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Hockey Fights Cancer and how the Kraken help with Mel O'Brochta · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Why does this game mean so much? You're with the
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  Speaker 1: hands on impact.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really special to be part of this league initiative.
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  Speaker 2: All thirty two teams participate. But it's one of the
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  Speaker 2: most beautiful nights here at Climate Pledgerina. Everything flips to Lavender,
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  Speaker 2: but it is so much bigger than that. Tonight, though,
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  Speaker 2: is really special because we will physically be doing some
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  Speaker 2: cancer screening here on site. Last year we screened I
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  Speaker 2: think over one hundred men with just a simple blood test,
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  Speaker 2: and so it is really important because the message we're
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  Speaker 2: really trying to communicate is that early detection can really
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  Speaker 2: save lives.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the front door advertising here with how this turns
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  Speaker 1: into Lavender really just strikes the I. It's done so
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  Speaker 1: for me for so many years. We'll get into more
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  Speaker 1: of the screening part of this because it's so important,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, what examples elsewhere can you think of
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  Speaker 1: with this game and the event that tells the greatest
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  Speaker 1: kind of story that just validates why the Kraken and
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the NHL do this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we actually have a patient here with
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  Speaker 2: us tonight that did this screening last year and is
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  Speaker 2: about to finish their treatment and so it quite literally
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  Speaker 2: is a one for one example of like why this
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  Speaker 2: night is so impactful and why the NHL pushes a
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  Speaker 2: story like this. We are literally saving lives, and I
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  Speaker 2: think sometimes when you get wrapped up in sports and emotions,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to remember that at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're all humans and it's important to increase
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  Speaker 2: the longevity and live really healthy lives. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that's what our partnership with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is
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  Speaker 2: really about, is really encouraging a healthy lifestyle, and early
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  Speaker 2: detection is really a part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Schwartz's story tells a lot about this saving here
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  Speaker 1: his sister Mandy a tribute to this often it's a
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  Speaker 1: story that really bears repeating and the reason why that
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  Speaker 1: this game is so important. And add to that, you've
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  Speaker 1: got players going to hospitals, you're in there with them.
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  Speaker 1: You've got players jerseys going up here for auction among
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  Speaker 1: other ventures. So what difference have the players made here
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  Speaker 1: for hockeyfis cancer?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jaden has been such a phenomenal extension of our
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  Speaker 2: partnership with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. He himself has done
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  Speaker 2: a ton of hospital visits. Just last week, we took
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  Speaker 2: six guys down over to Burien to Saint Anne Hospital
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  Speaker 2: just to visit the cancer center itself and also really
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  Speaker 2: uplift the lives of the staff working there that are
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  Speaker 2: really in it. But the players are totally bought in.
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  Speaker 2: It's been really cool even just downstairs watching them walk
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  Speaker 2: in in the Hockey Fights Cancer jerseys. But they're incredible
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  Speaker 2: proponents for this night, and it's really nice to see
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  Speaker 2: them dive in.
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  Speaker 1: Bill brought to joining us here in the intermission, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about the cancer screenings because I
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  Speaker 1: mean this is kind of close to home for me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting up there in the age category, so you
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  Speaker 1: had to really kind of think about this stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 1: what do you appreciate about the different types of ways
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  Speaker 1: that fans can jump in with different types of screenings
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  Speaker 1: here and then benefit as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, we've got the
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  Speaker 2: simple PSA blood test tonight, but we also have a
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  Speaker 2: mobile lung cancer screening unit that I know they've brought
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  Speaker 2: to other sports teams here locally in Seattle, and I
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  Speaker 2: know they've got a mobile Mammogram clinic as well, and
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  Speaker 2: so just be on the lookout for other opportunities that
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  Speaker 2: fans can engage. But you can do tonight specifically encourage
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  Speaker 2: folks to go participate in the screening. We've got I
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  Speaker 2: Fight four cards for everyone, and of course these beautiful
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  Speaker 2: beanies to really just continue to.
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  Speaker 1: Share the message outside of this A Kraken all the
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  Speaker 1: five k It was at Green Lake back on October fourth.
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  Speaker 1: What do you recall about that day and how much
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  Speaker 1: it moved the dial here for this event?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this night is just a piece of our ongoing
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  Speaker 2: activations with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health throughout the year. The
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  Speaker 2: five case such a fun way to kick it all
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  Speaker 2: off in early October. We raised almost fourteen thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: that night, and then of course tonight we'll have the
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  Speaker 2: anchor auction benefiting the Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Crack and
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  Speaker 2: Hockey Fights Cancer Fund and the team stores even adding
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  Speaker 2: a roundup for tonight that normally will go to a
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  Speaker 2: Wonder Foundation, but Wonder Foundation will be routing the funds
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  Speaker 2: to the Hockey Fights Cancer Fund.
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  Speaker 1: What a movement, what a moment, What a night. Mel,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much, Thanks guys,