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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Happy Thanksgiving eve game! (11/26) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking This Morning, a presentation of the Cracking
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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. Thanksgivings right around the corner. And Hey,
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Speaker 2: to three KJARFM will dive into the Krack in their
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Speaker 2: progress here at the quarter pole checkpoint of the season,
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Speaker 2: the essence of shot volume and healthy expectations for Jared
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Speaker 2: McCann whenever he is due back in the lineup. Ian
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Speaker 2: Fornash joining us here in just a bit. More on mccam,
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Speaker 2: by the way, he was seen in practice on Tuesday
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Speaker 2: at Kracken Community Ice plugs still on injury reserve, but
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Speaker 2: Lane Lambert's saying he is quote progressing end quote and
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Speaker 2: taking line rushes with Berkeley Katton and Shane Wright. Jared
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Speaker 2: mccahn looking to get back into the lineup here, possibly
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Speaker 2: for the first time since October eighteenth, will certainly keep
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Speaker 2: an eye on it well. The Kraken, coming off a
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Speaker 2: road trip where they snagged five points out of a
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Speaker 2: possible eight with wins through Chicago and Pittsburgh on the
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Speaker 2: back end, of a loss to Detroit to open the trip,
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Speaker 2: and then the trip closing out with the one nothing
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Speaker 2: shootout loss to the New York Islanders with a crack
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Speaker 2: and again struggling to provide offense, but goaltending very much
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Speaker 2: taking center stage for this season.
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Speaker 3: Six fifty left here in this second period bowl Horvat
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Speaker 3: left side, walks in down the slot, shut right on
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Speaker 3: by Barzel and a massive save by Joey the cor
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Speaker 3: Stevenson lost a face off Schaeffer left side, Barzel, Schaeffer
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Speaker 3: back to Barzel, Fanning on the shot. Barzel to the
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Speaker 3: high slot, says to lacross.
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Speaker 4: One a same by Joey the court on bawl Horvat,
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Speaker 4: Oh good, now this one cleared all the way down
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Speaker 4: the ice. We're going to a shootout here on Long Island.
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Speaker 4: Paul Marry down for the Islanders.
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Speaker 5: I'll marry.
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Speaker 4: It's the signal.
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Speaker 3: Picks up the puck on the forehead.
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Speaker 4: He's got speed, left circle, far side, Clus back to
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Speaker 4: the middle. Hey shot, He scores and the Islanders get
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Speaker 4: the extra point. They win this game won nothing in
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Speaker 4: a shootout.
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Speaker 2: Joey de Kortz nagged his second shutout of the regular season.
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Speaker 2: Seventh of his NHL career, and that count of because
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Speaker 2: the score was nothing nothing at the end of overtime,
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Speaker 2: while David Riddick earned a shutout of his own, capped
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Speaker 2: up by Kyle Palmery's shootout winner won nothing. The Islanders
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Speaker 2: over the Kraken in the shootout at Ubs are Gona
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Speaker 2: on Sunday. Let's talk about the road ahead. All right,
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Speaker 2: road trip in the rearview mirror. Good to be back
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Speaker 2: home for at least a couple around Thanksgiving. Almost kind
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Speaker 2: of feels bizarre to have so much time off now,
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Speaker 2: with practices, days off, Thanksgiving, everything, But that's the beauty
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Speaker 2: of the NHL season. Ebs and flows He and Farnessa
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Speaker 2: is also ready here for this one and ready for
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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving TV hosts of Chorus, Crack and Hockey Network. One
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Speaker 2: of three here on these airwaves ninety three three kJ
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Speaker 2: RFM mayor Hello, you're right here for Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 5: Quote. I'm pretty close, how about you.
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Speaker 2: I'm close from the fact that I have the food
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Speaker 2: planned out, which I guess you know. You know me,
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Speaker 2: I tend to be wired to gravitate toward food, so
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Speaker 2: I've got that all mapped out here. The only concern
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Speaker 2: is because I've got I've got two kids who were
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Speaker 2: growing up. Just basically make sure they behave and also
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Speaker 2: stay out of the pantry.
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Speaker 5: I love it, love it. Yeah, I got it, I
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Speaker 5: got my I got my shopping done. Brian in the
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Speaker 5: Turkey right now, the whole nine yards. So yeah, we're
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Speaker 5: ready to rock and all that. Yeah, absolutely, that's gonna
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Speaker 5: be a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's get this game going here as a nice
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Speaker 2: precursor for Thanksgiving, and I'll just kind of hit refreshed
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Speaker 2: on a few things that we talked about on Cracking Weekly,
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Speaker 2: but would love your input. And I think, first off,
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Speaker 2: when you measure the bar from the road trip this
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Speaker 2: last week Detroit and then the two wins at Chicago
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Speaker 2: and Pittsburgh, and then I mean, you're scraping bottom of
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Speaker 2: the barrel for the back to back and you hold
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Speaker 2: the Islanders to nothing through sixty five minutes, but it
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Speaker 2: ends up in a one nothing shootout loss. You get
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Speaker 2: five points out of eight off the table. How did
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Speaker 2: that meet your bar from this past four game road trip?
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Speaker 5: Fly? It was a good trip. I mean two, one, one,
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Speaker 5: five of eight in terms of points, only one regulation loss,
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Speaker 5: A couple of wins. You had to do it the
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Speaker 5: hard way, dramatic fashion, all those things. But yeah, man,
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Speaker 5: I thought it was It was a good trip. I
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Speaker 5: don't think you can ever you come back from a
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Speaker 5: road trip above five hundred. I think you're in pretty
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Speaker 5: good shape and you know, you know, hopefully this team
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Speaker 5: will get some guys back. I mean, scoring still an issue. Defensively,
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Speaker 5: they've been fantastic and you know, for being honest, they've
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Speaker 5: they've stolen some games this season in goal like there's
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Speaker 5: no doubt, like they they got goalied by Katy to Smith,
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Speaker 5: who I asson will see tonight for Dallas and Sauers
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Speaker 5: going on against Edmonston. But I you know, for the
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Speaker 5: most part since Seattle doing that to a lot of
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Speaker 5: other teams, giving them the old goalie treatment. And Joey
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Speaker 5: and Krubauer played great. Murray when he was in there,
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Speaker 5: and they stole some points with those guys, so they
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Speaker 5: need to start helping them out at the other end offensively.
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Speaker 5: But you have to feel good about a road trip
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Speaker 5: when you come back above that five hundred. Bark.
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Speaker 2: I'll get to the offense in a bit, and I
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Speaker 2: think shot volume kind of goes hand in hand with this,
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Speaker 2: and we asked Lane Lambert about this after practice the
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Speaker 2: other day when they got back at crack In Community
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Speaker 2: ice Plex. But I wanted to touch on and we
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Speaker 2: had a very very spirited and it kind of reached
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Speaker 2: here to the point maybe admittedly of even fiery about
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Speaker 2: the usage of the word boring when it comes to
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Speaker 2: describing a hockey team and a team that also has
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Speaker 2: been destined. And they have set it from the very
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Speaker 2: very top of this from this season to play within
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Speaker 2: a certain sound defensive structure and to suppressed shots, being
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Speaker 2: that they feel it is the best chance here to victory.
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Speaker 2: I get it that they don't score a lot of goals.
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Speaker 2: I get it that they have been trailing in a
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Speaker 2: lot of very important metrics under the hood. And you
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Speaker 2: touched on this as well too. They've had us to
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Speaker 2: heal some games.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 2: I really kind of give credit here to a guy,
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Speaker 2: a friend of ours named Ryan Clark of ESPN, who
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Speaker 2: pointed this out the other day five on five. Guess
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Speaker 2: who's got the best team say percentage in the National
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Speaker 2: Hockey League none other than the Seattle Kraken at nine
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Speaker 2: to three seven, barely above Minnesota at nine to three.
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Speaker 2: Three as of this recording, and trailing them the New
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Speaker 2: York Rangers, the Dallas Stars, the Colorado Avalanche, and the
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Speaker 2: Washington Capitals as well. How do you define this team
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Speaker 2: through the twenty five percent checkpoint of the season?
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Speaker 5: Ian, Well, if you described it, well, great goaltending so
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Speaker 5: far and uh and then defensively and the defensive structure
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Speaker 5: has been so solid it it's allowed them to stay
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Speaker 5: in games. You know, they We've talked about it, You've
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Speaker 5: talked about it with everybody else on these podcasts. It
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Speaker 5: doesn't matter about you know, like they don't have the
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Speaker 5: aircraft carry offensive guy, they don't have a I mean
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Speaker 5: certainly they don't have a forty plus goal scorer on
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Speaker 5: their roster right now, not in terms of the canal
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Speaker 5: for a good chunk of the year.
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Speaker 2: And I will add to this here as well too,
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Speaker 2: because I mean again, winning does not mean boring. Winning
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Speaker 2: means excitement. And I can't go back and help myself.
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Speaker 2: But remember after the winning is Pittsburgh, how many fans
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Speaker 2: came up to us at thirty two Bar and Grill
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Speaker 2: and said, I'm having so much fun watching this team.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, winning's funny. Well, winning's fun, you know, winning's fun
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Speaker 5: and they you know, like I said, they don't have
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Speaker 5: that guy too. They don't have that guy that's going
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Speaker 5: to score at an elite raid or guy is Quirl.
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Speaker 5: So they're going to have to do it by committee,
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Speaker 5: and they're going to have to play great defense and
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Speaker 5: prevent the other team from scoring. I mean, as we
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Speaker 5: stand right now, they're number two in the league goals
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Speaker 5: against per game, five behind only the juggernaut that is Colorado.
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Speaker 5: So you know, the printing problem is there. Twenty nine
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Speaker 5: is scoring goals per game. But but you know, I
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Speaker 5: think what Lane did is he went in there and yeah,
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Speaker 5: Lane's got a system that he goes by and it's
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Speaker 5: very structured what he does. And it's a smart play
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Speaker 5: because without having that high end of week offensive talent,
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Speaker 5: then how do you find a way to stay in
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Speaker 5: every game and win. Well, you do it. What he's
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Speaker 5: doing it play great defense, play great you're on end,
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Speaker 5: you know, prevent other opportunities, and then see what you
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Speaker 5: can do, you know, offensively and on the power play.
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Speaker 5: And that's what they've done and is so far it's
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Speaker 5: worked well. I mean, he plays Every game is close,
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Speaker 5: with one exception. Every game's tight. You know, they they're
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Speaker 5: rarely really out of it again with one exception, and
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Speaker 5: you know, as long as they can avoid the damn shootouts,
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Speaker 5: they'll even better. Right.
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Speaker 2: We we into this in deep detail about just how
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Speaker 2: valuable the shootout is. Do we even like the idea
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Speaker 2: here for the future and friends, you want to go
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Speaker 2: ahead and check that out deep dive Cracking wheatly also
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Speaker 2: up on the iHeartRadio app. But it also kind of
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Speaker 2: goes hand in hand here. I think with what you
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Speaker 2: mentioned the lack of an aircraft carrier, and I think
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Speaker 2: with changing the mindset of how they have to generate offense.
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Speaker 2: And Lane Lambert went into this after practice more about
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Speaker 2: shot volume and with what he's trying to do to
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Speaker 2: help this team pull the trigger a little bit more.
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Speaker 2: Here's Lane Lambert.
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Speaker 6: You know what that's You know, they're not wrong in
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Speaker 6: some of those situations either, But at the end of
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Speaker 6: the day, there's also the there's also the philosophy that
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Speaker 6: shots create shots in terms of rebounds, and you know
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Speaker 6: there's a chances, B chances see chances and C chances
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Speaker 6: or C shots can create an a chance off a rebounds,
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Speaker 6: So you know it's there's there's certainly a balancer. Sometimes
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Speaker 6: you take a sea shot and it is turnover. But
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Speaker 6: at the end of the day, you know, you can't
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Speaker 6: score if you don't shoot the pucket.
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Speaker 2: The context of this question was framed that some players
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Speaker 2: came up in systems and this has kind of been
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Speaker 2: more prevalent over the last five ten years, where you
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Speaker 2: almost had to look for a perfect shot because if
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Speaker 2: you don't a shot on goal basically maybe no better
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Speaker 2: than your average turnover. But now Lane Lambert is encouraging
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Speaker 2: guys to shoot, shoot and shoot more. So what do
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Speaker 2: you make out of this now at this point of
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Speaker 2: the season, Ian Oh.
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Speaker 5: I think what he said is one hundred percent accurate.
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Speaker 5: The last in league and shots on goal for games,
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Speaker 5: so I mean you're thirty second in the league. That
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Speaker 5: it's just you have to generate more offense and you know,
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Speaker 5: traffic in front of the net. I mean, how many
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Speaker 5: times do we see just on this road trip, when
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Speaker 5: traffic in front of the net height shots, deflections off,
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Speaker 5: you know, a double deflection for and again, to be
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Speaker 5: honest with you, and puck goes into the back and
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Speaker 5: then they're going back in the net. Des bye, you know,
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Speaker 5: playing it around the perimator and playing you know, in
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Speaker 5: the passing game on the outside and playing like a
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Speaker 5: three man league or something that the puck's not going
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Speaker 5: to go in. It has to get to the net.
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Speaker 5: And and I think it'll get to the net. I
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Speaker 5: think we'll see that, you know, more and more of
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Speaker 5: than you know. They give a can back and get
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Speaker 5: compo coco back. I think that'll help. But they just
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Speaker 5: have to shoot the puck one. I mean, I think
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Speaker 5: you see it all the time. You see guys trying
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Speaker 5: to make the extra pass as you know, thinking about
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Speaker 5: that too much. I love what Lane said. I love
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Speaker 5: that's the message, because yeah, shoot the pucks, big rebound
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Speaker 5: bang in a second chance opportunity. The way you go.
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Speaker 5: I think they are looking from the perfect shot all
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Speaker 5: too often, and we've seen that and so hopefully they
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Speaker 5: can change that that that mindset, so we'll see it.
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Speaker 2: Almost kind of feels like we've been waiting on pins
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Speaker 2: and needles her last several days for Jared McCann and
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Speaker 2: finally a day that he'll be back here into the lineup,
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Speaker 2: and it seems maybe as if practice told us a
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Speaker 2: lot with him in a regular jersey taking line rushes
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Speaker 2: with Berkeley Catton and Shane Wright as well. But once
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Speaker 2: he gets back to you, what are healthy expectations for
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Speaker 2: McCann once he is back to the final.
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Speaker 5: You know, Mike, I he's the best goal scorer, so
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Speaker 5: I think, you know, I think it's nothing else. He
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Speaker 5: makes somebody else run him better, Like he just raises
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Speaker 5: the boat, right, So I think with him in the lineup,
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Speaker 5: they get their better, they're a better hockey team. He
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Speaker 5: can obviously score at a higher rate. And as you know,
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Speaker 5: I mean just he's just a good finisher, you know,
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Speaker 5: and I think he'll make, you know, depending on where
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Speaker 5: he's playing. I mean, I know the line rushes were
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Speaker 5: interesting on on Tuesday for sure, but depending where he's playing,
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Speaker 5: I mean, we know he's got chemistry with every lead
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Speaker 5: before and Beneer's and whomever. So I'm excited to see
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Speaker 5: him play. I'm excited to see him be in there.
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Speaker 5: And they frankly need him, to be honest with you,
13:45
Speaker 5: they really do need him. They he's a big part
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Speaker 5: of their team. And you know, again without having you know,
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Speaker 5: they don't have Nathan McKinnon and Connor McDavid whatever, But
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Speaker 5: you know, he's as important to the crack and as
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Speaker 5: those guys that I just mentioned art of their teams,
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Speaker 5: they have to get him in there. And I think
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Speaker 5: once he does come back, I think it will elevate
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Speaker 5: the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: This is one idea that we've run across before, just
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Speaker 2: kind of an off air conversations and something that to
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Speaker 2: our dear colleague and friend, Andrews Furst would be just
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Speaker 2: completely giddy about and like it's basically a Christmas present
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Speaker 2: coming early here where you go with a three four
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Speaker 2: to two defenseman set up here for the power play,
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Speaker 2: which then bumps Brandon Ontur up to the top unit.
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Speaker 2: Different conversation there, but in theory then maybe for the
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Speaker 2: second unit that would open up something for Ryker Evans
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Speaker 2: to operate more. And I lead into this from what
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Speaker 2: I just mentioned here. Ryker Evans since he came back,
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Speaker 2: first nine games, he's got six points now, pretty solid.
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Speaker 2: And we've been talking a lot about Vince Dunn and
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Speaker 2: his impact, Brandon Ontour and his impact offensively. But what
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Speaker 2: do you make so far out of Ryker Evans because
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Speaker 2: he's been getting a lot more ice time, especially the
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Speaker 2: last few games here.
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Speaker 5: Well, I, first of all, I think you know the
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Speaker 5: two defensemen. I think we all been kind of pounting
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Speaker 5: the drums and saying, please let that happen, just to
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Speaker 5: get done in Montour out there. I know that there's
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Speaker 5: maybe you know, with so who comes off at that point? Right,
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Speaker 5: is it march Men? Probably trust to think PP one
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Speaker 5: who'd come up? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: So yeah, so so practice wise PP one you had
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Speaker 2: done at the point. Then spread across Stevenson ever Lee McCann,
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Speaker 2: then Veneer's front of the net.
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Speaker 5: Well that's PP one. See, I don't think they're going
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Speaker 5: to go to defenseman because PP two is what is it? Montour?
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Speaker 2: You got Monsur on the point, then across you got
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Speaker 2: march Mint right Tolnan, and then Jayden Swartz front of
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Speaker 2: the net.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think you're going to I don't think
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Speaker 5: you're going to go too defensemen. I just don't. You know,
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Speaker 5: here's the thing. It's nice to have Ryker Evans as
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Speaker 5: a young guy who's your third one if you need
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Speaker 5: to or at the end of a power play put
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Speaker 5: him out there or like we've seen this, guys don't
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Speaker 5: stay healthy. I mean, Ryker will get his opportunities, but
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Speaker 5: I I yea his offensive game is flourished. He's always
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Speaker 5: got a little meat to a mean street. He plays hard,
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Speaker 5: he plays with an edge. But the offense is coming
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Speaker 5: to which is good to see, and they need it
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Speaker 5: because this is a team that, as you know, if
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Speaker 5: they don't generate offense from the blue line, they're not
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Speaker 5: gonna win. It's just as simple as that.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 5: And they've always been near the last couple three years,
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Speaker 5: different coaches, that's the same thing. They've been near the
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Speaker 5: top of the league in terms of scoring from defenseman
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Speaker 5: that has That is not changing obviously with the years
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Speaker 5: that done and Montour and as you mentioned, Riker are
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Speaker 5: having with Rykers getting back in the lineup, and you know,
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Speaker 5: guys like Jimmy Lexiak chipping stuff in as well. Uh No,
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Speaker 5: I think they're I think they're fine with what they got.
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Speaker 2: We've seen Dallas already once and we talked with Mason
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Speaker 2: Marchman where it has a bit of a different feel
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Speaker 2: compared to his first trip out there against the Stars.
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Speaker 2: But you're always looking to beat the team that traded you,
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Speaker 2: and we can maybe kind of bank on that for
16:47
Speaker 2: a bit of a bit of an emotional boost here.
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Speaker 2: But it leads into a pretty interesting slate of games
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Speaker 2: from now all the way until Christmas, Dallas set Home,
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Speaker 2: Edmund Road, including two straight games Detroit at home, the
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Speaker 2: Wild at home, the Kings at home, Utah on the road,
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Speaker 2: Buffalo who's playing better at home? The ten thousand pounds
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Speaker 2: juggernaut called the Colorado Avalanche at home, and then four
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Speaker 2: games on the road Calgary, San Jose, Anaheim and the Kings,
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Speaker 2: and boom, You're at the holiday break scale of one
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Speaker 2: to tenian. How critical is this next wretch of games
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Speaker 2: to define the Craken season?
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Speaker 5: Pretty massive. I'm still waiting to see when the easy
17:34
Speaker 5: part of the schedule comes. When does that come? Like
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Speaker 5: men right right, like they don't get a break along
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Speaker 5: the way, Like if they you know, how many games
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Speaker 5: is that you just listened off?
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Speaker 2: Thirteen seven at home, six on the road.
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Speaker 5: So if you go, like, let's just for argue and
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Speaker 5: say they go seven and six, eighteen and eleven at
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Speaker 5: the break, you'll take that, right, Yeah, for sure? I
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Speaker 5: mean just I mean they built up a a nice
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Speaker 5: little cushion. I mean, six teams above five hundred. They
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Speaker 5: built up that nice cushion that allows them to play
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Speaker 5: some five hundred hockey for a while and and you know,
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Speaker 5: but I don't think they'll play five hundred hockey. If
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Speaker 5: they get m Cam back, I think they'll they'll be
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Speaker 5: better than that, you know. And we were just starting
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Speaker 5: to see Coppocock. We'll get a sea legs before he
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Speaker 5: got hurt that last game, scores a goal twelve seconds later,
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Speaker 5: He's done. Need him out there, and then you know,
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Speaker 5: we'll see what the young guys do. I would assume
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Speaker 5: if those guys come back, Berkeley's going to go to
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Speaker 5: World Juniors and probably get some confidence doing that. I
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Speaker 5: have a letter on his jersey and you know, for
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Speaker 5: Team Canada, which is big, and see what happens with him.
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Speaker 5: But I think, as you're going through all that stuff, Mikey,
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Speaker 5: I think if they just go a little bit above
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Speaker 5: five hundred and the next stretch before Christas break, that's
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Speaker 5: a that's a heck of a way to go.
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Speaker 2: And I'll let you go here with this because this
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Speaker 2: was a great male bag question. We didn't have enough
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Speaker 2: time to get to here for the other day, but
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Speaker 2: it was posed to us. You know, from this standpoint
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Speaker 2: where Berkeley Catton, it seems as if as made this
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Speaker 2: team full time. Now, So what is the point with
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Speaker 2: sending him to World Juniors. Well, you've seen this before.
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Speaker 2: I've seen this before. When you're going to play at
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Speaker 2: an international level to the point where you could be
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Speaker 2: one of their rock stars on that team letter on
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Speaker 2: your jersey as a leader, and you're facing your peer
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Speaker 2: group potentially pick him up more offense on top of that,
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Speaker 2: that's a valuable time. You're coming back with all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden in the middle of January.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's why, that's why you go. And
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Speaker 5: then here's the thing that part of the two is
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Speaker 5: it if mc can's back, uh, and if Coppo cock
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Speaker 5: goes back, well then you've got then you've got stuff
19:40
Speaker 5: with then you get not issues. But then you obviously
19:42
Speaker 5: ice time starts to become more limited, right yep. As
19:45
Speaker 5: as it is, Johny Newman is having a hard time
19:47
Speaker 5: getting the lineup. You know, they got Mulgard up here
19:50
Speaker 5: right now and and all those things. So what do
19:52
Speaker 5: you do? You know, like you you ice time will
19:54
Speaker 5: be limited as long as they're healthy. If they're healthy,
19:56
Speaker 5: gets pushed down. You don't want him playing on a
19:58
Speaker 5: fourth line. And so I think that that's part of
20:02
Speaker 5: what that's part of what comes into play. I know
20:04
Speaker 5: that it's talking to the Brad Lauer, that Spokane coach
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Speaker 5: who's on the Team Canada staff for World Juniors this year,
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Speaker 5: like they're not sure, Like they've got no guarantees the
20:15
Speaker 5: person who's coming to the World Juniors. So like that
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Speaker 5: decision hasn't I don't want to say it hasn't been made,
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Speaker 5: but it at least it has not been articulated to
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Speaker 5: Team Kennedy, at least the coaches that whether or not
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Speaker 5: it's a sure thing he's going, there's a chance that
20:27
Speaker 5: he does, say, but I think that depends on health.
20:28
Speaker 5: If they're healthy. I think for sure he goes, and
20:30
Speaker 5: I think it helped him. I think it'd be a
20:32
Speaker 5: good it'd be good for him as well.
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Speaker 2: We can always depend on your health. And as far
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Speaker 2: as my health for Thanksgiving, my waistline might not as
20:40
Speaker 2: be as so healthy at about this time coming up
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Speaker 2: here on Thursday, but I can easily cross my fingers
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Speaker 2: my friend though, have a great show and have a
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Speaker 2: happy Thanksgiving as well too.
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Speaker 5: Thank you man, you too, my friend. Take care. We'll
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Speaker 5: buck you soon.
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Speaker 2: Awesome Ian. Happy Thanksgiving to you family as well. Hope
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Speaker 2: you enjoy it. Looking forward to seeing you around Climate
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Speaker 2: Pledge Arena once again. Ian Fornez joining us here from
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Speaker 2: the matters here for the Saving. The Kraken trying to
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Speaker 2: bounce back after a season series opening lost to Dallas
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Speaker 2: back earlier this month. They fell two to one in
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Speaker 2: American Airlines Center. They are searching for just their second
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Speaker 2: win all time at home against Dallas and franchise history.
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Speaker 2: Currently their record at one four and one in aiming
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Speaker 2: for just their third victory overall heading into matchup number
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Speaker 2: fourteen head to head, Brandon on tour by the way,
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Speaker 2: the Saving looking like he'll be playing in the one
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Speaker 2: hundredth game in his Celo Cracken career. He owns twelve
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Speaker 2: points in eighteen games head to head against the Stars
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Speaker 2: right now inside for third best among active Kraken skaters
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Speaker 2: on their roster head to head against Dallas. A few
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Speaker 2: names to look out for Wyant Johnston owning a four
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Speaker 2: game goal scoring streak against the Krack, and Jason Robertson
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Speaker 2: extend his Pois Street to eight consecutive games. Also last
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Speaker 2: night in Dallas's win cruising over the Edmonton Oilers eight
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Speaker 2: three at Rogers Place. This will be their second game
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Speaker 2: of back to back, also getting for Miko Ranton and
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Speaker 2: back in the lineup actors serving a one game suspension
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Speaker 2: for a boarding incident last Saturday in Calgary against for
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Speaker 2: Matt Coronado. Looking forward to having you wherever you may
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Speaker 2: be again. We have the cracket and stars for matchup
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Speaker 2: number two of the season, coming up to Climate Pledge
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Speaker 2: Arena where it begins a pretty critical run here for
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Speaker 2: the Crack and in their schedule leading up into the
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Speaker 2: holiday break. We certainly hope that you can join us
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Speaker 2: beginning at six point thirty for airtime coverage PUG dropping
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Speaker 2: for Neesz for joining us and for kracking this morning.
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Speaker 2: I'm Mike Benton. Have a happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the game.
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