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OVERTIME: It's that time of year - 2025-26 season preview! (10/8) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Through the middle every right circle everly fires go down,
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  Speaker 1: turn it everly right circle twisted her wrist her off
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  Speaker 1: the pipe and in it's a five nothing seeattle.
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  Speaker 2: Edge well Jordan every down that right side through.
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  Speaker 3: The Neutrals don't have forgetting a pass from Shorts mine
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  Speaker 3: he's got time and space.
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  Speaker 2: Waits, waits, waits and then puts it bar down on
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  Speaker 2: bicker locker side. This one's five and.
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  Speaker 4: Olock go across here from York Strand not.
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  Speaker 5: A sane right too, Shane right a left side snipe
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  Speaker 5: in past.
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  Speaker 2: Gusta said.
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  Speaker 6: It's a power play goal for the Crack and they're
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  Speaker 6: back to within two four two fine fifty to play.
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  Speaker 3: In the second, a big cross ice pass from uh
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  Speaker 3: ste yorks tran excuse me, Borer thought was Steven's a
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  Speaker 3: York Strand right over.
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  Speaker 2: To a sen Wright on the tape. Schen Wright loads
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  Speaker 2: up the shot.
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  Speaker 3: When he receives it, puts it low corner on Gusts
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  Speaker 3: and four two warriers left circle sto.
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  Speaker 7: What a snipe from Maddy b his first off the season.
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  Speaker 7: Eight thirty three to play in the first, it's a.
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  Speaker 3: One nothing tracking lead while Maddy Beneer's with his first
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  Speaker 3: of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Comes down that left side. You know he wants this
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  Speaker 2: one bad.
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  Speaker 4: He snipes it point Larson settles, He'll send.
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  Speaker 7: The toward the goal.
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  Speaker 8: Stop Hello Newman. Yanny Newman the tip in front. That's
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  Speaker 8: his third goal in the National Hockey League.
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  Speaker 7: That's the third.
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  Speaker 3: Goal for the Crockett In the Secondario right out thing
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  Speaker 3: Seattle leads well. Yanny Neuman gets to the furn of
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  Speaker 3: the net. There that puck gets back to Adam Larson.
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  Speaker 2: You see him wait just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: To get to set up to get Yanna Numan set
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  Speaker 3: up in furnt of the net and he fire.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a puck ont net whom he gets a stick up.
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  Speaker 2: Kids's deflection gets the goal. The Fineers line strikes again. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the far side.
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  Speaker 7: Here's a Montour off the face off stove Brandon Montoor.
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  Speaker 7: Five seconds and.
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  Speaker 8: Over time the Kraken win this one five four.
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  Speaker 7: They complete the season sweep of Montreal. It's their ninth
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  Speaker 7: multi goal come back about this season.
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  Speaker 3: Randon Montor picking up that puck right off the face
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  Speaker 3: off Kids himself a breakaway, goes down and beats Dobash
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  Speaker 3: to win this game in overtime.
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  Speaker 2: His fourth point of the night. Two goals to assist,
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  Speaker 2: Bring on the final cakes.
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  Speaker 9: Featuring the great stories, personalities, conversation and news in the
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  Speaker 9: hockey world.
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  Speaker 1: Back to Veneers, walks in left circle, Sinces card.
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  Speaker 7: Pull on Classic Hey by Jason shut out that two apart.
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  Speaker 9: It's the Overtime Podcast, a presentation of the KRACKING Audio
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  Speaker 9: Network and Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM.
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  Speaker 7: You enjoy that one time o day Overtime.
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  Speaker 10: This is Jordan Everlieve, this is Joey to Court, this
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  Speaker 10: is Mada Veneers, is Shane right, this is Jerry mccannon.
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  Speaker 9: You're listening to Overtime.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 11: So does that opening montage wet your appetite for the
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  Speaker 11: hockey season? Trying to finally get it going. We're doing
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  Speaker 11: a blowout the budget thing for Cracking this morning turn
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  Speaker 11: into the Overtime Podcast. So we welcome you to the
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  Speaker 11: latest drop of Overtime. Mike Benton with you join in
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  Speaker 11: a bit if I ever it fits you and al
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  Speaker 11: Kiniski we're gonna get to everything. And when I say everything,
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  Speaker 11: it's gonna be from top to bottom, from top contributors
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  Speaker 11: on the top line to the defensive Core to the
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  Speaker 11: goaltending system, to lay Lambert and yes, even goaltending. So
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  Speaker 11: go ahead and find us on demand every time by
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  Speaker 11: KJR dot com via the iHeartRadio app. That plus Cracking
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  Speaker 11: this morning, which we'll return, by the way for Game
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  Speaker 11: two of the regular season coming up against Vegas, so
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  Speaker 11: you can kind of consider this your condensed version of
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  Speaker 11: overtime and for Cracking this morning ahead of the opener against.
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  Speaker 12: The Anaheim Ducks.
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  Speaker 11: That, by the way, coming up Thursday, seven o'clock. Based
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  Speaker 11: off we're on air six thirty. Back with you as usual,
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  Speaker 11: ever it fits you. Alkonski on the call, I'll join
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  Speaker 11: you once again by the cores, light landing and section twenty.
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  Speaker 11: All right, without further ado, let's jump into it right now,
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  Speaker 11: Everett and now with us Bella is the light.
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  Speaker 12: It's over.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 12: Everyone's ready. The question is are you ready?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I'm ready, Oh so ready, me?
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  Speaker 2: Me and Big al so ready. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm counting the minute. I have been since April, and
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  Speaker 3: it's nice to be back. I think it's great to
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  Speaker 3: have a home opener and a regular scheduled time versus
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  Speaker 3: an afternoon game. It's gonna be a fun couple of
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  Speaker 3: couple of first games here at home.
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  Speaker 11: It's gonna feel kind of like bizarre, but maybe in
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  Speaker 11: a good way where we're not, you know, to doing
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  Speaker 11: this thing tee and off opening pug drop at one pm.
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  Speaker 12: In the middle of a week day. It was fun,
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  Speaker 12: but it was a one year type of thing.
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  Speaker 11: We're doing this back to normal now for seven o'clock
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  Speaker 11: for opening night against the Anaheim Ducks. All right, before
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  Speaker 11: I let both of you jump in, I'm gonna just
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  Speaker 11: start off with this as kind of a generalization of
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  Speaker 11: what we went through over the last several months. And
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  Speaker 11: this all began way back in April, and the team
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  Speaker 11: wasting no time once last season ended to turn the page.
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  Speaker 11: Ron Francis moving further up now to his current role
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  Speaker 11: as President of Hockey Operations, Jason Botterol jumping into the
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  Speaker 11: general manager's chair, and a coaching change now bringing in
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  Speaker 11: Lane Lambert and for a good chuck in this coaching
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  Speaker 11: staff now brand new, there was a pleasure to aggressively
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  Speaker 11: turn over this roster here for the summer. We are
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  Speaker 11: now on the cusp of seeing Berkeley Catton perhaps make
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  Speaker 11: his NHL debut, Fellas, what have you made over the
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  Speaker 11: last six months that lead us up here to game
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  Speaker 11: number one of eighty two and your expectations, Everett start
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  Speaker 11: with you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, listen, Mikey.
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  Speaker 6: It's it was another, you know, summer of change, which
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  Speaker 6: I don't think is ideal when you're trying to build consistency,
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  Speaker 6: but I mean it also was something that was necessary.
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  Speaker 6: And I think you can you can tell by the
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  Speaker 6: player's performance in the preseason during training camp that a
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  Speaker 6: lot of most of the guys, all the guys have
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  Speaker 6: bought into Lane Lambert and his style and the way
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  Speaker 6: that he wants to play and the way that he
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  Speaker 6: he coaches, and you can you can get a sense
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  Speaker 6: of when he speaks, the guys listen, and I think
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  Speaker 6: that's important also too. I think you know, there's something
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  Speaker 6: to be said about bringing in two new assistant coaches,
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  Speaker 6: and Chris Taylor and Aaron Schneeklous, So now you know
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  Speaker 6: you have all new voices on that bench. Obviously Jess
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  Speaker 6: Campbell is still with the team, but you bring Collins Julianello,
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  Speaker 6: another goaltending coach and to replace Stephen Breere. So you're
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  Speaker 6: you're bringing in an entirely new voice. And it's one
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  Speaker 6: of those things where the ownership of the management group
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  Speaker 6: of the Kraken they want to win and and I
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  Speaker 6: think that this was the group obviously, this is the
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  Speaker 6: group that they felt most comfortable with and they felt
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  Speaker 6: that they get them to that point.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, now it's.
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  Speaker 6: Time to to really put up or shut up, right.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, if we're being honest, three coaches in three years,
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  Speaker 6: three coaches in your first five years, if that's not
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  Speaker 6: an ideal situation. So now I think it's it's very important.
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  Speaker 6: You know, this team's got to take that next step
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  Speaker 6: forward this season. And I don't I don't think that
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  Speaker 6: this is the wrong group to get it done. I
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  Speaker 6: do think that there's going to be a lot more
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  Speaker 6: positive than negative with the crack in the season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, fits talked about coaching, management and and
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  Speaker 3: and and that's sort of thing I'll talk about players.
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  Speaker 3: I think that bringing in Mason Marchman was a good
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  Speaker 3: ad to the team. I we we talk a lot
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  Speaker 3: about net front presidence. He's a guy that likes to
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  Speaker 3: play in front of the net.
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  Speaker 12: Ry favorite favorite.
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  Speaker 3: He'll he'll he'll be talking a lot about Mason.
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  Speaker 4: Don't do the fly by, don't do the fly.
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  Speaker 3: By presence, Ryan Lingren, you know, gritty defenseman. I think
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  Speaker 3: he he adds that to the blue line. I'm looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to seeing that a night out from him. Freddie
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  Speaker 3: gudrou back on that fourth line in the middle. You know,
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  Speaker 3: one of the one of the odd skills for him
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  Speaker 3: is the shootout, and we got we got a taste
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  Speaker 3: of that in the preseason. He went one for one,
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  Speaker 3: So I look forward to seeing more of that throughout
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  Speaker 3: the season because that was an area that the Kraken
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  Speaker 3: suffered in last season. So he'll definitely be part of
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  Speaker 3: that group. I'm sure in the top three shooting in
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  Speaker 3: those situations. So you know, those three players come in,
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  Speaker 3: Andre Bakowski, mikey Asimont, Joevolena moved out, so you've got
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  Speaker 3: a coup. You know, a few people going both directions.
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  Speaker 3: From a personnel standpoint, I think the net of all
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  Speaker 3: of that is I like the ads. I like what
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  Speaker 3: it does for the team. I think it improves the team.
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  Speaker 3: Does it make it one hundred and twenty point team, No,
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  Speaker 3: but it moves them towards making the playoffs, and I
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  Speaker 3: think that's a reasonable goal for the season.
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  Speaker 12: And now I think you bring that up.
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  Speaker 11: Perfect segue here, because we've talked to players before. I
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  Speaker 11: talked with Ellie Tolbenen during media day and he wasn't
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  Speaker 11: shy to use the actual word playoffs in this conversation.
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  Speaker 11: When you think about the mathematics where you can improve
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  Speaker 11: on incrementally, there is a chance to put yourself right
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  Speaker 11: back into this mix. It depends on who you ask,
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  Speaker 11: because the reality is outside.
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  Speaker 12: Of what we know in this area.
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  Speaker 11: There are not a lot of people nationally picking this
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  Speaker 11: team to do anything. Matter of fact, a lot of
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  Speaker 11: people nationally picked this team to finish toward the basement.
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  Speaker 12: So I begin with this.
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  Speaker 11: I think, Everett, you've had a conversation before some guys
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  Speaker 11: in this room. I have, certainly, al you have certainly
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  Speaker 11: what does this team need to be at its best,
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  Speaker 11: sneak up on teams where they can grab some valuable
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  Speaker 11: points and put themselves right back into the mix.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think this team.
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  Speaker 6: I go back to year two when this team made
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  Speaker 6: the playoffs, and when you look at it, it was
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  Speaker 6: a depth team. That was when we invented the phrase
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  Speaker 6: the depth of this team is our strength. Then when
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  Speaker 6: you have thirteen guys with career highs.
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  Speaker 4: Goals, assists, or points that season, everyone ropes, everyone rides.
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  Speaker 6: That was the mentality of that year. And I think
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  Speaker 6: you're going to have to have that same type of
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  Speaker 6: mentality and that same type of philosophy. And you can
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  Speaker 6: already see with the way that the team played in preseason,
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  Speaker 6: with the way that they practice, how Lane Lambert has
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  Speaker 6: run the team so far, this is going to be
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  Speaker 6: a team that bases itself on hard work, on defense,
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  Speaker 6: on responsibility, on accountability. I'll give you an example. You know,
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  Speaker 6: there was a play in I believe it was the
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  Speaker 6: Calgary home game in the preseason. The Cracking were at
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  Speaker 6: the end of a shift and they got the puck
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  Speaker 6: to the red line and you could tell there was
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  Speaker 6: a three on one and a half three on two developing,
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  Speaker 6: and I feel like normally, you know, guys would have
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  Speaker 6: tried to force their way into the zone, but they
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  Speaker 6: made the responsible play. They dumped the puck into the zone,
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  Speaker 6: they go off for a chain, and they come back
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  Speaker 6: fresh on defense, and then they bottled up the Calgary
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  Speaker 6: flames and we're able to get the puck back. It's
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  Speaker 6: that type of discipline. It's that type of small, you know,
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  Speaker 6: changes to the way that this team plays that I
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  Speaker 6: think are gonna end up ultimately ultimately playing dividends. And
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  Speaker 6: I've said from day one, since Lang got here, this
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  Speaker 6: is a cracking team that's going to have to be
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  Speaker 6: comfortable playing a three to two, two to one, three
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  Speaker 6: to one with an empty net hockey hockey game. This
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  Speaker 6: isn't a four to five goal a night team. And
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  Speaker 6: that's okay as long as you're scoring three and only
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  Speaker 6: giving up one and a half or giving up two.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I asked Al, I said a little trivia
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  Speaker 4: question for you.
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  Speaker 6: Uh in the NHL, how many goals do you need
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  Speaker 6: to score to win one more.
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  Speaker 3: Than the other team for a few minutes?
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  Speaker 4: Though? Yeah, exactly, so you need one question?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, it's okay, you know, yeah, but no.
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  Speaker 4: I honestly I'm with you, Mike. Yeah, I think that
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  Speaker 4: this team is going to be a lot better than
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  Speaker 4: a lot of folks are giving them credit for.
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  Speaker 6: But it's going to take that hard work mentality, that
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  Speaker 6: defensive first mentality, and like, listen, are you going.
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  Speaker 4: To have a forty goal scorer? Fifty goal scorer? You'd
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  Speaker 4: love to have one, but probably not.
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  Speaker 6: But if you can have six twenty goal scores, if
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  Speaker 6: you can have you know, seven or eight guys pitching
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  Speaker 6: in thirty plus points, I think you're going to go
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  Speaker 6: a very long way into you know, being a team
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  Speaker 6: that is you know, for me, the floor of this
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  Speaker 6: team should be battling for a playoff spot, playing meaningful
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  Speaker 6: games after Saint Patrick's Day into late March any early April.
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  Speaker 6: That should be the baseline your year, within four to
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  Speaker 6: five points of a playoff spot, if not fewer, all
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  Speaker 6: season long.
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  Speaker 4: And I think they have the group that can compete
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  Speaker 4: to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Well. You talk about discipline and defensive structure, and I
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  Speaker 3: agree with all that. And you know, I mentioned players
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  Speaker 3: that came in. I miss Matt Murray, and I think
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  Speaker 3: he's an important part of what you just said because
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  Speaker 3: obviously in your own zone fits you and I were
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  Speaker 3: talking about this today that you know, goaltenders really like
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  Speaker 3: a defensive first structure because it makes their job easier.
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  Speaker 3: So number one, it's going to make our goaltending better
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  Speaker 3: just by having that structure. Number Two, I like the
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  Speaker 3: idea of having a third guy in the mix to
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  Speaker 3: make everybody kind of stay on their toes and be competitive,
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  Speaker 3: and you're starting to see that on the ice as well.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's part of it as well as
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's part of the answer of how do
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  Speaker 3: you get back to the playoffs. But also to your point,
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  Speaker 3: there are some guys from that twenty two to twenty
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  Speaker 3: three season that need to get back to that level.
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  Speaker 3: Vince Done is a great example of that. Fourteen goals,
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  Speaker 3: I think sixty one assists that season. Can he be
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  Speaker 3: that guy again? Can he get back to that offensive level.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think everybody's going to do it. You might
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  Speaker 3: not have a fourth line that produces like that, but
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  Speaker 3: you got guys like Shane Wright k I mean, can
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  Speaker 3: he have his thirty plus goals season? Can Viniers take
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  Speaker 3: that next step? So in some cases it's guys that
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  Speaker 3: have done it before, Vince Done and other guys that
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  Speaker 3: are In other examples, it's guys that have that next
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  Speaker 3: level that they've got to get to. And if those
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  Speaker 3: things can happen this season along with that structure we
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  Speaker 3: just talked about, I think you see a team that
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  Speaker 3: gets into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 11: See I'll say it before, I'll say it again when
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  Speaker 11: we talk about how this roster had to change from
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  Speaker 11: this last offseason. There are two ways to go about this.
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  Speaker 11: It's ultimately how can you improve your team offensively?
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  Speaker 12: Not one guy, but team. And this is one of
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  Speaker 12: the driest off seasons that we've.
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  Speaker 11: Ever seen for NHL free agency, and a lot of
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  Speaker 11: the guys who I mean, I kind of say this,
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  Speaker 11: you know, tongue in cheek, but we're potentially going to
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  Speaker 11: be out there, got scooped up in the Florida Panthers
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  Speaker 11: and look where they are once again. So the point is,
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  Speaker 11: if you can't get Plan A and bring in a
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  Speaker 11: big fish, so to speak, via free agency or trade,
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  Speaker 11: what's Plan B improve your team authensively? Top two bottom.
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  Speaker 11: So Fitz, you mentioned this going back to what this
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  Speaker 11: team's identity was in season two, top to bottom offensive depth,
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  Speaker 11: And for me and I go back into this again,
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  Speaker 11: the Matt says, can you get around based on last
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  Speaker 11: season two hundred and seventy goals that would have put
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  Speaker 11: your seventh last year in the NHL for offense, and
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  Speaker 11: teams that finished at two seventy or around that are
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  Speaker 11: better eight place team Columbus two sixty seven tied for
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  Speaker 11: them Toronto to sixty seven teams above that Colorado, Vegas, Dallas, Winnipeg, Washington,
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  Speaker 11: and John Cooper's Tampa Bay Lightning. Yeah, they all made
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  Speaker 11: the playoffs except Columbus, who missed at by a nose hair.
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  Speaker 12: The point beat and the point being, none of.
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  Speaker 11: This matters without defense. The structure is there with defense.
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  Speaker 11: But with this cracking team, is it possible to ask
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  Speaker 11: for thirty out of Jared McCann for, say, nineteen out
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  Speaker 11: of Jaden Schwartz, twenty two out of Shane Wright, maybe
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  Speaker 11: more twenty five out of Matty Beaneers, ten each from
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  Speaker 11: say Don montor Yannie Newman, twenty from Mason march Mint,
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  Speaker 11: twenty from Tolvenin once he's healthy again, Compocaco. These numbers
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  Speaker 11: add up, and you could in theory get to two
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  Speaker 11: seventy with this structure. So if those things fall into place,
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  Speaker 11: you're giving yourselves a chance.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, and we talked a lot about you know,
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  Speaker 6: Matty Beaneers and Shane right in particular. You're looking for
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  Speaker 6: both of those guys to take that next step, right,
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  Speaker 6: and I feel like twenty for Maddy last year, right,
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: nineteen for Shane. I don't see a world where thirty
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: for either of them is too tall of an ask.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: I don't think that's out of the question for them,
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: you know, I agree. I think Schwartz, you know, a
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: twenty goal season from him, Elliot Tolvenin looks like he's
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: going to be back on the power play and that
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: shot that we've we've grown accustomed to see.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: I think twenty.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: Twenty five, that last preseason game as possible. Yannie Newman
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: at one point led the entire league in PPP pre
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: ten preseason preseason.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: For ten points.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: You know, so I'm with you, But you know, you
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: talk about the offense, and yes, the Kraken didn't add
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: the big fish, but I also feel like what they
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: did add was an area that they were missing, and
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: they added a lot of grit and a lot of sandpaper.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: You have a Mason, a Mason marshmanth.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Who can contribute offense, but is not going to shy
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: away from from the dirty areas. He's not going to
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: shy away from the physicality. Ryan Lindren is a player
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: who just wants to work. He is a hard worker.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: Freddy Gadreau again, he's not gonna drop the gloves and
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: and fight every night, but he is a tough grinding
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: fourth line player, bottom six third fourth line guy who's
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: gonna chew up some minutes for you and could quite
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: possibly also get you twenty goals as well.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: So you know, I think that.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: Yes, this team didn't go out and get the ten
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: million dollar player, but what they did add was still
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: an element of I think what they were lacking, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: that was toughness. That was a little bit more grit,
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: a little bit more sand paper, and I think that's
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: going to.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Go a long way.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Well. In one of the ways you get to that
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: number of Mikey, that two seventy number, or you know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: any number you feel you have to get to in
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: terms of goals scored to reach the playoffs, is health, right, Yeah,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: through the preseason big thing. The Craken had a lot
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: of guys out in preseason. Most of them are back
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: minus Evans and Cocko. But if you can stay healthy
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: over the course of the season, then your guys like
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Jordan Eberley who was out for the MISTROI of the
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: season last year, Jared mccannon would to spend time in
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: the middle that didn't get to playoff full season on
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: the wing. If just those two guys alone, if they
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: are healthy playing with Maddy Beniers. Well, you've got your
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: top line performing and those guys could all potentially hit
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: career highs.
• 20:03
  Speaker 11: So whether we see this guy in the mix or not,
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: that remains to be seen. But such a juicy storyline
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: that's coming up here, the potential debut of Berkeley Catton
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: in the National Hockey League, And this week he spoke
• 20:16
  Speaker 11: with the media on expectations this season.
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think there's lots of everything. I think just
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: the small details. You know, from junior hockey to the
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: NHL is a big jump, so there's lots of the
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: little details really matter, just you know, hammering those down
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: and just you know, trying to build my game as
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: much as possible, not rushing anything really, just you know,
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: let me do my thing when I get my chance
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: to go, do my best.
• 20:38
  Speaker 12: So Berkeley Catton is here. He will make his NHL
• 20:42
  Speaker 12: debuts soon.
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: We don't know what's going to be Game one or
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: down the line, but the Kraken have now nine games
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: in theory to decide if they want to keep him
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: or send him back to the Western Hockey League before
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: the first year of his three year entry level deal
• 20:58
  Speaker 11: kicks in. It's a big big jump, as you heard
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: from what he said going from the w HL into
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: the NHL. What are the expectations for Berkeley Catton on
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: this roster to fit in if it is going to
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: be for a full year this season.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Well, I would say that I like what they're doing
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: with him so far. And today we saw him subbing
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: in on a line with Schwartz right in Tolnen, but
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: in that Schwartz position on the left side. And if
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I got to take a guy like Berkeley Catton, who
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: looks like he's going to start out on the wing,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: and put him alongside of somebody that's going to teach
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: him how to be a pro, how to play at
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: this level things, he's got to adjust his game to
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: to be a winger in the NHL. Jaden Schwartz is
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: top of my list to do that with. So I
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: like that a lot. Additionally, I would say that, you know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: bringing him up to the NHL level is just being
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: around the guys.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: I loved what we talked to Chandler Steven today. I
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: love what he said about having a winterton and and
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: catting over to his house for a home cooked meal. Right,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: you don't really understand, but these guys are at five
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: star hotels. But I'll tell you that thirty dollars burger By,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: like the tenth time you've ordered, it just doesn't taste
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: that good anymore. You know, It's just nice to go
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: home to someone's house. You smell the food cooking when
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: you come in, they're happy to have you. And I
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: think that brings teams together. I think that helps teach
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: you how to be a pro. And I guarantee you
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: those two guys will do it for somebody else someday.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think I love that story from
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: Chandler because you want that leadership, you know what I mean.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: You've got a number of young guys on this team.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: Whether you're up, whether you're down, you're in between. You know,
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: there are some guys on this team who are living
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: out of hotels all year long just because of the
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: nature of their contract, the nature of of what.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: They have to do.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: So anytime that you can come sit at someone's table
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: and wrestle around with someone's kids and have a burger,
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: have a steak in a glass of wine and just
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: chill and relax and be a human being, that's awesome.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: So I love that story.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Today, you know, I love the move of Berkeley Catton
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: of the wing in the preseason. I thought he looked
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: a lot more comfortable, He looked had more creativity.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: It wasn't as as glaring of an adjustment when he
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: moved off to the wing, and I.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Liked his game. He scored his first goal and his
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: only goal in the preseason.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: But I think that move to the wing, in my opinion,
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: I feel like solidified his spot on this roster. I
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: think we all kind of thought he was gonna make
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: the team, unless you know, it was just an absolute,
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: you know, bad training camp, which he didn't have, you
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: know what I mean.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: I think he did show that he could he can
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: play in this league.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: But I do think there's gonna need to be some protection,
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: you know, in terms of does he play every game
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: of the back to back? Do you play him in
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: the first nine in a row and then you see
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: what happens, right, I think there's gonna be some juggling
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: going on in the lineup. But I do think that
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: he's a player that has shown he can learn on
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: a fly. He's quickly can pick up you know, this
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: level and this style of play, and you know, I
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: think that he ends up staying here all year. You know,
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: he's got the absence with Coppocaco out, so there's gonna
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: be a month of games that he potentially is gonna
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: have to play. I mean he may be he may
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: bypass that nine games next week. Right by the time
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: we get to to back home after that long road trip.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: He may be in his after nine games. So that's
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: gonna be a huge adjustment for him. But he says
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: all the right things. I love the way he looks,
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: in the way that he works in practice. I again,
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: I think that he's going to stick with this team
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: all year, but I think it's gonna earn it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna be given to him.
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: Lane wants accountability, and it sounds like everyone's gonna be
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: on that same plane, that same level, which is very
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: refreshing to here. And and I think we're going to see
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: him here all year.
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: You guys teed this up appropriately because here's Chandler Stevenson
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: followed by Ryan Winterton on that dinner over at Stevenson's
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: place the other night.
• 25:11
  Speaker 12: Whatever.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, him and Wentz.
• 25:18
  Speaker 13: I mean they haven't had a home cooked meal since camp,
• 25:20
  Speaker 13: so I know what that's like when you're on the road,
• 25:24
  Speaker 13: and yeah, just kind of getting.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Out of the hotel and.
• 25:29
  Speaker 13: More so kind of a babysit too. Em and Wentz
• 25:32
  Speaker 13: were playing hockey the whole time and wrestling and all that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 13: So yeah, I mean it's obviously good to have him
• 25:39
  Speaker 13: here and get some home cooking in them. My wife
• 25:43
  Speaker 13: really likes to cook, so she made pork tenderloin. We
• 25:47
  Speaker 13: had chicken, we had salad, potatoes, rice, kind of everything.
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: They think they kind of rolled out of there. So yeah,
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: it was just something that you know, I I got
• 25:58
  Speaker 13: invited when I was a young guy being in tell
• 26:00
  Speaker 13: and Lem in a hotel, and you always appreciated that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 13: So just yeah, I'd like to have over more if
• 26:06
  Speaker 13: I could.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Homekick meal is nice, you know, kind of in uber
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: eats and going for dinner in the basketball we so
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: se home cooking me it was nice, and you know
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: it was nice to them.
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: Hey, there's only so much you can do when you
• 26:19
  Speaker 11: have food delivered right at your doorstep. And I'll tell
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: you this, that Stevenson cookbook, it might I think inside
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: of battle between what they had on the table at
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: al Kiniski and his brisket as well that sound a
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: pretty tasty.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Are you telling me? I need to invite some of
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: the boys over for some brisket.
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: Oh, I know you literally gave this stuff into my hands.
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: I've already eaten half of it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I can't believe you eat it cold, cold.
• 26:47
  Speaker 12: Warm, I pulled. I plucked it right out of the bag.
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: Getting home, I took my kids to baseball, I had
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: dinner on the run, and before then I put it
• 26:56
  Speaker 11: right into a case of dia.
• 26:57
  Speaker 12: I had it hot, all right.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Well, all the left bits and pieces that goes into
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: a plate of mac and cheese.
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: Just so you know, I might be conceiving ways to
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: put this stuff in other dishes like green eggs and
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: hand from doctor Seuss.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: Loved it, loved it? Al I again last weekend?
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Huh that was your food segment.
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: Yeah, see it's it's it's the obligatory food segment. I
• 27:21
  Speaker 11: may or may not be baking here for an endorsement,
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: but we'll talk about that for another day. Uh to
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: goaltending we go. It will be a three goalie system
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: to crack and employee starting this week. Officially, Joey Decord,
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: Philip Grubauer and Matt Murray in the mix, and here's
• 27:40
  Speaker 11: a lane Lambert is addressing, finding reps for them in
• 27:43
  Speaker 11: practice day after day.
• 27:45
  Speaker 14: Think to our goaltendant, coach, Colinsuliano has done a great job.
• 27:49
  Speaker 14: We've gone through this, you know, at length in preparation
• 27:53
  Speaker 14: for training camp and you know, heading into the regular
• 27:56
  Speaker 14: season as to how we can best keep everyone sharp,
• 28:02
  Speaker 14: you know, and certainly he's done a great job of that,
• 28:06
  Speaker 14: whether it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Be through.
• 28:09
  Speaker 14: You know, practice reps. Clearly, the goaltenders are out on
• 28:13
  Speaker 14: the ice, you know, half an hour early. If you
• 28:16
  Speaker 14: have two goalies, a lot of times you're only out
• 28:18
  Speaker 14: on the ice fifteen minutes early. So there's just or
• 28:21
  Speaker 14: you know, you have a situation where maybe Joey doesn't
• 28:24
  Speaker 14: go out and Grooby and Murray do you know of
• 28:29
  Speaker 14: one of those two plays then they wouldn't go out.
• 28:31
  Speaker 14: So there's different ways of managing it, and there's you know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 14: there's some certainly some positives to that in terms of
• 28:38
  Speaker 14: giving each other proper rest too when when they're playing
• 28:43
  Speaker 14: and you know, Joey's Joey's going to play a decent
• 28:48
  Speaker 14: amount here. And I'm not going to announce starting goaltenders,
• 28:50
  Speaker 14: but certainly, you know, there's going to be times when
• 28:53
  Speaker 14: he's going to need rest as well.
• 28:55
  Speaker 11: That's Lane Lambert on the goaltending situation. We know for sure,
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: beyond the shadow of a doubt, Joey to Cord is
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: the number one guy. Jason Botterl said, so weeks ago
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: when training camp opened up, But guys, how do you
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: see this playing out here? The Cord, Grubauer and Murray.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: I mean, I think we've seen three goalies in the
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: past and the NHL, and sometimes it's worked.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Usually it hasn't.
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: And that's that's not me causing, you know, saying anything
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: that's untrue, like just go go back and look at
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: the last few teams that has happened.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: And I do think that, you know, I forget. I
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: think it was it was you that might.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: Have said it a little bit ago about the competition
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: pushing each other, and I think, yes, Joey is the starter,
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: but you know, I guarantee you he's just as motivated
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: to keep that starting job because he's got two very capable.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Goalies behind him.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: If you're Matt Murray, if you're Philip Grubauer, you're trying
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: to be that number two, that go to guy. You know,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: if I'm putting my my analytic hat on, I do
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: think that there's going to have to come a time
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: where there's gonna need to be a hard conversation or
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: a decision that's gonna have to be made, because at
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: the end of the day, you got two nets in practice,
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: you got one net during the game, obviously, And you know,
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: I don't envy either goaltender. I don't envy the coaches
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: of the management having to make that decision.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: If if I'm guessing, and again Lane, you know he's
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: not gonna tell us the starters, but it wouldn't surprise
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: me to see all three goalies get too three games
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: in the first twelve and then maybe that's kind of
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: your you know in baseball, your extended spring training, maybe
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: that's your extended training camp if you will get another
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: decent look at some guys and potentially have have to
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: have those conversations. I don't know, that's me speculating. I'm
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: just guessing here, but I do think that at a
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: certain point there there's going to need to be just
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: two goalies on the roster. But I like what the
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: competition has brought so far. I thought all three goalies
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: performed well in preseason, and again I don't envy the
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: decision makers having to make this, potentially make this decision.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, we're not a unicorn doing this right now.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: There are some teams in the league that have three
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: goaltenders on their opening day rosters. And these aren't, you know,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: bottom seller teams. This is this is Tampa, this is Colorado.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: I think Carolina was on that list. But you know,
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: teams do this when they've got some question marks around goaltending,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: and there's nothing wrong with that. And I think that
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: we have some question marks as well. Will we have
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: three goaltenders after the first of the year, I'd be
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: I'd be shocked. I think this question mark gets answered
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: in the next two months, next two and a half months.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: But I'm excited to see it. Like I said, I
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: think the competition is good for the overall result that
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: it will have.
• 32:04
  Speaker 11: Yeah, Philip Grubauer this year in the preseason save percentage
• 32:10
  Speaker 11: nine two five in two games, Matt Murray say percentage
• 32:14
  Speaker 11: nine two zero into games.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Can then be.
• 32:17
  Speaker 11: Interested to see how all this plays out around Joey
• 32:20
  Speaker 11: de coord here to begin the season. Speaking of that,
• 32:23
  Speaker 11: let's talk schedule before we make our final calls here
• 32:27
  Speaker 11: to wrap up this podcast. Ducks coming up on Thursday,
• 32:31
  Speaker 11: Vegas on Saturday, and then the big old six game
• 32:35
  Speaker 11: swing Montreal on their opening night, Ottawa, Toronto, Philadelphia, Washington,
• 32:43
  Speaker 11: those two teams back to back, and then ending in Winnipeg,
• 32:47
  Speaker 11: and you come right back home to face the Edmonton Oilers. Fellas,
• 32:52
  Speaker 11: how big is this opening stretch going to be?
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: No goohed good, no big out, big out.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: You're up okay from a schedule standpoint, I like seeing
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: a lot of these teams in the first month. There's
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: still some figuring out that's going on, new players, that
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: sort of thing, and so you know, the Kracken are
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: gonna need to steal some wins against these top teams
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: in October. You know, like you said, Mikey, Edmonton twice
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: in the in that month. You're still one of those
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I'd rather have those two games in October, in those
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: two games in January February, let's put it that way.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: They're going to face some other top teams in the
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: month as well. You mentioned Montreal for their home opener.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Vegas is going to be a tough games, So you
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: know what, you steal a few of those wins from
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: those top teams, and you beat the teams you should beat,
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: you come out of that month on top. In my opinion, I.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Love the schedule.
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: I think it's a perfect mix of a couple of
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: teams that you're going to be right there with in
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: terms of standings, in terms of record. You know, you
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: look at Anaheim and Seattle, right though, I think those
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: two teams are going to be battling for, you know,
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: us second wild card or battling for trying to get
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: into that playoff conversation. You've got the teams that you
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: would love to beat in Edmonton, in Vegas, in Toronto
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: on hockey Night in Canada. That's gonna be wonderful, you know.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: But I do think that for the Kraken, if they
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: can go five hundred game above game under hover or
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: better than five hundred, I think that that's gonna be
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: a win. And we're gonna we're gonna get tested early.
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: Because again I think I'm with you, Al, I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to see Toronto when Austin Matthews as
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  Speaker 6: a chance to really pick it up in December.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to see Connor.
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  Speaker 6: McDavid and Leon Dreisidle in January, Zach Hyman was just
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  Speaker 6: put on lt I R. So he's gonna be out
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  Speaker 6: for a while for the Edmonton Oilers. You know Vegas,
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  Speaker 6: they've they're going through some injury issues as well.
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  Speaker 12: Getting Mitch Marner in Game two of the season.
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  Speaker 6: You get Mitch Marner in Game two of the season,
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  Speaker 6: but you also get Mitch Marner who was still trying
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  Speaker 6: to get used to Jack Eichel and everybody else. So
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  Speaker 6: I said, yeah, I would much rather see Game two
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  Speaker 6: Vegas as opposed to Game twenty two Vegs right, So
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  Speaker 6: I think that's a favorable schedule from that standpoint. A
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  Speaker 6: lot of coaches will tell you. I love getting on
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: the road early and getting a long trip out of
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  Speaker 6: the way. There's a team dinner when you get in
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  Speaker 6: on Sunday, Canadian Thanksgivings on Monday, so you're gonna be out,
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: You're gonna be you know, Al Kaniski, We're gonna roll
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  Speaker 6: him into the Montreal booth after Canadian Thanksgiving dinner.
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  Speaker 4: Looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 6: But I love the schedule and I think it's one
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  Speaker 6: that the Kraken can navigate. And like I said, if
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: they can obviously you want to win as many as
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: you can. But if you're coming back home after six
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: eight games and you're three three and two, or you're
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: four to three and one, or you know, you're, you're
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: whatever it is, I think you're in a really good spot.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the one last thing I'll say about the schedule,
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  Speaker 3: and Mike, yes, you've probably got a point on this too.
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  Speaker 3: But as difficult as the schedule is in October, and
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: like I, like I said, I'm okay with it, it
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: kind of flips the other way for November. So if
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: you come out of October and like you said, if
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: it's you're a game or two above five hundred, you
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: better not let off the gas in November because there's
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: a bunch of games in there that you should win.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the krack and missed too many of
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: those last year. So would I rather have the schedule
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  Speaker 3: the other way? No, because I think that you if
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: you play to the level of that competition in October
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: and you carry that level into November, you should win
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: all of those games.
• 36:33
  Speaker 11: A lot of a lot of points you can grab
• 36:36
  Speaker 11: off the table in that November slate Chicago, San Jose,
• 36:40
  Speaker 11: Saint Louis Winnipeg. Some folks say maybe falling back a
• 36:44
  Speaker 11: bit San Jose again, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh as well.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: There's a lot talk we talked about that.
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  Speaker 6: You know that that American Thanksgiving deadline. You know, you
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: go back the last twenty years. I think it's over
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  Speaker 6: eighty eighty one eighty two percent of teams that are
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: in a playoff spot by American Thanksgiving go on to
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  Speaker 6: make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 11: So we're running out of time, our last hit on
• 37:14
  Speaker 11: this here, we're gonna get down to the brass tacks
• 37:17
  Speaker 11: question to get into the playoff mix. The Krack and
• 37:20
  Speaker 11: will need what I'll begin right here. For me, Number one,
• 37:26
  Speaker 11: it's gotta be health, because without health, you cannot have
• 37:30
  Speaker 11: depth when it comes to the scoring needs that they
• 37:33
  Speaker 11: have right now to be productive and hit that benchmark
• 37:36
  Speaker 11: to be among the more productive teams combined with defense
• 37:40
  Speaker 11: to be into the playoff mix. I think for me, secondly,
• 37:43
  Speaker 11: goaltending behind Joey Decord as specially effective when it comes
• 37:49
  Speaker 11: to the back to backs. They'll have to play the season.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Yep. Those two for me, and I think a third
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: I'll add on to that.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: The Krack and I said it before, I'll see it again,
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: and they have to be comfortable being a hard working,
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: defensive first team. This is gonna be a team that's
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: gonna win a lot of two to one games, a
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: lot of three to two games.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: You know, it's okay.
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: You don't have to be the sexiest team every night
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: as long as you're winning. And I think if this
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: team can buy in to that hard working philosophy and
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: they do it effectively, I think this team, again, they
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: will be better than a lot of people give them
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: credit for. And I think they can make the playoffs.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: And I'll add a fourth the special teams. The special
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: teams has to get better, and I think under Chris
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Taylor and Aaron steaklof that, you know their schemes that
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: they're working into the team right now, if they can
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: get those percentage points better by two, three, four, five
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: percentage points, I think that's gonna have a big impact
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: on the outcome of this team.
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: In April, the blank slate's a beautiful thing.
• 38:47
  Speaker 11: It begins Game one of eighty two coming up Thursday. Fellas,
• 38:51
  Speaker 11: I know we all can't wait time to get after
• 38:54
  Speaker 11: it once again.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: Last thing I'll say at the time of this record
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: the Seattle Kraken are in first place.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: Yes, specific division.
• 39:06
  Speaker 12: I'm you heard it.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: We're unbeaten.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: The Cracking are in third place in the Pacific. LA's
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: down free nothing right now, Cracket in first place.
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: We're all starting zero zero.
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  Speaker 11: How can the Kraken build off of that and begin
• 39:22
  Speaker 11: this season with a word that begins with an, s
• 39:26
  Speaker 11: ends with a K, and rhymes with beak. I won't
• 39:29
  Speaker 11: say it ever, it's superstitious.
• 39:32
  Speaker 12: I see that look right there. But hey, we're all.
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: Zero zero and the Cracking can work on things starting
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: on Thursday with a very positive note. All right, glad
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: you hung out with us here. That'll cover our basis.
• 39:45
  Speaker 11: To open the season, the Cracking take on the Anaheim
• 39:47
  Speaker 11: Ducks Thursday, first of two games at home, then after
• 39:50
  Speaker 11: that six consecutive on the road. You can catch all
• 39:54
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• 40:02
  Speaker 11: before faceoff Corslight pregame show, Choose Chill. I'll join you
• 40:06
  Speaker 11: as usual for every home game to begin things back
• 40:09
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• 40:12
  Speaker 11: up in the booth as usual, all right, big thank
• 40:15
  Speaker 11: you to these guys ever it fits you. Al Kaniski
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  Speaker 11: for being with us. Thank you also for dialing us
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  Speaker 11: up and for overtime. I'm Mike Benton. Enjoy the beginning
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