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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert joins Mike Benton before the game (2/4) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: I Andrews take it very much back now with Crackenead coach, Lane,
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  Speaker 1: Lambert and Lane. First off, when you go back and
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  Speaker 1: look at the tape from last night, what caught your
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  Speaker 1: eye at first two periods versus the final five minutes?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean the final five minutes, we had our
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  Speaker 2: goalie out.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we were pressing, and you know we had
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  Speaker 3: some you know, we had some good opportunities. We had
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  Speaker 3: a really good opportunity to make it four three, and
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  Speaker 3: then that would have been interesting, you know, with two minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Left, but too little, too late.
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  Speaker 3: Like I say, you leave things up to chance and
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  Speaker 3: oftentimes you're on the wrong end of it.
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  Speaker 2: I just didn't think we played fast enough.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they'd played faster than we did, and we've
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  Speaker 3: got to be better.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Ibily mentioned that at the end of last night,
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  Speaker 1: how much it kind of feels like playoff hockey and
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  Speaker 1: it has so here for this last month. How much
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  Speaker 1: of that is kind of driving more of the conversation
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  Speaker 1: with things changing day by day right now in the
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  Speaker 1: Western Conference.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you have to have a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of a playoff mindset right now, and you know, part
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  Speaker 3: of it maybe with Ebbs is that we're playing every
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  Speaker 3: second day just like playoffs would be. But uh, you
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  Speaker 3: know this is uh, in my opinion, with the league
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  Speaker 3: being as close as it is this year, playoffs started
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  Speaker 3: a little bit earlier this year, so uh, you know
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be a battle for anyone and everyone
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  Speaker 3: to get into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Today will be Jared McCann's seven hundredth career NHL games,
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  Speaker 1: so now they have a chance to coach them this season.
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  Speaker 1: What are some of the things that come to mind
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  Speaker 1: as far as a player that he's become and what
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  Speaker 1: it takes also to last that long in this league.
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  Speaker 3: Well, obviously, anyone who last seven hundred games, you're a
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  Speaker 3: good hockey player, you know, and his mantra and m
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  Speaker 3: o is an offensive hockey player. And if you're if
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  Speaker 3: that's your if that's your job, you got to do
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  Speaker 3: your job. And so the impressive thing for me is
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  Speaker 3: with any offensive player on any team, but certainly jaredy
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  Speaker 3: leads a team scoring.
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  Speaker 2: You know every year basically, and he leads.
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  Speaker 3: The franchise and scoring you know all the time, so
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  Speaker 3: you know, he delivers on what his job is.
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  Speaker 1: He had Oscar Fisco vallguard called back up now on
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  Speaker 1: this roster once again. And it's often said that it
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  Speaker 1: takes a lot of brains to play the game at
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  Speaker 1: a high level, and that's been kind of the word
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  Speaker 1: thrown around as far as the makeup of his game.
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  Speaker 1: But what stood out most to you, whether it's that
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  Speaker 1: or something else when he was first called up here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, first of all, he's got speed and quickness.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he can kill penalties. You know, he can
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  Speaker 3: plays a power play down in Coachella Valley.
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  Speaker 2: But again, you know, on these call ups, in these
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  Speaker 2: call up.
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  Speaker 3: Situations, intelligence and being able to adapt is extremely important
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  Speaker 3: in a short term situation. And when I say short
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  Speaker 3: term situation, I mean he gets called up, he gets
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  Speaker 3: in here at eleven o'clock this morning, and now you
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  Speaker 3: know he's potentially playing, so you know, you've got to
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  Speaker 3: process a lot of information quickly, and we feel like
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  Speaker 3: his intelligence level he can do that.
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  Speaker 1: Did this back in December, Anaheim one night, Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: the very next night, and it kind of feels like
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  Speaker 1: a changed direction as far as pace of play, the
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  Speaker 1: opponent makeup and whatnot. But for tonight, where do the
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  Speaker 1: legs have to be and where does it might also
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  Speaker 1: have to be facing Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we you know, this is a game, and
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  Speaker 3: again it's our last game before the break.
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  Speaker 2: We're asking for two and a half to three hours
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  Speaker 2: of hard work here.
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  Speaker 3: We need focus, we need full commitment, and all the
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  Speaker 3: little details.
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  Speaker 2: Are going to be, you know, going to be the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing. They're all going to matter.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's again it's a different, different time
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  Speaker 3: than it was December twenty third. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of games that have gone on between then and now,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, the standings and the magnitude of the
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  Speaker 3: games are just growing.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, it's the last time, aside from Oscar Fisker Mulgard,
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  Speaker 1: that you'll see Coppocco, Ellie Tolbyn, and Philip group Barber
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  Speaker 1: before the Olympic break. What have you seen that's made
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  Speaker 1: them here into Olympians heading into the break?
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  Speaker 3: Ah?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean obviously each one. Gruby's had a heck
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  Speaker 2: of a year.
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  Speaker 3: Coppo's playing well, Toto he's playing well, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: and Oscar's.
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  Speaker 2: Doing well down in the Conchalla Valley.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, they're they're good players for their
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  Speaker 3: for their countries, and it's exciting for them to be
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  Speaker 3: able to go