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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Reactions from Dallas, Kakko's place in the lineup (2/26) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: We start this episode here on Cracking This Morning. On
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Speaker 1: very somber terms. Jim Gordon, known to those around the
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Speaker 1: hockey circles affectionately as Boomer, was a longtime host and
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Speaker 1: producer at SiriusXM NHL Network Radio. A very infectious personality.
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Speaker 1: He knew how to relate to new listeners, longtime listeners,
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Speaker 1: old time hockey fans, new hockey fans as well across
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Speaker 1: some belt regions, also with a terrific spin on the
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Speaker 1: fantasy side here which made his most recent show the
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Speaker 1: point Appointment Listening on Sirius XM NHL Network Radio. We
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Speaker 1: are sad to learn that Jim Gordon past Monday after
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Speaker 1: a bout with cancer. He was fifty five years of age.
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Speaker 1: Our condolences to friends, family, and loved ones of the
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Speaker 1: late Jim Boomer Gordon.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cracking This Morning, a presentation of the Krakin
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Speaker 2: Audio Network, Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.
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Speaker 2: Here's Mike Benton.
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Speaker 1: Second game of to back coming up here for the
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Speaker 1: Seattle Kraken, who take on the Saint Louis Blues in
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Speaker 1: the second and final trip to Enterprise Center for this season. Again,
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Speaker 1: Mike vent with you for Cracking this morning on a Thursday,
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Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of February. The Cracking trying to bounce
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Speaker 1: back from a four to one loss last evening in Dallas.
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Speaker 1: We'll hear remarks from head coach Lane Lambert in just
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Speaker 1: a bit, plus also catch up for more contact with
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Speaker 1: Darren Brown of NHL dot Com and Sound of Hockey,
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Speaker 1: including the loss of Ryan Lyndgren mid game last night,
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Speaker 1: potentially Cafocaco's return to the lineup with the Kraken facing
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Speaker 1: Saint Louis, and much more with Darren Brown joining us
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Speaker 1: very very shortly, not exactly the start of the Kraken
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Speaker 1: envision last night at American Airlines Center, and after a
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Speaker 1: big hit that Lynn Gren laid on Colin Blackwell early
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Speaker 1: in period one, both players ushered off end of the
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Speaker 1: tunnel toward their dressing rooms. Blackwell would return, lyn Gren
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Speaker 1: did not, and the Kraken from that point on force
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Speaker 1: to shuffle the deck in lynd Gren's absence, plus also
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Speaker 1: missing his rucket presence a useful tool right back at
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Speaker 1: the front of the net, and Dallas getting all four
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Speaker 1: of their goals around that blue paint area last night.
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Speaker 1: Wyatt Johnston scoring twice. The start is getting four unanswered
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Speaker 1: goals before Ryker Evans broke the shutout bid in period
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Speaker 1: three with this sixth goal of the season at six
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Speaker 1: forty six, But Dallas after that, Cruising four won the
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Speaker 1: final over the Kraken in the third and final meeting
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Speaker 1: of the season, with Dallas taking all three meetings in
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Speaker 1: the regular season set. Before we get to Darren Brown,
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Speaker 1: here's more reaction from cracket head coach Layne Lambert, who
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Speaker 1: first summarized the last saying it was a failure to execute.
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Speaker 3: For whatever reason. You know, we had a apparently we
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Speaker 3: had a past first mentality instead of a shoot first mentality,
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Speaker 3: and you know, it just doesn't work for our hockey team.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's no excuse for it, there's no reason
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Speaker 3: for it. How do we've got to be better assess goal?
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Speaker 3: There's special teams tonight. Well, you know, I thought the
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Speaker 3: power play, you know, right off the bat, I thought
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Speaker 3: we were fine in the first seven minutes of the game,
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Speaker 3: even minutes of the game, our power play, if we
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Speaker 3: could have scored, would have really given us a huge boost.
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Speaker 3: Didn't happen. I thought, you know, early on the power
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Speaker 3: play was good. I thought it got sloppy towards you know,
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Speaker 3: the last couple of opportunities, you know, and I thought
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Speaker 3: our penalty kill for the most part, I thought our
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Speaker 3: penalty kill was okay. You know, there's a face off,
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Speaker 3: shot goes going wide, it hit I think it probably
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Speaker 3: hit off two guys, our guy and there guy. But
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Speaker 3: you know, it just overall as a as a whole
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Speaker 3: the entire game, it was disappointing for me. And again,
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Speaker 3: like I said, not good enough. They're a good hockey
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Speaker 3: team over there. We needed to be a lot better
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Speaker 3: than we were.
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Speaker 4: How much of that past first mentality as a result
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Speaker 4: of not getting enough guys in front.
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Speaker 2: Of the net?
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Speaker 3: What do they just need to shoot more and hope
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Speaker 3: something goes well? They can you know, shots create shots,
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Speaker 3: Shots create traffic. So you know, we have opportunities to
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Speaker 3: shoot the pocket and we didn't. That's just the bottom line.
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Speaker 3: So we need to get more bucks than that. We
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Speaker 3: started doing a little bit more in the third. We've
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Speaker 3: got a couple of opportunities, but you know, certainly wasn't
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Speaker 3: our It wasn't our game and certainly not the way
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Speaker 3: we want to play and not the way we had
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Speaker 3: been playing before. The break, so you know, we have
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Speaker 3: a quick turnaround here, we get on a plane, we
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Speaker 3: go to Saint Louis. It's going to be a late night.
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Speaker 3: We've got to get ourselves ready to go. There aren't
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Speaker 3: any excuses at the other end of the ice, a
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Speaker 3: defensive end, a lot of tipping goals, Like what do
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Speaker 3: you guys have to do to counteract some of that?
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Speaker 3: Got a box out and do a better job of
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Speaker 3: getting in shot lanes. You know, the first goal I thought,
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Speaker 3: I mean, if you could say it was, it was
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Speaker 3: a bit of a turning point. You give up a
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Speaker 3: goal late in the first period like that, you have
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Speaker 3: to box out going to the net. You know those
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Speaker 3: shots by the way, we're going wide and they're throwing
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Speaker 3: that puck to the net and tipping them.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: So that's what we're talking about. You know, with us,
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Speaker 3: you shot first mentality and they tip them.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: The second goal they scored was a result of a
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Speaker 3: poor execution. We ice the puck face off, don't don't
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Speaker 3: maintain our assignment off the draw, and it's in the
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Speaker 3: back of our net. So there's little things that just
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Speaker 3: kind of snowballed on us, and you know, we have
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Speaker 3: a good penalty kill, come out of the box and
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Speaker 3: get scored on off the rush, and then we challenge
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Speaker 3: and they score on a power play. So you know,
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Speaker 3: it was just a combination of a bunch of different things.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't a good enough hockey game for our hockey team,
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Speaker 3: and we've got to be better. We went into the
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Speaker 3: conversation to challenge for goaltending interference three nothing. I didn't
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Speaker 3: think that our team was doing anything at the time.
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Speaker 3: We knew it was probably going to be about a
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Speaker 3: fifty to fifty opportunity that they were going to call
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Speaker 3: the go back. But at that point in time, with
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Speaker 3: our team and the way we were playing, we needed
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Speaker 3: some sort of a spark. We took the chance. I'd
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Speaker 3: do it again. Papa'cacko obviously not playing tonight. Do anticipate
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Speaker 3: him to be available tomorrow and or is.
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Speaker 1: There any kind of injury concern at all?
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Speaker 3: No, No, no injury concern. You know, Koppa played more
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Speaker 3: hockey than tot of he did over there. He played
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Speaker 3: two back to backs. You know, we trusted his maturity
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Speaker 3: in telling us how he felt and he'll be ready
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Speaker 3: to go to.
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Speaker 5: Mow all right.
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Speaker 1: Well, a pretty jam playoff picture became even more jammed
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Speaker 1: after last night. Besides the Kraken, the King's loss, the
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Speaker 1: Mammoth loss, Edmonton lost, Anaheim won. So the Kraken now
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Speaker 1: in wildcard spot number two, three points ahead of the
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Speaker 1: first team on the outside looking in, that being the Kings,
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Speaker 1: who have lost four in a row. The Crack in
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Speaker 1: one point back of Utah for wildcard spot number one,
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Speaker 1: and also third place Edmonton. They are two back of
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Speaker 1: second place Anaheim.
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Speaker 5: The game of musical chairs just.
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Speaker 1: Continues heading into tonight, off that reaction Cracking with a
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Speaker 1: quick turnaround, trying to get back into the wind and
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Speaker 1: call him and the hope is that from last night
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Speaker 1: it was a case of Russ trying to get that
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Speaker 1: shaken off as a take on the Saint Louis Blues
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Speaker 1: in the second and final trip to Enterprise Center here
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Speaker 1: for this season. Joining us now on Cracking this morning,
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Speaker 1: our friend Darren Brown of NHL dot com also runs
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Speaker 1: a content side for Soundofhockey dot com as well does
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Speaker 1: fantastic work.
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Speaker 5: Darren, Hi, how are you?
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Speaker 1: First off, how'd you spend the several days away here
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Speaker 1: from hockey?
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Speaker 4: I am good, Mike, thanks for having me Well, the
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Speaker 4: main thing was I got to go to Japan with
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Speaker 4: my wife, which was pretty incredible experience. Jaden Schwartz was
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Speaker 4: also there. Sadly we didn't get to connect, so as
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Speaker 4: hard as I tried, I thought he'd I thought he'd
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Speaker 4: want to see the sites with me, But.
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Speaker 1: I take a break. I think the invite got lost
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Speaker 1: into the email somewhere right, you know.
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Speaker 4: I told him that I had requested to do an
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Speaker 4: interview with him in Japan, and he said, yeah, I
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Speaker 4: don't know. I didn't get the request. Had my phone
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Speaker 4: off or something. So that's all right, what can you do?
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Speaker 1: How many times have you been to Japan before?
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Speaker 4: First time? First time? It was great.
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Speaker 5: What was the best part about it?
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Speaker 4: We'd recommend man a lot of things. I think it's
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Speaker 4: just an awesome, awesome place to go. It's super clean,
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Speaker 4: super friendly people, people who really take a lot of
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Speaker 4: pride and no matter what their job is, everything is efficient.
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Speaker 4: The food's great. So that's like five things that are
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Speaker 4: good about it. Yeah, it was. It was just an
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Speaker 4: awesome trip. Would definitely recommend for anyone who hasn't gotten
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Speaker 4: to make it over there before. It was a really
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Speaker 4: really cool experience.
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Speaker 1: Time well spent and we're finally back out of here
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Speaker 1: in the Crakend, trying to shake off a four to
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Speaker 1: one loss to the Dallas Stars. Un let's just say
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Speaker 1: the alarm finally has gone off here as far as
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Speaker 1: the slumber from these last few weeks here. But Darren,
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Speaker 1: I want to first jump into the immediate reaction from
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Speaker 1: last night, and Jordan Everley made pretty key about how
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Speaker 1: important the interior of the ice is defending the net
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Speaker 1: as well. I think a big part of that, and
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Speaker 1: that's pretty much where a bulk of Dallas's offense came
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Speaker 1: from that game, where in the second period they were
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Speaker 1: able to pull away, and that't'ally different.
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Speaker 5: So would you take away here from last night?
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Speaker 4: You know, I didn't think the effort I mean, watching it,
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Speaker 4: I didn't think the effort was terrible. And obviously, to me,
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Speaker 4: the issue is that they just weren't generating very much offensively, right,
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Speaker 4: So I think they had nine shots through two periods,
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Speaker 4: which is simply not enough. But when you think about
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Speaker 4: the goals that went in, three of the four were
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Speaker 4: off shots that were actually missing the nets and got redirected.
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Speaker 4: So you know, although Joey Decord didn't have incredible stats
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Speaker 4: in the game because he gives up four goals and
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Speaker 4: I think he had an eight to seventy five save percentage.
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Speaker 4: I mean, there's nothing that he can do the goals
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Speaker 4: that went in. It's just from a goalies perspective, it's
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Speaker 4: just kind of a bad break that those you know,
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's a great play by the Dallas Stars players.
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Speaker 4: Two of those are Wyatt Johnston, you know, and and
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Speaker 4: I mean, there's just nothing that you can do that
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Speaker 4: one goal that came off of the faith off. You know,
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Speaker 4: He's he's got like literally five players right in front
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Speaker 4: of him, so the krack And it wasn't like they
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Speaker 4: were making terrible turnovers or missing assignments or things like that.
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Speaker 4: It just was good sticks by the Stars players and
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Speaker 4: traffic in front and they weren't generating enough. So to me,
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Speaker 4: I think, you know, it's you never want to see
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Speaker 4: a team come out and fall behind four zero early
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Speaker 4: in the second period, especially in this this race that
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Speaker 4: they're in here. But for being the first game back
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Speaker 4: from a three week layoff against one of the best
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Speaker 4: teams in the league, I didn't hate the effort. And
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Speaker 4: maybe that's I don't know what did you think I
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Speaker 4: was that a contrarian point. I thought it looked looked
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Speaker 4: better than the score and the stats indicated to me.
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Speaker 1: I mean it was a bit alarming based on how
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Speaker 1: the game got away from them later. But I don't
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Speaker 1: think you can really fault the first period just to
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Speaker 1: kind of get to that point. And I think Darren
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Speaker 1: going back here too, the first few minutes, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you can't picture I think maybe a better tone setting
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Speaker 1: start than the manner in how the crack and we're
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Speaker 1: throwing the body around first off, calling Blackwell running into
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Speaker 1: a six foot seven wall named Jamie Alexiak and then
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Speaker 1: Ryan Lindgren just lighting him up like Christmas. But unfortunately
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Speaker 1: both players down the tunnel. Blackwell would return. Unfortunately lyn
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Speaker 1: Gren did not. So you go from the euphoria of
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Speaker 1: just a massive thunder a set that might get you know,
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Speaker 1: sports that are replays, to now losing arguably your most
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Speaker 1: rugged stay at home d out of the entire lineup
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Speaker 1: in Ryan Lindren. Then all of a sudden the crack
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Speaker 1: and had to shuffle the deck and play virtually anybody
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Speaker 1: here with Ryker Evans just to kind of spread ice
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Speaker 1: time out and keep bodies fresh here for this game
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Speaker 1: against Saint Louis coming up here for the seating. But
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Speaker 1: I kind of lead from that into this question, where
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Speaker 1: did you see the biggest last year on the absence
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Speaker 1: of Ryan Lindren.
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean maybe that's that's part of the
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Speaker 4: struggles with keeping guys away from the front of the net, right,
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Speaker 4: I mean, he's obviously that's kind of his His realm
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Speaker 4: is right there in front of the net. I think
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Speaker 4: it does create some chaos for the defense to be
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Speaker 4: able to roll five D and be rotating through like that.
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Speaker 4: That certainly is makes things a little bit challenging, and
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Speaker 4: you know, you don't know your partner quite as well
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Speaker 4: when you're playing with somebody random every shift. But they
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Speaker 4: have all played together at some point, so it's not
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Speaker 4: like it's it's totally ridiculous to shuffle through like that.
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Speaker 4: More than anything, though, I think, you know, they do
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Speaker 4: have guys that can backfill for lind Grin if he
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Speaker 4: ends up missing time here. I would have to think
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Speaker 4: if he left the game that early, he probably is
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Speaker 4: is going to miss a little bit of time. We'll see,
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Speaker 4: But you know they do have Cale Flurry and Josh
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Speaker 4: Mahura both waiting in the wings. Both have shown that
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Speaker 4: their effective defenseman in the NHL, so they'll be able
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Speaker 4: to backfill for him. But certainly he's a he's a
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Speaker 4: player they don't want to lose for too long. I
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Speaker 4: think he flies under the radar as a pretty important player.
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Speaker 4: I think he's a studying force back there. Like you said,
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Speaker 4: he's rugged and he's he brings a little bit of
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Speaker 4: grit that the Kracken sometimes lacks. So yeah, they don't
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Speaker 4: want to lose him, but I have a feeling that
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Speaker 4: there there may be a little bit of an absence
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Speaker 4: for him.
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Speaker 1: It was already a four to one game by the
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Speaker 1: time that this happened in period three, but at seven
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Speaker 1: point fifty eighteen minutes in penalties combined given to the
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Speaker 1: Kraken and the Dallas Stars, Jacob Allanson two for roughing
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Speaker 1: Ben Myers and it's Tiltwood Justin Fritzkovian five for fighting
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Speaker 1: as well. Then Adam Ernie gets a double minor two
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Speaker 1: for roughing and two for cross checking. What did you
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Speaker 1: make out of the rost up there in the final minutes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the bash brothers there, Ben Myers and Jacob Mallanson.
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Speaker 4: You know, I think Milanson. What I love about his
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Speaker 4: game is that he continues to play this physical game
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Speaker 4: that seems to really get under the skin of opponents,
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Speaker 4: but he does it in the right way. He doesn't
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Speaker 4: take a lot of penalties and like take you know,
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Speaker 4: cheap shot runs at players, but he does hit players
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Speaker 4: a lot and it does seem to upset the other teams,
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Speaker 4: which I think is a good thing. And the two
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Speaker 4: fights that he's had now it's not like he's going
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Speaker 4: out looking for him asking guys for fights. It's that
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Speaker 4: they're challenging him because he's hitting people hard throughout the games,
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Speaker 4: and eventually they're like, hey, you know what, you're a
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Speaker 4: young player in the NHL and you need to answer
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Speaker 4: for your physical play. So but he holds he holds
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Speaker 4: his own in those tonight, I think, or in that
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Speaker 4: game last night, I think that Adam Ernie kind of
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Speaker 4: jumped him and didn't give him a chance to get
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Speaker 4: his gloves off, so he got the upper hand in
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Speaker 4: the fight. But you know, Milonton can can really take
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Speaker 4: care of himself in that area, and seeing Ben Myers
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Speaker 4: step up and do something similar at the same moment
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Speaker 4: was fascinating to see. He's definitely not known for that,
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Speaker 4: but he showed that he could do it too. So
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Speaker 4: I I mean, I'm not like the biggest proponent of
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Speaker 4: fighting in general, but I think there's a time and place,
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Speaker 4: and I think if you're able to take care of
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Speaker 4: yourself in these in these scenarios, you know, I like,
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Speaker 4: I like the way that Malanton goes about his business,
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Speaker 4: and this is just another example of it.
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Speaker 1: See, I think to me, there's also a heartbeat element
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Speaker 1: of it. Certainly gives Malonson some value, ben Meyer some value,
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Speaker 1: and really that fourth line some value as well as
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Speaker 1: Darren Brown joins us right now on Cracking this Morning
15:32
Speaker 1: from NHL dot Com and Sound of Focky Coppocaco did
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Speaker 1: not play last night the Crack and lefting to give
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Speaker 1: him one more day of rest. Additionally, Ty Carcier non
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Speaker 1: roster status as well for the game, so hearing from
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Speaker 1: head coach Lane Lambert that Coco should be good to
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Speaker 1: go here for today.
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Speaker 5: Where do you like him best in this lineup? Darren Oh?
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Speaker 4: I I have always liked him best with Matty Benier's
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Speaker 4: but that hasn't been in kind of the setup of
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Speaker 4: late before the break. I know that they had Veneers
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Speaker 4: back with Everley and mccannon that said, I don't know
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Speaker 4: where do I like him best? You know what, I'm
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Speaker 4: sticking with that answer. I don't think that's where they're
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Speaker 4: gonna put him. Yeah, I don't think they're going to
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Speaker 4: put him on the on the line with Spaniers, but
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Speaker 4: I think Veneers has played some of his best hockey
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Speaker 4: with Coppocco in the last two years. I think Copo
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Speaker 4: Coco has played his best hockey when he's been with Shineers.
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Speaker 4: So I'm sticking with it. I don't think that's where
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Speaker 4: they're going to put him, But that's my answer.
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Speaker 1: Coco right winterton last time, Coco was on the ice
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Speaker 1: by the way for that game against the Kings on
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Speaker 1: the fourth of February, and really before that a lot
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Speaker 1: of Jayden Schwarz, Shane Wright and Coppo Coco together. So
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Speaker 1: will wait and see as far as where that that
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Speaker 1: uh begins to form, assuming that Coco is good to
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Speaker 1: go here for tonight. As far as Saint Louis Aaron
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Speaker 1: is concerned, looks like that they're going to be sellers
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Speaker 1: here by deadline time. Could Jordan Bennington be gone, We'll see,
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Speaker 1: Could Jordan Cairo be gone. We'll see Robert Thomas won't
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Speaker 1: play tonight out with a personal matter, and if these
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Speaker 1: moved maybe not likely, but the Blues said it will
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Speaker 1: take an offer to really overwhelm them, so to speak,
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Speaker 1: to have him get moved on. But he is a
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Speaker 1: very enticing offensive element here. But I think for a
17:18
Speaker 1: game like this here, for the saving, Darren, you got
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Speaker 1: to find ways to generate shots on net from the
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Speaker 1: get go and get Blues goaltending busy in this game, Darren,
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Speaker 1: what about you?
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Speaker 4: Definitely, I think that's absolutely the case. The Blues are
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Speaker 4: not the Dallas Stars. They are not as good of
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Speaker 4: a team as the Dallas Stars, and this will also
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Speaker 4: be their first game, so in theory things will be
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Speaker 4: a little bit, a little bit sloppy. On the Saint
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Speaker 4: Louis side, Yeah, those players you mentioned, they're they're interesting.
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Speaker 4: Not so much. I'm not interested in Bennington so much,
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Speaker 4: but Kyrou and Thomas, I mean, those are players that
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Speaker 4: can make an impact on a team for sure, So
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Speaker 4: I'm curious about what happens with both of those. I
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Speaker 4: do think in a way they kind of fit with
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Speaker 4: what the Kraken might be wanting to do in terms
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Speaker 4: of upgrading their offense before the break or before the
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Speaker 4: trade deadline. Are they are those guys the exact right fit.
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Speaker 4: I'm not. I'm not really sure. I'd have to kind
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Speaker 4: of see in action, but yeah, it's it's interesting that
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Speaker 4: you know, we're coming up against the team here that
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Speaker 4: is probably a seller. They're definitely out of the playoff
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Speaker 4: hunts at this point, and you know, maybe it's a
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Speaker 4: little bit of a close up look at a Jordan
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Speaker 4: Kyru for example. I know you said Thomas isn't going
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Speaker 4: to be there, but maybe there's something to keep an
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Speaker 4: eye on there from a Krack and fan perspective.
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Speaker 1: Potentially, if the right move is out there, they could
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Speaker 1: be needle movers and then some for a team that
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Speaker 1: certainly needs a bump in their top six or their
18:46
Speaker 1: top line as well. Darren, glad to hear that you
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Speaker 1: had a great vacation. Glad to have you back once
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Speaker 1: again and looking forward to seeing once again here for
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Speaker 1: this week and once the homestand begins.
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Speaker 5: Thanks Pal, Thank you for the time. Appreciate you Mike.
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Speaker 1: All right, Darren, thank you very much. As Darren Brown
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Speaker 1: once again find him at Twitter and ex at Darren
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Speaker 1: vun Brown. Again joining us here from Soundofhockey dot Com
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Speaker 1: also for NHL dot Com as well.
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Speaker 5: Second and final matchup coming up here for.
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Speaker 1: The Krack and in Saint Louis for this regular season series.
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Speaker 1: There is one more matchup to go, which will be
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Speaker 1: in Seattle not too far from now, that coming up
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Speaker 1: on March fourth, as the Crack in trying to make
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Speaker 1: it now two in a row head to head against
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Speaker 1: the Blues and three in a row in the head
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Speaker 1: to head series and trying to improve on a four
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Speaker 1: to six and three head to head record all time.
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Speaker 1: No update on Ryan Lindgren yet as of the end
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Speaker 1: of Wednesday night should he not be available to go.
19:43
Speaker 1: Of course, the Crack and have options on their back end,
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Speaker 1: including Josh Mhura and Kale Flurry and the Crack and
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Speaker 1: facing a Saint Louis team also trying to manage a
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Speaker 1: shuffling duck right now. As we said, sator Robert Thomas
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Speaker 1: will not play in this evening's game, tending to a
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Speaker 1: personal matter right now.
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Speaker 5: Ellen Holloway and the meantime.
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Speaker 1: Has been nursing an ankle injury over the last two months,
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Speaker 1: but reports say you should be available and be back
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Speaker 1: in the lineup here for this evening's game. Hope you
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Speaker 1: can join us once again airtime in four thirty face
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Speaker 1: offs a little past five pm Pacific time from Enterprise
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Speaker 1: Center ever refits you Al Koniski in Saint Louis. I'll
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Speaker 1: join you once again from Network Central for all the action,
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Speaker 1: hoping that you can certainly join us also via the
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Speaker 1: Daron Brown for joining us at for cracking this morning.
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Speaker 5: I'm Mike Benton.
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