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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert speaks with Mike Benton before the Kraken face the Jets (4/6) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Andrews.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you back now with the Crank ANDEAE coach Lane
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  Speaker 2: Lambert in Winnipeg and Lane first off with seven games
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  Speaker 2: left in the regular season. Sometimes it's said that confidence
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  Speaker 2: feeds execution and vice versus. So as a coach, how
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  Speaker 2: does perspective of this time of year help this team
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  Speaker 2: navigate high stakes?
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  Speaker 1: For Well, there's no question that confidence, you know, leads
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  Speaker 1: to execution and vice versa. And right now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're having a little bit of trouble, you know,
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  Speaker 1: certainly with our confidence level and you know, which is
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  Speaker 1: leading to at times some for execution at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, you know, and I've talked about it
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  Speaker 1: all throughout this stretch. You know, we have to reset, reset,
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  Speaker 1: and look forward, don't look past in the past, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the focus for tonight against the Winnipig Jets.
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  Speaker 2: Members have been very good for Coppocaco since the Olympic
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  Speaker 2: break in over the last nine road games, he's got
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  Speaker 2: nine points in that stretch. We've talked a lot about
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  Speaker 2: Bobby McMahon as far as his contributions, but what has
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  Speaker 2: coppocco up applied to his game most on a consistent
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  Speaker 2: basis recently.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's just a matter of him being
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  Speaker 1: in and around the net. He's doing a good job
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  Speaker 1: from that standpoint. He's protecting pucks down low, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and so we're seeing the fruits of that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: from that standpoint, that's his strength is down below the
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  Speaker 1: tops of the circles. So you know, he's had some
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  Speaker 1: success that way.
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  Speaker 2: Talking to the concept here of face offs and how
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  Speaker 2: the play begins in the face off circle, we've seen
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  Speaker 2: a guy like, for instance, Matty Benier's and he had
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  Speaker 2: a ten of eighteen night in just the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of nights ago, and the numbers have gone up for
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  Speaker 2: him every year in this category. So as far as
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  Speaker 2: you as a coach through a one year lens with him,
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  Speaker 2: you know what's gone into the part of his craft
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  Speaker 2: that's helped make him better at that area.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Taylor. You know, that's one of the reasons we
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  Speaker 1: hired Chris Taylor is because we don't feel like our
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  Speaker 1: team is good enough in the face off circle, or
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  Speaker 1: was good enough in the face off circle. I think
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  Speaker 1: we've had some improvements in the face off circle throughout
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  Speaker 1: the year, you know, And I mean obviously Chandler Stevenson takes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't have the exact stat but I'll
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  Speaker 1: guarantee you he's in the top one, two or three
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  Speaker 1: in face offs in the defensive zone and starts. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, we need to have more guys that can
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  Speaker 1: be trusted in the defensive zone in the face off circle,
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  Speaker 1: so that you know, Chandler isn't starting all the time
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  Speaker 1: in the defensive zone. That way would lead to a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more offensive production from him. But certainly, Chris
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  Speaker 1: Taylor has worked with all our guys and I think
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  Speaker 1: our face offs are.
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  Speaker 2: Approving emotionally and technically. What's meant to get Ryan Winterton
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  Speaker 2: back in this mix now?
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  Speaker 1: It means a lot, you know, clearly, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't skated for a while. He didn't seem to lose
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  Speaker 1: his conditioning too badly. We'll see tonight when he gets
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  Speaker 1: caught out there on an extended shift, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's important to have him come back in at
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  Speaker 1: this point in time, certainly give our team a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a boost. Our team needs a boost, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm looking for our leadership tonight to you know,
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  Speaker 1: to bring that and we're gonna find out a lot
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  Speaker 1: about our hockey team. Over the next seven games.
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  Speaker 2: It seems as if of Winnipeg we talked a lot
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  Speaker 2: about Kyle O Connor Mark Stifley as well. Whenever they're
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  Speaker 2: on the ice, they can be dangerous. What's the biggest
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  Speaker 2: key to handling them this.
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  Speaker 1: Evening, Well, you can't give them too much time in space.
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  Speaker 1: And you know the Connor, he just he's a goalscorer.
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  Speaker 1: Shifley is too, and they look for each other. They
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  Speaker 1: play an amazing two man game. They're They're a lot
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  Speaker 1: like dry sidelymnic David, you know, and there's certain guys
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  Speaker 1: point future off kind of thing. You get these two
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  Speaker 1: man games that get played, you know, against a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of teams in the league. They're two world class players,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So we've got to make sure that we're understanding,
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  Speaker 1: that we know where they are, and we've got to
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  Speaker 1: take away their time in space, play them hard.