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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Catton's first NHL point, Kraken first bounce back opportunity (10/21) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the krack
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  Speaker 1: and Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three
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  Speaker 1: kjr FM. Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 2: A quick hit of the reset button is what they
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  Speaker 2: have in mind as a Kraken. We'll finish their first
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  Speaker 2: set of back to backs here for this season. Coming
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  Speaker 2: up tonight. Welcome to Kracken this morning on a Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: on October twenty first, Mike Benton with you from our
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  Speaker 2: nation's capital, where the Crack and we'll take on the
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  Speaker 2: Washington Capitals this evening four pm Pacific time from Capitol
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  Speaker 2: One Arena, three point thirty airtime as well from the
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  Speaker 2: same place ever it fits you, Alciniski on the call.
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  Speaker 2: I'll join you once again for your pregame show served
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  Speaker 2: up by Frost Brewed Corse Light Shows, Chill all across
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  Speaker 2: ninety three three KJARFM and the Global Credit Union crack
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  Speaker 2: In Audio Network. Coming up, we'll recap what happened last
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  Speaker 2: night in Philadelphia. We're a crack and Ford enjoyed a
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  Speaker 2: milestone early in the game that showed plenty of promise.
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  Speaker 2: We'll hear from Berkeley Catton, We'll hear from head Coach
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  Speaker 2: Lane Lambert. We'll check in as well with the radio
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  Speaker 2: voice of the Capitols, our friend John Walton. Well a
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  Speaker 2: three to zero to two of the Cracking off to
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  Speaker 2: their best start through their first five games in franchise history,
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  Speaker 2: entering game four of a six game road trip on
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  Speaker 2: Monday in Philadelphia. And in case you missed it, here's
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  Speaker 2: how it unfolded. But the Flyers bring this one back
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  Speaker 2: out with the games till nothing nothing and a giveaway.
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  Speaker 2: Now right side a shot, say May blinds a cord
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  Speaker 2: off the bed by Travis connecting Vaneers takes it back
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  Speaker 2: and our rims around of the right force for Catton,
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  Speaker 2: ont of the line for Flurry.
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  Speaker 3: His shot the traffic face score.
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  Speaker 4: Shordan every set a screen front a damn lad r
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  Speaker 4: with twelve forty four to go in period one. It
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  Speaker 4: came off the point shot from Kale Flurry and set
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  Speaker 4: up by Berkeley, Catton and the cracket.
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  Speaker 2: That's well one nothing lead.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, great work by Catton picking up puck off the wall.
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  Speaker 5: They're getting it back to Kale Flurry at the point.
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  Speaker 5: Who got a shot on it? It was about hip
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  Speaker 5: Hi Everley gets a piece of it. Won nothing Cracking
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  Speaker 5: and Berkeley Catton has its first.
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  Speaker 3: Point in the NHL.
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  Speaker 2: Drysdale redline left, will drive it back in behind the
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  Speaker 2: cracking net and the cord. We'll settle it down, gave
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  Speaker 2: it away. Katory A sends one across the receealer and.
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  Speaker 3: Fret they score.
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  Speaker 4: Gat Away which Cossa Kraken and it was Ohwen tipp
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  Speaker 4: It who finishes the job right in front of Joey
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  Speaker 4: to Cord to a half open cage with ten oh
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  Speaker 4: four remaining in period one and Philadelphia has come back
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  Speaker 4: to tie this game one one.
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  Speaker 2: Lexi Ak retrieves and gives the right back Drysdale up
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  Speaker 2: the right wing tip of a chip and cheese cracking
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  Speaker 2: zones that a ring.
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  Speaker 4: At tempt connect Dana save is made fine Joey the cord,
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  Speaker 4: Oh that was huge. That keeps it two to one
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  Speaker 4: to Cord coming up with a humongous stock here in
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  Speaker 4: period two, in the open Benier's left side that down
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  Speaker 4: low for every turns one to the net loss in traffic,
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  Speaker 4: Vanier sends one back for Newman.
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  Speaker 6: He's gons Yanni Newman power play goal cracket eleven twenty
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  Speaker 6: seven to go in the second period, wide open for
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  Speaker 6: the right circle and powers this one right past and
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  Speaker 6: lador the Crack and half cut the deficit down a
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  Speaker 6: two goals.
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  Speaker 2: It's a four to two game.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mentioned getting control and getting it deep in
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  Speaker 5: the offensive, so this time Seattle does that. It gun's
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  Speaker 5: all the way down to Eberley. He steps out and
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  Speaker 5: tries to make a play in front of the net.
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  Speaker 5: Matty Beeer's finds it, digs it out, feeds it over
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  Speaker 5: to Newman for a one timer.
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  Speaker 3: It's four to two Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm cider shot by tip it to Flextion in
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  Speaker 1: I score.
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  Speaker 4: A seeing eyes shot from the left side that somehow
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  Speaker 4: lake through Joey Decord with four minutes and twenty seconds
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  Speaker 4: left here and what's been a tough second period for
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  Speaker 4: the Kraken to absorb in Philadelphia extends a lead.
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  Speaker 1: Back to three.
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  Speaker 3: It's five to two.
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  Speaker 2: Well in the game, this showed plenty of promise for
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  Speaker 2: the get Go and unfolded the wrong way for the
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  Speaker 2: Krack and in period two as low percentage plays and
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  Speaker 2: low percentage shots victimized them in a five to two
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  Speaker 2: loss to Philadelphia. A short night for Joey to Cord,
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  Speaker 2: ending after period two giving up five goals on twenty
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  Speaker 2: one shots, Philip Grubauer relieving him, turning in six saves
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  Speaker 2: on six shots, which now leads to the question who
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  Speaker 2: starts this evening in Washington between perhaps Philip Grubauer and
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  Speaker 2: Matt Murray with Joey to Cord going the ninth before
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  Speaker 2: We'll wait and see as a crack and try to
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  Speaker 2: bounce back now for the first time after a regulation
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  Speaker 2: loss under new head coach Lane Lambert, but also coming
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  Speaker 2: off a promising debut for one of their prize youngsters
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  Speaker 2: in Berkeley Catton, who picked up his first career NHL
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  Speaker 2: point in just his second shift in the NHL. Here's
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  Speaker 2: a reaction from Berkeley Catton after the game in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 7: How do you feel you did in that?
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  Speaker 8: We were Yeah, I think I think I had my
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  Speaker 8: moments for sure, and I think we had a good
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  Speaker 8: first there. I don't know, a little off a little
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  Speaker 8: bit there, but uh, you know, it's it's fast, it's heavy.
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  Speaker 8: So learned a lot that game, and you know, just
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  Speaker 8: gonna continue to try and build.
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  Speaker 7: What was it like just trying to get yourself come
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  Speaker 7: and and then what was the whole experience.
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  Speaker 8: Like, Yeah, Yeah, it's it's a lot for sure. It's
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  Speaker 8: kind of nice honestly, just to get that even the
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  Speaker 8: lap out of the way and just everyone kind of
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  Speaker 8: forgets about it. I just go play. So you know,
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  Speaker 8: it was a really exciting night and you know, happy
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  Speaker 8: in my families year got to share with them, so
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  Speaker 8: really special night.
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  Speaker 7: And then you get the secondary as system on the
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  Speaker 7: first goal. I mean, did did register with you right
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  Speaker 7: away that you had a point?
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  Speaker 8: Did you figure out?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I did at all?
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  Speaker 8: That was you know, that's I think my first touch
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  Speaker 8: of the game wasn't the sists, so that was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 8: But yeah, I think it did end up going off
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  Speaker 8: abs right, So, you know, secondary assist and the second
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  Speaker 8: shift is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 7: And so as the game went along, I mean, what
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  Speaker 7: were you feeling out there as far as just the
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  Speaker 7: cohesion and the ability to make plays?
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  Speaker 3: What it would it? What it looked like the game
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  Speaker 3: kind of slowed down. H Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, you know, I think they're a really good defensive
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  Speaker 8: team too. And there wasn't a whole lot the whole game,
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  Speaker 8: but you know, maybe the odd chance here and there,
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  Speaker 8: and you know, obviously playing with with Maddie and Ebbs,
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  Speaker 8: it was they create lots and I just kind of
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  Speaker 8: have to get to the right spot sometimes and they
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  Speaker 8: make the play so really special and you know.
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  Speaker 2: Cool night, So good for the Cracking to get catt
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  Speaker 2: and on the board, but they're still trying to pick
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  Speaker 2: up the pieces in the game where they were outshot
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven to twenty two and giving up two goals
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  Speaker 2: to Owen Tippet in the process, Philadelphia scoring four unanswered
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  Speaker 2: on their side. Before we get to John Walton, here's
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  Speaker 2: the reaction from Cracken head coach Lane Lambert.
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  Speaker 9: Not sharp, We were not sharp. You're not wrong. Wasn't
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  Speaker 9: wasn't our best effort, that's for sure, and we have
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  Speaker 9: to be better.
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  Speaker 7: How much does missing, you know, so many guys from
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  Speaker 7: the lineup, how much does that start to impact kind
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  Speaker 7: of the.
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  Speaker 3: Systems play well?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, as you go along here, you know you've
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  Speaker 9: got you've got guys out, you know, but it's it,
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  Speaker 9: that is what it is. So you know, we those
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  Speaker 9: guys being out didn't didn't stop us from you know,
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  Speaker 9: winning battles or winning face offs. We just didn't do it.
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  Speaker 9: So really there's no excuse we weren't good enough.
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  Speaker 7: Were the penalties are concerned to.
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  Speaker 8: You at all?
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  Speaker 9: Where the penalties are concerned. No, you know, you know
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  Speaker 9: we we need we need some kills. You know, we
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  Speaker 9: had a couple of short hand of chances. We had
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  Speaker 9: a breakaway to make it two one. We had a
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  Speaker 9: two on one as well, and you know we didn't
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  Speaker 9: capitalize on those and they came back and scored. So
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  Speaker 9: you know, they didn't get much, to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 9: on their power play, but they capitalized on it.
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  Speaker 7: Berkeley cat and making his debut, did what did you
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  Speaker 7: end up seeing out of him?
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  Speaker 9: You thought it made a really good play on the
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  Speaker 9: first goal. It was nice for him to get you know,
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  Speaker 9: did first NHL point and you know we made a
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  Speaker 9: really good playoff face off to hitting the scene. You know,
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  Speaker 9: it's like you say, it's his first game, get his
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  Speaker 9: feet wet. I'm sure it was a learning experience for him.
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  Speaker 10: What needs to be clean up for Washington tomorrow.
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  Speaker 9: Our battle level, we we just can't lose the battles.
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  Speaker 9: We lost just too many of them. We played slower
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  Speaker 9: today for whatever reason. You know, we have to get
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  Speaker 9: more consistent in our thought process that way. But we've
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  Speaker 9: got to be faster and we've got to be more
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  Speaker 9: committed to winning battles and and I just didn't think
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  Speaker 9: I just didn't think we won enough battles. Were we trying? Sure,
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  Speaker 9: but there's a difference between trying and winning them. You know,
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  Speaker 9: the lost battles end up in penalties against, turnovers, chances against.
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  Speaker 9: So we have to be a lot better. In your experience,
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  Speaker 9: does it Is it a good thing that you have
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  Speaker 9: a game to come back tomorrow night that you know,
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  Speaker 9: the guys have to flourishes and know to have better
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  Speaker 9: at have time to sit and think about it or
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  Speaker 9: worry about it.
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  Speaker 3: Think he's got to get out and be better.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, it's regardless of whether it's tomorrow night
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  Speaker 9: or the next night. You know, I think that certainly
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  Speaker 9: it's an opportunity for us to rebound and be better.
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  Speaker 10: Ryan land Green has left the last two games a
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  Speaker 10: little bit beat up.
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  Speaker 2: How valuable is the role.
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  Speaker 9: That he plays for this team? Yeah, no, he's you know,
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  Speaker 9: I mean the last game he left is because he
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  Speaker 9: blocked a critical shot at a critical time that you know,
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  Speaker 9: flew up into his face tonight. He was sticking up
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  Speaker 9: for his teammate. He's a warrior and he's a great.
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  Speaker 2: Teammate joining us now are a team friend, John Walton,
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  Speaker 2: veteran play by play announcer on the Capitol's radio network,
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  Speaker 2: also his flagship station one O six seventh the Fan
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  Speaker 2: w JFK. John, Great to have you. And now that
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  Speaker 2: Alex Olvechkin has to pass Wayne Gretzky's all time goal
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  Speaker 2: scoring record, what's consuming everyone's mind now round this team
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  Speaker 2: for this season?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing? We're just going home.
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  Speaker 11: That's it. I you know, it's wild. I mean we
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  Speaker 11: had a you know, with where we were as far
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  Speaker 11: as the.
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  Speaker 3: Last season.
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  Speaker 11: I mean we got to about March and there was
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  Speaker 11: a time, I mean going back to the beginning, guys,
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  Speaker 11: where we had in November, We're in Salt Lake and
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  Speaker 11: Alex has two goals third period, Caps are winning handily.
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  Speaker 11: Everything's good, and then Alex breaks his leg and we
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  Speaker 11: stayed over in Salt Lake and it was just we
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  Speaker 11: went out after the game and get something to eat
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  Speaker 11: and we're just sitting there looking at each other like
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  Speaker 11: we don't know how to do this, Like we never
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  Speaker 11: seen this, None of us have ever seen this for
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  Speaker 11: a long term. At that point, we didn't really know
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  Speaker 11: what the injury was and watching him come back and
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  Speaker 11: do what he did, only out for six weeks, come
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  Speaker 11: back at the record and mold it down at the end,
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  Speaker 11: like he did not leave any room for maybe this
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  Speaker 11: happens this year or maybe it doesn't. A couple of
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  Speaker 11: goals against Chicago and could at four, and then getting
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  Speaker 11: it against the Islanders in the way he did tacked
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  Speaker 11: on a couple for good measure to get eight ninety
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  Speaker 11: seven at the end. There was definitely an emotional lift
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  Speaker 11: that surrounded this team that you know. It's funny because
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  Speaker 11: sometimes you'll get asked the questions, oh, is it a distraction?
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, it's not.
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  Speaker 11: I mean it's actually the opposite of that. But to
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  Speaker 11: that end, now that you're here, what do you do
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  Speaker 11: for an encore when you don't have this unbelievable historic
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  Speaker 11: achievement That was kind of this symbiotic relationship between the
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  Speaker 11: Caps going to one hundred and eleven points and Alex
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  Speaker 11: getting the record. And I think we've seen at least
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  Speaker 11: early on that you know, this team is still as advertised,
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  Speaker 11: they're running it back with twenty of the twenty three
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  Speaker 11: guys that were here last year.
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  Speaker 3: I don't feel and.
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  Speaker 11: I'm saying this more as a representative of what I've
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  Speaker 11: heard in the room from Logan Thompson has been vocal
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  Speaker 11: and Spencer Carberry has mentioned it. You know that a
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  Speaker 11: lot of people think, oh, well, you know, the CAP's
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  Speaker 11: over achieved. They're really not that interesting anymore. You know,
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  Speaker 11: if you don't have the record, what's going on. This
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  Speaker 11: team is still good. I ultimately think they've got to
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  Speaker 11: find a way to get through Carolina. They did not
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  Speaker 11: do that in the second round last year. They will
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  Speaker 11: ultimately if they want to put together a deep run,
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  Speaker 11: they got to get by Carolina because it's the way
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  Speaker 11: the playoffs are set up. So there are still a
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  Speaker 11: work in progress. But they are strong.
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  Speaker 3: One to twelve up front, one to six on d
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  Speaker 3: and one and two in the net.
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  Speaker 11: There are no holes here. This is one of the
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  Speaker 11: best defensive teams in the NHL. They don't give up
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  Speaker 11: much at five on five. They're tough to beat, and
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  Speaker 11: they have come out of the blocks not scoring a ton,
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  Speaker 11: but they are scoring enough and you know, been all
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  Speaker 11: right on the road. They've got this cushion of home
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  Speaker 11: games involving the crack in this week where you know,
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  Speaker 11: in the middle of five or six at home and
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  Speaker 11: then things start to get a little more serious. But
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  Speaker 11: they're you know, they're holding their own and I think
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  Speaker 11: everybody believes in this room that they are not only
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  Speaker 11: a playoff team, but a team that has a deep
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  Speaker 11: run in them. But they still have to get to
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  Speaker 11: I think that next level in order to do that.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I want to go back to ov for a second.
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  Speaker 10: Take us back to that run. I mean, the city,
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  Speaker 10: the fan base for you personally. I mean I can
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  Speaker 10: only imagine in Seattle you go back to the home
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  Speaker 10: run race of what was that ninety eight Maguire and
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  Speaker 10: Sosa and I think Griffy was in it for for
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  Speaker 10: a while. But just give folks in Seattle an idea
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  Speaker 10: of just what that was like.
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  Speaker 3: And then for you.
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  Speaker 10: Personally to have that moment on your reel, on on
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  Speaker 10: your resume of now being able to to tell your grandkids,
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  Speaker 10: to have your kids tell their grandkids. Man, you know
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  Speaker 10: Grandpa John was there when What was that like for
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  Speaker 10: all parties involved?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, put Grandpa to bed and change his nipe for it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 11: for sure. I'm older than you guys, so I can
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  Speaker 11: say that you know, it was wild.
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  Speaker 3: It was just this, It was about March.
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  Speaker 11: I mean most of my time, this is fifteen seasons
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  Speaker 11: here now, and there really had. There wasn't much of
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  Speaker 11: a time where you know, I was here. You know,
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  Speaker 11: he was in the threes when I got here, so
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  Speaker 11: I didn't get them all, but I've had the majority
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  Speaker 11: of him. And you know, four hundred becomes five hundred,
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  Speaker 11: becomes six hundred, and there's always this talk could he
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  Speaker 11: do it?
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  Speaker 3: Could he do it?
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  Speaker 11: And sometimes the answer would be oh yeah, and then
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  Speaker 11: other times it would be oh, absolutely not, And it
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  Speaker 11: just depended on which talking head and what national person
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  Speaker 11: was saying it. And you know, then about the time
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  Speaker 11: he got the seven hundred New Jersey a few years ago,
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  Speaker 11: you're like, listen, like this is one hundred ninety out now,
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  Speaker 11: like this is starting to feel like it could happen.
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  Speaker 11: And the production through the course of these last couple
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  Speaker 11: of years to you know, be approaching fifty goals at
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  Speaker 11: the age he's at where Gretzki in the same timeframe
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  Speaker 11: was getting, you know fifteen, this just doesn't happen. And
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  Speaker 11: he just kept throwing him in the net. And the
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  Speaker 11: way he started last year, it wasn't a matter of
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  Speaker 11: is going to happen, and it's like it felt like
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  Speaker 11: it was going to happen by Christmas, because he was
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  Speaker 11: leading the league there at the time he got hurt,
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  Speaker 11: was right at the top.
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  Speaker 3: But it's been this all consuming kind of thing.
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  Speaker 11: It almost feels like, you know when you're anticipating Christmas
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  Speaker 11: or something and you're you're whether it's family or or
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  Speaker 11: president you're hoping for as a kid, and then there's
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  Speaker 11: almost this remorse like, well, well what do we do now?
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  Speaker 3: Like it's all I've known, like the whole time I've
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  Speaker 3: been here.
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  Speaker 11: But it was amazing, and I think really from March
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  Speaker 11: we were in California and you could see that he
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  Speaker 11: was starting to heat up, and you really felt like, Okay,
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  Speaker 11: I think it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: There were little lulls here and there, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: when it.
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  Speaker 11: Really became apparent, you know, he tied the record at home,
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  Speaker 11: and it would have been amazing because he was this
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  Speaker 11: close against Chicago to getting a hat trick and maybe
• 15:47
  Speaker 11: even four and doing it in front of the home fans.
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  Speaker 3: It would have been nice.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, but you know, ultimately for those who love the
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  Speaker 11: game like we all do, to be just in the building.
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  Speaker 11: Funny enough, I'm Matthew Darish has been a friend for
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  Speaker 11: a long time.
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  Speaker 3: He was.
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  Speaker 11: He played in Hershey when I was there, and now.
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  Speaker 3: Is the gem of the Islanders.
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  Speaker 11: Funny enough, he was there that day with Tampa Bay. Yeah,
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  Speaker 11: because the entire staff had come out. They were playing
• 16:12
  Speaker 11: the Rangers, and they all made the trip because hey, listen, like, guys,
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  Speaker 11: we got to go see this. I mean we're here practically.
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  Speaker 11: Uh So all the you know, John Cooper was there
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  Speaker 11: and all, and Julian Breesebaugh and all the Tampa Bay guys,
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  Speaker 11: and he just had this moment and you felt like
• 16:27
  Speaker 11: it was going to happen, but you know, it's a
• 16:29
  Speaker 11: day game, and you know, just kind of getting into it,
• 16:31
  Speaker 11: and then the second period of powerplay comes and I
• 16:33
  Speaker 11: just remember, like my heart was in my throat. I
• 16:35
  Speaker 11: was like, this could be it, like right here, Like
• 16:38
  Speaker 11: I remember watching on ESPN when Gary Thorn and Bill
• 16:40
  Speaker 11: Clement called it when Gretzky passed Gordy and I was
• 16:44
  Speaker 11: in college and I never could have imagined.
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  Speaker 3: Being in that moment or being.
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  Speaker 11: One of the guys that got to call the next one.
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  Speaker 11: And honestly, I don't know if this is ever getting
• 16:56
  Speaker 11: brought not in my lifetime. I'm never going to see it,
• 16:58
  Speaker 11: but uh, you know, I just I don't know that
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  Speaker 11: it's going to happen again, but man to be there
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  Speaker 11: and just it was so perfect, Like whether you're you're
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  Speaker 11: Joe b or your me Joe Benanadi r TV guy here,
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  Speaker 11: the only thing you hoped for with all these milestones
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  Speaker 11: that have happened, you know, whether rolling over the odometer
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  Speaker 11: six hundred, seven hundred, eight hundred, it was pleased.
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  Speaker 3: For the love of God, let it be clean.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, no deflections, nothing, it's I mean, six hundred was
• 17:26
  Speaker 12: put the fear of God in me because we were
• 17:28
  Speaker 12: playing Winnipeg and Hallibuck was in net and it was
• 17:30
  Speaker 12: a scramble in front and he goes to it and
• 17:33
  Speaker 12: there's just that moment it hesitations.
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  Speaker 11: I'm pretty sure he got it. I think so, and
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: you're just, oh my god, Devin.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Hundred was was clean, but it was quick.
• 17:42
  Speaker 11: It was a third period of a game where the
• 17:44
  Speaker 11: capture losing in New Jersey. It was a day game,
• 17:45
  Speaker 11: and it just all of a sudden he hadn't scored
• 17:47
  Speaker 11: in eight games. Yeah, and all of a sudden it's
• 17:48
  Speaker 11: there and boom, like everyone has been kind of different.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Eight ninety five was beautiful.
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: It was exactly if you could have drawn it up,
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: if you could have said, I want a cross ice
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  Speaker 11: from I don't care who it is, winding up Vintage
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  Speaker 11: in the office, no doubt or blow them away.
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  Speaker 3: It was perfect.
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  Speaker 11: And when you're on the call and you're just saying,
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  Speaker 11: it's like you see it. If they said, if this
• 18:13
  Speaker 11: goes in, I'm gonna be okay with that, and it was.
• 18:18
  Speaker 11: And you know, I was happy with mine. I know
• 18:20
  Speaker 11: Joe's happy with his, and we're all just like you
• 18:22
  Speaker 11: just try to give the magnitude of the moment what
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: it deserves and hope that it resonates. And that's all
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: we can do, right, I mean, you know, you know
• 18:30
  Speaker 11: how it is. I mean, it's just for everything that happens.
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: I mean, you just want to give credence to the
• 18:34
  Speaker 11: moment and then in my mind, just get out of
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: the way and just you know, let you know, the
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: speeches and Gretzky and Ov and the game stops and
• 18:41
  Speaker 11: all of the wonderfulness it was happening had nothing to
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: do with us. But being able to watch that, I'll
• 18:46
  Speaker 11: never forget it.
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  Speaker 3: It was wonderful.
• 18:48
  Speaker 11: My son was there, just to be able to have
• 18:51
  Speaker 11: that moment happen. It didn't matter where, it didn't matter
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  Speaker 11: who the goalie was, it didn't matter who the other
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: team was. It was just this great celebration of our
• 19:00
  Speaker 11: great game, and I'm so glad I got to be
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: a small part of it.
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  Speaker 10: A lot of folks in Pittsburgh will tell you that
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: when the Penguins won all those Cups, they've never done
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  Speaker 10: it on home ice, and a number of fans are like, man,
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: the Pens couldn't have given me one cup on home ice.
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  Speaker 10: Obviously the record was great. It was a day game
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  Speaker 10: on Long Island. I mean, the moment is already a ten,
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  Speaker 10: But is it like a nine point seven because it
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  Speaker 10: wasn't in DC or.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 10: The moment happened and it's now going to be etched
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  Speaker 10: in history.
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  Speaker 11: I am tremendously fortunate that between when I was in
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  Speaker 11: Hershey and we won three Cups there and then I
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: got to be part of one here that winning at
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: home is special. I got to do that once with Hershey,
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: the other two were on the road, and then we
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: were in Vegas for this one here. It is there
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: is something special about and this was exactly the same
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: because you know, Nick Baxtrom came back, and tj Oshi
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: came back, and you know, there are all these guys
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: in the room and Tom Wilson is you know, we
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: the best. My favorite interview with Tommy ever and I've
• 20:03
  Speaker 11: had a bunch of them. Yeah, just you know, so appreciative,
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: Like and he and Dylan Strom. You couldn't have picked
• 20:08
  Speaker 11: two guys that would love to who can appreciate the moment.
• 20:11
  Speaker 11: Willie who's been here for you, Willie's going to be
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: a captain here when over retires, and being able to
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: kind of almost felt like a bit of a torch passing.
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: And Dylan Strom, who's you know, a stats guy and
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: loves the game so much.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I mean they appreciated it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: Having that moment on the road is okay because selfishly,
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: you know, you're you're on that bus together going to
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: the plane and like, I mean, if you're gonna win
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: a cup and you're not going to do it at
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: home friends, by the way, do it in Vegas.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, that that wasn't terrible.
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: But to have that moment with your teammates and your
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: your workmates, uh and your you know, our pr staff
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: and our our broadcast staff and all of that.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: There is something special to it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: To your point, though, could it would it have been
• 20:58
  Speaker 11: great to do it at home for the Cup? Yes,
• 21:00
  Speaker 11: would have been great do at home. Yes, But there's
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: actually I think two such to it. I would have
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: loved to have seen him do it at home because
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: I think they would have burned the building down. It
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: would have been unbelievable. But it would also you know,
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: it is nice from a selfish perspective. It's just this
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: moment that felt, hey, like this happened and we were
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: all here for it, and it's just this very almost
• 21:19
  Speaker 11: an intimate level of hey, we got to do this
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: really cool thing and it was just the fifty five
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: sixty people that were on the plane.
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  Speaker 3: Both are good. I was just glad that you got
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, big thank you too, John Walton for joining
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• 21:49
  Speaker 2: done so. That sets up the first of two matchups
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: here between the Crack and Capitals for this season. Tonight
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: they're only visit for the Craken into the nation's capital
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: and they'll face Alex Ovechkin as a new all time
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: leading goal scorer in NHL.
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  Speaker 3: History, he is two goals away.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: From nine hundred in his NHL career the Krack and
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: also getting a new Ford. Earlier this morning, they called
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: up Ben Myers from AHL Coachella Valley a one for
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: one swap defenseman vill A Odovine, and did not appear
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: last night against Philadelphia. He was sent back down to
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: AHL Coachella Valley in place. So for the Kraken, they'll
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: face the end of their first back to back set
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: for this entire season and trying to recapture form of
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: their first five games when they went three zero to
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: two under Lane Lambert, and the test is going to
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: be applied here for this evening. With their structure, they'll
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: face thirteen back to backs coming up here for this season.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Tonight ends number one of that variety. The Crack at
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  Speaker 2: aiming for their second win in five tries at Capitol
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  Speaker 2: One Arena all time, and again we have all the
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