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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert joins Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken face the Ducks (2/3) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike back with Gock and head coach Lane Lambert
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  Speaker 1: big win up in Vegas back on Saturday. Just take
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  Speaker 1: us through a game that I had a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of everything ultimately led to you guys getting two big
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  Speaker 1: points in the standings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, you know, I thought we started well.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't think we're great in the
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  Speaker 2: second period and gave up a late goal. But I
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  Speaker 2: really liked our response coming out in the third period
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  Speaker 2: and making sure that we you know, continued and we
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  Speaker 2: talk all the time about being on our toes and
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  Speaker 2: what that means is we're you know, pushing north and
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  Speaker 2: putting pressure on teams. And you know, if you look
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  Speaker 2: at the cause and effect, which I do, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Elie Tolvenen forces in icing and you know, face off later,
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  Speaker 2: it's in the back of their net for our winning goals.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I love the fact that we didn't
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  Speaker 2: sit back and kept on going north.
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  Speaker 1: Jared mccannon named NHL First Star of the Week. And
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  Speaker 1: he's had some time missed with injury this season, but
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  Speaker 1: now in the thirty games he's played, he's got points
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  Speaker 1: in twenty one of those games. What have you made?
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  Speaker 1: What you like about his game and how impressed are
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  Speaker 1: you that he's able to do so much offensively given
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he's missed a lot of time with injury.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, well, you know what he's I think he's an
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  Speaker 2: an elite offensive mind. I'm not surprised. He's franchises all
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  Speaker 2: time leading scorer and point getter and has led the
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  Speaker 2: team in scoring every year. You know, he just needed
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  Speaker 2: to get back, get healthy and sort of catch the
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  Speaker 2: moving train, so to speak, and I think he's done that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm impressed with this game. I'm impressed with
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  Speaker 2: his poise and certainly you know, when he's able to
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  Speaker 2: get his shot away, which you know he does, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's a rocket, as we witnessed in Vegas on the
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  Speaker 2: power Play.
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  Speaker 1: He's talked a lot about playing with Matty Veneer's and
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Eberley and how much they've meant to his game
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  Speaker 1: and helped his game. What do you personally like about
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  Speaker 1: that line in the group and that you've been able
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  Speaker 1: to put together.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you know, when we decided to finally
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  Speaker 2: put them together, you know, we were thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how much balance we would have, But at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, I think in order to get the
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  Speaker 2: most out of those three guys, having them together makes
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  Speaker 2: the most sense, and they've done a really good job
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  Speaker 2: from that standpoint of proving that to be correct.
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  Speaker 1: Both these games here tonight, Dan tomorrow against the Gags
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  Speaker 1: are going to be huge. But looking at the standings,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're three points back at first, so it's
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  Speaker 1: potentially this is the first place team going out of
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  Speaker 1: the Olympic break. How do you keep that from maybe
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  Speaker 1: creeping in a little bit to the dock room. I know,
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  Speaker 1: we take things one day at a time, but two
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  Speaker 1: big games coming up here this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's so close that you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can win a couple of games and be in first,
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  Speaker 2: and lose a couple of games and be out of
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. So I just think from that standpoint, I
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  Speaker 2: just think that it keeps everybody really grounded in terms
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  Speaker 2: of where you're at, and you just have to keep
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  Speaker 2: taking it one day at a time, one game at
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  Speaker 2: a time, one period of time, and one shift at
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  Speaker 2: a time, and that's what we'll that's what we'll do
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  Speaker 2: as long as we, you know, put our best foot
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  Speaker 2: forward and play the game we want to play, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see where the results go from there.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like that parody around the league or is
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  Speaker 1: it a bit too nerve wracking? Do you wish it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the difference between two or three points means you're
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  Speaker 1: in first or you're going golfing?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean I like it. I think it's I
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  Speaker 2: think it's good for the for the league itself, and
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  Speaker 2: I also like it for our hockey team. You know,
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  Speaker 2: do I want to be ten points in first place? Sure,
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  Speaker 2: but it's good for our hockey team. It's good for
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  Speaker 2: our development of our young players as well. Meaningful games
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  Speaker 2: or you can't put a price tag on playing meaningful games.
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  Speaker 2: You know, once you're out of the playoffs and you're
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  Speaker 2: playing those games that don't mean anything, they really don't
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  Speaker 2: mean anything to me. You can score ten goals in
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  Speaker 2: the last ten games when you're out of the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: and you know it doesn't matter. You have to play
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  Speaker 2: meaningful games. So this is good for our guys.
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  Speaker 1: Last time these two teams met, you didn't like the
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  Speaker 1: first forty minutes the crack and had a game sayta hi,
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  Speaker 1: but you like the last twenty What lessons can you
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  Speaker 1: take from that loss and apply here to some landscape.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we just we just need to be better. It
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  Speaker 2: was one of those games where I don't really think that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we were trying to be bad. It just
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  Speaker 2: we kind of looked at each other a couple of
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  Speaker 2: times on the benches coaches, and said, you know, what
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  Speaker 2: are we doing. We just couldn't connect. We were not
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  Speaker 2: in sync. It was it was really weird. Forty minutes
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  Speaker 2: you know, we just have to be ready to go.