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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: One more to go! (4/16) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Right side right, sends on through.
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  Speaker 2: Alexiak fires save us bay by hard off the blocker
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  Speaker 2: bucks out in front for right peace goess. Shane Wright
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  Speaker 2: hers goals. It's the fourth of February. Was seventeen thirty
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  Speaker 2: four and aco in the second period he found a
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  Speaker 2: soft spot in the ice just beneath the ash marks
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  Speaker 2: wide all Fenton beats Carter Hart clean the cracket. That's
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  Speaker 2: a one nothing lad in Vegas. Well, this all starts
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  Speaker 2: from a big heavy shot from Jamie Alexiak to the.
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  Speaker 3: Point it goes behind the net. Yonni Newman gets a
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  Speaker 3: stick on it, feeds it up to the front where
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  Speaker 3: Shane Wright is in the right space at the right time.
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  Speaker 3: He puts it past Carter Hart.
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  Speaker 4: Won nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Seattle, Welcome to Kraken this morning, a presentation of the
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  Speaker 3: Kraken Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three
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  Speaker 3: kJ r FM. Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 1: It looks so good getting deep into period two with
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  Speaker 1: Shane which getting a goal in his first game back
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  Speaker 1: from injury. But now the Kracken force to put a
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  Speaker 1: las in Vegas behind them and set preparations up for
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  Speaker 1: one final go of the regular season. In Game eighty two,
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  Speaker 1: going down tonight in the Mile High City. Mike Benton
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  Speaker 1: with you for kracking this morning. On a Thursday, April sixteenth,
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  Speaker 1: the Kraken and the Colorado Avalanche tangle for one final time,
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  Speaker 1: third and final matchup, and for the Kraken, they're looking
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  Speaker 1: to put an appropriate winning bow on this regular season.
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  Speaker 1: At thirty four, thirty six and eleven and seventy nine points,
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  Speaker 1: Colorado has checked off virtually every regular season box here
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  Speaker 1: to this point, they have captured the league's President's Trophy,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll roll into the Stanley Cup Playoffs with the
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  Speaker 1: best record in the NHL, heading into Game eighty two
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  Speaker 1: themselves at fifty four, sixteen and eleven along with one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen points on a night that they'll also
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  Speaker 1: celebrate brock Nelson reaching one thousand NHL games. Shortly before
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  Speaker 1: puck drop, faceofs at seven o'clock Pacific time from Ball Arena,
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  Speaker 1: hope that you can certainly join us airtime at six
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  Speaker 1: point thirty. Your pregame show was served up again by
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  Speaker 1: Frostbrewed Corps Light Choose Chill, Everett and al. Have the
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  Speaker 1: call and the Bootha'll also join you on site for
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  Speaker 1: the entire evening. Andrew Services Gotsha post game as well.
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  Speaker 1: Back from Network Central. We're gonna hear from cracking forward
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  Speaker 1: Shane Right in a bit. Additionally, Vince Dunn. Those two
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  Speaker 1: with their thoughts on last night's game in Vegas coming
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  Speaker 1: up in just a bit, plus also reaction from krakenhead
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  Speaker 1: coach Lane Lambert. First up, it was a long time
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  Speaker 1: coming for Shane Wright, who got his first goal since
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  Speaker 1: the fourth of February in a game where the Krakend
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  Speaker 1: held a one nothing lead until the deeper stages a
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  Speaker 1: period two before Shaye Theodore tied the game and the
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  Speaker 1: Golden Knights eventually ripped off four unanswered goals, capped off
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  Speaker 1: by a two goal night from Riley Smith. Nonetheless, in
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  Speaker 1: spite of a tough season, Right picking up this twelve
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  Speaker 1: goal of the year playing in a new line with
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  Speaker 1: Yannie Newman and Coppocaco, and Right had more reaction meeting
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  Speaker 1: with the media after last night's game.
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  Speaker 5: Wanted opposuly, but uh, for yourself, you must have felt
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  Speaker 5: good to get back out there tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's great to be back.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 6: It always sucks, you know, missing some time like that
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  Speaker 6: and missing games and yeah, I mean it's just just
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  Speaker 6: good feeling to be back, good to be out there
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  Speaker 6: with the guys, you know, battle with them again.
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  Speaker 5: In terms of the goal itself, just being out that front, opportunity,
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  Speaker 5: what can what you can you describe it a little
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  Speaker 5: bit what happened there?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, we're just kind of put a puck
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  Speaker 6: on that there, and you know, Yann need to go
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  Speaker 6: job win in battle almost against two guys I think,
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  Speaker 6: and yeah, just able to find a find a spot
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  Speaker 6: there than that, and you know Yannie was able to
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  Speaker 6: get the puck there and just put it in.
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  Speaker 5: For you, when you're not playing, you're trying to come back,
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  Speaker 5: do you think about what you're gonna do this summer?
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  Speaker 5: Get better improve some of your play for sure?
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  Speaker 7: For sure?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You I mean you always want to be You're looking
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  Speaker 6: for ways to improve. And you know, I wasn't sure
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  Speaker 6: if I was gonna be able to get back in
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  Speaker 6: the lineup, uh for for a little bit there coming
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  Speaker 6: to the end of the season here. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: mean thinking about it a little bit, but you know,
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  Speaker 6: not worry about that. This sold game to go tomorrow
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  Speaker 6: and you don't worry both.
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  Speaker 1: Offseason offet down and back for three by Stone centering
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  Speaker 1: attempt bunk back left side for Icle, hanging on to
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  Speaker 1: it into the slot. Hurtle Tella for Stone.
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  Speaker 2: What a say may by Coco on the right pad
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  Speaker 2: Tony's Mark Stone and gets a cover up with five
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  Speaker 2: fifty seven lefts in the first period.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, what a stup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was huge by Coco.
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  Speaker 1: Tough pat that nick A Coco had to face in
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  Speaker 1: the last night's game, taking the losses by thirteen saves
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  Speaker 1: on fourteen shots through the first two periods of play,
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  Speaker 1: a few stops also coming from the Great a variety,
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  Speaker 1: including a right pad save on Mark Stone in a
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  Speaker 1: Vegas power play back in period one before Vegas got
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  Speaker 1: three right past him in period three. On twelve shots
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  Speaker 1: on net, the Kraken had twenty three in last night's game.
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  Speaker 1: Vince Dunn had four of them, and he had more
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the night where the Kraken fell to Vegas
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  Speaker 1: for the only time this year in four matchups.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think it kind of leaked from the second period,
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  Speaker 8: Like we got pretty into the game from the start.
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  Speaker 8: I thought we were fine. It wasn't a perfect game
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  Speaker 8: by any means in the first period, but I thought.
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  Speaker 4: We did what we needed to do.
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  Speaker 8: We looked at some things and we know we had
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  Speaker 8: to make some adjustments, but I thought we were pretty
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  Speaker 8: competitive and making some plays and for checking, and then
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  Speaker 8: halfway through the second it all falls apart. Were making
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  Speaker 8: things just way too hard on ourselves. We're all like
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  Speaker 8: over complicating passes and not putting ourselves in good areas
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  Speaker 8: to succeed with the pocket. It's not just making plays
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  Speaker 8: with it, but when you're dumping it in or when
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  Speaker 8: you're trying to pass the guys to to get onto
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  Speaker 8: the four checker into the neutral zone, it's got account
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  Speaker 8: and you got to put them in good spots. So
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  Speaker 8: I thought from the second half of the game, we
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  Speaker 8: were just chasing the game the whole time.
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  Speaker 5: To see Coco in three straight games, what do you
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  Speaker 5: think of his party of work this week?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's he's been great. I think tonight he held
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  Speaker 8: his own. He made a lot of great saves and uh,
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  Speaker 8: it's pretty good at playing the parks. So it's not easy,
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  Speaker 8: especially with the way things have been for our team,
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  Speaker 8: for him to come in right now, and uh, it's
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  Speaker 8: I think he's playing as best as we can ask
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  Speaker 8: him to. So it's nice to to know we have
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  Speaker 8: some depth and uh, I think we can definitely make
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  Speaker 8: things a lot easier on him. I mean, it's not
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  Speaker 8: not always gonna be uh on the goalie to to
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  Speaker 8: make the saves. We got to slow the game down
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  Speaker 8: and give him a chance to succeed.
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  Speaker 5: For you, he's gonna make adjustments to you guys. Do
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  Speaker 5: you guys have to adjust to the way he plays
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  Speaker 5: or is it more just where he likes?
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  Speaker 4: They're people to be so we could see the.
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  Speaker 8: Poper uh Well, from a goalies perspective, it's pretty much
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  Speaker 8: the same. You play the same way no matter who's
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  Speaker 8: back there. I think him and Joey played the puck
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  Speaker 8: a lot, Grooby not so much. But as far as
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  Speaker 8: their gameplay, it's it's pretty much similar. They asked the
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  Speaker 8: same things out of us, and it's just on us
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  Speaker 8: to make things as easy as we can. Let them
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  Speaker 8: see shots and.
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  Speaker 3: Thought.
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  Speaker 8: From the start, we let them get into the game
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  Speaker 8: pretty good, and then we made things really hard on himself.
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  Speaker 8: We were playing the D zone far too much and
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  Speaker 8: that's not a good recipe to help a goalie out
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  Speaker 8: or to have good energy for us to go out
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  Speaker 8: and score goals.
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  Speaker 7: Have Shane come back just overall the day off, get
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  Speaker 7: his first goal since Ebery fourth, How did that look.
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  Speaker 2: For Shane and just getting them getting them back in
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  Speaker 2: for the room for the last two goods here.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, again, it's a tough time to come in
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  Speaker 8: and shows a lot of character for him to come
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  Speaker 8: back with two games that don't mean much in the standings.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, it all means something to us. We all
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  Speaker 8: have something to play for. But it's nice for him
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  Speaker 8: to come back and battling to get one tonight. So
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  Speaker 8: happy for him, and yeah, it's it's always better to
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  Speaker 8: have everyone into the lineup, so it's good.
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  Speaker 4: Backing a coach.
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  Speaker 1: Lane Lambert began his observations on Vegas, who pulled away
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  Speaker 1: in period three, leaning into one source that's been and
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  Speaker 1: a bandage for them for quite a while.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they turned up the physicality.
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  Speaker 7: They're a big hockey team and they started to own
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  Speaker 7: pucks down on our zone and we spent too much
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  Speaker 7: time in our zone.
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  Speaker 4: But the bottom line.
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  Speaker 7: Is is that physical play and the size of their
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  Speaker 7: hockey team.
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  Speaker 4: We couldn't find an answer for that. The penalty kill
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  Speaker 4: was strong though tonight.
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  Speaker 7: Did you see a difference in that game there tonight,
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  Speaker 7: especially considering a young goaltender seven there. Well, he made
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  Speaker 7: a great save in their first period, and I thought
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  Speaker 7: we were pretty solid in the second period, and you know,
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  Speaker 7: on the kill, this is this is now a couple
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  Speaker 7: of games where we haven't had a power play. You know,
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  Speaker 7: if again, if we're owning pucks and making them take
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  Speaker 7: it away from us, you know, eventually something happens.
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  Speaker 4: Where you draw penalty. But if you're not owning.
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  Speaker 7: Pucks and you're getting beat physically and almost every battle,
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  Speaker 7: you're not going to get a power play. You're gonna
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  Speaker 7: get penalties and you're gonna spend a lot of time
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  Speaker 7: in your zone.
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  Speaker 4: And that's exactly what happened. Starting about five minutes into
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  Speaker 4: the second period.
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  Speaker 5: Vince said that toward the end of the second period,
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  Speaker 5: middle of the second period, the guys stop playing simple
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  Speaker 5: and we're trying to be making maybe a few too
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  Speaker 5: many passes.
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  Speaker 7: You agree with that, Yeah, I don't understand why our
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  Speaker 7: hockey team can't sustain a sixty minute game. You know,
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  Speaker 7: that's it's got to change. And we refuse to move
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  Speaker 7: the puck up quickly, we take it back into our
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  Speaker 7: zone and we turn it over and you know, it's
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  Speaker 7: over and over again, and this is why we we
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  Speaker 7: have to defend so much.
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  Speaker 4: So I can say there's there's a lot to think
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  Speaker 4: about here.
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  Speaker 5: Got a body of work of three games from Coco.
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  Speaker 5: What'd you take the week he's had.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's played really well. Obviously, he played good tonight,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I think, uh, you know, and talking to
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  Speaker 7: the goalie coach will.
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  Speaker 4: Get a little bit more.
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  Speaker 7: Clarity as to what he thought of his game. But
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  Speaker 7: from my standpoint, he made some saves for us, there's
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  Speaker 7: no question about I thought the kid, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 7: he has confidence. He plays the puck pretty well, you know,
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  Speaker 7: but that's a thing where you know, turned it over there,
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  Speaker 7: almost got scored on.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, those are things he's a going to learn.
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  Speaker 7: And b there isn't a lot of rhythm with the
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  Speaker 7: with the defense here in this in this in this team,
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  Speaker 7: so you know, there wasn't maybe quite enough enough clarity.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of times for him, But I thought he
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  Speaker 4: was good. Shane right was somewhat critical of his own
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  Speaker 4: defensive game.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure the entire team would be obviously, but what
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  Speaker 6: did you kind of think of his game as coming back.
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  Speaker 7: In general, I thought he showed his speed and I
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  Speaker 7: was happy with his game. You know, he has an
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  Speaker 7: element of speed that was noticeably missing, and certainly when
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  Speaker 7: it came back into the lineup today, I thought he
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  Speaker 7: did a good job of using it. It was announced
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  Speaker 7: just before the start of the game that Jane Warns
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  Speaker 7: would be available today. Do you anticipate he might be
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  Speaker 7: available tomorrow for the last game?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's that's a good question. I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: We'll see what happens in the morning. You know, he
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  Speaker 7: wasn't available tonight. The next game is less than twenty
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  Speaker 7: four hours away.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll see him. Came in the last game this season.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'm looking for us to compete, and I felt
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  Speaker 7: like the game turned on a couple of different reasons.
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  Speaker 7: We've got a goal now, Whether we started to sit
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  Speaker 7: back where they turned up the physicality.
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  Speaker 4: And then we.
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  Speaker 7: Started making stupid place Let's not play a dumb game.
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  Speaker 7: Let's play a smart game against a very good offensive
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  Speaker 7: hockey team. We've got to manage the puck. Our game
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  Speaker 7: management is leaves a lot to be desired right now.
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  Speaker 1: So the Kracken settling for three wins out of four
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  Speaker 1: and the head to head series against Vegas, their attention
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  Speaker 1: turned to Colorado, where the Cracker are trying to salvage
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  Speaker 1: one win and three tries against the Avalanche for this
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  Speaker 1: regular season series. It's the only time the Kraken will
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  Speaker 1: visit Colorado for the entire regular season. Last time out,
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  Speaker 1: the Kracken fell to the Avalanche five to one back
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  Speaker 1: on March twelfth. Nathan McKinnon so far has been a
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  Speaker 1: handful and then summoned this head to head series. With
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  Speaker 1: seven points combined and the two head to head matchups,
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  Speaker 1: it appears the scoring race is out of reach for him,
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  Speaker 1: seven points back of Connor McDavid, but McKinnon still one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven points in eighty games, very much
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  Speaker 1: a part of the Herd Trophy conversation right now. He
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  Speaker 1: is well on his way to winning the Rocket Rashard
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  Speaker 1: Trophy also for most goals in the league this season
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  Speaker 1: with fifty three as well in eighty games. He is
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  Speaker 1: right now too, ahead of Cole kaw Field. To no
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  Speaker 1: surprise in the end of back to back the Kracken
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  Speaker 1: not holding a morning skate earlier today, so more clarification
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  Speaker 1: on the lineups due to come in the late afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: and are I right now on the goaltending position with
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  Speaker 1: nick A Coco starting in the last three games, which
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  Speaker 1: opens the door potentially here at the end of back
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  Speaker 1: to back and at the end of the regular season
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  Speaker 1: for Victor Osman, should he play, it will be his
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  Speaker 1: first career at NHL Star, just like Coco, debuting last
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  Speaker 1: season in a relief appearance. Billim Grubauer is also on
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  Speaker 1: the trip with the team, but sitting out since April six,
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  Speaker 1: when he sustained a lower body injury in a loss
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  Speaker 1: at Winnipeg third and final matchup and Game eighty two
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  Speaker 1: on the horizon. We can't wait to unfold it with
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  Speaker 1: you for one last time this season on air, beginning
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  Speaker 1: once again six point thirty puck drops a little past
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  Speaker 1: seven o'clock Pacific time. Ever it fits you, Al Koniski
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  Speaker 1: myself at Ballarino with you postgame. Andrew Sursus gotcha back
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  Speaker 1: from Network Central. Well talk to you then for cracking
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I'm Mike Benton.
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