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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: An emotional Monday, the Dunn hit, and the Kings (12/10) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Kraken this morning a presentation of the Kraken
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Speaker 1: Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three POMS.
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Speaker 2: Training wraps up, where the CM Kraken can certainly expect
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Speaker 2: a challenge on their hands once again defensively to end
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Speaker 2: a windless skid. Welcome to Kraken this morning. On a Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: December tenth, and for the first time this season, the
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Speaker 2: Kraken take on a new Pacific Division rival in the
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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Kings, first of two matchups those square off
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Speaker 2: against each other this month in the first of four
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Speaker 2: meetings overall. Opening face off seven o'clock Pacific time. It'll
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Speaker 2: pass that to be precise because National TV's got coverage
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Speaker 2: I'll be with you once again. Back to the course,
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Speaker 2: Light landing in section twenty and up to an hour
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Speaker 2: after the game with Talking Kraken as well. On top
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Speaker 2: of postgame coverage live from Tom's watch bar right across
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Speaker 2: from Climate Pledge Arena, we're gonna hear from Ian Furness
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Speaker 2: and just a bit of course TV host on the
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Speaker 2: KRACK and Hockey Network. Additionally, dive deeper into the Kraken
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Speaker 2: and their loss two nights ago against Minnesota, which features
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Speaker 2: some pretty pointed comments from the Kraken side, and we'll
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Speaker 2: dive into the meaning and much more with the Inverness
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Speaker 2: coming up in just a bit. The Krack of making
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Speaker 2: one move ahead of the game, Ben Myers was recalled
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Speaker 2: from AHL Coachella Valley, a five foot eleven center with
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Speaker 2: plenty of tenacity. Currently in his second year within the
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Speaker 2: Kraken organization, He's got three assists so far in nine
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Speaker 2: games thirteen points in just eleven games with Coachella Valley.
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Speaker 2: That move made necessary after Berkeley Catton was placed on IR.
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Speaker 2: He is week to week with an upper body injury
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Speaker 2: after blocking a shot last Saturday against Detroit. Well, the Kraken,
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Speaker 2: dropping a lost in Minnesota four won the final, but
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Speaker 2: don't let that full you as far as the goaltending
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Speaker 2: picture in that game. Philip Grubauer was absolutely phenomenal, turning
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Speaker 2: in several high danger saves in the first nineteen shots
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Speaker 2: he saw through two periods of play, but the krack
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Speaker 2: And only able to manage just one goal, coming in
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Speaker 2: the power play courtesy Jordan Everley back in period two
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Speaker 2: and Grubauer falling to Philip Gustavsen down the other side
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Speaker 2: after Minnesota blew open a two to one lead late
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Speaker 2: in the game on a pair of back to back
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Speaker 2: empty ned goals by Carill Caprisov and Vladimir tara Senko.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna get to some comments after the game with
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Speaker 2: Igan Fornessen just a bit, but before that, the Krakend
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Speaker 2: catching back up at practice on Tuesday at Krackend Community
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Speaker 2: ice Plex, and here are more updates from krack and
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Speaker 2: head coach Lane Lambert.
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Speaker 3: Today's an end mean day. Today's a practice day. You know,
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow morning we'll probably give some guys some some rest.
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Speaker 3: They've got, you know, thirty six hours or so here
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Speaker 3: to prepare for tomorrow night. So you know, it's just
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Speaker 3: like I say, it's a balancing act of what what
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Speaker 3: the work ratio is, what we need to work on
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Speaker 3: and how much rest we need so, you know, I
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Speaker 3: mean obviously through the next two months till the end
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Speaker 3: of January, you know, till the Olympic break. It's a
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Speaker 3: challenge and it's a challenge for every team in the league.
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Speaker 4: Uh notice mechanicals out there once a status.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's maintenance day, he should be. Okay, it's a
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Speaker 3: kind of conversation here for a little while.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 1: If the defenseman impressed you adopted practice and shootout drugs,
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Speaker 1: would you from out there?
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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, yeah, there's no question. You know, we're you know,
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Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day shootouts. We've
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Speaker 3: been in three, you know, and we have guys that
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Speaker 3: have gone that have good overall career numbers, you know,
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Speaker 3: and sometimes you know, sometimes they score, sometimes they don't.
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Speaker 3: But certainly, you know, we've seen a couple of defensemen
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Speaker 3: here that have done pretty well when we practice shootouts.
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Speaker 2: It's one of them Adam Wars that managing.
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Speaker 4: They're all.
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Speaker 3: Let's put it this way, anyone's in option. Anyone's in option.
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Speaker 3: I was involved in a twenty round shootout when I
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Speaker 3: was coaching in Washington back and I think it was
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Speaker 3: probably two thousand and seventeen, maybe longest shootout in NHL history.
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Speaker 3: So everybody's got to be on alert good enough when
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Speaker 3: the team's going through a skid like this. From your
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Speaker 3: experience as a player, also as a coach, what does
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Speaker 3: it kind of take from the guys in that room
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Speaker 3: to be able to turn the page?
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Speaker 2: What kind of mass they happen?
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Speaker 3: They got to get together, you know, stick together, you know,
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Speaker 3: and determination. You know, the league is a difficult league.
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Speaker 3: It's a ruthless league. As I said last night, nobody cares.
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Speaker 3: Everybody's coming into to beat you, you know. But at
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Speaker 3: the same time, you know, if you look at it
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Speaker 3: two weeks ago, you know, we were one point out
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Speaker 3: of first place heading into a home game against Dallas,
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Speaker 3: which we played very well in and probably could have won.
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Speaker 3: And you know, now where we're sitting that's changed fast.
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Speaker 3: But as fast as it changes in one direction, it
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Speaker 3: can change in the other direction. And that's got to
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Speaker 3: be our focus right now.
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Speaker 5: Mentioning that determination and making even positive last night as well,
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Speaker 5: how do you go about that as a coach?
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Speaker 3: And is it all verbal or you know how you well,
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Speaker 3: there's there's verbal stuff, there's you know, film stuff. You know,
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Speaker 3: there's drills in practice, to continue to try and emphasize,
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Speaker 3: you know, what we need to work on, what we
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Speaker 3: need to develop. We're you know, we're a young team
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Speaker 3: that needs to develop our players on the fly here
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Speaker 3: as well. So, uh, you know, it's very important that
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Speaker 3: we keep a positive mind set.
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Speaker 5: And you said you didn't mind how you know Shameewright's
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Speaker 5: line played last night out for Yanni in particular, what
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Speaker 5: do you kind of note from him, you know, the opportunities.
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Speaker 3: That he's gotten. Yeah, I thought I thought their line
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Speaker 3: played well. I thought their line played well in Edmonton.
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Speaker 3: You know, analytically, you know, they're they were pretty good.
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Speaker 3: They were on the certainly on the positive side of
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Speaker 3: the shot chart. So you know, looking forward to seeing
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Speaker 3: those guys, you know, continue that. You know, with Yanni,
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Speaker 3: Johanni continues to grow. There's systematical things in the game
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Speaker 3: and positioning that he has to be in that he's
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Speaker 3: still learning and we have to continue working with him
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Speaker 3: and coaching them and teaching them. You know, what he
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Speaker 3: has that you know, what he has that you can't
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Speaker 3: teach is he's got size, he's got determination, he's strong.
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Speaker 3: You know, he's making some good plays with the pucket.
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Speaker 3: He's getting shots on goals. So you know those are
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Speaker 3: good positive attributes for him.
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Speaker 4: Is that growth that you're looking for for me more
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Speaker 4: on the defensive.
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Speaker 1: End or both sides.
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Speaker 3: I'd say both sides. Yeah. You know, for a young player,
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Speaker 3: it's not easy to create in this league. It's not
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Speaker 3: easy to score in this league. The best goaltenders in
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Speaker 3: the world, and you know, it's it's a situation where
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Speaker 3: that side of it and his understanding where he needs
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Speaker 3: to be and how that needs to happen. You know,
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Speaker 3: you continue to learn and grow and develop that and
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Speaker 3: and you know the defensive side of the game and
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Speaker 3: where he needs to be for that is something we
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Speaker 3: really have to work on as well.
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Speaker 2: Kind of Spook too through hours season.
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Speaker 3: Trajectory so far, he's played well, he's had a good
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Speaker 3: season so far. You know, he's every time he's come in,
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Speaker 3: he's given us a chance to win, and he's got
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Speaker 3: a good record. And uh, you know, he played out
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Speaker 3: standing last night. You know, we obviously didn't start the
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Speaker 3: game very well, there's no excuse for that, but he
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Speaker 3: did and so you know, he kept us steady and
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Speaker 3: kept us in the game early on and gave us
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Speaker 3: a chance to win that hockey game last night. So
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Speaker 3: you know he's come into the season, he's worked, he
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Speaker 3: had a great offseason. Our goalie coach has done a
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Speaker 3: great job with all our goalies, and you know he's
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Speaker 3: played well.
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Speaker 2: Homestand finale coming up the Los Angeles Kings await and
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Speaker 2: when you can factor just the challenges that have come
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Speaker 2: the Cracking way, especially in Minnesota, this one may not
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Speaker 2: get much easier from a defensive standpoint in the Crack
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Speaker 2: and trying to answer that getting out of a six
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Speaker 2: game winless skid. The mayor of Maple Valley Ian Finnesh,
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Speaker 2: joining us now on Cracking this morning. Mayor, good talking
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Speaker 2: with you, and I think a burning question. Are two
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Speaker 2: days enough to get what was Monday night flush out
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Speaker 2: of the system and get ready for a team that
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Speaker 2: can be just as stingy in Los Angeles?
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Speaker 4: What do you think?
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Speaker 1: Well? I hope so. I mean, at some point you
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Speaker 1: got to win a hockey game. And they're scuffling, man,
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Speaker 1: they are really scuffling right now. And it's it's a
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Speaker 1: bummer because they started so well the early part of
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Speaker 1: the season with soap vomiting, but the last what game?
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Speaker 1: What have you or? Are a little bit frustrating to watch.
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Speaker 2: It's no doubt I'm going to go back and replay
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Speaker 2: comments here from two nights ago. I know that you
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Speaker 2: covered this a bit in the Daily power Play and
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Speaker 2: Al and I just broke it right down to the
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Speaker 2: studs on talking kracking. But we're gonna line this up.
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Speaker 2: Jordan Everly asked about the game from two nights ago,
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Speaker 2: and then Lane Lambert went asked about Beverly's comments right
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Speaker 2: after this.
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Speaker 5: I don't care how you play. I think it just
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Speaker 5: comes down to, you know, we For me, it's just
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Speaker 5: we need to find a little bit better from everybody.
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Speaker 5: You know. You can say we're working hard, competing, but
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Speaker 5: I just think that, you know, we need to find
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Speaker 5: a little bit more from every single guy. The efforts, Sarah,
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Speaker 5: I know the guys are working hard and competing. I
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Speaker 5: just think that we need to find you know, whether
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Speaker 5: it's you gotta make an offensive play, whether you're gonna
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Speaker 5: win a battle, whether you gotta you know, make a
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Speaker 5: wall play, whether you got a bog shot.
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Speaker 4: We just need more.
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Speaker 5: We need more, will we need more, you know, more
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Speaker 5: passion to win hockey games.
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Speaker 2: This is a good team.
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Speaker 3: I know we are.
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Speaker 5: I've been you know, been on a lot of teams
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Speaker 5: and I know we're a good team. We just have
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Speaker 5: to find a way to get back to you know
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Speaker 5: the process of being detailed, being hard to play against,
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Speaker 5: and you know, the more you do that each night
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Speaker 5: more consistently in to win games.
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Speaker 3: I would agree with his assessment that we need more
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Speaker 3: from everybody. Uh, you know, we we have to have
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Speaker 3: everybody playing well and we just can't afford to have
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Speaker 3: any passengers. And I didn't think I didn't think everyone
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Speaker 3: brought their best tonight.
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Speaker 4: Ian. How do we get here?
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Speaker 2: When you hear those comments from the captain Jordan Everly
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Speaker 2: and the head coach in lane Lambert, Well.
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Speaker 1: I guess you'd have to ask that inside the room.
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Speaker 1: I thought they were really strong comments post game on Monday.
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Speaker 1: I liked what I heard. You know, I think, first
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Speaker 1: of all, one of the most underrated terms, and this
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Speaker 1: passenger you can use that in everyday life. Like he
11:04
Speaker 1: looked around and the guy next to you at work,
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Speaker 1: are you just a passenger? Are you pulling your weight? Right?
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Speaker 1: I think these guys are. You know, there are definite
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Speaker 1: passengers and really all you have to do is look
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Speaker 1: not always does the stack columns and the stat sheet
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Speaker 1: show everything you need to know.
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Speaker 4: Like matt E.
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Speaker 1: Vaneer is a great example that Mattypineer's having a really
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Speaker 1: good season, not scoring a lot from the goals, has
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Speaker 1: some use of numbers in his fists, but Matty Vaneer's
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Speaker 1: game is anything but a passenger. He's been a fantastic
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Speaker 1: But there are other guys. If you look and you
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Speaker 1: see in the goal column won two or three goals
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Speaker 1: for guys that aren't contributing to bole fans and aren't
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Speaker 1: pointing everything. Maybe there were a mids or two on
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Speaker 1: either contract extensions or trades. I think we all agreed
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Speaker 1: what they did in the off season was was pretty good,
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Speaker 1: I guess step in the right direction. But over the
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Speaker 1: last few weeks and really the course of the season,
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Speaker 1: for some of these guys, it hasn't been good. That
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Speaker 1: how did they get there? That's an internal question, that's
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Speaker 1: something they got to ask themselves. But it's frustrating because
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Speaker 1: you know, Mike, the goaltending has been you know, Joey's
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Speaker 1: been Joey hasn't been good in the last two games,
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Speaker 1: but Joey overall has been really good. And Grubauer's been
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Speaker 1: like phenomenal issue. Like Ruby's been really good all season long.
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Speaker 1: So with that goldtenning, with what he's got in the
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Speaker 1: back end, offensive productions in the back end, it's been
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Speaker 1: above average upper third of the league. You got to
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Speaker 1: get more from upfront. And I don't know if that's
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Speaker 1: Deffard execution or a combination of.
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Speaker 2: Well, I want to get to goltending here ian because
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Speaker 2: Grubauer statistically is on pace for his best season since
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Speaker 2: the COVID shortened year of twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 2: He's in a nine to zeroero say percentage. And this
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Speaker 2: is even inclusive of that throwout the window game they
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Speaker 2: had at Edmonton where Grubauer came in relief of Joey
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Speaker 2: to court as well. I mean, I think you've already
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Speaker 2: answered the question as far as what we make out
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Speaker 2: of Grubauer here for the season. But here's an interesting
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Speaker 2: part of this and a new wrinkle. We're going through
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Speaker 2: a busy part of the schedule, seeing this team play
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Speaker 2: eleven games in twenty days. I mean, how much more
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Speaker 2: are you convincing this is going to open up more
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Speaker 2: potential starts for Philip Grubauer.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think you have to give him more opportunity
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Speaker 1: until Joey gets better, right, I'd be I'd be hesitant
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Speaker 1: to say, I think I think about giving given Grubauer
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Speaker 1: to start to getting the Kings. But you'll see what
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Speaker 1: happens later on that. I think the great thing is
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Speaker 1: it's a nice thing to have. Like when you signed
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Speaker 1: Philip Grubauer, you sign him, you know, as the number
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Speaker 1: one guy, and in the last couple of years, it's
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Speaker 1: been anything but that. So for him to bounce back,
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Speaker 1: it's really good. I mean, that's a that's a big
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Speaker 1: time positive. Like I said, I'm not I'm not too
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Speaker 1: worried about Joey yet. I think we've seen enough body
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Speaker 1: of work, even a little bit of a slump stuff
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Speaker 1: in a little bit. I think he's the last two games,
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Speaker 1: for example, they're at least one, if not multiple goals.
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Speaker 1: He got back that. You know, Jilly McCord is the
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Speaker 1: least year problem. Philip gru Bowery is a solution to
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Speaker 1: some problems. Kept you in the game against Minnesota's I mean,
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Speaker 1: Michae he had three breakaways and that gave me stopped
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Speaker 1: two or all three of them.
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Speaker 2: Right, I mean, it's easy here to think Ian that
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Speaker 2: if they were facing Colorado or Dallas or Edmonton, that
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Speaker 2: score could have gotten away from them very quickly in
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Speaker 2: period one.
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Speaker 1: It could have. Although I mean, I'm trying to think
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Speaker 1: who had the breakaways? Didn't the Boldie had one? Boldie
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Speaker 1: had one.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Hartman also had a great look too, and you
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Speaker 2: also had Yeah, you also had Yakov Trenyon.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know they the sense he really kind of
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Speaker 1: kept you in that game. I just think to me
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Speaker 1: he made a positive too, Mikeys that they had a
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Speaker 1: great job. They did a great job and had their
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Speaker 1: best game killing Kettledys and forever they're perfect killing Kennledy.
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Speaker 1: And that's the team that in the tracking and giving
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Speaker 1: up seven power play goals in the previous game attempts
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Speaker 1: over the previous three games into the opposition, that doesn't
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Speaker 1: hurt us. I mean, stopping seven of eight's one thing.
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Speaker 1: Giving up seven of eight is that's crazy. And then
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Speaker 1: they are they're perfect in the PK. Last night they
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Speaker 1: get the power play goal, which is the beauty thing
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Speaker 1: of beauty. They really tapping from Stevenson. They just have
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Speaker 1: to get five on five score and they've got to
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Speaker 1: get more from their offense. They're more from their forwards.
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Speaker 1: I think Person Caton being out is not hurting them people.
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Speaker 1: They always only got five assists and the goal you
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Speaker 1: watch person Canton play, meaning we think we believe he
15:32
Speaker 1: got to hurt blocking a shot, paying the price. And
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Speaker 1: as far as just setting guys up, he's been great,
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Speaker 1: only getting better every game. But there's other guys that
15:41
Speaker 1: can have to start to finish with the buck in
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Speaker 1: the net and that's just not happening right now.
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Speaker 4: What stands out to you as far as what they
15:47
Speaker 4: miss the most with Jayden Schwartz.
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Speaker 1: Well, the time, he's your leadings point producer, so that's
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Speaker 1: the obvious one. He paid the price get front presence,
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Speaker 1: even though he's not a big guy, plays the game
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Speaker 1: the right way. Here to say that all the time,
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Speaker 1: but it's true. I think he's really one of the
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Speaker 1: most underrated players in the league. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: skill there. There's a lot of grit hockey fensis through
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Speaker 1: the roof, makes all the right plays at bull fends
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Speaker 1: the ice. I mean, just a really good hockey player,
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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I mean he's he's not McKennon, McDavid,
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Speaker 1: what have you, But he's a really good hockey player
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Speaker 1: and arguably one of their two or three best skaters,
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Speaker 1: at least in terms of the forward group. I mean,
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Speaker 1: your best skaters right now are Matty Veneers and Done
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Speaker 1: and Montour. Yeah, right, those are your best players. And
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Speaker 1: it's not close. But Schwartz, if he's on the ice,
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Speaker 1: he's right there too.
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Speaker 2: I want to get to the Vince Done hit, and
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Speaker 2: we had a lengthy conversation about this al Kaniski myself
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Speaker 2: even during gameplay, Everett and now as well. And I think,
16:52
Speaker 2: first off, my thought on this scene is that you
16:55
Speaker 2: really feel bad for Matt Zugarello for the way he
16:58
Speaker 2: had to exit that game. But in today's NHL, in
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Speaker 2: the modern NHL, it is extremely, extremely difficult to lay
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Speaker 2: in a thundering hit like Vince Dunn did and do
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Speaker 2: it the clean way. And it was absolutely positively one
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Speaker 2: hund a clean hit. And it didn't take long for
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Speaker 2: even that off a clean hit to stir the hornet's
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Speaker 2: nest with Minnesota, and then you had Ryan Hartman trying
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Speaker 2: to chase him all over the ice to try to
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Speaker 2: get him to fight Vince Done.
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Speaker 4: By the end of the first period. What were your
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Speaker 4: thoughts on the hit, we'll.
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Speaker 1: Start to hit itself great hit hockey play. One of
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Speaker 1: the reasons we love the game, many of us love
17:40
Speaker 1: the game is the speed, the skill, but also the
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Speaker 1: physicality of it. Some of that's been taken away over
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Speaker 1: the years, and a lot of the physicality that's been
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Speaker 1: taken away to take it away in the right way,
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Speaker 1: you know, like it's from behind, blindside hit, gets in
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Speaker 1: the hand, things like that that don't exist anymore. We
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Speaker 1: don't have much fighting off. Yes, uh so you know
18:02
Speaker 1: those are all fine as far I mean, but that was,
18:04
Speaker 1: like you said, Mikey, that was just hey, you first, like,
18:07
Speaker 1: do you want to cut back to the center of
18:08
Speaker 1: the ice? You want to go open ice? And you
18:10
Speaker 1: got twenty nine bearing down on you. Who who plays
18:13
Speaker 1: the game in a you know, basically a perpetually pissed
18:18
Speaker 1: off state of mind. That's that's that's a youth problem.
18:20
Speaker 1: That's the Zucarella problem. That's not anybody else's problem.
18:23
Speaker 2: If you don't want to get hit by a freight train,
18:25
Speaker 2: don't go walking on the tracks.
18:28
Speaker 1: And and honestly, like I don't know what else people
18:31
Speaker 1: expected to happen. There is is bence supposed to just
18:34
Speaker 1: pull out the you know, the Matador cape and say
18:37
Speaker 1: oh hey and away you go like, no, that's not
18:39
Speaker 1: how it works. And and like I said, Vince, Vince
18:42
Speaker 1: Dunn plays the game the right way, played hard, like
18:46
Speaker 1: I like, I think he's you know, when we when
18:49
Speaker 1: we have him on the TV shows on the on
18:51
Speaker 1: the television side, any time Piper some of the interviews
18:54
Speaker 1: of you know, he's really thoughtful, he thinks the game through,
18:58
Speaker 1: he's the game well, but plays it hard. That was
19:02
Speaker 1: a hard, great hockey play, great hockey hit. And and
19:06
Speaker 1: then you know he knew what was coming. They're gonna
19:09
Speaker 1: all challenge him. Duke Corella is a popular guy as
19:11
Speaker 1: a veteran, he's coming off an injury, you know all
19:13
Speaker 1: those things. I think we all get it and we
19:15
Speaker 1: all understand it. But at the same time, it was
19:19
Speaker 1: the hit was fine, Like it was a good hit,
19:21
Speaker 1: and you know, they challenge him, or they go in
19:24
Speaker 1: the corner to scrum, we break it up, booms gets
19:26
Speaker 1: color play. Thanks for coming all good end of the period.
19:31
Speaker 1: I get it. I mean I think how many times
19:33
Speaker 1: we said you and I even on this to some
19:35
Speaker 1: of this podcast. We need a better response from the
19:37
Speaker 1: crack and we need this response.
19:39
Speaker 4: Yeah.
19:39
Speaker 1: I can hear Edzo echoing in my head right now, Johnny,
19:42
Speaker 1: where's the response. Who's going to respond to that? Where's
19:44
Speaker 1: the response? Well, like they want Brian Hartman wanted to respond,
19:49
Speaker 1: I saw I won't name the website, but I saw
19:55
Speaker 1: an insinuation from a local website blogger, podcas cas what
20:00
Speaker 1: have you? Whatever you want to call it, kind of
20:02
Speaker 1: insinuating it. Done back down from a challenge by Hartman,
20:07
Speaker 1: and listen, if you really believe that you haven't watched
20:13
Speaker 1: twenty nine play the game ever, he he You can't
20:17
Speaker 1: afford to lose Vince Done for five, ten or fifteen minutes.
20:20
Speaker 1: You can't.
20:21
Speaker 4: He's one of players.
20:24
Speaker 1: He's one of your best players, period. And the story now,
20:29
Speaker 1: if a fight happens, you know, and he goes after
20:32
Speaker 1: guys a lot, we've seen it, uh whenever you know,
20:35
Speaker 1: when's Calgary coming up pretty quick? Right at some point,
20:37
Speaker 1: like we all know how that's gonna go. He's gonna
20:40
Speaker 1: chase the guy around all night. That's not gonna want
20:43
Speaker 1: to answer the bell. I get it, we all get it.
20:45
Speaker 1: But if Vince Done gets the strap and the heat
20:48
Speaker 1: of the moment, you live with it if Vin's done,
20:51
Speaker 1: it's challenged by a guy well after the fact in
20:55
Speaker 1: a game that at that point was was it one one?
20:57
Speaker 1: I think I believe right doesn't matter. If one game?
21:01
Speaker 1: Why what do you what do you get out of that? Like,
21:03
Speaker 1: when do you get out of that? You the guy
21:06
Speaker 1: challenge you after a clean hit? No, you know what,
21:09
Speaker 1: I'll do it on my time part man, Like I'll no,
21:12
Speaker 1: you can go away. That was silly. But yeah, for
21:14
Speaker 1: people to insinuate that he backed down or something, and
21:18
Speaker 1: that's that's moronic to be honest with you, Like what
21:22
Speaker 1: are you doing? Like why would you like Vince's done that?
21:24
Speaker 1: Like nope, Like I wasn't even worried when they went
21:27
Speaker 1: in the corner and the scrum was happening and all
21:29
Speaker 1: the wrestling match was taking place, Like, well, the Kraken
21:32
Speaker 1: can ill afford to lose him here. Now if he
21:35
Speaker 1: wants to grab somebody, uh, you know, Trendon or whoever
21:38
Speaker 1: else is in the corner, you want to grab somebody
21:40
Speaker 1: and throttle him, fine, but you know, Vince done's too important.
21:44
Speaker 1: I didn't have any problem with that. The problem is
21:47
Speaker 1: they don't have anybody anst thebellion Pagoshin was gonna run
21:49
Speaker 1: around and be a fool the rest of the night,
21:50
Speaker 1: and he was. I get it, and I understand that's
21:53
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's that's gonna be his thing. Seattle
21:56
Speaker 1: doesn't have any many Seattle doesn't have the guy that's
21:58
Speaker 1: gonna go Toto fell with him anyway. So you know,
22:02
Speaker 1: that's just part of the game. It happens. You know,
22:05
Speaker 1: I think there's certain guys in this team that do respond,
22:08
Speaker 1: and I like it. I mean, Freddy Goodrow got his
22:10
Speaker 1: first career fight.
22:11
Speaker 4: You know, get that, Freddie Goodrow Ty Cartier as well.
22:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Ty Cartier he'll respond. Yeah, you know, you
22:17
Speaker 1: know that does pretty good. GROW's first fight ever, like
22:20
Speaker 1: and like he shouldn't have to he shouldn't have to
22:22
Speaker 1: do that. Now, if you want to ask about passengers,
22:25
Speaker 1: there was a guy on the ice that hasn't done
22:27
Speaker 1: the ice for a while for a couple of games.
22:28
Speaker 1: Now it was standing there watching you Drow have to
22:31
Speaker 1: answer the bell there and not answer the bell, just
22:33
Speaker 1: you know, stick up for his teammates. So you know,
22:35
Speaker 1: I think they got they you know, there's some guys
22:37
Speaker 1: out there that they give you all they got and
22:39
Speaker 1: they do the play the game the right way. But
22:41
Speaker 1: for Vince then to have to fight a guy would
22:43
Speaker 1: be you know, at the end of a period, it's ridiculous.
22:46
Speaker 1: Get away, go to the locker room. You're too important
22:48
Speaker 1: to that team, and I'm glad he didn't.
22:50
Speaker 2: Finally, the King's coming up here in the krack and
22:53
Speaker 2: we'll see them twice this month, and we'll see you
22:55
Speaker 2: gets the nod and net because Philip Grubauer's got great
22:58
Speaker 2: numbers against the Kings for his career, Joey d Kord's
23:01
Speaker 2: got great numbers against the Kings for his career. But
23:03
Speaker 2: still they're gonna be facing a team that still has
23:06
Speaker 2: a defensive heavy approach among one of the top teams
23:10
Speaker 2: as far as fewest goals allowed, one of the top
23:13
Speaker 2: teams fewest shots allowed. But they are still very much
23:16
Speaker 2: a flawed offensive team. Despite ripping Chicago a parts six
23:20
Speaker 2: two games ago and then beating Utah, who's been pretty
23:22
Speaker 2: good lately but sluggishly coming back down a little bit
23:26
Speaker 2: for two as the final score in that one. So
23:30
Speaker 2: I think we know that we're gonna get out of this,
23:32
Speaker 2: and I'd be surprised if it's nine to eight. Once
23:34
Speaker 2: again in overtime like three years ago, two to one
23:37
Speaker 2: or three two when you face the Kings seems to
23:39
Speaker 2: be on the menu now. But I think when you
23:41
Speaker 2: consider how Jordan Everly spoke of his teammates and trying
23:45
Speaker 2: to get them fired up, what Lane Lambert said in
23:48
Speaker 2: trying to possibly get his team as well fired up
23:52
Speaker 2: is the biggest key here for the Crack. And you
23:54
Speaker 2: think energy in period one, energy toward the front of
23:58
Speaker 2: the net or something else.
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Speaker 1: Well, first period, coming out strong in the first period,
24:02
Speaker 1: it would be a good start. I think that's I'm
24:04
Speaker 1: sure that's what Lane will be preaching. I'm sure that's
24:07
Speaker 1: what he'll be pushing. I mean, at some point, there's
24:09
Speaker 1: only so much the coach can do or say. They
24:13
Speaker 1: have some net front presence as a game went on
24:15
Speaker 1: laugh Monday, I guess, but I that part I'm not
24:19
Speaker 1: as worried about. I think just a good start, getting
24:22
Speaker 1: on top of somebody early, and not just by a goal,
24:26
Speaker 1: but getting on top of somebody early and taking advantage.
24:29
Speaker 1: I think trailing after one period. I think they only
24:31
Speaker 1: have one one win this season of Cracking, So just
24:35
Speaker 1: a good start comparative, especially coming off the comments by
24:37
Speaker 1: Everly and and Lane Lambert and also maybe stop worrying
24:41
Speaker 1: about the opponent. If you're the Crack is like, okay,
24:44
Speaker 1: there'll be a defensive team. Whatever. How about just go
24:46
Speaker 1: out and play your game, get up and down, play
24:48
Speaker 1: with some speed, balance in the both ends, the keep
24:51
Speaker 1: your defensive structure, and maybe some of these guys that
24:55
Speaker 1: are sitting on one or two goals can can break through.
24:59
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's a couple of guys that are
25:01
Speaker 1: twenty plus goal scores, you know, on back of the
25:03
Speaker 1: hockey card, that are on pace for eight or nine
25:06
Speaker 1: on the season. But those guys need to get going,
25:08
Speaker 1: and no better time than against the Kings.
25:10
Speaker 4: National TV's got the game. Ian. I know that you
25:13
Speaker 4: had the night off, but hey, in case you get bored, Seed,
25:16
Speaker 4: It's always open, buddy, you know that. Appreciate you.
25:18
Speaker 1: I appreciate the invite.
25:20
Speaker 4: Mike, Thanks, I appreciate it. Mayor all right, Mayor appreciate you.
25:25
Speaker 3: That.
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Speaker 2: Sean Forness, once again, TV host for the KRACK and
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Speaker 2: Hockey Network, also heard on these airwaves one to three
25:31
Speaker 2: weekdays on ninety three to three KJRFM, Cracking getting set
25:35
Speaker 2: for the Los Angeles Kings in As we hinted earlier,
25:38
Speaker 2: the Kracking could be in store for another defensive fistfight.
25:42
Speaker 2: The Kings yes opening up their offense recently two games ago,
25:46
Speaker 2: blowing out Chicago's six to nothing, but for the most
25:49
Speaker 2: part they have still been very much a defensive aligned
25:52
Speaker 2: team under head coach Jim Hiller, where the Kings currently
25:56
Speaker 2: holding third place in the Pacific Division at fourteen eight
26:00
Speaker 2: and seven, with the Kraken are facing that typically can't
26:03
Speaker 2: score much but also doesn't give up much goals scored
26:07
Speaker 2: per game just two point seven twenty seventh in the NHL,
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Speaker 2: goals allowed though per game two point four third best
26:15
Speaker 2: in the NHL, shots against twenty six per game, sixth
26:19
Speaker 2: ranked in the NHL, and the Kraken trying to get
26:23
Speaker 2: back to their own fundamentals seven points back of the
26:26
Speaker 2: Kings with a record of eleven ten and six. To note,
26:30
Speaker 2: Jordan Eberley carrying a three point scoring streak into the
26:33
Speaker 2: contest and with Jaden Schwartz out, Eberley has taken the
26:37
Speaker 2: mantle now as a Kraken scoring leader with seventeen points
26:40
Speaker 2: in twenty seven games, but his nine goals now on
26:43
Speaker 2: the season, setting him on pace for a twenty seven
26:46
Speaker 2: goal campaign, which would mark the most he's had in
26:49
Speaker 2: his NHL career since a twenty eight goal output with
26:53
Speaker 2: Edmonton eleven years ago. Adrian Kempei just comes off the
26:57
Speaker 2: massive extension for LA right now faces them with twenty
27:01
Speaker 2: six points in twenty nine games, and the Kings now
27:04
Speaker 2: down to just two regulars from their Stanley Cup championship
27:08
Speaker 2: squads under Darryl Setter last decade.
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Speaker 4: That would be Drew.
27:11
Speaker 2: Dowdy with ten points in twenty two games at age
27:14
Speaker 2: thirty six, and thirty eight year old center on Jay
27:18
Speaker 2: Coppetar in his retirement tour season, Carrying fifteen points in
27:22
Speaker 2: twenty five games, he is seven points away from thirteen
27:26
Speaker 2: hundred in his NHL career. We have all the action
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