fitting in with his new teammates.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's you know, for the most party
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  Speaker 3: he knows how I want him to play, but they made.
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  Speaker 1: Some changes in Toronto this year.
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  Speaker 3: Defensively that you know, I've just got to get him
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  Speaker 3: out of those habits, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And we need Bobby McMahon.
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  Speaker 3: We traded for him for a reason and it's really
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  Speaker 3: unfortunate that he's not able.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: To play at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Nashville one of those teams you mentioned this morning as well,
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  Speaker 2: probably the best in terms of getting towards the net.
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  Speaker 2: They are right on your heels in that playoff race
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  Speaker 2: here in the Western Conference. I mean two parterre here.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: Just how big of a game is this tonight for
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  Speaker 2: your group? And what do you need to see for
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  Speaker 2: this team to take two points?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's you know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: teams that are right on our heels. If you look
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  Speaker 3: at standings, you know it's LA and San Jose Air
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  Speaker 3: one point behind us. Now, yeah, you have a little
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: bit of a bad stretch and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: things tighten up, there's ground or if you have a
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: good stretch, you can gain some gain, some separation or
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  Speaker 3: close the gap.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we still have our sights on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Edmonton and you know Vegas and Anaheim. But
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: we got to start winning some hockey games here, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And for us, the Nashville Predators are a team that
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  Speaker 3: are right behind us. We're in the same race as them.
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  Speaker 3: And what I'm looking for out of our team tonight
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  Speaker 3: is to come out and compete, and compete with the
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  Speaker 3: motion and let the chips fall where they may. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I've said from day one, as long as we leave
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  Speaker 3: it all out there, we'll live with the results.
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  Speaker 1: It's when.
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  Speaker 3: You know, for whatever reason, whether it be you know,
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  Speaker 3: get down a couple of goals and get discouraged and
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  Speaker 3: you know, lose that emotion, you know that I can't
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  Speaker 3: live with that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't accept that. So let's play with the emotion.
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  Speaker 3: Let's play our game, our way, and let's see what
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  Speaker 3: happens on the scoreboard from there.