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Pregame conversation between Lane Lambert, Everett Fitzhugh at St. Louis (11/8) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike Lane. Coming off of a six to one
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: loss to the Santals Sharks two nights ago. In games
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: like that, do you chalk it up to those type
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: of things happened throughout the course of the season, We're
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: gonna flush it or what's that mindset about rebounding and
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: coming back in for this one here tonight.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Well, there's two parts to that. You said them both.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: You know, normally, you you are going to have some games.
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: You could probably count four or five games a year
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: where just for whatever reason, it's just not going well,
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: you know, and whether that be give up a goal
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: in the first shift, give up a goal in the
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: last minute of the first period, give up a goal
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: in the first minute of third period, those are just
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: Cardinals scenes that happened to us. And you know, if
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: you if you do those kinds of things, chances are
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: pretty good that you're not gonna win. And some nights
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: that's just gonna happen. So, you know, when you're really bad,
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: I guess you could maybe potentially flush it and chock
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: it up to you know, just one of those nights,
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: But not now, not with this team, not this early
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: in the season. You know, why did it happen, what
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: can we learn from it? How can we be better?
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: These are all things that we've talked about over the
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: last three days. It's been a long three days, trust me.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Earlier this morning in new Mediaville, you said the Kraken
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: weren't generating enough offensive chances for your liking. You switch
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: up the lines a bit, you put Matty Veneers back
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: with Schwartz and Coppolcaco. What are you hoping to a
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: achieve with that line? And then also, how do you
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: feel this team can go about generating more opportunities this weekend?
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: Well, there's a formula for success. We know what the
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: formula is. We have to execute and for me, it's
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: not necessarily rocket science, but there's an execution factor. And
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: you know, we've done a pretty good job over the
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: course of the season of having net presence. You know,
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: there's there's times the other night when we took shots
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: and their goaltender there was nobody around them at all.
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: And that's just not it's not a winning formula, you know.
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: So we've got to be better in that area, just
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  Speaker 2: got to get harder. It's going to be a hard
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: game tonight. They're a hard team. They're a hard team
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: at home, and you know, we're going to have to
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: own the paint at both ends and that is going
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: to require us to battle.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: And so.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: You know, you cannot let your foot off the gas
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: for one second against this team. So we'll look to
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: get to the net tonight and you know, just switching
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: things up a little bit, just see if that gives us.
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: A bit of a spark. Joey de Cordon not making
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: the trip for Seattle two parter number one, can you
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: share an update on his status? And number two? What
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: type of added pressure do you feel this may add
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: to the defensive side of the game here today, playing
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: in front of two goalies who, while experienced, haven't had
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of ice time this season.
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, obviously Joey not being here, he's not
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: here this weekend, he's day to day. We'll see what
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: happens after that. We'll know more on Monday. But you know,
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: Joey's a big part of our our breaking pucks out
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: the way he plays the puck, and so it starts
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: there with us. You know, we're gonna have to be
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: good getting back for pucks with our defense. We're gonna
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: have to communicate and be solid on goalie exchanges and
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: things like that. Joey oftentimes just passes it up himself.
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: And you know, it's a very very advantageous thing to have,
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: you know, our guys Grooby and Murk and play the puck,
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: but you know, not to the not to the adeptness
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: that Joey can play it. And saying that those guys
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: have been working hard, you know, and I think they've
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: both handled the three goalie rotation with tremendous professionalism and
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: they've worked. Uh, you know, we're asking them to step
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: in and be good right away. We don't have time
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: to you know, get the rest off in saying that.
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: You know, they have played games for probably three weeks,
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: so not an easy situation for them to be coming into.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: But you know, we have to we have to pretend
• 4:30
  Speaker 2: them as well. We have to play solid in front
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  Speaker 2: of them,