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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Catton convo, and long, winding road ends in Winnipeg (10/23) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the Kracking
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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, time to get you set up for
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Speaker 1: the final game of this road trip. Mike Benton with
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Speaker 1: you for Cracking this morning. On a Thursday, October twenty
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Speaker 1: third final game of six games on the road in
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Speaker 1: ten days, the Cracking might as well get Hi, my
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Speaker 1: name is name tags out for everybody when they come
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Speaker 1: back home this Saturday. All kidding aside, they'd take on
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Speaker 1: Edmonton for the first game back home, but before then, Tonight,
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Speaker 1: the Crack and take on the Winnipeg Jets five pm
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Speaker 1: from Canada Life Center. I'll have coverage for you by
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Speaker 1: the beverages, the friends, the whole night with us while
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Speaker 1: ever fits, you and Alcy have the call.
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Speaker 2: From Winnipeg. We have a lot more to cover with
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Speaker 2: the Kraken setting up here for their first matchup of
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Speaker 2: the season against Winnipeg. Special teams could play a big
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Speaker 2: role in this game this evening. That plus a look
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Speaker 2: at the goaltending picture, the NHL debut of Berkeley Catton,
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Speaker 2: and much more in our conversation with Ian Forness, who
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Speaker 2: joins us. Of course, you can see him on the
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Speaker 2: TV side host for the Krack and Hockey Network, also
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Speaker 2: heard one to three weekdays ninety three to three KJARFM.
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Speaker 2: We'll have the internest coming up. Plus an exclusive conversation
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Speaker 2: with Berkeley Catton, who picked up his first career NHL
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Speaker 2: point Monday night at Philadelphia and was certainly in the
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Speaker 2: mix despite a four to one Kraken loss to Washington.
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Speaker 2: Back on Tuesday, Ian Forness and Berkeley Catton joining us
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Speaker 2: in just a bits. Here's a rewind from Tuesday night.
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Speaker 2: Didn't begin on the brightest of notes, but the Krack
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Speaker 2: and making one push right at the finish line in
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Speaker 2: the highlights right.
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Speaker 3: Masoft control backed by Washington. Here's old fetch getting nearside.
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Speaker 3: Chickrien shoots, Chickrit scores power play goal Ford Jacob Chickrin
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Speaker 3: had the Caps sixten their lead to a field goal
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Speaker 3: three nothing eight. Schwartz back to the line fresh off
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Speaker 3: the bench and a shot from Myers turned aside. Rebound
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Speaker 3: scoress Jana Schwartz from the near circle beats Logan Thompson
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Speaker 3: and the Kraken get their first goal in the game,
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Speaker 3: three to one, sixteen to ten to play here in
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Speaker 3: this third.
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Speaker 4: What it was Jens Schwartz from behind the Capitol's net
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Speaker 4: that dug that puck out and recognized that the Cracking
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Speaker 4: were on a change. It was Ben Myers coming from
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Speaker 4: the bench that was coming back to the offensive zone.
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Speaker 4: Schwartz put it back up to the blue line. Ben
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Speaker 4: picked it up, got a big shot which ford Logan
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Speaker 4: Thompson to give up a big rebound rebound went right
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Speaker 4: to Schortz. This game's three to one.
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Speaker 1: Nows rims it around the boards.
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Speaker 3: I want to put back door the net.
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Speaker 5: Every shoots off the polls.
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Speaker 3: Holly caught Tompson leaning again Jordan Everly so close to
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Speaker 3: the second goal of the game for Seattle.
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Speaker 4: And it was a feed from Berkeley Cotton who had
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Speaker 4: picked that puck up under the corner, cut to the
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Speaker 4: front of the net and saw Everly on the far
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Speaker 4: side that was a top him.
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Speaker 3: Every Tippenier shot turn aside rebound out of the race
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Speaker 3: of Yanny Knomany fanned on it all of three on
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Speaker 3: one short handed Wilson fair vari.
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Speaker 5: Back door PLI of the goal.
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Speaker 3: Has that'll be set out of play.
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Speaker 4: Connor mcmichoal was right there.
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Speaker 2: Capital's four cracking one your final score at Capitol One
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Speaker 2: Arena on Tuesday, with Matt Murray taking the loss in
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Speaker 2: his cracking debut thirty one saves on thirty four shots.
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Speaker 2: Didn't get much support in front of him early on
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Speaker 2: the cracking unfortunately, just managing nine shots in the first
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Speaker 2: two periods before they put together their third period push
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Speaker 2: and the only goal of the night to Jayden Schwartz.
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Speaker 2: The Capitals one for two on the power play of
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Speaker 2: the Kraken coming up empty into opportunities and they now
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Speaker 2: turn their attention here to win a pag Berkeley Catton
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Speaker 2: a part of this lineup and also press into duty
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Speaker 2: because the Krack and have been going through health issues
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Speaker 2: up and down their lineup. Among those missing upfront Jared McCann,
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Speaker 2: Mason march, Mint, Freddie Gidreau and Compocaco due to injuries,
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Speaker 2: which has pressed Catton into duty and for all intents
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Speaker 2: and purposes, didn't look too much out of place in
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Speaker 2: the game at Washington, where he got increased ice time
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Speaker 2: in period three despite coming up scoreless, but also factoring
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Speaker 2: in on several scoring opportunities. Catton that evening, finishing with
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Speaker 2: eighteen minutes of ice time around two shots on net,
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Speaker 2: one hit, and one takeaway. Before our conversation with Ian Forness,
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Speaker 2: we cut up with Berkeley Catton in this exclusive to
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Speaker 2: the Global Credit Union Kraken Audio Network, discussing more on
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Speaker 2: his upbringing and adjustments to living by himself. Now, what
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Speaker 2: did mom and dad mean to you with your growth
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Speaker 2: as a hockey player beginning when you were young?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's pretty much everything. I mean, wouldn't
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Speaker 6: be here without them. That's a cliche saying, but it's true.
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Speaker 6: And you know, I remember my dad building me a
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Speaker 6: backyard drink when I was like.
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Speaker 5: Two years old, before I could even really skate.
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Speaker 6: So you know, he, you know, he wanted me to
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Speaker 6: play hockey, and luckily I fell in love with it,
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Speaker 6: and you know, we both have such a passion for it,
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Speaker 6: and you know, it's pretty cool that we've come to this.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: Did you have flood lights up there to skate at night?
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Speaker 2: Or was this more during the Dayah, No.
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Speaker 6: There was flood lights. I'm sure the neighbors got mad.
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Speaker 6: There was lights beaming through the windows and I was
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Speaker 6: out there all night. But yeah, that we had. We
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Speaker 6: had a great setup.
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Speaker 2: Actually, how late were you playing hockey till? Usually day
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Speaker 2: by day.
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Speaker 6: I mean in Canada and the winters, and you don't
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Speaker 6: have a game that night, it's like just go with
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Speaker 6: your buddies and you'd be out there till ten, ten
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Speaker 6: thirty and then yeah, I.
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Speaker 2: Did that lots as a kid, and they pull you
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Speaker 2: in and say it's homework time or it's bedtime, right exactly.
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Speaker 2: First time living away from home for you correct.
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Speaker 5: First time being by myself.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's it's been pretty pretty interesting.
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Speaker 2: What's the best meal that you would like to cook
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Speaker 2: once you get deeper and deeper into your pro career.
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Speaker 6: Chicken and rice is always a classic. I like, I
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Speaker 6: like getting on the barbecue. I like steaks and and
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Speaker 6: all that stuff, So I'm pretty good with that. But
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Speaker 6: anything with the barbecue good. Everything else in the actual kitchen,
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Speaker 6: I'm got to learn a lot.
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Speaker 2: How much, then, would you agree the secret to a
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Speaker 2: good steak is more of the seasoning or more of
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Speaker 2: how it's cooked temperature wise.
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Speaker 6: Honestly, I mean the steak itself is pretty important, how
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Speaker 6: good of a steak it is, and then after that,
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Speaker 6: I think it's the seasoning is a big, big part.
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Speaker 6: But I'd probably put that before you know, how you
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Speaker 6: cook it, probably in New York and Meeta Mayor and
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Speaker 6: put a little seasoning on it.
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Speaker 2: So the experience to go to Chandler Stevenson sous and
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Speaker 2: hang out with Ryan Winterton as well, but get a
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Speaker 2: nice home cook meal, how'd you enjoy it?
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Speaker 5: Yeah? That was great.
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Speaker 6: I think it's just you know, different pace of things
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Speaker 6: to kind of just go and chill out and be
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Speaker 6: around a family and you know, get a great meal.
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Speaker 6: You know Chandler and his wife, so nice of him
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Speaker 6: to bring bring us over there, and you know, there
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Speaker 6: was lots of fun to kind of hang out and
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Speaker 6: just talk and hang out with the kids.
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Speaker 5: So really fun night.
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Speaker 2: I heard poor tender lee was on the menu. I
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Speaker 2: heard chicken was on the menu. What else?
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Speaker 5: There was corn rice, salad, some garlic bread.
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Speaker 6: It was unbelievable. That was probably my highlight of that.
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Speaker 6: But no, it was awesome, really good meal.
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Speaker 2: Now, people who don't follow the WHL usually wonder what
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Speaker 2: the lifestyle is like when you move away from home
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Speaker 2: at first, But how important were your bill of parents
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Speaker 2: to you? Living in Spokane huge.
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Speaker 5: I was just with billets moving away and stuff.
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Speaker 6: I had two or three billets, so I got to
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Speaker 6: experience different households and whatnot. But all of them were
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Speaker 6: great and got to, you know, experience that and they helped.
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Speaker 5: I was very lucky. All my billets kind of helped me,
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Speaker 5: you know, with the day to day stuff, cooking.
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Speaker 6: Great meals and whatnot, so you know, made my life
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Speaker 6: pretty easy, to be honest.
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Speaker 2: What's the one thing you can't live without in the fridge?
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Speaker 5: Peanut butter.
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Speaker 6: I know it's on the fridge, but peanut butters might
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Speaker 6: go to It's like, if I have to make a meal,
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Speaker 6: it's like peanut butter toast.
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Speaker 5: Usually that's my favorite.
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Speaker 2: Calories don't count for one day. What's your go to
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Speaker 2: cheat meal?
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Speaker 6: Probably some some ribs, barbecue ribs, mashed potato, you know,
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Speaker 6: some sort of veggie.
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Speaker 5: I don't I know it's calories on count, but some.
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Speaker 6: Carrots or whatever, fried carrots fried or not fried, sorry,
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Speaker 6: cooked carrots or cooked being something like that.
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Speaker 5: So just a healthy meal, but I think ribs are
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Speaker 5: my favorite.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, as far as fried food. If they
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Speaker 2: can fry butter at the fair, they can fry carrots also, right.
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Speaker 5: Want to cut down up but no, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: What's the craziest road trip that you took in the whl.
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Speaker 5: Lots?
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Speaker 6: I mean even from my hometown in Saskatoon. From Spokane
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Speaker 6: and Sasatoon would be thirteen hours and then I remember
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Speaker 6: when you we went to Winnipeg, which add on another
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Speaker 6: eight or nine hours to that. And then I think
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Speaker 6: one year, you know, in playoffs we played Prince George,
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Speaker 6: So I mean back and forth with Prince George is
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Speaker 6: thirteen hours.
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Speaker 5: And they're you know, in our division or whatever. So
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Speaker 5: that was that was a lot.
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Speaker 2: What's the secret then to it being well on the bus?
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Speaker 6: I think I've actually seen guys get little dog beds
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Speaker 6: and you know, put them around there, and that's one
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Speaker 6: I've tried that. It's okay. I like to just get
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Speaker 6: a couple of pillows and you know, kick my feet
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Speaker 6: up on the other on the other seat. So that's
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Speaker 6: the way I always kind of did it.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot nicer when you get older to move
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Speaker 2: to the back of the bus, right, Yeah, exactly What
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Speaker 2: did last year mean to you from a personal growth standpoint?
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Speaker 6: Uh? It was it was great. You know, after getting drafted,
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Speaker 6: it's that's a big year. And I think in your
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Speaker 6: draft year there's a lot of you know, pressure and stuff.
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Speaker 6: So to kind of get relieved to that and keep
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Speaker 6: it in contact with Seattle throughout the year was great.
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Speaker 6: And you know, built a lot and was on a
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Speaker 6: workout program and on an eating program, and you know,
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Speaker 6: I think built a lot last year.
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Speaker 2: How harder was it do you think to learn how
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Speaker 2: to create scoring opportunities being that you were very much
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Speaker 2: a well known commodity for a player at your position
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Speaker 2: last season.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's always tough.
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Speaker 6: I mean getting a first line matchups and stuff, so
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Speaker 6: you have to find your way around that. And then
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Speaker 6: I think, uh, it helps getting you know, a guy
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Speaker 6: like Andrew Crystal, so there's kind of two of us
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Speaker 6: so and then shayev An Olm two at fifty goals,
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Speaker 6: so there's that we uh we had a really good
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Speaker 6: line and we're all threats.
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Speaker 5: So that was a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: How much do you believe that your game this year
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Speaker 2: depends on the physical nature versus the skilled nature.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think obviously there's lots of stuff physically going
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Speaker 6: into corners and making plays on the wall.
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Speaker 5: There's gonna be physical. But you know, I think put
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Speaker 5: in a little bit of weight has helped me.
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Speaker 6: But again, I think my smarts can can get me
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Speaker 6: out of those situations and allow me to have success. So,
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Speaker 6: you know, I think smarts and skill, if if you properly,
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Speaker 6: can can go a long way.
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Speaker 2: So what defines the ideal year for you?
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Speaker 6: I mean, sticking around here obviously is the main goal. Uh,
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Speaker 6: you know, I think learning a lot. There's so many
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Speaker 6: veterans in that room and guys to learn from, So
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Speaker 6: learning a lot, and you know, when I do get
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Speaker 6: my chance to kind of run with it, That's the
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Speaker 6: way I look at it.
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Speaker 2: All Right, Time to dive into matters here for the
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Speaker 2: final game of the road trip. It's been a while
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Speaker 2: since this team has played home games, but we are
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Speaker 2: on the CUSP. They are back home this Saturday. Before
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Speaker 2: that Crack and Winnipeg Jets five pm Pacific time, and
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Speaker 2: the guy at the host desk for the KRACK and
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Speaker 2: Hockey Network joins us now in the mayor of Maple Valley.
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Speaker 2: That's Ian forness one to three week days ninety three
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Speaker 2: three KJRFM, mayor how are you?
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Speaker 7: I'm good, Mikey, how are you?
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Speaker 2: I'm hanging in there. I'm hanging in there. I think
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Speaker 2: from this last week and a lot of us are
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Speaker 2: kind of running through the whole gamut of Mariner's emotions
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Speaker 2: right now. And I'll tell you what I mean, a
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Speaker 2: crack and run to end this road trip with the
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Speaker 2: win and then come back home strong start. That would
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Speaker 2: be a pretty nice antidote here for what many of
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Speaker 2: us experienced earlier this week.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it would be nice. I mean probably a tall path,
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Speaker 7: depending on you know, who comes back into lineup. I mean,
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Speaker 7: what they've got going on right now, lineup wise, is
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Speaker 7: is a little bit scary. But you know, I think
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Speaker 7: what we've seen and as people try to play catch
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Speaker 7: up with the backing after the manner of games and
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Speaker 7: playoffs and all the focus it goes into the Major
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Speaker 7: League Baseball playoffs with in his town, you know, miss
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Speaker 7: it along the way. It's a good hockey team, and
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Speaker 7: it's a better hockey team the last couple of years.
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Speaker 7: It's a better coach team, and you know, they got
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Speaker 7: a lot going on. But with all the injuries, you know,
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Speaker 7: Brandon Montour, Riker Evans, I mean, they're just they're beat
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Speaker 7: up right now. It's a tall task to prot of
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Speaker 7: compete with the team that won the President's Trump I
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Speaker 7: told you last year.
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Speaker 2: See here's where I look at what two losses in
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Speaker 2: a row make as far as a difference. And granted
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Speaker 2: the game wasn't clean at Philadelphia, it wasn't clean from
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Speaker 2: the eye test at Washington, but the matter of fact
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Speaker 2: is this when you're missing Compocaco, Riker Evans, Mason Marchmant,
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Speaker 2: Freddie Goodrow, mister jack of all trades in this lineup.
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Speaker 2: Jared McCann's out Brandon Montour on Lee for a family matter.
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Speaker 2: We hope that he's back at the right time. But
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Speaker 2: that's a significant chunk of your roster that is missing
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Speaker 2: and can play a big contribution right here. So when
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Speaker 2: you look at this here from the lens of two
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Speaker 2: straight losses, Lane Lambert said, no excuses, but but I
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Speaker 2: mean it's pretty apparent. And I took a run on
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Speaker 2: Twitter and took a look at this and with that
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Speaker 2: responses after the game Tuesday against the Capitals, where there
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Speaker 2: really is a lot of the mission that the only
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Speaker 2: thing that this team needs to bounce back on Thursday
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Speaker 2: this evening against Winnipeg is health.
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Speaker 7: Well you forgot Jerem mccamp.
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Speaker 2: Jerem mca yes, yeah.
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Speaker 7: Right, I mean, because there's so many guys out right now,
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Speaker 7: and so yeah, it's hard. I mean, I think when
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Speaker 7: you look at the lineup and the way it's structured
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Speaker 7: right now, you know you've got your number one line
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Speaker 7: includes a kid that's nineteen years old playing two NHL
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Speaker 7: games in Berkeley cast. Uh, you know your number two line,
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Speaker 7: you know had a guy made some marchmen on it.
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Speaker 7: No longer there, you know, out for whatever day to day.
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Speaker 7: You know, Janny Newman is scoring goals, is a nice pace,
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Speaker 7: but you know he he needs to help. He's not
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Speaker 7: a creator, he's a finisher. And then Brandon on tour,
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Speaker 7: you know, while with n's done a great buck mover
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Speaker 7: and so it's tough. I mean as far as plenty
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Speaker 7: of that somebody to day they're like, well, you know,
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Speaker 7: I mean other teams are missing guys. I said. This
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Speaker 7: team's built on depth, for sure, but at the same time,
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Speaker 7: you can't take high end depth out of your lineup
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Speaker 7: and expect to have the same results. So I think
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Speaker 7: what we've seen, you know, Philadelphia and Washington those two games,
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Speaker 7: the team was just they're just too shorthanded. And you know,
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Speaker 7: obviously back to back is tough. I mean that's been
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Speaker 7: a problem nowt for a couple of years. But I'll
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Speaker 7: tell you this, I love what Matt Murray did the
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Speaker 7: other night, and they're gonna need assuming Joey goes, you know,
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Speaker 7: tonight on Thursday against Winnipeg, I mean, they're gonna need
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Speaker 7: him to play at a high level because frankly, he
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Speaker 7: hasn't on this road trip. He is great at home,
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Speaker 7: he hasn't played well on the road and made him
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Speaker 7: to be really good. So a health and a better,
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Speaker 7: better goaltender, at least your number one guy have to
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Speaker 7: come to fruitions against the Jets.
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Speaker 2: Before I get to Joey and to the goaltending as well.
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Speaker 2: Berkeley Catton, what do we make out of his first
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Speaker 2: two games to begin his NHL career.
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Speaker 7: Well, I think you watch him and you see a
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Speaker 7: guy that fits in. You see a guy that doesn't
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Speaker 7: look out of place at the age of nineteen to
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Speaker 7: the NHL, and I'm not surprised by that. I know
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Speaker 7: some maybe listen, you know, whether it be Celebrainy or
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Speaker 7: Layne Hudson or you know, Connor Bedard, et cetera. There's
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Speaker 7: a lot of young guys to step in. I mean,
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Speaker 7: he wasn't drafted quite as high, you know, eighth overall,
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Speaker 7: but if you're watching the games, it's pretty simple to
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Speaker 7: see coronor badart fits in at age nineteen in the NHL,
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Speaker 7: there's no doubt about that, and it would be and
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Speaker 7: I dare say it would be worthless to send him
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Speaker 7: back then as Vulcan and the dub. I don't know
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Speaker 7: what will happen when guys get healthy, But you watch
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Speaker 7: him his creativity, I mean, I think you could make
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Speaker 7: an argument. And maybe some numbers sell many a different story,
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Speaker 7: but watching him on Tuesday in Washington, I think he
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Speaker 7: can make an argument. He was one of Seattle's best players.
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Speaker 2: And what did this tell us? Also ian from the
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Speaker 2: fact that who was the guy that was getting tried
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Speaker 2: to back out there over and over and over with
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Speaker 2: the crack and showing signs of life in their game,
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Speaker 2: trailing but showing signs of life. It was Berkeley Catton.
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Speaker 7: He creates he sees the ice he's got great vision.
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Speaker 7: You know, he had an opportunity. You know, in the
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Speaker 7: first two games, he had opportunity to score and he will.
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Speaker 7: That'll happen. But yeah, I mean, I think, you know,
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Speaker 7: this team needs creativity and the guys that can finish.
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Speaker 7: You know, McCann can finish, Newman can finish. Maddy needs
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Speaker 7: to finish at some point. But you know, it's wild.
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Speaker 7: I mean, I love the line. I love Veniers every
16:59
Speaker 7: and and Catten together, I really do. And I know
17:02
Speaker 7: when McCann comes back, they got to find a spot
17:04
Speaker 7: for him. I like that line in the preseason. I
17:08
Speaker 7: like that line, you know, the last couple of nights,
17:11
Speaker 7: and we need jeremccamn back in this line if there's
17:14
Speaker 7: no doubt about that, that's a no doubt about that.
17:16
Speaker 7: But Berkeley Catton has some pretty good chemistry. I don't
17:21
Speaker 7: know if you just keep Catten and been Hears together,
17:23
Speaker 7: maybe you throw a Marchman on that line and move McCann,
17:27
Speaker 7: which I mean I think right, I mean, I like
17:31
Speaker 7: Maddie and Berkeley together. I don't know if I think
17:35
Speaker 7: you can move on from Eberley and let him go
17:38
Speaker 7: somewhere else. And I don't know I wouldn't mind seeing
17:41
Speaker 7: twenty seven on that line. To be honest with you, Hell,
17:43
Speaker 7: I mean that is never going to happen because I
17:45
Speaker 7: can tell what Lane thinks right now if Yonna Newman,
17:48
Speaker 7: but I wouldn't mind seeing thirty eight on that line. Yeah,
17:51
Speaker 7: like a guy that can finish. If two guys are great,
17:53
Speaker 7: the guy that can finish. I will say this with
17:56
Speaker 7: Lane Lambert, I think it's safe to say, Mikey and
17:58
Speaker 7: I think you degree they this is a coach is
18:02
Speaker 7: not afraid to shake things up and what your resume
18:06
Speaker 7: says and what you've done in the past, unless you're
18:08
Speaker 7: Vince Don and Adam Larson and you're just gonna be
18:09
Speaker 7: carried together forever an eternity like you. Let that happen.
18:13
Speaker 7: He's got no problem with the guys around which I want.
18:15
Speaker 7: I think that's good.
18:17
Speaker 2: We saw at Philadelphia, sat a bit at Washington as well,
18:19
Speaker 2: and we'll see what happens here for the lineup as
18:21
Speaker 2: the crack and get set for the Winnipeg Jets. I
18:23
Speaker 2: did want to get onto goaltending Ian and I think
18:26
Speaker 2: you kind of opened this up a little bit here.
18:28
Speaker 2: I would tend to agree maybe that it's going to
18:31
Speaker 2: be Joey Decord's game. And at Philadelphia, first goal coughed
18:36
Speaker 2: up puck, second goal beaten up high, third fourth goal
18:41
Speaker 2: really so much not as fall Travis ConnectNY wide open
18:44
Speaker 2: front of the net, and then a shot through traffic
18:46
Speaker 2: which gets on through. And then the fifth goal, which
18:48
Speaker 2: pretty much end of the night was a sharp bangled
18:51
Speaker 2: bid from Owen Tippett that leaked on through. I mean,
18:54
Speaker 2: goals that were just uncharacteristic of what Joey to coord
18:58
Speaker 2: tends to let versus stop. His say percentage right now
19:03
Speaker 2: is eight ninety. Philip grew Bauer is at eight nine seven.
19:06
Speaker 2: Matt Murray only won game for a sample size here.
19:09
Speaker 2: But if it's Joey to Cord, I would be led
19:12
Speaker 2: to believe you've got one potentially fired up goaltender to
19:15
Speaker 2: get ready here for Winnipeg.
19:17
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's probably the Joey I I he's
19:20
Speaker 7: just got to be better. Like let's just let's just say,
19:23
Speaker 7: I mean, we can be nice and you know, no, man,
19:27
Speaker 7: he's got to be better. Joey's the number one guy
19:29
Speaker 7: Lane Lambert handed in that job. Didn't hand it, he
19:31
Speaker 7: earned it. Like let's let's like he's earned it. But
19:35
Speaker 7: you know when Lane says, you're the guy, and you were.
19:39
Speaker 7: He was great those first two home games against Anaheim
19:42
Speaker 7: in Vegas. They don't come out of there with four
19:44
Speaker 7: points about Joey. But he hasn't been good on this trip.
19:47
Speaker 7: He just hasn't. And uh for the last goal that
19:51
Speaker 7: short side the leap through, that was a bad goal,
19:54
Speaker 7: such a bad goal and.
19:56
Speaker 2: Also let all the air out of the balloon as
19:59
Speaker 2: far as any kind of come back effort that they
20:00
Speaker 2: had built up.
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Speaker 7: Right right right, And I think, you know it's going
20:05
Speaker 7: to happen during the course of the year, but you
20:08
Speaker 7: know there's certain staves in the game you have to make.
20:10
Speaker 7: I thought Edzo said it, well, you know in Washington,
20:13
Speaker 7: you know, Murray was really good. The power play goal
20:16
Speaker 7: is a bad goal that a glove on. It just happening.
20:19
Speaker 7: And you know, this team is not built to where
20:22
Speaker 7: they can afford to have goaltenders, you know, letting goals
20:26
Speaker 7: that are that are not expected to go in. Murray
20:29
Speaker 7: ended up being on the positive side of that, by
20:30
Speaker 7: the way, on Tuesday, he was on the positive side
20:34
Speaker 7: of the goal same about expected, So good for him.
20:37
Speaker 7: I thought he looked really well. I thought, you know,
20:39
Speaker 7: outside the one goal, I thought he looked calm. It
20:41
Speaker 7: was really we talked about on TV Alison and Bretton.
20:44
Speaker 7: I did that that he looked really very confident in there.
20:49
Speaker 7: I thought. I thought Murray looked really good. And maybe
20:51
Speaker 7: one of the bonuses of having three guys is you know,
20:54
Speaker 7: if if somebody stumbles along the way, you're going to
20:57
Speaker 7: have somebody that can that can step up and and
21:00
Speaker 7: make the play. Let me just point out Joey made
21:02
Speaker 7: a save in the final three seconds of the game
21:05
Speaker 7: in Toronto that got them two points. Yes, I mean
21:07
Speaker 7: you got that left pad down. That was an incredible shake.
21:10
Speaker 7: But overall he just has to be better and he
21:13
Speaker 7: will be better because he is better. But yeah, I didn't.
21:16
Speaker 7: I haven't loved this game on the trip for the
21:17
Speaker 7: most part.
21:19
Speaker 2: Cracking. Part of me cracking. Are going to face a
21:22
Speaker 2: Winnipeg team that still has plenty and I mean plenty
21:27
Speaker 2: of an arsenal for their special teams and when you
21:30
Speaker 2: look at power play points, Alex Eyah follow with three.
21:33
Speaker 2: Jonathan taves Hey, who'd have thunk we call him a
21:36
Speaker 2: Winnipeg Jet eventually for his career he's got three, Nino
21:40
Speaker 2: Nita Ryder three, Kyle Connor three, Mark Schifley two points. Already,
21:46
Speaker 2: this team tied for third best in the NHL, the
21:49
Speaker 2: Kraken opposing that power play not too bad right now,
21:54
Speaker 2: hovering just above middle of the pack. Penalty kill ian
21:57
Speaker 2: they've taken their lumps so far. They're twenty ninth but
22:00
Speaker 2: only coveny nineteen minor penalties. That's sixth lowis in the NHL.
22:05
Speaker 2: So for a game like this, I mean it's pretty
22:08
Speaker 2: obvious against Winnipeg, you have got to stay out of
22:10
Speaker 2: the box.
22:11
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean cave And and Schiffley got the game
22:14
Speaker 7: winner to get the two goals in the two one
22:15
Speaker 7: win over over Calgary, right, you know night and but
22:20
Speaker 7: that would give me hope saying, hey, they struggled against Calgary,
22:23
Speaker 7: a team that's one and six this season, like they
22:25
Speaker 7: they they struggled against the Flames. So the penalty kill
22:30
Speaker 7: is weird. I would have thought that would have been
22:32
Speaker 7: better under Layne Lambert. But I think it will get better.
22:35
Speaker 7: And I think also and part of that's goaltending. Like
22:40
Speaker 7: I think we can point to some power play goals
22:42
Speaker 7: going in and I think you would expect your goaltender
22:44
Speaker 7: to say, whoever that goaltender is, There's been three of them,
22:47
Speaker 7: But the power play is really encouraging. Chris Taylor's done
22:50
Speaker 7: a terrific job. And I fires fill Chris Utah, Grisily
22:53
Speaker 7: and and you know worked with him down there in
22:56
Speaker 7: the early two thousands. But but Chris is a Chris.
22:59
Speaker 7: Chris is obviously changed the power play like he's the
23:03
Speaker 7: movement on it. We've kind of shown and illustrated on
23:07
Speaker 7: TV a lot. Ali is in a great job with
23:09
Speaker 7: this showing the movement on the power play. It's a
23:12
Speaker 7: fluid movement that's always going on. It's not stagnant, and
23:16
Speaker 7: I think we're seeing that payoff. So I love the
23:18
Speaker 7: power play. Kinty'll get better. Listen again, I've said it before,
23:24
Speaker 7: Tall taps the beat Winnipeg. In Winnipeg period end the story.
23:29
Speaker 7: You can sneak out of the peg with a point
23:32
Speaker 7: that would be huge coming home and still be above
23:35
Speaker 7: five hundred. I think that would be awesome. But hey,
23:38
Speaker 7: worst case scenario, come home three, three and two, and
23:40
Speaker 7: you're okay with that with that early schedule.
23:42
Speaker 2: Because we know the great as a fundamental of this team,
23:45
Speaker 2: we know that there's a caality is a fundamental of
23:47
Speaker 2: this team. But again, it's going to come down to goaltending.
23:51
Speaker 2: I mean, if they show up consistently, that's going to
23:54
Speaker 2: be the big difference here. So we'll see how that
23:57
Speaker 2: shakes out for Winnipeg coming up this seven. Oh by
24:00
Speaker 2: the way, Ian, how is Portland?
24:02
Speaker 7: Portland was great? Uh yeah, shout out to Portland. They
24:06
Speaker 7: stick caps all the way around. Uh big, big thank
24:09
Speaker 7: you to the winter Hawks, the Junior one Hawks, everyone
24:13
Speaker 7: down there. We had a great time. We've got we've
24:16
Speaker 7: got another at least one more trip coming up to
24:18
Speaker 7: a Western Hockey League city that may or may not
24:20
Speaker 7: be located in the Inland Empire and Spokane. But uh
24:25
Speaker 7: yeah it was. It was really fun. We had a
24:27
Speaker 7: great time down there. Brett and I went down and
24:29
Speaker 7: you know, the crack and street hockey team and they're
24:32
Speaker 7: not street hockey three team plus uh some others were
24:36
Speaker 7: down there, but we was there all week and just
24:38
Speaker 7: some clinics. It was really awesome. Wetland shown out. We
24:40
Speaker 7: had a great time and I you know, big thanks
24:43
Speaker 7: to Mike Johnson too, the from the winter Hawks. He
24:46
Speaker 7: was he was there for us and it was really fun.
24:49
Speaker 7: I'm glad we got down there. Uh you know, Rose City,
24:52
Speaker 7: Rip City is is definitely cracking down and we had
24:55
Speaker 7: a ton of fune. I can't wait to get back.
24:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was cool seeing Jerseys right behind you guys
24:59
Speaker 2: for setting on the TV side that night. Portland is
25:02
Speaker 2: certainly a part of us here as far as kracking
25:04
Speaker 2: country one to four A Philliates by the way in
25:07
Speaker 2: Oregon on the Global Credit Union Kraken Audio Network shout
25:11
Speaker 2: out to them, Ian looking forward to my mayor, my man,
25:14
Speaker 2: thank you very much, have a good show, Mikey.
25:18
Speaker 7: Thank you. I'll see you on Saturday night at Climb
25:20
Speaker 7: and played Gerena.
25:20
Speaker 2: Finally, all right, Mayor, great talking with you. Ian for
25:23
Speaker 2: Neesh joining us here as we get you set for
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Speaker 2: the Kraken and the Winnipeg Jets here for this evening.
25:28
Speaker 2: It's their first match up of the season, with the
25:30
Speaker 2: Kraken trying to salvage a road tripper. If they win,
25:34
Speaker 2: can finish their mark at two to two and two,
25:37
Speaker 2: and if they can get a win against Winnipeg in
25:40
Speaker 2: a tough place to play, it would certainly get them
25:43
Speaker 2: some fuel coming back home to jump right back into
25:46
Speaker 2: this next home stand, a five game variety opening up
25:49
Speaker 2: this Saturday. Winnipeg's a pretty tough place to play for
25:52
Speaker 2: the Kraken. They're aiming for their third win all time
25:55
Speaker 2: against Winnipeg, and they have gone winless in five of
25:58
Speaker 2: six trips there last season, the Jets sweeping all three
26:02
Speaker 2: games against the Kraken, and kracking looking for their first
26:05
Speaker 2: win against Winnipeg since March fifth of twenty twenty four,
26:09
Speaker 2: a four to three victory at Winnipeg. Mark Shiflee without
26:13
Speaker 2: question the guy to stop on Winnipeg. He's writing a
26:16
Speaker 2: red hot fine game goal scoring streak. We'll see if
26:19
Speaker 2: Jordan Ebery can also be a factory. He tends to
26:21
Speaker 2: save some of his best games against Winnipeg. He leads
26:24
Speaker 2: a cracking right now head to head scoring with twenty
26:27
Speaker 2: points in twenty nine games. And here's a fun did
26:30
Speaker 2: you know his first game against this chess franchise came
26:33
Speaker 2: back in February twenty eleven when the Jets were back
26:37
Speaker 2: then known as the Atlanta Thrashers. Well, the Kraken trying
26:41
Speaker 2: to get after it this evening and end the road
26:43
Speaker 2: trip with the victory, and they take on the Jets
26:45
Speaker 2: once again five pm Pacific time in Winnipeg. Everett, Now
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Speaker 2: have the call. I will join you for thirty pm
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