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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: A big win to get back on track, and a big opponent, next (3/2) · 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 point three KJR FM.
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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton. All right, warm greetings.
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Speaker 2: This trade deadline week, it's here we'll see where the
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Speaker 2: Seattle Kraken go. Plenty of possibilities, but the most important
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Speaker 2: matter at hand. Tonight a pretty important game against a
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Speaker 2: very tough out the crack and taken on the Carolina
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Speaker 2: Hurricanes at seven o'clock Pacific time. We're on air six
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Speaker 2: We hope that you can join us here. A course
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Speaker 2: across the Global Credit Union Kraken Audio Network. Coming up,
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Speaker 2: we'll hear from Corey la Violette, who covers the Carolina
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Speaker 2: Hurricanes via the North State Journal and The Athletic. We'll
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Speaker 2: learn more about the opponent coming up, here for tonight,
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Speaker 2: opening a four game road trip on their side and
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Speaker 2: looking as tough as ever right now in a bit
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Speaker 2: for the top spot in the entire Eastern Conference. That
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Speaker 2: plus our highlights in just a bit and more reaction
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Speaker 2: after Saturday Night or the Kraken knocked off the Vancouver
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Speaker 2: Caducks in convincing fashion as well got a big night
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Speaker 2: from their top line, also with a hat trick that
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden wasn't just moments after it happened.
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Speaker 2: All this coming up here Corey Lavolette. Additionally, with more
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Speaker 2: on the Hurricanes, a team the Kraken are taking aim
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Speaker 2: at here for a one to one split in this
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Speaker 2: head to head series after the Kraken fell three two
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Speaker 2: in Carolina back in January. Well, Saturday Night maybe wasn't
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Speaker 2: an opponent that you could maybe size up as the
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Speaker 2: biggest game of the year, but as far as circumstances,
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Speaker 2: it felt like the biggest game of the year. Players
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Speaker 2: were certainly saying, coaches were certainly saying it was a
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Speaker 2: big one as well. With a Kracking trying to rebound
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Speaker 2: from back to back losses in Dallas and Saint Louis
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Speaker 2: by a combined total of ninety two and the playoff
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Speaker 2: race as tight as ever in the Western Conference. Here's
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Speaker 2: how the Kraken responded against the Canucks, opening a six
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Speaker 2: game homestand with the calls from Everger Fitzhugh and al Kiniski.
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Speaker 2: Here's a two on one Shane right and captain right across.
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Speaker 3: Captain shot twent' blocker save by Kevin Langan and he
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Speaker 3: goes down. I can save it done, left side.
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Speaker 4: Shot last, it's done in game six hundred opens up
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Speaker 4: the story.
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Speaker 3: Jade Schwartz and for Seattle on the right side sends
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Speaker 3: it across. Lars fires that one knocked down at front
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Speaker 3: right out.
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Speaker 4: Here's Elias Patterson.
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Speaker 3: Right shot blocked by everyone, the captain scrung three whatever
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Speaker 3: going down the slot. The captain blocks the shot, the
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Speaker 3: Carram springs it on a breakaway forehand backhand.
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Speaker 4: To the lead.
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Speaker 5: Three one Seattle well. Jordan Nibley attacking the shot up
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Speaker 5: with the point at the at the cracking of the ice,
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Speaker 5: gets a nice block off his shins. Pad sets himself
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Speaker 5: on a breakaway, goes forehead.
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Speaker 1: Back, then every in off the ivory three one crack.
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Speaker 6: It Darling to the line.
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Speaker 3: They'll get it back glass circle back in front, tipt
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Speaker 3: On goal injoing the corner comes over with a massive
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Speaker 3: gluff save.
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Speaker 1: As Lina's Conlson.
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Speaker 6: And Evander Keane, we're both barely on goal.
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Speaker 3: He'sop one by the cracking two. Vince Dunne here, Stevenson
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Speaker 3: down very cuts in front.
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Speaker 6: To the building.
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Speaker 4: They know what's at stake now m can hands it
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Speaker 4: off to the captain.
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Speaker 3: Every with an empty net. Pras short and everly un
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Speaker 3: natural hat trick for Seattle. Three goals in a row.
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Speaker 4: That's a five one the track and lead.
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Speaker 1: But you know, the fans, we're hoping for this goal
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Speaker 1: ever since the hat trick got called back. The hats
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Speaker 1: fly to the ice because Jordan able to get his
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Speaker 1: third of the game. And I give all the credit
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Speaker 1: to Jared McCann who got that puck at the red line,
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Speaker 1: got us head up.
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Speaker 5: He could have fired it, you know, he could have
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Speaker 5: fired it. He had the time to fired it. He
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Speaker 5: would have hit the net and score.
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Speaker 1: But he found the captain streaking through the middle, gave
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Speaker 1: him the puck, let him put it home for the
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Speaker 1: hat trick.
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Speaker 2: Five to one was your final score, with the Kraken
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Speaker 2: now taking two out of three against Vancouver this season,
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Speaker 2: one more matchup coming in Vancouver this month, but the
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Speaker 2: krack and also getting five points combined out of their
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Speaker 2: top line, and we're so close, so close to a
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Speaker 2: natural hat trick for Jordan every after he buried the
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Speaker 2: empty netter for the review confirmed his second goal of
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Speaker 2: the night deflected off of Maddie Beniers, so that goal
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Speaker 2: was changed, and Everly's settling for a two goal night
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Speaker 2: and three point effort. Nonetheless, a cracking getting leadership where
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Speaker 2: it mattered most for a win like that, and in
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Speaker 2: a game they had to have with less than a
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Speaker 2: week before trade deadline time coming up on Friday at
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Speaker 2: noon Pacific. Before we get to Corey Lavalette, here's more
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Speaker 2: reaction for the dressing room with defenseman Vince Dunn, who
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Speaker 2: scored a goal in his six hundredth career NHL game.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought we played pretty good in the first period,
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Speaker 7: Like it's not always gonna be perfect, but I thought
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Speaker 7: when the breakdowns happened, we were pretty honest to support
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Speaker 7: each other and replace each other when we had to.
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Speaker 7: So that's the way you gotta win games, is when
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Speaker 7: you push, sometimes you get to push back and you
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Speaker 7: got to deal with that, and I thought we dealt
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Speaker 7: with that really good. And I think just the start
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Speaker 7: of the game getting shots and people to the net,
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Speaker 7: we did a pretty good job of getting too quick.
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Speaker 2: Scape You guys had Cushion in his second period. What
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Speaker 2: can you say about him and his leadership?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's been fantastic to play with ever since I've
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Speaker 7: been here, and it's definitely a huge presence in the
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Speaker 7: room whenever he's here. So I think, uh, just having
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Speaker 7: him and what he's dealt with in his career and
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Speaker 7: the injuries that he's come back from with his time here,
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Speaker 7: it's very inspirational to play with. And I think he's
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Speaker 7: done a really good job of leading the guys and
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Speaker 7: finding that balance of when to really push us and
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Speaker 7: and when to really guide us. So it's been a
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Speaker 7: pleasure playing with him and getting to know him as
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Speaker 7: a person, and I think everyone really respects his game
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Speaker 7: in this locker room. So it's a really good group
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Speaker 7: for him to lead. And Yeah, I can't say enough
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Speaker 7: good things about him.
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Speaker 5: If a has to summarize six hundred games or six
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Speaker 5: hundred starts into one word, what would that.
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Speaker 7: One word be? Uh could go a lot of different ways.
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Speaker 7: Maybe probably just thankful to to be able to play
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Speaker 7: that many games. It's not every opportunity, not uh at.
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Speaker 7: You know, everything doesn't really go your way sometimes and
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Speaker 7: you deal with a lot in your career and I've
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Speaker 7: had a lot of good things come my way. So yeah,
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Speaker 7: I'm just super thankful to be able to play that
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Speaker 7: many games. And it's such a pleasure to play with
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Speaker 7: these guys every single night and to learn about them
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Speaker 7: and to learn about myself and to grow as a human.
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Speaker 7: So it's been a lot of fun these past six
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Speaker 7: hundred games and a lot of accomplishments and milestones that
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Speaker 7: I've reached and been happy to to achieve. But yeah,
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Speaker 7: just hopefully six hundred more to to strive for. And
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Speaker 7: yeah we'll go to six to so one the next game.
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Speaker 5: It's after the the rough start on the road trip
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Speaker 5: to to make sure it didn't reach three of the
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Speaker 5: losing street coming out of the break, to get this
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Speaker 5: one and kind of get you guys right at how
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Speaker 5: how how big is this one for you? Is to
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Speaker 5: kind of get get the second back half here and going.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we're pretty comfortable at home this year,
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Speaker 7: and especially when you play a team like Vancouver, there's
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Speaker 7: always emotions and it's always really good energy, and you
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Speaker 7: get a Saturday night game in our building, it's always
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Speaker 7: a no excuse game, and I think we did a
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Speaker 7: really good job of pushing it to them and getting
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Speaker 7: the points that we need right now. And I think
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Speaker 7: when you get a start like we did, it's just
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Speaker 7: shows a lot of character in the room and that
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Speaker 7: we're just kind of able to forget the bad things
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Speaker 7: that sometimes happen within a season. And I thought we've
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Speaker 7: done a pretty good job overall dealing with adversity, and
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Speaker 7: you know, sometimes you get down and the game's kind
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Speaker 7: of out of your hands, but I think we always
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Speaker 7: put up a fight every single night, and I have
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Speaker 7: no doubt when I come to the rank that we're
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Speaker 7: going to battle for each other.
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Speaker 2: So it's a lot of fun, all right. That brings
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Speaker 2: us here to a look at the second and final
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Speaker 2: matchup of the season, and by the looks of things,
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Speaker 2: it's going to be a tough one. The crack and
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Speaker 2: again taking on the Carolina Hurricanes. And joining us here
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Speaker 2: from the Hurricanes beat is Corey Lavalette of the North
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Speaker 2: Star Journal. Also from the Athletic As well, Corey, great
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Speaker 2: to have you. It's too bad that you're not on
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Speaker 2: this trip here, but maybe one of these days here
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Speaker 2: my friend, is there anything though on your to do
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Speaker 2: list if you want it the West Coast eventually?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I've I've been out to Seattle once before.
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Speaker 6: I really loved it, thought it was just really beautiful.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, I want to see everything, so getting up
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Speaker 6: there now in years a bit, both my kids are
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Speaker 6: my kids are moving out and growing up, so it's
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Speaker 6: getting to be time to start doing some of that
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Speaker 6: stuff that my wife and I wanted to do. So
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Speaker 6: we love it, love it out there when we went
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Speaker 6: out there. My life's going back out there next month.
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Speaker 6: She's got a high school friend who graduated high school
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Speaker 6: with that was out in Seattle. So yeah, love it,
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Speaker 6: love it out in the in the Pacific Northwest.
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Speaker 2: I've got two boys here who are still in grade
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Speaker 2: school right now, so very relatable. I've got friends, especially
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Speaker 2: one from our TV side of course, still with connections
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Speaker 2: and ties and Rawleigh, and I'm taking the golf clubs
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Speaker 2: out there one of these days if you can, certainly
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Speaker 2: ask me. But the hurricanes in Tampa Bay right now, Corey,
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Speaker 2: it seems like, man, right now, they are the class
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Speaker 2: of the Eastern Conference. But what are we learning about
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Speaker 2: the state of the Hurricanes after they beat Detroit five
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Speaker 2: to two heading into this trip for them?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, coming out of
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Speaker 6: the break, I think every team has a little bit
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Speaker 6: of rust to knockoff, and I think you've seen that
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Speaker 6: a bit with the Hurricanes, a little bit of sloppiness.
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Speaker 6: But they're finding ways to win, right and that's what
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Speaker 6: good teams do. I mean, twelve games in a row
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Speaker 6: now with at least a point ten and two. You know,
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Speaker 6: Jacob Slave and being back has just been huge for them.
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Speaker 6: They haven't lost the game this season in regulation when
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Speaker 6: Jacob Slaven has played, and that's that's an insane statistic
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Speaker 6: to think about. So him being back really stabilizes the defense,
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Speaker 6: has kind of slotted everything in. And then the goaltending obviously,
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Speaker 6: you know, goaltending's voodoo. But they they think I think
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Speaker 6: they they may have found gold with Brandon Bussey, got
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Speaker 6: him re signed during the break to a three year extension.
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Speaker 6: And then Frederick Anderson last night might have been their
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Speaker 6: best player. He played really well. So things are kind
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Speaker 6: of coming together. We'll see what they can do at
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Speaker 6: the trade deadline if they want to to bolster the
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Speaker 6: lineup a bit. But yeah, they look like one of
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Speaker 6: the teams to be You mentioned Tampa and I think
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Speaker 6: those are the two teams that out east that are
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Speaker 6: going to be, you know, the two big dogs.
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Speaker 2: The Hurricanes have always been some of the parts team
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Speaker 2: typically under Rod Brenda Moore. I mean, they'll make a sweat,
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Speaker 2: they'll make you skate. They have tried the quote let's
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Speaker 2: acquire a superstar end quote exercise last year, particularly in
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Speaker 2: Miko Rantonen. That didn't last long, and then their big
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Speaker 2: swing this past summer was picking up Nikolai eelers Corey.
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Speaker 2: Where do you see the Hurricanes needs in particular and
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Speaker 2: maybe even the targets heading into the trade deadline by
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Speaker 2: the end of this week.
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Speaker 6: You know, I think the way that GM Eric Telsey
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Speaker 6: thinks about these things is, you know, we're going to
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Speaker 6: be in on everything. If there's a player out there
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Speaker 6: that can make us better. His his his line is always,
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Speaker 6: you know, until we have the eighteen best skaters and
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Speaker 6: the two best goal he's dressed, you know that we
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Speaker 6: can always get better. So I think they're going to
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Speaker 6: look everywhere and see where they can get better. You know,
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Speaker 6: they took a runt at Quinn Hughes. Obviously that didn't happen,
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Speaker 6: but you know, I could see an you know, at
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Speaker 6: a defenseman, maybe a Jalen Chatfield has played really well.
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Speaker 6: I don't know that he's a top pairing defenseman and
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Speaker 6: that's where he's playing right now with Jacob Slavin, but
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Speaker 6: he's still a very good defensive defenseman. So I could
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Speaker 6: see them looking at defense if there's anything out there.
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Speaker 6: A lot of people talk about the second line center situation.
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Speaker 6: I know they're very happy with what they've gotten out
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Speaker 6: of Logan Stankhoven in that line, especially something to keep
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Speaker 6: an eye on. Since coming out of the break these
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Speaker 6: last two games, that's been far and away Carolina's top
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Speaker 6: line with Stankhoven, Jackson Blake and then with the former
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Speaker 6: MVP Taylor Hall, and those three have been really, really dominant.
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Speaker 6: I talked to Taylor Hall about this a little bit
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Speaker 6: after the game last night, and he said, you know,
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Speaker 6: things get tougher on the road, though you know they've
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Speaker 6: they've gotten favorable matchups. The Hurricanes have two great second
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Speaker 6: line center or defensive centers rather in in Sebastianajo and
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Speaker 6: Jordan Stall who can lock down other teams good players
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Speaker 6: and that frees those guys up. But it's different on
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Speaker 6: the road, so you know, Seattle's going to get to
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Speaker 6: dictate those matchups. So you know, I think the big thing,
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Speaker 6: you know, getting back to your question is you know
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Speaker 6: they're going to need to just look for what can
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Speaker 6: make them better overall, what can make their depths better.
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Speaker 6: But they I think they already feel like they're a
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Speaker 6: lot deeper team than they were last year when injuries
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Speaker 6: really hurt them in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: It still seems like yesterday to me that Taylor Hall
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Speaker 2: was drafted first overall by the Edmonton Oilers and here
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Speaker 2: he is now as a thirty four year old veteran
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Speaker 2: on this Hurricanes team. To you, what kind of role
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Speaker 2: has he played and are people looking at him to
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Speaker 2: play coming up here for the Stresch Drive.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he's a great fit with those two
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Speaker 6: young guys. Right, You've got two guys that are in
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Speaker 6: there really their second full NHL season in Blake and
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Speaker 6: Stankovin and Jackson. Blake told us last night, he said,
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Speaker 6: you know, if he talks I'm going to listen to him.
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Speaker 6: That's a guy who you know, won MVP and has
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Speaker 6: been around the league. But I think the interesting thing
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Speaker 6: to see with him is, and we've seen it with
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Speaker 6: Andre Spechnikov too, is you know, both those guys suffered
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Speaker 6: knee injuries, and now that we have that NHL Edge
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Speaker 6: data where we can see, you know, how fast team
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Speaker 6: you know, players are, how many speed bursts they have,
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Speaker 6: things like that, you can see both those players are
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Speaker 6: fully back, and Taylor Hall is fully back from the
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Speaker 6: knee problems he had, and he's an explosive player. Again,
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Speaker 6: He's not being asked to be at, you know, at
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Speaker 6: top of the lineup guy. I know that's their quote
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Speaker 6: unquote second line, but you know, he's he's a little
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Speaker 6: further on the you know, down the depth chart as
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Speaker 6: far as who their top forwards are. But he's really
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Speaker 6: valuable because it's it's that secondary scoring that becomes so important,
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Speaker 6: you know, down the stretch and in the postseason. U
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Speaker 6: And he's got a you know, I think he's got
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Speaker 6: a great attitude about where he is in his career,
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Speaker 6: and you know, he doesn't have to be the guy anymore.
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Speaker 6: I think he's looking to win. He did. He did
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Speaker 6: get his veneer knocked out last night, so he was
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Speaker 6: not happy about that. But yeah, he's he's a really
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Speaker 6: interesting guy. I really like talking to him, very very thoughtful,
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Speaker 6: and I think he's a really good fit with those
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Speaker 6: those two young forwards.
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Speaker 2: We'll see how long it takes here for the tooth
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Speaker 2: Fairy to help out. Taylor Hollis Corey Lavalett joins us
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Speaker 2: hear once again on cracking this morning. Seth Jarvis will
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Speaker 2: come back here to the Pacific Northwest, of course, formerly
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Speaker 2: a Portland winter Hawk and pushing career highs in goals
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Speaker 2: right now and playing a big role previously for Team
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Speaker 2: Canada that came so close to a gold medal at
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Speaker 2: the Olympics. Seth Jarvis is just twenty four years of age.
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Speaker 2: He is now or close to being in his prime.
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Speaker 2: Or is there another level, like say a forty gold
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Speaker 2: guy out of him that we're talking about in this future.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there is another level. I think he
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Speaker 6: probably would have gotten a forty this year if he
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Speaker 6: hadn't got got hurt for a little while. I think
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Speaker 6: the thing about him is he's such a deceptive player.
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Speaker 6: He doesn't play the game like you know a Connor McDavid,
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Speaker 6: where Connor McDavid is just shot out of a cannon
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Speaker 6: and he's coming at you a million miles an hour.
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Speaker 6: Seth Jarvis is pretty analytical in the way he attacks defenses,
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Speaker 6: but then I think he catches teams off guard so
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Speaker 6: much with just how fast he is. He can turn
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Speaker 6: kind of turn the jets on pretty quickly, and just
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Speaker 6: a super smart player. The way. The way I always
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Speaker 6: describe him as he came in here as a you know,
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Speaker 6: right out of the draft, surprisingly made the team, had
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Speaker 6: a really good rookie year, and they said, okay, Seth,
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Speaker 6: if you're going to be, you know, a real NHL star,
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Speaker 6: you need to build your game from you know, your
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Speaker 6: net out. You need to be a two hundred foot player.
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Speaker 6: And the comparison I always make is when Tiger Woods
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Speaker 6: showed up and he blew up the Masters and everyone
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Speaker 6: was like, oh my god, what's going to happen? And
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Speaker 6: then he and Butch Harmon totally reworked his swing. They
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Speaker 6: started from the round up and built them up to say, Okay,
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Speaker 6: you can do good things, let's do great things. And
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Speaker 6: that's what they've done with Seth Jarvis, and I think
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Speaker 6: he's a superstar in the making his person He's full
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Speaker 6: of personality too, exactly the kind of thing you know
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Speaker 6: the league needs so great, a great player to watch,
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Speaker 6: you know, all situations, and just a really good guy too.
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Speaker 2: Remember back, of course, when he played for WHL Portland,
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Speaker 2: there was always one motto and his play with confidence
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Speaker 2: and play the pocket as well with confidence. And there's
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Speaker 2: one guy that certainly embodies that under what he was
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Speaker 2: coached with Mike Johnson and now turning a lot of
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Speaker 2: heads now in his NHL career. Finally, Corey, the Hurricanes
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Speaker 2: road trip begins this evening in Seattle. Four games on
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Speaker 2: the road. Last time the Kraken played them a two
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Speaker 2: to one lead, went up and smoke in period three.
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Speaker 2: The Hurricanes rallied in period three, So I wouldn't be
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Speaker 2: surprised if another three to two game might be on
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Speaker 2: the menu. But did anything stand out may be from
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Speaker 2: the last matchup in January that applies to for you
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Speaker 2: this evening.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think that the crack and our
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Speaker 6: sneaky team. I like a lot of those players that
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Speaker 6: maybe don't get talked about a lot. Elie Tolbinan was
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Speaker 6: supposed to be a sniper, and he's really turned himself
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Speaker 6: into you know, a really good all all around the
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Speaker 6: ice player, you know, more physical than you would expect
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Speaker 6: from a guy who was known for having this laser shot.
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Speaker 6: So I really, you know, I think those weapons like
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Speaker 6: that can hurt the Hurricanes. Guys who can beat you
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Speaker 6: with one shot. You know, that's that's true of any team.
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Speaker 6: But I think you know, the way the Hurricanes can
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Speaker 6: suffocate you and deny you on zone entries, clog up
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Speaker 6: the neutral zone. Really, their gaps, you know, uh Saturday
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Speaker 6: night were just so so good, just not even letting
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Speaker 6: Detroit get any speed. So having guys like that, I know,
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Speaker 6: you know, maybe the gripe out of Seattle has been
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Speaker 6: there isn't a superstar there that's been the gripe in
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Speaker 6: Carolina too, But you've got guys with individual talents. You know,
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Speaker 6: McCann can score from anywhere, told on and I think
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Speaker 6: can score from anywhere. So I think I think that's
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Speaker 6: something to watch. And then obviously the goaltending is going
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Speaker 6: to be a big thing, right we all we all
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Speaker 6: see what what goaltending means to a team. I mean,
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Speaker 6: if you have good goaltending. You look like a really
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Speaker 6: good coach. And I know, I know, Seattle's gotten good
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Speaker 6: goaltending this year. Carolina, certainly from Brandon Bussey, has gotten
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Speaker 6: great goaltending, and now Fredick Anderson's coming around too, So
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Speaker 6: to me, it'll come down a lot to the goaltending
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Speaker 6: matchup and then the special teams. Carolina's power play is
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Speaker 6: much better now than it was earlier in the year,
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Speaker 6: So Seattle's got to be smart. Don't get caught up,
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Speaker 6: you know, taking penalties, you know, not moving your legs,
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Speaker 6: things like that. You've got to You've got to stay disciplined,
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Speaker 6: because Carolina's power play now looks like one of the
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Speaker 6: best in the league after really being bad early in
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Speaker 6: the year.
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Speaker 2: And it'd be a fun one here to keep an
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Speaker 2: eye on. Appreciate the intel, Corey, enjoy the stress drive.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a great one as well. And
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Speaker 2: thanks again. We'll Todd down the road.
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Speaker 6: Sounds great, Thanks so much, all right.
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Speaker 2: Corey, Thank you very much. That's Corey lava Lette. Check
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Speaker 2: it in here with us, who again covers the Hurricanes
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Speaker 2: for the North State Journal and The Athletic. Find him
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Speaker 2: at Twitter and x at Corey Lavallette again, Carolina entering
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Speaker 2: a four game road trip, the Kraken entering game two
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Speaker 2: of their six game homestand and the mission a one
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Speaker 2: to one split. Here the head to head series after
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Speaker 2: the Kraken fell three two to the Hurricanes back in
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Speaker 2: Carolina in January, this is going to be a tough
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Speaker 2: one here. The Hurricanes come in right now fifth best
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Speaker 2: NHL for goals score three point four per game, seventh
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Speaker 2: best in the NHL two point eight goals per game.
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Speaker 2: We mentioned the power play and how much they've improved
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Speaker 2: the Kraken looking for a similar formula as in matchup
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Speaker 2: number one, stay out of the box, and except for
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Speaker 2: one time, they were letter perfect Carolina going zero for
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Speaker 2: one on the power play in that first matchup back
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Speaker 2: on January tenth, the Kracking getting goals scoring from Matty
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Speaker 2: Beniers and Berkeley Catton as well. In that contest, Logan Stankovin,
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Speaker 2: Jordan Martin Nigwilliam Carrier had the goals. It's still pretty
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Speaker 2: tight right now in the Western Conference playoff race with
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Speaker 2: the NHL trade deadline four days away. San Jose beat
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Speaker 2: Winnipeg yesterday, so the Sharks, Predators, and Kings, who also
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Speaker 2: fired their head coach Jim Hiller, replacing him with interim
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Speaker 2: DJ Smith. All stand three points back of the Kraken
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Speaker 2: for the final wildcard spot Utah. Though lost on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: the Kraken are one point back of the Mammoth, not
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Speaker 2: to mention as well one point back of third place
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Speaker 2: Edmonton in the Pacific Division. So certainly a lot on
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Speaker 2: the line here with plenty of games coming up here
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Speaker 2: for this exciting stretch drive for the Kraken trying to
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Speaker 2: make their big push here for the second trip into
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Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Matchup number two of two is
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Speaker 2: gonna be a fun one. Hope you can join us
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Speaker 2: once again on air six point thirty face off little
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Speaker 2: past seven o'clock from climbing Pledge Arena ever written out
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Speaker 2: in the booth, I'll join you once again back by
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Speaker 2: the Corps light landing in section twenty postgame across the
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Speaker 2: street at Tom's Watch Bar. Big thank him again to
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Speaker 2: Corey Lavalette joining us Eperkracken this morning. I'm Mike Benton,
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