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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert speaks with Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken face the Blackhawks (11/20) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike. Yes, we are here with the birthday boy
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  Speaker 1: who promised to talk to us only if I stopped singing.
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  Speaker 1: It's the centennial for the Red Wings here this season.
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  Speaker 1: You've spent the bulk of your NHL career. You debuted
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  Speaker 1: here in Detroit. You were roommates with Steve Weiserman back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. What do you remember about your time
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  Speaker 1: here in Motown and again a team that you're very
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  Speaker 1: familiar with as a player and as a coach now
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  Speaker 1: coming up on one hundred years, just your your memories
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  Speaker 1: of Detroit and your thoughts on this organization that you
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  Speaker 1: played a lot of your NHL career with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean the organization is unbelievable. You know
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  Speaker 2: when when we first came in or when I first
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  Speaker 2: came in here as a young nineteen year old, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was it was a real eye opener, you know
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  Speaker 2: where you know, there was more people at the at
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  Speaker 2: the opening game, you know, at Joe Louis Arena than
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  Speaker 2: lived in my town in swift Kern, Siskatchewan.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, you grew up and it's.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of like a real sort of a real, I
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  Speaker 2: guess eye opener. And you know, but I thought the
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  Speaker 2: management team ownership, you know, they had just taken over
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  Speaker 2: the year prior to me and Izermand coming here. They
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  Speaker 2: had a heck of a draft in nineteen eighty three,
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  Speaker 2: getting you know, Joey Kosher, Bob Probert, Peter Klima, you know,
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  Speaker 2: guys that laid the foundation for this hockey team for
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  Speaker 2: years to come. And we're integral parts of their Stanley
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  Speaker 2: cups and so the you know, the management hasn't and
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  Speaker 2: does a great job here. And you know, my time
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  Speaker 2: here was fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It was, like I say, it was first couple of
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  Speaker 2: years and first three years in the National Hockey League,
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  Speaker 2: and what more did you want as a as a
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  Speaker 2: nineteen year old kid, you know, your dream had come
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  Speaker 2: true and you just tried to do your best every day.
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  Speaker 1: Between you and Steve Eiserman, who was the cleaner roommate,
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  Speaker 1: who was the one that would clean up after themselves more?
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  Speaker 2: You know what, I got to tell you that I
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  Speaker 2: think it was me, but I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 3: That I'm sure we were both horrendous.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, and I look at my kids and go, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, clean up your room, you know, and why
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  Speaker 2: can't you be cleaner?
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  Speaker 3: Than that. I'm pretty sure that I was no better
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  Speaker 3: than that.
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  Speaker 1: On the road first of four here tonight, following taking
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  Speaker 1: five of six points on your home stand last week,
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  Speaker 1: what went right for your group and what did you make.
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  Speaker 3: Of those three games for Seattle? Uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: I liked. I liked a lot about our game. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there are certain.
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  Speaker 2: Pockets in the game obviously that you you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: not maybe happy with, but that's always gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: That's going to be in every game, you know. I
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  Speaker 3: thought for the most.
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  Speaker 2: Part, we defended pretty well, and you know, we found
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  Speaker 2: a way to score some goals, which was nice to see.
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  Speaker 2: We needed to and we need to continue doing.
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  Speaker 3: That as we move forward.
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  Speaker 2: And here tonight, you know, against a high octane offensive
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  Speaker 2: hockey team, we've got to defend well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, you guys really flipped the Seattle crack
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  Speaker 1: and can't score goals narrative last week. Offensively, What do
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  Speaker 1: you feel led to the success that you had now
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  Speaker 1: nine goals in your last two games.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that you know, it's funny because some
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  Speaker 2: nights they go in and some nights they don't, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of nights you have the same opportunities, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, so it's not necessarily that you can't. It's
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  Speaker 2: just some nights that they just don't go in or
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  Speaker 2: you don't. And I think that, you know, overall, I
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  Speaker 2: think we did a little better job of capitalizing on
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  Speaker 2: our opportunities obviously, and you know, we did a better
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  Speaker 2: job of having net presence.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you look at Adam Marson's goal, Marchman's
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  Speaker 3: in front of the net. We have to continue to
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  Speaker 3: get in.
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  Speaker 2: Front of the goaltender and give ourselves a chance to
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  Speaker 2: have succession by just shooting box. We talked about that,
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  Speaker 2: We talked about shot volume, and we talked about shots
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  Speaker 2: getting through to the net rather than getting blocked or
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  Speaker 2: us taking too long to get them away and somebody
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  Speaker 2: getting a stick on it.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, we have to continue do with that narrative.
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  Speaker 1: Moving to tonight, joe with Decord comes off of IR
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  Speaker 1: and Matt Murray not on the trip. Goldening has been
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  Speaker 1: a huge reason for this team's success this season. Could
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  Speaker 1: you share any updates on h Matt Murray and and
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  Speaker 1: then for Joey to Cord if he does come back
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  Speaker 1: in tonight or on this trip, what are you expecting
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  Speaker 1: defensively to help protect him and ease him back in
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  Speaker 1: the game action.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we just have to play, you know, I have
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  Speaker 2: to play solid in front of him, just like we
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  Speaker 2: do any other night. You know, he's gonna help us.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's going to help us with our breakouts
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  Speaker 2: and stuff with the puck movement, you know, but we've
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  Speaker 2: got to just like any other night, we talk about
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  Speaker 2: creating a good environment for our goaltender and try and
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  Speaker 2: keep you know, cry and keep their scoring chances, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at a minimal and certainly high danger ones
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  Speaker 2: at a minimal, you know. And it's gonna be tough tonight,
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  Speaker 2: Like I you know, I've been in this division and
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  Speaker 2: this conference for a long time, and you know it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a hockey team that can create opportunities. And so
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be challenged tonight to you know, to
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  Speaker 2: protect our goaltender, protect our NetFront. And we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to do that if we want to win the
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  Speaker 2: hockey game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: The Red Wings had three players with seven or more
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  Speaker 1: shots their last time out against the Rangers. They're a
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  Speaker 1: team that gets a very high volume of shots. What
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  Speaker 1: type of problems do you think this team can present
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  Speaker 1: to your group tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look at you know, they're doing what we talk
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  Speaker 2: about doing, and that's putting pucks on that de and
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  Speaker 2: what that does is, you know, it might not be
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  Speaker 2: the first shot that comes in that's really a scoring chance,
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  Speaker 2: but you know they're looking at seconds and thirds. So
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  Speaker 2: we have to do a good job in front of
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  Speaker 2: our goaltender and certainly we've got to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: we don't give them an opportunity for second chances and
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  Speaker 2: third chances and saying that how do you do that, Well,
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  Speaker 2: you better be prepared to battle. And it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a lot of one on one battles at our
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  Speaker 2: paint and we've got to get their cold temper and
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  Speaker 2: get their paint as well.