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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: 7 games left, onto Winnipeg (4/6) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Kracking this morning, a presentation of the Krack
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  Speaker 1: and Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three
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  Speaker 1: KJR FM. Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 2: Cracking this morning, coming your way from Winnipeg on a Monday,
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  Speaker 2: April sixth, the Crack and take on the Winnipeg Jets
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  Speaker 2: in the final match up this evening four pm. Airtime
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  Speaker 2: based office at little past four thirty pm, once again
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  Speaker 2: on the Global Credit Union Crack and Audio Network. Mike
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  Speaker 2: Benton with you ever, if it's you joining me. Fitz
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  Speaker 2: is going to TV Land here for tonight. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: with you and al Kiniski as well, along with andrews
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  Speaker 2: hurstback at Network Central.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up, we will.
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  Speaker 2: Have more here from the Krack and their reaction from
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  Speaker 2: two nights ago in a lost to Chicago and how
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  Speaker 2: they can get this rope bat together with seven games
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  Speaker 2: left in the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: Everest conversation with me coming.
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  Speaker 2: Up in just a bit against Chicago, they were down
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  Speaker 2: two nothing until the bloodgates nearly opened in.
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  Speaker 3: Period three eight.
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  Speaker 4: Schwartz of the Corner and Fuck Bertley cat right on down,
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  Speaker 4: rebound Taco score Coppo Cocko, right place, right time, The
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  Speaker 4: Krack and.
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  Speaker 2: Back down one five forty two.
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  Speaker 3: Left in regulation.
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  Speaker 4: All the best opportunities come below the dots on the
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  Speaker 4: offensive end of the ice.
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  Speaker 3: That's where this one starts.
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  Speaker 4: Montor in the corner feet.
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  Speaker 3: Catting with a great spot pass out to the top
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  Speaker 3: of the circles.
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  Speaker 5: He gets a shot on net and uh and Coco's
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  Speaker 5: there to pick up the rebound.
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  Speaker 3: He goes blocker side unto the bar.
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  Speaker 2: Three two Chicago dowten, close but not close enough the
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  Speaker 2: crack and fallow Chicago forward two the Crack and taking
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  Speaker 2: two out of three meetings against the Blackhawks this season,
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  Speaker 2: and yet see this climb up hill get a bit
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  Speaker 2: steeper as they are six points out with seven games
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  Speaker 2: to play in this regular season. Reaction here from after
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  Speaker 2: the game with crackhet head coach Lane Lamber before we
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  Speaker 2: get to ever.
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  Speaker 5: Apitz not enough desperation. Uh didn't start the game well,
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  Speaker 5: and our goaltender played fantastic for us. Too many quality
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  Speaker 5: chances from them, and power play didn't give us anything,
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  Speaker 5: and our penalty kill got scored on. So really not
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  Speaker 5: a really really great assessment of the game, you know,
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  Speaker 5: in a game that we needed, just wasn't good enough.
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Montour used the word flat to describe kind of
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  Speaker 2: how the team looked and felt.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how do you wrap your head around that.
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  Speaker 5: I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't.
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  Speaker 5: A game of that magnitude to come out flat. Clearly,
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  Speaker 5: the there's you know, there's something that has to change.
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  Speaker 6: Even with the context of them just kind of coming
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  Speaker 6: out flat. Why do you think it's been such a
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  Speaker 6: struggle offensively for so many of the guys. Is it
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  Speaker 6: a hesitation thing, Is it like a commitment thing? Like
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  Speaker 6: what do you kind of see that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think there's a lot of confidence right now
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  Speaker 5: in them, And so you know the old adages squeezing
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  Speaker 5: your stick not really feeling it. Sometimes. I think it's
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  Speaker 5: a situation where we're maybe trying too hard, you know.
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  Speaker 5: But at the same time, I thought there was sometimes
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  Speaker 5: tonight when we could have used a break here or there.
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  Speaker 5: We had some opportunities we're just not getting. We're not
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  Speaker 5: getting the timely goals right now to sort of turn
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  Speaker 5: things around for us. But I just don't think it's
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  Speaker 5: a lot of confidence with our hockey team right now. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: when you lose all these games, and certainly you know
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  Speaker 5: it's inexcusable to lose all these games at home.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously the players need to take some ownership of this,
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  Speaker 6: and I think that they have. But how like, what
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  Speaker 6: can be done to change that, to change that shift,
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  Speaker 6: whether that's.
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  Speaker 5: In the room or something else, You just got to
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  Speaker 5: keep just got to keep harping on the right message.
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  Speaker 5: There's a message there, it's a it's not the wrong message.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, we've we've tried a few different things
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  Speaker 5: to get our team going here, and you know, at
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  Speaker 5: some point the message has to resonate completely. We're making
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  Speaker 5: mistakes that we we shouldn't make. We're not moving pucks
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  Speaker 5: quick enough right now, certainly not through the neutral zone anyway,
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  Speaker 5: and then it doesn't allow us to establish our fuor check.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, from a coaching standpoint, I got to
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  Speaker 5: be better.
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  Speaker 7: I'm solorius do it lane. From an excellent and O standpoint,
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  Speaker 7: this late in the season, what what can you change
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  Speaker 7: in order to try and generate some confidence and trying
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  Speaker 7: to turn us around this time?
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  Speaker 5: I think for me right now, it's not even about
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  Speaker 5: x's and o's. It's about winning buck battles. We get
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  Speaker 5: into the corner with teams and there's a scrum and
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  Speaker 5: we're not the ones coming out with Buck, and it
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  Speaker 5: happens over and over again. So I don't think it's
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  Speaker 5: an x's and ose things thing. Necessarily. We are making
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  Speaker 5: some mistakes, we're having some breakdowns, there's no question about it.
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  Speaker 5: So you call that x's and o's, But I think
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  Speaker 5: there's you know, there's a level of commitment and a
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  Speaker 5: level of battle that we have to you know, we
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  Speaker 5: have to we have to think about here and and
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  Speaker 5: talk about moving forward.
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  Speaker 7: Are you knowing the circumstances of what, especially these last
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  Speaker 7: two games meant. Are you surprised by that lack of
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  Speaker 7: fire or juice or or battle. I would just use
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  Speaker 7: one word, I'm disappointed.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So here we are seven games to go in the
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  Speaker 2: regular season, and it's back on the road as we
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  Speaker 2: are in the Great White North.
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  Speaker 3: Evera joins me once again, Fitch, you're ready for TV land.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, TV's always fun. It's I'll miss you guys
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  Speaker 4: over on radio, but it's it's a different challenge, but
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  Speaker 4: just hoping that I can hold down the fort. It's
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  Speaker 4: kind of a rarity because you're on radio. I'm on
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  Speaker 4: KHN and then Johnny is over right next door doing
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  Speaker 4: the Amazon game. So it's a cracking broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Takeover broadcasting that as three of a kinder. It's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a fun one here. But matters are getting more
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  Speaker 2: serious for this hockey team with seven games to play
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  Speaker 2: after losing to Chicago four two and a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a different feel, I think. And Andrews and I talked
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  Speaker 2: about this as compared to Thursday night where the Cracking
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  Speaker 2: geared it up early and then just slipped way off
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  Speaker 2: the tracks against Utah. But it just took them way
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  Speaker 2: too long to get it going before the third period.
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  Speaker 2: You saw signs of light, but unfortunately too little and
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  Speaker 2: too late.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we talked about that during the game too, Alan
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  Speaker 4: I did, and I feel like I've said this quite
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  Speaker 4: a bit on the air. In the last handful of games,
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  Speaker 4: the Kracking they had something, but it just wasn't enough.
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  Speaker 4: In the last couple of weeks for this hockey team.
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  Speaker 4: It just hasn't been enough enough execution, enough shot volume,
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  Speaker 4: enough offense enough from your goaltenders. Right there just hasn't
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  Speaker 4: been enough consistently. And I mean, you know, I go
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  Speaker 4: back to a couple of weeks ago, Brandon Montour, I
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  Speaker 4: think it was the Tampa game, the Tampa game here
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  Speaker 4: at home where he said the other team just wanted
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  Speaker 4: it more than we did, and there was there's been
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  Speaker 4: a lot of that over the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 4: And to hear, you know, your vets and your players
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  Speaker 4: say the other team wanted it more than we did
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  Speaker 4: at game seventy at game seventy five, you know, you
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  Speaker 4: commend the guys I think for ownership and for taking
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  Speaker 4: that over and saying, hey, we need to be better,
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  Speaker 4: but you can't be having, you know, a need for
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  Speaker 4: more this late in the season if you want to
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  Speaker 4: be a playoff team.
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  Speaker 2: And well, also I think goes along with that is
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  Speaker 2: that Lane Lambert was the first among the first two
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  Speaker 2: take accountability under his own umbrella after two nights ago,
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  Speaker 2: where he said, as a coach, I've got to be better.
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  Speaker 2: But also essentially he is setting an example.
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  Speaker 4: He really is, And I think, you know, this is
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  Speaker 4: one of those things where you look at Lane Lambert,
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  Speaker 4: the coaching isn't the issue. You know. A couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago, I remember Lane told talk to us in
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  Speaker 4: our one on one and he said, we need to
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  Speaker 4: be better at the team, at the things that don't
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  Speaker 4: require talent, It doesn't require talent to work hard. It
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  Speaker 4: doesn't require talent to win puck battles, to not be
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  Speaker 4: slow through the neutral zone, to win a battle along
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  Speaker 4: the wall in the corners. Those are things that I
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  Speaker 4: think the Crack can have been beat to a lot,
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  Speaker 4: and Layl Lambert even alluded to as much. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I think it was Darren Brown who asked him, you know,
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  Speaker 4: how do you reconcile this game? What you know, how
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  Speaker 4: do you you go back and look at this game?
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  Speaker 4: And he goes, I can't, like I have I got nothing,
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  Speaker 4: I'm out you know what I mean, and that it's
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  Speaker 4: that frustration because the way this team played from three
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  Speaker 4: points out of a first place spot in the specific
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  Speaker 4: division fifteen games ago. Sixteen games ago, you're three points
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  Speaker 4: out to now with a point eight percent chance to
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  Speaker 4: make the playoffs. Yes, mathematically you're not out of it,
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  Speaker 4: but I mean, this has been a very disappointing stretch
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  Speaker 4: and everyone's owning it, from the coach all the way
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  Speaker 4: down to you know, the extra skaters. But this is
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  Speaker 4: something that you know, it needs to be studied. You
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  Speaker 4: know what led to this collapse here in the last
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  Speaker 4: three weeks of the season.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see how the lines shake out here for today
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  Speaker 2: in this final matchup against the Jets. But one thing's
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  Speaker 2: for certain this matchup. Favorite Copocaco, playing some great hockey,
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  Speaker 2: five goals away from a career high, has got to
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  Speaker 2: make a massive push to get to eighteen I think
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  Speaker 2: here for this last part of the season, but nine
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  Speaker 2: points also in the last nine row games.
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  Speaker 3: That's topster for the cracking and road scoring.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah it is. And I think a guy like Coppocaco
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  Speaker 4: you're seeing. You know what the Kraken got from the Rangers.
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  Speaker 4: You know when they traded wilborgan uh To to New
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  Speaker 4: York for Coco last season, you were hoping that he
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  Speaker 4: was going to find that first round pick for him,
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  Speaker 4: and I think by all intents and purposes he has.
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  Speaker 4: He's signed to an extension, so he's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a part of this core for a very long time.
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  Speaker 4: And I think he is one of the guys that
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  Speaker 4: you're looking to step up and lead offensively. And Laye
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  Speaker 4: Lambert has said it multiple times. You know the fourth
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  Speaker 4: line has been playing so well, but we need more
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  Speaker 4: from our top nine to forward group. There was a
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  Speaker 4: stretch where that top line the McCann everly Benier's line
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  Speaker 4: had been playing so well. I need more from my
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  Speaker 4: middle six forward groups. And I think now you're seeing
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  Speaker 4: Coppocaco finding the offense, but you're also looking elsewhere to
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  Speaker 4: pick up the offense as well. So for Copocaco, this
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  Speaker 4: has been a great end of the season for him,
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  Speaker 4: and I think, you know, if the Kraken can't make
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, this is going to be a really good
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  Speaker 4: springboard for him into his summer and then to start
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  Speaker 4: next season hitting the ground running.
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  Speaker 2: Winnepegas fought their way back into this playoff that's coming
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  Speaker 2: off a win over Columbus, and it seems like whenever
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  Speaker 2: we talk about these guys and play by play calls,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be basically a lot of Kyle o'
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  Speaker 2: connor and Mark Steifelee out of our mouths. They have
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  Speaker 2: combined to be on the score sheets sixty times this season.
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  Speaker 2: No other duo has done that in the NHL this year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this game is always one of my favorites of
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  Speaker 4: the season. I love the way that Winnipeg plays. I
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  Speaker 4: like watching them, I like calling them. They're an exciting team.
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  Speaker 4: I like coming to Winnipeg because the building staff is
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  Speaker 4: just so darn nice as well. This is a very
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  Speaker 4: nice city. But you know, I think, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: go back to the game the Cracking played here earlier
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  Speaker 4: in the season where they had that three nothing shut
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  Speaker 4: out and it was one nothing going into the final
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  Speaker 4: what two and a half minutes of the game, the
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  Speaker 4: Crack and got a couple of empty netters. These team,
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  Speaker 4: these games against the Winnipeg Jets have always been a battle,
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  Speaker 4: and I think if you're the Kracking, We've said this
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  Speaker 4: a lot. You needed to beat Chicago didn't happen, You
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  Speaker 4: needed to beat you know, other teams didn't happen. But
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  Speaker 4: I think for the Crack, and I mean, if you
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  Speaker 4: want to keep that slim playoff window the least bit cracked,
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  Speaker 4: if you want this room to stay a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more drafty, you gotta win this game against Winnipeg here today.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean there's no excuses, and you can't afford
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  Speaker 4: to come out flat. I mean against the Chicago team
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  Speaker 4: that was eliminated from the playoff, has been eliminated from
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  Speaker 4: playoff contention, You came into that game the other night
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  Speaker 4: a little bit flat. You know that Alan and I
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  Speaker 4: were talking that you needed to exercise some Demons that
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  Speaker 4: needed to be the Vancouver game from a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago. That needed to be a statement win, and
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  Speaker 4: the Kraken didn't get that. So tonight against a team
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  Speaker 4: that year, you're gonna have to leap frog, you know.
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  Speaker 4: The Cracketer now in play and pray territory where they
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  Speaker 4: got to play their game and then they got to
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  Speaker 4: pray for help above them. And that's the worst position
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  Speaker 4: to be in. Coaches and players love to say, we
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  Speaker 4: can only control what we can control, but now the
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  Speaker 4: cracket are having to depend on other teams. But if
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  Speaker 4: you don't win this game, I mean, then you're you're
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  Speaker 4: out of it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, port of seeing get after it.
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  Speaker 2: Winter is on and Slash stand here in Winnipeg fitzme
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  Speaker 2: or booth b war Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait, everet fits you joining us.
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  Speaker 2: This is all the time we got here once again,
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  Speaker 2: face offs at four thirty airtime ZIP four. Talk to
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  Speaker 2: you later on today Big banking it Everet fits you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Mike Betting for Kracking this morning. Enjoy the game.
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