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KRAKEN WEEKLY: Change is coming - and how much of it? (4/22) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 3: Montour walks in, shouts, stoops monte Mania.
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  Speaker 1: In overtime in Pittsburgh, it's a free two Seattle crack
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  Speaker 1: and win.
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  Speaker 4: What a great feed that Montro received just inside the
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  Speaker 3: Gig Shark couldn't keep it off. Sign beneers go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, captain by captain battle keep six back of the line.
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  Speaker 3: Linigrant shots blocks Winterton stop.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Winterton his first goal in the National Hockey League.
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  Speaker 4: And you get it right back.
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  Speaker 5: Here comes Winterton right wing, lame zone load shot saved.
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  Speaker 5: Wolf hasn't brom.
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  Speaker 3: Wanson, He's gone.
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  Speaker 5: There's that fourth line once again.
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  Speaker 3: Jacob A.
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  Speaker 6: Watson, he will save that puck.
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  Speaker 7: It as his first career National Hockey League goal, and
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  Speaker 7: the reaction told the entire story.
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  Speaker 1: Right to reset up top held on side, asked for
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  Speaker 1: Roe forced off the buck, Berkeley captain delayed penalty coming
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  Speaker 1: to Boston captain's.
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  Speaker 3: Fires stop there it is Berkley Canon his.
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  Speaker 5: First goal back and they'll take it back. Here comes
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  Speaker 5: done burst of.
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  Speaker 7: Speed into the zone, bo Backandery stores Then's turn off
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  Speaker 7: the backhander. It's a power play goal with four minutes
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  Speaker 7: and thirty nine seconds left here in this first period
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  Speaker 7: with the kraken foots of Gas.
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  Speaker 1: And Feller to the left side, Kyrou walks in high slot,
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  Speaker 1: turn aside.
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  Speaker 3: By groove out of the rebound.
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  Speaker 1: Put on my neighbors, put on two hour, the massive
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  Speaker 1: save to preserve the one one time.
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  Speaker 6: I think, if your captain gets hit like that, you
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  Speaker 6: know gotta step up.
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  Speaker 8: And he just looked heavy and wanted it, so uh,
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  Speaker 8: you know, dropped him.
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  Speaker 6: Wasn't a great fight, but you know I got to
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  Speaker 6: stick up for your captain.
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  Speaker 3: Elers back to La Hole suits.
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  Speaker 1: That'll say a line three seconds to go, oh don't sern.
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  Speaker 3: So he's a call Gloria a thirty five say dandy
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  Speaker 3: here at home. It's a two one Seattle track and win.
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  Speaker 6: Just the atmosphere at the kind of given night.
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  Speaker 9: I mean that they show up with you and through
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  Speaker 9: some tough stretches here, they've been been there supporting us
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  Speaker 9: and everything around it.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we like to see this family, We like
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  Speaker 6: everything about it. So I've enjoyed my time year.
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  Speaker 10: Oh what memories we had again you heard that originally
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  Speaker 10: back in game eighty two for the Cracking at Colorado.
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  Speaker 10: But some of the top highlights of this season all
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  Speaker 10: courtesy the Global Credit Union Cracking Audio Network, leading us
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  Speaker 10: here into our season finale of Cracking Weekly once again,
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  Speaker 10: Glad you're with us, Mike Benton ever fits you, Al Kaniski,
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  Speaker 10: We'll hear more also from Captain Jordan Eberley, We'll hear
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  Speaker 10: from right winger Coppo Cocko, and also GM Jason Bottolla
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  Speaker 10: snippet of his press conference meeting with the media from
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  Speaker 10: earlier today, and a lot to get to as far
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  Speaker 10: as your reactions. So as always, find us at Twitter
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  Speaker 10: and next with a crack and Audio Network.
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  Speaker 5: That's at crackin audio Net.
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  Speaker 10: I met beton Underscore, Mike Everett's at the Voice, fits
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  Speaker 10: by the way at sports radio kjar dot com.
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  Speaker 5: Well eighty two games of.
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  Speaker 10: The fifth season in Seattle, cracking history is finally in
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  Speaker 10: the rearview mirror, and it's time to dive into as
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  Speaker 10: far as what happened, how it happened, why it happened,
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  Speaker 10: and what we're looking here to the future. That conversation
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  Speaker 10: will come later. I welcome back in our crew, Everett
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  Speaker 10: now from the booth, joining us for one last time
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  Speaker 10: before we break here for the summer. Fellas, have we
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  Speaker 10: had a little bit more sleep under us now these days?
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  Speaker 1: I have a three almost four year old, so no,
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  Speaker 1: I've gotten less sleep.
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  Speaker 5: I teed it up for you right there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've gotten less sleep in the last week than
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  Speaker 1: I probably have gotten in the last month and a half.
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  Speaker 1: But hey, I love every second of it. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: definitely my plan to make up for lost time has begun.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, two and a half days of good sleep for
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  Speaker 4: me and sunny Arizona got me, got my take filled
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  Speaker 4: back up.
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  Speaker 11: Both boys.
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  Speaker 5: And you're looking at a little more bronze these days.
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  Speaker 10: Al he's ready to go a little more bronze next game.
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  Speaker 4: No, I lots of walks outside in seventy two degree
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  Speaker 4: weather over the last few days.
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  Speaker 11: But I'm back. I'm back in Seattle and ready to
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  Speaker 11: dig into this stuff.
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  Speaker 10: Hockey life is a great thing, Dad, life is an
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  Speaker 10: even greater thing as well, the travels that we take it.
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  Speaker 10: It's all fe for lost time. I kind of fell
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  Speaker 10: in the same category. I finally slept in my own
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  Speaker 10: bed for the first time in roughly a week.
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  Speaker 5: Not this last evening, but the.
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  Speaker 10: Night before after we got right back in off the
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  Speaker 10: plane end of season media availability clean out day, and
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  Speaker 10: then right in the car to Yakama, Washington for a
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  Speaker 10: kids baseball tournament. A lot of hotel logged in here
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  Speaker 10: from this last week. So great to be back home
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  Speaker 10: once again. Let's get to this year fellas as usual
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  Speaker 10: our opening thoughts. I'll begin and I'll let you guys
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  Speaker 10: here take it away as far as our reaction from
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  Speaker 10: the season, how this all unfolded, first year under Lane Lambert,
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  Speaker 10: and we'll get to more reaction from a Jason Botterill's
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  Speaker 10: press conference again as we get toward the tail end
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  Speaker 10: of the show and give our final goodbyes here for
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  Speaker 10: the summer.
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  Speaker 5: My opening thoughts begin with eighty two games in.
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  Speaker 10: Hiring Lane Lambert, and I think this is the most
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  Speaker 10: important hire they made for this season. It was the
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  Speaker 10: most important maybe I think higher that they're going to
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  Speaker 10: make for this team in the next two, maybe even
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  Speaker 10: three years, because what we saw was a change in
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  Speaker 10: attitude from the top, more of an edge, more of
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  Speaker 10: a bite, more strength, and more pushback as well.
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  Speaker 5: I think that we began to see a bit.
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  Speaker 10: Of a change in the roster and how this was
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  Speaker 10: all put up and set up under Lane Lambert. But
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  Speaker 10: yet I think this season was one of disappointment with
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  Speaker 10: how things ended after the Olympic break. And it's fair
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  Speaker 10: to certainly say because disappointment leaves a change, plenty of
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  Speaker 10: change potentially is going to be coming, and this team.
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  Speaker 5: Right now needs it.
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  Speaker 10: You would argue, maybe in the worst kind of way,
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  Speaker 10: But Lane Lambert was the most important hire for me.
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  Speaker 10: I thought out of this whole picture because how many times,
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  Speaker 10: not just this year, how many times, not just last year,
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  Speaker 10: how many times, maybe going back into the past, we
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  Speaker 10: heard this locker room was maybe a bit on the
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  Speaker 10: quiet side, or we as in hearing this from players,
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  Speaker 10: came out flat. This is I think where the usher
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  Speaker 10: a change is going to begin to take place because
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  Speaker 10: before the Olympic break, with this roster largely unchanged, say
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  Speaker 10: Mason marshmint in and out. By December, Ryan lin Gren
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  Speaker 10: knew Bobby McMahon added back of the trade deadline, largely
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  Speaker 10: an unchanged roster. Twenty seven to twenty and nine was
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  Speaker 10: their record before the break. Goals against two point eight
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  Speaker 10: team say, percentage fifth at nine to zero.
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  Speaker 1: One.
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  Speaker 10: Defensive structure helps out your goaltending, in this case, after
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  Speaker 10: the Olympic break, last twenty six games seven seventeen and
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  Speaker 10: two penalty kills seventy five percent major issue all season,
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  Speaker 10: but the goals against up to three point six teams
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  Speaker 10: say percentage fell from fifth down to twenty six in
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  Speaker 10: the NHL, and I think here in this from Lane
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  Speaker 10: Lambert last week where he mentioned several guys weren't in
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  Speaker 10: this kind of a position before next year. Training camp
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  Speaker 10: will be harder, next season will be harder. They want
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  Speaker 10: to move more pucks toward the net. This is again
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  Speaker 10: a direction of strength where they're trying to address. I
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  Speaker 10: think for this next offseason and I question, maybe in
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  Speaker 10: a very fair way, how much change will be coming.
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  Speaker 10: I think a lot of it is needed, especially at
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  Speaker 10: the top for their top six, for not just how
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  Speaker 10: you produce offense, but the willingness of strength also to
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  Speaker 10: produce that kind of offense. I said this one year ago.
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  Speaker 10: Bully ball is coming back in the NHL. Look at
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  Speaker 10: the Florida Panthers. They only miss because injuries bit them
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  Speaker 10: hard this year, but they're going to be around. And
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  Speaker 10: how many times did we say the tougher teams always
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  Speaker 10: rise to the top. This is where I think change
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  Speaker 10: is coming, not just physical but also mental.
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  Speaker 5: Guys, take it away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean listen, that was all you know, well,
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  Speaker 1: said Mikey. And I feel like for me, there is
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  Speaker 1: a thirty two thousand foot view that I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: take here. I think that I'm going to start with
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  Speaker 1: the positives. While it's annoying that this team did not
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  Speaker 1: make the playoffs, and while it's very frustrating that there
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  Speaker 1: was that collapse at the end of the year, ultimately
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  Speaker 1: I think this team achieved that that bare minimum goal.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You wanted to be playing games that meant something in
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  Speaker 1: March and in April in the last three years. You've
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  Speaker 1: been in their last two years, I guess you've been
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  Speaker 1: out of it by Christmas right. You know, year one,
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  Speaker 1: year three, and year four, the Krakens spent a combined
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven days in a playoff spot. This year you're
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  Speaker 1: in one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen days
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  Speaker 1: in a playoff spot. So I think when you look
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  Speaker 1: at it from that perspective, you know you have to
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  Speaker 1: call this season on the whole somewhat successful. Compared to
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years. We saw big strides made
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  Speaker 1: for Manny Bediers, obviously, for the Grubauer got his groove back.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Lane Lambert, you cannot overstate the importance and
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  Speaker 1: what he brought to this culture, to this room, and
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  Speaker 1: from a structural standpoint, so all of that I think
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  Speaker 1: are seen largely as positive. However, my favorite saying, the
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  Speaker 1: goalposts are allowed to move. And when you come back
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  Speaker 1: from an All Star, from an Olympic break and you're
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  Speaker 1: three points out of first place, you're you're planning, you're
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  Speaker 1: designing your banner potentially right, You're you're you're getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to book playoff travel, you're your your mind is already
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  Speaker 1: toward all right, guys, let's just not let's not screw
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  Speaker 1: it up. Let's not get too high let's not get
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  Speaker 1: too low. Let's kind of stay on this plane or
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be good. Well, unfortunately got too low. And
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, when you didn't have a ton
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  Speaker 1: of injuries the second half of the year, when you
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  Speaker 1: nothing changed, you got better your broad Vogue McMahon you
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  Speaker 1: talked about, you know, addition by subtraction with with Mason
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  Speaker 1: marshmoth leaving at least in my opinion, you got better.
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  Speaker 12: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's kind of inexcusable to see what
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  Speaker 1: we saw at the end of the year. Now you
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  Speaker 1: look at the metrics, which we can get into a
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  Speaker 1: lot later, but offense was still a problem. You have
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  Speaker 1: to score on the NHL score page. You have to
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  Speaker 1: scroll all the way to page five until you find
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  Speaker 1: the first Seattle Kraken on the NHL points leaderboard, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and third place in the NHL Jordan everly with
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  Speaker 1: fifty five points. You mentioned the kracking defensively, they were
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  Speaker 1: peaking at five I think this year, and then they
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  Speaker 1: ended the season in the twenties for goals against or
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  Speaker 1: were they twenty I can't find it right here, but
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  Speaker 1: they were in the twenties for goals against. And you
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  Speaker 1: look at goals four this season, they peaked it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth or twenty four, I think twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: but they ended up ending the season in the bottom
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  Speaker 1: third of the bottom you know, quarter of the league.
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  Speaker 5: Two point four goals per game after the Olympic break.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think for me, largely overall, I would
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  Speaker 1: say that there was some success this year. But I
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  Speaker 1: do think if you really take a micro look at
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  Speaker 1: this season, it wasn't good enough. And we've said that
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  Speaker 1: time and time again the last couple of years, whether
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  Speaker 1: on the whole or whether at points during the season,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't good enough. And I think next year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the krakend, you kind of paint yourself into a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a quarter because you played competitive games, you played
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  Speaker 1: meaningful games. But now after this late season collapse, you're
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  Speaker 1: putting yourself into a position where your bottom barrel goal
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  Speaker 1: needs to be a playoff berth. You don't really give
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  Speaker 1: yourself a lot of wiggle room, I don't think coming
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  Speaker 1: into year six. So it was frustrating how it ended.
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  Speaker 1: But I think on the whole, there are gonna be
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  Speaker 1: some positives that I'm going to take away from the
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  Speaker 1: entirety of this season before you really start to get
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  Speaker 1: the microscope out and really dissect this thing.
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  Speaker 11: One comment four things I learned this year.
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  Speaker 4: First, like the comment fits great point one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: seventeen hundred eighteen days in a playoff spot this year.
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  Speaker 11: I think the piece that.
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  Speaker 4: You have to add to the middle of that is
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and seventeen to one hundred and eighteen days
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  Speaker 4: in a weak division in a playoff spot this year,
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  Speaker 4: thank you.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah. In fact, I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody believes the Pacific Division was very weak this year.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder how that played into that number. Regardless, the
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  Speaker 4: number is still the number. Four things I learned goaltending
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  Speaker 4: Philip Grubauer with a huge rebound year this year. It
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  Speaker 4: seemed like Joey Decord was on path to be this
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  Speaker 4: team's number one goaltender for years to come, and this year,
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  Speaker 4: out of you know, out of the blue, Philip Grubauer says,
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  Speaker 4: holding my beer and you know, hold my stein, and
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  Speaker 4: off he goes to end the season with better numbers
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  Speaker 4: than Joey Decord. So I love that competition between the
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  Speaker 4: two of them. But Philip Grubauer's rebound was definitely something
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  Speaker 4: I learned this year. Secondly, Lane Lambert's system. It's hard,
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  Speaker 4: but it's effective, and I think this team has to
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  Speaker 4: decide if if they can play that way for a
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  Speaker 4: two games plus playoffs to have success, or if they
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  Speaker 4: can bring in personnel where may if you do take
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  Speaker 4: a night off and I want to say you, I
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  Speaker 4: mean one or two players, not twenty players from the
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  Speaker 4: Lane Lambert system, you can still win hockey games because
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  Speaker 4: you can score your way out of taking those nights off.
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  Speaker 11: But I believe the system is effective.
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  Speaker 4: I think the players think it's effective and I think
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  Speaker 4: they stand behind it.
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  Speaker 11: Third, killing penalties is hard.
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  Speaker 4: This team ended thirty one out of thirty two for
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  Speaker 4: the penalty kill this year, and you know, to get
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  Speaker 4: to thirty you'd be at LA spot, which was about
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  Speaker 4: two and a half percent better LA's in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, Vancouver and Seattle thirty two and thirty
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  Speaker 4: one at the bottom of the list. That's got to
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  Speaker 4: get better. It had a big impact on the outcome
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  Speaker 4: of games. And then the fourth thing was Bobby mcmaht man.
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  Speaker 4: He's the real deal.
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  Speaker 11: Ten goals, four.
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  Speaker 4: Assists in the eighteen games he played with Seattle, and
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  Speaker 4: you can look at his stats previously and had them
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  Speaker 4: together and say, well, he was on pace for acts.
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  Speaker 4: I just looked at the Seattle stats. Ten goals, four
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  Speaker 4: assists in eighteen games. That puts them on a pace
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  Speaker 4: for sixty four points, which would.
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  Speaker 11: Have been ahead of Jordan Everly.
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  Speaker 4: So playing in the Seattle system puts them on pace
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  Speaker 4: for sixty four points. You gotta find a way to
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  Speaker 4: keep this guy around.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean again, folks, if you're asking us, why
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  Speaker 5: are you talking about the audit?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Trust me, trust me.
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  Speaker 10: We're getting to this all in chronological order, and we're
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  Speaker 10: gonna get to the audit, the reaction all of this
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  Speaker 10: from Jason botterrel later on in this show.
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  Speaker 5: But again, we're gonna be going in order as.
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  Speaker 10: Far as how we're you know, feeding our thoughts from
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  Speaker 10: reaction from this past season into prognostications and what's also
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  Speaker 10: needed here for the future. Again, Mike Benton ever fits
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  Speaker 10: you al Kiniski here on Cracking Weekly. I want to
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  Speaker 10: go back, first off, not just to Matty Benier's but
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  Speaker 10: also to Jordan Eberley, who cracked nearly sixty points, was
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  Speaker 10: sniffing thirty goals on top of that Chandler Stevenson sniffing
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  Speaker 10: fifty points once again, Jared McCann forty point guy, twenty
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  Speaker 10: goal guy in just fifty two games. Copple Coco turned
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  Speaker 10: it on after the Olympic break in was also a
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  Speaker 10: sniffing career highs On top of that, how much did
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  Speaker 10: this kind of drive our thoughts, guys from the end
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  Speaker 10: of this last season. And I want to be careful
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  Speaker 10: waiting into the what they need pooled that will be
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  Speaker 10: later on here for this show. But the fact that
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  Speaker 10: again you've been in this playoff mix over and over,
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  Speaker 10: and I think a change in attitude and change in
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  Speaker 10: leadership behind the bench helped out. But also for the
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  Speaker 10: most part on this roster, you got several pieces already
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  Speaker 10: in place where you fortify.
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  Speaker 5: Him and move them a bit down the lineup. You're
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  Speaker 5: doing yourself as a big favor.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think there's lots of pieces to
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  Speaker 4: the puzzle that still need to come into play their Mikey,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: two other notes I wrote down while while you were
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: mentioning that, and I think they aligned to what you're
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: saying is Berkeley Cotton. You know, Berkeley Catton made some
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: big strides forward this season, He's still got lots of
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: big strides to make, like lots of development over the
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: games he played this season. I know there was talk
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: early in this season about to would he go back
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: to junior or would he go to the World Juniors.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Where would he go? And I think that part of
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: that decision to keep him full time as a crack
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: and was a result of injuries early in the season.
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: But that is that wasn't necessarily the wrong decision.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I think he made a lot of positive strides, but
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: you can see in his game when he makes the
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: next three to five big strides forwards, he can start
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: having a regular contribution to these games. And then the
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: other the other piece of youth that I just want
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: to comment on as well, Jacob Monson. This team plays
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: better when he's in the lineup, And yes, I want
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: to see his game get better as well.
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: I know that.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: You know, maybe Lane doesn't trust him completely. He trusts
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: his physical game. I know that, and he loves that
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: part of it. But he's going to trust every single
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: guy on the ice when they're out there. And so
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: if his defensive game gets better and he's able to
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: start contributing a little bit more to fourth line offensive responsibilities.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: He could be a full time part of this team
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: just because of the effect he has on this team
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: when he's in the lineup.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I thought that everly, what he did
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: at age thirty five was amazing and coming back from
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: you know, forty games miss the injury that he had
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: last year, to lead the team and scoring. He was
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: led the team and goals, led the team in points,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: and he was third on the team and assists, which
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, again for a thirty five year old coming back,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I think that was amazing. The strides that Matty Beniers took,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I mean it was a sophomore slump, it was first
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: semester junior year slump as well for him. And then
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I think he really showed last half of last season
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and definitely this season. The Matty Beneers and I think
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: that this team is going is going to be happy
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: with and appreciate for a long time time. Having said
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: all that, and again, I'm not trying to jump the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: gun here, Mike, you so please forgive me or shut
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: me up if you need to. But the fact that
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Jordan Eberley and I'm not saying that every isn't a
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: good player We all know he's a good player, But
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the fact that Jordan Eberley led your team with twenty
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: six goals and fifty five points, that's not necessarily a
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: recipe for sustained success, right.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: I love that phrase.
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: The stained success also they had it about three years ago.
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: But sustained success.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: The fact that you've got three twenty goal scores, won
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: twenty six, two twenty goal scores, and ten double digit scores.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: No one above thirteen outside of Ebbs, Beeneers, McCann and
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Stevens said, right, you need to find more offense. It
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: just wasn't enough offense. And I'm gonna go back to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: saying it. This year just wasn't enough. And that's the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: frustrating part. Because Ley Lambert squeezed every drop out of
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: this lineup that he could. This team on most nights
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: were outworking their opponents, but at the end of the night,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: they didn't have enough gas to find that third goal.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: We said it multiple times. I found myself saying this
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: multiple times on the broadcast in the last month of
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the season. Your top line is spending a minute and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: a half killing in their zone, trying to get the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: puck out of their zone and you felt bad because
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: at the end of it, you're back in the offensive end.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Maddy Benier's at the end of a shift. He's down
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: on one knee giving it all she's got for a
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: fifty mile hour slop shot right like, because he's just
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: so gassed. That is the part of the system that
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I think is very, very tough, and al said it perfectly.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: The system works right works, and when this team plays
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: that system, this is one of the best teams in
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the league on a night league consistent basis. But you
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: gotta find some horses, and again we're gonna, we're gonna
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: get into it. This team just didn't have the top
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: level horses it takes to win you the race on
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: most nights. And it showed.
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: We're gonna hear from Jordan Eberlee Coppocaco and again a
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: snippet of Jason Bottererols press conference coming up in just
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: a bit here.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: But going back here to the rookie component of this.
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: Now, you brought up Berkeley Catton, you brought up Jacob
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: Alanson as well. There's a player in the NHL who
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: is now ascended to superstar level status. And if you
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: look at the numbers in Year one, Berkeley Catton sixty
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: six games, seven goals, ten assists, seventeen points.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: This player now in a superstar tier.
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: Year one sixty one games, seven goals, fourteen assists, twenty
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: one points. Next season thirty one points, fifty six games.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Year three fifty six points, forty nine games.
• 23:10
  Speaker 13: Banged up that.
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: Year, then the very following season, year four for him
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: ninety nine points in seventy eight games.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Folks, that name we speak of.
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: One of Berkeley Catton's idols growing up in Jack Hughes.
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: We're not saying Jack Hughes is going to be Bertley
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: Catton and so and you know, vice versa. But again,
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: it's comparable to the learning experience and the learning curve
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: that you've got to go through in the NHL. Here
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: for year one, where again I say you bring him
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: Jacob Alanson, let him make his mistakes, put plug him
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: in bigger ICEE time, maybe round his game mount he's
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: going to be a component here and he's going to
• 23:50
  Speaker 10: be a factor for this team. Oscar Fisker, Molgard Anton
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: Londel's one comparison. I think for him, you plug him
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: in certain spots. He turned a lot of ads with
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: his brains this season. His skill give him more ice
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: time under the conditions where he can get it. He's
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: going to be a big, big factor here for this
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: team as well.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Well. Yeah, I mean you're going to need time to
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: develop unless your last name is McDavid or Badard or Celebrini.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Very few players, I mean give me enough time. I
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: can probably count on one hand, maybe two hands, the
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: number of guys in the NHL right now that had
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: an immediate impact year one. We're talking fifty sixty plus
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: points in year one. I don't think that list is
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: very high, and then continued that success, you know, through
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: years two, three and so on and so forth. So
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I think the strides that Berkeley Cat made this year
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: were amazing. I think the playing time that he got
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: was deserved. I like the spots they put him in,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you know, I do. I would not have been opposed
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: to see what he would have looked like on the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: top line a little bit more often. But I also
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: understand that, hey, maybe you're just not ready for that assignment,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and that's okay, you're not maybe that that's not against you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: You're nineteen, right, I'm not gonna put you out there
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: against McDavid every night against Coppatar every night, and against Hughes,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: against McKinnon. I'm not going to do that every night,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: and and you know, kill the confidence. So I understand
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the decisions and the coaching that Lane did. And for
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of people out there that will play the kids,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: play the kids. Why are we playing these guys on
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the third line? Why are we giving these guys bottom
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: six minutes? Well, I think you have to look a
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: look at this from a different angle. Can that player
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: handle that responsibility? Can that player consistently handle those top
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: line assignments? And I think that is something that when
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: you're looking at guys who have i think faced some
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: of the ire from the fan base on this roster,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: to ask yourself, can they handle that responsibility? So I
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: think Berkeley Catton this year, for the time that he
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: got the positions that he was thrown in, I liked
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: him on the wing. I'm curious if they keep him
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: on the wing to take a little bit more of
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the pressure off him and maybe develop that shot a
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: bit more. I had a zero problem with Berkeley Catt
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and the game. Obviously, you want him to score a
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: few more points, you want him to get a couple
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of more goals. But at the end of the day,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I was very happy and excited about what the future
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: holds for Berkeley Catt.
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: And also get here to this, there's a difference between
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: how you develop a player under a team that's tried
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: to make the playoffs and a player also who's trying
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: to develop on a team that has completely blown up
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: the entire blueprint.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Everything is beginning right back from square one.
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: Play him top line, minutes, play in, power play, penalty kill,
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: let him fall down, let him make mistakes, let him
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: learn from it. This season is all about development and
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: less about the wins and losses. That's where San Jose
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: was previously, That's where Anaheim was previous Lee Chicago as
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: well the Crack and.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: We're playing in a different sandbox, so to speak. For
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: this season.
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: They wanted to make the playoffs, so the leash to
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: make mistakes unfortunately was short. But I think again, based
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: on those conditions, Berkeley, Catton and others did just fine.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that under the title of what needs
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: to happen next year, and I think that there's probably
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: a long list of things that you'd like to see happen.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: But continuing not thought Berkeley Catton. I'd like to see
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Berkeley Catton double his point output. So seventeen points this year,
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: let's see thirty five points next year. However that ends
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: up being maybe it's more, maybe it's a few less,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: but third double end his point output.
• 27:37
  Speaker 11: That's number one number.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: Basically what Jack Hughes did in a year or two
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: pro rated. But yeah, go on, el Sorry.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Secondly, Matty Beaneers, Matty Beaniers needs to take the reins
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: of this team and lead from an offense standpoint. You know,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Thanks Jordan Niberly, you know, great job helping me develop.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I'm now you know, the captain, not literally, but the
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: captain of the points. He's going to take the lead
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: next year year. Shane Wright. You know, regardless of what happens,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: if he's on this team next year, if he's on
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: this team next year, he needs to have a breakout year.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: We can't go through another year of mediocre Shane Wright.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: He's got to have a breakout year.
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: Consistent.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Play too many ups and downs this season, too many
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: four or five, six, seven whatever, losing streaks and then
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: back on three or four or five. This team has
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: to play consistent. Yeah, they're not going to win every game,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: but they need to be in every game and I
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: think that's when you have consistent play. And then the
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: last thing is what I want to see next year
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: is I want to see these special teams get get
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: reversed around. I want to I'm not asking for top five,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: but you've got to get back.
• 28:41
  Speaker 11: To the middle of the league or better.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: You know, you talked about the ups and downs of
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the season. I mean, you go back to Thanksgiving right
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: out of the right around Thanksgiving the crack and we're
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: one five and one, or we'll sorry, one nine and
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: one over an eleven game stretch. Go to January they
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: were one five and two over an eight game stretch
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: and obviously you know the crack and they were able
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: to put together some some wins and they had some
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: good stretches in there. But there were far too many
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: one blank and ones, two blanking ones this season and
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: not enough nine three in ones. You know what I mean.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: And I think you're right. Like Lane, I thought said
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: it perfectly in the last media veill was at Colorado.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: You go back to the season, there's probably six games
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: this year that you're like, man, if they had a
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: gone this way or the other way, we're still playing hockey. Yes,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Lane's not wrong. But I look at one five, eight, one,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: eight and two in March. I look at one nine
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and one in November, all right, So that's two seventeen
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and three, right, So that is twenty what's my math,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: twenty two games? Twenty two games right there in which
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: you could have had a better You go five hundred
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: in those twenty two games, you go ten, ten and two.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: You're in the playoffs. You don't need to be world beaters.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: So I'm with you, Al, you don't need to win
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: every game, but you can't have these abysmal stretches multiple times.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Everyone's gonna have one, right, Everyone's gonna have a stretch
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: every even Colorado this year had a couple of me stretches.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: You can't have more than a couple of more than
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: one or two match stretches. I go back to Dave
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Haxtalls last year, cracking we're eight oh and two at
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: one point. That was that that followed up an oh
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: ten and one stretch, or sorry that with that preceded
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: in ten and one stretch.
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: So you go eight oh and two.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Hoy buckets, boys, here we are. We're going to the
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: playoffs and then you immediately fall off the table. Annaheim
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: did that a last year. I think they were seven
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to one and whatever and then they went one, twelve
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and whatever. The Arizona Coyotes their last season in Arizona,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: they did that. They were I want to say, ten
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: to two and something and then they go one, fifteen
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and three and that essentially kicks their butt out of
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. So you're right, man, the stretches. You gotta
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: be more flat lined or obviously more up, a little
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: dip down. But this isn't Disney. You can't be going
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: on the Credit coaster all year long, up and down,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: up and down. I think that ultimately sealed the fate
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: for this team.
• 31:37
  Speaker 10: It's fun number ten. It's destructive when you're a twenty
• 31:40
  Speaker 10: five year old NHL player. Avoid the roller coasters. Jordan Everley,
• 31:44
  Speaker 10: Coppocco and snippets from GM Jason Botterol's news conference after this,
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: plus our reaction coming not too far after that right
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: here on Cracking Weekly on ninety three to three KJRFM.
• 31:57
  Speaker 10: All right, for all the change we're talking about, well,
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: you can certainly see that there is one constant as
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: far as playoff action. And that's what the Kracken affiliate
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: in ahl Coachelle Valley. The Firebirds opening up the Calder
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: Cup playoffs in Game one of their best of three
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: first round series, taken on the Bakersfield Condors. Firebirds. They
• 32:17
  Speaker 10: owning home ice advantage again best two of three win
• 32:20
  Speaker 10: the opening series. Game two coming up this Saturday at
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: Coachelle Valley Akrascher Arena. That's the play six pm, and
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: if necessary, Sunday will be Game three five pm, once
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: again at Coachella Valley. More information by the way at
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: Cvfirebirds dot com. As Coachella Valley getting bag goaltenders Nique Coco,
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: Victor ossman Ford, Janni Newman sent back down. Jacob Allanson
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: also on the playoff roster for them. The Firebirds once
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: again opening up their first round series at Bakersfield. More
• 32:51
  Speaker 10: information by the way at Cvfirebirds dot com. Everett now
• 32:56
  Speaker 10: back with us soon again GM, Jason Bottrell's reaction waiting
• 32:59
  Speaker 10: and a little bit Mike Benton again with you right
• 33:01
  Speaker 10: back here on Crack and Whekley. But we're going to
• 33:03
  Speaker 10: get to a couple of conversations, beginning with a look
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: into the future for the Kraken and what's to come
• 33:09
  Speaker 10: when they head overseas next season to the NHL Global
• 33:12
  Speaker 10: Series in Finland. Plus also what this guy learned from
• 33:16
  Speaker 10: the numbers, which took a massive uptick toward.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: The very end of the regular season.
• 33:21
  Speaker 10: He was their leading score after the Olympic break with
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: nineteen points in twenty six games. That's cop Ocaco And
• 33:28
  Speaker 10: here's our one on one conversation with him from.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: Clean out Day.
• 33:31
  Speaker 10: Coppocaco joining us here in the last of this team
• 33:33
  Speaker 10: comes together at Krack and Community ice Plex before this
• 33:36
  Speaker 10: season is all over here in Coppo. First off, I
• 33:39
  Speaker 10: think a lot of us are still kind of absorbing
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: the reaction from the frustrations of this last month, month
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: and a half. Where did that leave you right now today?
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: As far as where this team wants to be for.
• 33:51
  Speaker 13: This next season, yeah, I mean that was the goal
• 33:54
  Speaker 13: for this season also, like we want to we're going
• 33:56
  Speaker 13: to keep playing off the deir Glar season. We want
• 33:59
  Speaker 13: to make the playoffs and I mean didn't happen this year.
• 34:03
  Speaker 13: I mean for sure that's the goal for the next one.
• 34:07
  Speaker 13: We already know that. I feel like there were some
• 34:12
  Speaker 13: some good games, and I mean before the break the Olympics,
• 34:16
  Speaker 13: we were in a good spot, That's how I feel,
• 34:19
  Speaker 13: and just just not enough and we couldn't get it done.
• 34:23
  Speaker 13: And and now the season is over.
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: Where are you left right now with the feeling of
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: where this team wants to go as far as its
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: growth in culture for this next year under Land Lambert, Yeah,
• 34:36
  Speaker 10: I think.
• 34:36
  Speaker 13: There's a lot of good things, like you know, like
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: you can see some games how we played, like like
• 34:46
  Speaker 13: I think it was looking pretty good, and you know,
• 34:49
  Speaker 13: it defended hard, and I feel like all the all
• 34:52
  Speaker 13: the players gave all what they got, you know, Like
• 34:55
  Speaker 13: I'm I think that's not the that's not the question,
• 34:58
  Speaker 13: you know, that's how it should be. I mean, it
• 35:02
  Speaker 13: was just not enough. I mean, like I said, there
• 35:05
  Speaker 13: was some real good games I think, especially before the Olympics,
• 35:10
  Speaker 13: and we just couldn't find it anymore after. So I
• 35:14
  Speaker 13: mean that's why we are out now.
• 35:15
  Speaker 10: So Jordan Ebery once said, and he says us over
• 35:18
  Speaker 10: and over that the line between winning and losing is
• 35:21
  Speaker 10: so thin, especially in this league, and to win games,
• 35:24
  Speaker 10: especially under Lane Lambert, we're talking a lot of three too,
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: maybe two to one games. So when it comes to
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: that extra edge, is this more of a mental thing
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: or a physical thing or something else.
• 35:36
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it would be nice to know. Yeah,
• 35:40
  Speaker 13: like you said, there was and I feel also, I
• 35:43
  Speaker 13: mean I was out early in the season and I
• 35:45
  Speaker 13: was like kind of watching op to Top or watching TV,
• 35:48
  Speaker 13: you know, and it's not the same like on the ice,
• 35:52
  Speaker 13: you know, you see different. So yeah, I mean we
• 35:56
  Speaker 13: defended really well. I feel like, I mean, our goal
• 36:01
  Speaker 13: is played great also, and there was a lot of
• 36:03
  Speaker 13: games we were winning, like scoring only two goals, three goals,
• 36:07
  Speaker 13: you know, so you I mean it's a lot of
• 36:10
  Speaker 13: hard work, a lot of defense, great games by goalies.
• 36:16
  Speaker 13: I feel that was the that was the start for
• 36:19
  Speaker 13: the season. That's how we got some big points for us,
• 36:22
  Speaker 13: and that's why we did so good before the Olympics.
• 36:27
  Speaker 13: And then I mean there's there's also a lot of
• 36:30
  Speaker 13: good teams. There's a lot of skill on the ice
• 36:31
  Speaker 13: when you play against against i mean any NHL team.
• 36:36
  Speaker 13: So so it's it's gonna be hard for all the
• 36:39
  Speaker 13: eighty eighty two games. You know, you're gonna have like
• 36:42
  Speaker 13: all the teams having a good, good stretches and then
• 36:45
  Speaker 13: like some bad ones. You know, that's how the season goes.
• 36:47
  Speaker 13: There's so many games also about it. Yeah, I mean,
• 36:52
  Speaker 13: like I said, you need you need to score more goals,
• 36:56
  Speaker 13: you know, like than two or three. I mean, but
• 36:59
  Speaker 13: that's how it went early in the season. Now our
• 37:01
  Speaker 13: goal is played really good.
• 37:02
  Speaker 10: The points were coming for you after the Olympic break.
• 37:05
  Speaker 10: What's the biggest difference in your game at the end
• 37:08
  Speaker 10: of the season versus say, maybe even one year ago.
• 37:13
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it was a tough start for me.
• 37:15
  Speaker 13: I you know, you can see that it's not easy
• 37:20
  Speaker 13: get hurt early in the season and you're having a
• 37:22
  Speaker 13: new coach, and I mean you still get the system,
• 37:24
  Speaker 13: you know, like you know how you should play, but
• 37:26
  Speaker 13: like sometimes it takes time. I'm not saying like I
• 37:30
  Speaker 13: was not like I feel I was in the best shape,
• 37:33
  Speaker 13: Like I can't be even more, you know, like I
• 37:36
  Speaker 13: felt pretty good, but like when you've been missing a
• 37:39
  Speaker 13: lot of games just working out, I feel like the
• 37:42
  Speaker 13: game shape is always different than it doesn't matter how
• 37:46
  Speaker 13: much peop would work, you know, outside or just skating
• 37:51
  Speaker 13: by yourself.
• 37:51
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 37:52
  Speaker 13: So the start was hard, but then like I feel
• 37:55
  Speaker 13: after Olympics, I kind of find my game a little more,
• 37:58
  Speaker 13: got some confidence, know, I try to make more plays.
• 38:02
  Speaker 13: You know that's that's you know, when you feel good,
• 38:07
  Speaker 13: you feel like maybe a should try this, and and
• 38:10
  Speaker 13: like you're not worried about if you turn it over.
• 38:13
  Speaker 13: I mean that's in my mind, that's hockey. Also, like
• 38:16
  Speaker 13: you got to make some place. I mean, I feel
• 38:19
  Speaker 13: we are all skilled players. That's the reason we are here,
• 38:21
  Speaker 13: and like we get a you know if if you like,
• 38:26
  Speaker 13: we all know what to do out there, and mistakes
• 38:28
  Speaker 13: happens like this is it's part of the game. But yeah,
• 38:33
  Speaker 13: I feel that's what I did more after Olympics. I
• 38:35
  Speaker 13: try to make place and then end up working well.
• 38:37
  Speaker 10: We talked a lot about the hands as part of
• 38:39
  Speaker 10: your game, the strength as a part of your game.
• 38:42
  Speaker 10: So for this off season, whether it might be strength
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: or the cerebral side or even skill building, what means
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: the most to you as far as what you want
• 38:50
  Speaker 10: to build on for your game this off season.
• 38:52
  Speaker 13: I think kind of all of those. First of all,
• 38:55
  Speaker 13: Like just I mean, like I said, I had some
• 38:58
  Speaker 13: injuries early in the season, and it's it's always a
• 39:01
  Speaker 13: long season. You're playing a lot, I mean back to backs,
• 39:04
  Speaker 13: you know, like you I think all of us, like
• 39:06
  Speaker 13: we are not feeling the best the next, you know,
• 39:09
  Speaker 13: the next morning when you wake up. So it's just
• 39:12
  Speaker 13: the first thing is get my body in a good shape,
• 39:15
  Speaker 13: you know, feel healthy, and then it's time to get
• 39:20
  Speaker 13: some work.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 39:21
  Speaker 13: Like like I mean, like I said, all those things
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: I feel I need, I still need more speed. I
• 39:26
  Speaker 13: feel I'm strong with the puck. I try to keep
• 39:29
  Speaker 13: it and you know, stay strong, but I think speed
• 39:32
  Speaker 13: is like if I have to say like one thing,
• 39:36
  Speaker 13: I would say, that's something I need more.
• 39:39
  Speaker 10: What do I mean to metal at the Olympics for Finland.
• 39:43
  Speaker 13: Uh, Like that was that was specially you know, like
• 39:48
  Speaker 13: something you were thinking about even before the season. That
• 39:52
  Speaker 13: I mean, it's always it's nice to come here after
• 39:55
  Speaker 13: a long summer. You've been doing all the work and
• 39:58
  Speaker 13: you know, like you excited for the season. But then
• 40:01
  Speaker 13: for this season was like that was one of my
• 40:03
  Speaker 13: goals to make the team first and then like you know,
• 40:07
  Speaker 13: be good there and I mean everyone wants to win.
• 40:11
  Speaker 13: So I mean we got something, not the.
• 40:14
  Speaker 11: Cold metal, but.
• 40:16
  Speaker 13: That that that one feels still pretty good and that
• 40:19
  Speaker 13: was nice. Two weeks with the team. You know, see
• 40:23
  Speaker 13: all the all the friends you have over there, and
• 40:26
  Speaker 13: I mean some guys got the nice little wikas and
• 40:31
  Speaker 13: you know about it. I feel that was also like
• 40:35
  Speaker 13: that was still hockey about something different, you know, you see,
• 40:39
  Speaker 13: like I mean first time for me at the Olympics,
• 40:41
  Speaker 13: so that was that was something special.
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: Well, we also heard, you know about how long it
• 40:45
  Speaker 10: took here for the NHL to get back to a
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: best on best kind of format. Now we had the
• 40:49
  Speaker 10: four Nations, last year, we had the Olympics, and now
• 40:51
  Speaker 10: the World Cup is back into the conversation, how much
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: do you agree that the game isn't a much better
• 40:57
  Speaker 10: place since we can have more of a cycle of
• 41:00
  Speaker 10: best on best kind of tournaments here to put the
• 41:03
  Speaker 10: best stars in this kind of in this kind of
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: a be a format.
• 41:06
  Speaker 13: Yeah, as a player, it's something you want to be
• 41:08
  Speaker 13: part of. Those are good games, you know you're playing.
• 41:14
  Speaker 13: We played against Canada. I mean that was one of
• 41:18
  Speaker 13: the hardest game I ever played. I mean we were
• 41:21
  Speaker 13: pretty close. Also, that was a tight game. I mean
• 41:24
  Speaker 13: it makes you better player also, like you you are
• 41:27
  Speaker 13: learning all the time and then like thinking about myself
• 41:36
  Speaker 13: then fifteen years ago, I was watching those games. I
• 41:39
  Speaker 13: was staying up if if you know Finland played against
• 41:43
  Speaker 13: Canada or usay at the best and best, So I
• 41:47
  Speaker 13: feel that's good for hockey. That's I mean, all the
• 41:51
  Speaker 13: all the people who knows about hockey, and even like
• 41:53
  Speaker 13: people who doesn't know, they they want to see those
• 41:55
  Speaker 13: gids like that's kind of how you get into it.
• 41:58
  Speaker 13: So I think it's it's it's good and that's what
• 42:02
  Speaker 13: we what we need.
• 42:03
  Speaker 10: How pumped are you finally for the Global series this
• 42:05
  Speaker 10: next year? And can you give us three recommendations for
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: restaurants out there?
• 42:10
  Speaker 13: Okay, there's a lot of good ones I feel. I mean,
• 42:15
  Speaker 13: I'm I'm excited, Like I was excited when I heard
• 42:18
  Speaker 13: about it first time. I have seen some other teams
• 42:21
  Speaker 13: doing it and and I mean a little surprised also
• 42:27
  Speaker 13: that it's gonna be us. I mean, like thinking about
• 42:29
  Speaker 13: it now, we have totally me, Joannie and Nikka at
• 42:34
  Speaker 13: the goal, so a lot of things also so kind
• 42:36
  Speaker 13: of make sense, I would say. But yeah, it's gonna be.
• 42:41
  Speaker 13: It's gonna be fun playing in front of my friends
• 42:43
  Speaker 13: and family and and kind of all Finland.
• 42:47
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 42:47
  Speaker 13: I think it's gonna be. It's gonna be exciting, and
• 42:49
  Speaker 13: I feel, yeah, I've been like, guys are giving me
• 42:53
  Speaker 13: some some pressure already, like, what what are we gonna
• 42:56
  Speaker 13: do out there? So at games.
• 42:58
  Speaker 10: We could walk around town the sauna experience, but I mean,
• 43:02
  Speaker 10: so the food is top notch, though I know it's there,
• 43:04
  Speaker 10: but I think actually like one, if I would say
• 43:07
  Speaker 10: one thing, you can do both sauna and a pretty
• 43:10
  Speaker 10: good restaurant.
• 43:11
  Speaker 13: It's called Lowly. I feel that's like I have seen
• 43:15
  Speaker 13: all the other teams been playing there. They've been doing that.
• 43:18
  Speaker 13: That's what I try to, you know, get the whole
• 43:21
  Speaker 13: team over there and get the sauna experience, jump on
• 43:24
  Speaker 13: the on the ocean. I mean, try the salmon soup
• 43:29
  Speaker 13: at the restaurant. You know there's some some finished food.
• 43:31
  Speaker 13: So that's something we're going to do for sure. That's
• 43:34
  Speaker 13: what I try to try to make sure we're gonna
• 43:37
  Speaker 13: get there during the summer. So if I mean that's
• 43:40
  Speaker 13: that's only one. There's a lot of good options, but
• 43:43
  Speaker 13: I mean I was not ready for this question, so
• 43:46
  Speaker 13: that's the only one I give.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: You.
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: Get your mind spinning a little bit here for the summer.
• 43:50
  Speaker 10: Well, a lot to look forward to appreciate your time
• 43:52
  Speaker 10: and to look forward to seeing you once again.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: If you must down the.
• 43:54
  Speaker 13: Rod capod, thank you.
• 43:56
  Speaker 10: That's Copo Coco joining us well one veteran who is
• 43:58
  Speaker 10: signed up here for the next seasons and looking to
• 44:01
  Speaker 10: be a part of turn of the page here to
• 44:03
  Speaker 10: better and brighter days in the standings. That's Jordan Eberley,
• 44:07
  Speaker 10: wrapping up his fifth season with the Kraken, second as
• 44:10
  Speaker 10: captain and enjoying his best goal scoring output in twelve
• 44:14
  Speaker 10: years with a twenty six goal campaign in eighty contests.
• 44:17
  Speaker 10: For this season, it wasn't easy, and Jordan Eberley up
• 44:21
  Speaker 10: for an NHL Award.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: More thoughts here from Everley at clean out day.
• 44:25
  Speaker 10: Jordan, First, I would I want to congratulate you on
• 44:27
  Speaker 10: the nominee for the Mashington Trophy and a lot of
• 44:29
  Speaker 10: people were certainly in your corner for your own story
• 44:31
  Speaker 10: and bouncing back this year. But what was the meaning
• 44:33
  Speaker 10: to get back on the tracks this year after what
• 44:36
  Speaker 10: you had to go through last season?
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's that was an a oh oh oh.
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: I say, this just a rare case and what went on,
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: and I mean I think it it just I mean
• 44:50
  Speaker 8: it motivated me to come back and be stronger. I
• 44:53
  Speaker 8: think that's the biggest thing. And now you know, I
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: have this motivation in my head now of where this
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: team can get to and what I need to do
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: this summer to help that team do that.
• 45:03
  Speaker 10: What was the biggest difference, if there was any, in
• 45:06
  Speaker 10: how you were and how you train, how you played,
• 45:08
  Speaker 10: just based on the nuances that went into the procedure
• 45:11
  Speaker 10: and how you had to bounce back physically.
• 45:13
  Speaker 8: Well, I mean there's just a lot of work that
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: came in, and I think with that work, it just
• 45:18
  Speaker 8: kind of became a natural routine for me. Probably helped me.
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: I think, you know, the segue doesn't kill you, makes stronger,
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: I guess. I mean, you know, there's some moments where
• 45:28
  Speaker 8: I wasn't sure if I was going to come back,
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: and the fact that I did and I was able
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: to have a productive season just makes me want to
• 45:37
  Speaker 8: push it even further.
• 45:38
  Speaker 10: Just like a pitcher without an arm, what's a hockey
• 45:40
  Speaker 10: player without hips?
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah? No, that I mean, I was miserable, was what
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: it was. As a captain.
• 45:47
  Speaker 10: How do you reflect on this last season with the
• 45:49
  Speaker 10: goals that you've set to finish out your career.
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: I think at this stage in my career, I mean,
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: just winning and getting to the postseason is all that
• 45:56
  Speaker 8: really matters, you know. Obviously we put ourselves in it
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: gets before the break, and that'll be kind of the
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: messages today is that, you know, we failed post break
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: and it's trying to figure out why we failed. So,
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: you know, it's a little bit early to start reflecting,
• 46:10
  Speaker 8: even though we've had maybe a week or two to
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: think about it. But I'm sure down the stretch here
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: in the next couple of weeks more will come to light.
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: And you know, the biggest thing for this team is
• 46:21
  Speaker 8: just trying to figure out how to get over that hurdle.
• 46:23
  Speaker 10: We were educated on a potential reset for this team.
• 46:27
  Speaker 10: How deep it goes? As a matter of question that
• 46:29
  Speaker 10: from todd light Wiki about a week and a half ago,
• 46:32
  Speaker 10: and you mentioned players who loved putting on this jersey.
• 46:35
  Speaker 10: It's a parent that you've been one of them here
• 46:37
  Speaker 10: ever since day once. So what does culture mean to
• 46:40
  Speaker 10: you and to this organization and how it can grow
• 46:43
  Speaker 10: and how it can evolve next year?
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you want guys who want to be here.
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: That's simple.
• 46:48
  Speaker 8: You know, if you happy and enjoy the place that
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: you're in, you're generally gonna play better. But yeah, I
• 46:56
  Speaker 8: mean it's it's uh, at the end of the day,
• 47:00
  Speaker 8: this business comes down to winning, and we didn't get
• 47:04
  Speaker 8: the job done. So I'm sure you do an internal
• 47:08
  Speaker 8: assessment from management down and figure out how do we
• 47:11
  Speaker 8: get better?
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: And that's the key is just continue to get better.
• 47:15
  Speaker 10: Yeah, the linemate at points of this season to end
• 47:18
  Speaker 10: the year in Bobby McMahon, who turned plenty aheads of
• 47:21
  Speaker 10: what he can do in shooting the puck and with
• 47:23
  Speaker 10: his speed as well. And you mentioned that you wanted
• 47:25
  Speaker 10: to kind of clear the way as far as management,
• 47:27
  Speaker 10: and I'll put yourself in their shoes here for what
• 47:30
  Speaker 10: might be coming here for him. But what's your best
• 47:33
  Speaker 10: kind of sales pitch to any kind of player who
• 47:36
  Speaker 10: is interested in coming here.
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: I mean just the experience that I've had.
• 47:39
  Speaker 8: It's the fan base amazing, the facilities that we're able
• 47:43
  Speaker 8: to use every day, the scenery in Seattle, I mean,
• 47:49
  Speaker 8: the mountains of the lakes, I mean the vibe here,
• 47:53
  Speaker 8: that just everything. I've just really enjoyed my time here.
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: For me personally, I've had two kids here and you
• 48:00
  Speaker 8: know they've we we call this home now and you know,
• 48:04
  Speaker 8: I couldn't ask for more amenities, more support in the
• 48:10
  Speaker 8: community and the management and the ownership, just everything it's
• 48:13
  Speaker 8: been first class.
• 48:14
  Speaker 10: See you touched on that word amenities. There are teams
• 48:17
  Speaker 10: in this league who maybe not don't have it as
• 48:19
  Speaker 10: good as this team does. And there's one team that
• 48:21
  Speaker 10: doesn't play too far north of here that doesn't even
• 48:24
  Speaker 10: have a practice rink. What difference does it make to
• 48:26
  Speaker 10: have this kind of facility?
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it just makes it a fun place
• 48:30
  Speaker 8: to come to. You have everything to help you, you know,
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: grow your game and become better. And not just that,
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: but I mean our climate Putch is, in my opinion,
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: of the best rink in the league. And the fans,
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: the energy that we create from that building, it's it's
• 48:43
  Speaker 8: it's fun atmosphere playing.
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: So I don't think you can ask for.
• 48:46
  Speaker 11: More on that.
• 48:46
  Speaker 10: Berkeley Capton began this season with this team, ended the
• 48:49
  Speaker 10: season with this team. We saw Yannie Newman and spurts
• 48:52
  Speaker 10: up and down. What separates a young player from entrenchment
• 48:57
  Speaker 10: in this league?
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: As far as what you've wanted over the years, you know,
• 49:02
  Speaker 8: I think just the more that they can play, the
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: experience that they gain, is only going to help them.
• 49:08
  Speaker 8: These kids now they have unbelievable skills that the way
• 49:11
  Speaker 8: that they skate and the way that they handle the
• 49:13
  Speaker 8: puck and shoot the puck.
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: This the key is.
• 49:17
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's a tough league to play, and not
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: many guys, especially at Kat says at least or nineteen
• 49:21
  Speaker 8: year old can step in and you know, be productive.
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: That's rare.
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: But you gain experience, you gain confidence. Then you add
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: all the skills and attroutes behind it. You know that
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: that just grows into a good player. And we're gonna
• 49:34
  Speaker 8: need him writer, you know, all the young guys to
• 49:36
  Speaker 8: take a step in order for us to have success.
• 49:39
  Speaker 10: Your head coach, you two have the Islanders of course
• 49:42
  Speaker 10: in common. But what's Lane Lambert all about? Through one
• 49:45
  Speaker 10: season with him as head coach.
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: You know, he brought exactly what I thought he was
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: gonna bring.
• 49:50
  Speaker 8: You know this, the detail, the attention to detail, His
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: enthusiasm is passion for winning, you know from in my opinion,
• 49:59
  Speaker 8: we we played to that structure for the majority of
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: the year until we didn't and that's when things went south.
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: So you know, I imagine things next year will ramp
• 50:08
  Speaker 8: up even more, and I hope they do. I hope
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: they get harder. I hope they get more difficult, and
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: that just makes us a better team.
• 50:15
  Speaker 10: You're a dad and you're also a veteran NHL player,
• 50:17
  Speaker 10: So what's the summer having store for you?
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: You know, my family gets put on the wayside a
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: little bit during the season, and you know it's a
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: part to you know, just trying to be dedicated to
• 50:28
  Speaker 8: one of my craft too. But you know, I try
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: to spend as much time as I can with them
• 50:32
  Speaker 8: in the summer and be around and be in one
• 50:35
  Speaker 8: place and make up for the time that's lost.
• 50:38
  Speaker 10: How are the kids, and how's your hockey going.
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's good.
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: Everything is good that we Like I said, we enjoy
• 50:43
  Speaker 8: it here, but there's a lot of family back home
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: too that I know they're excited to get back to.
• 50:47
  Speaker 10: Looking forward a couple of more years here at least,
• 50:49
  Speaker 10: and what's ahead of here for the summer and the
• 50:51
  Speaker 10: next year as well. Jordan, always appreciate.
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: You, Thank you, thank you.
• 50:54
  Speaker 10: All right, that's our conversation with Crack and Captain Jordan Eberley,
• 50:57
  Speaker 10: And without further ado, the pathway to change begins right here.
• 51:01
  Speaker 10: In a ten am news conference from GM Jason Bottrell
• 51:04
  Speaker 10: meeting with the media, and here's Bottlerel and his first
• 51:06
  Speaker 10: words since the end of the season.
• 51:08
  Speaker 9: Well, I think the future of the Seattle Kraken is
• 51:11
  Speaker 9: very bright. Bottom line is is we're not where we
• 51:15
  Speaker 9: want to be after five years. It's an important time
• 51:19
  Speaker 9: for our franchise. We have a strong foundation here, but
• 51:25
  Speaker 9: changes need to be made. When I was introduced last
• 51:29
  Speaker 9: year as JM, we are very clear that I would
• 51:33
  Speaker 9: have final say in hockey operations decisions. We may changes
• 51:37
  Speaker 9: on and off the ice, to our players, to our
• 51:40
  Speaker 9: coaches to strengthen this team. When I reflect back on
• 51:44
  Speaker 9: the season, there are moments that I was very proud of.
• 51:49
  Speaker 9: Going ten to five and two in January, playing seventeen
• 51:53
  Speaker 9: games in a month, putting ourselves in a position to
• 51:58
  Speaker 9: be in a playoff spot at the Olympic break and
• 52:02
  Speaker 9: at the trade deadline was something that was a big
• 52:04
  Speaker 9: accomplishment for our group. We talked at the start of
• 52:08
  Speaker 9: the year about wanting to be in the playoff hunt.
• 52:11
  Speaker 9: We were, but ultimately we fell short. I think you
• 52:18
  Speaker 9: saw that with our players last week at the exit
• 52:21
  Speaker 9: meetings and at final interviews. There was disappointment. There was frustration.
• 52:27
  Speaker 9: At the end of the day, not making the playoffs
• 52:29
  Speaker 9: was a missed opportunity, especially for our division this year.
• 52:35
  Speaker 9: Looking ahead, we will be very aggressive in finding ways
• 52:39
  Speaker 9: to improve this team. We'll focus on players that can
• 52:44
  Speaker 9: help and help our team play to lane standard, a
• 52:48
  Speaker 9: team that plays with speed, that attacks and competes every night.
• 52:54
  Speaker 9: We'll look at the free agent market, but that can't
• 52:57
  Speaker 9: be our only avenue. We'll value trades and we'll find
• 53:02
  Speaker 9: creative ways of continuing to developing our young players next steps.
• 53:07
  Speaker 9: We've always spoken to all of our players through exit meetings.
• 53:11
  Speaker 9: We have begun internal discussions as an organization building towards
• 53:15
  Speaker 9: next year. Todd will update you guys here in a
• 53:19
  Speaker 9: couple of minutes just on where the audit review is
• 53:22
  Speaker 9: and we plan to leverage those ideas and those suggestions
• 53:25
  Speaker 9: in the upcoming months. I'll hand it to Todd and
• 53:28
  Speaker 9: they certainly look forward to answering your questions.
• 53:31
  Speaker 12: So that my comments at the press conference about a
• 53:36
  Speaker 12: week and a half ago definitely drew some interest, and
• 53:39
  Speaker 12: I'm happy to expand upon that. But you know, it's
• 53:44
  Speaker 12: we're five years into it, and it's totally appropriate to
• 53:46
  Speaker 12: stand back and lay fresh eyes on this. But it's
• 53:50
  Speaker 12: it's not just an outsider, an outside group or a
• 53:53
  Speaker 12: person that's going to help us do that over the
• 53:57
  Speaker 12: last number of days, our owner has literally met with
• 53:59
  Speaker 12: our team captains are coaches. And the positive thing about
• 54:04
  Speaker 12: that is the guy to my left here supports that
• 54:09
  Speaker 12: he's not threatened by the process. He's embracing it, and
• 54:13
  Speaker 12: we will do an audit. We're talking to multiple people
• 54:17
  Speaker 12: about their potential fit to help lead that. We've had
• 54:21
  Speaker 12: inbound calls from other enterprises, and we're going to get
• 54:26
  Speaker 12: it right. There's no timeline to necessarily finish it, there's
• 54:31
  Speaker 12: no timeline to officially commence it, but in fact it's
• 54:33
  Speaker 12: already begun and we have an owner who's deeply committed
• 54:37
  Speaker 12: to winning, and she came away I think from her
• 54:42
  Speaker 12: discussions with the captains and the coaches, and she's got
• 54:46
  Speaker 12: a clear vision that there's something great to be built
• 54:49
  Speaker 12: on here. But we still have work to do, and
• 54:52
  Speaker 12: so I'm happy to answer questions on that. I'll let
• 54:54
  Speaker 12: you finish your remarks, and if there's other questions I
• 54:57
  Speaker 12: can answer on that, I'm happy to do it.
• 55:00
  Speaker 10: Glory questions, Jason Todd, thank you very much for doing
• 55:07
  Speaker 10: this here today. And first off, Lane Lambert said that
• 55:10
  Speaker 10: he'd be working with you kind of with the changes
• 55:13
  Speaker 10: maybe coming here to this roster potentially. So we've heard
• 55:16
  Speaker 10: from the team about this with you know how quiet
• 55:18
  Speaker 10: the locker room was at some points from this past season.
• 55:22
  Speaker 10: So how much is culture going to be a part
• 55:23
  Speaker 10: of the conversation with how this roster is potentially turned
• 55:26
  Speaker 10: over for this next year.
• 55:28
  Speaker 9: Well, I think it's always You're always working on your culture,
• 55:30
  Speaker 9: You're always building on that. First off, I've enjoyed my
• 55:34
  Speaker 9: conversations with Lane two at the season, and I'm certainly
• 55:36
  Speaker 9: looking forward to We got coaches meetings this week assessing
• 55:40
  Speaker 9: our entire group, and obviously culture is going to be
• 55:43
  Speaker 9: a big part of it. I think it's always a
• 55:46
  Speaker 9: unique mix. We were proud of our culture because we
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: have players who want to be here. You look at
• 55:51
  Speaker 9: our track record of resigning players who have come to
• 55:54
  Speaker 9: our organization. It's, you know, whether you go Jordan Eberly
• 55:57
  Speaker 9: this year, Matty Benier's accord, players come here and they
• 56:01
  Speaker 9: want to stay here. I think, you know, we have
• 56:05
  Speaker 9: young players coming up through our system. I'm proud of
• 56:08
  Speaker 9: our young players. They're very determined individuals to get to
• 56:13
  Speaker 9: this NHL standard at such a young age. I think
• 56:16
  Speaker 9: we utilized I want to say we utilize seven players
• 56:20
  Speaker 9: under the age of twenty three after the trade deadline,
• 56:22
  Speaker 9: and that's great experience for them, but it's it's you
• 56:26
  Speaker 9: saw the intensity down the stretch. You saw the intensity
• 56:30
  Speaker 9: of playoff hockey the last couple of days. Like, it's
• 56:33
  Speaker 9: an experience for some of our younger players going through that,
• 56:37
  Speaker 9: letting sort of mentoring them, teaching them that at is
• 56:42
  Speaker 9: a big part of our future and what we have
• 56:44
  Speaker 9: to do from a hockey office standpoint and a coaching
• 56:47
  Speaker 9: standpoint for our younger players. Same thing within culture, like
• 56:50
  Speaker 9: we have to continue to help matt Emniirs continue to
• 56:52
  Speaker 9: become a better leader. We have good human beings, good
• 56:55
  Speaker 9: people in our locker room, but when they go through adversity,
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: we have to find different ways of helping them through
• 57:02
  Speaker 9: that process.
• 57:03
  Speaker 10: Frad market, we've heard about cap space that you can
• 57:06
  Speaker 10: weaponize the picks that are available out there. Do you
• 57:09
  Speaker 10: think that also prospects and young players are a resource
• 57:11
  Speaker 10: that you can deal from here with this or is
• 57:13
  Speaker 10: that kind of like a handsoft thing?
• 57:14
  Speaker 9: You think, no, one hundred percent there. We'll look at
• 57:17
  Speaker 9: every way to utilize our players to improve our hockey team.
• 57:21
  Speaker 9: It's putting them into different places and positions honor a
• 57:24
  Speaker 9: national Hockeyleague team, or if it's something that can help
• 57:27
  Speaker 9: us get more established players, we'll certainly look at it
• 57:30
  Speaker 9: the exciting thing where we are now moving towards here
• 57:33
  Speaker 9: now and then the next phase in an organization. These
• 57:36
  Speaker 9: players are finally ready. I know maybe our fans and
• 57:38
  Speaker 9: people are tired of talking about prospects, but you just
• 57:41
  Speaker 9: look at this year like we finally had from our
• 57:44
  Speaker 9: first draft, you know, Winterton and mlantson coming in and
• 57:49
  Speaker 9: being regulars in the National Hockey League. You look at
• 57:51
  Speaker 9: the twenty two draft, you know, players such as Yanni
• 57:54
  Speaker 9: Furcus on the defense end, jug Natan Nelson, they're finally
• 57:58
  Speaker 9: getting into position where they're to play. Unfortunately, we're not
• 58:01
  Speaker 9: the NFL. It's you know, this week the people are
• 58:03
  Speaker 9: players are gonna be drafted. They'll be in the in
• 58:05
  Speaker 9: the NFL next week. It takes a longer process for
• 58:08
  Speaker 9: these players to come through. What gets us excited is
• 58:11
  Speaker 9: they're now pushing knocking down the door to play national
• 58:13
  Speaker 9: hockey games. It's not just sort of oh, down the
• 58:16
  Speaker 9: road three or four years. They're ready to play now.
• 58:19
  Speaker 14: Flat cap era presented its own unique challenges now that
• 58:22
  Speaker 14: the CAP's kind of going up and teams going to
• 58:24
  Speaker 14: afford to kind of keep their stars if they want to.
• 58:26
  Speaker 14: What do you see as being the big challenge and
• 58:29
  Speaker 14: trying to go get frontline pieces with the way the
• 58:33
  Speaker 14: player kind of management's going with the cap and everything
• 58:35
  Speaker 14: at this point in time.
• 58:36
  Speaker 9: No, I think that's you know right there, it's one
• 58:39
  Speaker 9: of the big challenges moving forward here. Now there is
• 58:42
  Speaker 9: a lot more cap space available in the market. I
• 58:45
  Speaker 9: think you're gonna have a lot more budget teams than
• 58:46
  Speaker 9: just pure cap teams now, So those are the things
• 58:49
  Speaker 9: to certainly focus in on as possible trade partners there.
• 58:52
  Speaker 9: But I think you're just even seeing it with this
• 58:54
  Speaker 9: free agent market this year. Will continue to be aggressive there,
• 58:57
  Speaker 9: but it's it's there's not a plethora of players out there,
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: certainly high end players, because teams have just had the
• 59:03
  Speaker 9: cap space to certainly resign their own guys. So I
• 59:06
  Speaker 9: think it just goes to show you the importance of
• 59:08
  Speaker 9: drafting and development. And then also too that I just
• 59:12
  Speaker 9: added is like, you know, it's finding the right trade
• 59:14
  Speaker 9: partners to make hockey deals, and that's where we'll certainly
• 59:17
  Speaker 9: be aggressive on with.
• 59:18
  Speaker 11: That in mind.
• 59:19
  Speaker 14: How big a priority is it to try to keep
• 59:21
  Speaker 14: Bobby McMahon here. Then, given given that and the fact
• 59:24
  Speaker 14: that he's been here and Ben shown he can be
• 59:25
  Speaker 14: a scorer for you, and how does he kind of
• 59:27
  Speaker 14: affect during too your plans here?
• 59:29
  Speaker 9: You know, look, as we said before, we were very
• 59:31
  Speaker 9: happy of getting Bobby. You know, he he's certainly delivered
• 59:35
  Speaker 9: what we wanted to from that perspective. You know, we
• 59:39
  Speaker 9: also saw off the ice, just our interaction with Bobby,
• 59:41
  Speaker 9: he's very serious about his craft, about continuing to improve
• 59:46
  Speaker 9: his game. I think he certainly enjoyed working with our
• 59:49
  Speaker 9: coaching staff and our development staff on just his own game.
• 59:52
  Speaker 9: From that standpoint, you know, he fit for for someone
• 59:56
  Speaker 9: who just came in recently, sticking around with our team
• 59:59
  Speaker 9: for a little bit to around the area to get
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 9: to know a little bit more. We clearly going to
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 9: stand Bobby's going to have options as we move forward here.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 9: We've been in touch with his agents. We'll certainly keep
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 9: those dialogues going on to see if we can get
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 9: a fit.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 15: Your question about the audit you mentioned earlier, just touching
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 15: on it a little bit as much as you can,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 15: what exactly does that look like in terms of working
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 15: with an entity and individual. How much can you divulge
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 15: about where you guys stand on the audit of getting
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 15: that started.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and so you know it's we've we're talking to
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 12: a number of individuals. There are a couple of firms
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 12: that have we're considering will work. They will work shoulder
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 12: to shoulder with Jason, which is a terrific thing. He's
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 12: not threatened by it. He's encouraging it. The report will
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 12: land on the owner's desk, and it's really not going
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 12: to look at just near term. It's going to say what,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 12: over the course of the five years have we done well?
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: What are our core.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 12: Competencies, and what are the things we can improve upon.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 12: We have some suspicions as what those opportunities are going
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 12: to be to get better, But it's really a cool
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 12: thing that the owner and our hockey organization want to
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 12: lay fresh eyes on this to not only validate what
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 12: we think, but also potentially uncover things that might be
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 12: sources of opportunity to fix, but also sources of strength
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 12: that we haven't fully accounted for. So it's going to
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 12: be a busy offseason and you know that's ongoing right now.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 15: Or something you mentioned your previous experience with plenty of
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 15: other sports franchises. Is this something that you've engaged in
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 15: with some of those other teams or where did this
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 15: kind of company.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 12: Has And you know, I've walked into some challenging situations.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 12: You know, I've yet to get hired somewhere where everything
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 12: was running perfectly. And you know this, this situation for
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 12: the last eight years has had as great a challenges
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 12: as I've ever had in my career. But there were
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 12: challenges the Seahawks, or we're certainly challenges with the Tampa
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 12: Bay Lightning, and you know, occasionally periodically getting fresh perspectives
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 12: is super helpful, and.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 11: That's what we're going to do there.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 16: We talked a bit about some of the prospects you
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 16: already have in the organization, some of the constraints you're under.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 16: But this offseason, based on what you see this this
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 16: is for Jason, based on what you think this team needs.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 16: What is on your wish list my.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 6: Biggest wish list.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 9: Obviously We've talked about looking at everything available, like, look,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 9: when you don't make the playoffs, you have to look
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 9: at everything that's out there. But to me, the biggest
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 9: thing is just changing your a mix. From a forward standpoint,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 9: we're excited about some of the younger players coming in,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 9: but we don't we obviously understand that young players can't
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 9: step into top line roles right off the bat. If
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 9: we can find a mix of you know, adding a
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 9: player or two that have more of a track record
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 9: of producing the National Hockey League also too, you know,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 9: we know exactly how Lane wants to play, play with
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 9: a lot of assertiveness, aggression, speed. If we can, can
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 9: you find players that are going to willing to go
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 9: the net and just create more chances there And I
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 9: think that those are the biggest things that we'll be
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 9: focused on.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 10: Jason, moving forward, what do you consider the strongest part
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 10: of your sales pitch to potential free agents or guys
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 10: who maybe you are thinking about coming here via trade.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 9: Well, I think it's just things that Todd touched on already.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 9: You talk about our ownership, any resources that we want,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 9: we have here, our facilities, you know, and just what
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 9: we have coming you know.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 13: It's it's it's exciting.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 9: I think the growth of our young players, having these players,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 9: having these not only I think what you're seeing right now,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 9: it's not just first round picks who are coming in
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 9: dur a mix such as Shane Wright or Mandy Benier's
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 9: or Berkeley Caton and eventually Jcobrien. You know, it's a
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 9: situation of like Jacob Allanson being I want to say,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 9: a fifth round pick, it's Ryan Winterton a third round pick,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 9: like we have them coming, and I think that gets
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 9: you know, people excited and stuff about here. But at
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 9: the end of the day, I think NHL players they
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 9: want a path of where this team's going, but they
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 9: also want to look at.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 13: A what do we have right now?
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 9: And I think it's an amazing balance that our players
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 9: have here, and I know they've talked about it. It's
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 9: there's a passion level in Climate Plage Arena that they
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 9: absolutely love right and when we give them a reason
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 9: to cheer, they're cheering really loudly and have a lot
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 9: of intensity. And then there's an ability for them to
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 9: live their lives outside of it. There there's you know,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 9: they can get away. They can be fifteen to twenty
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 9: minutes away from our facilities and they feel that they're
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 9: on a beautiful lake or just removed from it all.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 9: And that balance, I think is something that a lot
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 9: of our you know NHL players appreciate.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 10: All right a lot to unpack those words again from
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 10: Cracking GM Jason Botterrell meeting with the media. By the way,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 10: full news conference podcasted via the Crack and Audio Network
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 10: on the iheartrate app in case you want to access
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 10: that a little bit deeper. This also leads us here
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 10: to our final pull question of the week here for
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 10: the season on crack and Weekly. What do you think
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 10: aggressive retool? Are you looking to rebuild here with the
• 1:05:14
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• 1:05:18
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• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: Plus Everett.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 10: Now we all react here to Jason Botteroll's words from
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 10: earlier today up next right here on Cracking Weekly on
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 10: ninety three three KJRFM. Before we get to that, let's
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 10: check in with our radio friends. Of course, you know
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 10: him as the mayor of Maple Valley. Ian Farness heard
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 10: one to three also weekdays on ninety three to three KJRFM.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 10: Great chat by the way, he had with Jason Botterol.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 10: For the full length of that. You can cash that,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 10: by the way at the Ian Fornest Show podcast at
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 10: the iHeartRadio app. But take a listen here with more
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 10: of that, Ian and Jason Botterol dove into with Berkeley
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 10: Catton the situation surrounding a possible Bobby McMahon extension and
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 10: the word aggressive. What does aggressive mean here for this
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 10: kind of an off season, you're Jason Botterrel heard earlier
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 10: today on the Ian for Nest Show.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: I think it goes without saying.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 17: I'd be a fool to say that Bobby McMahon wouldn't
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 17: be a high priority for the offseason. He's gonna have
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 17: a market.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 13: We all know that.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 17: Having a conversation with him sitting in that same chair
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 17: last week, he sounded really plausitivebout Seattle. I think he's
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 17: on a golf trip with a bunch of guys right now.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 17: I think Cale Flurry, I think is in charge of
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 17: recruitment right now. Given him some strokes or however it's
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 17: gonna work out. But is there a chance you could
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 17: get him done if he does want to stay before
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 17: the draft or before the free agency. Do you think
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 17: that's gonna go all the way into July?
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 9: Look, it's something in there. We've stayed in touch with
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 9: his agent and communication. It's and from our standpoint was
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 9: a great fit. I think from Bobby's standpoint, was a
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 9: great fit to Just the fact that he's sticking around
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 9: a little bit longer, I think is a good sign.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 6: From that bit.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 9: Look, he's worked hard to he's a player that's gone
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 9: from the EHL to the HL to the HL. It's
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 9: a great story behind the scenes with us. It was
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 9: great to see just his professional how he's always working
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 9: on his craft too, and just getting to know him
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 9: a little bit more. I think he think the fact
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 9: that he had a relationship with Lane from Toronto last
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 9: year was very helpful in making the mix. The connection
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 9: over here got to play a little bit more than
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 9: and had a bigger role here than in Toronto and
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 9: stuff too, So I felt it went very well. Just
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 9: his interaction with our organization, interaction with the city, the
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 9: fact that he's staying around a little bit longer too,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 9: just to see the environment is a good sign. And
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 9: you know, this is where we'll have to push things
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 9: with this agent for sure. At the end of the day.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 9: You know he's gonna have options. This is a unique
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 9: environment for him from that standpoint. But no, we were
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 9: we were glad to get him at the trade deadline,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 9: and uh no, we would certainly do that over again
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 9: for sure.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 17: Uh and Boss, before I let you go, I just
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 17: kind of look at the the overall off season. There's
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 17: going to be changes. It's that's just the way the
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 17: NHL works. Yeap, what's the easiest that's the wrong word.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 17: What's the best way to do it? And you kind
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 17: of alluded to this in the news conference, but I
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 17: mean it's like, hey, go out, everyone's got salary cap
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 17: room right attracting free agents and you can address it
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 17: if it's challenge here or not. You talked to Stevenson
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 17: and Monty and guys like that. Ebbs are stuck around.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 17: It feels like if you get people here, you're good.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 17: It's just like trying to convince them that it's not
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 17: somewhere out in Alaska or something like that. And but
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 17: what's the eat what's the best way to try to
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 17: build that? And add to what you just said earlier, Yep,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 17: there's a foundation. How do you add to that?
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 9: So from a free agent market, we'll certainly be engaged
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 9: with them. But you just look at it right like
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 9: it's a it's not a monster year this year because
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 9: of the extra cap space and that cap continue to
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 9: go up most teams have already signed their players, So
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 9: are we going to be engaged? Are we going to
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 9: be looking at that, Yes, but it can't be your
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 9: only model in improving your team. I think the bigger
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 9: area is continuing to find creative ways of developing our
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 9: own players.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 13: That's what we're on too.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 9: And hey, it's the trade market.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 6: I think that's the way to go it.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 9: Looking at different teams that hey are in similar boat,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 9: tusts that maybe just missed the playoffs or wanted to
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 9: make adjustments to their group. That's what you have to
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 9: focus in on and stuff a lot.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 17: So the word aggressive off season has been used a lot.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 17: So aggressive probably means whether it's you said earlier yep, No,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 17: I mean this is you're open for business right like
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 17: like you know, or would you be open to trading
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 17: young guys? I think you said yes, a ton of
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 17: draft picks as equity and that's probably a really good
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 17: place to be, right. So to find aggressive offseason.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 9: Hey, it's it's our team has to take a step
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 9: next year, right and we have to continue to go
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 9: from there. We're going to make changes from that bit
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 9: and we're going to be involved in look trade discussions
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 9: are always interesting. Sometimes it happens right away, sometimes it
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 9: takes time, and I can't sit here and say that's
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 9: going to happen on you know, June fifteenth, or June
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 9: twenty fifth or July fifteenth, But I can just assure
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 9: you that, you know, throughout the summer, throughout the fall,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 9: we're going to be aggressive and trying to add to
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 9: our group, parent and stuff from that standpoint, because we
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 9: have pieces that we're very proud about. We're excited about
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 9: some of these pieces, how much they want to be
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 9: here in Seattle and their growth. Now, it's imperative that
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 9: we find some pieces to support them, to help them
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 9: and take the next step next year.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 17: And I know that there's discussions taking place with assistant coaches,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 17: so that's still up in the air, right with it
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 17: with Lane's staff that Lane is back, correct.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 9: Yes, I've enjoyed working with Lane. It's as I said
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 9: in my press conference, he came as advertised, was very
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 9: direct with our players, brought the intensity, brought accountability, brought
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 9: structure to our group, which I like to see. And hey, look,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 9: I enjoyed having that partnership with him. Over the next
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 9: couple of weeks here his staff, our players will continue
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 9: to those that dialogue then roll into pro scutting meetings
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 9: and amateur scouted meetings and then obviously the combine at
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 9: the end of May.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 10: Starters June all right, reaction from GM Jason botterrel and
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 10: his news conference coming up here back here on Cracking Weekly,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 10: last one for the entire season. Mike Benton Everett fits you,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 10: Al Kaniski and our poll question once again this offseason,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 10: fifty nine percent of you say retool through trades and
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 10: the free agency market.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: Once again.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 10: That poll still ongoing right now at Cracking Audio Net
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 10: without further ado. It's time to react ever written now
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 10: joining us right now here before we get out. And
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 10: I think if there is one theme that we look
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 10: at from this is that there are three words that
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 10: come to mind, and it's wake up call because we've
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 10: gone through five seasons, four times here missing the Stanley
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 10: Cup playoffs. And I think for me, the big thing
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 10: is you can easily look at the merits of trying
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 10: to rebuild tear this whole thing down, but playoffs have
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 10: always been a part of the conversation, and from off
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 10: the bat, I think that was what was answered first
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 10: and foremost the trade component of this.
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  Speaker 5: The biggest challenge.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 10: Will not be to add through free agency, because there's
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 10: just not much out there. The biggest key is going
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 10: to be getting Bobby McMahon locked up asap and then
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 10: finding whatever you can get via trade.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 5: And I would even go this far to even.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 10: Say, or there may be trade conversations from this last season,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 10: well watch out.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 5: Those could maybe spill over from last year into maybe
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: June and July.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the big thing that I was left
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: with this press conference was it was hope and it
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: was one of those It didn't feel like lip service.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: It felt like there was a genuine sense, if I
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: can say this, of anger, of pissed offness, of like, hey,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: this is not good enough. And it was very upfront,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: It was very open. I felt that Jason and Todd
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: were both vulnerable in some areas as well, which I
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: think is always good as far as transparency say goes.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: But I think, you know, for like, like you said, Mike,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: free agencies off the table. I think when you look
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: at Bobby McMahon, you look at Alex Tuck. For me,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: those are your two free agency whales. You know, Alan
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: and I were talking about maybe even a Patrick Kane.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: You're bringing a guy like that to work with, you know,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: a Berkeley Cat and a skilled guy like that. But
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: there really isn't going to be that difference maker in
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: the freegency class this year. So you're looking at trades,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: you're looking at those relationships that you've built over your career,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: and I think with in that regard, I mean, I've
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: said this before, there are going to be some uncomfortable
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: and unpopular moves that are going to be made, whether
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: that's going to be for rostered players, whether that's going
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: to be for prospects that you've grown attached attached to. Obviously,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: you've got your four firsts and what is it, twelve
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: overall picks in the first two or three rounds in
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: the next three drafts two or three drafts, so you
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: have a lots of play with here, but they got
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: to play with it. I mean, I remember going into
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: the draft last summer, I said, man, I really don't
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: know if the Kraken should come home with all ten
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: of their picks selected. And they did, but no, I
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: was left feeling optimistic and hopeful and this feeling of like,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: all right, everyone from the top down is now openly
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: you know, this isn't good enough and we're going to
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: fix it.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think that one of the words that to me,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: you know, every time we talk and we talk about
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 4: what was missing or what's needed for next season, it's
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 4: nice to hear some of that repeated in conversations like this.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 4: And the word that was repeated that I liked was
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: consistency and play. I think that was a big issue
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: over the course of this eighty two game schedule, where
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: it was just too many ups and downs in the
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: in the winning and losing, and I think that's something
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 4: that Jason Botrell talked about wanting to fix a little bit.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 11: How do you fix that?
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 4: He mentioned offense, This team still needs more offense. I
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: think he talked about the young players as well, specifically
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 4: Berkeley cat and the steps forward he made this season
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 4: and they're looking for more from him. I liked how
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 4: we talked about leadership that we may not always see it,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 4: but Matty Veneers is starting to get engaged more with
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 4: leadership responsibility. While Jordan Ebley was extended for two more years,
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: you can see that development continuing. So a lot of
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: bright spots there. A little bit about goaltending as well,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: you know, Joey to coord maybe had a little bit
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 4: of a step back. I think Philip Gruenbauber maybe a
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: step forward. I'm hoping to see that this goaltending thing
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: next season can also be consistent for a games.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 10: It was said that this audit is already underway right
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 10: now and it's going to take several days. I think
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 10: where this maybe leads us is to question, where are
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 10: your priorities with scouting, Where are your priorities with developing
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 10: the nutrition, the fitness aspect. These are all around the
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 10: edge of stuff, but it's all going to come into
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 10: play ultimately, it's going to come right back to roster building.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 10: And I thought this is why the question was so
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 10: important at the end of the news conference, what is
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 10: your number one sales pitch to free agents to come
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 10: here or get guys to wave There are no trade
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 10: clauses to come here, because a matter of fact is
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 10: you don't have any Stanley Cup banners hanging up right
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 10: now in the rafters. You don't have necessarily the weather
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 10: that say Los Angeles or San Jose or Florida can offer.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 5: Now, there are different lifestyle things that come into play,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 5: but I think what you have to do.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 10: Is that going to back to what Jason Botteril said,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 10: You have to sell where you will work, and you
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 10: have to sell the most appealing parts of where you
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 10: will live in this area.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 5: Money, I think also will play a big factor too.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: I also think you're selling the idea that this is
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: still a fairly new franchise. Yes, you're five years in.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: There's been some missteps, but at the end of the day,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: you have the opportunity to be a foundational piece of
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: an NHL franchise, which is something that you don't hear
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: a lot about.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: You know, you go to you go to Vegas, Jonathan Marcia,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: so Marc Andre Fleury, They're going to be foundational pieces
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: in the When they unearthed the Vegas Golden Knights time
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: capsule in fifty years, those are the guys that are
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: gonna pop out of that time capsule. William Carlson, Riley Smith,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: players like that. When you look at the Seattle Kraken,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be Jordan Eberley, it's going to be Matt Epeneers,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: it's going to be you know, Philip Grubauer for his
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: play in the playoffs, Adam Larsen as of right now
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: has only missed one ever Seattle Craken game, and that
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: was due to the birth of his daughter. You have
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to be a foundational piece of this organization
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: like that is a legacy building opportunity, and I think
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: that there are some players out there, maybe on the
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: younger side, who are looking for that opportunity.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: I like at Jereed McCann.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: I'll never forget Jarreed McCann's press conference in Toronto when
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: he signed that five year deal and his sentiment was,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: I can unpack all my boxes. I can buy a house,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: I can set down roots, I can get married and
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: maybe have kids. And Jordan everly what all three of
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: his kids or three of his four kids were born
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: here in Seattle, Right, These are things that I think
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: you can't undervalue and you can't underestimate. So, yeah, you're
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: selling the most beautiful arena in the world, you're selling
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: the best practice rink in the world. But you're also
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: for family, You're selling the idea, and you're selling the
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: opportunity that you can put roots down here and you
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: can be a part of bringing a championship back.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 11: To the city.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that you know, whether it was intentionally
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: humorous or not. The Travel and Leisure article about the settle,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 4: I thought that was interesting.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 11: Looked it up. It's correct, look it up.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 4: I like the fact that they talked about things they
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 4: can do outside of hockey here very easily listen. This
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 4: isn't Toronto, this isn't the New York Rangers. There isn't
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 4: that pressure, and I think some players play better under
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 4: that lower amount of pressure. So when you're looking at
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 4: free agencies, heck, when you're looking at the draft, you'd
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 4: like to try and thuss that.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 11: Out about a player.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 4: Can they perform in a high, high pressure environment like
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: those cities I mentioned, or would they be you know,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 4: more evident it would be more advantageous for them to
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 4: be in a place like Seattle. So I was a
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 4: great question, Mike. I I like the answer that they gave,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 4: and I think I could add a few.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 10: More reactions here from Twitter and X. First off, from
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 10: just Custin, coaching is not the problem. Just leave that
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 10: alone and need to get better as far as outing.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 10: Find a fifty goal score as well, other wingers who
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 10: will gel with the centers that we have. And you've
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 10: got to figure out chemistry, find a couple of big,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 10: bad defensemen.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 5: We have big, but we need the bad.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 10: That from just Custen at Twitter and ex Kevin saying
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 10: number one priority, re sign Bobby McMahon. Secondly, make a
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 10: splash and sign a top line or a second line scorer.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 10: And then Mike on Twitter and next saying, just too
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 10: many average players, big cap pets fours need an overhaul.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 10: I transition that into this question before we get to
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 10: not our three stars, but our MVP of the season.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 10: The question bears the UFAs if they all move on
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 10: exception Jordan Ebery, surprise or not surprised.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: I would not be surprised. I think, you know, this
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: is what I was talking about. You're gonna have to
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: make some unpopular decisions. This is now year five, going
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: into year six. I think you're transitioning from that first
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: generation of Krack and hockey onto the next. And two
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: things can be true. They you know, the ever livelies resigned.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: So now you look at Schwartz, you look at Tolvenen,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: you look at Alexiak Matt Murray. You know, three of
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: the four guys have been here essentially since year one.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: They've been a part of this. You know it can
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: very much. Be thank you for your service. You have been,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: you know, instrumental in helping us establish this organization, this culture.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: But you know what, it's time for us to move
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: on in a different direction. I just mentioned Vegas. Vegas
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: did the same thing. How many players are on their
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: roster now that we're there year one when they went
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: to the cup final. So I would be surprised if
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: all four of them, or if the four came back,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: but especially the three that had been here the longest.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: I think they probably may want to change the scenery,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: and maybe the organization may want to change that voice
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting you mentioned they might want to change
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 4: scenery because I think that's an important part of the process,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 4: which is trying to understand what's important to the player
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 4: going forward. It's one thing to say that, hey, your
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 4: services are no longer required here and you go out
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 4: and maybe get something or let them go whatever, But
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 4: you also want to know does the player want to
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: be here in Seattle playing for this organization, because you
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 4: don't want to waste a roster spot on someone that
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: doesn't have that mindset. So that's an important part of
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 4: the step two.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 10: I think Also, what was so important was hearing Todd
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 10: Leiwicki about a couple of weeks ago mentioning most players
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 10: who are proud to wear this jersey. This is where
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 10: Rubbert meets the road to find out your commitment level,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 10: your decision level too buy in, and sometimes players just
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 10: may want to move on. That's okay, that's the NHL.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 10: It is kind of a mercenary type of business here,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 10: so to me, ultimately, I would not be shocked to
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 10: see a lot of these players move on. The Hens
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 10: from Jason Botterol, the tea leaves here from Jason Botterol
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 10: back in this press conference said Ford is where we
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 10: have to get better. But it's pretty clear they want
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 10: to make room here for a lot of the younger guys.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 10: Berkeley Catton's one of them, Jacob Allanson's one of them,
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 10: and less they move on here via trade. You've got
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 10: to find a way to build around players like those,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 10: especially with stronger support for those like say Matty Beniers,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 10: who if you move him down as an example to
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 10: the two c you're in pretty good position before we
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 10: get out not our three stars, but our MVP of
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 10: the season.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 5: I will go first to me.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 10: I'm gonna go with Philip Grubauer. As we heard, he
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 10: was the turnaround story of the season for this franchise.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 10: It was apparent the structure that was put in place
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 10: for him with Lane Lambert working with Colin Zulianello, flipped
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  Speaker 10: the switch and he dipped right back into the fountain
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  Speaker 10: of youth and had his best numbers since his days
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  Speaker 10: with Colorado and before the Olympic break, he was the
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  Speaker 10: third best goalie in the NHL in say percentage at
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  Speaker 10: nine to one six, A bit of a step back,
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  Speaker 10: but not too much after that. When the Kraken hit
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  Speaker 10: their slide at nine oh nine, it was pretty clear
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  Speaker 10: the more and more he played, the more and more
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  Speaker 10: Philip Grubauer was helping keep the Kraken in games, sometimes
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  Speaker 10: even win games for him, and the soft goals that
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  Speaker 10: we maybe saw as compared to the last few years
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  Speaker 10: were much more few and far between. I gotta look
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  Speaker 10: at this, like you, guys up close, what a professional
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  Speaker 10: Philip grew Bauer to me, my team MVP.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm not gonna go most Valuable Player MVP.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go most Valuable Person MVP, and that's Lane Lambert.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to be able to squeeze everything that he
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  Speaker 1: did out of this roster, a roster that did not
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  Speaker 1: have the superstar power, a roster that did not score
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  Speaker 1: a ton of goals to be in a playoff spot
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred and seventeen eighteen days this year, given
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  Speaker 1: everything that they had, the intensity, he got the buy
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  Speaker 1: in from everyone. You had vets like Jordan Eberley, and
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  Speaker 1: you had youngins like Berkeley Catton and everybody in between,
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  Speaker 1: all rowing and steering in the same direction. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we've said this all year long. Coaching was never
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  Speaker 1: the problem with this team. So Lane Lambert my MVP
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  Speaker 1: Most Valuable Person of the season.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I love that answer.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna go the easier route, point out Jordan
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  Speaker 4: Everly at the top of the points list. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: go second down Matty Benier's fifty points second on the list.
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  Speaker 4: I think that Maddy Beaniers took a very positive step
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  Speaker 4: forward this season. We talked a lot about Maddi E.
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  Speaker 11: Beaniers.
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  Speaker 1: We're probably a little hard.
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  Speaker 4: On him last season, but I think that he took
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  Speaker 4: a big step past where he was last season and
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  Speaker 4: then some to show us that he can be that
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  Speaker 4: leader of tomorrow. He can be that points leader on
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  Speaker 4: this team. He can be that captain down the road.
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  Speaker 4: His defensive game developed this year as well. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna go Matt Evaniers my MVP.
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  Speaker 10: All right, this is gonna be fun to look at,
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  Speaker 10: fellows where this page turns here for the future, for
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  Speaker 10: for those involved with our radio operations for this last
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  Speaker 10: season as well from the team side here from the
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