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POSTGAME: Kraken can't get enough of the Flames, dominate home opener 6-1 (10/4) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: And the Kraken, a power play goal.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Kraken Post Game Show, powered by the
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Speaker 2: Now for an in-depth look at tonight's Kraken game. It's
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Speaker 3: We're back inside of Climate Pledge Arena alongside Al Kaniski.
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Speaker 4: Everett Fitzhugh back with you.
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Speaker 3: 11 players finding the score sheet today. Four with multi-point nights,
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Speaker 3: including Mackie Samuskevich, his first and second goal as a
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Speaker 3: member of the Seattle Kraken and his first multi-goal performance
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Speaker 3: in the National Hockey League. Berkley Catton, his third multi-point
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Speaker 3: game of his NHL career with a goal. and an assist,
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Speaker 3: also goals and an assist tonight, or two-point ninth, I
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Speaker 3: should say, from Brandon Montour and Chandler Stevenson, who each
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Speaker 3: had a pair of helpers in a convincing 6-1 win. Al,
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Speaker 3: I said it before going to Shane Wright, teams like Calgary,
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Speaker 3: you know that there's going to be some challenges on
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Speaker 3: their side this year.
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Speaker 4: They're going through a rebuild. Vancouver's in that way as well.
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Speaker 3: When you look at those teams, and it's easy to say, oh, well,
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Speaker 3: it's only Calgary. Oh, you know, that team beat Vegas,
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Speaker 3: beat whoever. You beat the teams that.
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Speaker 4: You should beat.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 3: Because the last thing you want is to be sitting
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Speaker 3: here in March, sitting here in April, six points out
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Speaker 3: of a playoff spot, knowing that you left eight points
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Speaker 3: on the table to Calgary and Vancouver and taking away
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Speaker 3: nothing from them. But if you see yourself as one
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Speaker 3: of those teams that are going to battle for a
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Speaker 3: playoff spot, you've got to.
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Speaker 4: Win the games you're supposed to win.
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Speaker 5: Well, I can count a dozen games over the past
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Speaker 5: three seasons, and I'll just actually talk about last season.
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Speaker 5: A half dozen games last season where you did not
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Speaker 5: beat the teams you're supposed to beat, and look how
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Speaker 5: close it was.
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Speaker 4: 11 points, crack, and missed the playoff spot.
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Speaker 5: Exactly. So maybe that's the difference maker is you beat
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Speaker 5: the teams you're supposed to, Everything else happens the same way.
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Speaker 5: Now you're in a playoff conversation or a playoff position.
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Speaker 5: So I think even though it's early on this season,
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Speaker 5: you haven't seen a lot of teams yet, so far
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Speaker 5: the teams you're supposed to beat, you've beaten over those
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Speaker 5: three games. And the team that probably you're not supposed
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Speaker 5: to beat, you competed with for 57 minutes of the
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Speaker 5: game up in Edmonton, came real close on a Jordan
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Speaker 5: Eberle shot to going ahead in it. So I like
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Speaker 5: the competitiveness of this team so far.
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Speaker 3: And I was going to ask you, three games in,
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Speaker 3: two against Calgary, two 6-1 wins, a hard-fought loss last
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Speaker 3: night up in Edmonton.
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Speaker 4: What have you noticed about this team?
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Speaker 3: What have you liked overall, and where do you feel
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Speaker 3: the Kraken can still have the biggest improvement going forward?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think that there's been some improvements in a
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Speaker 5: few areas that may or may not directly tie to winning,
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Speaker 5: but I think it ties to team performance, and that
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Speaker 5: is The team is more physical. The team is tougher.
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Speaker 5: I think the team is trying to play faster. The
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Speaker 5: defensive end of the ice, I think, continues to get
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Speaker 5: better now that this Lane-Lambert system is in its second
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Speaker 5: year where guys know where they're supposed to be. They
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Speaker 5: know what their jobs are, what they're supposed to do.
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Speaker 5: In fact, most of them know when they haven't done
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Speaker 5: their jobs before they even get off the ice, which
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Speaker 5: is part of it because you get off the ice
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Speaker 5: and you go, I know, I know, I know. I
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Speaker 5: was supposed to have that guy there. So I think
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Speaker 5: that's part of it as well is it gets just
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Speaker 5: ingrained into your mind that, it almost becomes second nature
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Speaker 5: playing that style of hockey. So that's been a big
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Speaker 5: improvement as well. And again, small sample size, don't DM me.
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Speaker 5: Three games in, goaltending looks great.
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Speaker 3: I was getting ready to say, we've said this before,
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Speaker 3: both you and I on the air, off the air,
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Speaker 3: on various radio talk shows that typically the first 10
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Speaker 3: games of the season, you're going to see a 50-50,
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Speaker 3: maybe 60-40 split, but you're looking for one of those
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Speaker 3: goaltenders to take the reins. But so far tonight, even
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Speaker 3: in the loss last night, Phillip Grubauer looks strong. I'm
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Speaker 3: curious what Lane Lambert does Tuesday against the Vegas Golden Knights.
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Speaker 3: But the Kraken have gotten three really strong goaltending performances,
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Speaker 3: and it's resulted in four out of six points here
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Speaker 3: in the standings. We'll step aside one more time, come back,
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Speaker 3: and wrap up from the press box after this 6-1
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Speaker 3: For the final time tonight, welcome inside of Climate Pledge
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Speaker 3: Arena alongside Al Koniski, Everett Fitzhugh with you. The Kraken
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Speaker 3: with their second 6-1 win over the Calgary Flames here
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Speaker 3: this season. They now improve to 2-1-0 on this young
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Speaker 3: 84 game campaign.
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Speaker 4: The Kraken winning in their home opener.
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Speaker 3: Big tilt against the Vegas Golden Knights coming up on Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: But the Kraken are going to revel in this one
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Speaker 3: at least for a little bit. They'll have an off
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Speaker 3: day tomorrow. and then they'll get back to morning skate
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Speaker 3: on Tuesday and prepare for the Golden Knights. 6.40 face-off
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Speaker 3: time here for the Kraken and the Golden Knights. Al Kaniski,
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Speaker 3: over to you.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely. Well, key takeaways for me tonight were the goaltending
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Speaker 5: delta was huge. Joey Decord with a 9.70 save percentage.
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Speaker 5: Dustin Wolfe with a 7.78. The Kraken able to slice
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Speaker 5: and dice him all night, turning them into Swiss cheese
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Speaker 5: on their shots. Secondly... Joey DeCourt himself after the second
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Speaker 5: period had stopped 45 of 46 Calgary shots at that
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Speaker 5: point in the game. Obviously, he gave up one on
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Speaker 5: the power play in the third period, but feeling really
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Speaker 5: confident against these flames. I talked about hitting a little bit.
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Speaker 5: Douglas going into that third period, he had four hits.
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Speaker 5: Larson had four hits, and Bobby McMahon had four himself
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Speaker 5: in addition to four shots on goal and obviously the
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Speaker 5: goal itself as well. So I love the physicality coupled
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Speaker 5: with the offense there from Bobby McMahon. and then Berkley Catton,
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Speaker 5: one goal, one assist, really showing the confidence. I'm going
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Speaker 5: to say this like a parent. It's like watching your
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Speaker 5: kid grow up. You know, like you were proud to
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Speaker 5: see him get into the league last year, and you
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Speaker 5: were proud to see him get in shifts, and now
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Speaker 5: you're starting to see him contribute on a regular basis,
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Speaker 5: not hesitate when he has opportunities, and really becoming a
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Speaker 5: contributing factor on this team. Three stars of the game,
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Speaker 5: Mama K's three stars. Berkley Catton was your third star.
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Speaker 5: He had a goal and one assist. He was plus
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Speaker 5: two on the night, just mentioning him above. Joey Decord
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Speaker 5: as well, also talking about him stopping 32 of 33.
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Speaker 5: He was your second star, posting a 9-7-0 save percentage.
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Speaker 5: And the number one star tonight, didn't talk about him
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Speaker 3: That'll do it here for us from the press box
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Speaker 3: inside of Climate Pledge Arena. The Kraken with a 6-1
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Speaker 3: win over the Calgary Flames. I'm looking forward to the
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Speaker 3: Kraken's first non-Canadian opponent of the season.
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Speaker 4: Four preseason games. What are you saying, partner?
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Speaker 3: Listen, I love it. I love you, man. I love
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Speaker 3: our neighbors to the north, but I want to see
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Speaker 3: some other teams.
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Speaker 4: So Vegas coming in here on Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: And then the Kraken on their way to a road
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Speaker 3: trip after that. They'll see Detroit, Washington, Philadelphia, Tampa, and Florida.
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Speaker 3: But first, we go down to Mike Benton, who will
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Speaker 3: take you home the rest of the way.
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Speaker 10: You mean to tell me they're going to face somebody
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Speaker 10: else besides Calgary?
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Speaker 5: I can't believe it. I had to go back and.
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Speaker 4: Check the schedule. Color me shocked, Michael.
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Speaker 10: It's coming here. It's coming on Tuesday. Fellas, great call.
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Speaker 10: Thank you very much once again. Indeed, as we got to,
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Speaker 10: the kids are all right, and the Kraken tonight didn't
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Speaker 10: win a game. They put on a show. The young kids,
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Speaker 10: ages 23 or younger, Berkley Catton, Mackie Samuskevich, Maddie Beneers,
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Speaker 10: Shane Wright, six points combined this evening as the Kraken
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Speaker 10: now have won their last two home openers and also
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Speaker 10: established the largest margin of victory in a home opener. 6-1,
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Speaker 10: your final score as the Kraken cruise again past the Flames.
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Speaker 10: And this offense, 13 goals in three games. Is it
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Speaker 10: Flames-induced or is it Kraken-induced? Well, for the Kraken, they
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Speaker 10: don't care. They look solid, they look sharp out of
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Speaker 10: As a Kraken, improved to 2-1 on the young season,
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Speaker 10: waiting period for an official regular season game in the books,
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Speaker 10: for the win over the Calgary Flames and beating Calgary
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Speaker 10: for the second time in three games to open the season.
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Speaker 10: Needless to say, they've been waiting for this kind of
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Speaker 10: hockey They are wearing the flames out at this point
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Speaker 10: with 12 combined goals on the board in two matchups.
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Speaker 10: Mike Benton again with you, back for the Coors Light
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Speaker 10: landing and Section 20. The Kraken improving to 2-1 on
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Speaker 10: the young season. Calgary is still searching for their first
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Speaker 10: win of the year, and many are saying it could
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Speaker 10: be a hard year for them, and they're already taking
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Speaker 10: their lumps early on. They fall to 0-3. The Kraken,
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Speaker 10: by the way, for home openers, get their second consecutive
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Speaker 10: home opening win in a row and also establish their
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Speaker 10: largest margin of victory for a home opener in franchise history.
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Speaker 10: this place have to wait to get loud from the
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Speaker 10: opening puck drop?
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Speaker 4: Here comes Kako, rink wide across for Shane Wright.
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Speaker 5: Intercepted, knocked down, Burberry Cat scores!
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Speaker 1: Berkley Catton follows the play and buries in the rebound.
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Speaker 1: The first goal at Climate Pledge Arena this season belongs
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Speaker 1: to number.
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Speaker 4: 27 in blue.
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Speaker 1: And the Kraken on top, 1-0, 17-38 to play in
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Speaker 1: the first.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's Kapokako down that left side. He's trying to
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Speaker 5: feed Shane Wright.
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Speaker 4: That puck gets deflected to Berkley Catton.
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Speaker 5: Coming from right to left, he puts that puck onto
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Speaker 5: Dustin Wolfe. Top shelf, glove side, 1-0 Kraken.
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Speaker 10: It took Bertley Catton last year 28 games to pick
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Speaker 10: up his first career NHL goal. This time, he's got
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Speaker 10: his first goal of the year in game number three.
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Speaker 10: 2-22 is all it took for him and the Kraken
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Speaker 10: to get on the board for the home faithful. That
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Speaker 10: made it 1-0, the goal coming unassisted. After that, Mackie
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Speaker 10: Samaskewicz stepping into the spotlight, and what would he do
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Speaker 10: with the lights getting bright on number 11?
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Speaker 4: A stickless Joey the Cord for a moment.
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Speaker 3: Now Montour will kick the stick back into the goal crease,
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Speaker 3: and Joey the Cord picks.
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Speaker 5: It back up.
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Speaker 4: Now Mackie Samaskewicz, what a move!
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Speaker 12: He scores!
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Speaker 1: Mackie Samaskevich fighting his way over the blue line. He
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Speaker 1: stayed with the puck and he finds the back of
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Speaker 1: the net for his first goal in Kraken Colors.
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Speaker 4: It's a 2-0 Seattle lead, 15-20 to play in the first.
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Speaker 5: Well, this was a lob pass by Brandon Montour down
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Speaker 5: at the bottom of the circles in his own end.
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Speaker 5: He flips that puck all the way up the middle
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Speaker 5: of the far blue line where Samaskevich gets it in
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Speaker 5: full speed, blowing past the Flames defenseman.
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Speaker 4: 0.5 hole on Wolf, 2-0 Kraken.
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Speaker 10: Mackie Samuskevich says hello to Seattle and did so in
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Speaker 10: dramatic fashion with some flair. 4.40 the time of his
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Speaker 10: first goal in Kraken colors. Brandon Montour, Riker Evans had
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Speaker 10: the assist. As he didn't just blow past Kevin Ball
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Speaker 10: and Zach Whitecloud, he left a vapor trail behind that
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Speaker 10: defensive pair. That made it 2-0. The Kraken then bumped
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Speaker 10: the lead to 3-0. Bobby McMahon now with goals in
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Speaker 10: back-to-back games. His second goal of the season going bar
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Speaker 10: down on Dustin Wolfe at 740. Chandler Stevenson had the
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Speaker 10: assist on the play. He's got now points in six
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Speaker 10: straight games of his career against Calgary. And McMahon, by
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Speaker 10: the way, with that goal, he's got 12 since going
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Speaker 10: back to last season on March 6th. Nobody on this
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Speaker 10: Kraken roster has more than him in that span. So
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Speaker 10: just like night number one for the Kraken against the Flames,
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Speaker 10: night number two goes off with the exact same bang.
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Speaker 10: Three goals in the opening 20 minutes of play to
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Speaker 10: establish a 3-0 lead. And the Kraken had this game
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Speaker 10: firmly established. in their grip. But into the second period,
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Speaker 10: they weren't stopping there as Berkley Catton hit the ice.
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Speaker 4: Shane Wright scores!
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Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: A spinorama five-hole backhand on Dustin Wolfe. And the crack
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Speaker 5: Well, it all starts with Berkeley Cat down that right side.
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Speaker 4: 4-0 Seattle.
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20:37
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Speaker 10: 4-9-4-5-1, Tacoma Dodge text line. Let's get to it here
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Speaker 10: Glad to have you along, Mike Benton, Al Koniski, right back.
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Speaker 10: by the Coors Light landing in Section 20 of Climate
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Speaker 10: Pledge Arena. 6-1 your final score, the Kraken over the
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Speaker 10: on the Tacoma Dodge text line. Who impressed you most
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Speaker 10: with the victory for this evening?
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Speaker 4: 4-9-4-5-1.
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Speaker 10: I've got a feeling a lot of you have got
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Speaker 10: number 11 on your mind. Maybe some of you have
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Speaker 10: number 27 on your mind. Maybe the goaltender, that's also
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Speaker 10: going to be a big part of the equation, not
31:38
Speaker 10: just tonight, not just this month, but for the entire season. 4-9-4-5-1.
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Speaker 10: And I think maybe you can break it down like this.
31:47
Speaker 10: Do you look at three games in where the Kraken
31:50
Speaker 10: scored 13 goals as a matter of 12 of those
31:54
Speaker 10: 13 have come against a Flames team that is going
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Speaker 10: to miss the playoffs and really take their lumps here
31:59
Speaker 10: potentially as a lottery team? Or are you more convinced
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Speaker 10: about this as a Kraken team that is really coming
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Speaker 10: together no matter who they're going.
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Speaker 5: To face, 4-9-4-5-1.
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Speaker 10: And I can't wait to hear your reaction once again
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Speaker 10: We're going to get to a lot of this here, 4-9-4-5-1.
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Speaker 10: Al Kaniski up here on the set once again to
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Speaker 10: close this one out. We had a long day.
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Speaker 5: Yes, we did.
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Speaker 10: We had a fun day. My goodness, for a home opener,
32:43
Speaker 10: this team didn't just get a win, Al. They put
32:47
Speaker 10: on a show.
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Speaker 5: They absolutely did. And listen, I don't take anything away
32:51
Speaker 5: that this was Calgary and they're in a rebuilding year. Listen,
32:54
Speaker 5: they played just as strong up in Edmonton last night.
32:58
Speaker 5: They were real close to earning a point in that game.
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Speaker 5: And there's an argument to say, They should have won
33:04
Speaker 5: the game had they put a few more pucks on net.
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Speaker 5: So I like the way they've played over the first
33:09
Speaker 5: three games. I think that the fact that they just
33:11
Speaker 5: played a weaker team in two of those three games
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Speaker 5: got them wins, but it wasn't a tight 2-1 win.
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Speaker 5: They won those handedly. And like we talked about in
33:20
Speaker 5: the postgame, how many times last year, Mike, were there
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Speaker 5: games where we thought, here's a game the Kraken need
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Speaker 5: to win, and they didn't? And how close were they
33:28
Speaker 5: to get into the playoffs? So You enter this year,
33:31
Speaker 5: you play a team you're supposed to win two times,
33:32
Speaker 5: you beat them two times, and you beat them handily.
33:35
Speaker 5: That's an important way to start.
33:36
Speaker 10: Mackie Samuskevich had two goals. Berkeley Catton had one. Bobby
33:40
Speaker 10: McMahon had one. Shane Wright, Jordan Eberle. There's kind of
33:43
Speaker 10: a familiar theme here to all of this, and we'll
33:45
Speaker 10: get to it here in a little bit. But back
33:48
Speaker 10: to your point earlier, Al, as, again, the Kraken beat
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Speaker 10: Calgary 6-1. We're going to also hear from Joey Decord,
33:53
Speaker 10: among others, here a little bit later on. You mentioned
33:57
Speaker 10: how many times did this end on the flip side
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Speaker 10: for the Kraken? I think for me it goes back
34:02
Speaker 10: to period one. This team came out on their toes
34:07
Speaker 10: for the second game of a back-to-back. Matty Beniers' line
34:11
Speaker 10: looked ready. Berkeley Catton's line looked ready. Mackie Samaskevich scored
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Speaker 10: a goal that just blew the top off of so
34:18
Speaker 10: many fans here in this building. And granted, the period
34:22
Speaker 10: looked maybe rather subdued. Calgary looked slow. The Kraken, though,
34:27
Speaker 10: did not, but a roundabout way to get to what
34:29
Speaker 10: you mentioned. How many times were we saying the exact
34:33
Speaker 10: opposite of how the Kraken came out in the first
34:36
Speaker 10: five minutes, 10 minutes, even 15 minutes on the second
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Speaker 10: game of a back-to-back?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, that's just it, too, is, you know, back-to-backs
34:44
Speaker 5: have been a challenge in past seasons, and, you know,
34:47
Speaker 5: this was not a back-to-back where you're playing both at
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Speaker 5: home or both the same team on the road. You
34:54
Speaker 5: had to travel last night, and... The guys, I thought,
34:57
Speaker 5: performed well based on that. So that was, I guess, reinvigorating.
35:02
Speaker 5: The other thing is, if you look at these six goals, yeah,
35:04
Speaker 5: Jordan Eberle got one as well, and Shane Ray on
35:07
Speaker 5: the board. But Mackie Samuskevich gets two. Bobby McMahon gets one.
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Speaker 5: Berkeley Catton gets one. Two years ago, these guys weren't
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Speaker 5: on the roster.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 5: And so you think about this team needing to score more.
35:18
Speaker 5: It's been a big pusher over the past couple of years. Well,
35:20
Speaker 5: there's four guys right there that are now a part
35:22
Speaker 5: of this roster that that are putting pucks in the net,
35:25
Speaker 5: and that's great to see.
35:25
Speaker 10: How many times have we heard before, the kids are coming?
35:30
Speaker 10: The kids are coming. I like that you.
35:32
Speaker 5: Refer to Bobby McMahon as a kid, but okay.
35:35
Speaker 10: I think my point in all of this is that
35:38
Speaker 10: four of your six goals scored tonight were by players
35:43
Speaker 10: age 23 or younger on this roster. That goes back
35:46
Speaker 10: to what Jason Botterill said. There could be as many
35:49
Speaker 10: as eight on this roster tonight, But there's once again
35:52
Speaker 10: a look inside to where this team has to grow
35:55
Speaker 10: and has to develop, and it comes from your youth.
35:58
Speaker 10: And my goodness, Berkley Catton looks a lot better to
36:00
Speaker 10: begin this season as well. He's figured things out at
36:03
Speaker 10: the NHL level, but his shifts are really becoming must-see
36:08
Speaker 10: stuff now. And then Mackie Samaskewicz, we heard it before.
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Speaker 10: Speed burns, speed kills, but my goodness, he left a
36:15
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36:16
Speaker 5: Well, you know, as having a job that requires you
36:20
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36:25
Speaker 5: watching Berkeley Catton and his development over the course of
36:28
Speaker 5: last season, I would say he wasn't as confident as
36:32
Speaker 5: he is right now. I wouldn't say he wasn't as
36:33
Speaker 5: strong as he is right now. He wasn't as, you know,
36:36
Speaker 5: as quick to shoot the puck. All that's off the
36:39
Speaker 5: board now over the last three games. You see that confidence.
36:41
Speaker 5: You see that shot. You see the way he anticipates
36:45
Speaker 5: plays developing with bump passes. And I think the ceiling,
36:49
Speaker 5: you know, he obviously hasn't even hit that ceiling yet
36:51
Speaker 5: for the NHL. So it's nice to see how his
36:56
Speaker 5: development's coming along. And I think we're going to see
36:58
Speaker 5: a lot more of it over the course of the season.
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37:04
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37:21
Speaker 10: strong first period because, again, you're playing on your second leg,
37:24
Speaker 10: a back-to-back. How many times have we said before you
37:29
Speaker 10: play in a building the previous night, you travel, you
37:32
Speaker 10: get into bed late, depending upon how late it is.
37:35
Speaker 10: That can wear not just on the body, but also
37:38
Speaker 10: here for the mind. So I think in some ways
37:41
Speaker 10: for me, this led to the belief of he had
37:44
Speaker 10: to win the first 30 minutes. It was going to
37:47
Speaker 10: be a race to about roughly 10 minutes left in
37:50
Speaker 10: the second period because both these teams played last night.
37:54
Speaker 10: Calgary had the later game, and I think it certainly showed.
37:56
Speaker 10: But could you get ahead by that 10-minute mark? Because
38:00
Speaker 10: usually by then, You see the legs go. Then you
38:04
Speaker 10: see the brain go. So if the Kraken can get ahead,
38:08
Speaker 10: that's where your structure comes into play. And you can
38:12
Speaker 10: put the final nail in the coffin, so to speak,
38:14
Speaker 10: here for a game like this.
38:15
Speaker 5: Well, there's a big part of this game that's psychological. And,
38:17
Speaker 5: you know, as a player, you're certainly thinking about it
38:21
Speaker 5: on the ice during the game. But, you know, big picture,
38:24
Speaker 5: you're playing a team, like you said, that got in.
38:27
Speaker 5: I heard 2 a.m. last night is when they either
38:29
Speaker 5: got in or heads hit the pillow in it. and
38:31
Speaker 5: you hope it was heads hit the pillow and not
38:33
Speaker 5: to actually get in.
38:34
Speaker 10: And that's crazy because they were only in Vancouver, but
38:36
Speaker 10: they had border crossing also.
38:38
Speaker 5: I think there was a border issue or whatever, and
38:40
Speaker 5: that's the challenge you have when you play a second
38:41
Speaker 5: of a back-to-back and you have to cross the border.
38:44
Speaker 5: Seattle came back last night from Edmonton. They, too, had
38:47
Speaker 5: to cross the border as well, but they had an
38:48
Speaker 5: earlier game. I think what happens, if you're able to
38:52
Speaker 5: jump on a team early in that first period, even
38:54
Speaker 5: if it's the first goal, the second goal, Those doubts
38:57
Speaker 5: start to creep in. Those excuses start to creep in. Hey,
39:00
Speaker 5: we got back late last night. Hey, we're in a
39:02
Speaker 5: rebuilding year. Hey, hey, hey. And I think that the
39:05
Speaker 5: more you can feed those excuses, the more you start
39:08
Speaker 5: playing downhill the rest of the game. And I think
39:10
Speaker 5: getting three goals in the first period for the Kraken
39:13
Speaker 5: helped Calgary start to think about those excuses.
39:16
Speaker 10: Kraken did not get a power play for the entire evening.
39:20
Speaker 10: Calgary didn't take a single penalty as well. Calgary goes
39:24
Speaker 10: one of two on the man advantage. And I think
39:26
Speaker 10: the Kraken pass a test here the first time out
39:29
Speaker 10: on the PK. Mackie Samaskevich went off for high sticking
39:32
Speaker 10: the Kraken then didn't take another penalty and put a
39:36
Speaker 10: man in the box until 1333 left or gone by
39:41
Speaker 10: in the third period and by that time the game
39:43
Speaker 10: was already academic so I think based on that scale
39:46
Speaker 10: what did you make out of the penalty kill now
39:47
Speaker 10: for the third straight night.
39:48
Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, the kill there in the third period where
39:51
Speaker 5: they actually, where Faraby scored the goal, it's one of
39:55
Speaker 5: those situations where, again, I'll go back to the psychological part.
39:59
Speaker 5: Are you as willing to throw your body in front
40:01
Speaker 5: of a shot from the point when you're up 6-0
40:04
Speaker 5: or 5-0, I think it was at that point. Probably not.
40:07
Speaker 5: You certainly don't want to convey that, but I think
40:10
Speaker 5: more shots are likely to get through in that situation,
40:12
Speaker 5: and in that case, they did, and they were able
40:15
Speaker 5: to capitalize on it. So, You hope you don't necessarily
40:18
Speaker 5: see that if the game's 1-1 or something like that,
40:20
Speaker 5: but that was the end result. It's too bad because
40:23
Speaker 5: I think Joey Decord played well enough to earn a shutout. Unfortunately,
40:26
Speaker 5: they beat him on that power play.
40:28
Speaker 10: What's the biggest key for the penalty kill, you think,
40:30
Speaker 10: just based on their structure and based on how they
40:33
Speaker 10: had to react? Because we do see some dynamic movement,
40:35
Speaker 10: but it often requires not just the essence of hustle,
40:39
Speaker 10: but also for brains as well.
40:41
Speaker 5: There's a certain amount of it that's luck as well.
40:44
Speaker 5: The hustle was certainly there on that PK, and I
40:47
Speaker 5: like the way the PK has looked so far. It's
40:49
Speaker 5: been an area of opportunity for improvement this season, and
40:52
Speaker 5: I think it's looked pretty good over the first few games.
40:55
Speaker 5: You're always going to look at every goal that scored
40:57
Speaker 5: against you on your penalty kill and say, what could
40:59
Speaker 5: you have done differently? And sometimes a puck just bounces
41:03
Speaker 5: the wrong way. It happened that way at the end
41:04
Speaker 5: of the game up in Edmonton with the game-winning goal
41:06
Speaker 5: by Drysaddle off of a ricochet off of a skate.
41:09
Speaker 5: Sometimes the puck just bounces the wrong way so you
41:12
Speaker 5: got to look at that penalty kill and figure out
41:14
Speaker 5: what could have been done differently I'm guessing it probably
41:17
Speaker 5: has to do with a clear that didn't happen right
41:19
Speaker 5: before that goal was scored but those are opportunities.
41:23
Speaker 10: Third thing I was looking for tonight were the kids
41:26
Speaker 10: and we already went through what they did just I
41:29
Speaker 10: think based on a surface scale but I thought you
41:31
Speaker 10: brought up a great point earlier with Everett during the
41:34
Speaker 10: course of the broadcast we'll see how these lines shake
41:36
Speaker 10: out but so far I think many had to like
41:39
Speaker 10: what Mackie Samaskevich does with Matty Benirez for obvious reasons
41:43
Speaker 10: because they help elevate their skill. You have McCann who
41:46
Speaker 10: can finish on the left wing, but then Berkley Catton.
41:50
Speaker 10: What are we seeing out of him? Capo Caco and
41:53
Speaker 10: Shane Wright that really helps put this skill in the
41:56
Speaker 10: right place.
41:57
Speaker 5: Well, Capo Caco was new onto that line today with
42:01
Speaker 5: Shane Wright and Berkley Catton, and Winterton had dropped to
42:04
Speaker 5: the fourth line. But through the course of the game,
42:07
Speaker 5: the Lions got into a blender. I think Lane Lambert
42:10
Speaker 5: was shuffling through wingers on that fourth line quite a bit.
42:13
Speaker 5: We saw Sam Miskevich go out on the fourth line.
42:15
Speaker 5: We saw Douglas go out on the fourth line, et cetera.
42:18
Speaker 5: I think Winterton went a few times as well. But
42:21
Speaker 5: I think as far as those kids go and who
42:23
Speaker 5: the right combination is, I think you're going to see
42:26
Speaker 5: Berkley Catton stay at that third-line center position. And Lane
42:30
Speaker 5: Lambert's just trying to figure out who's the right pairing
42:32
Speaker 5: for him on the left side or the right side,
42:35
Speaker 5: because they like to work in pairs. Who's the right
42:37
Speaker 5: pairing to stay with Berkley Catton over the course of
42:40
Speaker 5: the season? And then you start feeding that third person
42:42
Speaker 5: that only makes the other two better. You've got a
42:44
Speaker 5: deadly line, Mike.
42:45
Speaker 10: And I think also you bring up a great point, too,
42:47
Speaker 10: because I also want to get to why you shuffle
42:49
Speaker 10: through some mixing and matching on that fourth line. Originally,
42:53
Speaker 10: it was Curtis Douglas, Freddie Goudreau, and Ryan Winterton. Curtis
42:56
Speaker 10: Douglas played... 7.46 of ice time tonight. That was far
43:01
Speaker 10: and away lowest on the entire team. The reason is
43:05
Speaker 10: he plays in a specialized role. And what is that
43:08
Speaker 10: specialized role? Plenty of muscle. By the way, he's got
43:13
Speaker 10: five hits in this game. He had two block shots
43:15
Speaker 10: as well. But just having that presence, I think, for me. Presence,
43:18
Speaker 10: that's the word. And our colleague Ian Furness said this earlier,
43:23
Speaker 10: and it was a great point. When you have a
43:25
Speaker 10: guy who is that big, that imposing, And that threatening,
43:30
Speaker 10: whether he is on the ice or on the bench,
43:32
Speaker 10: your team behaves and they play an extra five inches taller.
43:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, they do play an extra five inches taller.
43:39
Speaker 5: You know who behaves is the other team. And listen,
43:42
Speaker 5: Calgary's got some tough characters on it as well. But
43:45
Speaker 5: I think what it stops is it stops things from
43:47
Speaker 5: getting out of hand. And if you don't have that
43:51
Speaker 5: presence on the team, you can be taken advantage of.
43:53
Speaker 5: You can start taking a lot more physicality than you
43:56
Speaker 5: want without as much of a response. And as soon
43:58
Speaker 5: as you have that presence on the bench, it dials
44:01
Speaker 5: it back a little bit. So, yeah, he didn't have
44:04
Speaker 5: more than eight minutes of time on the ice, but
44:06
Speaker 5: I think that his effect, his presence. was both important
44:10
Speaker 5: on the ice and off the ice.
44:11
Speaker 10: How about that hit he had back at the benches tonight?
44:13
Speaker 5: Yeah. Oh, my goodness. That was a beauty.
44:17
Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness.
44:18
Speaker 10: That makes a team certainly put that in the memory banks. Again,
44:21
Speaker 10: 6-1 Calgary, or the Kraken beat Calgary, and the Kraken
44:24
Speaker 10: have scored now 13 goals in the first three games.
44:28
Speaker 5: Once again, 4-9, 4-5-1.
44:30
Speaker 10: The place here to get at us here for your reaction.
44:32
Speaker 10: I want to hear who impressed you most in tonight's win, 4-9, 4-5-1.
44:37
Speaker 10: Let's jump into things right now. 4-2-5 saying it sounds
44:41
Speaker 10: like there are some good guys here from the WHL
44:43
Speaker 10: that are making an impact here on this game, that
44:46
Speaker 10: from the 4-2-5. I believe the reference at the top,
44:50
Speaker 10: of course, would go to Berkley Catton after what he
44:54
Speaker 10: did in Spokane, but I just go back and think of,
44:58
Speaker 10: you know, how much Catton played last year on the wing.
45:03
Speaker 4: Now he's moving here to center.
45:05
Speaker 10: To add to this, it's different playing center in the
45:08
Speaker 10: NHL because on the wing, you're a goal scorer. You've
45:12
Speaker 10: got to pay attention to board battles as well. As
45:15
Speaker 10: a centerman, if you want to thrive in the NHL
45:18
Speaker 10: and be a playmaker, it's not just being able to
45:20
Speaker 10: be a distributor, but also taking care of 200 feet
45:25
Speaker 10: of the ice. Al, what I love about that goal
45:28
Speaker 10: that Shane Wright scored, not just for the exquisite spinorama finish,
45:34
Speaker 10: but you have Katton who's got the puck, originally right
45:37
Speaker 10: back in the neutral zone. He's got to either make
45:39
Speaker 10: two decisions, chip it or make a play. He decides
45:43
Speaker 10: to make a play. Hit on the afterburners, went to
45:47
Speaker 10: the outside, and hit the brakes at the circle and
45:51
Speaker 10: put it right on a tee for Shane Wright.
45:53
Speaker 5: I mean, wait, let's not take anything away from Shane Wright.
45:57
Speaker 5: I don't know if he put it on a tee.
45:58
Speaker 5: He put it in a place where Shane Wright couldn't
46:00
Speaker 5: shoot it. So Shane Wright says, hold my beer. He
46:04
Speaker 5: found the open man, though. Well, he found him. Maybe
46:07
Speaker 5: it wasn't forehand. He had to spin around and put
46:09
Speaker 5: a backhand on that, which, again, is a sign of
46:11
Speaker 5: a goal scorer. Hey, that's a great pass. Thank you
46:14
Speaker 5: for giving me the puck. That's not going to be
46:16
Speaker 5: the shot I need to get off here. So I'm
46:18
Speaker 5: going to spin around and put it on net. So
46:19
Speaker 5: I thought that was a great finish by Shane Wright.
46:21
Speaker 10: 206 saying pretty impressed here by Mackie Samuskevich. We're getting
46:25
Speaker 10: a few of these in here for tonight. 360, the
46:30
Speaker 10: entire team impressed me this evening. They played a full
46:32
Speaker 10: 60 minutes, and the way they played made me forget
46:35
Speaker 10: that we had a game as well last night. One
46:38
Speaker 10: of these days, the Kraken will beat the Edmonton Oilers
46:40
Speaker 10: at Rogers Place.
46:41
Speaker 5: One of these days.
46:43
Speaker 10: One of these days. But for now, I think when
46:46
Speaker 10: you go back up and down the lineup and the
46:48
Speaker 10: fact the Kraken were outshot, 33-27 for this game. A
46:53
Speaker 10: shot on goal is not always a shot on goal,
46:55
Speaker 10: and I think the most important thing for me is that,
46:58
Speaker 10: was Joey Decord flopping in net? Did he appear to
47:02
Speaker 10: be in grave danger on nearly every scoring chance? To me,
47:05
Speaker 10: the answer was no, and you are totally fine with
47:08
Speaker 10: him handling those kind of saves.
47:10
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely. I didn't think there was anything that leaked
47:12
Speaker 5: through on him. I didn't think there were any situations
47:15
Speaker 5: where he overplayed a puck behind. He actually had his
47:17
Speaker 5: stick lifted or almost lifted once. Maybe that one was
47:20
Speaker 5: right on the edge. I think it was the first period.
47:22
Speaker 5: But nothing that he wasn't able to control from a
47:24
Speaker 5: rebound standpoint. So a very solid game for Joey Decord.
47:28
Speaker 5: Great building game for him. You know, goaltenders are very
47:31
Speaker 5: critical of themselves. I'm sure he's going to look at
47:33
Speaker 5: tape and figure out what he could have done differently
47:35
Speaker 5: or done better. But I liked his game tonight. But, Mikey,
47:39
Speaker 5: going back to the physicality, just looking at some of
47:41
Speaker 5: the final stats here. Coming into the game, Adam Larson
47:44
Speaker 5: led this team in hits. Yeah. So he's a defenseman.
47:50
Speaker 5: The top forward going into the game with hits was
47:52
Speaker 5: Curtis Douglas. At the end of the night, tonight, Adam
47:56
Speaker 5: Larson with five hits, Curtis Douglas five hits. So they
48:00
Speaker 5: remain neck and neck as far as physicality on this team.
48:02
Speaker 5: And I'm saying this because Jacob Melanson's on the lineup
48:05
Speaker 5: right now, and he plays a big role in that physicality.
48:08
Speaker 5: So it's nice to see guys like Adam Larson– maybe
48:11
Speaker 5: covering some of that loss a little bit. He had
48:13
Speaker 5: a huge hit on Adam Klapka midway through the game
48:16
Speaker 5: that put Klapka on his back, which was huge. But
48:19
Speaker 5: another guy in that mix is Bobby McMahon. Bobby McMahon
48:23
Speaker 5: had four hits. How many shots on him? He had six.
48:26
Speaker 5: Give me as many players on my team that are going.
48:28
Speaker 10: To pay that man his money.
48:30
Speaker 4: He got paid.
48:31
Speaker 5: Give me as many guys on my team as possible
48:33
Speaker 5: that are going to go out and get four hits,
48:36
Speaker 5: six shots, and get a goal to boot. Those are
48:38
Speaker 5: real hockey players. All right.
48:39
Speaker 10: Down to the room we go. Crack and win 6-1
48:42
Speaker 10: over Calgary. And here's more reaction with goaltender Joey Decord.
48:52
Speaker 21: Joey, there's certain nights when it probably feels like the
48:55
Speaker 21: puck is going to stay out of your net. Is
48:57
Speaker 21: this one of those nights where the puck was just
48:59
Speaker 21: finally different?
49:00
Speaker 16: Yeah, we love those nights. Those are the best nights
49:02
Speaker 16: as a goalie.
49:03
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, honestly, the energy was absolutely nuts in
49:07
Speaker 15: the arena tonight.
49:07
Speaker 5: It was so loud.
49:08
Speaker 16: It was fun to be back playing in our home arena.
49:11
Speaker 15: Yeah, it was a bit of a frantic first period,
49:14
Speaker 15: I felt like, but once it calmed down, we were
49:17
Speaker 15: up 3-0.
49:17
Speaker 16: We put ourselves in a good spot. So, yeah, I mean,
49:20
Speaker 16: It was fun to be out there with the guys
49:21
Speaker 16: and back at home.
49:22
Speaker 21: Was there a particular save that you remember where you
49:24
Speaker 21: started to feel like, okay, the puck is definitely finding
49:27
Speaker 21: me tonight?
49:29
Speaker 5: Honestly, I don't know.
49:30
Speaker 15: There was a couple flurries in the first period that
49:33
Speaker 15: I felt were maybe a little bit frantic, just like
49:36
Speaker 15: chaos in.
49:37
Speaker 16: And around the net and sometimes those bounce in, sometimes
49:39
Speaker 16: they don't, and when they don't, start to settle in
49:41
Speaker 16: a little bit, so it was nice to have those
49:43
Speaker 16: go my way.
49:44
Speaker 21: Um, when you see the score, the team scoring at
49:46
Speaker 21: will at the other end, too, I mean, does that
49:49
Speaker 21: just give you more, more confidence, or how does that.
49:51
Speaker 4: Change your mindset?
49:52
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, it's great to play with the lead, uh,
49:55
Speaker 15: it's awesome to see the guys scoring goals, and I mean,
49:57
Speaker 15: pretty goals, too, uh, breakaways, snipes, posting in, bar down, like,
50:01
Speaker 15: some amazing goals, amazing plays, uh, the play that Ryder
50:04
Speaker 15: and Katz made was sick, um, Mackie's got an elite release,
50:08
Speaker 15: and we saw it right there with that shot.
50:11
Speaker 16: He's got sick hands, too, and finished in tight on
50:12
Speaker 16: the breakaway. So, yeah, it was fun to see the
50:16
Speaker 16: guys playing so.
50:16
Speaker 15: Well, and I thought we played really well, the full sheet,
50:20
Speaker 15: the full arena.
50:22
Speaker 16: Guys were blocking shots, making my life easy, boxing out. So, yeah,
50:26
Speaker 16: it's fun to play when we're playing like that.
50:28
Speaker 10: Joey Decord is 2-0 on the young season, and indeed
50:32
Speaker 10: that shot released those hands, helping Mackie Samuskevich earn a
50:36
Speaker 10: two-goal night in his home Kraken debut. The Kraken knockoff
50:40
Speaker 10: of Calgary Flames, 6-1. That's your final score. We're back
50:43
Speaker 10: in a bit here with more on talking Kraken on
50:45
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50:48
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50:52
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50:56
Speaker 2: Now back to talking Kraken with Mike Benton on Sports
51:00
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51:03
Speaker 5: Mike Benton, Al Koniski with you.
51:05
Speaker 10: Back by the Coors Light landing in section 26-1. Kraken
51:08
Speaker 10: beat the Flames now 2-1 on the season and score
51:11
Speaker 10: the most goals tonight. They've scored for a home opening
51:15
Speaker 10: win in franchise history. Down to the room we go
51:17
Speaker 10: once again for reaction from Krakenet coach Lane Lambert.
51:21
Speaker 21: Lane, that's three straight games with very good goaltending. What
51:25
Speaker 21: does that do for your team to just settle in
51:27
Speaker 21: and feel confident out there?
51:29
Speaker 22: Yeah, he played very well for us and certainly at
51:34
Speaker 22: the start I thought we gave them a couple of opportunities.
51:38
Speaker 22: What it did for us is it.
51:39
Speaker 5: Allowed us to.
51:42
Speaker 22: Find some rhythm, but he held it to a zero
51:50
Speaker 22: and we were able to capitalize on our opportunities.
51:53
Speaker 21: And your shot volume hasn't been huge, but considering how
51:56
Speaker 21: hard it was at times to find goals last season,
51:59
Speaker 21: the fact that pucks are going in right now, what
52:02
Speaker 21: can that do for your team here looking ahead to
52:04
Speaker 21: the season here?
52:05
Speaker 22: Yeah, it gains, obviously guys, you know, gives them an
52:10
Speaker 22: opportunity to gain some confidence that way. Certainly, you know,
52:15
Speaker 22: we're making some pretty nice plays and guys are shooting
52:18
Speaker 22: the puck in the net. So it's nice to see,
52:22
Speaker 22: you know, so from a confidence standpoint, but you're not wrong.
52:25
Speaker 22: You know, we still need more shot volume.
52:29
Speaker 23: Lane, that first goal by Mackey kind of came out
52:33
Speaker 23: of nowhere and Joey had just made a couple of
52:36
Speaker 23: big saves to keep the game from being tied. How
52:38
Speaker 23: much can him, like, outracing a guy the way he
52:41
Speaker 23: did to get after a puck, how much can that
52:43
Speaker 23: energize a team and maybe deflate an opponent when both
52:46
Speaker 23: teams are coming off a back-to-back?
52:48
Speaker 5: Yeah, no.
52:49
Speaker 22: Certainly he used his speed. We know he has that.
52:52
Speaker 22: You know, I thought Bobby used his speed as well.
52:56
Speaker 22: He had some, you know, there was pretty good play
52:59
Speaker 22: by Berkley coming up the ice, too, to kind of
53:01
Speaker 22: find that and find that pace. So, you know, it's...
53:05
Speaker 22: It's a focus of ours. It's been a focus of ours.
53:09
Speaker 22: We want to continue to play fast. We want to
53:11
Speaker 22: use our speed. So, you know, again, like I say,
53:14
Speaker 22: Joey was really good prior to that and gave us
53:18
Speaker 22: the opportunity to make those plays.
53:21
Speaker 10: Joey Decor, the backbone and part of it here for
53:23
Speaker 10: the Kraken 6-1 victory over Calgary as he got second
53:26
Speaker 10: star honors tonight with 32 saves. on 33 shots. One
53:31
Speaker 10: more check at the Tacoma Dodge text line. Again, 49451
53:34
Speaker 10: the place to text us. The 410 saying Shane Wright
53:38
Speaker 10: really impressed. He's playing like he has a massive chip
53:41
Speaker 10: on his shoulder. 425 saying Berkley Catton was great. Mackie
53:44
Speaker 10: Samaskewicz was great. Bobby McMahon, Shane Wright, this is the
53:49
Speaker 10: key here to a strong season. That from the 4-2-5,
53:52
Speaker 10: and one more for the 4-2-5, saying the new guys
53:54
Speaker 10: were great, and finally some aggressive net front play and
53:58
Speaker 10: some strong defense as well.
53:59
Speaker 5: Well, talking to JT Brown between periods tonight, we were
54:02
Speaker 5: talking a little bit about net front presence and net
54:04
Speaker 5: front battles, and JT Brown thinks that Shane Wright is
54:08
Speaker 5: one of those guys over the first three games that's
54:10
Speaker 5: probably the leader of the clubhouse for successful net front battles,
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Speaker 5: and we talked to him in the postgame interview a
54:16
Speaker 5: little bit, and he said, yeah, I'm looking to get
54:18
Speaker 5: to the front of the net more. I'm looking for
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Speaker 5: more net front battles. That's where goals are scored, and
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Speaker 5: I love that about that.
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Speaker 10: I remember about a couple of years ago, Capo Caco
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Speaker 10: made a great play to Shane Wright. I believe it
54:30
Speaker 10: was against New Jersey when they were here in this building.
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Speaker 10: They had nearly a similar play tonight where Shane Wright
54:37
Speaker 10: outraced his man to the front of the net, but
54:39
Speaker 10: the pass was just about a couple of inches off
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Speaker 10: the mark. I mean, the game was already well in
54:45
Speaker 10: favor of the Kraken, but it would have certainly put
54:47
Speaker 10: it on ice for good, but yet I got a
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Speaker 10: feeling that More of those plays are coming, and that's
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Speaker 10: going to be a big part of the building blocks
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Speaker 10: here for Shane Wright's game offensively.
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Speaker 5: Listen, you'd like to score every goal off a three-on-two,
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Speaker 5: a two-on-one rush. The game just doesn't work that way.
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Speaker 5: You have to get ugly goals as well, and the
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Speaker 5: way you do that, it's digging the puck out of
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Speaker 5: the trenches in the corner and the rebounds in front
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Speaker 5: of the net. It's going hard in front of the net.
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Speaker 5: And I think that the sooner you realize that, the
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Speaker 5: more success you start having in the goal column.
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Speaker 10: All right, so how do they do this again? Because
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Speaker 10: it's going to be a bit of a stiffer test.
55:19
Speaker 10: How about you want to try the defending Western Conference champions?
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Speaker 10: on for size. That comes up Tuesday when the Kraken
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Speaker 10: will take on the Vegas Golden Knights. Big question for Vegas, Al,
55:30
Speaker 10: is can they replace Pavel Dorofeev's offense? He has 72
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Speaker 10: goals last two seasons. 33 of those as well came
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Speaker 10: via the power play, but they had their hands full
55:41
Speaker 10: with the Vancouver Canucks this evening, and Vegas just holding
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Speaker 10: on for a 3-2 win. They had three goals in
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Speaker 10: that second period, but The Kraken found a way to
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Speaker 10: maybe get through to Vegas and won both games last
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Speaker 10: year at Climate Pledge Arena here. So when you face Vegas,
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Speaker 10: you're going deep into the weeds because you know where
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Speaker 10: Mark Stone's going. William Carlson can make plays as well.
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Speaker 10: Mitch Marner was a playoff monster. So can you find
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Speaker 10: a way to, again, win those battles at the front
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Speaker 10: of the net and also win the puck possession game?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think it's going to have to be a
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Speaker 5: lot of the same thing. And yes, the goals don't
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Speaker 5: come as easy against a team like the Vegas Golden Knights.
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Speaker 5: But right now in the Western Conference, small sample size,
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Speaker 5: don't DM me. Kraken with a plus eight goal differential.
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Speaker 5: Best in the Western Conference right now. So clearly they're
56:28
Speaker 5: putting the pucks in the net. That builds some confidence.
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Speaker 5: They're going to be shooting the puck a lot Tuesday
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Speaker 5: night and looking for the back of the net.
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Speaker 10: Hey, I'll DM you later with some love here. You
56:36
Speaker 10: made some friends, Alston, brought some nice.
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Speaker 5: Food right behind us. The Benton family is going to
56:40
Speaker 5: be happy tonight.
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Speaker 4: My goodness, what do I owe you?
56:42
Speaker 5: And tip of the cap to Ballard Pizza for sharing
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Speaker 5: some of their leftovers here.
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Speaker 10: They do it well here. They do it well. So
56:48
Speaker 10: everyone leaves happy. The Taste Buds will also leave this
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Speaker 10: building happy.
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Speaker 4: Thanks, Al, by the way.
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Speaker 1: You're welcome.
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Speaker 10: Great to have you here on the set once again.
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Speaker 10: Our next broadcast Tuesday, Kraken Vegas. Puck drops at 640.
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Speaker 10: Airtime is at 6. Big thanks again to Travis Moger,
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Speaker 10: our technical director. Terry Ryan, our on-site engineer. Also to
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Speaker 10: our friends... at Tom's Watch Bar for their help on
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Speaker 10: the pregame side.
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Speaker 5: That will do it for here.
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Speaker 10: For Al Kaniski, this is Mike Benton saying goodnight from
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Speaker 10: Climate Pledge Arena, and thank you for joining us. Your
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Speaker 10: final score, once again, Kraken 6, Flames 1. This is
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Speaker 10: Talking Kraken on 93.3 KJRFM.