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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert speaks to Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken face the Blues (2/26) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike Lane. First game out of the break Krakenfall
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: last night in Dallas for one in a game and
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: which last night this morning, not too thrilled with the
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: effort to take us back through your thoughts and that performance.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought we started the game pretty good.
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: We had a couple of dollars plays right off the
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: pat which I think, you know, if we score on those,
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  Speaker 3: obviously you know the game might be a little bit different.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: We did not.
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  Speaker 3: We gave up a goal at the end of the
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  Speaker 3: first period, which you can't do. You know, we didn't
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: box out Japa, you know, and then by the time
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: nine minutes are gone in the second period, it's four nothing.
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: So there was a ten minute window where we, you know,
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: basically lost the game.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you.
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: Can't just look at that ten minutes. I just thought
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: we were out muscled, out battled. I thought we played
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: too slow. I thought our execution was really poor. Their
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: second goal was scored off of an icing by us
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: on a simple pass that we should make.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: Just not even close to being good enough for me.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Early in the game, a couple of massive hits from
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: Lyndren Jamie Alexiak that physical tone set early another seven
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  Speaker 1: hit game from Jacob Allanson. Can you take the physicality
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  Speaker 1: aspect of that game as something maybe to build off of?
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  Speaker 2: Ah?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean yeah, I guess you know, you know
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna get that from Violins and every night pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Lyndy that was a great hit. Unfortunately hurt
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: himself doing it. But sometimes those are the things that
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: happen when you lay your body on the line like
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  Speaker 3: he does in all situations. You know, sometimes those things
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  Speaker 3: can happen. Certainly, you know, he's a guy we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: miss here for.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Do you attribute last night's overall performance to more russ,
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: to not being ready, to not being fresh? What do
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  Speaker 1: you feel maybe contributed to that performance last night?
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  Speaker 2: In your eyes?
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  Speaker 3: I'm just mind boggled by the fact that we came
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: out and played that way. You know, Dallas had the
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: same break as we had. We can't use that for
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  Speaker 3: an excuse. Our practices were really good leading into heading
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  Speaker 3: to Dallas and then we just didn't didn't execute and
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  Speaker 3: you know, disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: So what do I attribute it to? I'm dumbfounded?
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  Speaker 1: How was that we didn't get a ten? To ask
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: you about this yesterday and you were asked this morning
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  Speaker 1: from from Piper Shaw. But two contract extensions for some
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  Speaker 1: some guys that have put up some big numbers in
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  Speaker 1: the role that they play in Ben Myers and Ryan Winterton,
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  Speaker 1: two years extensions for them. What have they meant to
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  Speaker 1: this team? And what has Ben and Ryan been like
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  Speaker 1: to coach?
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  Speaker 2: For you? Well, they're good, They're good. They mean a
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  Speaker 2: lot to the hockey team.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, that fourth line has been very good all year
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  Speaker 3: long for the most part, you know, and both of
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  Speaker 3: them add an element of speed. They the game the
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: right way. They're focused, They compete every night. You know,
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  Speaker 3: if you look at last night, who's probably our most
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  Speaker 3: competitive guys? You know, and you got Lotson and you've
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: got Myers, and you know, you got Myers fighting, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's earned it. Here's a guy who's sort
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  Speaker 3: of come up the hard way. I guess I'd like
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  Speaker 3: to see good things happen to good people, especially when
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  Speaker 3: they deserve it, and he's he's done that. And I
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  Speaker 3: just think Ryan Windchardon's going to continue to get better
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: and better. You know, his speed is dangerous. And I'm
• 3:35
  Speaker 3: happy for them, and I'm happy for the organization.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: Looking at Saint Louis this morning, you characterize them all
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  Speaker 1: not like Dallas, A big team that goes in front
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  Speaker 1: of the net. They've got some skill with Cayrou and
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  Speaker 1: Thomas and uh and that. Like, what are you expecting
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  Speaker 1: out of the krackt here tonight? How can you handle
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  Speaker 1: what Saint Louis is gonna throw at you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we better be a lot better than we were
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  Speaker 3: last night in terms of our battle level and our focus,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and we have to make sure that we're
• 4:02
  Speaker 3: solid in that department, because, like I said, it's a
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  Speaker 3: physical team. It's a big team that plays well at
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  Speaker 3: home for the most part. And you know, we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to find a way to get to their net,
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  Speaker 3: get a shot first mentality, instead of trying to pass
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  Speaker 3: it into the net like we were last night.
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  Speaker 2: And we're gonna have to keep pucks away from our net.
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  Speaker 3: So I expect it to be a extremely difficult game
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  Speaker 3: and a game in which everyone's gonna have to bring
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  Speaker 3: their individual battle level to the table.