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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Marching in right before the deadline (3/4) · 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 and Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 2: Two more days from now, it's pencils down. Here for
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  Speaker 2: the NHL trade deadline quick hit, or here for Cracking
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  Speaker 2: this Morning. Mike Benton with you on Wednesday, March fourth,
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  Speaker 2: with the Kraken facing the Saint Louis Blues and their
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  Speaker 2: final game before the NHL trade deadline on Friday tonight,
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  Speaker 2: opening face off little past seven o'clock Pacific time the
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  Speaker 2: climb the Pledge Arena. We're on air six thirty for
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  Speaker 2: your pregame shows, served up by Frostbrewed Corps, Light Shoes,
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  Speaker 2: Chill and take note. National TV's got the game here
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  Speaker 2: for this evening, so we are your only local source
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  Speaker 2: for broadcast coverage once again, all across ninety three three
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  Speaker 2: KJRFM and the Global Credit Union Cracking Audio Network ever
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  Speaker 2: at now upstairs for the call. I'll join you back
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  Speaker 2: by the course light landing in section twenty. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: Al joins me and you also at Tom's watch bar
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  Speaker 2: across the street following the game, Climate Pledge Arena. Great
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  Speaker 2: night too, partake in the in all trade deadline possibilities Again,
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  Speaker 2: we're on air up to an hour after the final
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  Speaker 2: horn following the game at Tom's watchbar once more right
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  Speaker 2: across from Climate Pledge Arena reaction from Monday Night and
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  Speaker 2: Ben Myers who had the game winning goal coming shortly
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  Speaker 2: plus a recap of our chat with David Panyota of
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  Speaker 2: the fourth period and NHL Network one of the great
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  Speaker 2: storytelling insiders here for this league joining us in just
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  Speaker 2: a bit on trade deadline possibilities, plus should they be
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  Speaker 2: suiting up or not? A couple of names to be
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  Speaker 2: on the lookout for here on the Saint Louis Blues
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  Speaker 2: sign David Panyota, and our conversation once more heard on
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  Speaker 2: Cracking Weekly last night coming up in just a bit,
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  Speaker 2: Everett fits you, al Kiniski and myself by the way
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  Speaker 2: for you each and every week on kjar by the
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  Speaker 2: way find that podcast it via the crack and Audio
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  Speaker 2: Network and the iHeartRadio app as well as far as
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  Speaker 2: two nights ago. It was right down to the wire
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  Speaker 2: where the Kracking didn't take a single penalty until the
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  Speaker 2: final two minutes of regulation and then it was hold
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  Speaker 2: your breath time. As Carolina pulled their goaltender Frederick Anderson
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  Speaker 2: to make it a six on forest gaining situation and
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  Speaker 2: the crack and penalty kill with Joy, the Cord forced
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  Speaker 2: into a position to bend but not break.
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  Speaker 3: Who won Seattle up to the line Costas pair down
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  Speaker 3: the slot. That shot deflecting high over the goal, Jarvis off.
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  Speaker 4: The back of the net.
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  Speaker 3: Ten seconds left here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 5: This is a ho to the high slot.
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  Speaker 3: Elers back to La ho suits that'll say a line
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  Speaker 3: three seconds to.
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  Speaker 5: Go, ha ho gocern. So it's a card a thirty five.
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  Speaker 3: Saved dandy here at home, it's a two long Seattle
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  Speaker 3: track and win.
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  Speaker 2: The homestand opening victory over the Canucks last lat weekend
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  Speaker 2: big because the Kraken washed away a couple of avoidable
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  Speaker 2: back to back losses against Dallas and Saint Louis. But
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  Speaker 2: then Monday night, as they say, a big measuring to
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  Speaker 2: kind of game, and while the Krakens certainly were busy
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  Speaker 2: turning away shot attempt after shot attempt from Carolina, they
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  Speaker 2: kept much to the outside. Joey to Cord also big
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  Speaker 2: in his efforts from that game, with a Kraken one
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  Speaker 2: two to one over Carolina and the cord turning in
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  Speaker 2: thirty five saves on thirty six shots plus withstanding the
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  Speaker 2: final push from Carolina in the dying seconds to take
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  Speaker 2: first Star of the Game honors. Ben Myers had the
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  Speaker 2: game winning goals scored at a forty eight a period
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  Speaker 2: two jamming at loose puck away at the glove side
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  Speaker 2: of Frederick Anderson back in period two, all part of
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  Speaker 2: the night where the Kraken out hit Carolina thirty one
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  Speaker 2: to thirteen lock shots. Kraken had a lopsided edge at
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  Speaker 2: twenty three to seven, and Myers had more reaction after
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  Speaker 2: the win with the media on Monday night.
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  Speaker 6: I think our skating was huge tonight. We didn't give
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  Speaker 6: him much time when they had the puck, and also
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  Speaker 6: we were just pushing it up the ice pretty quick,
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  Speaker 6: and I think he put some pressure on them.
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  Speaker 7: The way that game played out, I mean, it's obviously
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  Speaker 7: they tilt the ice quite a bit there at the end.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, what's the conversation like on the bench or
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  Speaker 7: in the locker room going to the third Yeah, we were.
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  Speaker 6: Just sticking to the same game, you know. I thought
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  Speaker 6: we had plenty of chances even in the third period,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, we're we're trying to keep the pressure
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  Speaker 6: on him, so you know, definitely not trying to sit
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  Speaker 6: back in that situation.
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  Speaker 5: I'm your goal.
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  Speaker 7: Mllanson doesn't get credit for a point there, but he
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  Speaker 7: kind of starts that play. I guess, how did you
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  Speaker 7: see it all kind of playing out there?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, just made made a great play on the wall,
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  Speaker 6: got it to Lars in the middle, just moved it
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  Speaker 6: quick to me, gave it to Freddy and then just
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  Speaker 6: drove the net and you know, was able to put
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  Speaker 6: it home after a great pass from Freddy too. So
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  Speaker 6: how much fun is Mellie to play that? Yeah, it's great,
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  Speaker 6: you know, just a really consistent competitor. You know, I
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  Speaker 6: think that's the big thing is you know, we all
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  Speaker 6: know what he's going to bring night in a night out,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, it's nice to have that physical edge jump.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it brings a lot to our team.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think of Jamie laxiax game too?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: It was great. You know he was he was banging bodies,
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  Speaker 6: you know, from the first period there. So it's pretty
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  Speaker 6: cool to see. And you know he's been doing that
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  Speaker 6: all year and.
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  Speaker 4: For a team like Carolina likes to shoot and shoot
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  Speaker 4: and shoot some more, and then the fire drill at
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  Speaker 4: the end they're trying to kill off the penalty. What
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  Speaker 4: was that kind of like playing against them and then
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  Speaker 4: knowing they were going to keep firing at the end.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they're just a good hockey team, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: I thought we we just uh stuck to our structure
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  Speaker 6: like really well throughout the entire game and especially at
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  Speaker 6: the end there, and obviously had some great goaltending too.
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  Speaker 6: So Yeah, what's.
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  Speaker 8: The challenge in a game like this?
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  Speaker 6: Are against an opponent like that and not kind of
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  Speaker 6: getting like frustrated, like the mental challenge when you're playing.
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  Speaker 3: In a comment like that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I our coaching staff, you know, brought it up
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  Speaker 6: this morning. You know, they try to frustrate teams. That's
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  Speaker 6: kind of their mo and you know it was talked
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  Speaker 6: about from our staff and we kind of we played
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  Speaker 6: them once already this year and they've been playing like
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  Speaker 6: that for a long time, so you know, most guys
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  Speaker 6: have seen it and played against it.
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  Speaker 7: So as much as they're able to tilt the ice,
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  Speaker 7: is it kind of helpful almost knowing that this is
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  Speaker 7: how the game is going to go, Like they're gonna
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  Speaker 7: get a ton of shot volume. But as long as
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  Speaker 7: you stick to your structure, you're gonna have a chance.
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  Speaker 7: Like does that help going in?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: No, yeah, obviously. You know, we're just trying to stick
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  Speaker 6: to our structure and the way they play man on
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  Speaker 6: man and aggressively. We know if we make one or
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  Speaker 6: two plays, you know we're going to get a chance too.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, I thought we had chances of the
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  Speaker 6: entire night too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So where did the Kraken go from here? By Friday
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  Speaker 2: at noon Pacific time for the NHL trade deadline, well,
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  Speaker 2: several reports suggesting the Kraken could be a buyer in
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  Speaker 2: this situation, but how big We cut up with David
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  Speaker 2: Panyota of the Fourth Period NHL Network and Sirius X
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  Speaker 2: and NHL Network Radio discussing those possibilities, plus a couple
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  Speaker 2: of names attached here to this evening's opponent in Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 4: So they can continue to search as much as they want,
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  Speaker 4: they've got to find somebody else to dance with, and
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  Speaker 4: we know that they've explored big names before. I put
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  Speaker 4: Seattle into the category of big fish hunting. If they
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  Speaker 4: can find that big fish at either end of the ice,
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  Speaker 4: preferably upfront. Then I think Jason Botterol and Ron Francis
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  Speaker 4: and company are going to want to pull the trigger
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  Speaker 4: on that. They've been exploring it going back to last
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  Speaker 4: off season, going back to last season and continue to
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  Speaker 4: We've seen them connected to guys like Jordan Cayrou and
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  Speaker 4: of course they tried with respect to our Tammy Panerin
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  Speaker 4: before he was traded to Los Angeles. That just goes
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  Speaker 4: to show you the type of pool that they're fishing
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  Speaker 4: in and that's what they would like to do. There
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  Speaker 4: have been some teams that have poked around on some
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  Speaker 4: of their pending unrestricted free agents everything, and every indication
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  Speaker 4: that I've been given is that they want to hold
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  Speaker 4: on to their guys. They'll talk after the trade deadline
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  Speaker 4: and resume contract discussions with a lot of those players.
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  Speaker 5: After the deadline.
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  Speaker 4: They want to focus on adding, and again takes two
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  Speaker 4: to pull this off, But from every indication I've been
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  Speaker 4: given from people close to the organization and league wide,
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  Speaker 4: they would like to make a splash, and if they
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  Speaker 4: can't pull it off now, they're going to continue to
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  Speaker 4: look to do that in the summer around draft time.
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  Speaker 4: But that's the priority for this club right now, make
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  Speaker 4: a big splash. See if you can add a top six,
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  Speaker 4: preferably a first line type of player.
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  Speaker 5: And it wouldn't shock me if they can actually do
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  Speaker 5: that between now and the deadline.
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  Speaker 8: David, you know a lot of a lot of times
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  Speaker 8: we talk to fans and the question we always get
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  Speaker 8: asked is are the crack I'm going to make it?
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  Speaker 8: Make a move? But are they going to make it?
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  Speaker 8: And you know we all know on this call that
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  Speaker 8: it takes more than just answering that question. You've got
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  Speaker 8: to find a team that's interested in something you have.
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  Speaker 8: You've got to find a GM that you've got a
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  Speaker 8: relationship with, You've got to find a player that wants
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  Speaker 8: to play in Seattle. And so you know, you know
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  Speaker 8: a lot of the names that are floating around out
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  Speaker 8: there that might be candidates to be moved. Who do
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  Speaker 8: you think are you know a couple of the favorites
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  Speaker 8: that might be good fits in Seattle.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think they're going to continue if they haven't already,
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  Speaker 4: And I suspect they have to circle back on guys
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  Speaker 4: like Cairo, a player like Robert Thomas, his teammate in
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  Speaker 4: Saint Louis. Again, those caliber of players that that are available,
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  Speaker 4: that are out there. There are others that are you know,
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  Speaker 4: you have Nozen Kadri and Vinnie Trochek and Braden Shen
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  Speaker 4: and Ryan O'Reilly and so on that kind of you know,
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  Speaker 4: have generated a ton of interesting league why but it
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  Speaker 4: seems like the priority is top tier star to add
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  Speaker 4: to this to add to this lineup. Easier said than done,
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  Speaker 4: clearly because they would have done it already. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: Bottlerel and everybody are trying to find that one piece
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  Speaker 4: that they can add to to the group. And it's
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  Speaker 4: not exclusive to a center or a winger. If it
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  Speaker 4: is a winger, great they can add that to the
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  Speaker 4: first line and immediately implement that. But that's what they've
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  Speaker 4: been that's what they've been trying to do. And it
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  Speaker 4: seems like they might be a little more geared to
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  Speaker 4: the wing, but again we'll see where that goes. The
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  Speaker 4: other name that I'm a little bit curious about is
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  Speaker 4: Elias Petterson. Not too far away in Vancouver. There are
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  Speaker 4: teams that have interest in him. The Canucks have made
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  Speaker 4: it clear they don't want to retain on that contract.
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  Speaker 4: He's got eleven point six million dollars aav and they
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  Speaker 4: are willing to listen. And a team like Seattle with
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  Speaker 4: a lot of cap space sitting around twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 4: million right now, they have the financial flexibility to do it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, whether they have the assets, the pieces in
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  Speaker 4: the drive to pull that off, we you know, obviously
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  Speaker 4: we'll have to wait and see. But again, these are
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  Speaker 4: you know, top tier names across the National Hockey League,
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  Speaker 4: and these are the caliber of players that Seattle is
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  Speaker 4: trying to add over these next few days.
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  Speaker 2: Going back here to Thomas and Jordan Kyro David, as
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  Speaker 2: far as what they're commanding here in the marketplace, what's
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  Speaker 2: the realistic asking price right now? Where you see a
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  Speaker 2: lot of teams, you know, pooning up the best offer
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  Speaker 2: here for.
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  Speaker 5: Them, They're substantial.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly Thomas is higher than that of Cyrus by all indications.
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  Speaker 4: Thomas is the package and the cost that it would take.
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  Speaker 4: You're looking at a top tier prospect, a first round
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  Speaker 4: pick and at least one other asset to bring him
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  Speaker 4: out of Saint Louis, and I think Kyrus is a
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  Speaker 4: little bit less. You're probably looking at a first round
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  Speaker 4: pick in a top prospect. Whereas for Thomas, you've got
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  Speaker 4: to add at least one other piece as part of that. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the Krack can do have a pretty solid base. They've
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  Speaker 4: got some assets that you know, some.
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  Speaker 5: Teams are certainly interested in.
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  Speaker 4: And we've heard, you know, Shane Wright's name floating around.
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  Speaker 4: He's been one carrot that the team seems to be
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  Speaker 4: willing to dangle and and that other teams have expressed
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  Speaker 4: interest in. That might be a centerpiece of a potential
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  Speaker 4: return depending on the type of deal that comes into
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  Speaker 4: play here for either of those guys or somebody else.
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  Speaker 4: But it's going to be hefty, and it's one thing
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  Speaker 4: to take on big dollars because both of those guys
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  Speaker 4: have eight point one twenty five million dollars cap hits. Again,
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  Speaker 4: they have the flexibility to add those caliber players and
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  Speaker 4: those players with high prices, but you've got to give
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  Speaker 4: up a certain package in order to achieve that. And
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  Speaker 4: that's what clearly they seem to be evaluating.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to these names, the prospects or the
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  Speaker 3: players the Craken could potentially be getting. Does term matter?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, are the Kraken looking for a rental? Are
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  Speaker 3: they looking for someone who has a year or two
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  Speaker 3: three left on their deal that if we're going to
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  Speaker 3: give up, say a Shane, right, we want to have
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  Speaker 3: another piece that we can at least build upon for
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  Speaker 3: the next couple of years and and hopefully re sign
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  Speaker 3: long term.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, if if we're talking about players of you know,
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  Speaker 4: Shane writes Elk, you're you're looking at somebody with term.
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  Speaker 4: You're looking at somebody who's not just going to help
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  Speaker 4: this team now, not just going to help this team
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  Speaker 4: next season, but for the foreseeable future, presumably a piece
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  Speaker 4: that's going to build with this group and grow, which
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  Speaker 4: I should say with this group as they continue to
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  Speaker 4: build into into legitimate, you know, year after year contenders.
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  Speaker 5: The Panerian thing was a little bit different.
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  Speaker 4: Those caliber players don't come around too often, and given
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  Speaker 4: the age a two year, three year extension kind of
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  Speaker 4: tied to it made sense. But for some of the
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  Speaker 4: others that are out there, yeah, they're they're primarily looking
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  Speaker 4: for controllable assets that either have full term or are
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  Speaker 4: controllable still of RFA status on the restricted side, so
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  Speaker 4: you can still control their future and their fate moving forward.
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  Speaker 4: So if they do make that type of impact move
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  Speaker 4: by moving out some of their key young pieces, or
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  Speaker 4: prospects slash draft picks. They want to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: they're bringing in somebody who's going to work withness team
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  Speaker 4: in the longevity of that career is going to build
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  Speaker 4: with the Cracking.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you to David Panyota of the Fourth Period in
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  Speaker 2: NHL Network and Sirius Sex and NHL Network Radio for
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  Speaker 2: joining us as well on Cracking Weekly. More of that conversation,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, in full heard at the Crack and
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  Speaker 2: Audio Network podcasted via the iHeartRadio app. Well, this evening
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  Speaker 2: could get very interesting depending upon who the Blues suit
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  Speaker 2: or don't suit up here for this game. Several names
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  Speaker 2: could be on the trade block for a Blues team
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  Speaker 2: well out of the playoff mix right now, coming in
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  Speaker 2: with a record of twenty two, twenty nine and nine
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  Speaker 2: point total at fifty three, and also ranking next to
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  Speaker 2: last in the entire Western Conference and the entire National
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  Speaker 2: Hockey League. On top of that, potentially Robert his name
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  Speaker 2: within the mix here for Trey candidates Jordan Cayrou along
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  Speaker 2: with Colton Pereco, Justin Falk, and goaltender Jordan Bennington. So
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  Speaker 2: could there be a turnover here for the Blues and
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  Speaker 2: their direction on their roster, maybe matter retirement before we
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  Speaker 2: find out how many veterans they want to move on from. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 2: they have to play this game coming up, and the
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  Speaker 2: Kraken looking to take two out of three against Saint
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  Speaker 2: Louis in this head to head series. Last time out
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  Speaker 2: not so pleasant on the Kraken side. They fell five
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  Speaker 2: to one last Thursday on a hat trick by Dalton
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  Speaker 2: Hall Theway, which was the end of back to back
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  Speaker 2: games on the road Saint Louis is three to six
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  Speaker 2: and one. They come off a surprising three to one
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  Speaker 2: victory over the Minnesota Wild. Thomas Logan, Mayhew and Pavel
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  Speaker 2: Bochnavich all had the goals for Saint Louis in that game,
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  Speaker 2: with Joel Hoefer, the former Portland winter Hawk, turning in
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  Speaker 2: a twenty two save effort. By the way, this will
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  Speaker 2: be the first time Saint Louis visits Seattle since last
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  Speaker 2: season on April twelve, with a Kraken aiming for three
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  Speaker 2: wins out of four. Again some blues and still reportedly
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  Speaker 2: on the move here for as David Panota said, big
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  Speaker 2: fish hunting gonna be a lot of fun here to monitor.
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  Speaker 2: Once again, we're on air this evening at six point
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  Speaker 2: thirty face off little past seven o'clock Pacific time. Postgame
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  Speaker 2: coverage up to an hour after the final horn will
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  Speaker 2: be at Tom's Watchbar once again, right across from Climate
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  Speaker 2: Pledge Arena. Talk with you then, for cracking this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Mike Benton.
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