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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert interview with Everett Fitzhugh (11/5) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike. Back with Crack and head coach Lane Lambert
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  Speaker 1: big three to one win over Chicago two nights ago.
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  Speaker 1: You got back to what has made this team successful.
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  Speaker 1: You challenged the team to shoot the puck more. We
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  Speaker 1: saw more shots on net against the Blackhawks. Take us
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  Speaker 1: through that sixty minutes for your team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought we did a lot, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good things in that game, defended hard. You know when
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  Speaker 2: it started there spent last time in Arizona. We've actually
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  Speaker 2: spent less time in Arizona over the last two games,
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  Speaker 2: and we're kind of cleaning that area up that we
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  Speaker 2: know we had to and have to and we'll continue
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  Speaker 2: to progress to. And I thought, you know, from an
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  Speaker 2: offensive standpoint, I thought we transitioned to put pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: We had some, you know, some really good opportunities, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, we took advantage of the ones that we
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  Speaker 2: needed to, I guess you could say, and scratched out
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  Speaker 2: of victory.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very small sample size, but this season, when
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  Speaker 1: you've challenged the team after efforts that you've not been
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  Speaker 1: happy with, to be better, we've seen this team rise
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  Speaker 1: to the occasion. What does it say about your group,
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  Speaker 1: your coaching, your coaches on this team as well, that
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  Speaker 1: they're able to take that message and apply it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes less than forty eight hours later for positive results.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the thing about it is is that it says
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  Speaker 2: to me they're taking ownership of it because you know,
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  Speaker 2: let's be let's be honest. If they don't play well,
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  Speaker 2: they know they don't play well, and they're not happy
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  Speaker 2: about it either. My job is to let them know
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  Speaker 2: they didn't play well and to find solutions for them
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  Speaker 2: to be better the next night too. And they've been
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  Speaker 2: embracing that. But at the end of the day, they're
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  Speaker 2: the ones that are responsible for, you know, taking that
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  Speaker 2: message and putting it into play, and you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's been good. It's been good to see our leadership
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  Speaker 2: group take ownership.
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  Speaker 1: Of that last game, we saw Ellie Tolwnen moved up
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  Speaker 1: to that top line, Berkeley Catton back at center on
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  Speaker 1: the forth line in between carshe and Winterton. What did
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  Speaker 1: you think of those two performances in particular, Well, I
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  Speaker 1: thought they.
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  Speaker 2: Were I thought they were okay. Berkeley didn't get a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ice time. It was you know, at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, it was a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a tight game. And you know, I thought Tolvy was hard.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he played hard. I thought he you know,
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  Speaker 2: he did a good job. He's I think he's second
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  Speaker 2: on our team in hits and he just hasn't quite
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  Speaker 2: broken the you know, the the bubble of scoring yet.
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  Speaker 2: But he has that ability and so we're looking to
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  Speaker 2: we're looking to get him going. Uh you know, if
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  Speaker 2: we if we want to create offense and we want
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  Speaker 2: to be a little bit more of an offensive team,
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  Speaker 2: we need him to start scoring. So that was the
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  Speaker 2: decision for the move. And you know, we'll keep going
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  Speaker 2: with that.
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  Speaker 1: San Jose. They're young, they're exciting, they're inexperience, but they're
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  Speaker 1: working through a lot of the issues that we've seen
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  Speaker 1: over the last few seasons. A lot of folks have
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  Speaker 1: built them as much must see TV in the NHL.
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  Speaker 1: What about the San Jose Sharks team makes them so
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  Speaker 1: dangerous even though they may not be having the results
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  Speaker 1: that they would like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well it starts with Celebrini. You know, he is
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  Speaker 2: the real deal. Uh, and he's highly competitive, So he's
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  Speaker 2: a driver for that team. And uh, you know, they've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of complimentary pieces there. They've got some
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  Speaker 2: youth of course, like we said, that is talented. They've
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  Speaker 2: got speed and they're well coached, so you know they
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  Speaker 2: realistically I mean the first two games that they played
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  Speaker 2: the season, you know, they were heartbreaking overtime losses for them,
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  Speaker 2: where you know they could have won those games for
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  Speaker 2: sure and be you know, rate five hundred right now.
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  Speaker 2: They're a highly improved hockey team, you know, and we
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  Speaker 2: are going to have to be very good.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight against the team like San Jose, who is very
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  Speaker 1: skilled and very fast. They play more of a wide
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  Speaker 1: open game. What areas of your game do you feel
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  Speaker 1: have to be at their best tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, they like to your point, they are
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  Speaker 2: fourteenth in the league and goals for, right and you
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  Speaker 2: know they are not very high in the league goals against.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the formula of beating them. You know, we've
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  Speaker 2: got to shut them down. We've got to play solid
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  Speaker 2: defensively and then transition that into offense. That's just ABOUTOM
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  Speaker 2: one