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KRAKEN WEEKLY: Moving on without Montour, mailbag (12/22) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Gone debt back of the airline.
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  Speaker 2: Rking Revins halts stoos, Riker Evans left point flutters a.
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  Speaker 3: Shot toward the goal over the shoulder of Ascarov and
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  Speaker 3: the Seattle crack in retie the game to two eighteen
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  Speaker 3: oh five to go.
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  Speaker 4: On the third well, Riker Evans with an elite keep
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  Speaker 4: right at the blue line. His skates got outside the
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  Speaker 4: blue line, but he caught the puck, knocked it down
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  Speaker 4: inside the blue line. The linesman waves it, it's onside.
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  Speaker 4: He gets a shot off. It's a flutter. It goes
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  Speaker 4: off the stick. Beat tasker rob.
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  Speaker 1: This game's tied at two dred left circle.
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  Speaker 2: That say shot stoods Ryan Lendrin from the left circle
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  Speaker 2: may have deflected in, but the Seattle kracking back on top.
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  Speaker 4: It's a three to two cracking lead. Well, if this
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  Speaker 4: goes down his Lingeran's goal if he is first of
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  Speaker 4: the season. It was a great shot by him as
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  Speaker 4: he waited for the screen going to the front of
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  Speaker 4: the net. I believe it was toven him heading towards
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  Speaker 4: the front. It may have gone off of him. We're
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  Speaker 4: having to look here. It didn't redirect, but it could
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  Speaker 4: have gone off of a shark player pass.
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  Speaker 3: In front, knocked away, Elle tolban in from the red line,
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  Speaker 3: torban in ahead, Shannler Stevens in left circle, cuss in front,
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  Speaker 3: schools Shandler Stevenson two points Tonight the Kraken with the
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  Speaker 3: insurance goal. It's a four to two Seattle lead with
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  Speaker 3: one twenty four to play in this one.
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  Speaker 5: This is Jordan Eberley. This is Vince Done. This is
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  Speaker 5: Jayden Schwartz. This is Jared McCanns. Yes, this is Ryan Lindren.
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  Speaker 1: This is Maddie Banier's.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Cracking Weekly with Mike Benton. Cracking Weekly.
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  Speaker 6: Yep, we're doing it live kind of sort of here
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  Speaker 6: for the Seeds at Honda Center, the Cracking getting step
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  Speaker 6: of the Anaheim Ducks. Mike Benton, Al Kaniski ever I
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  Speaker 6: fits you were doing this round.
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  Speaker 5: Table as usual.
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  Speaker 6: Were also gonna have a bit of a jump in
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  Speaker 6: here from Evan Pivnick, appropriate because his home base is
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  Speaker 6: broadcast voice of the Coachella Valley Firebirds. In getting this
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  Speaker 6: deep end of the season, pretty good time here to
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  Speaker 6: bring on prospect talk as a crack and looking to
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  Speaker 6: wrap up these last two games before the holiday break
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  Speaker 6: with a pair of victories.
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  Speaker 5: That would be a terrific gift as well.
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  Speaker 6: a little bit later on here for the show. Without
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  Speaker 6: further ado, We're gonna jump into this because Monday and
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  Speaker 6: Tuesday back to Bag Bang Bang.
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  Speaker 5: It's gonna fly so ever it fits you.
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  Speaker 6: Alconiski with me here from the seats in Anaheim, and
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  Speaker 6: I want to recap this week fellas. But before I
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  Speaker 6: do that, the recapping of this also includes the joys
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  Speaker 6: of going on the road. Vince, we had some good
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  Speaker 6: dinner time last time. I think al Kaniski has some
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  Speaker 6: great time of the happiest place on earth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun.
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  Speaker 3: It was it's you know what, we work hard, but
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  Speaker 3: it's also very nice sometimes when you can find these
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  Speaker 3: holes in the schedule. I know, Alan, Jay and Piper
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  Speaker 3: they went off to Disney yesterday. I found myself over
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  Speaker 3: on Newport Beach watching my line.
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  Speaker 5: You eventually.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, washing my lions revert back to their early
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  Speaker 3: two thousand cells.
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  Speaker 1: Took a nice reflective walk along the beach. It was
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  Speaker 1: it was nice.
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  Speaker 3: It was a good day to just relax and unline
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  Speaker 3: before the craziness of the schedule continues to pick it up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Sunday was a rest day, and my rest day.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I walked over ten miles at the happiest
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  Speaker 4: place on her How many steps did you get in
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  Speaker 4: by the way, it was north of eighteen thousand, and
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  Speaker 4: it sneaks.
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  Speaker 1: Up on you. At the end of the year.
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  Speaker 6: You had about four workouts and in one day with
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  Speaker 6: Mickey Mouse in the house.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Piper jten, I didn't realize that. But at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the day there was a thirty minute ride
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  Speaker 4: back to the hotel and we both we all got
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  Speaker 4: into the car stiff after walking so much yesterday. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: all of us put some time in on our shoes yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: But I had a good time. Enjoyed some Disney Fair
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  Speaker 4: in terms of corn dogs, churros, and even a little barbecue.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I could find barbecue at Disneyland.
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  Speaker 5: It really isn't too hard.
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  Speaker 6: And hey, yea also have Tony Romas across the street,
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  Speaker 6: which I think is one of your hotspots.
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  Speaker 4: Also, absolutely, it was on my list, but we had
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  Speaker 4: a big group there, so I'm gonna put that one
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  Speaker 4: off till next trip.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Look, if you're looking back at Piper Show's fiend, you
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  Speaker 6: guys had a great time. I think Carlman Bate part
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  Speaker 6: of the Kings broadcast team. She and Piper go way back.
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  Speaker 6: That added to the vibe as well. And I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I can't be happier for someone like Piper who just
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  Speaker 6: loves this to death. And she she she comes in
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  Speaker 6: completely decked out with the Disney garb up and down.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, she really is the happiest.
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  Speaker 4: Please notice a few different people, Hey, Piper, shot can
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  Speaker 4: get We're in Disneyland.
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  Speaker 5: There's a one hundred thousand people here.
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  Speaker 6: Now these are cracking fans in Disney, fans who listen
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  Speaker 6: to her podcast also, right.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, but yes, they did absolutely notice. Piper and JT
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  Speaker 4: and I were just in the background.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I had a brief meet up here with a
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  Speaker 6: friend and mentor of mine. We've done a lot of
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  Speaker 6: Dodgers games before and he lives up more on the
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  Speaker 6: north side of of the area here with the greater
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  Speaker 6: Los Angeles area. So we had a quick detour right
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  Speaker 6: through Dodger Stadium and had a great time with photos
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  Speaker 6: and walking around the ballpark as well.
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  Speaker 5: Of course you did, yes, yes, because I know that, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: you went to Detroit and you're lying.
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  Speaker 1: You do the exact same Lions.
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  Speaker 3: Lions have to get to a super Bowl before we
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  Speaker 3: can talk about the exact same thing. Man, Lifelong Dodgers
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  Speaker 3: fans and twenty come.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you get some new jokes for one.
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  Speaker 6: Seriously, Yeah, yeah, yeah, happiest place on Earth, they I'm taking.
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  Speaker 5: I'm owning it here.
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  Speaker 6: Let's let's recap this last week lost of Buffalo or
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  Speaker 6: loss against Buffalo, loss against Colorado Los at Calgary, and
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  Speaker 6: it feels like maybe the bottom is dropping out at
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  Speaker 6: one nine and one, but things pick right back up
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  Speaker 6: at San Jose. What a refreshing win that was. And
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  Speaker 6: I'll kind of go about this in the way that
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  Speaker 6: we did about a couple of weeks ago. The pros
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  Speaker 6: and cons, the upside, the downsides, the things that you enjoyed,
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  Speaker 6: the tough scenes, however you want to slice this year
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  Speaker 6: for me, the pros you had to like where their
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  Speaker 6: game was trending, I think not so much with San Jose,
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  Speaker 6: but with Colorado, with Calgary the first two periods and
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  Speaker 6: let's just face it here San Jose you got a
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  Speaker 6: heavy dose of goaltending and a heavy dose of shot
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  Speaker 6: blocking as well. So I think if you take up
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  Speaker 6: maybe out the play under the hood of San Jose
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  Speaker 6: where the Kraken didn't you know, Benpa didn't break, you
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  Speaker 6: had to like again, where this game is going into
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  Speaker 6: lane Lambert's credit, he raised a good point about this,
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  Speaker 6: even Jordan Eberley as well. The cons For me, of course,
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  Speaker 6: there's still the lack of offensive production. But things picked
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  Speaker 6: up of course at San Jose. But yet when you're
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  Speaker 6: scoring about roughly two goals a game. Again, Jordan Neberley
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  Speaker 6: said this himself. I mentioned this is one of my
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  Speaker 6: favorite quotes from him, is that the line is super
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  Speaker 6: razor thin, meaning you have little to no margin for
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  Speaker 6: air heads. You had the two back to back blown
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  Speaker 6: third period leads. Well, but again you find a way
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  Speaker 6: at San Jose that at least gets the mood going
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  Speaker 6: back in the right direction.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that the win was crucial, and I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's been very frustrating and disappointing these last handful of games,
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  Speaker 3: and Lane Lambert even said it himself.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, the irony is that we're playing, in.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of instances better in these losses than we've
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  Speaker 3: had in some of our wins. And that's the most
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  Speaker 3: frustrating part, is because this game is a game of inches,
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  Speaker 3: and how many times have we heard Lane and other
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  Speaker 3: players say we have to be damn near perfect in
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  Speaker 3: order to win these games, and if we're not, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's always one mistake, it's one let down, it's never man.
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  Speaker 3: The Kraken are just playing awful tonight. I cannot think
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  Speaker 3: of too many. I can maybe count on one hand
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  Speaker 3: the number of stinkers this team has had all season long.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the frustrating part.
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  Speaker 3: You're still, you know what, two nine and one in
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  Speaker 3: your last twelve, so you're you're trending in the right direction.
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  Speaker 3: You can't start a win streak until you win the
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  Speaker 3: first one, and they did that in San Jose a
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  Speaker 3: couple of nights ago. But now you've got a back
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  Speaker 3: to back coming up this week, and you play six
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  Speaker 3: games in ten days. You've got a back to back,
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  Speaker 3: two days off, a back to back two days off,
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  Speaker 3: and then another back to back coming out of the brink,
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  Speaker 3: so it's not like the schedule is going to lighten up.
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  Speaker 3: So that win, I think was it was a really
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  Speaker 3: good way to release a little bit of that pressure,
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  Speaker 3: to loosen the valve a little bit. But they got
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  Speaker 3: to keep on finding ways to rack up these points.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would add to that that that San Jose game,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we talked to Jordan Eberley between periods and
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  Speaker 4: it was great that you you heard from the captain
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  Speaker 4: because it was one one going to the third period,
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  Speaker 4: they're on a tolven And goal and I got that
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  Speaker 4: got that goal from the San Jose Sharks, and you
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  Speaker 4: just we wanted to know from Jordan, like you've seen
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  Speaker 4: a couple of a bunch of close games going to
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  Speaker 4: that third period, what's it going to take for this
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  Speaker 4: team to to get pushed over the top up And
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  Speaker 4: you know, he talked a lot about you know, discipline
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  Speaker 4: and focus and stuff. But it was great to see
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  Speaker 4: the go ahead goal, the goals from defenseman Riker Evans
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  Speaker 4: Ryan Lingern both getting goals. You know, we always talk
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  Speaker 4: about depth and scoring with his team, and they weren't
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  Speaker 4: snipes like obviously it's difficult to score on the NHL,
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  Speaker 4: but it was putting the puck on net, and the
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  Speaker 4: Cracket ended the game with thirty two shots on net.
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  Speaker 4: That was huge. They've been shooting a lot more lately.
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  Speaker 4: I think I did the stat a few games ago
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  Speaker 4: where they've been averaging five or more shots per game
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  Speaker 4: over the last ten games prior when you compare to
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  Speaker 4: the ten games prior to that. So they're putting a
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  Speaker 4: lot more pucks on net. And those two goals were
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  Speaker 4: just that, they were shots on net through screens that
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  Speaker 4: found their way through ends up helping the team win
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  Speaker 4: the game.
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  Speaker 5: So that was huge.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, you say it's a game of inches,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a game of mistakes. You know, the
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  Speaker 4: more mistakes you make, the more likely you're going to
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  Speaker 4: lose the hockey game. But it's also you have to
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  Speaker 4: take advantage of those mistakes. You have to force those
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  Speaker 4: mistakes if you're pushing the other team. So if you
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  Speaker 4: can cause a team to make more mistakes and you
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  Speaker 4: can take advantage of those, you're gonna win the hockey game.
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  Speaker 6: See here's where I get at with the San Jose
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  Speaker 6: game two also got through passed Joey to court, but
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  Speaker 6: they weren't clean goals, and san Jose had to work
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  Speaker 6: for one of them. The second one was a free
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  Speaker 6: play and a freak bounce, and I chocked that second
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  Speaker 6: goal up just right to that. San Jose got a
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  Speaker 6: ton of looks here, don't get me wrong. And this
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  Speaker 6: is where I think something that where the krack and
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  Speaker 6: want to, you know, lock down a little bit more
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  Speaker 6: here ahead of Anaheim in LA. But this is where
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  Speaker 6: goaltending can stabilize you if you're plug chasing. And we're
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  Speaker 6: right back to this once again, where goaltending is going
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  Speaker 6: to keep you in games.
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  Speaker 5: And there's seven points out right now back of the
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  Speaker 5: cut line.
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  Speaker 6: But if you want to drag yourselves back into the
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  Speaker 6: fight goaltending has to be a big part.
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  Speaker 7: Of this here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one thing we've always said is looking at this team,
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  Speaker 3: defense and goaltending have never been the problem. And I
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  Speaker 3: think if you look at Joey's numbers and Grubauer's numbers,
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  Speaker 3: they even though on paper they might not, you know,
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  Speaker 3: look the best we're looking at one goal games here
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  Speaker 3: from Seattle. A lot of these games, I think the
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  Speaker 3: Kraken now have played in six of their last seven
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  Speaker 3: have been essentially one goal games if you count the
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  Speaker 3: if you take away the empty netters. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: Joey Decord Philip Grubauer are letting in one to two
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  Speaker 3: goals a night and then they're finding ways to to
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  Speaker 3: to keep the team in games. Joey Decord last game
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  Speaker 3: in a nine to seven two say percentence, right, so
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  Speaker 3: he's he's continuing to play well.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, your goalie a lot of times has to
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  Speaker 3: be your best player. And that goes back to the
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  Speaker 3: comments that we've heard from multiple guys as that man, our.
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  Speaker 1: Goalie was big tonight. He was really huge back there.
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  Speaker 3: So that's gonna be a huge key and a huge
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  Speaker 3: factor for Seattle moving forward. Is you know, fairly or unfairly,
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  Speaker 3: your goalie on on most nights is going to have
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  Speaker 3: to be your best player.
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  Speaker 6: We're gonna get to some previews here, lineup updates as
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  Speaker 6: well that are coming down the pipe here for today.
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  Speaker 6: But I want to go also here to the roster
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  Speaker 6: component of this. Here the Mason Marchman trade which happened
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  Speaker 6: right before the San Jose game.
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  Speaker 5: And listen, I mean there there are some there, there are.
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  Speaker 6: Some trades which work out, some that don't and I
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  Speaker 6: think just based on the production aspect of this here
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  Speaker 6: off the top, this wasn't gonna be a good fit.
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  Speaker 6: And the reason why that a move was made, and
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  Speaker 6: you know, I think in another in other senses here
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  Speaker 6: is that you put Mason Marchman on a different team.
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  Speaker 6: There's there there's something going with him and Don Wald,
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  Speaker 6: Don Wandell here from the past. That's something that that
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  Speaker 6: works out for him. But now you have more room
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  Speaker 6: opening up for players like Yanni Newman when he's back
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  Speaker 6: in healthy, Berkeley Catton, and then you have to solve
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  Speaker 6: who goes where when you plug Jayden Schwartz in Jerry
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  Speaker 6: mccannon right back here into this mix. So, I mean
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  Speaker 6: tough to see Marchman go from the fact that there
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  Speaker 6: were some big plans for him back in the summer.
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  Speaker 6: But what you do is that you move on and
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  Speaker 6: now all of a sudden, you move some cap space
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  Speaker 6: open and not not not also just that, but also
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  Speaker 6: the draft picks that you get back from a turn,
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  Speaker 6: which also includes one second rounder.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you've in improved your your second round
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  Speaker 4: draft pick on on that trade, and it does create
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  Speaker 4: opportunities for others. I don't think it was a good fit.
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  Speaker 4: You know, for whatever reason, it just didn't look like
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  Speaker 4: it was working with Mason Marchmant. You know, we see
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  Speaker 4: obviously much more than the game itself. We see the practice,
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  Speaker 4: we see you know, the office stated they tried moving
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  Speaker 4: him up and down the line. Yeah, yeah, so all over,
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  Speaker 4: for whatever reason, it just didn't work out. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't just you know, two games ago that you
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  Speaker 4: saw it wasn't working out. It was you know, a
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  Speaker 4: dozen or more games ago when you started to think,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think this is going to be a long
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  Speaker 4: term situation for Mason marchmanth So, I don't think it
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  Speaker 4: was a surprise for any of us to see him
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  Speaker 4: moved off the roster to another team.
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  Speaker 6: There's conversation of where are you right now in relation
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  Speaker 6: here to the standings? Does that may be affect you know,
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  Speaker 6: where this team moves with trade activity, and I mean listen,
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  Speaker 6: we said this before, we'll say it again. You know
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  Speaker 6: there'll be more moves in store. Potentially he could have
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  Speaker 6: helped this team, I think, certainly. But you know, if
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  Speaker 6: you're if you're somebody asking me, if you're this far out,
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  Speaker 6: why don't you just go ahead and tear it down. Well,
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  Speaker 6: the thing is is that you've still got a lot
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  Speaker 6: of games here to play in January, and I think
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  Speaker 6: there's a sense of what this team wants to look
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  Speaker 6: at when they can get mc cann back, when they
• 14:21
  Speaker 6: can get Schwartz back once they're healthy, and see if
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  Speaker 6: they can give a real, real solid kick at this
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  Speaker 6: thing once they come out of the roster freeze period
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  Speaker 6: of this and then right back into January, because you
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: look at this here from what they've got going there
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  Speaker 6: are seventeen games in January.
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  Speaker 5: Which will be a lot of hockey. I couldn't believe
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: it when you said that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, nineteen and thirty five if you start out the Christmas.
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  Speaker 6: So we're hearing again that the Olympic break is going
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  Speaker 6: to be maybe I think a big checkpoint where a
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: lot of teams are at with the temperature of their season,
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  Speaker 6: the temperature of their roster. And I think it if
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  Speaker 6: you if depending upon which the stream you go to,
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  Speaker 6: going all in or tearing it all the way down.
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: It's still a bit too early right now in the season.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: It's early, but I mean the kracket had been playing
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: with a shortened roster, and we're gonna break some news
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: We just found out all right, Everett, youah this stage, Yeah,
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: I don't, I don't have the breaking news, flopper, but zero.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Brandon Montor four weeks on the shelf with with hand surgery,
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: like come on and like it. That to me has
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: been the most frustrating part about this season is you
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: know that if you had a full compliment of players
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: for thirty forty game, thirty four tonight, whatever it is, right,
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: if you've had a full compliment of players, you're not
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: You're not losing nine of ten games.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: You're not doing that right.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: So now you find out today that Brandon Montor is
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: out for four weeks with with with with hand surgery.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Every injury there's been no data day with the sniffles,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: it's all been four to six, six to eight, like
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: these have all been long term injuries that have kept
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: you know, your best players McCann and Schwartz and Coppocaco
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: and now Brandon Montor. So we decord missed a couple
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: of games, like all of your best players have been
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: on the shelf, and you know that's the that's the
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: very frustrating, maddening part about this schedule.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: But you're right. I mean the schedule doesn't get it easier.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Like I said before nineteen and thirty five, coming out
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: of the break six and ten to start with three
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: back to backs, and Alan and I were talking, I
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: cannot remember a time where a team has had three
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: back to backs in a row. I mean that this
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: is this is an EHL schedule when we're playing seven
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: and nine, so like this is in Yes, this is insane.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: People.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: If you're ever wondering what it takes here to reach
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: the NHL, you've and you've got to go through the grind.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: And this is what they call the grind in the
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: minor leagues. A lot of bus rides, a lot of
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: three and threes. The NHL does not have.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Three and three.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: And listen, I understand that we travel better than most
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: and we're treated very very well, and I know this
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: is kind of first world problems here, but I'll give
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: you a scenario. The Kraken have a home game against
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: the Minnesota Wild on January eighth. They play in Carolina
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: on the tenth, so they have a cross country flight
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: to start a five game road trip. Usually you're allowed
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: to go out two days early. If you have to
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: cross two time zones, two or more time zones, and
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: we do.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: There will also be a game in Calgary on a Monday,
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: and then right back home against Boston on a turn
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: on Tuesday.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I mean, the back to backs are crazy.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: But you know, I'm getting off my soapbox here, but
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: it's just I think for this team, when going back
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: to your initial question, when you're looking at buying, selling, trading,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: whatever the case may be, I mean, I think January fifteenth,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: that might be the cut line for me, because you're
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: still early enough before the dead line. Some teams out
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: there are a bit desperate. If you're Seattle, you can
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: maybe look at leveraging some pieces, or if you're right
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: back in this thing, the Kraken could go from sellers
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: slash standing pat to buying. So but I do think
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: that you're gonna have to see a positive movement North
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: in the standings over these next two weeks three weeks.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know this team that struggled, well, let's be honest,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: let's struggle all season long to put pucks in a
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: net winning games, you know, in low event style three
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: two two to one, going to a shootout with the
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Islanders zero zero, both goaltenders getting shutouts. A lot of
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: that struggle comes from having guys like Jared McCann, Jaden Schwartz,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: and now Brandon Montour out of the line lineup long term.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: So you know, you think about the month of January
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: coming up, these nineteen games after the holiday in thirty
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: five days, this team's really gonna have to lean on
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: this defensive structure and find a way, even with this schedule,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: to play each and every game that way, to continue
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: to win hockey games three to two, two to one,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: four to three, because they're just not gonna get the
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: offensive output they would get if they had Montour, McCann,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: and Schwartz in the lineup.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: There's no assumption that you're gonna run the table. And
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: of course this season has had a lot of updill
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: battles here, but getting to game forty eight, which will
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: be January nineteenth, the Kraken have just played through game
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: thirty three. They'll be right through game forty eight by
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: January nineteen. There are a lot of points on the
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: table to be had and to be swiped. So I
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: think based on how much you're treading water right now
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: and again We're gonna get more into the loss of
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Montour in a bit, but the fact that you could
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: still be getting Jayden Schwartz back soon, maybe getting Jared
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: mccannon back soon, sooner than later, I should say. But
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: then also Berkeley Catton and how well he's looked as well.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: I think again this last week told us that there
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: is something maybe that they can dig deeper with here
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: for this lineup and for how they play to get
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: these matters back on track and put this one to
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: nine and one slide right back in the rearview mirror.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: And I think fits you said a great that middle
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: point in January is going to be I think a
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: big check pointer for a lot of teams to decide
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: what they want to do with their season.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: And again I think it's it's for not only for Seattle,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: but the saving grace right now is that, yeah, you're
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: seven points back, but everyone's.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: So bunched up.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: This is why you have good goaltending, Yeah exactly, This
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: is why Bultennan keeps.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: You in the game no matter what.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: So you know a lot of people maybe were scoffing
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: at the crack and keeping the three goalies. But now
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: it's looking like a pretty genius move with the injuries
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: that we've seen, and now you've got three.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Matt Murray could be back. Murray could be.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Back soon as well, So now you could go back
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: to having a three goalie, more fresh rotation, hopefully in
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: the next couple of weeks here. And you're in a
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: very busy part. You're in a very busy part of
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: the schedule as well, exactly. So it's not it's not easy.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: It's not going to be easy for Seattle. But like
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: you've said before, I think these games have a potential.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Just as the Kraken have slid a little bit, you
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: can get on a roll and keep on going. And
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I mean I think sometimes players will tell you like, man,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I don't want to break, Like you know, how many
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: times have we seen teams going into the All Star
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: break having won five of six or seven of nine,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: whatever the case may be, and then they have a
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: five day break and you're like, oh, man, no, I
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: want to keep going.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: We're feeling it.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: So you're hoping that for the Kraken, that win against
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: San Jose, maybe that sparks a streak for Seattle that
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: can continue here tonight.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: So I'll get to Brandon montor now, and this is
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: the part where we get to how it affects the
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: lineup because he eats up so many minutes and he
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: produces so much five on five power play as well.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Some argue he could be on PP.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: One right now, and I think there's certainly merit here
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: to it. But where do we see the bigger effect
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: that will challenge this the most five on five where
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: you manage Vince done, Adam Larson's minutes and then throwing
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: in Lindra and alexiak in there as well. Or is
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: this more more of a power play thing?
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: No, I think I think it's it's five on five
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: because you know, Mantour plays a lot, a lot of
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: minutes overall in the game. Yeah, he's on the power
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: play as well, but if you only get one or
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: two power plays, that's four minutes you know of hockey,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: and and yes he does have an impact there, but
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: the five on five is really where it's gonna show.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Not having him jump into the rushes, turning a two
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: on two into a three on two, not jumping into
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: a one on one situation where he goes to the
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: back door and he's available for a pass, and I'm
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: talking about offense, but then he's also he also gets
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: back on defense, and it doesn't leave his deep partner
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: hung out to dry. So I think that's what I'm
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: gonna miss seeing while he's out of the lineup right now,
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: is the impact he has on the offense.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I think that too, And also what we've seen from
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Brandon Montour is is his demeanor off the ice in
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: the locker room, and I think it's it's that leadership.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Even though he doesn't have a letter, guys gravitate toward him,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: and he's he brings this light energy, this levity to
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: the room. Things are never too low with Brandon Montour.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: He's always got a smile for you. He's always joking,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: and I think when you're in the thick of it,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: like the crack of our right now, whether that be
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: the strength of the schedule or the lack of results,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: you need that person to calm things down. So he's
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: a calming presence. I talk so much about how Jane
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Schwartz on the ice is a very calming presence, and
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: you know that whenever he's on the ice, you're gonna
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: be fine. I think with Brandon Montour, you get the
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: same thing, but also in the locker room as well.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: So and then I'm not devaluating his importance on the ice,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: but just from what we see of from him on
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: the bench in the room, that part is gonna be
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: missed as well.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not devaluating. I think you're placing just as
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: much value off the ice as he is on the ice.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: And you make a great point about Montour, you know,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: not being in the locker room. Same thing with Schwartz,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: same thing with McCann. Like, these are three leaders on
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: this team. That puts a lot more of this leadership responsibility,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: if you will, on Jordan Eberley's shoulders. You know, he's
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: got to be the one that's engaged with the other
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: nineteen guys in the room. Whereas when you have that
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: leadership spread amongst those other three guys, it's a lot
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: easier to manage. So it puts a lot more responsibility
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: on Everley while these three guys are out.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: All right, before our mailbag segments, let's jump right here
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: to the Beacon plumbing hotline, the radio voice, the Coachella
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Valley Firebirds checking in. All right, been a while since
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: we turned the attention here to the prospects side, but
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: it's always a good time to bring in our friend
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Evan Pivnik here to Cracking Weekly. He is on with
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: us quite a bit because he is the radio play
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: by play voice of the Coachella Valley Firebirds on the
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: American Hockey League side. Evan joins us here on Crack
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: and Weekly. Evan, Happy holidays, Merry Christmas. I don't think
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: that you're bundling up too much out there in the
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Palm Desert area. But what are you looking forward to
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: here with the holidays coming up?
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: You know what I have been. I broke out the
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: sweatshirt and the sweatpants. As of late, it's been colder
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: in the mornings around fifty five when I when I,
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: when I come outside.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: That's double layer weather for us up here.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: Fella, no but fits and al. You guys were just
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: in Calgary. We were just in Calgary as well a
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: week before you guys, and it was it was seven below.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: So we went through the uh, you know, the the
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: two extremes. So everyone's still trying to get their equilib
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: room is back on track, but yeah, looking forward to
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: the holidays. A few days off I get to see
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: you guys, which I'm excited about in Anaheim, and you know,
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: you guys get to get some nice Southern California weather.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: It's always good to bring the connection up here with
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: the Firebirds and the Crack and when the Crack can
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: come on down to visit Southern California here for the
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: visits against the Ducks and the Kings, and turning our
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: attention here to the Firebirds side, because right now kind
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: of in the middle of the Pacific Divisi, but still
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: with a pretty good and pretty solid winning record as
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: we have this conversation, so it seems as if every year,
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: and this is for the folks who are still understanding
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: the nuances and the context in between the NHL and
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: the AHL, a lot of success in the American Hockey
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: League is determined a course, with the amount of prospects
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: that you have in the system and not so much
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: on the continuity of veterans like you would have at
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: the NHL level, and things can certainly change year by years.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: So under year two of Derek Laxtall, where have they
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: gone so far with regards to meeting the bar as
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: a collective unit with their prospects here this season so far.
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: I think everyone's been pleasantly surprised about what's been going
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: on so far with you know, with the way the
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: team has been building. You know, you looked at the
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: offseason even you know, the writing was on the wall
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: last year going into this season of this is going
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: to be a young team. It's going to be a
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: team that is going to be mostly twenty year olds,
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: very little veteran presence. And you know, and that was
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: counting on having Max McCormick back this year too, but
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: he's he's out for the year. So now you're down
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: to two veterans right now in the lineup with Mitchell
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: Stevens and John Hayden. Gustaf Olofson is working his way
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: back from an injury. Ben Myers was just called up,
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: So you know what, there's kudos to those guys because
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: you know, those guys are the ones who are kind
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: of not so the voice of reason in the locker room,
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: but they're setting such a big example for these young players,
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: and you know what, it even brings the onus a
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: little bit more on guys like Jacob Malanson who's now
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: called up, but Logan Morris and even you know, Ty
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: Nelson and Jagger Furcus David go. Yeah, guys who have
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: been there for at least a year. They're the older
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: guys in the room. Now. There are these older presences
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: that these young guys can learn from. And Derek Lackstaff
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: says all the time, you know, as you get to
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: game twenty, you know, these guys aren't really rookies anymore.
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: And I think they've been settling in nicely. There's been,
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: you know, a lot of things that have brought this
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: team together. And one thing I've really liked so far
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: is how resilient this team has been. And I don't
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: know if that's be because, you know, you just have
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: a bunch of rookies who maybe don't know any better.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: So they're coming back from two goal deficits every single game,
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: or at least keeping themselves in every single game rather
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: than just you know, getting down on themselves once they
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: give up a couple of goals. But you know, that's
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: kind of been them for this team, is there never
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: never give up sort of mentality. I don't know if
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: that's just you know, in tribute to to John Cena
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: who had just retired, but I think that's that's kind
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: of been what this team has been all about.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: That's wrestling reference.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, pim couple. You know, a couple of guys that
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: stand up to me from from training camp in preseason,
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Oscar Fisker Mogard who has come up a little bit
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: as well as Tyson Jugnat. Juggnat's got eighteen points, four goals,
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: fourteen assists. What's his season been looking like?
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: He's just been stronger and stronger after every single game.
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: And I think, you know, there are a lot of
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: guys who still make mistakes here and there. You know,
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: I think Lane Lambert said it during your guys training camp,
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: errors of enthusiasm. There have been plenty of those. Yeah,
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: there have been plenty of those. But you know what
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: Tyson is is a guy who he is an experienced player,
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: one of the most more experienced players as as Molgard
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: is too, just from where he's played before, not only
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: playing junior but playing a year in college as well.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: For jugg Nat, and he's just been a strong, steady
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: presence and every single game he's gotten a little bit better.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: You know, he makes a ton of assists. You know,
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: he had a four point game in Calgary last week,
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: four points in the first period, two goals and two assists,
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: and not often do you get that from a defenseman,
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: so he can turn it on where it need be.
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: He's clutched too. He has I think four overtime points
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: this year as well, so you know, he's fun to
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: watch and he's still growing into his game at the
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: pro level. So he's uh. I think the ceiling's really
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: high with him. And he mentioned Oscar Fisterer and Mulgard
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: who you know what. He came in last year from
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: from overseas and he played his first few games with
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: us and we were kind of astonished about how mature
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: he looked out there, and obviously that's a big credit
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: to the SHL and then playing against grown men over
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: there compared to guys who maybe play against you know,
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: the guys their agent junior. But you could see that
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: he is probably three or four years maturity wise ahead
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: of a lot of the other rookie players. You know,
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: his hockey IQs off the charts. He scored a highlight
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: reel goal the other night to give the Firebirds the
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: lead late in the third period. He's he's just been
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: consistent and I think that's really what he drives after
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: it's just consistency, same thing every day. You know the
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: effort you're gonna get out of him, you know the
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: skill that he brings, and just the positive energy he
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: brings to the team as well. And I think, as
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: I said before, you know, you have so few older
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: guys on this team. So for him to have that
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: maturity and then be at that level right now, I
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: think is helping not only just himself, and you know,
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: he earned himself an NHL call up this year, but
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: other guys who are looking to get that call up
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: to the NHL and just kind of watch what he
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: does every single day from a young player's perspective.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: You know, it's funny you're talking about the guys who
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: have been earning spots and a guy like Oscar Fisker Mulgard,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: who the players up here even said, you can tell
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: he's played pro hockey for a number of years. And
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: we're getting to that point now year five where we're
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: starting to see these first and second round draft picks,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: these first Craken picks start to make their way into
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: the NHL and looking up and down the roster, when
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: you see a Jagger Fercus, when you see a villi
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Odoviyan and a Carsons, Raycoff, David Goyette, how close in
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: your opinion, even though a lot of Aden's got a
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: game last year, but some of those guys who are
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: now in their second third year pro how close do
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: you feel a lot of these guys are to making
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: that next.
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: Jump, whether it be temporary or permanently. Well, I think
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: you see all those guys you mentioned, I think if
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: you put them into an NHL scenario, I think they
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: could they could at least tread water.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: That's and I think that's compliments to just the whole
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: development right and and the cohesion of the NHL to
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: AHL relationship where the NHL team kind of operates very similar.
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: The AHL team operates very similar to the way the
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: NHL team does in all aspects, including on the ice.
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: So if there is a call up that needs to
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: be needs to be made, then that player feels a
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: lot more comfortable because the systems are similar. Power plays,
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: penalty kills, breakouts, all those little things can really just
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: kind of you know, plug in place in ways. And
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: you know these guys too, they think they do. I
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: think they do such a great job. But I've said
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: this before, just the way that the Firebirds and the Kraken.
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: They bring all the young players and unfortunately, you know,
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: we've had really long playoff stints the first and second year,
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: and we went to the second round last year. But
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: you look at how many guys came out and saw
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: what the Firebirds were all about and what the Crack
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: can expect of them. They were there as black aces,
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: but they were practicing every game every day and taking
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: warm ups and and all that stuff. So they got
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: to get that pro experience right out of the gates.
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: So they know the expectations, they know what the Cracking
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: organization wants from them. I think Corey Murphy's doing a
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: great job. Justin Rice, who the same sort of people.
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: Just compliments the Krack and development staff because they've done
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: such a great job of having everyone ready for that
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: call up. And you know, I hope Villi gets a
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: few more games. I hope Jagger gets an opportunity this
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: season at some point, because he's definitely earned it. He's
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: been about a point of game player all season long.
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: You know, even Logan Morrison who's waiting in the wings
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: for his next NHL call up. There are so many
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: guys who I think it's probably pretty fun for Jason
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: Bartow right now to say, oh, let's let's give this
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: guy a chance, and then it's exciting right to be like, Okay, well,
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: we have four or five guys that can definitely go
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: and play the nast Hockey League.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: On a similar topic, I was going to save this
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: question for later, but you kind of went into it
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: a little bit there.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: In the minor leagues, there is there is a lot of.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Differences between organizations, right, Some organizations they want to win.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Other organizations don't care about results. It's all about your prospects.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: And I think with Seattle you get a bit.
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: Of both, right.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Obviously, in Coachella Valley, you want to grow the hockey product.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: You want to make money. We are a for profit business.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: We want to have success. But also you're trying to
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: develop those prospects as well. What have you seen from
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: the hockey side and the business side that has made
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Coachella just so successful in four years time now?
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: I think you look at the investment right away, you
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: look at the arena, the Firebirds playing, and you know
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: Fits and Mike, you guys have been there al still
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: waiting for you to make your appearance at Arista now yeah, yeah, yes,
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: it's a great spot and I wish you guys were
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: in town a bit longer to come to a game.
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: But you know, I think just from the ground up
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: of the expectations of a beautiful, brand new building that
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: at Oakview Group helps that help get off the ground,
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: and this area too that doesn't didn't have a hockey team,
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: and now everyone's rallying around him, and the success of
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: the first two seasons. The bar was very high from
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: the get GOI you know, bringing in Dan Bielsma as
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: the head coach and in year one, a guy who
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: won a Stanley Cup before, and then bringing in Derek
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: Laxtall after him, a guy who's had plenty of success
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: in junior and kind of paving the way for what
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: the Firebirds are going to become, knowing they're going to
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: be a younger team, you know what, from a business
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: side and from from an odd ice perspective, the expectation
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: is to win, which is really a great thing to see,
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: especially in the American Hockey League because you mentioned it
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: fits there are some teams in this league that you
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: know operate just as as a feeder, right. It's just
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: a way that you know they don't care if you
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: win a championship or exactly games. Sub is to get
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: players to the NHL exactly, And some teams don't care
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: how many people in the building are there to see
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: it as well. So we care about all that stuff,
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: the on ice products, it's all. It all relates. Winning
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: helps fill seats, and you know, our our players love
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: when the place is filled, and then that is something
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: that they feed off of as well, So it all
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: goes hand in hand. And I think just the expectations
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: are always so high and we always try to live
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: up to the expectations as much as we can.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: I think a big question here for Jagger Fercus as
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: evan pitman joining us right now on Crack and Weekly
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: the broadcast voice for the Firebirds. Is Jagger Fercus going
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: to reach the NHL? The question could be a matter
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: of basically when, not if point per game totals right
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: now leads the team in scoring. He's five to eleven,
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: one hundred and seventy pounds. I'm not sure if that
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: is accurate based on website info to date, based on
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: where he's tipping the scales right now. But the ultimate
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: question is what is separating Jagger furcus from becoming an
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: NHL regular.
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: You know, you mentioned his size, and I think that's
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: something that he's definitely been working on. He's bulked up
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: even last summer and still continuing to do so. And
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: I think that's something he knows as well. You know,
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: he's not in junior anymore. He can skate around players
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: as much as he can, but you know you're gonna
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: run into a guy who's you know, seven years older
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: and has seven more years experienced and seven more years
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: of working out and getting himself to be an AHL
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: or NHL player, right, So I think he's doing all
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: those little things to help himself get better. And I've
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: noticed too, even this year he's so much stronger on
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: the puck than he was last year. A lot of
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: times he go to the corner and get bumped out
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: and you know, have to kind of work a little
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: bit extra to just get the puck in the offensive
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: zone and keep it that way. But this year it's
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: it's more he's standing his ground on the corner. And
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: I think that's just the work that he's put in
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: during the offseason, all the extra stuff he does in
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: the weight room. So I think it's just a matter
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: of time. As you said, it's it's more of a when,
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: not an if. And I think he's going to get
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: those He's going to have those tangibles at some point.
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: You know, some people grow faster than others, develop quicker
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: than others. Jagger's just about there. But again I think
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: maybe a couple more trips to in and out will
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: do him well.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: For me in college at least, yev is the is
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: the most old school person on this panel of speakers.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: I would be remiss if I did not ask about
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Caden Hamill. Four goals, four assists and a couple of
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: big bouts with Alex as of late. Tell me about
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: this kid what stands out to you? Obviously he's a
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: tough kid to get in there with Glan, but just
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: expand on what maybe we or others have seen on
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: the on the highlights on on X.
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think something that I think really flies
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: under the radar with Cayden Hamill is his leadership experience.
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: He was the captain in Everett, which I'm sure a
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: lot of cracking fans know, and I'm you know, we
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: get all the people sharing for for Hamil on on
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: social media whenever he laces up the skates here, so
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: he maturity wise, he he has it right. He has
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: that leadership quality and guys kind of gravitate to him,
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: and he's kind of one of the leaders for the
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: for the younger cores of Firebirds. But yeah, that fight
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: with Alex, at least the first one. You could hear
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: it if you watch the highlight in Grant Fear's voice.
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: He he was a little worried for him. And you
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: know what I'm if you. I was looking back at
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: Cayden's stats and he's not a fighter. That's not really
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: his going. He didn't have a ton of fights, he
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: didn't have a ton of penny minutes at least last year,
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: and we saw it kind of develop and Grant kind
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: of like tap me. He was like ohh and like okay,
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: we'll see how this goes. And then he knocked him
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: out and in these three five punches and you know,
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: Hamil's landed the best of the of the ten combined,
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: and we didn't know, no one knew what he had
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: him in him at that point, and you know, that
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: was really cool to see. And of course you have
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: the gladiator celebration after which you know right away you're like, well,
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: I don't think Alex Galan's gonna like that very much
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: for the Wranglers, but you know, kudos for for Hamil.
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: He started that fight and then in Calgary had to
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: answer the bell again and he did willingly and it
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: was a pretty good scrap too. Held his own again,
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: you know, kind of lost his balance towards the end
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: of it. But you know, he's another guy who's who's
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: a smart player. He's he's a he's a mature guy
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: on the ice, just solid, you know, four goals for assists, uh,
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: you can find the back of the net. Can help
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: out quite a bit. And he's a physical guy, as
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: we've seen plenty of times on on our social media
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: channels and whatnot. So he's to kind of have in
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: the locker room for for a lot of these players
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: as well. And you know what, I I just think
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: he has a really great future. And again we didn't
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: know he had that physical side until he dropped the
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: gloves with one of the league stuff is. So we'll see,
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: we'll see who else would want to go toe to
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: toe with them.
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: Evan, do you think that this comes from more of
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: the players the crack and are drafting and signing are
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: more from the edict up above to get tougher, drop
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: the mit start to develop more of a rough, round
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: the edge type of game.
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: I'm not entirely sure what the message is physicality wise,
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: but you know, if you want to separate yourself from
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: others right now, I think that is kind of the
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: best way to do it. And you saw it over
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: the first couple of games that Jacob Alonson's played this year,
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: right he had seven hits in his first game, which
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: is a that's a crack and single game record, I
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: believe it was. And that's just the style of play
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: that he kind of works with. And Hammel similarly, you know,
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: they're there are guys who are you know, they bring
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: their physicality to separate themselves. So there's you know, the
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: NHL there, there's not a ton of guys like that anymore.
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: It's kind of staying away from, you know, the big
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: open ice hits, which obviously are dangerous that they're not
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: done correctly. If you're not you know, obviously you don't
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: want to aim for a guy's head or whatnot. But
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: there are still there's still room for you know, getting
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: into the core and winning battles, and I think that's
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: really what has been kind of the separation for some
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: of these guys is the physicality and their ability to win.
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: Those players at Calgary, by the way, the crack and
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: had twenty four hits. Guess who had eleven of them?
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: Ty card Shape, Ben Myers, Jacob Malanson, fourth line.
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: The firebird way, maybe the way.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: You know, it's funny a lot of times you see
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: players change and alter their game by adding that physical element.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: I remember hearing a story about Jamal Mayer's longtime NHLer
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: who was a goal scorer in junior and couldn't quite
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: crack it in the NHL, and then he started taking
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: boxing lessons. He started his ticket to the NHL. Is
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: going to be a tough guy. Maybe not so much
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: with the toughness of the fighting, But who else down
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: in CV have you seen their game evolve and.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Change maybe from when you first saw them to where
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: they are now in terms.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Of the strides they're taking to get to this level.
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: Oh that's a really good question. I'm gonna have to
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: think about this for a second. Uh who and you
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: know what if it is Malanson?
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Who listen? Molanson was a fifty goal scorer two years ago.
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: I think that's gonna be my answer, because you know
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: what he you just mentioned he scored a lot in
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: junior and he's always kind of played that way with
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: physicality and fighting, what that and whatnot. But he is
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: a guy who has embraced the role. He knows that,
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: you know, he's not a first line guy in the
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: in the American Hockey League right now, but he knows that,
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: you know, he can make more of an impact by
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: throwing the body around, and you know he does score
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: goals too. He can kind of do it all. He's
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: he's a kind of a Swiss army knife in terms
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: of his style of play. So just to see like
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: him evolve in the way that he can kind of
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: pick and choose the situation of what he uses for everything,
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: I think that's that's been really cool to see. Right
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: off the top, I got one more for you, PIV.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: You know you have had the privilege of following in
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: a long line of great bowling Green falcon Here we go,
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: here we go, here, we could wrap it up.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: We're on this trip.
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: By the way, in LA there'll be plenty of a
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: ZEUSA specific talk to balance all.
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: This outs I'm just continued with Steve me.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: Warning shots, warning shot.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: No, that's all I got.
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: I just wanted to bring it up again.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: Huh.
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: Ye had to hit his quota daily quota.
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: Yep, that's fine.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: I was, I was.
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: I was talking about Bowling Green today. I was on
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: a call, uh, because we have our Cactus Cup coming
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: up January second and third at Acriture Arena. It's four
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: college hockey teams, Yale, Saint Clouds State, UMass, Lowell in
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: Minnesota State, and uh, you know, they were they were
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: talking to me about a couple of things. I was like, hey,
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: I know, college hockey lived through it. I love to
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: go back to college.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: We got to get Bowling Green in one of these tournaments.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Though.
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: I'll to a tournament. I'm coming down. Yeah, I'm in it.
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: You're not just gonna be there, You're gonna be the
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: on the bench, guest, celebrity, coach.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Listen.
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: I've not been to a fan I've not been.
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: Updated odds courtesy Crack and Weekly minus nine hundred.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've not been to a Bowling Green game as
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: a fan since my sophomore year at college. So that's
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: two thousand and seven to eight sophomore junior year, So
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: I'm overdue.
• 45:22
  Speaker 7: I don't think. I don't think I've ever been to
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: a Bowling Green hockey game as a fan. Yeah all, wow, yeah?
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: Could you start the freshman year? Wow? Yeah, I don't
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: think I've ever been as a fan.
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: When was your last games?
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: Going to hang out here and talk talk BG hockey.
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: Forv When was your last game as a fan?
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: Though?
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: Period?
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: Like in general? When we were in Calgary last week
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: we went to a Flames Buffalo Sabers game.
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: How many folks ask you is it different? Is it weird?
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: Not working versus watching?
• 45:54
  Speaker 7: It's it is weird. It people do ask me that,
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: and it is weird. I'm sure you guys can relate
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: to it as well. You kind of feel like you're
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: missing out on something. It's like I should be doing
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: something right now. But also, like I think, working in
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: it too kind of opens your eyes to all the
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: other stuff that's going on in the arena. Like I
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: always notice, like even if I'm in a baseball game
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: or other sporting event, like I pay more attention to
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: the game presentation and the stuff they had on the scoreboard,
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: the music they're playing, the sponsors and stuff like that.
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: I think that working like from the ETHHL standpoint, working
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: my way up, but like you're more involved in that stuff.
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: So it's cool to see how they do all that stuff.
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: And then you get some ideas and bring them back
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: to people who are like, oh, well that's great, We're
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: not going to do it, but it's fine.
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: We're going to be in the build.
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we are going to be in the building coming
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: up tomorrow night for a game against Sannaheim, the side
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: of one of my most favorite stories ever of me
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: watching the game as a fan. And again, it does
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: get bizarre trying to separate work from pleasure and experience.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: But this involved my wife.
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: When my kid, my oldest kid, was six months old,
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: we were at my parents' house in Los Angeles. They
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: moved since then, and I wanted to take Amy out
• 47:01
  Speaker 6: just for a night to get away. She was open
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: to this, and through a friend in the Ducks organization
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: back then, he got his ticket to Game five of
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: the Western Conference Final between the Blackhawks and the Ducks.
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: It was our first night out without our oldest son,
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: and of course Amy bean mama. And there's a lot
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: of moms who can relate here to this. Your first
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: night out is not exactly your easiest. But Lucas was
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: in good hands, Grandma, Grandpa taking care of him, having
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: a good time. They're sending his photos everything. She could
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: not wait for this game to end. And Hi tail
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: at back up, I five north at eighty five miles
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: an hour to get back home to our first born son.
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: I'm telling her he's fine, he's in good hands. He's fine,
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: he's in good hands.
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: For Blackhawks. Yeah, biggest DA mistake I made it. I
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: made at that point, and there have been Dad mistakes.
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: The Blackhawks go up three or the Ducks go up
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: three to one, and thinking, okay, great, this game is
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: the bagger.
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: We can get out here, we get out of here.
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: All of a sudden, Jonathan Taves turns into full blown
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: Mark Messier and scores two goals extra attacker in the
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: last one minute and thirty seconds of regulation. Game five
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: is tied, and she's losing her mind. So then intermission
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: over time. Long story short, Matt Bulaski scores the game
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: winning goal.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: For the Ducks. I kid you not.
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: By the time the puck was halfway going into the net,
• 48:27
  Speaker 6: I'm seeing her sprint right down the stairs to get
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: out of her like wait, wait, wait, it's just a
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: fun story to point out, Like up there in the
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: upper corner of Hanness Center was where I had to
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: race after my wife trying to get back home after
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: Game five.
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: It's like that one. I think it's the Boston Red
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: Sox season ticket holder. Have you guys seen the one
• 48:45
  Speaker 7: where like he leaves, like as soon as the game ends,
• 48:49
  Speaker 7: you can see him like get up, And I think
• 48:50
  Speaker 7: it was like David Ortiz had a walk off. I'm
• 48:52
  Speaker 7: running the playoffs and the second and left his bat
• 48:54
  Speaker 7: like he ran to the exit. Yeh, hey even celebratings.
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: Ran before we get out of here.
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: By the time we wrap this up, of course, in
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: the wake, we'll be another Teddy bear Toss game. What's
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: so special about this event? Year after year on the
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: Firebirds side out in the desert.
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: It's really cool to see our fans, especially some newer
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: hockey fans, adapting to the teddy bear toss tradition. Every
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: year it's gotten better, and I think this year where
• 49:25
  Speaker 7: we're kind of honing in on why the Teddy bear
• 49:28
  Speaker 7: Toss has done instead of how many bears can we
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: bring to the game, Right, So we've partnered with local
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: fire departments, paramedics, police departments to get these bears to
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: children and need children who have gone through something maybe
• 49:42
  Speaker 7: traumatic and need a little bit of cheering up at,
• 49:45
  Speaker 7: you know, in certain scenarios. So that's what our Teddy
• 49:48
  Speaker 7: Bears are going towards. That's why we are We're doing
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: what we're doing, and we're trying to make it the
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: best as possible. We've had Teddy Bear collection going on
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: pretty much for the last week so people can bring
• 49:59
  Speaker 7: even more airs to the game. So looking forward to
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: seeing them fly and it should be, uh, it should
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: be a lot of fun. And then I'm curious to
• 50:07
  Speaker 7: see who's gonna be the the goal scorer tonight.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Do you have your call ready?
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: No, I I don't. I mean I I could go
• 50:16
  Speaker 7: into the ever it fits you bag of tricks and
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: do the show me your Teddies. I could do that.
• 50:22
  Speaker 7: I won't because I have to show me your teddies.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my favorite one.
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: I don't know, there's I gotta find some something. I'm
• 50:34
  Speaker 7: not a huge catchphrase guy, but I gotta feel that
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: one's an appropriate one because it's just if all.
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: Else fails, he shoots, he scores is totally fine, you
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: know what I mean.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: The crowd all else fail, but I.
• 50:47
  Speaker 7: Wants to highlight for for the Crack and Audio network,
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: so I won't. I'm not gonna dip out and let
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: the crowd take control of the whole.
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: Have it locked and loaded CV, Firebirds dot Com or
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: info right there on what was again a great Teddy
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: Beard toss game. PIV looking forward to having around our
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: parts as we fly into not too far away from
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: your parts as well. But in the meantime, Happy holidays,
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: Merry Christmas, and when that bowling green game gets going,
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: I'll leave it to you into fist to arm muscle
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: here who for who takes the ceremonial face off?
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: Hey yeah, off against each other? Yeah all, I appreciate it, guys,
• 51:21
  Speaker 7: thanks so much.
• 51:22
  Speaker 6: All right, what a beauty Evan Pivnick joining us broadcast
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: boys of the Coachella Valley Firebirds, as we're gonna wrap
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: this up in just a bit here from Honda Center,
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: Cracking Ducks here tonight, Crack in Los Angeles Kings tomorrow
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: at Crypto dot Com Arena, and.
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: Then we say happy Holidays to you. For four days our.
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: Mailbag segment, we're gonna revide this once again. You can
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: find me on Twitter and next at Benton Underscore Mike,
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: and we're gonna jump into it right now. Scott palis saying,
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: we have some good players every montour Baniers, McCann, Schwarz, Accord,
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: Larsen Wright. But what's the likelihood of adding to that
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: where the crack and either trade for superstar talent or
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: acquire one as well in free agency? He raises questions
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: here on the roster.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: That from Scott, Yeah, you know, it's it's funny. I
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: always I answer this question the same way every time
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: I hear it. You have to work the problem backwards. Okay,
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: if you're trying to trade someone, okay, look at who
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: you have and if you were Team X were in Anaheim.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: Let's say you're the Anaheim Ducks. Okay, I look at
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: the Krakens roster. Who on the Krakens roster do I
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: as Anaheim one? That is where that trade discussion starts.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: You're not gonna get Connor McDavid for two seven cent
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: a bag of pucks, right, You're gonna have to give
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: up some good players. So I do think when you're
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: talking about trades that always comes plays a factor free
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: agency wise. When when you're adding pieces, especially in the
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: summer or whatever the case may be, it's it's a
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: sales job, right. You're trying to sell people on the market.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: You're selling your family. You know, you're selling the wife
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: and the kids on coming to Seattle. And you know,
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: I go back to what Brandon Montur said this summertime,
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: Seattle really wanted me my family. We felt at home here.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: Chandler Stevens in same thing. The team wanted me my
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: family and I felt comfortable, We felt welcome and warm
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: here in Seattle. That's where I think a lot of
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: that starts. And also winning helps, and I think unfortunately
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: the Kraken haven't gotten as many wins as I think
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: a lot of us would have liked the scene. But
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: you're still a fairly new team. You're still trying to
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: grow and build in that direction. So there's always a
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: possibility to add, but you have to work the problem,
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: I think from both sides.
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great point. I like the analogy of
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: working the problem backwards. I think about the Quinn Hughes trade.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, every team is interested in Quinn Hughes, but
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: Vancouver wanted a certain return on that trade, and it
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: sounds like there were five or six teams that were
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: interested that we're talking to Vancouver, but not all of
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: them could provide what Vancouver wanted. So to your point
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: about working the problem backwards, if you're looking for a
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: certain piece, you've got to find the team that has
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: that piece. You've got to talk to them about are
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: they interested in moving that piece, and if they are,
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: what do they want in return? And if you don't
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: have what they want, trade's not going to happen.
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: It's also a relationship based game two as well that
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: matters the most, And I think some folks have the
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: presumption that it works like fantasy football, baseball, hockey, whatever,
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: you can just call any GM up. But it really
• 54:19
  Speaker 6: is an arbitrary business here where it depends on the
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: relationship and how much you've worked with opposing GM and
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: how much that can also warm the pot and affect
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: the pot as well well.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: That too, and also I think it's easy to point
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: the finger at the GM and say he's not making moves,
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: he's not improving this team. It takes two to tango.
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: I can call as much as I want, Hey, Team A,
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: B or C want to do a deal, if they
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: say no, I can't force you to make a trade.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: So how so we don't know And that's the problem
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: or not the problem. That's that's one of the big
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: things in the NHL is that there is so much secrecy.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: Guys don't want stuff getting out, which I can understand
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: and I get that.
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: So you know, they're in the information the act it
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: makes as part of it.
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: So just because there hasn't been any movement made doesn't
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: mean the Kraken aren't trying to improve, doesn't mean gms
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: aren't trying to improve.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: For all we know, Jason Bostrell could have.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: Called all thirty one teams with trades and with proposals
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: and they could have all said, eh, thanks for no thanks.
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: We don't know that.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: So I think a little bit of understanding in that
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: realm is required.
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: To And this leads me into this next question from
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: Tyler saying, what can you point to within the organization here?
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: This is going to get better And we can answer
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: this in about six different ways here at this point,
• 55:38
  Speaker 6: but I want to go back here to ultimately the
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: very top and that there is a desire to win.
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: I mean, you heard this from Jason Botteroll way back
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: in his opening press conference. You heard it again about
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: a few weeks ago as well, how much young players
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: are going to pay the way here for this so
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: when they worked their way up the lineup, matter of question.
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: But ultimately there is the end game here to have
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: Bertley Catton become a catalyst here, to have Shane Wright
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: take the next step, to add Matty Beneer take the
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: next step. Maybe Jacobrien as well slides in and he's
• 56:14
  Speaker 6: one of your top six guys here on this roster.
• 56:17
  Speaker 6: Where you add to that, I think depends upon where
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: each person plays. To say, I'm just throwing this out there.
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: For example, say if you make a trade here for
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: a top line center that could move someone like Beneer's
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: down right down, that's a pretty solid spine you got
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: going up and down. Then factoring and also Chandler's team's
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: in here to this mix, not a bad equation right now.
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: So I think there's there's.
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: Ultimately, from from what we've learned, what we are told,
• 56:42
  Speaker 6: what we've heard as well, there is a resistance here
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: to stand pat with what's going on right now. I mean,
• 56:48
  Speaker 6: I would say this last eleven games, it has been very,
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: very frustrating for a lot of people.
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: We hear from the inside. Al you've heard it.
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: Vice, You've heard it as well, And I think this
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: is why they are still maybe exploring a move to
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: shape things up. And I think Mason Marshman might have
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: been to the iceberg.
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that.
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: You know, you can rest assured that the Jason moderl
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: will never stop calling those other thirty one teams to
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: find out what they're looking for, what we might be
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: looking to sell. That's number one, So those conversations are ongoing.
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: To the earlier point. It has to work for both people, though,
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: so the conversations continue whether or not it works or not,
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: that's the part that needs to be sorted out. Number two,
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: there are lots of lots of youth in the in
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: the in the pipeline, and you know you can talk
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: about who can play right now that can positively impact
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: this team. I think that's a tougher question to answer
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: than if this team is not in the playoff picture
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: come March, come late February, do you bring a Jacob
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: Brian up and let them play a few games, Because
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: now you're you're talking about development, you're not talking about winning.
• 57:56
  Speaker 8: Because that play and they'll be ahl eligible this next
• 57:59
  Speaker 8: season because that picture has closed, and you know, as
• 58:02
  Speaker 8: much as you don't want it to, at a certain point,
• 58:04
  Speaker 8: you understand it has and you have to start thinking about, Okay, now,
• 58:08
  Speaker 8: how can I develop that pipeline.
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: I got to start thinking about Tyson jug Knaf so
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: I gotta start thinking about Oscar fiscoolers to get them
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: ready for the next season, because you want to give
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: them as much NHL experience as you can, so that
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: come training camp, come preseason, come those first few games
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: of next season. You know they don't have, you know,
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: eyes like teacups going wow, the NHL. They've already seen it.
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: They've already seen it in February March, and they're they're
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: good to go. So you're trying to do that if
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: it's the other way around and you are in that
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: hunt for the playoff spot, now you're only looking at
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: who can positively impact this team this year, can help
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: them get that playoff spot, could potentially be in the
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: playoffs and have an impact. And I think that's a
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: different answer than if they're not.
• 58:50
  Speaker 6: This leaves me here because you hinted at this. Our
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: next question from Pierre is there anybody in Coachell Le
• 58:55
  Speaker 6: Valley who can give the crack and a jump start
• 58:58
  Speaker 6: at the pemn that kind of gave us a little
• 58:59
  Speaker 6: bit of a taken Standing.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Right here, we can probably ask him right well, I.
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: Go back to again, how much of an impact that
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: Oscar Fisker Mulgard made in this couple of games up here,
• 59:11
  Speaker 6: and there have been so many I think great takeaways
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: from how his game translates at the NHL level, Jagger Fercus.
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: If you want to make the argument.
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: That he's got to grow a little bit more, maybe, surefine,
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: but he is producing right now and I think eventually
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: that's going to earn a look. But I'm really curious
• 59:29
  Speaker 6: down the road if there's another injury bug going through
• 59:32
  Speaker 6: the defensive corps what this might mean for saying somebody
• 59:36
  Speaker 6: like Tyson Jugnaut as well.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think too, you're getting to the point
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: now year five of this team's existence, you've got five drafts.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Under your belt.
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: You're starting to see these prospects come up into pro hockey,
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: either graduating from juniors or their European leagues, whatever the
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: case may be. And again, unfortunately because of injury. Unfortunately,
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: because of State Ending's placement. You're going to start seeing
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: more of these guys come up, and you really don't
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: know what you have until you see what they can
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: do with this level. So, you know, I love that
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: Jaggerfercus is crushing it down in CV and that Oscar
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: Fisker Moleguard is doing well, and you're seeing these guys
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: start to put it together from the pro hockey level,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, you want to
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: see what they can do with the NHL level, and
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: you're hoping that, Hey, you know, they're coming up and
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: they're producing well. Unfortunately, when you do see a lot
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: of prospects, that usually means your season isn't going the
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: way that you want it to go up here at
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: the big club. So it's kind of a catch twenty two.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: I want to see what these prospects have against NHL talent,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: against bigger, better, stronger competition. Because we've been saying now
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: for so long, the kids are coming, the kids are coming. Well,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: the kids are here, right, and we've seen what Maddy
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: Beneers can do, Riker Evans, Shane right, Jonny Newman's.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: Way basically a hit every shift.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Yes he did.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: Ryan Winterton, Ty Karchi, all of these Joy Decord, all
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: of these guys have spent years in the minors and
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: we've now seen what they can do at the NHL level.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: So we've seen that first wave of kids, and now
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: you're going to start to see a lot more of
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: the skill players that we've heard a lot about coming
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: in right your your Jagger Fercuses, Your, your Carson Ray Coops,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: Jake O'Brien. I think he's second in the OHL in scoring,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: right so Berkeley Catton. We we've gotten a five five
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: assists to his first twenty some out of games. So
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: you're starting to get a look at these kids. But
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: I want to see more of what they can do
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: with this level, and you know, hopefully under the right circumstances,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: we'll be able to see that by the end of
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: the year.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: Next time we get through to our next show, we're
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 6: going to have four more games lopped off, which means
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 6: for the Kraken after this one, you have Los Angeles
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 6: coming up. You take the break, and then you had
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 6: the Philadelphia Flyers and the Vancouver Canucks right back at home.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 5: There were a point within that whole sphere.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 6: They played Anaheim well but Anaheim is a lot more talented,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: even though they are still young. The Kings are always
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 6: a tough out, especially with how they played defensively. But
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 6: I think the last game showed some promise. The Flyers,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 6: I think got even better than the last time that
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 6: we saw them back in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 5: And the Canucks.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see if this is going to be a new
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  Speaker 6: and improved team or if this is only just a
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  Speaker 6: sugar rush after the whole quinn Use trade. But you
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  Speaker 6: factor in eight points off the table. Are you setting
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  Speaker 6: the bar at five points, six points or something else?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm setting the bar at a winning streak,
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  Speaker 4: like again, eight points. Then this team, this team has
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  Speaker 4: to think about what they need to do to get
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs. And I understand you've got injuries right now,
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  Speaker 4: and that's that's hurting the lineup. But you've got to
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  Speaker 4: come into each and every game saying this has to
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  Speaker 4: be a win. We've got to go on a run.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to do we've got to do what we
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  Speaker 4: were able to do in the first part of the season,
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  Speaker 4: you know, best starting franchise history to try and get
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  Speaker 4: back into the playoff hunt. And and nothing short of
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  Speaker 4: that should be accepted. Yeah, this team's gonna win games.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm looking. I'm gonna say six, six of
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  Speaker 4: eight should be the low bar. Minimum six of minimum.
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  Speaker 1: I think six that minimum should be the low bar.
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  Speaker 3: And if you can push, you know, game four to
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  Speaker 3: to overtime and get a seventh point in there, if
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  Speaker 3: you can final way to get a half point, maybe
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  Speaker 3: seven and a half points of those eight, I think
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  Speaker 3: that would be ideal for Seattle. But I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 3: your you're seven points back of the cut line. Teams
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  Speaker 3: ahead of you, they're only gonna keep winning, They're only
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  Speaker 3: gonna keep getting better. So you know, you need to
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  Speaker 3: find a way to keep pace. And I think for Seattle,
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  Speaker 3: they've done it. We've seen them do it. The schedule
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  Speaker 3: is not easy you're looking now. Tonight begins four consecutive
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  Speaker 3: back to back series for Seattle, Anaheim, LA, then the
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  Speaker 3: break Philadelphia, Vancouver, then two days off Nashville at home,
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  Speaker 3: then at Vancouver, Calgary on the road, then Boston at home.
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  Speaker 3: You've got four eight games coming up in the next
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  Speaker 3: two weeks. Eight games in thirteen ish days. That that
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  Speaker 3: is hellacious, to just say the least. So for the Kraken,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta get wins.
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  Speaker 4: And I would just add to my eight point expectation is, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: putting together a four win run five if you include
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  Speaker 4: the Sentos eight win is difficult at the NHL level.
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  Speaker 4: I get that, but these are all games that are
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  Speaker 4: in division. Mike, Yeah, like you need these wins.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, absolutely, Anaheim LA and then Vancouver as well.
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  Speaker 5: Back at home. All right, three stars and we're gonna
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  Speaker 5: get out of here. I'll just start off here with this.
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  Speaker 6: My third Star of the week will be Chandler Stevenson,
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  Speaker 6: writing an eight game points scoring streak heading into the
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  Speaker 6: Anaheim game. He is like more dialed in, he has
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  Speaker 6: like more productive and it's making a difference. I think
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  Speaker 6: both at five on five and as well how this
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 6: team moves the puck additionally on the power play. And
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 6: I can't help but think of many more goals he's scored.
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  Speaker 6: And granted it was the finish, but how exquisite that
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  Speaker 6: goalies scored in Calgary was. If it's the call, you
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  Speaker 6: nailed it. And I think that the high level of
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  Speaker 6: play that they've got to get from him, plus a
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  Speaker 6: face off circle and what he can do is going
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  Speaker 6: to make a big difference as well coming up short
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  Speaker 6: term and also long term when this gets really crazy
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  Speaker 6: and really busy coming up in January. My second star
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  Speaker 6: is going to be Shane Wright, who earn the praise
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 6: of Lane Lambert. There's been more of a jump in
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 6: his game. But I think that the goal he scored
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  Speaker 6: against Colorado in that rally back in the second period,
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  Speaker 6: it wasn't off the prototypical Shane Wright shot. It was
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  Speaker 6: just a mere dig, deep, compete goal, and I thought
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  Speaker 6: if they had a chance, and they had the fighters
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  Speaker 6: punch chance against Colorado, that's where they had to win.
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  Speaker 5: That battle was the front of the net.
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  Speaker 6: Third period, of course all fell apart, but I think
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  Speaker 6: again we saw the blueprint that they have to put
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  Speaker 6: into place, and granted it's got to get put in
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 6: the place asap consistently here, but you'd now have a roadmap,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: you have something, and I think a goal like that
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  Speaker 6: Shane RD scored is certainly a blueprint for him and
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 6: a blueprint here as well for this team. My first
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  Speaker 6: star is Joey Decord, sensational as San Jose, sensational at
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 6: Calgary as well. I think from what we saw this
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  Speaker 6: play around the injury that is now dissipating, and the
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 6: more and more that he's looking dialed in, especially from
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 6: the get go, there's a confidence, there's a swagger of
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 6: Joey Decord that has come right back, which gave the
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 6: Crack and once again a fighter's punch chance against San Jose.
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  Speaker 6: And when you face what has it had here for
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  Speaker 6: two Pacific Division games, tonight's short term. You get back home.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see how they sput this up with Philip Grubauer
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 6: with Philadelphia and Vancouver.
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  Speaker 5: But then again, the schedule gets busy.
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  Speaker 6: That's the kind of game that you got to give
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  Speaker 6: from Joey to Cord, and he gave this team a
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  Speaker 6: chance against Calgary and help pull them through against San Jose.
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  Speaker 4: Joey Decord is my first start. Yeah, for my third star,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to start with Ryker Evans. I thought that
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  Speaker 4: was a big goal last game for him in the
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: San Jose win. And you know again, I will always
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: highlight the importance of getting some of your offense. The
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: Crack can get about thirty percent of their offense from
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: the blue line, and last game two big goals from
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: the blue line liningred and Riker Evans. So Ryker Evans
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  Speaker 4: is my third star. I like the grit of his game.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: I think with Montur out of the lineup, he's going
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 4: to get more minutes as well. He's going to anchor
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  Speaker 4: that second power play. So maybe giving him my third
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  Speaker 4: star also gives him a little confidence going into the
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: next week. Second star is going to be uh Chandler
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  Speaker 4: Stavenson because again, you know when you're when you're getting
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: points in eight games goals in four, it puts a
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: lot more, you know, responsibility on his shoulders when we
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: Can and Schwartz are out of the lineup, and he
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  Speaker 4: seems to be embracing that. He's your best face off man.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 4: I love how he works out there with Freddy Gadrou
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: Depending on which side of the ice is on, he'll
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  Speaker 4: throw Freddie into the face off off because he's stronger
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: on that side. So that shows leadership on his part.
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  Speaker 4: Channer Stevenson is my second star, and then I agree
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  Speaker 4: with you, Mike. First star has got to be Joey
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  Speaker 4: to Court. I think that when your goal is putting
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 4: you in a position to win hockey games, two goals
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: or less, three goals are less if your goaltender can
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: keep you to three goals or less every single game
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: he puts you in a position and I think Joey
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: gives more than that. Often it's two or less and
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: that nine seven to two save percentage in San Jose
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  Speaker 4: was a big part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my this this was a tough one.
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  Speaker 3: There's there's a few ways I could have gone with this,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm gonna I'm gonna get my third start of
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: the power play. They've got goals in three of the
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: last four, seven power play goals in the last seven games.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: And we've talked about how special teams has been so
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: up and so down this season.
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  Speaker 1: Well we're seeing the up from the power play in
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: a recent games. So they're my third star.
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  Speaker 3: La to olvan end He's got points in six of eight,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: three in a row coming into tonight, so I think
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  Speaker 3: he's been playing well. We asked him the other night
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  Speaker 3: how he's liked his game, what he's been noticing about
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: his games in recent weeks. He feels he's harder on
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: the puck. He's got a lot of confidence rowing right now.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: So I love how he's playing. And then Chadler Stevenson
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  Speaker 3: for me, and he's my number one star, you know,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: career best four game goal streak, eight game points streak
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  Speaker 3: for him, and I think he's been quietly continuing to
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: be a leader on this team, both.
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  Speaker 1: On the ice and off the ice.
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  Speaker 3: He gets so much undeserved hate from the fan base
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: and from other folks in the media about his goals
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: above expected under the sixtieth percentile. I don't I don't know,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: I don't understand it, but I think that he has
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: continued to be one of the best players on this
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: team on a nightly basis. And you know, if you
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: watch him play the games, forget about what the advanced
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: stats say, open your eyes, watch him play the game,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: and he is one of the better players on the
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: ice every single night.
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  Speaker 1: So he gets my number one star very quick.
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  Speaker 6: Any holiday plans and he holiday greetings also out there well.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: Sansa Kaniski was very very kind and thoughtful and bought
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: myself a new collection for my bourbon from a new
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: piece from my bourbon collection, and so I'm gonna try
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: some of that. And Wes is so excited for Christmas
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: this year, so I'm gonna be at home.
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  Speaker 6: Santa Kiniski also dropped into He treated us very very
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 6: well in the event and house.
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  Speaker 3: My plans, My plans are to have a full glass,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: a full belly, and a full heart with my son
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: and my family.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Mike, I've got a twenty pound roast sitting in
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: the fridge, rooling right now, resting, just resting and waiting
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: for me. Right now. I'm gonna cover that thing with
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: a little olive oil, some salt and pepper, sear it
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 4: on the grill, just to get a little crust on
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: the outside, and then in the lowest temperature in my
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: other at one seventy until that thing hits about one
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: oh five one ten, take it out, wrap it, let
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: it sit for half an hour, and then slice that beau.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 6: See, when we all grow up, it's all about food
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 6: and beverages and family. Right That's that's that's the real
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 6: deal here. I also my family will be around too,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 6: and we'll yeah, yeah, yeah, party going down to the
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 6: Kiniski household. Anyway you want to wish my family as well,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 6: happy holidays. We're gonna keep this very small, very intimate.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 6: And then once Christmas is all done, a couple of
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 6: days is Great Wolf Lodges coming up here for a
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 6: family vac and then we'll jump right back into the
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 6: bat to back.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: Hold on real quick, Mike, where are you gonna be
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: tonight tomorrow?
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 5: In the radio?
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 6: I have been in this building and in LA one
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 6: hundred times. It never gets old, right back where I
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 6: grew up nearby.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: This will be your second NHL game here tomorrow will
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: be your second NHL game broadcast in your home building.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: It'll always be staple sa sorry in crypto dot com arena, Buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go, Mike.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 6: I got a million stories here where we're already running
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 6: out of time, and we'll do this here for the
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 6: next podcast maybe, but it's gonna be a blast. Ever's
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 6: got the TV side, He's gonna crush it here tonight
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 6: and for tomorrow. Al Kaniski myself on the radio side,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 6: Pug dropping seven o'clock both nights on air six thirty
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 6: this evening and tomorrow cracking at Ducks and cracking at
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 6: Kings and then next two home games of twenty eighth
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 6: and twenty ninth against Philadelphia and Vancouver. I hope you'll
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 6: be there with us no matter where. Happy Holidays, Merry
• 1:12:03
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• 1:12:05
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• 1:12:08
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