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KRAKEN WEEKLY: Reflections and cheers, Bob Condor! (10/23) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: This is Jordan Eberle, right wing for the Seattle Kraken.
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  Speaker 2: This is Brandon Montour. This is Bobby McMahon.
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  Speaker 3: This is Matty Bernier, center for the Seattle Kraken.
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  Speaker 2: This is Berkeley Catton. You're listening.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Kraken Weekly with Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 2: To Dunn, left circle.
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  Speaker 5: He fires.
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  Speaker 2: He scores.
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  Speaker 6: Vince Dunn, the first goal in Climate Pledge Arena history,
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  Speaker 6: has given Seattle a 1-0 lead with three seconds left
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  Speaker 6: in the first period.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what a night that was. Can you believe it?
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  Speaker 7: Five years ago, hockey became a reality as far as
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  Speaker 7: home games and the Seattle Kraken in these parts.
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  Speaker 2: And here we are.
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  Speaker 7: To present day in year number six with a Kraken
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  Speaker 7: off to a great start.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot to reflect on. We'll have a
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  Speaker 2: lot to get.
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  Speaker 7: To here for the future, but glad you're hanging out
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  Speaker 7: with us once again on Kraken Weekly.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Benton, Everett Fitzhugh, Al Koniski.
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  Speaker 7: Once again, you can find us, by the way, podcasting
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  Speaker 7: each and every time on via the iHeartRadio app. Just again,
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  Speaker 7: sign up for free to get that at sportsradiokjr.com. And again,
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  Speaker 7: find that on the iHeartRadio app. Bob Condor, the one
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  Speaker 7: and only, formerly of seattlecrackin.com. He is hanging it up.
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  Speaker 7: But gone but not forgotten, we're going to appropriately reflect
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  Speaker 7: on Bob's career.
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  Speaker 2: He will be joining us for this show in a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 7: Plus reaction from Matty Beneers. He had a power play
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  Speaker 7: goal from last night. Your questions and our three stars
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  Speaker 7: as well. Before we get to all of this, let's
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  Speaker 7: go ahead and reset last couple games because it got
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  Speaker 7: pretty wiry, hairy, and crazy from period one, two, to three,
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  Speaker 7: and pushing overtime as well with the Kraken face Detroit
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  Speaker 7: and Utah right out of the gate.
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  Speaker 2: Following that, the reaction from Matty Beneers.
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  Speaker 8: Kraken are back in.
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  Speaker 2: Here comes Stevenson.
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  Speaker 5: Hands it off.
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  Speaker 4: Samuelskevich fires.
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  Speaker 5: Scores!
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  Speaker 8: It's the return of the Mack! Mackie Samuels-Skevich back home
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  Speaker 8: in Seattle on the Kraken. Have a 1-0 lead, 13-15.
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  Speaker 8: In the slot, hands it off, Riker.
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  Speaker 9: Evans, scores!
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  Speaker 10: Gatton wins the face-off, Bontor scores!
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  Speaker 4: A clean face-off win, left circle.
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  Speaker 8: And Brandon Montour steps into a bomb from the high slot, and.
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  Speaker 4: The Kraken kick the field goal. They're up 3-0.
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  Speaker 2: With 3.59 to play the second.
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  Speaker 11: Starts with a face-off win, Berkley Catten out to Brandon Montour.
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  Speaker 11: A quick shot on net, Brandon Montour's got his first
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  Speaker 11: of the year. Snapping it past Kik Tarasov.
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  Speaker 12: Three-nothing Seattle.
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  Speaker 4: Near side red line.
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  Speaker 9: Dumps it in.
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  Speaker 8: Seattle turns it over.
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  Speaker 5: Larkin. Back door.
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  Speaker 4: Don't break it.
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  Speaker 2: Scores.
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  Speaker 4: And the Red Wings win.
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  Speaker 8: A six on four power play backdoor tap-in.
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  Speaker 4: We're tied at three.
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  Speaker 9: 16.3 left in the third.
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  Speaker 4: Game resting on his stick. Grubauer comes out of the street.
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  Speaker 2: Sparkett with speed.
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  Speaker 7: Left circle.
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  Speaker 2: Out of the middle.
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  Speaker 13: Of the slot.
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  Speaker 10: He shoots.
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  Speaker 9: It's time by Philip Grubauer.
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  Speaker 2: And the Seattle Packers take the extra point.
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  Speaker 5: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 2: Onside.
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  Speaker 4: Jordan Eberle, a shot near wing.
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  Speaker 8: It bounces off the end boards, off the back of Mamelka.
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  Speaker 4: And they score.
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  Speaker 5: Nice move on Kraus.
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  Speaker 4: Katt throws it down low. Backdoor tap-in.
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  Speaker 2: Scores!
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  Speaker 8: Matty Beneers draws the penalty. And finds the back of
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  Speaker 8: the net. 1.37 to go on the first.
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  Speaker 4: Crack it back on top.
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  Speaker 5: 2-1.
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  Speaker 11: Well, the top of Utah's box blows a tire on
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  Speaker 11: Berkley Catt. Catt recognizes it and attacks the neck. He
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  Speaker 11: drops the puck down low to Kapokaku, who does a
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  Speaker 11: nice spinning move. Backhand pass over to Matty Beneers in
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  Speaker 11: the back post.
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  Speaker 5: He taps it home. Crack it up.
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  Speaker 14: 2-1.
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  Speaker 4: On tour to the half wall.
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  Speaker 8: The captain.
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  Speaker 5: Back to Montour.
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  Speaker 4: Widespires.
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  Speaker 2: Scores!
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  Speaker 10: Eager.
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  Speaker 4: Now for Cooley. High slot shot.
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  Speaker 2: And they score.
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  Speaker 10: That one on side. And the Mammoth have tied the
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  Speaker 10: game 3-3. 12-17 to go in period number. Now Seattle
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  Speaker 10: brings it up the right side. McMahon shoots. That one
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  Speaker 10: through the pads of Mimalka. Goes off the side of
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  Speaker 10: the goal. McMahon again.
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  Speaker 7: Back door.
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  Speaker 9: Scores!
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  Speaker 8: Mackie Sanoskevich.
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  Speaker 4: Goes toward the goal.
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  Speaker 8: Crashing the net. He'll finish the play. And the Kraken
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  Speaker 8: regain their lead. It's a 4-3 edge with 5.25 left
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  Speaker 8: in regulation.
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  Speaker 11: Well, Bobby McMahon with tons of speed down that left side.
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  Speaker 11: He's got a 2-on-1, but he's got to step. on
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  Speaker 11: the Mammoth defense, but he opts for the shot. Like
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  Speaker 11: he said, Vemelka leaks.
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  Speaker 5: That one out.
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  Speaker 11: He ends up picking the puck up again, finding Samus Gibbons,
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  Speaker 11: trailing down the slot, puts it on his stick, and
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  Speaker 11: on the first shot of this third.
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  Speaker 5: Period, the Kraken score, 4-3.
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  Speaker 2: Mammoth can't hold the line, and Seattle will.
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  Speaker 5: Chase him back to the center circle.
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  Speaker 2: Now Gaudreau picks it off, toward the empty net, scores!
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  Speaker 3: Get that airplane in.
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  Speaker 9: With leads and shutting teams.
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  Speaker 3: Down and not letting them push back and get momentum.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of what happened tonight in the last game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you kind of let a team back in
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  Speaker 3: and they get goals, get momentum and they tied up.
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  Speaker 3: So a good response by us, but yeah, we'll get
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  Speaker 3: more comfortable in those situations and, and, you know, shut
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  Speaker 3: teams down.
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  Speaker 14: And what does it say about the resiliency of this
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  Speaker 14: team though, that you haven't let those completely, you know,
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  Speaker 14: I mean, you, you have recovered and won those games
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  Speaker 14: in all three cases.
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  Speaker 9: It's great.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's tough when you let a team back
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  Speaker 3: in and, they kind of have all the momentum and
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  Speaker 3: to be able to, you know, obviously we don't want
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  Speaker 3: to let them tie it up, but after they tie
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  Speaker 3: it up, kind of putting our foot down saying, you know, turning,
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  Speaker 3: turning the tide a little bit, getting some momentum, getting
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  Speaker 3: some offense, scoring the go ahead goal. Those are, those
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  Speaker 3: are huge moments.
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  Speaker 14: From your perspective, how is it to see Mackey having
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  Speaker 14: the start that he's had here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been great. You know, not surprised. He's, he's
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  Speaker 3: so skilled. He's, he's an awesome player. So, you know, we're,
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  Speaker 3: we're happy to have him here and, I hope he's
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  Speaker 3: having fun.
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  Speaker 13: Maddie, overall that's seven wins in 11 games out of
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  Speaker 13: the gate here for you guys. How happy are you
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  Speaker 13: with the way you guys are playing? There's obviously goals
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  Speaker 13: being scored. You guys are contributing across the board. What
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  Speaker 13: do you kind of like about your game and the
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  Speaker 13: start you've had?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're really connected as a team right now.
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  Speaker 3: We're all on the same page. We're playing You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's back and forth games, but I feel like for
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  Speaker 3: the most part, it's been 60 minutes. You know, guys
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  Speaker 3: are competing, winning battles, doing the right things. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're making plays. We're making plays all over the ice.
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  Speaker 3: We're playing with confidence. And that's, you know, what we
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  Speaker 3: got to do for the rest of the season. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's a good start, but we got a lot more
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  Speaker 3: to go.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that reaction from Matty Beneers.
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  Speaker 7: And guys, we often say, just like maybe in golf,
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  Speaker 7: it's not how, but how many. And the Kraken have
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  Speaker 7: stacked up how many to the record they.
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  Speaker 2: Have right now at 7-3-1.
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  Speaker 7: Where are we at right now with the state of
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  Speaker 7: this team? I mean, this is crazy with how they
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  Speaker 7: built this up. I think in just establishing their game,
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  Speaker 7: period one, period two to period three, but third period
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  Speaker 7: trends say it's all about survival. So where are we
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  Speaker 7: at right I.
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  Speaker 10: Think this team, and Al and I talked about this
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  Speaker 10: quite a bit on the last road trip publicly, I
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  Speaker 10: think on the air and then just amongst ourselves, I
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  Speaker 10: think I am almost to the point of small sample
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  Speaker 10: size being done. And I think that this is a
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  Speaker 10: pretty good representation of who this team is, a team
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  Speaker 10: that is fast, a team that has found a way
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  Speaker 10: to score more goals. I think the recent trend of
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  Speaker 10: blowing third period leads may be creeping into the concerning category.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, but it's hard to say something's concerning if
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  Speaker 10: you're getting wins. The Kraken have allowed power play goal
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  Speaker 10: or they've allowed third period goals rather each game this season. So,
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  Speaker 10: you know, you'd like to see that cleaned up. I
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  Speaker 10: know that we're only in a game 11, but you're
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  Speaker 10: I think you're starting to get a really good idea
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  Speaker 10: of who we're going to see on a nightly basis with.
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  Speaker 4: The Seattle Kraken.
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  Speaker 10: They're going to work hard. They're going to skate. The
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  Speaker 10: offense is going to come from up and down the lineup.
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  Speaker 10: You're going to get strong goaltending. However, again, it's game 11.
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  Speaker 10: Everybody's still fresh for the most part. Everyone's feeling froggy
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  Speaker 10: and still limber and ready to go. Hopefully in January,
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  Speaker 10: that's still the case. Hopefully in February, that's still the case. But,
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  Speaker 10: you know, I was listening to Mick Kern on NHL
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  Speaker 10: Network Radio the other day. We're going to turn the
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  Speaker 10: calendar here to November, and of course, We look at
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  Speaker 10: American Thanksgiving. Last year, the stat held true. If you're
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  Speaker 10: going based on points, not just win percentage, because I
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  Speaker 10: think there was maybe a little bit of a discrepancy there,
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  Speaker 10: but just based on points, 75%. of the teams that
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  Speaker 10: were in a playoff spot last Thanksgiving went on to
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  Speaker 10: the playoffs. Now we have a month and a half
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  Speaker 10: left to get there, or about a month rather to
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  Speaker 10: get there. So again, we'll put the brakes on a
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  Speaker 10: little bit, but I think we're seeing the team that
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  Speaker 10: we are going to see, barring catastrophic injury or anything else,
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  Speaker 10: that is going to play the remaining 73 games of
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  Speaker 10: the season.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think the things that we're seeing this year,
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  Speaker 12: and it's a question we all get asked constantly on
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  Speaker 12: radio shows, podcasts, etc. What's different about the Kraken this year?
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  Speaker 12: What's different? Because the results are obviously a little bit
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  Speaker 12: different over the first 11 games. Not drastically, but off.
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  Speaker 5: To a good start. What's different?
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  Speaker 12: Well, we had one off-season acquisition in Maki Samuskevic, and
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  Speaker 12: I think that I'm not the only one thinking this,
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  Speaker 12: but I'm looking to see more from him. He had
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  Speaker 12: a game winning goal in the Utah game. That's great.
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  Speaker 12: I want to see more of that. But other than that,
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  Speaker 12: not a lot. Now we do get a full season
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  Speaker 12: of Bobby McMahon. We had a small sample size of
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  Speaker 12: him last year and out of the gate, you know,
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  Speaker 12: he's looking good as well. I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 12: we talked about Matty Beneers and his game continuing to evolve.
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  Speaker 12: It stretched to a 200-foot game last year. And we said,
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  Speaker 12: you know, can it stay a 200-foot game, but can
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  Speaker 12: he increase his offense?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 12: He's starting to do that a little bit more. But
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  Speaker 12: I think the biggest one for me is Berkley Catton.
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  Speaker 12: I think that his game is so exciting to watch
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  Speaker 12: right now. The way that he undressed Lawson Kraus on
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  Speaker 12: that Matty Beneers goal, dropping the puck on a no-look
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  Speaker 12: pass down to Kapo Kakko, and it was an elite
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  Speaker 12: pass by Kakko over to Beneers as well, but it
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  Speaker 12: all started with Katton going up the wall slowly and
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  Speaker 12: then putting the brakes on. Lawson Kraus' feet came right
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  Speaker 12: up from underneath him. And that's where the play got started.
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  Speaker 12: And you see more and more of that from Berkeley
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  Speaker 12: cat and you see speed bursts, you see confidence.
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  Speaker 5: Um, I think he could be probably.
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  Speaker 12: In contention for the, uh, sorry, Fitz, what's the award
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  Speaker 12: most developed player this year.
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  Speaker 4: Most, uh, yeah, most improved, most improved, most improved.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Early contender for most improved player for this year, based
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  Speaker 12: on what we've seen over the first 11 games.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: I want to have that kind of set us up
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  Speaker 7: here as like an appetizer platter here for the main
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  Speaker 7: opening statement of this, because we're going to go in
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  Speaker 7: different directions. I think with this, here's what I want
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  Speaker 7: to get to right now at seven, three and one
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  Speaker 7: in October, sloppy hockey reigns supreme injuries reign supreme and
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  Speaker 7: narratives also reign supreme. I think for me, what we're
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  Speaker 7: looking at more and more and more is, is how
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  Speaker 7: much can this team defy models, defy analytics, defy narratives
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  Speaker 7: from roughly two months ago? And ultimately, what are you
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  Speaker 7: asking for out of this hockey club to be in
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  Speaker 7: the mix here for the postseason? We touched on this
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  Speaker 7: roughly about a few weeks ago. And I said, number one, depth, check.
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  Speaker 7: Number two, are you getting the most out of your
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  Speaker 7: young guys? Well, Al, you brought this up. Case in point,
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  Speaker 7: Berkley Catton, check. Number three, I've said this all along.
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  Speaker 7: This is going to go nowhere unless you have great goaltending.
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  Speaker 7: Are they getting great goaltending by Philip Grubauer standards? Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Has Joey Decord had a few bumps in the road
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  Speaker 7: so far? Yes, but we've seen some pretty good games
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  Speaker 7: out of him too. The promising signs are certainly there.
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  Speaker 7: Special teams. Power play made a big impact against Utah
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  Speaker 7: last night. They've made a big impact as well over
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  Speaker 7: the last several games. Special teams up and down, but
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  Speaker 7: you're seeing, I think, the foundation of success already become
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  Speaker 7: an impact here for this team.
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  Speaker 2: So you can go and.
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  Speaker 7: Look at maybe the analytics as far as maybe how
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  Speaker 7: they're getting caved, PDO, shot percentage, puck luck, shooting luck, whatever, fine.
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  Speaker 2: But here is the deal.
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  Speaker 7: Until they get a 1C in, how are you going
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  Speaker 7: to create offense up and down your lineup?
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  Speaker 2: There are only three players on this roster who don't
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  Speaker 2: have a point.
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  Speaker 7: They are players who are not playing because of injuries
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  Speaker 7: or because they're a 13 forward. That's Curtis Douglas, Ryan Lindgren,
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  Speaker 7: and Jacob Melanson. So you're getting depth scoring up and
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  Speaker 7: down your lineup.
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  Speaker 2: And the more and.
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  Speaker 7: More that we're talking about Berkeley Caton, As an impact player,
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  Speaker 7: as a go-to player, maybe as a guy who's going
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  Speaker 7: to graduate with his line for more ice time and
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  Speaker 7: more responsibility, that's going to raise the floor of this team.
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  Speaker 7: So you're already seeing this from the get-go, and we're
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  Speaker 7: only at October 23rd. So are the Kraken for real
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  Speaker 7: at 7-3-1? You can draw your own conclusions, but I'll
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  Speaker 7: tell you this. I'm a lot more convinced and a
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  Speaker 7: lot more convicted about where this team is than, say,
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  Speaker 7: roughly two weeks ago. The promising signs are there. They're
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  Speaker 7: right now 1-0 in a very important 10-game stretch. They're
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: 2-0 right now on a four-game homestand. You are finding
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  Speaker 7: ways to take care of business because, yes, you have
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  Speaker 7: blown leads, but you've seen the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: You have seen the metrics.
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  Speaker 7: As far as how harder it is to win in
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  Speaker 7: the National Hockey League when you are chasing.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of leading.
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  Speaker 7: And the Kraken right now are playing those odds very well.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, take it away.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, listen, I think that a lot of boxes have
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  Speaker 12: been ticked so far. But, you know, we're we're 11
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  Speaker 12: games into the season. And, you know, everything you look
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  Speaker 12: and read, the Kraken have had a friendly schedule. They've
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  Speaker 12: come up lucky. They they haven't had the health bug
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  Speaker 12: hit them.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care.
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  Speaker 12: I'm not a betting guy, but if you could put
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  Speaker 12: $ 20 on every Kraken game so far this season, I
• 15:53
  Speaker 12: think you'd have a lot of extra money in your
• 15:55
  Speaker 12: pocket right now because I like to look at the
• 15:57
  Speaker 12: odds before every game. And a lot of the games
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  Speaker 12: talk about, well, the other team's favored because of whatever reason.
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  Speaker 12: The Kraken are on the road. They're playing a top team.
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  Speaker 12: They're playing the best power play unit, whatever. And this
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  Speaker 12: team continues to find ways to win offensively. Are there
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  Speaker 12: some cracks that need to be patched up?
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  Speaker 11: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 12: And I think that Lane Lambert knows that and he'll
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  Speaker 12: continue to work on those things. But meanwhile, this team
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  Speaker 12: continues to find ways to win. I think the evolution
• 16:24
  Speaker 12: is going from finding ways to win to owning a
• 16:28
  Speaker 12: game from opening faceoff until final buzzer where there was
• 16:33
  Speaker 12: never a doubt that this Kraken team was going to
• 16:35
  Speaker 12: win the game. I think that's the next evolution of
• 16:38
  Speaker 12: the Seattle Kraken.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think you're bang on.
• 16:42
  Speaker 10: I'm going to go in a little different direction with
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: my opening statement, my opening thoughts. Mike, you brought up
• 16:50
  Speaker 10: narratives earlier in your opening thoughts, and I hope I
• 16:57
  Speaker 10: don't get in trouble for this, but the narrative, the
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: national narrative of the Seattle Kraken being this forgotten nation
• 17:08
  Speaker 10: stepchild of a team is getting very old. And if
• 17:14
  Speaker 10: I can be frank, it's really starting to piss me
• 17:17
  Speaker 10: off because I understand this team doesn't have a McDavid.
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: This team doesn't have a McKinnon or a Hughes or
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: a Kachuk or whatever.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 17:30
  Speaker 10: This team is still worthy of, of professional high level coverage.
• 17:39
  Speaker 10: This team is still worthy of a national broadcaster knowing
• 17:46
  Speaker 10: that your goaltender is, in fact, German and not Russian.
• 17:51
  Speaker 10: This team is still worthy of a national rights holder,
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: a national broadcaster, knowing that the eighth overall, seventh overall
• 18:02
  Speaker 10: pick from two years ago is Berkley Caton and not
• 18:06
  Speaker 10: Berkley Caton. And the folks who are the quote-unquote experts,
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: the loudest people in the room, are in fact ones
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: who are rarely ever in this room because they don't
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: deem the Kraken worthy for whatever reason. They've only made
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: the playoffs one time. They're not sexy enough. They've had
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: three coaches, whatever the case may be. It's very maddening
• 18:36
  Speaker 10: to see a team that is having success, that is
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: off to their best start of franchise history, being reduced to, well,
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: they played Calgary twice and they played Detroit. Well, they
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: caught this team on the second half of a back-to-back
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: and they didn't have their superstars. Well, look at what
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: happened when they played a real team in Edmonton and
• 18:58
  Speaker 10: in Florida. That's the real Seattle Kraken. And listen, I
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: understand this is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business. I understand that this
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: is a industry where we're trying to fight for our
• 19:16
  Speaker 10: place in the American lexicon and consciousness of sports viewership
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: and consumption. But that doesn't excuse or that doesn't allow
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: you the right to To just forget or to just,
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: I guess, downplay one of the teams that certain national
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: rights holders have paid. billions of dollars to cover and
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: to act as experts in their coverage of said team.
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: And it doesn't just start, it doesn't stop there. It
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: is a lot of writers around the country, a lot
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: of other pundits who think that their hot takes are
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: just the best hot takes in the world because they
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: love dumping on the Seattle Kraken.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: This team hasn't had success. We get it. This team
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: doesn't have a McDavid. We get it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Understood.
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: But there is something I think to be said about
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: doing your homework, about being professional, about acknowledging a team
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: that is desperately trying to turn it around a team
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: that is trying to continue to grow and build a
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: fan base and to just get the, again, to be frank,
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: crapped on at every single turn from media around the
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: country really pisses me off. So I don't know if
• 20:51
  Speaker 10: anyone's going to see this. I might get fined.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I'll pay it. But it's getting to.
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: A maddening point when every time you turn on a
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: radio station or a television station, There is either no
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: coverage of this team. There is very little coverage of
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: this team. And the coverage that there is of this
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: team is very, very basic. It is very, very high level.
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: It is very, very dismissive. Um, and, and I am
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: just waiting for all of the, you know, what to
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: roll back downhill when the Kraken are standing on top
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: of that hill, uh, and hopefully are getting ready for
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: what would be a lengthy playoff run.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: So that is my opening statement. Come at me, please.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: So I think effectively we're already getting the Seattle versus
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: everybody T-shirts printed out and ready to go here very,
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: very soon.
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: You know what?
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I'm not even going to say Seattle versus everybody. I'm just... Again,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I understand. I said it before. This is a results-based business.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: But wouldn't it be fun, though, Seattle versus everybody?
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that'd be great.
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: I will never forget when we were in the playoffs
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: two years ago, we were talking with the lovely and
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: very talented Kate Spence, who was on the Kraken brand team,
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: one of our very talented designers, and we sent her
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: a design for a shirt. that said House Money because, again,
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: people had the Avs in.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Three that year.
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: They had the Dallas Stars in two. The Kraken won't
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: even show up.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Do I remember that?
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: And we were going to.
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: Get shirts printed that said House Money and the S
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: in House Money was going to be the Kraken logo.
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: I remember at the end of game seven and literally
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: our reaction to others was, you.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Mad, bro?
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: And like I said, I understand. I understand that.
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: Your job is to sell tickets, or I guess your
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: job is to sell subscriptions.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Your job is to promote what's hot, what's sexy.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Engagement.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: Engagement.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: That's a buzzword now in Euro 2026.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: I also don't think that gives you the right.
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: To just completely dismiss one of the teams and not
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: do the most basic of research when it comes to
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: A national rights holder, a national broadcaster covering one of
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: the 32 teams that you have paid an insane amount
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: of money for the rights to cover.
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: I want to move on to the most telling part
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: about the Kraken and their game and how accurately it
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: portrays them because. Fitz, when you lose at this time
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: of year, it's generally about you lost the mistake game.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: And the Kraken beat Utah last night at the mistake game.
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: First seven wins for the Kraken beat Calgary 6-1. Beat
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: Calgary 6-1 again. Beat Detroit 6-3. Beat Washington 5-3. Beat
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: Philadelphia 3-2 shootout. Beat Detroit 4-3. Beat Utah 5-3. I'm
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: kind of split between I think where Detroit and Utah
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: ended here, because I think we see a true form
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: of where this team is at technically for the first
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: two periods.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: And this team is 6-0 and now scoring the first
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: goal of the game.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: I think we have a realization of how much they
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: have to do when they are closing out third periods.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: It's a mental game more than anything.
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: Jordan Eberle said as much this and others as well
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: after the game last night. And eventually it wouldn't surprise
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: me to see the priorities shift down the road with
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: how maybe Lane Lambert deploys certain guys in certain situations.
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I liked Eberle's comment last night when
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: he said that I don't think it's really a third
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: period problem. I think it is just a holding the
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: lead problem. And again, we're not the experts. We're paid
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: to talk like the experts. But when Lane Lambert the
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: other day tells us that, hey, I don't think we're
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: sitting back. I don't think it's an example of something
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: that we're doing. I mean, he is the coach of
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: this team. But I do think there is a little
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: bit of a maybe you're not prepared for the push or,
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: you know, the push is coming.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Maybe you weren't.
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: Expecting the push to be as hard. And again, at
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: the end of the day, and I asked Al this
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: question the other day, I said, listen, are you, are
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: you happy that the Kraken are getting wins? And, and Hey,
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: you know what? It doesn't matter how it was. They don't,
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: they don't ask how or how many they ask how
• 25:56
  Speaker 10: or whatever it is.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter how they do it.
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: As long as they do it, Or are you concerned like, hey,
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: is this becoming a concerning trend? I do think that
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: something like that, I'm not too concerned this early. But
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: I mean, if we're a game 20 and the Kraken
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: are still blowing two goal leads in the third period,
• 26:17
  Speaker 10: if we're getting after Christmas and we're still seeing, you know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: once every five games, three, four times every 10 game segment,
• 26:27
  Speaker 10: the Kraken are having two fights from behind, or they
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: have the lead, then they're tied, then they come back,
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: then maybe I would sound the alarm. Right now, I
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: guess I'm a little cautiously optimistic that this is just
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: a mini dip in this schedule, but I do think
• 26:47
  Speaker 10: that Banking points early is going to be huge. We'll
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: end up playing a factor. I've said it before. The
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: Kraken are going to be in a playoff race, I think,
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: for the bulk of this season. And you don't want
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: to be looking back here April 1st, going into that
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: last stretch of games, wondering, man, really wish we had
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: had that game in Calgary. Man, really wish we didn't
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: mess around with Detroit.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Well, you didn't.
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: You got the points when you needed them to be.
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: And then I think that those are going to pay
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: off for you down the road.
• 27:15
  Speaker 12: Yeah, we talked a little bit about this last night. And,
• 27:18
  Speaker 12: you know, we're in the business of chaos cells and
• 27:22
  Speaker 12: criticism cells. And, you know, if the Kraken were winning
• 27:25
  Speaker 12: 6-0 and three different players were getting two goals every night,
• 27:28
  Speaker 12: we'd be talking about, ah, you know, so-and-so just can't
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: get the hat trick. You know, so-and-so just can't find
• 27:33
  Speaker 12: a way to get that third goal. You know, like
• 27:35
  Speaker 12: that's just.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: What we do.
• 27:37
  Speaker 12: And would you rather, as Everett and I talked about
• 27:39
  Speaker 12: last night, would you rather go up 3-0 in the
• 27:42
  Speaker 12: first period– allow the other team to find a way
• 27:45
  Speaker 12: back in and win the game four or three or
• 27:46
  Speaker 12: would you rather go down three nothing in the first
• 27:49
  Speaker 12: period and find a way to win four three I
• 27:51
  Speaker 12: would always take the go up three three goals because
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: I think that's easier to work with in terms of
• 27:57
  Speaker 12: sorting that out versus getting scored on three goals in
• 28:00
  Speaker 12: the first period so Is this something you want to
• 28:03
  Speaker 12: see over the course of the next 73 games? No,
• 28:06
  Speaker 12: you don't want to see it. But I think this
• 28:09
  Speaker 12: is something that Kraken can work with. Go get that
• 28:11
  Speaker 12: first goal of the game. Go build a lead. Carry
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: that lead into the third period. And ideally, yes, ideally
• 28:18
  Speaker 12: close it out. But if some of those games you
• 28:20
  Speaker 12: get pushes from other teams and they get back into
• 28:22
  Speaker 12: the games, hey, it's a National Hockey League, man. If
• 28:25
  Speaker 12: that push is going to happen, you're not going to
• 28:27
  Speaker 12: be able to hold it off every time. But that's
• 28:29
  Speaker 12: something I can work with as a coach.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Last night I brought this up here.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: The team usually that does not score the first goal
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: of the game wins only about 33% of their games.
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: So you'd much rather be in the position of being
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: chased than be the one who is trying to chase,
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: especially with time and the sands and the hourglass running out.
• 28:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah, and I think also, too, to that point, and
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: this is a place where I think the general sports
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: fan gets it. Just, you know, watching baseball, basketball, football,
• 29:06
  Speaker 10: if you're down, it's hard to come back. But I
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: think in hockey, more than any other sport, when you're down,
• 29:13
  Speaker 10: when you're down a goal, when you're down two goals,
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: that changes your entire roster deployment. That changes what lines
• 29:21
  Speaker 10: you're rolling out. That changes, you know, the personnel and
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: maybe your breakout. A lot of little things go into...
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: trying to come back especially in hockey so I do
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: think that's why it is so important getting the game's
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: first goal or if you're down being down early.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, I would much rather be down.
• 29:44
  Speaker 10: If I had to be down, give me two nothing
• 29:46
  Speaker 10: in the first rather than two nothing in the third.
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: But that's why it's so important to get the first
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: goal because sometimes your entire game plan goes out the window.
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: When you are down two nothing, you get scored on early. Well, shoot,
• 30:02
  Speaker 10: now I got to go back to the drawing board
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: and figure something else out. And I think that's an
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: area that some folks might not really appreciate about coaching
• 30:10
  Speaker 10: and about how hard it is in this league when
• 30:13
  Speaker 10: you're playing down.
• 30:14
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and I would add to that as well, you know, again,
• 30:18
  Speaker 12: this would you rather idea.
• 30:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 30:21
  Speaker 12: I gave you the scenario of winning 6-0 with three
• 30:24
  Speaker 12: different players getting two goals. Well, the Kraken have been
• 30:26
  Speaker 12: getting a lot of points up and down their lineup.
• 30:28
  Speaker 12: So would you rather win games where it's primarily coming
• 30:32
  Speaker 12: from your top pair, D-Man, and your top line, or
• 30:35
  Speaker 12: would you rather win games where it's coming up and
• 30:37
  Speaker 12: down your lineup where you never know, is it going
• 30:39
  Speaker 12: to be the fourth line tonight? Is it going to
• 30:40
  Speaker 12: be the cat in line? Is it going to be
• 30:42
  Speaker 12: defenseman leading the charge with pucks in that? Like, I
• 30:45
  Speaker 12: would rather have that deep scoring ability rather than it
• 30:48
  Speaker 12: all coming from one or two superstars on my top line.
• 30:51
  Speaker 12: And I think that's actually a benefit that the Kraken,
• 30:55
  Speaker 12: I think it gets underplayed. We sort of joke about it.
• 30:58
  Speaker 12: We sort of don't. I think it's a big benefit
• 31:00
  Speaker 12: that this team has. And if they ever do develop
• 31:04
  Speaker 12: or get a superstar and they continue to get scoring
• 31:07
  Speaker 12: up and down the lineup, well, look out.
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: I want to get to Philip Grubauer's recent stretch because, again,
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: he was phenomenal last night, and he's started now for
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: the last five games, 3-0-1 in that stretch. Say percentage
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: at 900, it's okay, but a lot of tough saves
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: that he's also mixed in from that point. I think
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: from what we talked about and how you had to
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: balance goaltending based on this team's schedule, the back-to-backs, a
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: lot of travel mileage, how much do you ride Philip
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: Grubauer at this point? If you can't, how much do
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: you split him and Joey DeCord? And even then, where
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: do you fit Joey? Because the Kraken have no back-to-backs
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: now until the 27th and 28th of November. And the
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: next nine games, Minnesota, Toronto... Calgary twice, the Rangers, the
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: Finland series of Carolina, Vancouver, and San Jose.
• 32:01
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, I think the Finland series is easy.
• 32:03
  Speaker 12: I think you're going to see a split there. Part
• 32:06
  Speaker 12: of it because you're seeing the same team twice. Part
• 32:08
  Speaker 12: of it because it's the global series and you're going
• 32:10
  Speaker 12: to see both goaltenders. I'd be willing to bet a
• 32:12
  Speaker 12: dollar on that one. So that one seems easy to me.
• 32:15
  Speaker 12: But the rest of the mic, yeah, lack of back-to-backs
• 32:20
  Speaker 12: makes you think, hey, how long can you ride a
• 32:22
  Speaker 12: hot hand? At some point, though, they've got to get
• 32:27
  Speaker 12: Joey back into the mix because I– We all know
• 32:30
  Speaker 12: him as a person as much as we know him
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: as a goaltender. I know he wants to compete for
• 32:35
  Speaker 12: that number one position. I know he wants a chance
• 32:37
  Speaker 12: to wipe that Florida game off his plate and show
• 32:41
  Speaker 12: what he can do. And so, yeah, if I'm Joey Decord,
• 32:45
  Speaker 12: put me out against the top teams that my team's
• 32:48
  Speaker 12: playing in the next month. I want a chance to
• 32:50
  Speaker 12: go redeem myself. And I think the coaches know that
• 32:52
  Speaker 12: as well. I just don't know which game that's going
• 32:55
  Speaker 12: to be, especially when you've got Philip Grubauer playing so
• 32:58
  Speaker 12: well right now.
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: I'm a little torn on this because I do like
• 33:02
  Speaker 10: the idea of writing the hot hand and keeping the.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: Hot hand going.
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: And, you know, I've said it before and I think
• 33:08
  Speaker 10: it bears repeating. You are going to need these points
• 33:13
  Speaker 10: in six months. So banking as many points as you
• 33:17
  Speaker 10: can right now is going to be.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: A paramount.
• 33:21
  Speaker 10: It is of the utmost importance. And right now, Philip
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: Grubauer is winning games. I also don't want people to
• 33:27
  Speaker 10: conflate Grubauer playing well with Joey Decord playing bad, right?
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Decord had one bad outing against, against, um, Florida, right?
• 33:39
  Speaker 10: Lane Lambert will tell you the whole team needed to
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: be better. You look at the Vegas game, me and
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: Alan JT went, uh, went through the goals in the
• 33:50
  Speaker 10: Vegas game and it's like man I don't know if
• 33:52
  Speaker 10: I can fault Joey for really any of them no
• 33:55
  Speaker 10: those are defensive breakdowns those were were goals that he
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: was you know had no shot on a lot of
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: them so that doesn't mean that Joey's been playing poorly
• 34:05
  Speaker 10: I just means Phillip's been playing very very well at
• 34:08
  Speaker 10: the moment so I do think though to Al's point
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: not only do you want to give Joey an opportunity
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: to get back and challenge for that number one spot,
• 34:17
  Speaker 10: you want Joey to get into a groove. I mean,
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: because you ideally would like both goaltenders to be ready
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: to come in at a moment's notice. And I think
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: with Grubauer now playing for the last five games, I'm
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: not going to sit here and say that Joey's cold.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: You know, Joey, he's a gamer. He will be ready
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: to go when his number is called upon.
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: But if you can go back to a two and
• 34:40
  Speaker 10: two or three and two split or however you want
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: to do it, I think that you're going to put
• 34:45
  Speaker 10: both goalies in a chance or in a spot rather
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: to be, to be hot, to be in a groove,
• 34:51
  Speaker 10: to be nice and oiled up in limber and whatever.
• 34:53
  Speaker 10: But also I think Philip Grubauer, listen, father time wins
• 34:56
  Speaker 10: all battles, right? Not getting any younger, playing very well
• 35:00
  Speaker 10: right now, but he's had some injury problems over the
• 35:02
  Speaker 10: last few seasons. We've seen Grubauer take some extended time
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: off in the last couple of years. You don't want
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: that to happen in February and March because you rode
• 35:12
  Speaker 10: him too hard. I, in the beginning of the season.
• 35:16
  Speaker 10: So I think maybe you, you pull back on the
• 35:20
  Speaker 10: reins and I know that that's a horse pun. Maybe
• 35:24
  Speaker 10: you pull back on the reins a little bit for
• 35:27
  Speaker 10: the German cowboy, but I still think you allow him
• 35:31
  Speaker 10: to continue to, earning and rewarding him for earning the
• 35:35
  Speaker 10: playing time that he's got.
• 35:37
  Speaker 12: Yeah, there's definitely a mindset that you have to manage
• 35:40
  Speaker 12: as a coach, as a goaltender coach and as Lane
• 35:42
  Speaker 12: Lambert as well. And that is you've got Philip Grubauer
• 35:46
  Speaker 12: playing well, as you said, you want to keep him healthy,
• 35:48
  Speaker 12: but you want to reward him for.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: Playing well as well.
• 35:52
  Speaker 12: At the same time, looking at the schedule, you've got
• 35:55
  Speaker 12: a couple of games against Calgary coming up. If you
• 35:58
  Speaker 12: played Grubauer for both Minnesota and Toronto and then went
• 36:01
  Speaker 12: to Joey Decord for the two games against Calgary, if
• 36:04
  Speaker 12: I'm Joey Decord, I almost feel insulted. Like, yeah, I
• 36:07
  Speaker 12: had a bad game in Florida, but a lot of
• 36:09
  Speaker 12: those weren't my fault, and now I'm getting the weaker teams.
• 36:13
  Speaker 12: So you have to think about that in terms of
• 36:15
  Speaker 12: if you ran the schedule that way and you gave
• 36:18
  Speaker 12: Joey Decord those two games against Calgary, maybe he wins
• 36:20
  Speaker 12: them both, and then you go to Carolina and split.
• 36:24
  Speaker 12: To Mike's point, at the end of the month, you've
• 36:26
  Speaker 12: got a back-to-back against Edmonton. You want both of those
• 36:29
  Speaker 12: goaltenders ready to go playing the top of their game
• 36:33
  Speaker 12: when you hit that back-to-back. And I think if you
• 36:36
  Speaker 12: give Joey Decord both those games in Calgary because you
• 36:38
  Speaker 12: think he's the number two goaltender right now, that might
• 36:41
  Speaker 12: not be good for his mindset.
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: Bob Condor is going to be joining us here in
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: just a little bit. And after so many years of
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: his dedication to SeattleKraken.com, the NHL, MSN.com, Chicago Tribune, Yahoo Sports,
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: the list goes on and on here. We want to
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: give Bob the appropriate kind of send-off from our own circle.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Radio wise.
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: And he's got so many stories here to write his
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: own book. I'm curious if he's going to get after
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: this with a little more time on his hands as
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: he's been very, very well traveled recently. But I think guys,
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: for me, what I want to touch on is the
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: Bob Condor experience. And it's something that I think anybody
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: who is elite at their position besides the obvious skill
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: component is very good at.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: And it's warmth.
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: The moment that you meet Bob, he makes you feel
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: like one of his closest friends. I will never forget
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: the times that I spent with him, with you guys
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: on the team charter. I usually sit by him if
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: I'm jumping on board here for a road trip. But
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: it's his ability to make the human connection just from
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: the depths of his soul and be able to articulate
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: it from pen to paper or from what, you know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: he's mentioned before via typewriter. Now it's computer. It's really
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: amazing how you're able to cross paths with somebody who's
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: built up so many years to bank so many stories,
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: to meet so many heralded athletes, and he'll be a big,
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: big piece of this organization's foundation because he was there
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: front and center with the roof of Climate Pledge Arena
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: put right back up on cement poles while everything else
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: got raised underneath. He's got that story from day one,
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: but my Bob Condor experience, every day you see him,
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: the humility, the grace, the warmth that he presented always
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: put a smile on your face.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean.
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: Gosh, you know, my relationship with Bob Condor is twofold.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: It's personal and professional. And, you know, the professional side is.
• 38:54
  Speaker 12: Obviously he had his job, I had my job, but
• 38:56
  Speaker 12: we talked a lot about the team. We talked a
• 38:58
  Speaker 12: lot about what's going on, good and bad. You know,
• 39:02
  Speaker 12: we shared lots of those kinds of conversations. And you're right, Mike,
• 39:05
  Speaker 12: he's an authentic guy. He's a warm personality. You know,
• 39:10
  Speaker 12: his words resonate, whether they're written words or spoken words.
• 39:14
  Speaker 12: And And I'll miss having those conversations with them, but
• 39:18
  Speaker 12: just as much the personal conversations that we had. One
• 39:21
  Speaker 12: of the very first times that I would say I
• 39:24
  Speaker 12: really met Bob was in my first year with the
• 39:28
  Speaker 12: Kraken and out the team locker room at KCI, where
• 39:32
  Speaker 12: all the media gathers. We'd only spoken a couple of times,
• 39:36
  Speaker 12: you know, up until that point. And I walked up
• 39:40
  Speaker 12: to him and I said, Hey, Bob, how are you doing?
• 39:42
  Speaker 12: And he said, tough day. All my wife just died.
• 39:45
  Speaker 12: And Bob and I didn't really know each other at
• 39:49
  Speaker 12: that point, and my heart just fell out.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: We all have wives.
• 39:55
  Speaker 12: Some of us are older than others, and it hit
• 39:59
  Speaker 12: me like a ton of bricks, and not in a
• 40:01
  Speaker 12: bad way, but in a way where I thought, wow,
• 40:03
  Speaker 12: this guy is.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Here working, he's opening his heart to me.
• 40:08
  Speaker 12: I wanted to grab him aside, give him a hug
• 40:10
  Speaker 12: and take him upstairs for a cup of coffee.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: But, you know, we went in the room and did
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: our jobs.
• 40:14
  Speaker 12: But that was one of the very first deep conversations
• 40:17
  Speaker 12: I had with Bob.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: And, you know, honestly, I mean, other than maybe you two.
• 40:22
  Speaker 12: I haven't had a conversation like that with anybody else
• 40:24
  Speaker 12: in the organization. And it really shows you the kind
• 40:27
  Speaker 12: of guy he is.
• 40:30
  Speaker 10: Yeah, Bob, Bob was one of was one of the
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: first people that I really interacted with and had a
• 40:37
  Speaker 10: relationship with when I got the job here back in 20. And,
• 40:42
  Speaker 10: you know, I've always I've always called Bob Condor a
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: sweetheart of a person.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: He is just.
• 40:50
  Speaker 10: The sweetest, the kindest, the most gentle, the most genuine
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: person that I've come across. Not only does he know
• 41:01
  Speaker 10: his stuff, not only is he smart, is he brilliant,
• 41:04
  Speaker 10: is he talented, but he is just a good person.
• 41:08
  Speaker 10: And We've all heard Todd Letwicky and our saying here
• 41:13
  Speaker 10: at Seattle with the Kraken, make us better. And Bob
• 41:16
  Speaker 10: is one of those people who make us better every day.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: He is one of those.
• 41:21
  Speaker 10: People who will leave every room, who has left every
• 41:26
  Speaker 10: room better than when he found it. And I think
• 41:32
  Speaker 10: that when you look at him and you see the
• 41:35
  Speaker 10: career that he's had, the publications he's written for, couple
• 41:40
  Speaker 10: of time Pulitzer finalists, um, you know, he's lived a
• 41:44
  Speaker 10: million lifetimes and, and I love, you know, talking to
• 41:47
  Speaker 10: him and, and he says that he's not done. You know,
• 41:50
  Speaker 10: this is one chapter of my life is over. Um,
• 41:54
  Speaker 10: but where I think I'm going to get kind of
• 41:56
  Speaker 10: emotional here is where him and I really connected is, um,
• 42:00
  Speaker 10: I'm adopted and he's got two adopted kids as well.
• 42:05
  Speaker 10: And when you hear the love, uh, that he has
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: for his kids and for his family. Um, you know,
• 42:12
  Speaker 10: he'll never, he'll never gush about it publicly, but his daughter, uh,
• 42:17
  Speaker 10: Lana Condor is, is a very, um, accomplished actress in Hollywood. And, uh,
• 42:24
  Speaker 10: he tells stories about how she'll go on, he'll go
• 42:27
  Speaker 10: on movie sets and Lana's just.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: So proud to show off her dad.
• 42:31
  Speaker 10: And, and, you know, Bob, Bob Condor is, is helping
• 42:35
  Speaker 10: run coffee and helping. And she's putting them to work and,
• 42:38
  Speaker 10: and he loves it. And, and his son already in
• 42:41
  Speaker 10: the Navy serving our country. And then he's on these
• 42:45
  Speaker 10: advanced nuclear missions. submarines and and and i've asked him
• 42:49
  Speaker 10: before he was like you know hey i was like
• 42:51
  Speaker 10: bob what is what does arty do when he goes
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: well everett if i have to if i tell you
• 42:55
  Speaker 10: that i'll have to kill you it's it's very very
• 42:58
  Speaker 10: highly classified stuff but he's just so proud of of
• 43:02
  Speaker 10: his kids and of his family and we're all fathers
• 43:05
  Speaker 10: here and and just the light that that is in
• 43:09
  Speaker 10: his eyes is whenever he talks about his family. Um,
• 43:13
  Speaker 10: and again, it hits especially home for me because I'm
• 43:15
  Speaker 10: also adopted. So to, to open up his home to
• 43:19
  Speaker 10: two strangers when they were babies and now they are
• 43:23
  Speaker 10: his whole life. Um, and it's, that's what I'm going
• 43:27
  Speaker 10: to remember Bob for not, not the talented storyteller, not the,
• 43:33
  Speaker 10: the amazing award winning caliber writer, uh, but just the
• 43:38
  Speaker 10: person that Bob is.
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 43:41
  Speaker 12: You know, you think about it and when you run
• 43:43
  Speaker 12: across people in your lives that you see as good
• 43:48
  Speaker 12: people like this, you two are great examples, but I
• 43:51
  Speaker 12: just mean other people where you like that person, that, that, that,
• 43:55
  Speaker 12: that woman, that man, great person, very first thought I
• 43:58
  Speaker 12: always have. And you probably do as well as, as
• 44:00
  Speaker 12: parents is I'd like to meet their parents.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:03
  Speaker 12: Bob and Mary raised some very good kids.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: I haven't had a chance to meet them. You have,
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: it sounds like.
• 44:10
  Speaker 12: But from what I hear from from from what how
• 44:13
  Speaker 12: Bob talks about them, he's raised a couple of good individual,
• 44:17
  Speaker 12: a couple of good human beings.
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: And whenever you meet those kind of people, I always
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: want to.
• 44:21
  Speaker 12: Meet the parents because they were the ones that got
• 44:24
  Speaker 12: that started.
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: That's such a great point. We're going to get to
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: Bob Condor here coming up in just a bit. I
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: also do want to touch on later. about the five-year
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: anniversary of Climate Pledge Arena. Everett, Al, you, me as well,
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: we were all in different spaces here in one way
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: or the other, but in that building that night.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: We were all there in very different capacities.
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we will never, ever forget it. And I thought
• 44:46
  Speaker 7: it was a very, very important piece. the foundation being
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: laid for hockey in Seattle and for what this community
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: is all about. But our Kraken Weekly Poll question, what's
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: most accurate about the Kraken to you at this point?
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: Is it the strong first and second periods, or is
• 45:01
  Speaker 7: it more third-period concern? Poll's open right now. Vote at
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: KrakenAudioNet at Twitter and X, and we'll get to that. Plus, also,
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: Your mailbag questions right around the condor, right around the corner.
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: Bob Condor. Bob Condor. That was not intentional, by the way,
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: but I'll try to.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: That was awesome, Mike. Keep that in.
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: Right around the condor is Bob Condor. He's around the
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: corner here on Kraken Weekly.
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: Montour to the.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Half wall, the captain, back to Montour, climbs, fires, scores!
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: This is Brandon Montour, back to Kraken Weekly.
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: With Mike Benton.
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: Time to check up with AHL Matters and Coachella Valley.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Pretty big night that J.R. Avon had back on Wednesday.
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: He scored not once, but twice in the final two
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: minutes of regulation.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: And the Firebirds snapping out of a four-game.
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: Winless skid for a pretty emotional 3-2 win over the
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: San Diego Gulls on the road on Wednesday night. That
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: puts Coachella Valley, though it's early, one point back at
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: first place in a very clustered Pacific Division at 3-2, 2-1.
• 46:16
  Speaker 7: And they're going to enjoy the comforts of home for
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: a little while, opening up tonight with a four-game homestand
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: against the San Jose Barracuda, 7 o'clock at Accresher Arena.
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: tucson henderson and colorado will immediately follow after that lean
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: score right now here for the firebirds who just got
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: ty nelson back from the kraken is a fellow blue
• 46:40
  Speaker 7: liner and right now a facilitator tyson jugna 13 points
• 46:44
  Speaker 7: that leads the firebirds and scoring all have come via
• 46:48
  Speaker 7: assists three points back of him Jagger-Ferkus, 10 points in
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: eight games. Yanni Newman, who is filling the net right now,
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: 10 points also in eight games. He owns eight goals
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: on the season, and he is your leading goal scorer
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: right now early on in the American Hockey League season.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: That's our check-in here for Coachella Valley.
• 47:09
  Speaker 7: All right, on to the main event here for this
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: week of Kraken Weekly. This man needs no further introduction,
• 47:15
  Speaker 7: but I'll do it anyway here because before joining the
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: Kraken with a written word, He was at one point
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: VP and editor-in-chief for sports media at Yahoo. He was
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: VP and editor-in-chief of the National Hockey League. He also
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: was working with the Seattle PIMSN.com Chicago Tribune.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: He's got stories for days.
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: We will try to cram this in as much as possible,
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: but give this man a very much well-deserved send-off. Bob Condor,
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: who is retiring after years in this business and most
• 47:47
  Speaker 7: recently with SeattleKraken.com, joining us right now here on crack
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: and weekly the one and only we have to get
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: it out one more time one more time bob that's
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: uh that's a sound of endearment all meant for you
• 48:01
  Speaker 7: thank you for joining us you're a treasure you're a
• 48:03
  Speaker 7: legend you have left a legacy how are you doing
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: and what are you going to miss about doing the
• 48:09
  Speaker 7: day-to-day around here.
• 48:10
  Speaker 15: Well i'm doing well thank you for saying years instead
• 48:14
  Speaker 15: of 45 years but that is about what it is
• 48:16
  Speaker 15: if i if i do the math um Things are good.
• 48:19
  Speaker 9: I just got back. I literally got back.
• 48:22
  Speaker 15: Um, I left Japan on a Thursday night and I
• 48:25
  Speaker 15: got back here on Thursday afternoon, meaning yesterday, my son's
• 48:28
  Speaker 15: a neighbor officer over there and spent two weeks with him, uh,
• 48:32
  Speaker 15: with my brother and sister-in-law was fantastic. Really kind of,
• 48:36
  Speaker 15: I'd called a trip of a lifetime, but I think there's,
• 48:38
  Speaker 15: there's more to come. So he's actually flying in. He's
• 48:41
  Speaker 15: going to be here for 24 hours. Um, you guys
• 48:44
  Speaker 15: know where he'll be tonight. And, uh, Uh, it's all,
• 48:48
  Speaker 15: it's all good. I'm really happy to see how well
• 48:50
  Speaker 15: the team's been playing and, uh, the team has been
• 48:53
  Speaker 15: the guys and lane and the whole group have been really,
• 48:56
  Speaker 15: really kind and, um, very touched, you know, how much
• 48:59
  Speaker 15: they've gone out of their way to say things to me.
• 49:01
  Speaker 9: About, about coverage.
• 49:03
  Speaker 15: And I did, I have joked that I didn't even think, uh,
• 49:06
  Speaker 15: that bots even knew who I was much less, you know,
• 49:09
  Speaker 15: wanting to say nice things about me.
• 49:11
  Speaker 9: So, so yeah, it's been, uh, it's been humbling. Um, and, uh,
• 49:15
  Speaker 9: I'm really happy.
• 49:16
  Speaker 15: It's a, that the team has got off to a
• 49:19
  Speaker 15: great start because it is really fun to uh you
• 49:22
  Speaker 15: guys were there last night i'm sure and it's you
• 49:25
  Speaker 15: know you get that place rocking and they play the
• 49:27
  Speaker 15: kind of hockey they played last night and on the
• 49:30
  Speaker 15: trip um it's going to be a pretty fun winter.
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: It's crazy just how much this whole thing is mushroomed
• 49:35
  Speaker 7: here in the last week or so. And, you know,
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: I just kind of check around the league and there's
• 49:39
  Speaker 7: a few more believers every day that's kind of jumping
• 49:41
  Speaker 7: on here with this team and the spot that they're
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: in right now. But you sent these guys off here
• 49:45
  Speaker 7: on a great note and we're looking forward to seeing
• 49:47
  Speaker 7: more of you down the road at some point in
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: some shape or form. But I mean, first I go
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: back here through all the years that you've worked, Bob.
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: I mean, you've written a book before about Michael Jordan.
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: Are you going to write a book about your own career?
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: There's a lot of people, you know, it's funny, people
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: have asked me that.
• 50:02
  Speaker 15: And I think the answer to that is, if I
• 50:06
  Speaker 15: write something that is relevant for not only you three,
• 50:12
  Speaker 15: but anybody who were to read the book, then it's
• 50:15
  Speaker 15: a worthy memoir or a worthy thing to do.
• 50:18
  Speaker 9: And if somebody convinces me that's in the business.
• 50:22
  Speaker 15: That what I could write and talk about would help
• 50:25
  Speaker 15: people relate to their own lives, I'm all for it.
• 50:29
  Speaker 9: Those are the best memoirs. And I'm not opposed to it.
• 50:32
  Speaker 15: I've had a lot of people ask me that question.
• 50:35
  Speaker 15: But short term, I think I'm going to just let
• 50:39
  Speaker 15: that be an idea that's a possibility, but not go
• 50:44
  Speaker 15: too quickly at it. I have thought about just starting
• 50:48
  Speaker 15: to write some notes about what might be relevant. I
• 50:51
  Speaker 15: don't want to call it life lessons, but just things
• 50:54
  Speaker 15: that can apply to people's lives. I mean, when I
• 50:58
  Speaker 15: wrote Health and Wellness, which I did for about 15 years,
• 51:01
  Speaker 15: I always wanted to do two things. One is have
• 51:04
  Speaker 15: that person, whoever read it, go be able to do
• 51:09
  Speaker 15: something in their lives, which helps them be healthier, more well,
• 51:12
  Speaker 15: so on.
• 51:13
  Speaker 9: And then I've always.
• 51:14
  Speaker 15: Wanted people to walk away from anything I write with
• 51:17
  Speaker 15: some hope. A little harder to do when you lose
• 51:20
  Speaker 15: seven to three or something like that, but yes, you know,
• 51:22
  Speaker 15: on On the health side, it's just I want people
• 51:25
  Speaker 15: to feel better about the prospects of getting healthier, feeling good,
• 51:30
  Speaker 15: if they're concerned about a.
• 51:31
  Speaker 9: Relative, all those things.
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: And if I can do that with a.
• 51:35
  Speaker 15: Memoir, then maybe I'll take a crack at it. But
• 51:39
  Speaker 15: it's not first on my list.
• 51:41
  Speaker 10: Let's go back to an 8-year-old Bob Condor, 10-year-old Bob Condor.
• 51:47
  Speaker 10: Where did your love of writing and storytelling come from?
• 51:51
  Speaker 9: What a great question.
• 51:52
  Speaker 15: You're going to get some of my material for tonight early,
• 51:56
  Speaker 15: I guess.
• 51:58
  Speaker 9: So a couple of things. My mom read three papers
• 52:03
  Speaker 9: a day.
• 52:03
  Speaker 15: And I basically, probably from the time I could start reading,
• 52:10
  Speaker 15: which was early, I basically would walk away with the
• 52:13
  Speaker 15: sports section from whatever paper.
• 52:15
  Speaker 9: The two in particular were the Tribune.
• 52:18
  Speaker 15: Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Daily News, the former Chicago
• 52:22
  Speaker 15: Daily News, just started reading those, you know, reading those
• 52:27
  Speaker 15: sports sections. And we had some, we had writers who,
• 52:30
  Speaker 15: when I ended up being their boss, you know, 20
• 52:33
  Speaker 15: years later or 25 years later, that said, if you
• 52:37
  Speaker 15: tell anybody you read me when you're six years old,
• 52:39
  Speaker 15: I'm going to kill you. But there were writers, Bob
• 52:42
  Speaker 15: Verde among them, that were writing for Beat Reporters and
• 52:45
  Speaker 15: at the time. And he was a beautiful writer and
• 52:48
  Speaker 15: I fell in love. I, when I went to grad
• 52:50
  Speaker 15: school for journalism, I tried to write like him for
• 52:52
  Speaker 15: about six months and then realized, okay, I've got my own,
• 52:56
  Speaker 15: my own style, but that's where it started.
• 52:58
  Speaker 9: And you know, over the years.
• 53:02
  Speaker 15: Just had to write mentor to, to, to really fuel,
• 53:06
  Speaker 15: you know, that I could, that I could not just
• 53:08
  Speaker 15: be an editor, but that I could do my own
• 53:09
  Speaker 15: writing too.
• 53:11
  Speaker 12: Bob, you've written about health and wellness, obviously written about
• 53:14
  Speaker 12: sports as well. What's your favorite thing to write about?
• 53:19
  Speaker 12: And maybe a follow-up to that or an addition to
• 53:21
  Speaker 12: that is, is there a white whale out there that
• 53:23
  Speaker 12: you just haven't caught as far as something you wanted
• 53:27
  Speaker 12: to write about?
• 53:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a great question. I would say, no offense
• 53:33
  Speaker 9: to the entire sporting.
• 53:35
  Speaker 15: World, but I would say that I've Even with the
• 53:39
  Speaker 15: crack in writing about people, writing about what we do
• 53:44
  Speaker 15: in the community, I've said from day one, and I
• 53:48
  Speaker 15: was previous to day one, if you will, because I
• 53:50
  Speaker 15: was in early 2019 with even coming up with the
• 53:53
  Speaker 15: name of the team.
• 53:54
  Speaker 9: We're of the community. We're not just writing.
• 54:00
  Speaker 15: We don't just show up, and there's nothing wrong with
• 54:02
  Speaker 15: showing up in hospitals, but we don't just do those
• 54:05
  Speaker 15: kinds of things.
• 54:05
  Speaker 9: We really are out. building courts, you know.
• 54:08
  Speaker 15: Getting kids on the ice, the Rewa program with the
• 54:11
  Speaker 15: refugee kids, the 36 straight weeks they go out and
• 54:15
  Speaker 15: skate at the iceplex and those things I love.
• 54:18
  Speaker 9: And that's, you know, to me when I.
• 54:21
  Speaker 15: Heard he touched on it, but things that give people
• 54:23
  Speaker 15: hope or make them feel good. It's a little broad,
• 54:27
  Speaker 15: but I'd say that's, you know, those are the things
• 54:29
  Speaker 15: that I most enjoy in.
• 54:32
  Speaker 9: Terms of sports itself.
• 54:34
  Speaker 15: I always thought the Olympics were a blast because there's
• 54:37
  Speaker 15: so many different types of competition and so many great
• 54:40
  Speaker 15: stories about how that athlete got there, right?
• 54:43
  Speaker 9: And then I'll.
• 54:46
  Speaker 15: Say this, I mean, it's the white whale thing. There's
• 54:51
  Speaker 15: probably a person or an organization I'd like to do
• 54:56
  Speaker 15: a biography on. I just don't know quite who that
• 54:58
  Speaker 15: might be. I've got some ideas, but yeah, those are,
• 55:02
  Speaker 15: I mean, it's like, covering marathons, which I got a
• 55:06
  Speaker 15: chance to see a couple of people win and break records.
• 55:09
  Speaker 9: But with the really cool part and what.
• 55:11
  Speaker 15: Got me going about even doing more myself was to
• 55:14
  Speaker 15: go back out after I found my story and see
• 55:17
  Speaker 15: the three and a half, four hour people coming in.
• 55:19
  Speaker 9: And you guys have all seen it.
• 55:21
  Speaker 15: They're just, it gives me goosebumps even thinking about how
• 55:24
  Speaker 15: happy all those people are.
• 55:26
  Speaker 9: And of course I have my.
• 55:27
  Speaker 15: Own from the New York city marathon, uh, where I'm
• 55:30
  Speaker 15: finishing over four hours because it was hot, but it
• 55:33
  Speaker 15: was a little over four hours.
• 55:35
  Speaker 9: And I look like a mess.
• 55:37
  Speaker 15: And there's like, I'm swear to God, the guy's probably
• 55:39
  Speaker 15: like Czechoslovakian, white hair, you know, two.
• 55:42
  Speaker 9: Feet behind me.
• 55:43
  Speaker 15: And he looks dry as, you know, as the desert
• 55:46
  Speaker 15: and very spunky. And like he could run another 26
• 55:48
  Speaker 15: and I'm dragging myself in, you know, with the old
• 55:51
  Speaker 15: walk man in the, in my shorts and the whole thing.
• 55:54
  Speaker 15: It's just, it's, it's hilarious. But those are that sort
• 55:57
  Speaker 15: of human victory stuff or, you know, impressing our own selves.
• 56:02
  Speaker 15: And that's the most important thing to me.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: That's great stuff. Bob Condor joining us here on Kraken Weekly.
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: Bob, today is a pretty big red-letter day in Seattle
• 56:13
  Speaker 7: Kraken history. Five years ago, it was the first home
• 56:16
  Speaker 7: game in franchise history, and though the Kraken didn't win
• 56:19
  Speaker 7: against the Vancouver Canucks, they got the first goal in
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: the new building, and I will never forget how much
• 56:25
  Speaker 7: the place was electrifying. What will you remember about that
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: night and game nights at Climate Pledge Arena?
• 56:33
  Speaker 15: Yeah, the first thing I have to do when I
• 56:35
  Speaker 15: talk about Climate Pledge Arena is give a big, huge
• 56:39
  Speaker 15: shout out to a guy named Ken Johnson, who was
• 56:42
  Speaker 15: our construction lead when that place was built.
• 56:45
  Speaker 9: And we probably filmed 40 interviews.
• 56:50
  Speaker 15: I mean, and he was basically doing play by play
• 56:53
  Speaker 15: on how we were building the place. And then you
• 56:56
  Speaker 15: get to that first night and knowing that he was
• 56:59
  Speaker 15: up in the 200th, I think he, he, you know,
• 57:02
  Speaker 15: he's in the corner like a good scout. And, uh,
• 57:05
  Speaker 15: just knowing he was up there listening to that crowd
• 57:08
  Speaker 15: go nuts when, when Dunn scored the goal, uh, obviously
• 57:13
  Speaker 15: all of us felt you get, you know, you definitely
• 57:15
  Speaker 15: get the goosebumps going there. Or as Michael Jordan used
• 57:19
  Speaker 15: to call him the chill bumps. I'm not sure where
• 57:21
  Speaker 15: that came from, but that was his term.
• 57:23
  Speaker 16: Um, uh, to me, what was really cool about that was, uh,
• 57:28
  Speaker 16: I really feel like people can sit in the highest
• 57:31
  Speaker 16: seat in that place and feel like they're in an
• 57:33
  Speaker 16: intimate environment.
• 57:35
  Speaker 9: The so-called short bowl geometry, right?
• 57:39
  Speaker 15: And that was, I just remember sitting there thinking, I'm
• 57:42
  Speaker 15: sitting in the press box, press bridge, and I can
• 57:45
  Speaker 15: see the faces of people all over this arena. And that's,
• 57:49
  Speaker 15: as all of you know, that is not the common
• 57:52
  Speaker 15: threat at all 31 other arenas in the league, right?
• 57:56
  Speaker 9: And I don't know how you.
• 57:59
  Speaker 15: E and L, how you guys do that every night
• 58:00
  Speaker 15: because sometimes I can't read the numbers up and I
• 58:03
  Speaker 15: don't have to spit them out and talk to them
• 58:05
  Speaker 15: like you guys do.
• 58:09
  Speaker 10: Bob, you've been able, you've had the opportunity, you've had
• 58:13
  Speaker 10: the privilege to um, to cover a lot of amazing
• 58:16
  Speaker 10: events and people tell so many great stories. Where does
• 58:22
  Speaker 10: the Seattle Kraken and being here from day one and
• 58:26
  Speaker 10: telling this story from literally nothing to now, you know,
• 58:31
  Speaker 10: five full seasons plus a month and a half, where
• 58:35
  Speaker 10: does this experience rank for you?
• 58:38
  Speaker 15: Well, I'll go back to, um, A conversation I had
• 58:42
  Speaker 15: with my brother, Jim, who I just got done spending
• 58:45
  Speaker 15: two weeks with in Japan with he and his wife,
• 58:47
  Speaker 15: my sister-in-law, and Arthur, of course, my son.
• 58:53
  Speaker 9: When I called him and told him I.
• 58:54
  Speaker 15: Got the editor-in-chief job at the NHL, I was living
• 58:59
  Speaker 15: on Whidbey Island with my late wife, Mary, and our
• 59:02
  Speaker 15: kids who were at the time about 10 years old, maybe.
• 59:07
  Speaker 9: And I called him and told him what I.
• 59:09
  Speaker 15: you know that I got this job and he's like
• 59:12
  Speaker 15: you know what you said right and I'm like I
• 59:15
  Speaker 15: don't know what I said yesterday much less what I
• 59:17
  Speaker 15: might have said to you somewhere along the way probably
• 59:20
  Speaker 15: over more than one beer and uh he said to
• 59:23
  Speaker 15: me because I think I was probably out of fresh
• 59:26
  Speaker 15: out of school or something was what do you want
• 59:28
  Speaker 15: to do what's your dream and i literally said to
• 59:32
  Speaker 15: him because it was the early 80s i said i'd
• 59:35
  Speaker 15: really love to have an opportunity for hockey to be
• 59:39
  Speaker 15: a more of a national game here in the u.s
• 59:41
  Speaker 15: that would have a tv contract and people could watch
• 59:44
  Speaker 15: those games and you know just take the league which
• 59:48
  Speaker 15: you know had its own shine back then but just
• 59:51
  Speaker 15: take it and really get it to um that that
• 59:54
  Speaker 15: bigger place and of course um I kind of forgot
• 59:58
  Speaker 15: I had said that, but it was, it did hit
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 15: me pretty hard because I'm like, well, now I got
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 15: a chance here because what we basically did in 2008
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 15: is turn that website because Gary Bettman said, we.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 9: Want to make it a new site. I said, if that's,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 9: if you're serious, I'll move, right? We'll come. And we did.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 15: And, you know, we, the numbers were great and we
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 15: got a chance to just be digital and get more video.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 15: And so to me, that was the start of it.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 15: And then when, Todd and I connected, Todd Laiweke, our CEO,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 15: and he asked me to be part of it. It
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 15: couldn't have been more joyful for me because then I
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 15: had that opportunity to do that with a hockey team
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 15: here in Seattle.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 9: Same thing, get it out in front of people.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 15: And you see from last night, you see from Vince
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 15: Dunn's goal back in the first game that, you know,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 15: this is a red hot hockey market and just, you know,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 15: getting people going deep in that second year, which has
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 15: proved it. But so to me, it was kind of
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 15: a second chance to, to, you know, amplify and, and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 15: lift up hockey, which in that Yahoo job in between
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 15: was kind of my last shot at running across all sports.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 15: And so I've been very fortunate and very blessed to,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 15: to have all those opportunities. And then to me is, Again, this,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 15: I mean, I hit the jackpot with you three, with
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 15: everybody else that has to do with this team. I'm
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 15: really humbled that I had seven plus years to be
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 15: part of it.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 12: Bob, you and I have had some deep personal conversations
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 12: and I've loved every one of them. And I get
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 12: the sense from you that that's part of your style
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 12: as well, is that you build relationships, you have real
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 12: conversations with people. Would you say that's part of the
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 12: secret of your success that you've had over the years? Obviously,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 12: you're a great writer, but to sit down and write,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 12: you really have to understand people and you have to
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 12: know about them and you have to have those deep conversations.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 5: Would you say that's part of the secret of your success?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, it's an interesting question in that, you know,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 15: a lot of my stops, I was basically in charge of,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 15: you know, 90 people at Yahoo or big staffs and
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 15: the New York daily news, which by the way, we
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 15: had three mafia reporters.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 9: I had nothing to do with that reporting, but it was.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 10: Waste management, Bob waste management.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 15: So I've, so I've had the opportunity to the great
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 15: privilege privilege to, uh, run big groups. And, um, you know,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 15: for me, there were, I used to take notes on, uh,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 15: names of spouses and kids and, uh, just to get
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 15: to understand who people are and what their own dreams
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 15: and the loves of their life and all that, because
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 15: I think we're all better when we bring our full
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 15: selves to work, right?
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 9: And I learned that early.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 15: Just because I was in the real estate development world
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 15: for three years and I went to work and I
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 15: wasn't the guy who I am now. And I knew
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 15: that if I kept doing that, I'd make a lot
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 15: of money and I wouldn't recognize myself. when I went
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 15: back out and had a chance to become a leader
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 15: in places and things clicked into place, it's remarkable how
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 15: many chances I got to be a leader. I always
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 15: said to myself, I just want, I want people, I
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 15: want the real person to be in that in, you know,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 15: here in the office.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 15: And I think that's, that fuels me in terms of what,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 15: you know, what I can do and the writing thing, Al,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 15: it's interesting because a lot of people who are editors,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 15: they they and like for instance in the old days
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 15: you can have a really great copy editor who never
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 15: could get sprung from the copy desk to write because
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 15: they were so good at editing that they just couldn't
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 15: escape greg kott's a great example in chicago he's great
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 15: copy editor we had and his dream was to be
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 15: the rock critic and i'm like well why don't we
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 15: have you do that and he's like because nobody let
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 15: me off this desk and i let him off the
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 15: desk and he's won awards and then, you know, done
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 15: all sorts of great work. And that, that to me
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 15: is kind of what worked in my case, which was, um,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 15: the fact that I knew it was time for me
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 15: to walk away. So I guess maybe we were trying
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 15: to have kids and had some miscarriages. And as you
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 15: guys know, we ended up adopting and I wrote a
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 15: story about the ups and downs of that that ended
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 15: up on the Tribune, uh, Sunday Tribune magazine cover during Christmas. And,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 15: The editor-in-chief of the paper, who I loved, the managing editor, actually,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 15: she's a Pulitzer winner. She called me that morning, you know,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 15: like at 7 a.m. because she hadn't read the story.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 9: It was busy.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 15: It wasn't her job to edit it. But she called
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 15: me and said, I had no idea you could write
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 15: like that. And I said, and she was also very emotional,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 15: but it was, I said, I know. And that's what
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 15: everybody thinks is editors, you know, that we just, all
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 15: we can do is, And strangely after that, because I
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 15: sort of went and did the health and wellness thing
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 15: so that I can see Arthur and Lana actually grow up.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 15: And after that, I'd say there's probably eight senior type
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 15: editors at that paper who all said, oh, wait a minute,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 15: I could write.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 9: They'd let me write.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 15: And a lot of people ended up doing it because
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 15: I sort of forced myself to do it. I just
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 15: went in and said, I don't want to be the
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 15: sports editor forever. I'll do it through blah, blah, blah.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 15: And then I want to start this column.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 10: So Bob, anybody who spends more than four minutes with
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 10: you knows that your family, your kids, obviously your late wife, Mary,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 10: who I know that was a very hard and unimaginable tragedy.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 10: You love your family. Family is number one for you.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 10: What have they meant to you throughout your entire career?
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 10: Obviously we all have kids, we all travel and it's
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 10: hard to leave our kids and our families behind. But
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 10: for you, What has your family meant to you through
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 10: this year's journey? We won't say how many years, but
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 10: this year's journey for you and this fantastic career that
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 10: you've been able to create for yourself.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 15: All right, we can say how many, because when I
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 15: got hired at Yahoo, I could not believe that in
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 15: the press release they actually put out how old I was.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 15: I thought they'd you know, they would downplay that and
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 15: they wanted gravitas. So I turned 70. So we can talk,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 15: you can do the math. If I started at 25,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 15: a little late because of the early dip into real estate.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 15: But to answer your question, I mean, you guys know,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 15: you know, when you see the joy in your kids
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 15: and I just got two weeks with my son who's
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 15: 29 now. And it was just joyful to be around him. Right.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 15: And just to see, I got a chance to go
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 15: to his Navy base and met some of the 42
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 15: people that report to him.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 9: And every single one of them.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 15: Just understood that Arthur was his complete self at work.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 15: And as I mentioned earlier, that's just, and Lana, if
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 15: you guys have met her or know anything about her,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 15: she's herself at work and at the, at Instagram and
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 15: anywhere else that people might, you know, see her and
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 15: get a look into her, her thoughts.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 9: And that makes me really, really, really happy.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 15: I've always said to both kids, I said, it's not
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 15: about me being proud of you. I want you to
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 15: be proud of yourselves and I want you to enjoy
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 15: what you do. And that gives me entirely so much
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 15: satisfaction that they're both, they're real people that they are
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 15: at work.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 9: And then as it turns out, I.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: Had, I.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 15: Lost count of how many people came to me and
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 15: just said, Arthur's, you know, looks out for me.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 9: He's smart. They don't all call him Arthur because they're
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 9: supposed to call him sir. And, you know, Mr. Condor
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 9: and all that stuff, but it's Navy. And same thing
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 9: with Lana.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 15: When I'm at her places of work, it could be
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 15: an older guy who's been around that business a long time.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 15: It could be a young person working, you know, as
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 15: a script supervisor. And they all say the same thing.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 15: Like she brings energy every day. she gets food trucks
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 15: for people at the end of shoots. She's just, you know,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 15: she's energy and happiness and can do attitude.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 9: And Mary, you know, was a big part of that.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 15: Both kids are when, when she was in the final
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 15: days of hospice, both kids and Arthur, especially went in
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 15: and just said, I'm, I'm you mom, you know, like
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 15: what I do in the world is because of the
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 15: way you were.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 9: And, and believing in unconditional love.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 15: And that's what it's about. So for me, and we
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 15: carry that, all three of us and anybody who was
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 15: close to Mary, we all carry that. We know that,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 15: that she would want us, she, The very first thing
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 15: on her list for me was just stand up straight.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 15: You hunch over too much, which you guys all know
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 15: if you've watched me over my computer.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 4: Good wife, always taking care, always making sure.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 15: Along with that, I think she just wanted us to
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 15: live our lives and be ourselves. We're trying our best
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 15: to do that every day.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: Bob, what's your advice to future and aspiring professionals?
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 15: My first piece of advice is don't listen to anybody
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 15: who thinks that journalism is not a chance to thrive,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 15: and not just as what you do as a professional,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 15: but I mean financially too. I mean, it's the most
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 15: important thing. Parents come to me and like, I'm really
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 15: worried my kid wants to be a journalist. I'm like,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 15: you know what? If you're good, the money finds you.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 15: If you know what, if you're worried about newspapers or
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 15: websites or apps going out of style or AI taking over,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 15: If you love what you do and you're good at
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 15: it and you love it and care about it and
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 15: know you can get better, that's the first thing that
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 15: I say. It's just don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 9: You guys are parents, right? So you get this part.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 15: When you have a little baby, you have a new kid,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 15: everybody's like, oh, yeah, great, but wait until they're teenagers, right? Well,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 15: I never thought that way. Our kids, it wasn't a
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 15: perfect teenage years, but I mean, If you dread it,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 15: then you don't beautify it. You don't get to that
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 15: place where you, again, to see the sheer joy in
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 15: your children's eyes at whatever age it is, including teenage years.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 15: And that's what I think about when I first talk
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 15: to people. But I do say, and I will say,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 15: that if any of us in this business are afraid
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 15: to reinvent ourselves, we're in trouble, right?
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 9: Because I had no idea back.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 15: In the early days of standing with, you know, the
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 15: Sunday business editor at the New York daily news, designing
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 15: a page that we were going to do all that
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 15: electronically soon enough.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 15: And, and that, and yes, I wrote some stories on typewriters.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 15: I literally went, it's believe it or not to the
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 15: museum of defunct media in, in Tokyo two days ago,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 15: I was walking to go to seven 11, which there
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 15: is not, it's a little different seven. Let's just put
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 15: it that way. Um, and I was just walking over
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 15: to probably get a bottle of water or something. And
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 15: I saw this museum. I'm like, Oh, I got to
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 15: come in here.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 9: And it's like every device that's all defunct now. And
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 9: it was just hilarious, but.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 15: It did take me through thinking like there were lots
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 15: of things that I did at the NHL with the
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 15: app and video and running video groups that I had
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 15: no idea about that when I was, you know, doing
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 15: this Sunday, uh, tabloid, um, sports section at the Daily
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 15: News or the business section before that.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 7: I remember Back to the Future Part 2 and when
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 7: they go into 2015 into an antique store, you see
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: a Macintosh Plus right front and center. I thought, yeah, that's...
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 7: It was kind of a sign of the times. They
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 7: predicted it here. But, Bob, we can take a lot
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 7: here from you. Well done, my man, on a reverent
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 7: and established and legendary career. We're looking forward to celebrating
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 7: you as well, too. But don't be a stranger. We'll
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 7: look forward to seeing you as well around these parts here.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 9: All right, guys. Thank you for having me on. I'm
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 9: sure none of this was nearly as interesting as you
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 9: hoped it would be. Hey, Bob.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 12: Bob, if you need Everett or Ida, come change that
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 12: battery over your head and that smoke detector.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 5: We'll stop by. You know what?
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 9: That would actually be really good.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 15: Because I'm now probably going to be somebody in the
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 15: building who's going to see this or listen to it
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 15: and think, we've got to get him fixed up.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: Your son's in town.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 5: Get him on a ladder.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 9: You guys are probably tall enough you could just get
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 9: up there.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 7: Oh, we had to end this on a laugh here.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 7: That's Bob Condor joining us.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: Bob, thank you very much.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 7: We'll come back with your mailbag questions here in just
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 7: a bit right here on Kraken Weekly.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 10: Here comes Kako, rink wide across for Shane Wright, intercepted, knocked.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: Down, Berkeley Cat scores! This is Berkeley Cat, now back,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: Kraken Weekly, Mike Beck. Well, what memories we had. Big
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: thanks again to Bob Condor.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 7: He'll always be a great friend of ours here in
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 7: Seattle and of this business. And again, you can catch
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 7: this interview podcasted once more at the iHeartRadio app. Mike Everett,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 7: now with you back here on Kraken Weekly. Our update
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 7: right now on the poll question, what's most accurate about
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 7: the Kraken to you? As of this point, 66% of
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 7: you say it is their period concern.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: Poll still open.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 7: Go ahead, vote right now at Twitter and X at
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 7: Kraken Audio Net. Before we get to our mailbag segment,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 7: I do want to touch on a very important date
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 7: that we got to with Bob earlier. And five years
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 7: ago today, was the first home game in Seattle Kraken
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 7: history at the brand spanking new Climate Pledge Arena. And
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 7: I'll kind of go around the horn as far as
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 7: what we remember here from that night. Everett, you were
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 7: up in the booth. It was technically your first game,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 7: if you want to count.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: Regular season games.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 7: And that's a whole different story. That is a whole
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 7: different story in of itself. Al, you were not too
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 7: far away from the glass, still several hundred days away
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 7: from joining this broadcast team. I won't forget, number one,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 7: walking into the building for the very first time, and
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 7: completely blown away by, A, the modern marvel of technology
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 7: that was built to all of a sudden be represented
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 7: for that night. Number two, just how incredible the sight
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 7: lines were from the press gondola looking down.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: I thought I was in a fever dream.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 7: I had never been in a press box, honestly, with
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 7: better sight lines, and I was nearly blown back by
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 7: about two feet off my toes when I first saw it.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 7: Number three, how loud the building sounded when Vince Dunn
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 7: scored to make it 1-0 Kraken on the power play
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 7: shortly before the first period horn. We led this show off.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 7: With that call, Everett, you had it back then with
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 7: our newly departed Dave Tomlinson as well, who was serving
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 7: in the color analyst chair for the first couple of seasons. Yet,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 7: I won't forget me missing the goal with my own
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 7: two eyes because usually when I depart the press box,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 7: I tend to give myself a few minutes. The elevators
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 7: shut down. You got to get important people here, there, everywhere.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 7: I jumped in and began to make it kind of
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 7: a routine for me to leave with five minutes left,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 7: get down to section 20 and The set's pushed far back,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 7: so I can't see from my own seat. So usually
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 7: I drop my stuff off, kind of keep my side
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 7: eye on it as well, but then go to the
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 7: very top of section 20 so I can look at
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 7: the play. And the Kraken are buzzing back in the
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 7: Vancouver zone on the power play. But the clock is
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 7: winding down. Me in my first home game, I'm taking
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 7: extra precaution to make sure that I am ready for
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 7: when I have to actually talk on a live microphone.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 7: So I thought, Give this still about 10 seconds.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Wait for it. Wait for it. If it gets to
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: 10 seconds, then leave. U-turn.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 7: Go right to your chair. All of a sudden, I
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 7: turn around and I hear ping, bar down and in.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 7: Goal horn goes off. Crowd goes crazy. So I missed
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 7: the Vince Dunn goal. But I will never forget how
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 7: that building sounded, where it was akin to an overtime
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 7: playoff victory. And it brought the Seattle professional sports energy
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 7: as advertised from night number one.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 10: If Mike Benton isn't around to hear that, to see
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 10: the goal that it actually happened.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 4: No, that, that night for me, I mean, that was awesome.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 10: You touched on it. I, I had gotten COVID right
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 10: before the team left for Vegas. So the very first
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 10: crack in road trip, the first five games, Vegas, Nashville, Columbus, Jersey,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 10: and Philly I missed. And, I've told the story a
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 10: million times. I'll tell a very abbreviated version of the story.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 10: Elliott Friedman of SportsTech called me. I had no idea
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 10: he even had my number. And I was in a
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 10: bad place mentally and emotionally. I'm like, oh, I'm missing
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 10: my childhood dream. They're going to fire me for getting COVID.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 10: And he talked me off a ledge. And I will
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 10: forever be grateful for Elliott Friedman and his words that day.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 10: But my first thought was, don't you mess up that
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 10: first goal call.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 4: And I was happy. That it was done. It was ping.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 10: It was as easy as a call as you're going to.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 10: I didn't want any tips. I didn't want any offsides.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 10: It was a broadcaster's dream. But for me, what stands
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 10: out about that day. If you asked me two days
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 10: ago who won that game, I couldn't tell you. I
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 10: remember the crowd. I remember all of my coworkers. I
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 10: remember the fans and the people in that building who
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 10: had been waiting so long for this team to come
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 10: to Seattle. I unbeknownst to me, I was, I was
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 10: thinking of Al in the corner who played for the
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 10: T birds back in the day and who finally now
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 10: after 30 years of living in Seattle, has his own
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 10: hockey team to cheer for. Um, I met a guy
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 10: from Boston who lives in Seattle and he used to
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 10: go to Vancouver all the time to watch the Bruins play.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 10: He was at every game of the finals back in 11.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 10: And he told me once, he said, now my granddaughter's
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 10: got her own team to cheer for. Um, I'm very excited.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 10: Like that's what I'm going to remember about that day
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 10: is it was a culmination of all the hard work
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 10: and the passion and the the desire of Seattle sports fans,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 10: of Climate Pledge Arena employees, of Kraken employees, all of us.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 4: Who have moved from all over the world to be
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 4: a part of this venture, that's what stood out to
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 4: me about that day. And like I said, I.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 10: Didn't know who won the game. I knew Dunn scored
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 10: the first goal, didn't care. The result for me was
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 10: just icing on the cake if they had have won
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 10: But it was just the importance of that day for
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 10: so many people in our area. That's what I'm going
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 10: to remember. That is what I still remember most about
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 10: that day. And also, my wife was in the building.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 10: My sister-in-law was in the building. And we didn't know
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 10: it at the time, but my son was in the
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 10: building because Shelly was pregnant. And we didn't find out
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 10: that she was pregnant until.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: About three weeks later.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 10: Later four weeks a month later um so yeah that
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 10: was a very special day for the pincy family and
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 10: then for me personally as well that's awesome yeah i
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 10: mean for me it was uh being a kraken fan
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 10: from the beginning uh ironically i too just like bob
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 10: condor was in the corporate real estate business during that
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 10: game and friend of the broadcast booth chris soriano called
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 10: me and said hey do you want to go to
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 10: this opening game and i'm like yeah i'd like to
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 10: go He goes, I got good seats.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 12: And yep, they were down on the glass at the
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 12: opposition end. And I said, yep, can't get any better
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 12: than that.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 5: Let's go.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 12: But I went as a fan that had hung up
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 12: his broadcasting headset with the Everett Silver Tips a few
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 12: years prior to that. with no expectations of ever ending
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 12: up 100 feet above the ice next to you, Everett,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 12: just went as a fan.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 5: And you're right.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 12: It was so cool to be in a sold-out building,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 12: to be sitting in a building that I had played
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 12: in as a kid that had been renovated, like Mike said,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 12: modern marvel of technology and innovation.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 5: It was so cool to see an NHL team in Seattle.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 12: And then obviously that first goal, unlike Mike, I was
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 12: 20 feet away from it. I felt the spray of
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 12: Vince Dunn as his skate stopped after scoring that goal.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 5: But, you know.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 12: Looking back on that, I thought this is the beginning
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 12: of something great. And by something great, I meant an
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 12: NHL team coming to Seattle again with no expectation that
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 12: three years down the road, I'd be starting as the
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 12: color analyst alongside of you two in the broadcast booth. So, yeah,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 12: it was a pretty special night for me for different reasons.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 12: But I like how the story has changed.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 7: I love how I found you in the broadcast booth
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 7: that night, of course, once everything was all done to
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 7: bring you on board.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: And I went, oh, great.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 7: So I didn't chase you out of the Everett Silvertips
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 7: broadcast booth. I can finally rest easy now. 1956, Vince
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 7: Dunn from Adam Larson and Jonas Donskoy. That's how it
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 7: goes down in the score sheet.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 4: Let's remember some guys.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: Let's remember some guys.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 4: What a guy. I love that guy. He's awesome. He's
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 4: such a good guy.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 7: Go ahead, goal for the Kraken of 509, a period three.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 7: Mark Giordano from Jared McCann and Alex Wenberg. After that,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 7: I wave the light here from Men in Black. We
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 7: don't remember anything else after that.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 4: Again, that night was so important for us as a city,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 4: for us as an organization.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 10: You wanted to win the game, but for me, winning
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 10: that game would have just been icing on an already delicious, decadent,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 10: and indulgent cake.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 7: And you can certainly tell after that that this fan
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 7: base was in a good spot. The city was in
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 7: a good spot. And this team has continued to sell
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 7: out games all the way here into season six. All right,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 7: to our mailbag segment we go. Once again, you can
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 7: find me at Twitter and X at Benton underscore Mike
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 7: Everett at The Voice Fits.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: Al Koniski is, of course, at Al Koniski. From Mattie S.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 7: after the Utah win, are we prepared to say this
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 7: team is for real or do we need to see
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 7: how they fare against Minnesota and Toronto? I'm right now
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 7: at the state.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 7: Say it or don't say it, say it or don't
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 7: say it. I'm at the state of, of, of cautious
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 7: optimism right now. And as I said earlier off the top,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 7: it's better than where it was two weeks ago. So Maddie,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 7: I'll give you that here, but I'll give you this again.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 7: Are they getting good goaltending? The answer is yes. Are
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 7: they getting depth? The answer is yes. Is a perfect no.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 7: And we can still talk about how maybe, you know,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 7: the bottom six is right now outweighing the top six,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 7: but things can still certainly change because we are still
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 7: this young into the season. Are special teams making an
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 7: impact enough? I would say the answer is yes. Is
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 7: a perfect no. But I was far and away more
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 7: convicted and convinced. They're moving in the right direction on
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 7: how they established their game last two nights and And
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 7: just now, the issue, you've got to clean things up
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 7: here in period three. Al said this earlier. I'll repeat
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 7: it once again. I feel better about fixing things in
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 7: the third period corner rather than why are you consistently
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 7: falling behind 2-0 or 3-0 and having to play catch-up?
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, 11 games into the season, guys... I
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 12: don't think anybody predicted that Seattle will be sitting in
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 12: third place right now with the Pacific. I think that
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 12: when you look at the standings and you see Calgary
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 12: and Vancouver at the bottom, probably no surprise. or some
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 12: mix of the bottom three. Instead, you see Los Angeles
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 12: with two wins so far in the season. I don't
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 12: think anybody was talking about Los Angeles with two wins.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 5: Eight games in. San Jose, they've got six wins.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: Anaheim's lost five in a row.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 5: Anaheim with four wins.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 12: Again, these were all teams that were talked about as
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 12: likely playoff teams that would be above the Seattle Kraken. Again,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 12: we're 10, 11 games into this season. It's still early,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 12: but it kind of feels good to brush off the
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 12: naysayers a little bit. Still got a lot of work due,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 12: still got a lot of season to do, but.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 12: The Kraken are starting to compete in not just the
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 12: Calgary games, not just the Detroit games, but also in
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 12: the Edmonton games, in the Tampa Bay games, in the.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 5: Utah games.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 12: And when you see them competing and getting points and
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 12: getting wins, it starts to make you think, those naysayers,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 12: they might have been wrong.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 4: I think two things can be true. I think this
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 4: team can be.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 10: Better than they were last year with the same personnel
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 10: that they had last year. And I think a lot
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 10: of it is just due to, I said it last week,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 10: Lane Lambert, second year, the learning curve.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 4: Wasn't as sharp.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 10: There was an expectation going into the year that, Hey,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 10: we know what we're, what we have to do. We
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 10: know how this team is supposed to play, how Lane
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 10: expects us to play.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 4: I think a big summer for shade, right.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 10: And Um, you know, the bottom six, four group, I
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 10: loved Al your note on, you know, your, your top
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 10: line's got 19 points. Your third line's got 19 points,
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 10: but your third line is playing two and a half minutes,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 10: three minutes fewer per game. Right.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: Like that.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 12: And in addition to that, that top line's playing a
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 12: lot of power play time compared to that third line
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 12: as well.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 10: So you're getting contributions, not only from your depth scoring,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 10: but I think the players that are contributing, um, are
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 10: the future of this team.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 4: This is the core that, you know, we.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 10: Look at the expansion core right now, which I think
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 10: you've got Larson, you've got Dunn, you've got Eberle and
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 10: McCann still part of that core. Obviously, Matty Beneers is
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 10: a draft pick, was an expansion.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: Pick, but Whatever.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 10: Now you're looking at Catton. You're looking at Wright. You're
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 10: looking at Odovinen. You're looking at Kako. You know, you
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 10: can throw Newman in that.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 4: Role when he gets up here.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 10: You're now looking at Krakencourt 2.0 having success. And I
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 10: think that is ultimately... what's paying off. And I've believed
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 10: in Jason Bottrell from day one. We're not going to
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 10: stifle the development of our young players. We're not going
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 10: to make a move just to make a move. If
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 10: it makes sense for this team, then great, we'll do it.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 10: But I do think this team, where they are right now,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 10: i would like to see them play a few more
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 10: tough teams going back to my rant earlier the kraken
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 10: we're gonna get a lot of you know what because
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 10: they've only played calgary they've only played detroit so yes
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 10: i think putting up another strong performance in the next
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 10: three games against minnesota against Toronto, against the Rangers who
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 10: were in second place, and then against Carolina out in Finland,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 10: you've got the two Calgary games in there as well.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 4: I think when this team comes back.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 10: From Finland and you're going to have three, five, seven
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 10: more games, eight more games between now and Finland, You
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 10: come back from those eight games, Minnesota, Toronto, Calgary, Calgary, what, Rangers, Carolina, Carolina.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 10: So you come back from those seven, eight games and
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 10: you're four and three. or you're 5-2 or 4-2-1, whatever,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 10: then I think you're going to be like, all right,
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 10: this team is for real, and this team can hang
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 10: with anyone in the league. But I think where they
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 10: are right now, they've played the schedule that they were given.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 10: They have done well against the schedule that they are giving,
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 10: and I think that this is going to be the
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 10: team that largely we're going to see for the remainder
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 10: of the season. I don't see any sharp drop-offs from
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 10: the way this team is playing now to later in
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 10: the year.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 7: Everett, you had a great segue here as far as trades.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 7: That's part of our next question from Mark Davis. He
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 7: says the Kraken seem to be winning games today. by
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 7: getting goals from the third and fourth lines, relying on
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 7: exceptional goaltending. Shooting percentage, goals saved above average are likely
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 7: to revert back here to the mean.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: It won't be easy here to sustain. He calls this
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: string of good luck. To become a.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 7: Truly good team, the Kraken have to improve where they
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 7: are weakest, and that's defense. The Kraken have a logjam
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 7: of forwards in Coachella, looking for minutes, and some are
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 7: knocking on the NHL door. Can Jason Botterill put together
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 7: a trade package to get a shutdown top two pairing
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 7: D-man to help get this team into the playoffs? That
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 7: from Mark Davis on Twitter and X. Never say never
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 7: when it comes to a trade ship. And we've been
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 7: down the Simon Edmondson rabbit hole a while back. You
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 7: have out there right now Alexander Nikishin. I don't know
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 7: where Jason Botterill is with Carolina and that trade relationship.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 7: Nashville is maybe shopping Brady Shea. Does he maybe make
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 7: that top four better potentially? But we've heard nothing from
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 7: Jason Botterill sniffing around that kind of deal. Top two
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 7: is going to be hard to come by here. Let's
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 7: just be clear on that. I like maybe where Edvinson fits.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 4: His name is Chase Reed.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 7: He's at Michigan State. And Chase Reed, you're going to.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: Have to be patient here on this.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 4: He's on campus right now.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 7: So I like where Edvinson fits in this equation, but
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 7: Detroit wants to sign him long-term.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: That's been public.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 7: So someone's got to go out if you get him
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 7: because you now got a logjam of Vince Dunn, Riker Evans,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 7: and Ryan Lindgren here to deal with once he comes
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 7: back from injury. I still argue the top six has
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 7: to elevate their production. Defense matters because you can't drop Montour,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 7: of course, out there 30 minutes a night. We saw
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 7: that about a couple of games ago. So getting Lindgren
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 7: back helps a little. Vili Odovinen going through the school
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 7: of hard knocks is going to be a process for him.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 7: And Lane Lambert's got to shelter his minutes here. But
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 7: this is where they're at right now, where I mean,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 7: a top two shutdown guy, it's going to take a
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 7: lot of searching, the right trade partner, and the right
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 7: place at the right time type of situation.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 10: I don't know if I'm looking for D per se.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 10: I think defensively, the defense has never really been an issue.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, you can always improve.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 10: But I wouldn't say the defensive core for the Kraken
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 10: are a problem, if you will. If given the choice
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 10: of upgrading my forward group or my defensive unit, I'd
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 10: still want to go forwards.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 4: But again....
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 10: I like Simon Edvinson, but to get, you're going to
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 10: have to give. What are you willing to give? And
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 10: I think the way the Kraken are playing right now,
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 10: the players that other teams are going to want are
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 10: going to be players that you're not willing to give up.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: And we've talked about it before.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 10: A lot of any blockbuster trade is going to have
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 10: to center players or at least include some combination of Wright, Catton, Beneers.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 4: O'Brien, Reed. You know what I mean? I think you
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 4: can throw 19, McCann in it.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 10: You're going to have to give up a lot, or
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 10: you're going to have to give up a big important
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 10: piece in order to get a big important piece.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 4: Are you willing to do that?
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 10: I don't know if I am for help on the
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 10: back end, just knowing that I think our defense, the
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 10: Kraken defense is fine.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 4: I don't see a problem with it. Again, you're right.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 10: You can't trot a Montour out there 30 minutes a night.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 10: But when Lindgren does come back, that alleviates some pressure.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 10: I think Otto Weinen has been playing very well as
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 10: he continues to mature in the NHL. Dee just take
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 10: a lot longer from what we've seen in Coachella Valley.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 10: Nelson and Jugnoff, they have been playing well to start
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 10: the season. And then, of course, you got Chase Reed
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 10: at Michigan State. I think right now you're still looking
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 10: for a top player. six forward that, that for me
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 10: is where you want to improve. Um, I, again, I
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 10: like Edmondson, but I don't know if I'm willing to
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 10: pay the price of what Edmondson's going to cost, uh, the,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 10: the Kraken to, to get.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 12: You know, it's actually a good position to be in
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 12: where I think that, and I, and I've read this by, by,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 12: by some of the talking heads out there that, uh,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 12: the Kraken could use anybody, uh, in the lineup, goalie, defenseman, forward, anybody.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 12: I kind of see that, if you agree with that,
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 12: I kind of see that as a positive, meaning you
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 12: can look at what's out there and say, who is
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 12: the best forward that that we could get here in Seattle?
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 12: Who's the best D-man we could get in Seattle? Who's
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 12: the best goalie we could bring into Seattle? And what's
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 12: it gonna cost to get that person? And then you
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 12: can look at all three of those deals and say, okay,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 12: this is the best one for Seattle where Seattle has
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 12: to give up the least to get the best and
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 12: you pull the trigger on that. Seattle's not in a
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 12: situation where they have to go get a goaltender, New
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 12: York Rangers. They're not in a situation where they're not
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 12: getting any scoring.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 5: It's happening up and down the lineup right now.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 12: Yeah, a 1C would be great or a top winger
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 12: would be great, but you're getting depth of scoring. And
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 12: to your point, Everett, the blue line is still very solid.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 12: You've got Chase Reed coming up. So, I think I
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 12: see it as a positive that Jason Botterill's got flexibility
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 12: to test the waters out there and see what the
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 12: best player he could get for the least amount to return.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 4: And I'll say this, too, about the D. I love
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 4: Chase Reed.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 10: He's going to be, you know, I've heard people compare
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 10: him to Seth.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 4: Jones, Zach Wierenski, a diet Kale McCarr, if you will.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 5: Bobby Orr.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 10: Nick Lindstrom, just rattling off a few, you know.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: Rob Blake, Paul Coffey.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 4: Rob Blake, yeah, you know, just some of those guys.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 5: Just a couple of players.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 4: A couple of players.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 10: But I will say, though, I think where maybe down
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 10: the road in your pipeline, I wonder if now that
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 10: you have a glut of forwards, the Kraken have always been–
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 10: forward heavy drafting team a forward heavy scouting team I
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 10: wonder now if you start to shift with Chase Reed
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 10: obviously Landon DuPont's names out there this summer I am
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 10: completely I was never on the lay down for Landon
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 10: train I I don't think any NHL team wants to tank.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 10: No player in that room is going to be like, well,
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 10: if we suck this year, we're going to get Landon DuPont.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 10: I guarantee you those guys don't give a you-know-what.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: Early returns, that also might be a weaker draft class
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: this year, too.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 4: Exactly, right?
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 10: So I don't buy into that. A lot of fans
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 10: are like, oh, tank. I love Devin Cooley's comment the
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 10: other day. He's been playing so well for the Calgary flames.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 10: And he was like, I know team tank is going
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 10: to be in my DMS right now saying, stop winning
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 10: you idiot. Like players don't care about the draft. I
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 10: get paid right now to win games. I get paid
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 10: to do the best I can for my team now
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 10: and not down the road. But I do wonder if
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 10: that draft philosophy will switch now the next couple of seasons. Hey,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 10: let's get a few more defensemen in the pipeline because
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 10: you've got Jugnoff, you've got Nelson, you've got Chase Reed.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 10: I would assume all three of those would be in
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 10: the mix for a spot opening night next season.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 4: Again, we'll see.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 5: Never know.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 4: We have 11 months.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 10: To figure that out, but that's where I would want
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 10: to go defensively is the pipeline down the road, not
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 10: necessarily right now.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 7: Let's get to our three stars before we finally wrap
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 7: this up. Man, we went deep on this show here
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 7: for today. I'll begin with my third star.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 5: Sorry about that.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: It's all good.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 7: We start off with my third star, and that's Brandon Montour.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 7: And it was pretty apparent just how much this defense
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 7: missed him back in the Florida game. And he had
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 7: a feel for him because he was looking forward to
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 7: playing in that game. It's a place where he won
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 7: two Stanley Cups. And unfortunately, things didn't work out with
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 7: his lower body injury he suffered back in Tampa Bay.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 7: But comes right back, looks all right, 30 whopping minutes
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 7: plus away.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: Ice time to set a franchise record.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 7: Scored a 5-on-3 goal in Brandon Montour on brand fashion
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 7: last night with a pure clapper from the point. And
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 7: he's had now three points here as well since his return.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 7: I loved how the team rallied around him when.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 7: He earned the celebratory helmet after the win over Detroit
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 7: because it was one year to the date where he
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 7: unfortunately lost his brother Cam. And you can still tell
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 7: that he was, he was trying to recover emotionally here
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 7: from that, but he put together a very inspired game.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 7: One of our favorites in the dressing room to talk
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 7: with heart and soul kind of guy, the energy you
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 7: felt at Brandon Montour is my third star. My second
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 7: star is Berkeley Caton for this last week. He's your
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 7: leading scorer on this team. Very, very short sample sizes.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 7: We say a lot here, but you can certainly understand
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 7: the elements of his game, which.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 2: Are certainly improving.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 7: We got to this earlier, the play he made to
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 7: make a 2-1 last night to shake off Lawson Kraus.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 7: My goodness, in the NBA, they call that an ankle
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 7: breaker or putting a guy on skates. He literally put
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 7: a guy on skates. And it just shows the heightened
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 7: IQ that Berkley Catton can play with. More and more,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 7: he is making a difference. More and more, good things
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 7: are happening when he is on the ice. Berkley Catton
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 7: is my second star of the week. My first star,
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 7: it's obvious, Philip Grubauer. 4-0-1 now, last five games. Against Utah,
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 7: three goals, 36 shots. But again, was under duress, second period,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 7: third period. Difference maker against Detroit. look calm, cool, and
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 7: composed as well in the shootout. How long you ride
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 7: this Grubauer train, we don't know. We broke it down
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 7: earlier here, but it's pretty clear cut that there's not
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 7: a lot of goals he is letting in that you
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 7: go back and think he should have had it. If
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 7: you're beating Grubauer right now, it is either on deflections
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 7: or via screens because everything he's seen from a clean level,
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 7: he is stopping everything with a high level of composure
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 7: and a high level of calmness as well. Very important
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 7: ingredients that you need here and a big reason why
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 7: the Kraken are off right now to this 7-3-1 start.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 7: Philip Grubauer is my first star of the week.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 12: Some similarity on my side, Mikey. My third star of
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 12: the week, Mackie Samuskevich, had the game-winning goal in the
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 12: Utah game, goal in the Detroit game. I've been saying, critically,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 12: to be fair, I've been saying I've been looking for
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 12: more from Mackie Samuskevich. Miscavige I'm starting to see more
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 12: and I don't know if it's the right combination of
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 12: being on the Stevenson and McMahon line but with Sam
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 12: Miscavige on one wing and then McMahon on the other
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 12: look out every other team in the NHL you better
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 12: figure out how to skate backwards and skate backwards fast
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 12: because those two guys are coming My second star, like Mikey, Berkley.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 5: Catton, four points in the last three games.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 12: I'm not sure if he spent some time this summer
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 12: working with fashion shoots, but he's learned how to undress people.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 12: He put Lawson Krauss on his back. with that Matty
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 12: Beneers goal. He's just learning how to play at the
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 12: NHL level, and it's exciting to see what he's starting
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 12: to produce.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 5: And then my first star, Brandon Montour.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 12: For all the same reasons you said, Mikey, a goal
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 12: and assist in the Detroit game, goal and assist in
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  Speaker 12: the Utah game.
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  Speaker 5: You know he wanted to play in that Florida game.
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  Speaker 12: But again, we know these players as people just as
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  Speaker 12: much as we know them as players. And Brandon Montour
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  Speaker 12: is professional enough to know I'm not going to put
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  Speaker 12: myself in a position in a game that I really
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  Speaker 12: want to play in. to potentially hurt myself even more,
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  Speaker 12: which would hurt this team even more down the road,
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  Speaker 12: just because I want to play in this game. And
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  Speaker 12: that was impressive enough to me. Add that on, he's
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  Speaker 12: my first star of the week. Yeah, that's real leadership too, right?
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  Speaker 12: I mean, a guy that wants to play, but he
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  Speaker 12: understands that I'd rather miss one now than miss 21
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  Speaker 12: down the road.
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  Speaker 4: So, Mikey, you and I are pretty.
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  Speaker 10: Much the same. I'm going to flip your second and
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  Speaker 10: third star. I've got Katton as my third star for
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  Speaker 10: all the reasons that you mentioned. You know, I think
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  Speaker 10: that his confidence every single night, we're seeing.
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  Speaker 4: Him do more and more.
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  Speaker 10: That leads you to believe he's going to be that
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  Speaker 10: superstar that so many people want to fault the Kraken
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  Speaker 10: for not having. I've said so many times, you look
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  Speaker 10: around the league constantly. The McDavids, the Crosbys, the McKinnons,
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  Speaker 10: the Kucherovs, all the big stars, they're grown in-house. Rarely
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  Speaker 10: are they traded for. And if they are traded for,
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  Speaker 10: it turns the league on its ear for a.
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  Speaker 4: Couple of years.
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  Speaker 10: But I think, you know, Katten has got the makings
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  Speaker 10: of that first in-house player. homegrown superstar, that offensive dynamo 80,
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  Speaker 10: 90 point a year guy that you're looking for. You know,
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  Speaker 10: he's got a four game or a three game assist
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  Speaker 10: streak forces in that time.
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  Speaker 4: I've said it last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 10: I think that Berkeley cat and Shane Wright together, I
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  Speaker 10: give him 10 more games, and they are really going
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  Speaker 10: to bust out in a big way. Montour, again, points
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 10: him back-to-back games. What he's meant to this team, and
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  Speaker 10: you could tell by him missing the one game, he
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 10: comes back and puts the team on his back. A
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 10: couple of goals in that time. Again, a leader in
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  Speaker 10: every sense of the word, on the ice, off the ice.
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  Speaker 10: I know you're not supposed to let your personal feelings
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  Speaker 10: get in the way of what you do, but Damn it.
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  Speaker 4: He's just such a good person. Oh, I love that man.
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  Speaker 4: Just on a personal level. I talked about.
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  Speaker 10: How Bob Condor is such a sweetheart of a person,
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  Speaker 10: Brandon Montour. He treats everybody in that room on the
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 10: staff as if he was your teammate, and that goes
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  Speaker 10: into it. And then I'm going Grubauer. Some R-rated saves
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  Speaker 10: from PZ31 as my number one star. He's 2-0-1 his
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  Speaker 10: last three. He's allowed 10 goals in that time, so yeah,
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  Speaker 10: your goal's against Grubauer. maybe a little higher than you
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  Speaker 10: want it to be, but he's been making some saves
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  Speaker 10: that would have ended up in the back of your net.
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  Speaker 10: Goaltender's been your best penalty killer. Goaltender's been your last
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  Speaker 10: line of defense. You know, you've had some defensive breakdowns,
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 10: but he is stuck in there and hung in there.
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  Speaker 10: Four starts in the last five games for Seattle. I
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  Speaker 10: would imagine he's going to get one of the next two,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 10: either Minnesota or Toronto coming up here.
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  Speaker 4: So Grubauer, my number one star for the week.
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  Speaker 7: All right, that'll wrap it up here, boys. Appreciate this.
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  Speaker 7: A little bit of a lighter schedule here coming up
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  Speaker 7: until the next show. Four-game homestand will end next Wednesday.
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  Speaker 7: The Kraken back home tomorrow against Minnesota, 7 o'clock at
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  Speaker 7: Climate Pledge Arena. Then wrapping up the homestand with the
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  Speaker 7: last game before Halloween on home ice against the Leafs
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  Speaker 7: happening once more, 7 o'clock, right back at Climate Pledge Arena.
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  Speaker 2: Once again, we're on air.
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  Speaker 7: Gondor for joining us. And for Everett and Al, I'm
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  Speaker 7: Mike for Kraken Weekly.
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