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Lane Lambert pregame interview vs. Chicago with Everett Fitzhugh (11/3) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike, congrats on your Dodgers by the way back
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  Speaker 1: with cracking head coach Lane Lambert Lane back to back
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  Speaker 1: overtime losses for Seattle finding ways to get points, But
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  Speaker 1: how have you liked your team's game the past couple
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  Speaker 1: of nights in those opportunities to get points?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I thought that, you know, again, we're battling, we're grinding,
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  Speaker 2: we're defending hard, We're not generating as much as we
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  Speaker 2: want to. You know, we're looking for solutions from that standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, if we do that, we'll not only
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  Speaker 2: spend less time in our zone, but we'll give ourselves
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to do on the offensive zone to you know,
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  Speaker 2: create and score more So, clearly disappointing, you know, overtime losses,
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  Speaker 2: but again ways to collect points that are going to
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  Speaker 2: be valuable at some point here. And you know, I
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  Speaker 2: give our guys credit for doing that. Not only would
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  Speaker 2: come back point against my trial, but you know, just
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  Speaker 2: a battle and a grind against New York who you know,
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  Speaker 2: they've got a good hockey team.
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  Speaker 3: And you know they had you know, their top line
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  Speaker 3: was feeling it pretty good in that game. So we
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  Speaker 3: did a good job from that standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: Of getting that point, and you know, it's just disappointing
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  Speaker 2: that we couldn't get the extra but we've got to
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  Speaker 2: move on.
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  Speaker 1: You've talked the last couple of days about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the lack of offensive output. When you look at the reasons
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  Speaker 1: as to why this team hasn't been able to score
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  Speaker 1: as many goals as you would like, where do you
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  Speaker 1: find some of those pitfalls may lie? Is it shot generation?
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  Speaker 1: Is it not taking enough shots? Is it the looks
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  Speaker 1: that you're getting? What can you pinpoint to see that
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  Speaker 1: why the crack can have been not able to get
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  Speaker 1: over that two and a half three goal mark more
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  Speaker 1: often than not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably, you know, for for much of the time
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  Speaker 2: when we do get opportunities, first of all, you got
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  Speaker 2: to take advantage of them. You know, we've had some
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  Speaker 2: great a chances where we've missed the net. So let's
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  Speaker 2: start with that. Let's start hitting the net. Let's start
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  Speaker 2: putting more pucks on the net. Doesn't have to be
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  Speaker 2: a perfect plan, it doesn't have to be a perfect shot.
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  Speaker 2: We've got people go into the net, let's put them there.
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  Speaker 2: It can go off of anybody in the end of
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  Speaker 2: the net. So just basically a mentality. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: a mentality there, and you have to have that mentality
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  Speaker 2: to score greasy goals, score goals that are maybe a
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  Speaker 2: little bit ugly around the grease area. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: no question that with you know, McCann out of the
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  Speaker 2: lineup and Freddy you drove out of the lineup, we're missing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the neighborhood of fifty goals, and so
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  Speaker 2: we've got to find a way to generate in other
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  Speaker 2: ways with other guys.
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  Speaker 1: You have gotten coppol Coco back, you got Brandon Montur back.
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  Speaker 1: Rykan Evans is starting to skate again, Freddie Gudrou is
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  Speaker 1: starting to skate again. As this team gets healthier and
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  Speaker 1: you start to see players coming back, how does that change?
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  Speaker 1: Does that change the approach that you have to your lineup?
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  Speaker 1: What did you make of Coppolo Coco's return? Just what
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  Speaker 1: can you share about these guys coming back and starting
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  Speaker 1: to get your full lineup to where it needs to be.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when they come back, doesn't change our approach, doesn't
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  Speaker 2: change our mentality. You know, we are always looking to
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  Speaker 2: play the game a certain way, with a certain identity
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  Speaker 2: and a certain standard, and you know, they just accentuate that.
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  Speaker 2: From that standpoint, I thought Coco was good the other
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  Speaker 2: night his first game, Uh clearly, you know it was
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  Speaker 2: it was his old old team and it was an
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  Speaker 2: emotional night for him. So I thought he you know,
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  Speaker 2: I thought for the most part, he played well. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's clearly for me, going to be a
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  Speaker 2: guy that's advantageous for our hockey team in the offensive zone.
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  Speaker 2: Is certainly holding onto pox, keeping pucks and getting to
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  Speaker 2: the net.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at morning with skate line rushes, it looked like
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  Speaker 1: Berkeley Catton out Tolven and takes that spot up on
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  Speaker 1: the top line. When you look at your lines going
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  Speaker 1: into this evening, what do you like about Tolven and
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  Speaker 1: moving up and what have you thought about Berkeley Catton's
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  Speaker 1: first few games in the NHL.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I like Berkeley for starters, you know, and you'll
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  Speaker 2: see here tonight where where Berkeley slots. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: again he's a young player who we feel can play
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  Speaker 2: you know, multiple positions.
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  Speaker 3: Again, you know, in saying that he's a guy who
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  Speaker 3: has you know, you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't want to overly confuse him in terms of where
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  Speaker 2: he's playing, but we feel like, you know, he's done
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  Speaker 2: a good enough job of being able to potentially be.
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  Speaker 3: Moved around and we'll see where it goes.
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  Speaker 2: What you saw on morning skate might not be what
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  Speaker 2: you see five minutes into the game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: The style Blackhawks are a team coming in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of youth, a lot of skill. They're starting to put
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  Speaker 1: it all together and have some success this season. It's
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  Speaker 1: the return of Andre Bakowski back to Seattle, so an
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  Speaker 1: emotional night for him as well. Lots of money on
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  Speaker 1: that board. Probably, what can the crack and expect out
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  Speaker 1: of the Hawks here tonight and what do they need
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  Speaker 1: to what do they need to do to neutralize.
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  Speaker 2: That well, you know, I mean you you pretty much
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  Speaker 2: just talked about it. They've got some youth and the
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  Speaker 2: veteran players. There's a good mix there. The youth much
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  Speaker 2: similar to you know, some of our youth is starting to, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get more experience and gain in in years.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, obviously, but Dark is an elite talent,
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  Speaker 2: is an elite goal scorer, slash point getter.
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  Speaker 3: And Berkovsky's had a great start the season.
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  Speaker 2: You know, those two guys are playing together, they're feeling
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  Speaker 2: it pretty good. You know, where they've I think become
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  Speaker 2: even better as a team is defensively. You know, their
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  Speaker 2: numbers are very good defensively, so you know they've got
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  Speaker 2: some some big defenseman, some long defenseman, you know, that
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  Speaker 2: make it very difficult to navigate your way through the
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  Speaker 2: offensive zone on you know, it's gonna be a it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be an extreme talent for our hockey team.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a good hockey game tonight