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Kraken Coach Lane Lambert on Gritty Win, Referee Call, Lines, Culture · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 2: All right, we're back on a busy Wednesday, and I
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  Speaker 2: would like to, first of all, Dick Fane, show some
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  Speaker 2: appreciation to our next guest, by the way, for winning
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  Speaker 2: the game last night before today's radio segment. Always makes
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  Speaker 2: it more fun when we're talking about a win versus
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  Speaker 2: the loss the night before. Lane Lambert, head coach of
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  Speaker 2: the Kraken, his weekly visit with us right here on KJR.
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  Speaker 5: Coach, how are you, man? Doing well, guys. After the near.
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  Speaker 5: Heart attack last night. We're all good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about that. Because last time we spoke.
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  Speaker 2: I talked about how gritty you guys were, you know,
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  Speaker 2: going up 2-0 against the Flyers, and then they come
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  Speaker 2: back and tie it, and you win a shootout. You're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but we really wouldn't like to do that. And then
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  Speaker 2: we have another one last night where you're up 3-0
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  Speaker 2: against the Red Wings, and they come back and tie it,
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  Speaker 2: partially due to a bogus roughing call on Chandler Stevenson,
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  Speaker 2: which we can talk about. So is there a part
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  Speaker 2: of you now that says, hey, enough of this gritty,
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  Speaker 2: tough stuff. We need to start putting teams away when
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  Speaker 2: we get big leads like that.
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  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I mean, no question that it certainly wasn't
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  Speaker 8: the way you want to script it in the third period.
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  Speaker 8: I thought we came out of the thought we came
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  Speaker 8: out of the gates in the third period.
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  Speaker 5: We did a lot of good things.
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  Speaker 8: We were looking, you know, we had a couple of
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  Speaker 8: chances to go up for nothing. And that probably would have,
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  Speaker 8: you know, been what we needed in terms of sort
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  Speaker 8: of finishing the game off. But, you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 8: pretty well documented in the National Hockey League right now.
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  Speaker 5: You're not out of a hockey game unless you think
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  Speaker 5: you are. And if you think you are, then you are.
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  Speaker 5: But there's been a lot of, you know, even over
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  Speaker 5: the course of the.
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  Speaker 8: Last few years and just with the skill level and
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  Speaker 8: the talent level and the shifts in momentum, you know,
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  Speaker 8: a little bit of youth in terms of, you know,
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  Speaker 8: the league is a bit younger and whatnot and the
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  Speaker 8: momentum swings are a little bit higher and lower than
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  Speaker 8: they should be. But certainly, you know, I thought we
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  Speaker 8: came out of the gates well in the third and
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  Speaker 8: then I didn't like a couple of the calls they got,
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  Speaker 8: you know, the penalties we got, and they ended up
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  Speaker 8: capitalizing on them. And all of a sudden, you know,
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  Speaker 8: we're in overtime. So good for us for finding a
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  Speaker 8: way to win in a shootout. You know, we can
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  Speaker 8: always learn from these kinds of things. Certainly not, you know,
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  Speaker 8: what we want to do, but obviously an opportunity to
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  Speaker 8: grow and get better.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Softy mentioned that penalty on Stevenson. What did you
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  Speaker 3: see and what did the refs say that they saw?
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know, what happens in the league is that
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  Speaker 8: the refs really don't come over and talk to you
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  Speaker 8: because they don't want to get, you know, they don't
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  Speaker 8: want to get into a confrontation.
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  Speaker 5: Or yell that and they've been instructed not to do that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I guess for the, you know, keeping the game.
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  Speaker 8: Moving along and things like that. The problem with that is,
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  Speaker 8: is that, you know, Most of the time, us coaches
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  Speaker 8: don't do a lot of yelling at them. It's legit.
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  Speaker 5: If you want to ask a question and get.
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  Speaker 8: An answer, it's a legitimate question that you have, and it's.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes frustrating when you can't get an answer. So I
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  Speaker 5: guess in terms of what did they say.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know what they said. The way I saw
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  Speaker 8: the play, it's a face-off. It's six on five for them.
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  Speaker 5: It's a... it's almost like.
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  Speaker 8: A rugby play, like you are battling and, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 8: their player Arvidsson who incidentally drew the three penalties in the,
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  Speaker 8: in the game.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, that's not a shocker to me. He's pretty renowned
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  Speaker 5: for that.
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  Speaker 8: Um, you know, and that's not, I'm not saying that
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  Speaker 8: in a positive way either. Um, but you know, at
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  Speaker 8: the end of the day, it's a battle to get
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  Speaker 8: out to the point and he's interfering with Chandler. holding
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  Speaker 8: him up, and Chandler gave him a shove out of
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  Speaker 8: the way, and I couldn't actually believe that he called
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  Speaker 8: the penalty, but they did, and we had a real
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  Speaker 8: good opportunity to kill it off, and we got an
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  Speaker 8: unfortunate bounce, and they ended up making an excellent play,
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  Speaker 8: to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to give them credit.
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  Speaker 8: The play that Dylan Larkin made to Brinkhead in that
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  Speaker 8: moment was world-class, and it ended up in the back
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  Speaker 8: of our net, so disappointing. Didn't get an explanation for
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  Speaker 8: the penalty. Didn't agree with the penalty. And, you know,
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  Speaker 8: you've got to allow the guys to play the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I love it. I love the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you kind of called it out. Love the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you were able to overcome it and still get a
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  Speaker 2: win anyway. It shows what this team's potential is, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: But Lane Lambert with us. Guy's getting a win last night.
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  Speaker 2: Shootout win over the Red Wings 6-3-1 with the Utah.
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  Speaker 2: We call them the Wooly Mammoth, by the way, coming
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  Speaker 2: to town tomorrow night at CPA. But, Coach, let me
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  Speaker 2: go back to the lineup that you're throwing out there.
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  Speaker 2: Some hockey fans in town are saying that they think
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  Speaker 2: maybe the third and fourth lines are playing better than
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  Speaker 2: the top two lines right now. I mean, is that
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  Speaker 2: a good sign that you're still winning with the guys
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  Speaker 2: who were supposed to be carrying the offense, or is
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  Speaker 2: that maybe a bit of a concern for you?
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  Speaker 5: What do you think? No, I think it's a good,
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  Speaker 5: I think it's a good thing we're winning. I think
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  Speaker 5: it's excellent that.
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  Speaker 8: That our, you know, our third and fourth lines are,
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  Speaker 8: you know, contributing and doing their jobs and contributing offensively. And,
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  Speaker 8: you know, our, our top guys, they've done a pretty
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  Speaker 8: good job on the power play, you know, and we've,
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  Speaker 8: we've moved a couple of things around. We mixed, put
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  Speaker 8: Sam Askevich with Chandler last night and moved up Beverly
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  Speaker 8: and we had some opportunities that way. So, You know,
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  Speaker 8: we have to be a four-line team. There's no question
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  Speaker 8: about it. But certainly, you know, over the course of
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  Speaker 8: the last six games and the road trip, you know,
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  Speaker 8: the Freddie Goudreau line and the Catton line has been
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  Speaker 8: very good for us.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you mentioned the move with Stevenson and Samaskevich playing together.
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  Speaker 3: That worked for a goal last night. Talk about the
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  Speaker 3: reasoning behind why you did that.
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  Speaker 5: It seemed to work.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we just had to get a little bit of a,
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  Speaker 8: you know, there's times when, you know, when things are
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  Speaker 8: a little stale and they're just not working for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 8: and so you mix things around and you look for
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  Speaker 8: a spark, and we got that with that situation.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, Lane Lambert's with us, and look, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you guys are 6-3-1, and you're talking about things like culture,
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  Speaker 2: and what I mean by that is, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: haven't spoken since the Florida game, and you kind of
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  Speaker 2: came out and I mean, we all know that Joey
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  Speaker 2: kind of wore it a little bit in that game,
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  Speaker 2: and you mentioned that you kind of appreciated, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the way that he got through that. And I'm wondering
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  Speaker 2: what that means for your culture when a guy goes
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  Speaker 2: out and does something like that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know what?
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  Speaker 8: We're trying to– I wouldn't say we're trying. We're building
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  Speaker 8: a culture that, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, it doesn't matter. Everybody matters.
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  Speaker 8: No matter what you– no matter how much you play,
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  Speaker 8: how little you play, you know, You know, everybody has
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  Speaker 8: an importance and a role on the hockey team.
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  Speaker 5: And the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 8: For me is we, you know, we always want to
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  Speaker 8: be a team that's hard to play against, well-organized, structured.
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  Speaker 8: And the bottom line is, you know, in pro sports,
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  Speaker 8: and certainly over the course of 84 games, you're going
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  Speaker 8: to have some ups and downs. And we want to
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  Speaker 8: stay even keel. It doesn't matter if you're up in
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  Speaker 8: a game, you know, 4-0, or if you're down in
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  Speaker 8: a game, 4-0. We want to play the game the
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  Speaker 8: exact same way. And, you know, that goes for, you know,
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  Speaker 8: the goaltenders.
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  Speaker 5: And certainly, you know, Joey battled.
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  Speaker 8: And I would have expected nothing less than him battling.
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  Speaker 5: And he did a great job of it.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we weren't going to put Phillip in the
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  Speaker 8: net after he had played two games in a row.
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  Speaker 5: And there was just no upside to it when you
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  Speaker 5: were down like that. So we, you know, what it
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  Speaker 5: did is it forced Joey to battle. And he did.
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  Speaker 8: And again, like I said the other day, I had
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  Speaker 8: no doubts that he would because he's a character guy
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  Speaker 8: and he's a self guy.
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  Speaker 5: That's the culture we're building around here. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow, pretty good Utah team coming to town.
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  Speaker 5: Go get them.
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  Speaker 2: 7-3, including 4-2 on the road. Go get a win
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow night. We'll talk next Wednesday, Coach. Appreciate this, man.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Coach.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds good, guys. Appreciate it. All right, man.
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  Speaker 2: Lane Lambert with us. Coach of the Kraken coming off
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  Speaker 2: the win last night over the Red Wings tomorrow. The
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  Speaker 2: Mammoth at 7 o'clock over at CPA. We're going to break.
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  Speaker 2: Petros Papadakis is going to join us. Does he think
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  Speaker 2: that Jamarcus Shepard would leave Oregon State after a year?
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  Speaker 2: Who does he think should start at quarterback for UW
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  Speaker 2: against Nebraska? And does he want, Dick, a 24-team playoff?
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  Speaker 2: We'll do all that with Petros next on 93.3 KJRFM.