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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Reaction to four in a row, and the Canucks after Quinn Hughes (12/29) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the Kraken
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Speaker 1: Audio Network, Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.
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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.
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Speaker 2: The fourth winning a row feels pretty sweet, but not
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Speaker 2: much time to dwell on it. The Cracking getting right
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Speaker 2: back to work today to end back to back against
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Speaker 2: the Vancouver Canucks. Welcome to Kracken this morning on a Monday,
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Speaker 2: December twenty ninth. Mike Benton with you, same place, different opponent,
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Speaker 2: different time. We'll look forward to having you seven o'clock
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Speaker 2: Pacific for the Kraken and the Vancouver Canucks and the
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Speaker 2: quote EVERI fits you the ifivalry is renewed again for
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Speaker 2: the first of four matchups coming up airtime six point
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Speaker 2: thirty for your pregame show served up by Frostbreed Corps,
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Speaker 2: Light Shoe Chill on the Global Credit Union crake In
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Speaker 2: Audio Network and postgame as well from Tom's Washbar up
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Speaker 2: to an hour after the final horn, myself joined with
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Speaker 2: anders Hurst. We'll look forward to having it and your
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Speaker 2: reaction of course four nine, four or five one the
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Speaker 2: play to text us on the KJER text line. We
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Speaker 2: will hear from reaction from Jared mccannon making his way
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Speaker 2: back into the lineup last evening plus, Brendan Bachelor will
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Speaker 2: be along with US radio Voice of the Canucks on
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Speaker 2: sports Net six point fifty to discuss the course the
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Speaker 2: Quinn Hughes, trade, the fallout and the potentials down the
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Speaker 2: road on their roster as they head into Seattle for
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Speaker 2: the first matchup of the season. Brendan Bachelor will be
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Speaker 2: along with us here in just a bit recapping last night.
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Speaker 2: Here's what you may have missed with the Kraken coming
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Speaker 2: out of the holiday break and in period one with
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Speaker 2: a scoreless tie and a red hot captain looking to
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Speaker 2: ignite the offense.
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Speaker 3: Back into the offensive zone four Seattle.
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Speaker 4: But here behind the.
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Speaker 3: Goal bark corner in front, Every suits got.
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Speaker 5: Jordan Every goals at three straight games. As couple Cucko
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Speaker 5: feeds it from the right corner, it's a one nothing,
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Speaker 5: cracking lead sixteen twelve to play in a second, but
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Speaker 5: Como Conco.
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Speaker 6: Gets the pucked down low on the right side after
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Speaker 6: Maddy Beneers takes it into the offensive zone and Como
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Speaker 6: Coco finds Everyy on that back door. Every wastes no
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Speaker 6: time putting this one pass. Blodar Tom shelf.
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Speaker 3: The Captain's on.
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Speaker 4: The board one nothing crackodur out.
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Speaker 6: To play it front.
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Speaker 5: Stevenson stoo. Ellie Taubanan from behind the cage points in
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Speaker 5: sixth straight chandler. Stevenson on the finish points in ten
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Speaker 5: of us last eleven.
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Speaker 3: It's a two nothing saddlead Boma's a good zone clear
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Speaker 3: from the cracking d of the ice at Ellie Tolvdan
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Speaker 3: beats sen. I'm the puck behind the net, just wins
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Speaker 3: it straight up, finds Stevenson floating down in the middle
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Speaker 3: of the ice and puts it right on it with blade.
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Speaker 3: Stevenson makes no mistake bottom corner on Blodar.
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Speaker 6: Two nothing, stieve it said, racing after it hell pocket free,
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Speaker 6: steven said.
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Speaker 5: Down the ice flow the goaline looked in front, so.
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Speaker 6: It goes damn it.
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Speaker 3: R back to the bench.
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Speaker 6: Extra attacker coming back on l A Tolvenan.
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Speaker 7: Stale shots Ellie Golvin in his second of the night.
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Speaker 5: End up cracking back up by.
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Speaker 6: A field goal for one. Ellie tolven doing some great
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Speaker 6: work because he hunted down that buck, picked it off
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Speaker 6: and it got deflected towards the flyer's nets. He had
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Speaker 6: nothing but space to go after that and get his
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Speaker 6: seventh off the season.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's certainly a way to close it out. The
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Speaker 2: crack end getting a one nothing lead after one period
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Speaker 2: of play every fits you. Al Kiniski had the soundtrack
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Speaker 2: for a three goal third period, with Chandler Stevenson helping
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Speaker 2: Ellie Tolbnan extend this point streak to six consecutive games,
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Speaker 2: and Tolbnen himself it up with a pair of empty
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Speaker 2: ned goals to support a terrific effort once again by
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Speaker 2: Philip Grubauer, who had thirty one saves, was First Star
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Speaker 2: and was one fifty seven away from a shutout that
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Speaker 2: was broken up by Carl Grunstrom late in the third period.
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Speaker 2: But the Kraken getting Jared McCann and Vince Dunn back
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Speaker 2: into the lineup promising signs here for a team that
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Speaker 2: has won now four games in a row and went
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Speaker 2: to bed one point back the cut line of the
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Speaker 2: Western Conference after a four to one victory over Philadelphia.
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Speaker 2: One of those players who's back is forward Jared McCann,
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Speaker 2: and here he is last night meeting with the media.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I was good. I thought we had some good chances. Obviously,
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Speaker 8: Cats made some good places tonight. You can see the
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Speaker 8: offense coming for him. You know, me and writer are
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Speaker 8: still trying to work with each other and you know,
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Speaker 8: create good offense.
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Speaker 9: There is there any sort of a dusting period period,
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Speaker 9: Look like you just came out fireing right away.
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Speaker 8: Uh yeah, beg skates will do that for you, right.
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Speaker 8: You know, it's a lot easier playing hockey than in
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Speaker 8: his bag skating. So you know, I just felt I
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Speaker 8: was excited to come out and just to try to
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Speaker 8: be a positive, positive ashbe for my team.
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Speaker 4: Love scoring first.
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Speaker 9: I guess a couple of periods and things changed a
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Speaker 9: little bit there in the end. But would you make
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Speaker 9: a kind of flow up this game? It just outline
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Speaker 9: in general.
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Speaker 8: I mean, groovy groovy was awesome for us to make
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Speaker 8: huge days. Our PK was great tonight. We didn't give
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Speaker 8: them too too much, but when we did, obviously Grooby's
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Speaker 8: there to back us up, so you know, coud just
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Speaker 8: to him and obviously we uh we need to uh
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Speaker 8: come up with the same after for you.
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Speaker 9: I mean, it's been obviously a weird season so far,
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Speaker 9: very limited action and I guess how are you feeling
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Speaker 9: right now? Do you feel like you're getting into a
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Speaker 9: rhythm with this game.
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Speaker 8: So yeah, yeah, it's kind of tough. Obviously, this is
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Speaker 8: the first time in my career I've kind of gone
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Speaker 8: through something like this. You know, mentally it's been tough,
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Speaker 8: but you know, I got great, great teammates here who
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Speaker 8: have been you know, supportive with me, and you know,
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Speaker 8: I'm just trying to make it through a game at
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Speaker 8: this point. So you know, I'm I'm looking forward to
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Speaker 8: the future here. You're just getting back into sort of
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Speaker 8: things yourself, but for you know, the team that's been
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Speaker 8: a long time to you have won a game in
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Speaker 8: this building.
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Speaker 6: To get that right out of.
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Speaker 4: A holiday break, and what do you feel like that
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Speaker 4: will do to the group to set things up?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, momentum. You know, we gotta we gotta use that
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Speaker 8: going in tomorrow. Obviously, you know, we're gonna worry about
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Speaker 8: us and what we can control, and that's our effort.
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Speaker 9: Tom He's giving a little more confidence in the back
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Speaker 9: to back considering how things had gone in that situation previously,
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Speaker 9: coming off of another back to back, so we.
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Speaker 8: Recently Yeah, yeah, it's uh, you know, the guys did
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Speaker 8: a great job in California. Obviously that's where it where
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Speaker 8: it started, and we were able to kind of get
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Speaker 8: one there in the back to back. We have I
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Speaker 8: think three more chances coming up here in the next
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Speaker 8: couple of days, so you know, we're we're excited, and uh,
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Speaker 8: we're just gonna keep pushing forward.
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Speaker 2: McCann did not score in last night's game, playing on
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Speaker 2: the right wing with Shane Wright as a centerman and
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Speaker 2: Bertlee Catton, but you can certainly tell a couple of
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Speaker 2: scoring chances he had. It could be a matter of
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Speaker 2: time before he pops another one. With five goals in
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Speaker 2: his first eleven games before coming back from a lower
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Speaker 2: body injury, his former team, of course, that drafted him.
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Speaker 2: The Vancouver Canucks will here into Climate Pledge Arena for
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Speaker 2: their first matchup of the season and facing plenty of
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Speaker 2: question marks after trading their captain Quinn Hughes to Minnesota
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Speaker 2: and what ultimately was arguably one of the bigger blockbuster
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Speaker 2: trades the NHL has seen in years, the Canucks getting
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Speaker 2: defenseman Ze Buuyam, forwards Marco Rossi and Liam Ogrin, and
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Speaker 2: a first round draft pick in this next year's NHL
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Speaker 2: Entry Draft in exchange for Buoyam and a trade that
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Speaker 2: went down sixteen days ago. A lot can happen in January,
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Speaker 2: but it still feels like right now, two teams going
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Speaker 2: in opposite directions are squaring off for this evening, with
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Speaker 2: the Kraken winning four in a row one point back
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Speaker 2: at the cut line in the West of sixteen fourteen
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Speaker 2: and six and the Canucks right now in the basement
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Speaker 2: of the Western Conference after losing back to back games,
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Speaker 2: their record at fifteen nineteen and three with thirty three points. Still,
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Speaker 2: you get these two teams on the ice, anything can happen.
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Speaker 2: Time to fire up. Talk on the IE five will
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Speaker 2: read to quote our friend ever it fits you, kracking
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Speaker 2: Canucks this evening a climate pledge arena our good friend
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Speaker 2: from the visitors. Brendan Bachelor joining us right now, Radio
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Speaker 2: voice of the Canucks on sports Net six fifty. Brendan,
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Speaker 2: thank you very much here for joining us. First off,
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Speaker 2: I have to ask you the holidays. The break wasn't
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Speaker 2: too long, but was it long enough for you? Had
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Speaker 2: you enjoy it?
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Speaker 4: Sir? It's always too short when you get to spend
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Speaker 4: time with family and you know, get away from the
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Speaker 4: rink for a few days, especially with how compressed the
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Speaker 4: schedule has been this season. But glad to be back
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Speaker 4: and talking about hockey again as we get set to
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Speaker 4: enter the new year here in a few days.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, good to have you. And certainly I echo those
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Speaker 2: same sentiments as far as the break being short enough,
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Speaker 2: and that's the world here that we live in with
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Speaker 2: the Olympic break, cramming a lot here into the schedule
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Speaker 2: for December and January, back to back for the crack
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Speaker 2: inside ending today, back to back for the Canucks ending tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: I just first want to go back and kind of
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Speaker 2: examine where matt were back in October compared to now,
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Speaker 2: and a little bit certainly has changed on the Canucks
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Speaker 2: side as far as their roster when you look at
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Speaker 2: it here from the scope pre Quinn Hughes trade, post
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Speaker 2: Quinn Hughes trade, What does the outlook of the Canucks
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Speaker 2: right now than say, versus two months ago.
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Speaker 4: Well, they are now a rebuilding team, which is not
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Speaker 4: what they planned to be coming into the season. All
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Speaker 4: the talking Vancouver was about trying to get back to
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Speaker 4: being competitive and surround Quinn Hughes with the kind of
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Speaker 4: players that could help this team win so that they
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Speaker 4: could prove to him that you know it was worth
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Speaker 4: it to stay in Vancouver and sign a contract extension. Ultimately,
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Speaker 4: things went completely sideway for this team in the first
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Speaker 4: portion of the season. They had a ton of injuries,
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Speaker 4: especially down the middle of the ice. Philip Heatl, who
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Speaker 4: had been penciled in as their second line center, was
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Speaker 4: hurt in the first couple weeks of the season and
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Speaker 4: hasn't yet returned. Teddy Blueger, who was going to be
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Speaker 4: their third line center, has only played two games thus
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Speaker 4: far this year, and Elias Petterson has been banged up
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Speaker 4: and in and out of the lineup at different points too.
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Speaker 4: So that essentially decimated their center ice position to the
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Speaker 4: point where they had a number of guys who you
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Speaker 4: would project to be in the AHL having to play
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Speaker 4: down the middle in the NHL, and in some situations
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Speaker 4: as second and third line centers, playing relatively big minutes
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Speaker 4: and in matchup roles, and so you know, obviously that
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Speaker 4: limited this team's ability to have success. And you know,
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Speaker 4: unfortunately for the Canucks when they've struggled on the ice,
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Speaker 4: it led to dysfunction off the ice over the past
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Speaker 4: couple of years. You look at the JT. Miller trade
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Speaker 4: last year and the publicized rip between him and Elias Petterson, Well,
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Speaker 4: it became clear that Quin Hughes was really unhappy with
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Speaker 4: how the season was playing out, and ultimately that led
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Speaker 4: to the trade, which happened earlier in December and kind
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Speaker 4: of breathed some new life into the team to a
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Speaker 4: certain extent, because you get three pieces that come in
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Speaker 4: and help out, most notably Marco Rossi at center ice.
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Speaker 4: So it solidified some of those issues that they had
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Speaker 4: been having due to the injuries, and they rattled off
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Speaker 4: four straight wins with the new editions that they brought
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Speaker 4: into the lineup, but they lost the final game before
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Speaker 4: the holiday break. They lost the first game coming out
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Speaker 4: of the holiday break, and it's going to be a
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Speaker 4: struggle for them in the second half. It's an organization
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Speaker 4: that is said, now that we've moved on from Queen Hughes,
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Speaker 4: we're leaning into, you know, at least partially rebuilding. What
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Speaker 4: exactly that means is hotly debated in Vancouver, but they
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Speaker 4: find themselves right now thirty second in the NHL standings,
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Speaker 4: and more of the talking Vancouver is around whether they
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Speaker 4: could draft right at the top of the draft in
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Speaker 4: the summer than it is about contending for a playoff
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Speaker 4: spot or winning games or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, before I get onto the big return here as
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Speaker 2: far as this trade, and I think that zee boo yam,
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Speaker 2: I want to get into the whole understanding of the
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Speaker 2: context of retool and rebuild, especially here for you know,
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Speaker 2: fans who were still kind of learning more and more
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Speaker 2: about how this works and the projected timeline that usually
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Speaker 2: is attached to it. So when you dive into the
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Speaker 2: definition of those two words, and maybe the understanding that
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Speaker 2: the Caducks may or may not want to build around,
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Speaker 2: say a core of Elias Peterson and Brockbster, how different
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Speaker 2: could this roster be looking Brendan you think roughly in
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Speaker 2: about two to three years from now.
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Speaker 4: Well, that is a fascinating question, and it's one that's
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Speaker 4: kind of hard to take down at the moment because
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Speaker 4: the organization is entering what they are calling a hybrid build,
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Speaker 4: which is a new term that I don't think I
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Speaker 4: had ever heard before. But what they're essentially saying is, look,
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Speaker 4: we realize that we're not going to be good this year.
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Speaker 4: We want to look towards the future, and we're going
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Speaker 4: to make some moves to do that, but we're not
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Speaker 4: going to burn the whole thing down and build it
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Speaker 4: back up again, and many fans in Vancouver want to
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Speaker 4: see them do just that, want them to bottom out,
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Speaker 4: want them to trade veterans like Brockfessor and Elias Peterson
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Speaker 4: and Connor Garland and Pter Demco so that they can
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Speaker 4: acquire as many draft picks as possible, draft as high
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Speaker 4: in the draft as they possibly can, and build a
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Speaker 4: new era of Cannocks hockey through sort of an aggressive
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Speaker 4: rebuild as you would call it, where you know, you
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Speaker 4: move out all the pieces that might help you win
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Speaker 4: now and the veteran pieces that may not be here
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Speaker 4: when you want to turn it around and be successful.
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Speaker 4: So that's, you know, what I would look at in
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Speaker 4: terms of what Vancouver fans are talking about in terms
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Speaker 4: of a rebuild, A retool or a hybrid build is
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Speaker 4: similar to that, but I think on a faster timeline,
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Speaker 4: where the organization understands it's not going to be good
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Speaker 4: this year, they're going to trade some of their pending
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Speaker 4: on restricted free agents. We expect to see the likes
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Speaker 4: of Keeper Sherwood and a vander Kaine dealt between now
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Speaker 4: and the trade deadline, But I don't know if they're
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Speaker 4: going to move off of the likes of Rock Besser
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Speaker 4: or LEAs Petterson, just as a couple of examples, because
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Speaker 4: I think they are hoping that by bottoming out this year,
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Speaker 4: they can get a generational player at the top of
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Speaker 4: the draft and that can sort of jump start getting
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Speaker 4: them back into contention faster than might have happened otherwise.
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Speaker 4: But you know, you talk about a rebuild within the
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Speaker 4: context of the National Hockey League. I think the San
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Speaker 4: Jose Sharks are a great example within the Pacific Division
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Speaker 4: to look at because they are trending back in the
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Speaker 4: right direction now, but it took them six seasons of
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Speaker 4: missing the playoffs. And you know, really, I think, what
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Speaker 4: was it, three of those six seasons they finished last
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Speaker 4: in the Pacific Division and drafted very high in the draft,
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Speaker 4: And now you look at the group of young talent
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Speaker 4: that they've amassed, Maclin, Celebrini, will Smith, William Ecklin. Just
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Speaker 4: as a few examples. Sam Dickinson's a really good defenseman
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Speaker 4: in San Jose. That's the kind of thing that when
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Speaker 4: you fully aggressively go into a rebuild, you probably have
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Speaker 4: to be willing to entertain at least a half decade
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Speaker 4: of not being incredibly competitive, and although many Canucks fans
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Speaker 4: seem to want that, seemed to say, you know, yes,
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Speaker 4: we'll take the short term pain over the long term
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Speaker 4: gain of potentially building another Stanley Cup contender. It doesn't
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Speaker 4: seem like the organization is willing to spend five plus
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Speaker 4: years down at the bottom of the standings. And that's
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Speaker 4: where some of the disagreement and debate in Vancouver is
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Speaker 4: sort of centered. Is they want to turn it around
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Speaker 4: more like a two or three year timeline, and I
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Speaker 4: think many people are skeptical as to whether they're going
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Speaker 4: to be able to do that.
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Speaker 2: Brendan batchelorre joining us right now on Crack and this morning,
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Speaker 2: ahead of the crack and the Canucks here for this evening.
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Speaker 2: I want to get to zee Buuyam now. And this trade,
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Speaker 2: Brendan I said earlier, it kind of reminded me of
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Speaker 2: the Tamusaloni trade at Anaheim back in nineteen ninety six.
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Speaker 2: It was that mass in the return that the Canucks
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Speaker 2: are also getting here as far as the roster parts
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Speaker 2: off of Minnesota was also significant. But I mean, Booyam
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Speaker 2: seems to be at the very top as far as
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Speaker 2: the headline piece of this return here and a defenseman
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Speaker 2: that I loved back in the twenty twenty four NHL
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Speaker 2: entry Draft and no surprise why Minnesota took him at
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Speaker 2: twelfth overall and he's immediately producing into the NHL. What
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Speaker 2: are the initial returns here on Billiam as a Canucks defenseman.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know, he's been he's been good
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Speaker 4: early on, and people are excited about getting such a
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Speaker 4: key young piece in return for Queen Hughes. Let's be honest,
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Speaker 4: if you were going to trade Queen Hughes, you had
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Speaker 4: to get a king's ransom. And I think, you know,
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Speaker 4: more of the criticism in Vancouver has been about the
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Speaker 4: fact that you had to trade Queen Hughes at all
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Speaker 4: than it has been about the return. I think it's
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Speaker 4: pretty universally agreed that this was a good return for
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Speaker 4: the Canucks to get to trade Queen Hughes away. And
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Speaker 4: see Billiam's a big part of that. A twenty year
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Speaker 4: old defenseman. He joins a young defensive group in Vancouver
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Speaker 4: now that has Tom Bilander who's also twenty, Elias Petterson
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Speaker 4: who's twenty one, and you can sort of see them
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Speaker 4: building the blue line of the future with these three
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Speaker 4: young guys, and I think unfortunately for Buoyam, he's probably
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Speaker 4: going to be unfairly compared to Hughes because of the
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Speaker 4: fact that, you know, he was part of the return
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Speaker 4: in the trade. I don't know if he's going to
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Speaker 4: be Quinn Hughes at the end of the day, but
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Speaker 4: he certainly has the potential to be a number one
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Speaker 4: defenseman for the Canucks, and as an organization that hasn't
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Speaker 4: really had a lot of elite level defenseman prior to
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Speaker 4: drafting Quinn Hughes, it was really important that they got
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Speaker 4: that back. And you know, just talking to Bouim a
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Speaker 4: little bit, he seems like a supremely confident kid at
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Speaker 4: the age of twenty. He comes in as a winner already.
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Speaker 4: He's won the World Juniors twice with the United States.
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Speaker 4: He won the NCAA National Championship at Denver two, so
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Speaker 4: you know, he he's a player with pedigree, a player
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Speaker 4: who knows how to win, and someone that can help
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Speaker 4: sort of solidify their blue line now that they've lost
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Speaker 4: Queen Hughes. So early returns have been good. There's a
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Speaker 4: lot of excitement around him, and I think he stayed
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Speaker 4: in pretty well to start the.
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Speaker 2: Crack and won't see Jake debrask here for this s evening.
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Speaker 2: Adam Foot already announcing that he'll be a healthy scratch,
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Speaker 2: So a big piece of their offense potentially out of
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Speaker 2: the lineup here, but one that will be there, will
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Speaker 2: be Key for Surewood. And you mentioned his name, a
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Speaker 2: potential free agent coming up here and a player that
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Speaker 2: will see how long if he's going to be around
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Speaker 2: long term or not. But diving into his game at
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Speaker 2: thirty years of age, Brendan previously career high for him
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Speaker 2: was ten goals for one season ever since then nineteen
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Speaker 2: last year with the Canucks, and this year sixteen goals
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Speaker 2: in thirty seven games already sixteen goals, four assists, twenty points.
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Speaker 2: Those are cy young numbers if I ever saw them.
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Speaker 2: But what's the biggest difference here you think in key
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Speaker 2: for Surewood's game now than say, versus two years ago.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a really interesting question because I liked a
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Speaker 4: lot of his game a couple of years ago before
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Speaker 4: the Canucks signed him, because they played the Nashville Predators
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Speaker 4: in the first round of the playoffs that year and
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Speaker 4: Sherwood was a member of the Predators and was noticeable
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Speaker 4: in a fourth line role in that series, to the
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Speaker 4: point that when the Canucks had the opportunity to sign him,
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Speaker 4: Quinn Hughes himself said, yeah, sign that guy. I couldn't
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Speaker 4: stand playing against him. I'd rather have him on my side.
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Speaker 4: And you know, Sherwood has continued to grow his game
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Speaker 4: and flourish with opportunity since arriving with the Canucks. He's
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Speaker 4: a relentless four checker, a tremendously physical player. He led
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Speaker 4: the NHL in hits last year and broke a record
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Speaker 4: since hits were recorded for the number of hits in
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Speaker 4: a season last year. So he plays a very hard
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Speaker 4: brand of hockey. It's you know, takes a toll on
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Speaker 4: the body. But yet he played seventy eight games last season,
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Speaker 4: so it's you know, pretty impressive that he can play
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Speaker 4: that way night in and night out, but not go
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Speaker 4: down to injury or not be affected by it very much,
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Speaker 4: it seems. And you know, he's picked up right where
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Speaker 4: he's left off this year. He's second in the league
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Speaker 4: and hits right now, leads the Canucks in goals, has
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Speaker 4: played every game thus far this year. And you know,
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Speaker 4: you mentioned what I was talking about earlier. With him
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Speaker 4: likely being traded before the deadline, it sounds like the
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Speaker 4: value that he may have on the open market is
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Speaker 4: pretty high based on the intangibles he brings, to the
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Speaker 4: secondary scoring ability that he has to you know, he
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Speaker 4: would be a perfect third or fourth line player on
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Speaker 4: a Stanley Cup contender right now with the Canucks and
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Speaker 4: where they are, he's a top six forward who skated
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Speaker 4: on the first line in their last game the other
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Speaker 4: night against the San Jose Sharks. So you know, with
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Speaker 4: opportunity and with an organization that has trusted him, and
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Speaker 4: coaching staffs that have trusted him, first with Rick Tockett
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Speaker 4: and now with Adam Foot, he's really grown his game.
20:57
Speaker 4: And you know, he's got a heck of a shot too,
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Speaker 4: which I think takes goaltenders off guard a lot of
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Speaker 4: the times. He can score from the top of the
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Speaker 4: circle with his wrist shot off the rush, and has
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Speaker 4: done so with you know, relative ease or regularity, maybe
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Speaker 4: I should say. And you look at the last two years.
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Speaker 4: He was thirteen percent shooting last year for nineteen goals.
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Speaker 4: He's nearly nineteen percent shooting this year for sixteen goals
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Speaker 4: in thirty seven games, so I do expect him to
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Speaker 4: be traded before the deadlineer whoever gets him will add
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Speaker 4: a pretty important piece to a potential playoff run.
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Speaker 2: All right, looking forward to this one here, first of
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Speaker 2: four matchups coming up, and these two teams will see
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Speaker 2: each other again coming up on Friday in Vancouver. My friend,
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Speaker 2: great talking with you, have a great call in the meantime. Man,
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Speaker 2: Happy New Year to you and.
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Speaker 4: To you and all your listeners as well. Thanks for
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Speaker 4: having me, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, thank you, my friend, Brendan Bachelor joining us again
21:51
Speaker 2: radio voice of the Vancouver Canucks on Sports Nets six fifty.
21:55
Speaker 2: It's not exactly a home and home series, but they
21:57
Speaker 2: will see a lot of each other here for the
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Speaker 2: week one matchup in Seattle tonight and then the next
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Speaker 2: matchup in Vancouver coming up on Friday, and that will
22:07
Speaker 2: end a back to back again for the Kraken after
22:10
Speaker 2: facing Nashville at home on New Year's Day. In the
22:13
Speaker 2: overall scope of the series has been a pretty sharp
22:16
Speaker 2: you turn ever since the beginning. The Kraken lost their
22:19
Speaker 2: first five matchups with Vancouver in regulation, but they have
22:22
Speaker 2: taken control of this series ever since, taking at least
22:25
Speaker 2: a point or a win in nine of the last
22:28
Speaker 2: previous ten meetings the Kraken averaging four and a half
22:31
Speaker 2: goals a game over the last ten meetings. They've had
22:34
Speaker 2: seven wins in that span. The Canucks with two shootout
22:37
Speaker 2: wins out of three total in that last stretch two
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Speaker 2: point eight goals per game. Elias Peterson shares a Canucks
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Speaker 2: scoring lead right now with twenty two points, but don't
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Speaker 2: be full by just him at the top, of course,
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Speaker 2: Philip Peronic has got a massive rocket of a shot
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Speaker 2: twenty two points, also tied here for the scoring lead
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Speaker 2: in the back end, and Connor Garland He's also tied
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Speaker 2: for the lead with twenty two points, and it has
23:00
Speaker 2: been a pretty tough player to handle here historically in
23:03
Speaker 2: this head to head series, he leads the Canucks as
23:05
Speaker 2: far as active skaters against the crack and for head
23:07
Speaker 2: to head scoring with fourteen points in fifteen games. On
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Speaker 2: the cracking side, Elie Tulinan guess who He's taken over
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Speaker 2: the krack and scoring lead now with twenty five points
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Speaker 2: on the season right now, riding his six game points
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Speaker 2: scoring streak into this matchup, ty for the longest active
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Speaker 2: streak right now in the entire League. He's got fourteen
23:28
Speaker 2: points in the month of December. Not too far behind
23:31
Speaker 2: him though Chandler Stevenson with twelve points in the month
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Speaker 2: of December, so matters are certainly trending upward offensively here
23:38
Speaker 2: with the Crack and looking to extend there win streak
23:41
Speaker 2: to five by the end of the night. Kevin Lankanan
23:45
Speaker 2: is your confirm starter in net for the Canucks, and
23:47
Speaker 2: it wouldn't be surprising here to see Joey de Cord
23:49
Speaker 2: get a turn after Philip Grubauer went last evening, and
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Speaker 2: we'll have more updates for you coming up this evening,
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Speaker 2: beginning at six point thirty on your pregame show served
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Speaker 2: up by Frostbrewed Cores Light Choose Chill, and the first
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Speaker 2: match up for the Kraken and the Canucks to follow
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Speaker 2: at seven o'clock from Climate Pledge Arena. Looking forward to
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Speaker 2: having you. Also, big thank you to Brandon Bachelor for
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Speaker 2: joining us and for Krakeen this morning. I'm Mike Benton.
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Speaker 2: Have a happy Monday and enjoy the game.
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