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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Storylines galore in a matchup with the Rangers (11/1) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Kracking this morning, a presentation of the Kraken
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Speaker 1: Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.
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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.
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Speaker 2: Ten games down in the eighty two game regular season
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Speaker 2: and so far, so good for the Seattle Kraken who
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Speaker 2: take on the New York Rangers tonight. Mike Benton with
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Speaker 2: you for Cracking this morning on a Saturday, November first,
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Speaker 2: is the first of two matchups coming up here for
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Speaker 2: these two teams and the Kraken trying to keep a
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Speaker 2: great run going at home as well. They'll face off
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Speaker 2: against the Rangers at seven o'clock Pacific time from Climate
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Speaker 2: Pledge Arena. Ever it fits you, Alconiski on the call,
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Speaker 2: I'll join you again back by the cors Light landing
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Speaker 2: in section twenty six point thirty. Airtime for your pregame
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Speaker 2: show is served up by Frostbrewed cors Light. Choose chill postgame,
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Speaker 2: you'll want to hang out with us if you're around
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Speaker 2: the area by just simply coming across the street to
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Speaker 2: Tom's Watch Bar again right across the street from Climate
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Speaker 2: Pledge Arena. Myself, Alconiski, We'll be there with you here
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Speaker 2: for all the way to the end of postgame coverage,
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Speaker 2: including talking Cracking again. Tom's Watchbar, our new postgame location
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Speaker 2: for Cracking home games this season again on air radio
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Speaker 2: Flagship Coverage ninety three to three KJARFM and the twenty
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Speaker 2: six affiliate Global Credit Union Cracking Audio Network. A lot
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Speaker 2: to get to here for Cracking this morning, including a
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Speaker 2: chat with Ryan Lindgren and our latest drop of meat
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Speaker 2: the Krack and we'll talk more about the game he
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Speaker 2: brings here to Seattle after spending a lot of time
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Speaker 2: with the New York Rangers, a team he'll face for
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Speaker 2: the first time since being traded last season. Additionally, reaction
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Speaker 2: to a celebrity in their dressing room, a famous actor.
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Speaker 2: Who was it and under what conditions did he drop in?
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Speaker 2: More on that, plus a conversation ahead on with the
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Speaker 2: Krack and can face with the Rangers. Alex Faust joining us.
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Speaker 3: He's there.
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Speaker 2: Radio play by play voice Alex Fout is going to
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Speaker 2: be with us. Everet fits you. Al Koniski also part
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Speaker 2: of the conversation we had in the latest Cracking Weekly.
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Speaker 2: This is going to be a special not as well
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Speaker 2: as far as with the Crack and are going to
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Speaker 2: be wearing their brand new third alternate jerseys will be
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Speaker 2: game ready for the first time in franchise history, a
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Speaker 2: tremendous spectacle of black, red, and bioluminescent undertones. The crack
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Speaker 2: and will wear these again ten more times this season,
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Speaker 2: including November fifth, the twenty sixth, two times in December,
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Speaker 2: three times in January, twice in April, and wrapping up
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Speaker 2: their last game in the jerseys on April ninth. Here's
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Speaker 2: reaction we got from Cracking captain Jordan Everley on wearing
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Speaker 2: the new jerseys.
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Speaker 4: I think, obviously throw it under black light. I think
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Speaker 4: the big hit is probably that it glows a bit.
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Speaker 4: But I mean it's just it's different than what we've worn.
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Speaker 4: I like how, you know, the darkness of the black.
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Speaker 4: I think it makes us look a little bigger, and
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Speaker 4: you know, hopefully, uh you know, I mean, ultimately just
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Speaker 4: comes down to the record and hopefully it's good.
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Speaker 2: As they often say, look good, feel good, good, play good.
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Speaker 2: That also applies to goaltender Joey to Cord, who mentioned
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Speaker 2: the benefits of the new alternate jersey, including brand new
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Speaker 2: matching equipment for his mask and pads top to bottom.
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Speaker 5: That's sick.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm a huge fan for more than one reason,
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Speaker 6: and the biggest reason being it's it's nasty, like, it
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Speaker 6: looks unreal. Second reason being as a goalie. Now I
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Speaker 6: get to design gear for it and a mask and
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Speaker 6: pads and et cetera. It sticks, So I'm juiced. I
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Speaker 6: can't wait for everyone to see. I mean, I put
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Speaker 6: out my mask already, so that got some positive reaction,
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Speaker 6: but I can't wait for the rest of the gear
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Speaker 6: to come out for everyone to see.
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Speaker 2: Take me through the mask, the design, and what kind
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Speaker 2: of concept that that you wanted to conceive from the
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Speaker 2: get go.
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Speaker 6: I so I work very closely with my mass painter, Shifty.
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Speaker 6: He does an incredible job, and he and I usually
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Speaker 6: have like a sit down and we just hat what
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Speaker 6: we want to do. I mean, obviously we wanted to
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Speaker 6: do glow in the dark paint right away, and he
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Speaker 6: kind of came to me with the idea of the
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Speaker 6: eyes on the side and then some cracking logos and
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Speaker 6: I loved it. And I think I think with mass painters,
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Speaker 6: especially like their artists, so if they see a vision,
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Speaker 6: if he sees a vision and he's like it's going
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Speaker 6: to be sick, I'm like, cool, do it. You know,
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Speaker 6: I'm never like, ah, I need you to do it
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Speaker 6: black and white like this, because then usually they feel
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Speaker 6: like they're restricted into, you know, a confined boundary, and
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Speaker 6: then that's it's hard for their creativity to come out
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Speaker 6: that way. So with Masks, I usually just let him
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Speaker 6: run with it.
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Speaker 2: There's really no metric which can certainly measure how much
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Speaker 2: a team can really benefit from playing in an alternate jersey,
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Speaker 2: except for the fact that players often tell you a
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Speaker 2: brand new look will often inspire more energy, and we'll
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Speaker 2: see how much they can certainly capitalize off of that
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Speaker 2: coming up here against the Rangers, the Kraken come off
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Speaker 2: a thrilling comeback up for despite losing an overtime for
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Speaker 2: to three to Montreal back on Tuesday. Here's say what
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Speaker 2: happened with the Kraken down by three goals and running
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Speaker 2: out of time.
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Speaker 7: Katon gets it back right side up top Montor shot.
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Speaker 8: Randon Montour from the line, redirected into the net and
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Speaker 8: the Seattle Cracket on the power.
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Speaker 7: Play and on the board three to one. They cut
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Speaker 7: their deficit into two.
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Speaker 9: Well, good puck movement by anything.
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Speaker 5: The Cracket starts with catting back to Montour he puts
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Speaker 5: on hard on net. I believe it went off of
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Speaker 5: something and I think it was James Schwartz's stick.
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Speaker 7: It was either Schwartz or carry a because Carrie A
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Speaker 7: was the one.
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Speaker 8: One goes off carry a stick and.
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Speaker 7: In by Jacob Dobash. So that will be Montour's goal.
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Speaker 7: The cracket on the board down three one, who comes on?
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Speaker 8: He told it in right in on goal.
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Speaker 7: That one knocked away.
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Speaker 8: Now Shane right stood, Shane right off a fifty pass
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Speaker 8: drifting into the slot and the Seattle cracket cut the
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Speaker 8: deficit to one. It's three two Canadians lead.
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Speaker 2: Here in the third.
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Speaker 5: Where you can feel that pump pot Boilian partners they
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Speaker 5: got crack and move the pucket to the offensive end,
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Speaker 5: cycle around the back of the net, and it was
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Speaker 5: Montor feeding right in the high slot. Ran g it's
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Speaker 5: a one timer off peak Stoe bass bluff side tas
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Speaker 5: shelf is game three two.
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Speaker 7: Now track it regain possession done drifting center plane across
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Speaker 7: Monto stop.
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Speaker 8: Welcome back Brandon Monteur.
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Speaker 7: He's got two third period goals.
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Speaker 8: And the Seattle cracking tie the game at three.
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Speaker 3: One forty three left in the third.
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Speaker 5: Well Montreal I don't know why, but Montreal gives Seattle
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Speaker 5: excellent offensive zone entrance. They get control on the half
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Speaker 5: boards and Monty picks that puck up off of a
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Speaker 5: done pass and puts a bomb on net.
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Speaker 9: This game title free.
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Speaker 4: Here is for her up.
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Speaker 7: Gallagher gives it up and throws it in the middle.
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Speaker 8: Intercept it five left, Carrie a hereside, Anderson settles shoot.
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Speaker 7: Stuck down, loose puck o the doorstep. Monteur blocks the
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Speaker 7: puck and we.
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Speaker 8: Are going to overtime here in Seattle.
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Speaker 7: Coffield left circle around done, Gawfield stop by the cord.
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Speaker 7: It's in the score.
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Speaker 8: Col Cawfield does it again to Seattle.
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Speaker 2: Brandon Montour scored twice in the rally. Also Sandwich, he
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Speaker 2: can go by Shane Wright. It was only Montour's second
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Speaker 2: game back after losing his brother Cameron to an unfortunate
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Speaker 2: battle with als Montor in the process picking up his
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Speaker 2: three hundredth career National Hockey League point and the Craken
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Speaker 2: salvaging a point in both matchups against the Canadians. Well,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Lindgren is a part of the story lines here
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Speaker 2: for this evening against the Rangers. He's facing his former
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Speaker 2: team for the first time since being traded from the
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Speaker 2: Rangers to the Colorado Avalanche and then signing with the
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Speaker 2: Kraken this past offseason as a free agent. It's often
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Speaker 2: said the hockey world is a small world, and that
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Speaker 2: means to plenty of relationships that lynd Gren has on
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Speaker 2: the other side in the Rangers dressing room. He was
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Speaker 2: Adam Fox's defensive partner for a long time, and he'll
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Speaker 2: face off against Fox and other former teammates he have
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Speaker 2: of the Rangers side for the first time coming up
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Speaker 2: this evening. Here's our chat with Ryan Lindgren on his
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Speaker 2: new surroundings and the possibility of having this kind of
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Speaker 2: game circled on the calendar. What drives a defenseman to
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Speaker 2: be willing to lay down in block shots.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just doing anything to help the team,
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Speaker 3: you know. I think coming from a family of goalies,
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Speaker 3: you know, I try to maybe help them out as
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Speaker 3: much as I can, and you know, I know they
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Speaker 3: appreciate when you when you put your body on the
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Speaker 3: line and get in front of a park. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's something I try to do. It doesn't always feel great,
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Speaker 3: but you know, it helps the team and that's what
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Speaker 3: you're trying to do.
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Speaker 2: Having Coppocco back in the same room once again, what
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Speaker 2: kind of energy do you see from him that makes
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Speaker 2: it feel like nearly the same guy that you had
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Speaker 2: in New York.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's great playing with him again. He was
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Speaker 3: a guy I got really close with in New York
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Speaker 3: and you know, one of my really good buddies. So
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Speaker 3: you know, it makes the transition easier for me coming
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Speaker 3: here and seeing him, and you know, just just seeing
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Speaker 3: the way he took off when he came here last
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Speaker 3: year and how good he played, you know, he you know,
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Speaker 3: he's going to be doing the same thing. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: I'm just really excited to be playing with him again.
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Speaker 2: January twelfth on the calendar, a return to Madison Square Garden.
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Speaker 2: How much are you circling that date?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to it. You know, obviously
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Speaker 3: we got, you know, a lot of games before then,
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Speaker 3: but that's definitely one I'm excited for. And yeah, it'll
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Speaker 3: be cool playing in there again.
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Speaker 2: How do you feel that you grew as a defenseman
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Speaker 2: as compared to your rookie season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's it all comes from confidence. I
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Speaker 3: think as you as you start in your rookie year.
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Speaker 3: You know, you're just trying to learn the game, you know, learn,
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Speaker 3: learn what you can and can't do out there and
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Speaker 3: what kind of works for you. And you know, the
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Speaker 3: more you play and the more comfortable you feel, the
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Speaker 3: more you evolve as a player. And you know, I
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Speaker 3: think I've done that over the years, and you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm obviously not not where I want to be, but
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Speaker 3: you just try to work as hard as you can
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Speaker 3: every day and become a better player.
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Speaker 2: Now, Charlie is your brother. You said before that you
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Speaker 2: two are close. How long did it take for you
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Speaker 2: to text or even to hang out after the playoff
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Speaker 2: series you two had back in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. It was bizarre because we talked to
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Speaker 3: each other all the time. You know, me, me, Charlie
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Speaker 3: and our other brother Andrew are really close, and so yeah,
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Speaker 3: going through that old stretch where obviously we didn't talk
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Speaker 3: to each other was was a little weird. But you know,
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Speaker 3: going through that handshake line after was was pretty surreal.
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Speaker 3: And you know, he played his butt off that series,
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Speaker 3: and so yeah, we talked right after, and you know,
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Speaker 3: he let me know that that he was rooting for us,
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Speaker 3: and you know, rooting for us to go on a
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Speaker 3: good run. So it was something special and I know
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Speaker 3: my whole family really enjoyed it.
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Speaker 2: You try the position of goalie once and you said,
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Speaker 2: at age six, that's it. I'm done seeing Charlie in
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Speaker 2: those shoes. What is it about goalies that set them apart?
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Speaker 2: But you come to appreciate.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I look at my brother. I work
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Speaker 3: out with him, I skate with him in the summer,
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Speaker 3: and you know just just how dedicated they are of
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Speaker 3: the game. And you know he does everything he can
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Speaker 3: every single day to improve his game. And you know
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Speaker 3: they got to be so flexible and so quick, and
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Speaker 3: you know he works at that every day, and you
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Speaker 3: know it's really cool for me to have a role
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Speaker 3: model like that and and just see what it takes
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Speaker 3: for him to, you know, excel in the NHL level.
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Speaker 2: Just going back to where you came from. What's one
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Speaker 2: day that you could go back and relive growing up
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Speaker 2: in Minnesota all over again.
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Speaker 10: If you could.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a lot of them. I think
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Speaker 3: for for me, there's something that was really special. Was
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Speaker 3: was the first time getting to see uh, well, they
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Speaker 3: both they both made it to the state tournament, but
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Speaker 3: we're getting to see Charlie for the first time. You know,
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Speaker 3: it was such a special moment for our whole family.
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Speaker 3: You know, they're kind of a Cinderella story at Lakeville
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Speaker 3: North and they got the upset over Lakeville South and
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Speaker 3: and then getting to go to the state tournament and
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Speaker 3: watched Charlie playing that for the first time. Was was
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Speaker 3: really cool.
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Speaker 2: Getting settling here to a new city and a new team.
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Speaker 2: How was unpacking time here recently versus stay back in March.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, uh, you know, it was really cool.
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Speaker 3: You know, he's just getting to know the area, and yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's it's been a lot of fun getting to all
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Speaker 3: the guys and so yeah, I really enjoyed.
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Speaker 2: It fishing, guy, hiking, guy, golf, guy, outdoors guy, anything.
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Speaker 3: Big time golf. Been able to play a couple of
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Speaker 3: times since I've been here, and you know, the courses
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Speaker 3: in this in this area are unbelievable. So yeah, that's
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Speaker 3: been really nice. In the weather too, has been awesome
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Speaker 3: since I've been here, so gotten to spend a lot
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Speaker 3: of time outdoors and kind of around Lake Washington. So
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Speaker 3: it's been a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: Is a driver part of your game? The flat stick.
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Speaker 2: Any iron play your strength.
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Speaker 3: Definitely not the flat stick that kind of runs in
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Speaker 3: our family in one can Pott. But no, my irons
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Speaker 3: are usually decent. My driver can be okay, but yeah,
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Speaker 3: the flat stick is something I need to work on.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Lindgren is one part of the storyline. Coppocaco is another.
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Speaker 2: He hasn't played a game yet after suffering a broken
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Speaker 2: hand in a preseason game against the New York Rangers
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Speaker 2: back in September. That long road back could come to
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Speaker 2: an end potentially this evening, assuming he's cleared. After all,
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Speaker 2: he did skate in practice with the Kraken on Friday
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Speaker 2: in a regular jersey. He has yet to come off
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Speaker 2: ir but still Cocko potentially could be facing the team
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Speaker 2: that traded him to the Kraken in exchange for defenseman
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Speaker 2: Will Borgan this last December. Meanwhile, Borgan comes back to
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Speaker 2: Seattle for the first time since the trade, and a
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Speaker 2: warm welcome potentially could be on hand from Kracking fans
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Speaker 2: in attendance for this game. Borgan, of course, the second
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Speaker 2: overall pick for the Kracking in that historic twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: one expansion draft. He was also a part of the
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Speaker 2: roster and a big piece of a physical and rugged
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Speaker 2: effort on their blue line when they upset the Colorado
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Speaker 2: Avalanche in seven games in the first round back in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. But Lynn Gren's a part of this
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Speaker 2: krack and dressing room now and they convened together at
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Speaker 2: Climate Pledg Aina earlier this week for Adam Sandler's stand
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Speaker 2: up comedy tour. So for the week of Halloween, the
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Speaker 2: Kraken showed up to Climate Pledge Arena same night as
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Speaker 2: a team, dressed up in Adam Sandler characters from his
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Speaker 2: recent movies. And of course after the tour, Sandler crashed
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Speaker 2: the party in the Kraken dressing room. And here's Matty
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Speaker 2: Beniers on who he went as, plus the experience of
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Speaker 2: meeting and acting legend Zohan.
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Speaker 3: It was awesome.
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Speaker 6: Who's a really nice guy. He took pictures of everyone
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Speaker 6: and I did a great job out there.
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Speaker 3: We had a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: So how starstrug did the Kraken get Here's the if
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Speaker 2: it's been Vince Dunn, who said, on the contrary, meeting
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Speaker 2: Adam Sandler was a down to earth experience.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, he was a great guy. His crew is very
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Speaker 10: friendly and just as funny as they were on stage
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Speaker 10: in person, so it's cool to see that side of
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Speaker 10: them that is just their natural talent, that they're just
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Speaker 10: kind of funny people and use that to their advantage
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Speaker 10: where they're on screen.
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Speaker 2: So a team bonding outing all done in the rearview
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Speaker 2: mirror and the krack of now gearing up for the
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Speaker 2: Rangers in game three of this five game homestand to
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Speaker 2: prepare for this one, we caught up with Rangers radio
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Speaker 2: play by play voice Alex Foust and a chat we
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Speaker 2: had between ever it fits you, Al Kaniski myself as
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Speaker 2: well for the recent drop of crack and weekly.
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Speaker 11: You know, I think you can go back to some
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Speaker 11: of the injuries that they've had to deal with, which
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Speaker 11: may not seem all that significant on the surface, but
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Speaker 11: our Timmy Paneren and JT. Miller both had what I
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Speaker 11: would describe as false starts in training camp. They were
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Speaker 11: both banged up, didn't get the full camp, and I'm
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Speaker 11: firmly believe they may not have been one hundred percent
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Speaker 11: when the season got underway. And then shortly after the
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Speaker 11: season started, Vincent Trocheck went down with injury. And you're
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Speaker 11: talking about a guy who you know is one of
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Speaker 11: the top centermen in the league. The plan was to
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Speaker 11: have Mika's avantaje ad play on the wing this season
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Speaker 11: and not be a full time center like he's been
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Speaker 11: in the past. Well, that plan immediately got torn to
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Speaker 11: bits when Trocheck went down with injury. You know, the
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Speaker 11: feeling was that they wanted to get Mika up on
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Speaker 11: the fore check a little bit more on the wing,
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Speaker 11: and he's bought into a kind of a more physical
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Speaker 11: north South game. But without Trocheck in the middle, you're
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Speaker 11: talking about a guy who is grade five on five,
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Speaker 11: a point producer, is on your top power play unit,
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Speaker 11: kills penalties, never mind slots the rest of your forwards
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Speaker 11: where they should be. The knock on effect from that injury,
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Speaker 11: I think has created a lot of problems. You Know,
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Speaker 11: the first couple weeks of the season, you could look
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Speaker 11: at the Rangers record and say, well, you know, they're
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Speaker 11: losing all these games. But actually the sense was, and
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Speaker 11: I'm not just talking from a team standpoint, but from
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Speaker 11: the fans from the media covering the team, that their
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Speaker 11: process was fine. They were out playing their opposition at
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Speaker 11: five on five, they were dominating them defensively, and the
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Speaker 11: issue was they weren't getting goal scoring. Well, now their
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Speaker 11: game has slipped a little bit defensively and the goal
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Speaker 11: scoring hasn't picked up with it to try to cover
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Speaker 11: for all of that. So what you wind up with
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Speaker 11: is a team that you know, probably shouldn't have, you know,
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Speaker 11: as low a record as they have, but by virtue
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Speaker 11: of not winning games where they outplayed their opposition, they
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Speaker 11: find themselves in this early hole.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure that things weren't going to script early here
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Speaker 2: as far as what Mike Sullivan had intended off the
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Speaker 2: bat here for his brand new job going over from
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Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Penguins as well expouse joining us right now
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Speaker 2: and crack and weekly. But what have we learned so
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Speaker 2: far with what Mike Sullivan is all about his core
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Speaker 2: values and how much more time that this team needs
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Speaker 2: to really get things locked in as far as his vision.
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Speaker 11: To be honest, I thought that there was a lot
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Speaker 11: of buy in right away and training camp. I think
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Speaker 11: this group was craving more structure, more of a set standard,
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Speaker 11: and Mike Sullivan has been adamant about that this group
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Speaker 11: needed to set a new bar as far as a
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Speaker 11: standard of play and going back to the first couple
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Speaker 11: of games, you know, they play Washington really tough and
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Speaker 11: Charlie Lingern put in a great performance. They play the
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Speaker 11: may Ple Leafs really tough and lose that one. You know,
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Speaker 11: over time, you look at some of their early results
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Speaker 11: and some of their tight losses to begin this season,
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Speaker 11: and they were playing to that standard. They were playing
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Speaker 11: what the way Mike Sullivan wanted them to play by
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Speaker 11: being responded coble, by playing hard North South. And I
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Speaker 11: think that, you know, as they've slipped a little bit
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Speaker 11: here and lost a couple of games, you're seeing Sullivin
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Speaker 11: trying to bring the group back to that standard. You know,
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Speaker 11: the Rangers made a clear investment in Sulivin as their
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Speaker 11: head coach, and you know they they feel that the
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Speaker 11: way that he runs this operation on the day to
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Speaker 11: day is absolutely what this group needs. And I think
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Speaker 11: you're seeing it that. When this team is playing at
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Speaker 11: its best, it's probably the most defensively sound you've seen
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Speaker 11: the Rangers play in a long long time. But now
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Speaker 11: it's just about okay, how can you how can you
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Speaker 11: pair that with you know, some of the creative skill
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Speaker 11: on this team and getting a little bit more finished
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Speaker 11: right now.
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Speaker 9: Sometimes when you're trying to get over that that position
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Speaker 9: of maybe not playing to where you expect a team
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Speaker 9: to play. You can look at areas of improvement when
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Speaker 9: you when you talk about training camp and the vets
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Speaker 9: and you know, maybe they did or didn't get out
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Speaker 9: of that in preseason. And then you look at, well,
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Speaker 9: who do you think when you're putting down the roster,
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Speaker 9: who do you think has the most upside? Get this
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Speaker 9: thing righted a little bit?
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Speaker 11: You know, I think they're they're looking at two guys
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Speaker 11: that you know have been off to slow starts, Will
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Speaker 11: Cooley and Alexi Lafrenier. You know, both were expected to
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Speaker 11: carry more of a higher load this year. I mean
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Speaker 11: la Frenier, you know, his body of work speaks for itself,
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Speaker 11: right and the skill is plainly obvious. But can't he
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Speaker 11: keep that up on a consistent basis? For you know,
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Speaker 11: Will Cooley, who burst onto the scene a couple of
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Speaker 11: years ago, I mean this is his third full NHL season.
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Speaker 11: I think what what's interesting with a younger player is
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Speaker 11: when you elevate him into a new role, is then
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Speaker 11: pressure starting to set in? If okay, I have to
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Speaker 11: match expectations of being in a certain place, and then
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Speaker 11: do you wind up maybe trying to do a little
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Speaker 11: bit too much much. And we see this all the
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Speaker 11: time with younger players around the league. I mean, Will
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Speaker 11: is still only twenty three years of age. It's hard to,
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Speaker 11: you know, instantly be thrust into a newer role where
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Speaker 11: you're expected to carry more of the team and not
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Speaker 11: stray from the simple game that got you there. So
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Speaker 11: right now it's about how you can, you know, get
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Speaker 11: this guy who plays a really great North South game
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Speaker 11: and stick with it.
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Speaker 9: Right So you're out, You're out on a four game
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Speaker 9: road trip West Coast. You're one game in. Does being
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Speaker 9: out on the road do you think that helps kind
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Speaker 9: of galvanize the guys a little bit, to get away
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Speaker 9: from MSG for a few days? Do you think that
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Speaker 9: helps get the team right it a little bit?
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Speaker 11: You know, I think given the way that you know
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Speaker 11: they struggled at home to begin, you know, it can't hurt.
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Speaker 11: I think we hear often in today's in al that
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Speaker 11: going on the road, regardless of which team you play on,
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Speaker 11: is actually more of a structured environment than when you're
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Speaker 11: playing home games. And we've actually seen it across the league.
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Speaker 11: I was looking up and we're taping this on a Monday,
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Speaker 11: I was looking at the league wide points percentage of
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Speaker 11: ball road teams. It's five point forty one to begin
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Speaker 11: the season, So across the league you're seeing this where
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Speaker 11: when teams get out on the road and they can
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Speaker 11: jail as a group and they can leave you know,
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Speaker 11: some of the things that you may occupy their time
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Speaker 11: when they're at home, family obligations and other things, it
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Speaker 11: actually sometimes can aid in performance. So I think that's
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Speaker 11: what the hope is for this Rangers team, is that
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Speaker 11: they can take advantage of being on their longest road
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Speaker 11: trip of the season stacked together a couple of results,
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Speaker 11: feel more confident about their game when they return home.
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Speaker 2: Alex this is going to lead to the reunion game
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Speaker 2: that we have certainly been pining for for a while.
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Speaker 2: On the Kraken side, we'll see if Coppocacka was back.
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Speaker 2: But Ryan lind Gren is here, and now Will Borgan
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Speaker 2: is back in Seattle for the first time since the
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Speaker 2: trade from this last season. I mean, he's earned playing
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Speaker 2: time up and down the defensive pair. But through ten
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Speaker 2: games so far and sixty one overall, what's the Will
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Speaker 2: Borgan experience like in New York and how he fits
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Speaker 2: in here to Mike Sullivan's plans.
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Speaker 11: Well, we're actually got a couple of reunion events here
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Speaker 11: with JT. Miller as we take this on a Monday
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Speaker 11: before the Rangers playing Vancouver on Tuesday, So that's gonna
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Speaker 11: be a big one to mark down. But you know,
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Speaker 11: I think when when the Rangers traded for Will Borgan
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Speaker 11: in the Coppococo deal, they were looking for some more
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Speaker 11: consistent play out of their back end, just a sturdy,
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Speaker 11: stay at home defenseman. I have been impressed from the
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Speaker 11: moment Borgan got here. You know, I don't think you
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Speaker 11: know he's going to tell you that he has an
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Speaker 11: offensive streak to his but he'll step up and join
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Speaker 11: the rush. He's got a pretty good shot. I think
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Speaker 11: everybody around the organization has been really happy with what
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Speaker 11: Will brings to the table. He plays with a bit
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Speaker 11: of an edge. He's a tough guy. I mean I've
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Speaker 11: seen already. I mean we're less than a month end
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Speaker 11: of the season, and he's taken some punishment, whether it's
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Speaker 11: block shots or tough hits, and he keeps on ticking.
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Speaker 11: He is one tough customer and I think he's been
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Speaker 11: a great fit for what this Rangers team wants to
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Speaker 11: be identity wise.
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Speaker 9: Alex talk a little bit abouts and obviously a top
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Speaker 9: goaltender in this league. What's he like? What are the
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Speaker 9: fans need to do about him in terms of how
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Speaker 9: he approaches the game? You know they see the stats, obviously,
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Speaker 9: but talk a little bit about his professionalism as a goaltender.
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Speaker 11: Boy, he's dedicated to his craft. You know, any goalie
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Speaker 11: will tell you that there hard on themselves. I think
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Speaker 11: Igor channels it in such a way where we were
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Speaker 11: looking up some stats the other day that you know
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Speaker 11: he get. He lost to San Jose in a six
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Speaker 11: or five overtime decision, and in his career he's bounced
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Speaker 11: back from those better than most goaltenders. He has a
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Speaker 11: really he has a gaudy win loss percentage in his
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Speaker 11: favor when he's coming off of a loss where he's
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Speaker 11: given up let's say five or more goals, and it
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Speaker 11: speaks to you know, his professionalism and how deeply he
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Speaker 11: you know, studies the game. You know, his his movement
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Speaker 11: when he's square to the puck. You know, I would
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Speaker 11: put him up against any goaltender in the league and
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Speaker 11: I'd say, you know, he's probably the best in that regard.
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Speaker 11: You know, until last year, he had won thirty six
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Speaker 11: plus games three seasons in a row. I mean, you're
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Speaker 11: you're talking about the Kreme de la creme in this league.
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Speaker 11: That's why he earned that large contract extension, the highest
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Speaker 11: for a goaltender in league history. But you know, I
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Speaker 11: think where it's so funny. You look at his goals
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Speaker 11: against and he got binged up a little bit to
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Speaker 11: start the road trip in Calgary, but he had a
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Speaker 11: sub two goals against average, and he's a game under
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Speaker 11: five hundred starting this road trip. You know, so it
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Speaker 11: just goes to show kind of where the Rangers are
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Speaker 11: at that you know, he's done his part, but needs
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Speaker 11: a little bit of run support.
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Speaker 2: Great catching up with Alex Faust again radio pip by
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Speaker 2: play voice for the New York Rangers as the Kraken,
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Speaker 2: trying to extend a run unbeaten at home in regulation.
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Speaker 2: Currently it's at three to zero and one and lock
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Speaker 2: up their third win in just nine tries against the Rangers,
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Speaker 2: who were at the end of a four game road trip.
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Speaker 2: Recent crack and injury updates include Coppocaco back in a
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Speaker 2: regular jersey lane. Lambers said he's quote working toward a return.
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Speaker 2: End quota, still on injured reserve. Meanwhile, Ryker Evans good
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Speaker 2: news for him. He hasn't played the game yet this season,
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Speaker 2: but has been seen in a red non contact jersey
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Speaker 2: this week in practice. Lambert said heat quote looks good.
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Speaker 2: Skating also looks good. End quote. No further update as well.
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Speaker 2: Jered mccambermain's day to day no news on his progression,
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Speaker 2: and senter Freddie Gudreau there's progression being back on ice briefly,
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Speaker 2: but Lambert's saying he is quote not expected back for
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Speaker 2: a while. End quotes. Hope you can join us here
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