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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Time well spent, and Darren Brown joins (12/4) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the Kraken
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  Speaker 1: Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 2: A little pause in the calendar is finally in the
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  Speaker 2: rearview mirror. We're set for the Kracking in the Edmonton
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  Speaker 2: Oilers this evening from Rogers Place, a rematch of last Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Benton with you for Cracking this morning. This game
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  Speaker 2: coming to you on a Thursday, December fourth, with the
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  Speaker 2: Kraken opening up the calendar for the new month, still
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  Speaker 2: very much in the playoff mix at eleven seven and
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  Speaker 2: six twenty eight points one ahead of Edmonton with a
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  Speaker 2: record of eleven eleven and five. Opening face off six
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  Speaker 2: pm again Pacific time from Edmonton. Ever it fits you,
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  Speaker 2: al Kiniski on the call. I'll join you from Network
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  Speaker 2: Central for your pregame show served up by Frostbrewed Corps
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  Speaker 2: Light Choose Chill, opening up five thirty on ninety three
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  Speaker 2: the global. Credit you Kraken Audio Network, with the Kraken
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  Speaker 2: looking for payback after a four nothing to feed to Edmonton,
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  Speaker 2: who was pretty ready. It appeared with their familiar cast
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  Speaker 2: chipping in getting goals for the likes of Ryan Nugent Hopkins,
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  Speaker 2: Connor McDavid and Leon Dreys. Title we will hear from
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  Speaker 2: head coach Lane Lambert and his comments to the media
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  Speaker 2: after practice on Wednesday at Kraken Community Ice plus plus
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  Speaker 2: Darren Brown joining us of NHL dot com and also
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  Speaker 2: soundof Hockey dot Com. Additionally getting into our biggest takeaway
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  Speaker 2: from practice, Mason Marchman's absence, emotional carryover from this last
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  Speaker 2: weekend and surprises so far neck and neck proverbial le
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  Speaker 2: with the crack and right now in the race within
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  Speaker 2: the Western Conference. Darren Brown joining us here in just
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  Speaker 2: a bits well for the previous few days, the crack
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  Speaker 2: and missing Mason Marchman. Originally on Monday, head coach Lane
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  Speaker 2: Lambert saying that it was due to a maintenance day,
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  Speaker 2: but still no Marchman on ice leading through Wednesday. Brandon Montor,
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  Speaker 2: who missed practice Monday and Tuesday, was back on ice
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  Speaker 2: as well, along with the Kraken trying to tidy up
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  Speaker 2: their game with a winless schedule, trying to end right
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  Speaker 2: now at three consecutive games. After practice Wednesday at coach
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  Speaker 2: Lane Lambert met with the media to discuss more.
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  Speaker 3: You see Monty out there practicing. Any update on.
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  Speaker 4: Mason and yeah, he's not gonna travel. You won't play tomorrow,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll see. We're hopeful he'll play Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Is it any designation you can share up or lower
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  Speaker 3: or something else.
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  Speaker 4: No, we'll just keep it at that.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, you talk a lot about special teams work and such.
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  Speaker 1: To and we saw some more of that today.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, is there a way that almost like iron can
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  Speaker 5: sharp and iron in the sense that your power play
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  Speaker 5: and your penalty killing units are competing against each other,
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  Speaker 5: but in a way these practice environments kind of know
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  Speaker 5: what each other's trying to do.
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  Speaker 3: Is that almost help in the practice?
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  Speaker 4: Well, the competition between the two like is critical. You know,
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  Speaker 4: if you have if you have a good power play,
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  Speaker 4: it improves your penalty kill. If you're penalty kill is good,
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  Speaker 4: then it improves your power play vice versas. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: we did we did a lot of film in the
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  Speaker 4: last couple of days. We did some work on the
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  Speaker 4: ice in the last couple of days. On both things.
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  Speaker 4: Because you know, we talk about our power play. Our
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  Speaker 4: power play is one us Some hockey games this year,
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  Speaker 4: and you know you're going to go through little stretches
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  Speaker 4: in the season eighty two games where you know, maybe
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  Speaker 4: the power play is you know, gets a little gets
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  Speaker 4: a little dry. It's not like we didn't have shots,
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  Speaker 4: you know, our penalty kill, you know, to give up
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  Speaker 4: twenty goals here so far in twenty four games, to me,
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  Speaker 4: that's a problem. And you know, we talk about our
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  Speaker 4: power player, our power play, you know, our penalty kill
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  Speaker 4: is right now has to be better.
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  Speaker 3: To that point, do you think it's a function of
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  Speaker 3: is it just not properly executing their all the penalty killer?
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  Speaker 3: Is there something else you're seeing that could.
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  Speaker 6: Be behind that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's some lack of execution and responsibilities, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and it's it's tough to be a penalty killer in
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  Speaker 4: the National Hockey League, and you know we're we're kind
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  Speaker 4: of developing on the fly as we go here with
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  Speaker 4: certain guys and they're going to have to be better.
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  Speaker 4: It's just the bottom line, like you know, we can
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  Speaker 4: sit here and say, okay, this is that and the
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  Speaker 4: next thing, but twenty four games into it and twenty goals,
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  Speaker 4: you know, whoever's killing penalties has to be better. Doesn't
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  Speaker 4: matter if you've killed in the National Hockey League before
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  Speaker 4: or not. You've got to be better because we know
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  Speaker 4: exactly what we're supposed to do now, it's a matter
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  Speaker 4: of executing on the.
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  Speaker 1: Mental side of that. How do you keep that from
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  Speaker 1: creeping in? You know that every time there's a power play, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: here we go again, how do you keep the focus
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  Speaker 1: there and.
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  Speaker 4: Not have that spiral? Or is there you said to
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  Speaker 4: any of them on adage, Well, I mean I think
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  Speaker 4: you can potentially sense it at some you know, at
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  Speaker 4: some point, right uh, you know, and again like it's
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  Speaker 4: not like we haven't been playing against top power plays,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, I mean, take a look at our
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  Speaker 4: take a look at our buffet of power plays we
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  Speaker 4: have coming up here, and you know it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: if it isn't you know, McDavid and drysitle tomorrow, it's
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  Speaker 4: Caprice off. And if it isn't Caprice off, it's Nathan
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  Speaker 4: McKinnon and mccarr And you know, like we have to
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  Speaker 4: be better. So the question that you asked is does
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  Speaker 4: it spiral or you know, is there some we have
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  Speaker 4: to get on some kind of a run here to
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  Speaker 4: get our confidence back and at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you have to go out there with confidence,
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  Speaker 4: you have to go out there with a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of swagger no matter what's been happening, because you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's every team goes through it at one point
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  Speaker 4: or another during the season, so you know, we just
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  Speaker 4: have to make sure that doesn't creep in.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked to you plenty obviously about special teams from
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  Speaker 3: an even strength perspective, How do you feel about what
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  Speaker 3: the group has done.
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  Speaker 4: To generate among that? Well, I think if you look
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  Speaker 4: at our shot attempts, which is kind of like the
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  Speaker 4: big thing, you know, that we've talked about, they've they've
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  Speaker 4: risen over the last two weeks, you know, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: we want to be better than average, but we're probably
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  Speaker 4: about four shot attempts below league average, you know, And
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  Speaker 4: so it's there's there certainly is a way to get there,
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  Speaker 4: you know, And I think that from that standpoint, our
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  Speaker 4: offense will you know, it will help our offense from there, clearly.
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  Speaker 4: I think that you know, when you're having trouble scoring,
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  Speaker 4: it takes away a little bit of the swagger. It
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  Speaker 4: takes away a little bit of the swagger from the
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  Speaker 4: power play and the guy's on the power play, and
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  Speaker 4: then when that doesn't score, then it bleeds into the
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  Speaker 4: five on five. So you know what, it's just a
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  Speaker 4: matter of taking a deep breath, getting a starting with
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  Speaker 4: a clean slate, so to speak, and you know, having
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  Speaker 4: confidence we're good hockey team.
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  Speaker 3: Of sort of having to snowball build confident.
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  Speaker 5: Now there's a breath that can happen. Like people look
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  Speaker 5: at this last couple of days, it's possibly a breath
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  Speaker 5: that can happen, so that you can have that refocus
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  Speaker 5: and sort of reset the mindset almost.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think I think you have to look at
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  Speaker 4: it that way, and I think you can look at
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  Speaker 4: it that way. And that's why we, you know, split
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  Speaker 4: up practices the way we did, you know, and you
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  Speaker 4: also have to enjoy the game and you have to
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  Speaker 4: have fun, right and so when you know, when you're
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  Speaker 4: squeezing your stick or you know you're sort of feeling
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  Speaker 4: the outside noise of not scoring, you know, it's tough
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  Speaker 4: to do that. But we have to remember that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're we're here to compete. We gotta love competing, and
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  Speaker 4: we have to have.
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  Speaker 2: Fun ahead of the rematch this evening, our friend Darren
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  Speaker 2: Brown of NHL dot com also see see Oh we
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  Speaker 2: should say for the sound of hockey, been that since
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  Speaker 2: the dawn of time, joining us once again on cracking
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  Speaker 2: this morning. It's been a while, but Darren has been here, there,
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  Speaker 2: and everywhere, my friend. On a belated note, Happy Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: How was on your end?
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  Speaker 6: That's fantastic.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, lots of eating and drinking and playing games and
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  Speaker 7: carrying on.
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  Speaker 6: So no complaints. I do love that. You gotta love
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  Speaker 6: that holiday, right.
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  Speaker 7: Just oh my goodness built around just kind of being
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  Speaker 7: if you're not the one doing all the cooking and preparing,
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  Speaker 7: which I was not, then it's just kind of like
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  Speaker 7: around being lazy.
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  Speaker 6: And that was what I did, and it was wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Every end there must being right, or for every end
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  Speaker 2: there must be young. I mean, you're going hard at it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, twelve hours a day, but you got to
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  Speaker 2: find a way to relax and kick back a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: That's right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was going out of pretty good in the kitchen
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  Speaker 2: as well, but it was relaxing, very worthwhile I think
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  Speaker 2: for my family in But you know, you, being a
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota guy a chorus, so this is always an important
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  Speaker 2: holiday for you and me so glad to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: To you, enjoyed that. But diving into this evening, Darren,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it comes off of a pretty lengthy break.
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  Speaker 2: I just stay here for the crack and compared to
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  Speaker 2: what we're gonna see usually on this schedule for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the entire season, and the only other breaks
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  Speaker 2: they'll have in between games this big that would be
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  Speaker 2: comparable for the entire season would be the holiday break
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  Speaker 2: and then the Olympic break, which it feels like we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be off here for an eternity. And I
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  Speaker 2: think the theme of the week for me at practice
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  Speaker 2: for the few days they had was dig in from
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  Speaker 2: the small area games to the roadmap to get to
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  Speaker 2: the net, even things that you would kind of pick
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  Speaker 2: out that would lead to a little more power play
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  Speaker 2: success even for the penalty kill as well, that would
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  Speaker 2: help kind of recalibrate the score. That to me was
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  Speaker 2: at the forefront here for the few days they had
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  Speaker 2: on the ice. What'd you take away here from what
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  Speaker 2: you saw?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think especially on Wednesday, the biggest thing you
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  Speaker 7: hit on the head there with the power play, but
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  Speaker 7: also the penalty kill, and Lane Lambert was talking about
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  Speaker 7: that at nauseums how much they not only need to
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  Speaker 7: start finding some goals and success and the power play,
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  Speaker 7: but the penalty kill has been downright.
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  Speaker 6: Pretty bad for this team.
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  Speaker 7: They do allow goals almost every game and the penalty kill,
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  Speaker 7: and when you think about the last game against Edmonton
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  Speaker 7: when they go zero for six on the power play,
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  Speaker 7: so obviously that's kind of the story.
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  Speaker 6: Of the game.
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  Speaker 7: But at the other end of the of the ice
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  Speaker 7: they go the Edmonton Oilers go two for two, right,
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  Speaker 7: So I mean you have to figure out ways to
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  Speaker 7: shut down these opposing power plays, but also figuring out
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  Speaker 7: how it gets some success to yourselves because it is
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  Speaker 7: costing you games. And right now we're in obviously a
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  Speaker 7: little bit of a lull for this team where they
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  Speaker 7: have effectively lost three straight and gotten shut out twice.
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  Speaker 7: So there's a lot of emphasis right now on finding
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  Speaker 7: ways to get the puck into the net while also
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  Speaker 7: not sacrificing the strong defensive structure that they've created. At
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  Speaker 7: least at five on five.
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  Speaker 2: The revolving door continues to spin. No Mason march Min
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  Speaker 2: he won't be on the trip. It seems like Yanni Newman, though,
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  Speaker 2: is good to go to get back into the lineup
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  Speaker 2: and earn a ton of compliments here from Lane Lambert,
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  Speaker 2: especially about a couple of days ago about his potential
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  Speaker 2: to be still a top six winger in the NHL.
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  Speaker 2: So for the latest lineup change, Darren heading into this evening,
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  Speaker 2: what's your reaction.
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  Speaker 7: Well, one thing is Jared mccannon moving back with Matty
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  Speaker 7: Veneer's and Jordan. I believe it's funny to me, I
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  Speaker 7: think back to over the couple times now where they've
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  Speaker 7: changed coaches, right, they've Hackedell and Dan Bousman, and then
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  Speaker 7: Dan Bousman into Lane Lambert, and when Biosman took over,
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  Speaker 7: it seemed like there were a few things that he
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  Speaker 7: was resistant to going back to that had worked under Hackstell,
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  Speaker 7: and then I think there was something similar here when
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  Speaker 7: Lambert took over, where it was kind of like, I
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  Speaker 7: don't know if we want to go back to having
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  Speaker 7: Jared McCann on the top line and Jared McCann on
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  Speaker 7: the left side on the power play, you know, we
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  Speaker 7: want to get him in a shooting position on the
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  Speaker 7: right side, and then sure enough he's back on that
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  Speaker 7: top line and with the two guys he's played with
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  Speaker 7: so much and over now on the left side of
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  Speaker 7: the power play. So it's kind of like they eventually
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  Speaker 7: revert back. They're like, well, we want to try some
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  Speaker 7: different things, and then ultimately they find out, oh, you
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  Speaker 7: know what, this is actually what works best. So it
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  Speaker 7: takes a little while to get there sometimes as they
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  Speaker 7: just try some different things.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, as far as the.
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  Speaker 7: Lineup is concerned, I think Newman flots in pretty easily.
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  Speaker 7: Catton is still playing a big role. You know, he's
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  Speaker 7: getting next to Chandler Stevenson now his roommate. So they're
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  Speaker 7: just trying to find a combination that's going to work.
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  Speaker 7: You know, they've they've had such a hard time finding
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  Speaker 7: the back of the net. So hopefully one of these
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  Speaker 7: lines can spark something and then that'll be a little
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  Speaker 7: bit of contagious thing. They can start scorings and goals
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  Speaker 7: throughout their lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Darren the Mason March Mint Darnell Nurse kerfuffle was kind
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  Speaker 2: of a subplot from last Saturdays, so no March into
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  Speaker 2: the lineup now for the rematch in Edmonton. So would
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  Speaker 2: you be surprised to see any kind of emotional carry
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  Speaker 2: over into this game?
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  Speaker 7: You know, I'm sure there will be some bad blood.
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  Speaker 7: There were some probably not so nice things said to
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  Speaker 7: one another between the two teams. March Mint being out
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  Speaker 7: of the lineup probably takes a little bit of that out.
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  Speaker 7: But also Edmonton has played another game in between. And
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  Speaker 7: I mean the fact that I guess Marchant not playing, Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: I mean that's a big deal, right. I think if
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  Speaker 7: he was there, they'd still probably be trying to get
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  Speaker 7: their vengeance for him hitting Darnell Nurse and being public
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  Speaker 7: enemy number one in that game. But he's not playing,
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  Speaker 7: so I think it takes a lot of that kind
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  Speaker 7: of anger out of it. We'll see, you never know.
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  Speaker 7: I would guess it's going to play out more as
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  Speaker 7: a regular game as opposed to one with added vitriol
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  Speaker 7: between the two teams, But we shall see.
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  Speaker 2: Darren Brown joining us here from NHL dot Com, also
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  Speaker 2: for Sound of Hockey, Dren, I want to get back
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  Speaker 2: to Berkeley Catton, you dropped his name here about a
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  Speaker 2: couple of minutes ago, and left wings centered. They've been
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  Speaker 2: moving him back and forth between the wing in the
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  Speaker 2: middle as well. And you know, just like me and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of folks, that playing center in the NHL
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  Speaker 2: is a very very demanding responsibility, but they're going to
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  Speaker 2: give this a go. It looks like you're, at least
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  Speaker 2: from the practice lineup side of things, him going back
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  Speaker 2: to the wing on. But really, on top of that,
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  Speaker 2: going back to last Saturday, I really couldn't picture maybe
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  Speaker 2: a more effective game that Catton could have played on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive set of things and not come up here
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  Speaker 2: with the goal. So I'll kind of play with you
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  Speaker 2: a little bit on this one. Whether it might be
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  Speaker 2: a goal that's off the rush, whether it might be
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  Speaker 2: say a breakaway getting right behind the pack on the
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  Speaker 2: power play, or just maybe going to the front of
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  Speaker 2: the net and getting one off of his Dairyer to you,
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  Speaker 2: the likeliest goal that Berkeley Caton scores for his first
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  Speaker 2: career NHL goal is going to be what.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to say, it's gonna beat Man.
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  Speaker 7: He had a beauty at practice, took a path I
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  Speaker 7: think as a cross cross slot pass, and just sniped
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  Speaker 7: it over Joey Decord's shoulder. It was a really, really
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  Speaker 7: nice goal, So I'm gonna go with that. I think
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  Speaker 7: he's gonna take a take a cross cross ice speed
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  Speaker 7: and he's going to snap it into the top corner
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  Speaker 7: and I feel like it's got to be coming soon, right,
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  Speaker 7: He's had so many good looks. The problem is he's
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  Speaker 7: gotten himself into some great scoring positions, and for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 7: when that's happened, it seems like more often than not,
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  Speaker 7: he's put it right into the goalie's chest, which is
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  Speaker 7: not You know, he's such a superstar goal score at
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  Speaker 7: least at the junior level, so you know at some
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  Speaker 7: point he's going to start finding the back of the
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  Speaker 7: net and picking some of those corners a little bit better.
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  Speaker 6: But it's got to be coming soon. It just has
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  Speaker 6: to be.
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  Speaker 2: Edmonton's still hovering finally around above five hundred as we're
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  Speaker 2: into December, and I mean a lot of us have
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  Speaker 2: been thinking of when the Western Conference sorts itself out,
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  Speaker 2: that they're going to be in the mix. But time
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  Speaker 2: still marches on and there's old treading waters. So despite
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  Speaker 2: what they're going through with trying to get their matters
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  Speaker 2: sorted out, whether it's up run five on five, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's defensively, whether it's in net as well for the rematches,
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  Speaker 2: saving to you, Darren, what's the greater key here on
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  Speaker 2: the crack inside the first twenty minutes in winning that
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  Speaker 2: or just flat out staying out of the box.
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  Speaker 7: Gosh, after well, I don't know if you can safe
• 15:22
  Speaker 7: staying out of the box. I mean, it's impossible to
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: not take any penalties, right Like, I guess it's possible.
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: It's very rare that you don't take any penalties, especially
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: if you're getting penalties at the other end. Right if
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: if Edmonton is taking penalties, the refs call the narrative
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: of the game. Eventually they're gonna they're gonna give you
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: a couple of penalties. And we saw that in the
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: last game with the Mason Marchman getting checked into the
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: net and taking a getting called for goalie interference. Right Like,
• 15:47
  Speaker 7: eventually they're going to call something on you, even if
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: it's a bad call. So yeah, you can say stay
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: out of the box. But also, I mean you just
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: have to be better on special teams. Like penalties are inevitable,
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: power plays are inevitable. You aren't going to have games
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: where you just don't have penalties called either way. And
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: it's been making your breaking it. So that's not exactly
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: an answer to your question, because yeah, the first twenty
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: minutes they are important, But I think to me, the
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: most important thing is just how they handle special teams.
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: It's been such a storyline. You can tell it's starting
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: to get under their skin a little bit here. You know,
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: it's just such a such a conversation topic in the
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: locker room. Clearly it's the main thing that they're focusing on,
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: both on the ice and in video, and creating offense
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: in general has been such a difficult thing. So I'd say,
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: if they can, how about this, Mike, how about this
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: for an answer, I've given you three different answers to
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: this question. At this point, I'm going to say scoring
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: a goal in the first twenty minutes of the game
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: is going to be critical for this team.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: I don't have to decide multiple choice style here. We'll
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: just go ahead and go with that. One sounds good
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: to me. So hey, before I let you go, Edmonton
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: coming off one, nothing lost. They were just stymied by
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: the wild Things still very much clustered in the Western Conference.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: The Kraken are still very much in this mix and
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: amidst this cluster. Whether it might be Vegas in their start,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: whether it might be San Jose, whether it's Chicago, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Anaheim,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: or somebody else. To you, who's the most surprising opponent
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: at this point of the season in the West.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: That's a good question.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: Well, of all the teams in the West, I think
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: I'd have to go with Anaheim. I don't think I
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: expected them to be competing for a top spot in
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: the Pacific Division by any means. I knew they were
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: going to be better, and you knew if Joel Quinnville.
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: Say what you want about him, but he knows how
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: to coach a hockey team, right, And I think bringing
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: him in along with the kind of rising talent that
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: they have there and you're seeing this is a team
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: that's ready to compete or at least push for a
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: playoff spot for a lot of the season. And so
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: whether it's this year that they do that they do that,
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: or it's next year or the year after, I mean,
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: that's a scene that's on the rise. They're rising a
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: little faster than I maybe would have accepected.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: So that's the one that I'll go with.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: They have a lot of young players, it seems like,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: who are growing up really fast and really at this
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: point of the season. That next date with the Ducks
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: in Anaheim December twenty second, it feels right now like
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a collision. Darren, appreciate you as always,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: you're awys welcome back on with us and looking forward
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: to having you next go around. But thanks again, buddy,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: appreciate you.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Mike tuking soon all right, thanks d Aarren. Certainly colliding
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: forces set to go out of here for this evening.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: The cracking at number one in the NHL for five
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: on five goals allowed up against Edmonton with the third
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: best power play in the entire league. It'll certainly be
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: a good test here on the Craken side coming up
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: as they're trying to fend off again Edmonton team that
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: lost won nothing in their previous matchup to the Minnesota
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: wild Back on Tuesday. Once again, all the action coming
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• 19:11
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• 19:13
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• 19:17
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