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PREGAME: Lane Lambert interview with Mike Benton before the Kraken/Ducks game (12/22) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Andrews, thank you very much. Back heard the crackenhead coach,
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  Speaker 1: Lane Lambert and Lane. First off, I think that one
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  Speaker 1: thing that we learned from the San Jose game that
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  Speaker 1: you're never out of a game. Two goals to come
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  Speaker 1: back and both came from defenseman. But what did a
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  Speaker 1: relatively penalty free third period allow this team to do
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  Speaker 1: to help its.
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  Speaker 2: Cus Well, it allowed us to play, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more structured five on five hockey. We've taken
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  Speaker 2: too many penalties lately. I think we've got fourteen penalties
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  Speaker 2: in the last three games. We can't you know, we
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  Speaker 2: can't afford to do that. Our penalty kill has been good,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can only give them so many opportunities, and staying out
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  Speaker 2: of the box helped us, you know, build what we
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  Speaker 2: you know, what we had been doing early on in
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  Speaker 2: the season. We didn't take a lot of penalties late
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  Speaker 2: in games in the start of the seasons or we
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  Speaker 2: were pretty solid at protecting leads from that standpoint, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was a situation where we got back
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  Speaker 2: to that a little bit last game.
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  Speaker 1: One thing we saw, I think from the moving screen
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  Speaker 1: that helped out a couple of goals and which helped
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  Speaker 1: get shot through. How much of that success this is
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  Speaker 1: based on thinking versus other factors As far as what
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  Speaker 1: that puck comes from your defenseman, Well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we talked to our defenseman about shots selection,
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  Speaker 2: you know, potentially waiting in an extra second to get
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  Speaker 2: pucks through so that we can get in front of
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  Speaker 2: the net, but not waiting too long so that they
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  Speaker 2: can block them. I thought they did a really good
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  Speaker 2: job of that. And then you know, both of those
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  Speaker 2: goals were scored. We had toven and driving to the
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  Speaker 2: net and we had you know, flash screen coming on
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  Speaker 2: the other one. So it was a very good job
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  Speaker 2: by our guys.
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  Speaker 1: I know the loss of Brandon Montor hits hard, But
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  Speaker 1: what has this team learned as far as how it
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  Speaker 1: operates defensively so far in his absence?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, he moves pucks out for us.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, you know, last game, we spent a little
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  Speaker 2: bit too much time in our zone at times. San
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  Speaker 2: Jose is a quick team, and you know, we felt
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  Speaker 2: like we could have or needed to make a few
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  Speaker 2: more plays to spend less time on our zone. But
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  Speaker 2: I'll give our guys credit. They competed hard, We had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of blog shots.
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  Speaker 1: We did a really good job from that standpoint in
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  Speaker 1: our eight points are points in a games so far
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  Speaker 1: out of Chandler Stevenson. What kind of a game are
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  Speaker 1: you getting out of him right now?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty responsible, two hundred foot game and you know he's
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  Speaker 2: in my mind driving his feet more, which is translating
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  Speaker 2: into offensive opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, the Ducks have young players. They love pushing pace.
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  Speaker 1: But how do these guys have to be dotted with
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  Speaker 1: how they can handle this kind of game here for tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're third in the league in goals for They're
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  Speaker 2: a talented offensive group, you know, and their team that
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  Speaker 2: likes to play in your face and play on top
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  Speaker 2: of you. So we have to make sure that for us,
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  Speaker 2: we're getting pucks out of our zone and getting it
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  Speaker 2: out of our zone with possession play in their zone.
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  Speaker 2: It's no different than we talked about with the San
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  Speaker 2: Jose A team. We had a great start to that
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  Speaker 2: last game with seventeen shots in the first period. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to play in their zone and when we don't
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  Speaker 2: have the puck, we've got to stay above their talent