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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Bobby McMann arrives, and a response for Nashville (3/10) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this morning a presentation of the Kracking
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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Bentons.
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Speaker 2: Seven to four is a result from the loss on Saturday.
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Speaker 3: The Cracking are trying to you turn from Welcome to
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Speaker 3: Cracking this morning, getting you set here for the fifth
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Speaker 3: game of a six game homestand and it is going
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Speaker 3: to be a big one. The Kraken take on the
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Speaker 3: Nashville Predators three points apart for the cup line of
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Speaker 3: the Western Conference.
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Speaker 2: The Cracking, despite back.
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Speaker 3: To back losses, still own wild card spot number two.
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Speaker 3: But you can certainly tell from here on out any
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Speaker 3: kind of ground until the end of game eighty two
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Speaker 3: is certainly treacherous. Can the Kraken get back on the
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Speaker 3: right note and on a winning foot as well? We'll
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Speaker 3: find out by the end of the night. Opening face
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Speaker 3: wins in two matchups against Nashville here for this season,
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Speaker 3: and hoping that they can get a newly acquired forward
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Speaker 3: in the mix from the trade deadline. At being Bobby McMahon,
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Speaker 3: he joined us as well from the dressing room for
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Speaker 3: the latest Meet the Kraken series.
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Speaker 2: A preview of that conversation coming up.
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Speaker 3: Plus we'll check in with the In Furness, the mayor
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Speaker 3: of Maple Valley, for more on this evening's game, where
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Speaker 3: McMahon could slot in and much more. Ian Furness joining
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Speaker 3: coming up here for the Kraken and Nashville Predators matchup
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Speaker 3: at seven o'clock.
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Speaker 2: So what's in the rearview mirror?
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Speaker 3: Now seven and four lost to the Ottawa Senators plus
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Speaker 3: two days off here to recalibrate in the Cracking getting
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Speaker 3: back to practice on Monday with a mission in mind
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Speaker 3: to dial up their game, implement more healthy bodies back
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Speaker 3: into the fold with illness going around the team which
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Speaker 3: took out Ryan Lindgren and Freddie Gudreau this last weekend,
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Speaker 3: and get the first look at Bobby McMahon with nineteen
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Speaker 3: goals on the season, plus also a brand of speed
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Speaker 3: and shot production many are saying could be a huge
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Speaker 3: X factor here for the Kraken and their system in
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Speaker 3: this stretch drive pretty important the Cracking are getting him
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Speaker 3: in there hopefully soon. Schwartz ruled out and definitely after
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Speaker 3: he took and Aaron Skate to the face against Ottawa
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Speaker 3: back on Saturday, so McMahon ended the Kraken fold as
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Speaker 3: far as practice line rushes mixed in and out with
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Speaker 3: Chandler Stevenson's line Ellie Tulvinen and Freddie Gudreaux as well
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Speaker 3: on the wings respectively. So will he play or will
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Speaker 3: he not play? That matter is still pending, as Lane
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Speaker 3: Lambert confirming that McMahon is still awaiting immigration clearance, but
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Speaker 3: in the meantime still practicing here with the team in Seattle.
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Speaker 3: And we cut up with McMahon after practice on Monday
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Speaker 3: at Kraken Community Ice Plus as a part of our
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Speaker 3: Meet the Kracken series. And McMahon, who came up the
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Speaker 3: ranks as an undrafted free agent and began in the EHL,
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Speaker 3: certainly understands the value that everything is earned and nothing
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Speaker 3: is given. What helps here for the Kraken and his
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Speaker 3: case is McMahon reunited with a former coach of his
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Speaker 3: from his days in Toronto, in Lane Lambert. And here's
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Speaker 3: part of our conversation from the dressing room with Bobby
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Speaker 3: McMahon previously into you had Lane Lambert on that bench
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Speaker 3: helping coach you. Now that he's head coach of this team,
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Speaker 3: what have you picked up as far as what he's
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Speaker 3: brought over here.
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Speaker 4: That just kind of makes sense as far as continuity.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I always knew dealing with him in
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Speaker 5: Toronto and working with him that he's a very direct coach.
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Speaker 6: He likes to tell you exactly how how it is.
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Speaker 5: And where you stand. But he also seems to have
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Speaker 5: a good grasp and a good hold on this group here.
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Speaker 5: So it's it's been cool to see and great to
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Speaker 5: get that first practice and first first a little bit
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Speaker 5: out of the way with him, and excited to keep
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Speaker 5: working with him.
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Speaker 4: What was the most part of what was the most
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Speaker 4: important part about that first practice.
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Speaker 5: I think just getting getting on the ice, getting back
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Speaker 5: seeing these the new faces and knowing that it's just
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Speaker 5: it's the twenty twenty five new friends that I'm gonna
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Speaker 5: have here and I'm gonna get to go to battle with.
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Speaker 5: So guys were great on the ice too. I feel
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Speaker 5: like he really started yell with guys when you start
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Speaker 5: getting out there on the ice, because that's the sport
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Speaker 5: that we love to do, and that's that's where we
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Speaker 5: love to be is out on the ice, So that's
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Speaker 5: kind of where you really get to know the guys
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Speaker 5: and get to play the game with them.
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Speaker 4: Joining us here Bobby McMahon once again, and I loved
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Speaker 4: hearing in your scrum with the media before this conversation
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Speaker 4: on the conversation that you had with Lane Lambert after
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Speaker 4: the trade deadline and all of this was finalized. When
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Speaker 4: a head coach can go out of his way to
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Speaker 4: reach out connect, what does that mean for you as
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Speaker 4: a player?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it goes a long way.
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Speaker 5: I think when you get traded, especially this late in
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Speaker 5: the season, there's a lot of question marks as far
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Speaker 5: as thinking where am I going to fit in? This
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Speaker 5: group's kind of really established, they've had some good success, Like,
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Speaker 5: you don't want to come in and disrupt anything, but
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Speaker 5: he was really good at making sure and easing that
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Speaker 5: those kind of questions and making sure I know that
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Speaker 5: this is a spot that I'm wanted and guys are
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Speaker 5: going to be welcoming, and he's going to be welcoming,
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Speaker 5: and he's going to work with me and try and
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Speaker 5: try and get me in the lineup and working and
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Speaker 5: contributing to this group as soon as possible.
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Speaker 4: Part of the intrigue with seeing players develop at this
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Speaker 4: league you often learn that players are completing their own
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Speaker 4: self as far as the better or best version of
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Speaker 4: themselves as compared to say the minor leagues or major
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Speaker 4: junior or college as well. Where did you feel that
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Speaker 4: you took that next big step as a full time
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Speaker 4: NHL or being that speed is a part of your game,
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Speaker 4: the shot is also a big part of your game
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Speaker 4: as well.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it started with just kind of work ethic.
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Speaker 5: When you're in the minor leagues, it's hard to tell
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Speaker 5: exactly what you should be doing, but I was trusting
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Speaker 5: kind of the work ethic, the details, making sure it
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Speaker 5: is showing up every day, working on my game, working
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Speaker 5: on my skills, working on my shot, trying to continually
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Speaker 5: work on my skating and my speed. And then when
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Speaker 5: you get to the NHL, it's like you don't know
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Speaker 5: if it's going to stack, You don't know how kind
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Speaker 5: of where you are. You're trying to feel things out.
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Speaker 5: But then it was probably twenty twenty five games playing
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Speaker 5: into the NHL in Toronto that I started to find
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Speaker 5: my game and trust that all that work and all
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Speaker 5: those skills that I've been working on were going to
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Speaker 5: pay off, and just trying to trust my game all
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Speaker 5: the way through.
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Speaker 4: When you come up from a league like the EHL,
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Speaker 4: it's a long way away than you know saying what
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Speaker 4: it feels like to, you know, get bags off the bus,
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Speaker 4: say at about two am. Now it's a choice of
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Speaker 4: you know, do you take bus one or do you
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Speaker 4: take bus too here in the NHL. But what do
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Speaker 4: you appreciate about that time coming up from the EHL
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Speaker 4: That helps kind of, you know, shape the player in
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Speaker 4: the person that you are today.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, puts it in perspective that you recognize the amount
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Speaker 5: of UH staff and effort and time that goes into
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Speaker 5: making sure that everything's taken care of at this level
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Speaker 5: so that all I can do.
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Speaker 6: And all I need to do is focus on hockey.
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Speaker 5: So definitely appreciate the staff here so far. They've all
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Speaker 5: been super super helpful trying to take care of everything
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Speaker 5: they possibly can so that all I have to do is.
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Speaker 6: Go out there and play and practice.
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Speaker 5: So you really get gain appreciation for the amount of
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Speaker 5: work that's put in behind the scenes at this level
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Speaker 5: and to try and play at your.
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Speaker 3: Best after a couple of days off the Krakend, trying
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Speaker 3: to you turn this thing in a very big game
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Speaker 3: against the Nashville Predators. Without further ado Ian forness, the
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Speaker 3: Mayor and Maple Valley joining us one to three weekdays
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Speaker 3: ninety three three KJRFM, fantastic work of course on the
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Speaker 3: Crack and Hockey Network. Mayor the response after Saturday should
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Speaker 3: be pretty interesting for tonight, shouldn't it, I would hope.
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Speaker 7: So I also thought the response on Saturday would have
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Speaker 7: been better because you're out of the trade deadline, the distractions
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Speaker 7: are gone. You know, that's the group's staying there. I
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Speaker 7: don't I don't want to say relaxes the word, but
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Speaker 7: you get my impression. You know, you could have made
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Speaker 7: the argument that Saturday should have been a lot better. Instead,
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Speaker 7: Saturday was arguably, I mean, Lane's ended after the game,
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Speaker 7: there were no positives. Okay, well that makes it, if
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Speaker 7: not the worst performance of the year, one of them.
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Speaker 7: So let's let's hope that this game against a team
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Speaker 7: that's still in the playoff race is a much better
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Speaker 7: not just outcome, but just a better performance all the
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Speaker 7: way around.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I think I think if you look at this,
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Speaker 3: here at least the silver lining and I don't know
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Speaker 3: if you want to find any silver linings here in
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Speaker 3: this and that they basically don't lose that wildcard spot
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Speaker 3: heading into this game against Nashville. And I mentioned this
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Speaker 3: back in postgame coverage where it's not just the optics,
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Speaker 3: where now you've got to get two more wins here
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Speaker 3: to basically reach an a point bar out of twelve.
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Speaker 3: F you're for this home stand, but also just reverse
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Speaker 3: some alarming trends that happened in the Ottawa game and
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Speaker 3: in the Saint Louis game. The Saint Louis game I
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Speaker 3: think was a bit different because again you're looking at
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Speaker 3: finish and lack of ability. But Ottawa it was clear
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Speaker 3: there were effort issues and on a pretty red letter
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Speaker 3: night fresh out of the trade deadline where you just
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Speaker 3: had your captain extended. And then also you got a
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Speaker 3: big trade here for Bobby McMahon coming over and we'll
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Speaker 3: see when he makes his debut. So I think whether
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Speaker 3: it was the response after period one or when things
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Speaker 3: just kind of fell apart in period three. Where do
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Speaker 3: you look at first year to reverse course tonight against Nashville.
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Speaker 7: Well, assuming Grubauer goes in goal and starts there, because
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Speaker 7: Saturday was, you know, one of Joey's worst games of
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Speaker 7: the year, and there's at least two goals and you
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Speaker 7: know this is from lame, but I mean we could
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Speaker 7: all see it. There are at least two goals, and
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Speaker 7: he probably wants to have back and then he got
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Speaker 7: he should have he should have picked up an assist
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Speaker 7: on the third because he gave the buck away thinking
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Speaker 7: he was Paul Coffee back there. So I I, you know,
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Speaker 7: you take those three goals off the board, you're kind
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Speaker 7: of in it still, although you don't know how the
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Speaker 7: rest of the game, you know, plays out. But I
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Speaker 7: think it starts in goal. I always expect, you know,
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Speaker 7: Ruby and a better performance from him than then the
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Speaker 7: other night that they got for Joey, who would again
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Speaker 7: take nothing away, was you know, great against Carolina and
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Speaker 7: to win, you know, eight days ago. But I think
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Speaker 7: it starts there. And there's just guys you get noticed
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Speaker 7: in that game, all on the way, and you know
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Speaker 7: your top line has to be your best line, and
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Speaker 7: and you know when they are your best line. This
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Speaker 7: team's humming, you know, like they are. But you know,
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Speaker 7: the late garbage time goals, if you want to call
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Speaker 7: it that, I don't even know if I count those
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Speaker 7: as much. So you've got to get nineteen ten and
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Speaker 7: seven going. You got to get some contributions from everybody
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Speaker 7: else not named just the fourth line, And you know,
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Speaker 7: I think it's just I think you can tell efforts
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Speaker 7: sometimes and juice. Now, if we want to be honest,
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Speaker 7: and there are no excuses in the NHL. We all
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Speaker 7: know that Alis and I talked about it after the
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Speaker 7: game on TV. I'm sure you and Al did as
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Speaker 7: well on radio. But nobody feels sorry for you. Nobody's
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Speaker 7: using excuses in the NHL. This is not the NBA.
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Speaker 7: There's no such thing as load management. There's no such
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Speaker 7: if a guy's out with an illness, you know he's sick. Yep, yeah,
11:46
Speaker 7: but there's no But there's no doubt. There's no doubt
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Speaker 7: that team was sick on Saturday. Now, I don't know
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Speaker 7: what was going on Wednesday against Saint Louis, but there's
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Speaker 7: no doubt that Saturday that there was you know, you
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Speaker 7: could probably chalk it up that, you know, there credit
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Speaker 7: we hear from tovid it's some of the guys.
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Speaker 6: They didn't use that.
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Speaker 7: But you know, hopefully they're feeling better, they have a
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Speaker 7: little more energy as well.
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Speaker 3: At least the indication from Lane Lambert suggests that they
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Speaker 3: are coming up out of this. As of Monday, and
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Speaker 3: we saw Ryan Lindgren already jump back in. Freddie Goodreau
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Speaker 3: was taking line rushes switching here between him and Bobby
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Speaker 3: McMahon with Chandler Stevenson and Ellie Tulvnan before I get
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Speaker 3: to McMahon. Even with Jayden Schwartz out of the lineup,
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Speaker 3: once McMahon is eligible, this is going to again create
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Speaker 3: a bottleneck, which was well then I think maybe the
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Speaker 3: ideal time for an extra dose of accountability because no
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Speaker 3: one wants to come out. But when McMahon's cleared, he's
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Speaker 3: got to fit in.
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Speaker 7: What about you, Well, he's gonna he's definitely gonna fit in,
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Speaker 7: there's no doubt. You know, hopefully it happens to night
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Speaker 7: against Nashville. We don't know about the immigration. It's one
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Speaker 7: of those maddening things about this trades is that you
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Speaker 7: get a guy from Canada. Now, you know, with you know,
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Speaker 7: just a few weeks left the season. If he's got
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Speaker 7: to miss more than one game, that's that's brutal. But
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Speaker 7: here we are. So when he is back, and assuming
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Speaker 7: Nicko Dreu's healthy because he missed the game of illness,
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Speaker 7: yeah someone's got to come out. Jamee's already out, so
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Speaker 7: that makes it just one, not two people that have
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Speaker 7: to come out. You're not taking Mlanson out. That's a given. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: that's just that that little that experiment's over, and I
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Speaker 7: don't think you're taking Myers out. Winterton would be the
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Speaker 7: first guy probably that does come out when McMahon goes
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Speaker 7: back in. I would assume, right, but that that's also
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Speaker 7: about that's actually they're still over one because I was
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Speaker 7: forgetting about Freddie not playing the other night. So yeah,
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Speaker 7: there's guys that probably need to be on high alert,
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Speaker 7: you know, eighty four maybe twenty seven. Although I like
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Speaker 7: his game. I liked him on the power play on
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Speaker 7: Saturday when Shortz was hurting he had I would be
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Speaker 7: hesitant to take Berkeley out of a game, but you
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Speaker 7: know how it works the NHL. The young guys usually
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Speaker 7: the ones that the ticket yang. I'd probably think about
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Speaker 7: fifty one, to be honest with you, I think I
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Speaker 7: think that's why I'd probably look there. He moved Gadroa
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Speaker 7: up on the in the lineup. You know he's se
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Speaker 7: and this.
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Speaker 3: Is part of the beauty of it, because if you
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Speaker 3: have to take a center out there, if still flexibility
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Speaker 3: with others who can play that position.
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Speaker 7: Well, you got Myers and Miners. Center's your fourth line, right,
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Speaker 7: so you know how that fourth line looks I'm not sure,
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Speaker 7: but yeah, I think that's I think that's what I
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Speaker 7: kind of look at, to be honest with you, it's
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Speaker 7: there's see. That was the thing was disappointing about Saturday
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Speaker 7: is that you know, even before Jane Schwartz got hurt,
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Speaker 7: you're gonna go into that game thick and there's a
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Speaker 7: sense of urgency because someone's coming out, like there are
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Speaker 7: guys coming out of the lineup and they're just That
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Speaker 7: was the odd thing that this doesn't feel like there
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Speaker 7: was that internal competition taking place. Again. Maybe the illness
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Speaker 7: was part of it. You know, guys just were not
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Speaker 7: just involved and sick and you can be a tough
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Speaker 7: guy all you want. If that was it, then so
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Speaker 7: be it. We'll see a different team on Tuesday night.
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Speaker 3: Bobby McMahon, we had a chance to speak with him
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Speaker 3: when he first arrived here. Again, he can practice before
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Speaker 3: he is officially cleared to play from immigration, so he
15:13
Speaker 3: had a chance to talk with the media here and
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Speaker 3: for our Meet the Cracking series on the Crack and
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Speaker 3: Audio Network. Full conversation of that coming down the road.
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Speaker 3: But this is Bobby McMahon talking about the benefits of
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Speaker 3: playing meaningful hockey at this time of year.
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Speaker 4: What do you love most about playing and meaningful games
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Speaker 4: this March, April and May.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it makes it that much more fun. It's a
15:37
Speaker 5: it's a game where it's a game of mistakes, but
15:40
Speaker 5: it's a game of high stakes too. So you want
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Speaker 5: to play in games where things matter, where every little play,
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Speaker 5: every little talk that gets out, every shot on net
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Speaker 5: makes a difference, every hit you make makes a difference.
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Speaker 5: That's that's when the real fun hockey is played. And
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Speaker 5: that's that's what I want to play. And I'm excited
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Speaker 5: to play here.
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Speaker 3: You And I'll tell you what for a guy who
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Speaker 3: came up from the EHL undrafted free agent to make
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Speaker 3: it this far, I'm looking forward to what he can
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Speaker 3: add here to this room aside from his game.
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Speaker 2: What about you, Well, I.
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Speaker 7: Think he's a good fit. He gives you speed, for sure,
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Speaker 7: and that's that's number one. Gives you size, physical play,
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Speaker 7: and finished. He walks in and whenever he whenever he
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Speaker 7: steps into the lineup, he comes in as the number
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Speaker 7: two goalscorer on this team with nineteen goals in the season,
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Speaker 7: behind only Everly, So we know they need guys that
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Speaker 7: can finish he can finish, and he can and and
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Speaker 7: you know he uses his physicality, uses his side uh
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Speaker 7: and speed. And he's a guy that Lei Lambert familiar
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Speaker 7: with from his time in Toronto with him last year.
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Speaker 7: So you know, I think it's a real I mean,
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Speaker 7: I he just kind of looked around. It wasn't the
16:44
Speaker 7: big splashy trade that I think people were hoping for.
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Speaker 7: Although really that you know that that happened earlier when
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Speaker 7: he used other trades that were made. I guess Carlson
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Speaker 7: would be follow that category. But I think it's a
16:55
Speaker 7: good addition for Seattle. I think it's you know, I
16:57
Speaker 7: see people, all the people that want to grade the
16:59
Speaker 7: trade line. Seems like it's pretty animous to BB plus. Well,
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Speaker 7: I'll take that. They keep your room impacked. They've earned it,
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Speaker 7: Guys in the room, you've earned it. If you add
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Speaker 7: to your you add to your room, you add to
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Speaker 7: your robster without deleting from what you already have. And
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Speaker 7: that's I think that's a good thing. It's it's a
17:17
Speaker 7: win win. Let's let's see how he fits in. But
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Speaker 7: I don't think they make me trade without a strong
17:22
Speaker 7: endorsement from Lane Lambert. And so because of that here
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Speaker 7: he is and let's hopefully see him the lineup later.
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Speaker 3: We heard that from Lane Lambert before the game on Saturday.
17:31
Speaker 3: Plus also the history which tells you a lot between
17:34
Speaker 3: him and the fact that Lane Lambert got on the
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Speaker 3: phone extensive phone conversation with him after the trade deadline
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Speaker 3: shows that uh uh, this was certainly a guy that
17:42
Speaker 3: they wanted and Lane Lambert wanted, and they got him in.
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Speaker 2: Bobby McMahon onto Nashville.
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Speaker 3: Finally here special teams, we'll see you can win the
17:51
Speaker 3: battle on this one. Kraken Nashville bottom half of the
17:55
Speaker 3: league for power play, penalty or beggar partner, I should
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Speaker 3: say for a goals for but goals against Crack. And
18:02
Speaker 3: of course this has been the bread and butter of
18:04
Speaker 3: twelve best in the NHL, Nashville just twenty eighth at
18:08
Speaker 3: three point four goals per game allowed. They have gone
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Speaker 3: winless now in four of their last five games, and
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Speaker 3: it seems like right now they are hanging on for
18:18
Speaker 3: dear life in this Western Conference playoff race. It's gonna
18:22
Speaker 3: be a big one, though the Crack can face him
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Speaker 3: twice in the nine day span. Nashville is a three
18:27
Speaker 3: points out of the cut line, the Crack and holding
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Speaker 3: that what concerns you most of you about this evening? I, well,
18:37
Speaker 3: it's funny, like the goals against.
18:38
Speaker 7: I was chuckling because I was taking back that on
18:41
Speaker 7: Saturday they took on a team and in Ottawa that
18:44
Speaker 7: had that was thirty second in the league in terms
18:47
Speaker 7: of say percentage, And you wouldn't have knowiln it from
18:49
Speaker 7: that game. Of course, if you don't put any pucks
18:51
Speaker 7: on the net. I think eight there were eleven of
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Speaker 7: the first two period. That's what's gonna happen. But I
18:56
Speaker 7: don't even think it has to do with Nashville. It's
18:58
Speaker 7: just Seattle. You know, if the Crack can come out
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Speaker 7: and play their game, you know, if they played their game,
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Speaker 7: no matter who's in the lineup, they play their game,
19:06
Speaker 7: and that game includes solid, if not outstanding goaltending. But
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Speaker 7: if they play their game, I think they come away
19:14
Speaker 7: with two points. Mike, make no mistake about it. It's
19:18
Speaker 7: a must. It's a must win. Like not mathematically, but
19:23
Speaker 7: if you want to just be realistic, you got to
19:26
Speaker 7: get that win. Like you you lose twice to a
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Speaker 7: team in Saint Louis out of the playoff picture, and
19:32
Speaker 7: so there's four points down. Atom was a good hockey team.
19:35
Speaker 7: You know, their the Eastern Conference team, so people don't
19:37
Speaker 7: pay attention. They're in the West. They'd be in a
19:39
Speaker 7: playoff position based on their points and everything else. But
19:42
Speaker 7: like that's probably two points or at least the point
19:45
Speaker 7: you hope to get. I mean, pretty makes a pretty
19:47
Speaker 7: strong argument. There's four to six points that you've left
19:49
Speaker 7: on the table over the last couple of weeks. Just
19:53
Speaker 7: can't have that happen again, especially with the team in
19:55
Speaker 7: your conference that's trying to chase you down. You're not
19:58
Speaker 7: getting a lot of help, you know, I mean, just
20:00
Speaker 7: for an example, on Monday, there was the early afternoon
20:03
Speaker 7: game Monday afternoon and in Columbus and La comes away
20:06
Speaker 7: with a fly four overtime win. Like, you're not getting help,
20:09
Speaker 7: and but nor should you. It's up to you. You know,
20:12
Speaker 7: Allison brought this up and that she nailed it. It's
20:14
Speaker 7: like you control the crack and control their own destiny.
20:18
Speaker 7: They don't have to catch anybody. They just have to
20:20
Speaker 7: hold on now. Obviously, the ideal to move up finishing
20:24
Speaker 7: third in the Pacific.
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Speaker 1: Would be awesome.
20:26
Speaker 7: That the outstanding the boy Colorado in the first round probably,
20:29
Speaker 7: but like they control their own destiny. They win, they're
20:33
Speaker 7: in that's simple, and that's kind of a nice position
20:37
Speaker 7: to be in. Probably is they haven't been doin anything. Yeah,
20:40
Speaker 7: you know, out of the break two and four, you know,
20:43
Speaker 7: out of the out of the olyptic break two and
20:45
Speaker 7: four's not good.
20:47
Speaker 3: And that challenge became a bit more challenging as well
20:49
Speaker 3: because the Kings beat Columbus yesterday in overtime, so both
20:53
Speaker 3: the Sharks and the King's one point back of the
20:56
Speaker 3: Kraken entry in the saving the Krack and would love
20:59
Speaker 3: a similar formula from their first matchup against Nashville, winning
21:02
Speaker 3: for one back on New Year's Day, two goals by
21:05
Speaker 3: Matt e Vaniers, Phil Grubauer, twenty four saves and the
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Speaker 3: only one who got on the board was Roman yoc
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Speaker 3: Ford Nashville, Mayor, thank you, have a good show.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate you, thank you, Mike, take care all right, Mayor,
21:19
Speaker 2: thank you very much.
21:20
Speaker 3: That is Ian Fornest joining us once again host for
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Speaker 3: the Krack and Hockey Network also heard one to three
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Speaker 3: weekdays on ninety three three KJRFM with the crackt again
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Speaker 3: getting set for matchup number two against the Nashville Predators.
21:33
Speaker 3: They'll face off one more time after this March nineteenth,
21:37
Speaker 3: for the only visit into Nashville for the regular season
21:41
Speaker 3: for weeks. Players like Ryan O'Reilly, Steven Stamkos, and Jonathan
21:45
Speaker 3: Marchesso we're in reported trade talks. None of them move
21:48
Speaker 3: by trade deadline time. O'reiley comes in right now the
21:52
Speaker 3: leading score on the Nashville side sixty points in sixty
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Speaker 3: two games, and Steven Stamkos at a thirty five still
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Speaker 3: continuing to produce with thirty goals in sixty three games
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Speaker 3: right now, leading Nashville in the goals scoring front. March
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Speaker 3: is so, and during a tough season right now just
22:09
Speaker 3: eleven goals and nineteen points and an injury shortened forty
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Speaker 3: four games.
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Speaker 2: March is so.
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Speaker 3: Of course, you might recall from this Vegas Golden nine
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Speaker 3: Days inflicting plenty of Dam and John m kracken with
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Speaker 3: fourteen points in fifteen lifetime matchups, but a lot of
22:23
Speaker 3: that Dam has done in a Vegas Jersey ever since
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Speaker 3: he went to Nashville, just one assist in three games.
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Speaker 3: So is a turn coming back in the right direction
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Speaker 3: this evening, looking forward to unfolding matters with you once again,
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Speaker 3: beginning at six thirty Face House will past seven o'clock
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Speaker 3: in We're back at Tom's Watchbar once again for postgame
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Speaker 3: coverage up to and now we're after the final horn.
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Speaker 2: You certainly hope that you can join.
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Speaker 3: This big thank him again to Bobby McMahon and Ian Furness.
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Speaker 3: I for Kracken this morning, I'm Mike Benton. Enjoy the game.
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