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KRAKEN WEEKLY: Trade winds picking up and the playoffs getting real? (2/5) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Well, if you've been listening here to this radio station
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  Speaker 1: last few hours, we have got a lot going on
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  Speaker 1: in our world football team one went away from a
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  Speaker 1: championship basketball that conversation picking up once again, but now
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  Speaker 1: we have a hockey team who is in a playoff spot.
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  Speaker 1: Repeat in a playoff spot heading into the Olympic break.
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  Speaker 2: I start the show far corner.
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  Speaker 3: Carlo worked at free slapped around the boards, turned over.
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  Speaker 4: Shane right, storre.
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  Speaker 3: Puck one back to the near wall, ichel up top
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  Speaker 3: Chel shoot stocked down by the card loose puck deflected
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  Speaker 3: over top of the goal. There's the horn and the
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  Speaker 3: Seattle Cracket come into Vegas.
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  Speaker 4: They get their fourth win in.
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  Speaker 1: A rollcocko right corner, feed good Row center right now
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  Speaker 1: for rights.
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  Speaker 5: He scoress Shane rights second goal of the game, base
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  Speaker 5: left circle, fourteen oh eight remaining in period three.
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  Speaker 1: How big is that goal for the Kracking? They're lad
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  Speaker 1: pushed back to two and it's four to two.
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  Speaker 6: So it was Brandon Montour had a good keep with
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  Speaker 6: the point, pinching the wall tight to stop the puck
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  Speaker 6: from getting out.
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  Speaker 2: He feeds it.
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  Speaker 6: Down to goodro Cadrow's got a two on one in
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  Speaker 6: furnt of the net, going harder than that, he fins
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  Speaker 6: right on the back door on his off wing, perfect
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  Speaker 6: feet to him, right into the back of the net.
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  Speaker 4: Four two cracking.
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  Speaker 1: All right, those highlights courtesy of the Global Credit Union
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  Speaker 1: Cracking Audio Network. When to close the homestand against the leafs.
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  Speaker 1: Then two wins out of three on the road. So
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  Speaker 1: when you think about it here, how valuable is this run?
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  Speaker 1: Heading into the Olympic break? Welcome to Cracking Weekly, our
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  Speaker 1: last show at least for a while. Here Mike betting
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  Speaker 1: with you. It's just me and Everett here for this one.
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  Speaker 1: Al Konski is already on a far away land, already
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  Speaker 1: getting deep into vacation. Everett's not too far away. I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing this staycation thing as well too, so I.
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  Speaker 2: Am not too far away as well.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that and just a little bit here,
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  Speaker 1: plus also reaction from last night in Los Angeles, and
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  Speaker 1: also trade wins picking up all around the league, so
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  Speaker 1: plenty here to talk about. Is also Mick Kern of
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  Speaker 1: Sirius XM NHL Network Radio also gonna be along with
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  Speaker 1: us here in just.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You got a fun show, got a jam packshow, so
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  Speaker 1: certainly appreciate you dialing us up once again. You can
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  Speaker 1: Just search for the Crack and Audio Network for this
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  Speaker 1: that also at sports radio kjar dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Well here we are.
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  Speaker 1: Heading into the break here at this point, and the
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  Speaker 1: Crack and really did themselves a big favor last night,
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  Speaker 1: getting into third place in the Pacific Division with a
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  Speaker 1: win over the Kings sixty three points twenty seven twenty
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  Speaker 1: and nine and just three points back of the Vegas
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  Speaker 1: Golden Knights, of course, pending the results of this evening
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  Speaker 1: between Vegas and the Los Angeles Kings, and then at
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  Speaker 1: that everyone is going out to the Olympic break, so
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  Speaker 1: also a great chance to keep eyes on those like Coppocaco,
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  Speaker 1: Ellie Tolbn and Philip Grubauer, Oscar Fisker, Bulguard and more
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  Speaker 1: on the cracking side.
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  Speaker 2: All right, without.
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  Speaker 1: Further ado, ever, it fits you joining us now, Hi
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  Speaker 1: fits It just kind of seems like yesterday, really it
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  Speaker 1: was that we were on the airplane coming back home together.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, I'm tired, but it's a good
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  Speaker 1: kind of tired to me after getting through nineteen games
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  Speaker 1: in thirty five days.
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  Speaker 2: What about you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, it's uh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be a lot of much needed.
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  Speaker 4: R and R.
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  Speaker 3: I think for a lot of us around the organization,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of us around the teams, it's there is
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  Speaker 3: a sense of accomplishment. And what I mean accomplishment is
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  Speaker 3: you go into the year. I don't think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people expected this team to be where they are
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  Speaker 3: right now. There were folks nationally, there were folks locally
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  Speaker 3: who were not maybe not high on the crack end,
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  Speaker 3: but they just thought that they were maybe a year
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  Speaker 3: or two away. And I think now with Lane lambertin here,
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  Speaker 3: I think the resurgencies and that we've seen for Philip Krubauer,
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  Speaker 3: I think the play for Matty Veneers that we've seen.
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  Speaker 3: You now have a team that is expecting to make playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: I said it going into the season, playoffs this year,
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  Speaker 3: that's the goal. But the absolute lowest minimum basement floor
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  Speaker 3: bar for this team was to be playing meaningful games
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  Speaker 3: in to March, coming out of the Olympic break, going
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  Speaker 3: into the trade deadline with some tough decisions to make.
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  Speaker 3: You now have played fifty six games of eighty two.
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  Speaker 3: You are third place in the division. You're three points
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  Speaker 3: back of Edmonton and Vegas, who are three months back
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  Speaker 3: in Vegas who were.
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  Speaker 4: In f and you're one point back of Edmonton who
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  Speaker 4: are in second.
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  Speaker 3: They've been on a free for all uh lately, they've
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  Speaker 3: lost three and a Roby Whalers have So I mean,
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  Speaker 3: for for me, you're you're going into the break in
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  Speaker 3: a playoff spot, in a top three spot. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know of anybody who isn't thrilled and ecstatic over that.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, the guys, you're gonna get so much needed.
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  Speaker 4: R and R.
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  Speaker 3: There's a couple of injuries that we're still working through
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  Speaker 3: with Ben Myers and Berkeley Katton and Matt Murray hopefully
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  Speaker 3: and James Schwartz ed it's right he was out last
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  Speaker 3: night as well. But you're hoping that Ellie Tulven and Coppoccio,
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  Speaker 3: Philip Grubau or Oscar Fisker Mulgard all have really strong Olympics,
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  Speaker 3: but they come back healthy. I think that's the big
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  Speaker 3: thing for this group. But all in all, I'm happy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very happy. I'm very tired, but I'm very happy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll count that maybe as your opening thoughts here for
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  Speaker 1: this and I have my opening thoughts as well, folks.
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  Speaker 1: And once again you can find me at Baton Underscore
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  Speaker 1: Mike here for more reaction. Also ever it fits you
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  Speaker 1: at the Voice Fits. Also find the Crack and Audio
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  Speaker 1: Network at Crack and Audio Net. We'll also get to
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  Speaker 1: our poll question of the week coming up in just
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  Speaker 1: a bit. My opening thoughts are this here. If you
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  Speaker 1: can go back into October, this season opens so many
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  Speaker 1: doors as far as possibilities, where was.
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  Speaker 2: This team going to go?
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  Speaker 1: Ultimately, as Everett mentioned, and it lines up what many
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  Speaker 1: were saying way back in this last summer, the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: goal was to be in the mix here for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: You ask any veterans their goal was to be in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Ellie Tolbenen said so with us as well,
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  Speaker 1: all the way back to September. He's now just gone
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  Speaker 1: past four hundred games in his NHL career. What you
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  Speaker 1: are now doing is that you are fostering an environment
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  Speaker 1: that tells us that the playoffs are what this team
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  Speaker 1: wants and you're going to stop at nothing to essentially
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  Speaker 1: get there. I go back and consider how many new
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  Speaker 1: fans we are usually told enter climb the Pledge arena
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  Speaker 1: each and every game. It's still roughly around two thousand
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  Speaker 1: fans a game. Last I checked here on this with
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  Speaker 1: a source. So when you have two thousand fans new
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  Speaker 1: ones per game coming in first impressions to make such
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  Speaker 1: a big deal and the more and more wins that
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  Speaker 1: you're stacking up these days tell these fans that this
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  Speaker 1: is a team that is as simply serious as far
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  Speaker 1: as playoff contention. And now at the Olympic break they
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  Speaker 1: are three points out of first place in the Pacific Division.
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  Speaker 1: So you tell me, are they going to be a
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  Speaker 1: seller or are they going to be a buyer? I
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  Speaker 1: think at this point the answer is crystal clear. Reportedly,
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  Speaker 1: the Kraken we're this close to getting our Timmy Paneren.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually he picked his spot, that being the Los Angeles Kings,
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  Speaker 1: according to reports, which also said the Krakend took a big,
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  Speaker 1: huge and furious swing to get him, which tells us
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  Speaker 1: one thing. They're looking to add big time scoring, which
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  Speaker 1: tells us once again they want to put foot to
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  Speaker 1: gas at presenting playoff theater. Here for a crowd that
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  Speaker 1: is still looking to grasp bond to hockey for the
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  Speaker 1: first time ever. Despite how well and trends this hockey
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  Speaker 1: community has been years upon years upon years, the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: are still very much an important thing, so which again
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  Speaker 1: leads me to believe that once we come out of
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  Speaker 1: this Olympic break and trades are once again a full
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  Speaker 1: go in about roughly two and a half weeks the
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  Speaker 1: freeze ends on the twenty second of February, that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be some pretty fun theater here to look at.
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  Speaker 1: As far as who the crack had want to pursue
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  Speaker 1: to add more to this top six, because it looks
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  Speaker 1: like Matty Beniers is reaching a brand new level, Jared
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  Speaker 1: McCann is playing like a forty goal scorer, Jordan Eberley
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  Speaker 1: is still producing like a top six ford and still
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  Speaker 1: producing well into his thirties at this point, and the
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  Speaker 1: Kraken are finding ways to still generate offense even with
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  Speaker 1: players on the shelf like Everett mentioned in Jaden Schwartz
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  Speaker 1: and also recently here Berkeley Katton despite how young he is,
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  Speaker 1: but you can certainly still see flashes of brilliance emerging
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  Speaker 1: from his game. We have now reached the point where
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  Speaker 1: we can, I think certainly determine that we're where the
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  Speaker 1: Crack and are going to be in this spot, and
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  Speaker 1: Buyer sends one message this team is serious about getting
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  Speaker 1: into the playoffs and providing fans that we are still
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  Speaker 1: curious about this game withst some grand theater in April,
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  Speaker 1: while you still have also young kids coming along the way.
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  Speaker 1: And this ultimately is a very very exciting thing. So
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  Speaker 1: again you can find me at Benton Underscore Mic and
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  Speaker 1: again the Crack and audio network at Kraken Audio Net.
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  Speaker 1: The Crack in third place in the Pacific Division, three
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  Speaker 1: points back of Vegas, one point back of the Edmonton Oilers.
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  Speaker 2: But ever, I go back to five.
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  Speaker 1: Wins here in six games to end this and ultimately
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  Speaker 1: for us. Last week we talked about the bar on
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  Speaker 1: this road trip. Four points out of six. That was
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  Speaker 1: the Bar and the Crack and do it with wins
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas. They rebound then after what was mostly a
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  Speaker 1: clunker in Anaheim, to come right back and get a
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  Speaker 1: win in Los Angeles. The same day the Kings acquire
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  Speaker 1: Superstar are Timmy Paneren So where did it meet your bar.
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  Speaker 2: Here for this road trip?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I would have liked a better performance against Anaheim.
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  Speaker 3: This is now two clunkers in a row against the Ducks.
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  Speaker 3: And I think I was talking to Steve Carroll, who's
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  Speaker 3: the radio voice of Anaheim, after the game the other.
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  Speaker 2: Night, to see him back by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's been he's been very very private, very
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  Speaker 3: quiet about it. But there's been some health related issues
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  Speaker 3: going on with him recently. And anytime you see Steve
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  Speaker 3: around the rink, you know, is a good day.
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  Speaker 4: Man. I was talking to him. I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 4: this quick aside here. He is a very fascinating person.
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  Speaker 2: He is all good in.
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  Speaker 3: This industry longer than most of us have been alive.
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  Speaker 3: This is his twenty fifth I believe he said twenty
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  Speaker 3: fifth or twenty sixth year here in Anaheim with the
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  Speaker 3: Anaheim Ducks. He did thirty three years in minor league
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  Speaker 3: broadcasting before the Anaheim Ducks.
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  Speaker 4: Thirty three years.
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  Speaker 2: He climbed the ladder. Then in the minor leagues. Man, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean so uh, but no, I asked that. When he
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  Speaker 4: told me that, I was like, wait.
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  Speaker 3: A minute, let's let's forget the team for a second.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty three years. So we had a really good talk
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  Speaker 3: about his career. But but no, he was telling him
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  Speaker 3: and I were talking and I said that I really
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  Speaker 3: feel this is a playoff preview because the way this
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  Speaker 3: division sets up right now, I mean Seattle and Anaheim
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  Speaker 3: both could finish one to two.
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  Speaker 4: They could finish one to.
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  Speaker 3: Three, they could finish two three, they could finish wild
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  Speaker 3: card one, or they both could finish out of the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs not going wood.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully that doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, Anaheim, I think maybe exposed a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of Seattle in that game, But overall, I thought
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  Speaker 3: you won the two games that you that that you
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  Speaker 3: wanted to win. Vegas, You've always struggled in that building.
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  Speaker 3: You've struggled against the Golden Knights there, your expansion cousin,
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  Speaker 3: if you will. So that needed to be accomplished in
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  Speaker 3: the way that they did it. Man, that was a
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  Speaker 3: statement win. You talk about we were talking last week
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  Speaker 3: about Washington Toronto statement wins there. That Vegas game was
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  Speaker 3: a statement win Anaheim game. It is what it is,
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  Speaker 3: la your down one nothing and then you say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: wait a minute, the game has started, and then you
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  Speaker 3: rattle off, you know, three in a row, and then.
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  Speaker 4: They make it interesting.
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  Speaker 3: But I think for Seattle, they did exactly what they
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  Speaker 3: needed to do. They're in a top three spot going
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  Speaker 3: into the playoffs. I like where this team is. Like
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  Speaker 3: I said before, you're hoping that guys are gonna get healthy.
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  Speaker 3: I think the one thing that maybe concerns me right
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  Speaker 3: now is of all eight teams currently in a playoff
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  Speaker 3: spot Colorado, Minnesota, Dallas, Vegas, Edmonton, Seattle, Utah, and Anaheim,
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  Speaker 3: only the Kraken and the Ducks have a negative goal
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  Speaker 3: differential that maybe that worries me a little bit, cracking.
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  Speaker 4: Or minus three and the Anaheim Ducks are mind ten.
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  Speaker 3: But again, as long as you get in the playoff
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  Speaker 3: doesn't really matter, you know, because playoff games are three
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  Speaker 3: two to two one games anyway. So overall, I like
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  Speaker 3: where this team finished.
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  Speaker 4: I like how they rebounded last night in La.
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  Speaker 3: It was a very loud and boisterous flight on the
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  Speaker 3: way home, all the way until right two point thirty
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  Speaker 3: when we landed, which is what you like to hear.
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  Speaker 3: And now they're gonna be able to enjoy so much
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  Speaker 3: dat to time off.
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  Speaker 1: We saw some players get off that plane in a
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  Speaker 1: very very happy mood, and there was a sense of
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  Speaker 1: there was at least a checkpoint accomplished. Not so much
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  Speaker 1: a mission accomplished here, but I want to get here
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  Speaker 1: to some very riveting discussion going on I think nationally
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  Speaker 1: right now, and it deals with the Jack Adams Award.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna hear John Cooper's name thrown in there. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna hear I think Dan Muse's name for Pittsburgh thrown
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  Speaker 1: in there. But now we're hearing talk of Lane Lambert
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  Speaker 1: and his name being involved in the Jack Adams conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I think at this point where the crack and are
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  Speaker 1: at right now, it is difficult to impossible to ignore
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  Speaker 1: the work that he's done.
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  Speaker 2: Fits.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think you're banging on there.
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  Speaker 3: I think for me, all of these awards sometimes they
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  Speaker 3: get a little muddied, right Like I go back to
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  Speaker 3: the year that Eric Carlson won the Norris a few
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  Speaker 3: years ago, and it was you know, he had one hundred.
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  Speaker 4: And some on points. Is great.
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  Speaker 3: He was also like a dash fifty dash thirty five
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  Speaker 3: right on a last place team. I would have gone
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  Speaker 3: Vince Dunn, who had career highs in scoring that year
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  Speaker 3: and and was it. Let me, I'm gonna pull up
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  Speaker 3: done stats here from that season, because that was that
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  Speaker 3: second second.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, here it is.
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  Speaker 3: He had fourteen goals fifty assists, and he was a
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  Speaker 3: plus twenty eight on that playoff team.
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  Speaker 4: And I always I look at these these.
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  Speaker 3: Awards as as who's the most valuable to your team?
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like, in the case of Lane Lambert,
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  Speaker 3: what he's been able to do with this team, with
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  Speaker 3: this roster that has been much maligned across the league,
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  Speaker 3: not internally here because you and I and al and
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  Speaker 3: everyone else in that locker room knows how good this
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  Speaker 3: team is and how good this team can be.
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  Speaker 4: But when you listen to folks.
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  Speaker 3: All around the league, there's no superstar, there's no sex appeal,
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  Speaker 3: there's no this, there's no that. With the Seattle Kraken,
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  Speaker 3: and all they've done this season is win, and they've
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  Speaker 3: gone into a spot where they are fighting for first
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  Speaker 3: in the division. That's saying something. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be hard not to look at Jared
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  Speaker 3: Bednar in Colorado, not to look at Tampa, not to
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  Speaker 3: look at I would say, even Martin San Luis in Montreal,
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  Speaker 3: maybe Lindy ruffin Buffalo. The job that he's been able
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  Speaker 3: to do. If he can pull Buffalo into the playoffs since,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for the first time since there were forty
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  Speaker 3: eight stars on the flag, I think that's going to be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a big candidate. But you're right, man, Lanne Lambert,
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  Speaker 3: his name like Dave Hackstall few years ago. His name's
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  Speaker 3: got to be in that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about Shane Wright
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  Speaker 1: after last night because this is now becoming a pattern
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  Speaker 1: of I think an uptick in his offense and also
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  Speaker 1: what he is doing right now to gain quality time.
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  Speaker 1: He had three twenty one a power play time last night.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Kings had a course of parade at the
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  Speaker 1: penalty box as well. But we're now seeing confidence meet
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  Speaker 1: production with this game. And he's got now multi goal
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  Speaker 1: outings in the last four games, twice against the Maple Leafs,
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  Speaker 1: the course to end the homestand and now last night
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  Speaker 1: against the Kings, and neither goal came on the cheap
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  Speaker 1: for him.
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  Speaker 2: So what do we make about his game right now? Everett?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I like Shane Wright's game where it is
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  Speaker 3: coming into last night. Shane Wright had four goals in
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  Speaker 3: four assists in his last thirty games. He now has
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  Speaker 3: got four goals in his last four games, so you're
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: seeing the offense uptick a little bit here from him.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: He's playing with confidence.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: And I almost said this on the TV broadcast last night,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: but I stopped short. I feel bad for Shane, right
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: because of all of the trade talk, all of the distractions.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: That have been out there.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: It's hard to play for a third coach in your
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: NHL career and you're only twenty two years old, right,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: that's hard to do. He has been learning, he's been
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: having to learn a new system, he's been having to
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: learn new line mates, and I think by all accounts,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: he's done well at that. So for Shane to be
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: able to put all of that noise behind him, I
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: will say that for my money, I've loved his game
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: the last week here. He's had a bit of anger
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: to his game, a little bit, a little bit more
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: bleep you.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: If I can say that to his game, and it's been.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Really fun to watch, especially with those two goals, the
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: confidence of the goals he scored last night. So you know,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I commend him from for for putting that noise behind him.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: You know, I think there's been a lot of uh
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: of I liked his game the last week here, and
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I go back to what he said after the game
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: after game last week to the media crew. He said,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: you know what, no offense to you guys in the media,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: but that's all just noise and y'all don't know what
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: you're talking about. And I'm like, yeah, you know what, listen,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: you're you're right man. All we have to go on
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: is speculation and pontification. But I'm really I'm happy that
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: he's fighting, that he's had this success these last four games,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: and I'm hoping that this continues for him. But I
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: loved his game the last five, in particular.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Shane right again getting two more goals last night and
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: that went over the Kings.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: And I certainly agree.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Just I think based on the reports that have been
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: surfacing maybe about his availability, he's addressed him at least,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you know, on the surface level as far as what
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: he's thought about all the reports out there, there haven't
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: been much as far as him trying to insulate all
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: of this. But I think again it really goes back
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: to I think a new level of his gain that
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: he has found over the last month. We're learning about
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: how much he controls the puck, how much confidence he
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: has with it, and then also using his shot to
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: his advantage, and that's been very, very beneficial right now
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: for the Kraken and what they've been putting out as
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: far as a depth in this lineup, I'll.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Just saying, I think too with Shane what we failed
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: to realize.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: And I feel like I bring this up every year,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: so I'm just gonna rinse, lather, repeat.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Shane Wright has been.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: At the top of the hockey conscience for eight years.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Literally just turned twenty two a month ago.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I feel like we've for as long as
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: we've been talking about Shane Wright in his Triple A years,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: in his junior years, Shane Wright should be thirty. He's
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: twenty two, right, so he's going on one hundred and fifty.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: He just played his one hundred and fifty first NHL
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: game last night at twenty two years old. I'm not
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: even going to call Shane Wright a late bloomer. He's
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: still a young player. But I think because we've been
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: talking about him for over a decade now, it seems
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: like almost a decade of talking about Shane Wright. You know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: the expectations that have been laid upon him. He's done
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: nothing but handle him with grace and humility and humbleness,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: and he's continuing to learn and grow and watching his game. Sure,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: would you like Shane Wright to be a thirty goal scorer? Absolutely?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: I said it coming into the year. I thought Shane
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Wright had thirty goals in him this season. He's at
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: eleven right now. He maybe he can go on a
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: tourd pace get to twenty before the year's out. But
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I think Shane Wright, for me, he's where he needs
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: to be. I think next year is twenty two going
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: on twenty three year old season. I look for him
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: to take a massive step forward. But for him, he's
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: got to continue just.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Burying that noise deep down and continuing to do what
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: has made him successful.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: As a mark of a pro. And you can certainly
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: see the influence begin to rub off more on him
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: as he gains more and more months, more and more
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: years as well.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: In this league, our.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Poll question by the way of the week, biggest threat
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: now and the Western Conference playoff picture for the crack
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and to overcome at this point do you believe it
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: is the Kings, the Ducks, the Golden Knights or the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Edmonton Oilers. Vote now right now at Crack and Audio
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Net Everett and I will talk about this more. But
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: right around the break is Mick Kurn of Sirius X
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: NHL Network Radio right here on Cracking Weekly, last one
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: before the Olympic break on three three KJRFM. Forty three
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: games down and the Coachella Valley Firebirds still very much
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: in the playoff mix. Fifth right now in the Pacific
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Division again. Top seven in that division make it into
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the AHL's postseason and of course as a Calder Cup playoffs.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: The Firebirds right.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Now a record of twenty three fifteen and five. They
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: have twenty nine games remaining fifty one points. That right
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: now a points clear of the first team on the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: outside looking in in Henderson. The Firebirds, though a tough
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: not offense, will be last night losing to the one
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: in San Jose. Yanni Newman though scored the lone goal
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: for the Firebirds. He's got ten points in the last
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: ten games. Logan Morrison and Jaggerfercus right now leading the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Firebirds each and scoring with forty points. Morrison now went
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: twenty one goals through forty three games. That leads the
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Firebirds in the goal scoring column. Tomorrow night, Coachella Valley
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: back in action they'll take on Henderson in a pair
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: of road games, opening up once again seven o'clock Pacific
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: time tomorrow night on Friday. Well, the Kraken right now
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: entering the break and miss the very crazy and chaotic
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: playoff picture.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: But how much have they solidified their spot.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: As far as perception in the playoff picture for the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Western Conference. Perhaps opinions are getting stronger as far as
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the Kraken and their place in the postseason picture. All right,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: now to the Beacon Plumbing hotline we go. But in
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a while since we had this friend Don here with us.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: But it's always a good time with Mick Kern of
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Sirius XM, NHL Network Radio and under Review, one of
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: my appointment listens, by the way in the morning. He
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: does a fantastic job. Mick Kello, nearly happy break to you.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: How are you holding up right now?
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: Well, you know, everyone's looking forward to the Olympics. I'm
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: like the exception. I'll watch it, especially the men's and
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: women's hockey. But you know what, Mike, I've really enjoyed
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: the NHL season. I can't wait till February twenty fifth.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: Oh goodness, yeah, when we get going again and all
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: the teams have a quarter of the season to play
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: in six and a half weeks.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And we got through this whole January thing and what
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: just felt like a crunch. It was a blink of
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: an eye as well. I mean, hey, I'm tired. It's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: a good tire though, But that's what January gave us.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Right now, I mean, as we head near it, as
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: we head nearly into this break, to you the biggest
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: surprises right now in the standings Eastern and Western Conference?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: What are they to you?
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Who are you guys? You guys, are a surprise in
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: the way it up for you right there? I mean
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: it is.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: I got Pittsburgh in the East. I'm not even gonna
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: say Buffalo. I got Pittsburgh more in the East. We'll
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: get to them. Let's go with you, guys. This good
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: players on this team. You know this team better than
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: I do. There's no superstars on this team, kind of
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: like Carolina in that way. By the way, Sebastianaho is
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: a great player. I use superstar very sparingly. Dry Sidle mcannon.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: Data hasn't got that guy yet. Don't get him. Eventually,
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: maybe the trade will, maybe they develop him. Doesn't matter.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: This is a well run team, well coached team, good
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: goaltending and the team construct.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: You know, this is one of the.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: Most team or into sports. You got to have the
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: really star players. Maybe Shane writes that guy. Eventually, maybe
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: he gets shipped out. Who knows. Who knows, But right
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: now with what we know, Mike, this is a good team.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: I saw them here in Toronto and I was like, now,
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: it's one game, but they're one of the teams. I went,
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: this's a good team. This is the best Seattle team
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: I've seen. I know they made the playoffs the second
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: year of the one hundred points, but then there was
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: a bit of a regression. I didn't think it was regression.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: I thought it was more just back to what they
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: were as they're developing who they are, and I like
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: the steps they're on.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: It's tough.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: That Pacific Division is cuckoo crazy.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, it just is.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: You guys could finish first, you can finish out of
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: the playoffs. I do believe you're making the playoffs. I
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: don't know who's not making it now with La getting
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: Panera and how can they not be better? How can
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: their offense you just saw them, how can they not
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: be better? Edmonton or a conundrum to me, Vegas aren't
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: going the way they're supposed to. So if we get
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: to April fifteenth, whatever it is in the Seattle Cracker
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: in the first place, now, wouldn't be shocked. Back in
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: October I would have said, Mike, you're crazy.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Where do you then put Lane Lambert and his coaching
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: job in the Jack Adams conversation with others like John
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Cooper and also even Damn Muse in Pittsburgh.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, great choices. He has to be in the conversation
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: and he'll get votes. He may not win it, though
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: he'd be a worthy recipient. Here's the thing about that trophy.
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: You know this, Mike, Every year seven eight to nine
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: guys are legitimate winners of that thing. We tend to
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: go towards the guys who bring the team from nowhere up.
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: So that's why John Cooper never wins it. And I
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: think he's done a really good job this year with
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: that team, an aging team, chalk fall of Hall of
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: famers who have also had injury problems, so I think
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: he might be the odds on favorite. There's sentimentality in
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: there too that shouldn't be a factor, but we're human.
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: But I think Lambert and his staff have done an
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: excellent job and they just see that's quietly there right now.
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: And this is the learning curve of an expansion franchise.
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: Vegas blew that out out of the water the great exception.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: This is more of a typical sort of Frans And
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: again you made the playoffs second year. That doesn't happen
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: very often. I like the path this team is on
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: the trajectory. And my look what Montreal is doing right now?
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: Are they gonna make They're a little further ahead of
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: Seattle right now, not point wise necessarily, but I think
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: in development with young guys. But Montreals are saying Ken
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: Hughes and that are saying, we'll take a trade, We'll
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: get someone if we like it. This is a long
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: term thing. We're not going to put the foot on
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: the accelery just because the fans in the media want
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: us to. I say the same thing for the Kraken.
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: You want to be you want to be a legitimate
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: contender for say a ten year window. You just don't
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: want to take one run unless you think you're right there.
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: And most teams stret Colorado's there, Dallas are there, Carolina's there.
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: I can see Carolina doing that, but in the case
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: of a team like Seattle, I take my time. It
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: can be frustrating for fans, but I do believe you
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: guys make the playoffs and can easily win around you too.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: You may find yourself in the Western Conference final before
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: you know it. Don't get too excited, folks, but I
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: haven't seen anyone from the Pacific that tells me they're
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: that much better than Seattle. I do believe Colorado, Dallas,
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: and Minnesota, in whichever order. Colorado's come back a bit.
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: I believe they're the top three teams in the West.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: After that, who wants to be the fourth best could
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: be Seattle.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: What did you take away from the trade the Kings
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: did for ur Timmy Paneren and what was all going
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: on around the outer edges with that?
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: Mick I thought it was a great move for the
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: Kings because he's going to improve their pop gun offense.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: They were like twenty ninth and scoring something like thirtieth
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: of the power play. It's in that, it's in the
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: basement and they've been terrible. Went home a reversal of
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: last year. Right, you just saw them. They can play
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: some good defense. They needed that injection. And now here's
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: the thing. He's only there for two more years. He's
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: what thirty four, He's still producing at a high level.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: He's over a point per game guy for a bad
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: Rangers team. So I thought for the Kings, why not where.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: He wanted to go.
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: Apparently he wanted to go a couple other places it
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: didn't work out. So next was on Seattle, where inst
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: it didn't work. Okay, it would have been a great
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: pickup for the same reasons because if he doesn't work out,
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: you only got two more years and then you can
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: say goodbye. I kind of like that contract for LA
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: I like it for the Rangers. We took calls this morning, Mike,
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: Peter Burs and I and Ranger fans. For the most part,
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: they were split. They were whining or not getting enough.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: You get plenty of Ranger fans, don't you into your show,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: the fan base.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: And they're great.
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: But as you know, he could have walked for nothing.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: So at least you got a prospect who was the
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: first round pick. We'll see how he develops. He's not
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: going to be another Peneran, okay, but let's give it time.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: Probably not you got some draft picks. It's all part
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: of starting to do the overturn of the Rangers. And
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: I look at it this way, Mike, unless you're in
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: the precipice of winning a cup going very far, which
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: to me is a conference final, or like Buffalo, who
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: haven't been in the playoffs now for fourteen counting fifteen seasons.
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: And why would you trade Tuck if he's not going
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: to be there? No, I keep him because I think
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: for that franchise, for the fans, it's imperative them the playoffs.
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: Except for those instances, I always want something for somebody.
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: So I think the Rangers maximize what they could Paneron
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: had the no movement, no trade, whatever it was, they.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Gave it to him.
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: He's using it. We can't get mad at him. I'd
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: use it if I had it. Yeah, So he implemented
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: what was given to him rightfully, and so I thought
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: the Rangers, with their backs against the wall, did as
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: good as they were gonna do. It beats getting zimple.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: It feels like once we get out of this Olympic break,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline is going to hit us right in
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the face. And it's almost kind of like two of two,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: because we had the first one effectively here before the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Olympic break, and now the freeze is underway, and then
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: this next one's going to be coming up just several
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: days once after teams get right back to break. I mean,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: there are plenty of names out there the crack and
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: want to acquire, maybe that they also ship out reportedly here.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: But i'll throw three names out you here.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Robert Thomas, Elias Peterson, Jordan Cayrou likeliest to get moved
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: you think by a trade deadline as who.
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: Okay, I won't answer like this because I don't know.
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: I'll tell you who I would take. Robert Thomas. I
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: like him as a player. I think he's going through
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: some injuries right now. But this is a Saint Louis
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: team that has disappointed me this year. I thought after
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: they they got into the playoffs and just barely misbeating
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: Winnipeg like by the fitnest of margins, right, I thought
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: they were going to go forward. I think I think
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: every Doug, Armstrong and Coup are surprised how they just
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: have kind of just they've just gone backwards, and I
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: think there's some changes necessary. I think Robert Thomas is
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: a heck of a player, and I think you'd have
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: to give up a little more to get him than
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: Panerin because of the situation. But I think there's going
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: to be more suitors. Patterson is an enigma.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: As you know.
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: We saw how good ped was for when he got
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: a hundred points and how good number forty was, and
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: we've seen a regression in that on and off the ice.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: These people are not staffed and not hockey cars. As
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: I always say, maybe he needs a fresh start to
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: He'd be intriguing because somebody will think they can still
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: drill down and get that. Maybe he's not one hundred
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: points again, Mike, maybe he's eighty five or ninety. Card
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: is a good player too. That's another guy I like.
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: But of the three, I would want Thomas personally.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Mccurran joining us here from sirius XM NHL Network Radio
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: as a part of under Review right now here on
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the Beacon Plumbing Hotline, Mick, I want to touch on
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference as well. You tease us about a
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: few minutes ago. I mean Tampa Bay with what John
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Cooper's doing, no surprise, they're in first place. Carolina, what
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: they're doing, no surprise once again. But I mean the
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: whole Pittsburgh factor in Dan Muse and then you have
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Sabers once they.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Made that GM change.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: My goodness, I can't help but think with what Pittsburgh
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: still has intact with Crosby, Malkin, Chris Latang. I just
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: can't help but think that they're gonna make it. But
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: what do we make out of them versus say Buffalo
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: if the Sabers get in. As far as who might
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: be the scarier matchup, you think.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: Pittspurghive to find all my expectations. They haven't made the
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: playoffs in three years. Say I'm going to playoffs herees
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: I think since twenty eighteen, so that's still to be seen.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: We know Crosby's won for the Ages. We know that
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: Malkins having our a renaissance season. Some of the young
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: guys have stepped up. The coaching is good. Kyle Duvis
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: the GM, I think he's got hisins in the rebuild.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: Maybe this is a bit of a pleasant surprise. Stuart
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: Skinner looks good, he looks rejuvenated. He needed to get
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: out of Edmonton, which is funny because Edmonton's goaltending doesn't
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: look so good right now, right and right now, Stuart
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: Skinner looks better in Pittsburgh than Jerry does in Edmonton.
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: But that's a whole that's a whole defense thing. But
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: you know how they work. Pittsburgh's a surprise to me
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: because I'm waiting here it hidding my head called Win's
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: Buffalo going to be good. Look at Buffalo's lineup. Rasmus
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: Dallen is one of the best defensemen in the league
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: and talking, and Tate Thompson is an amazing player, like
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: the big t Colin. He's just a good player. There's
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: so much talent on that roster. Owen Power still hasn't
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: found his full game yet and he's going to and
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: they've got good goaltenders.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: They just need to work it out.
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: And Devin Leeve, I can't even make the team right now,
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: down on the minors. He's going to be good, I think,
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: so I expect him finally to get good. I thought
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: Pittsburgh were going the other way. So to me, that's
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: why Pittsburgh's a bigger surprise. Buffalo has been a surprise
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: because suddenly they went on this elongated winning street. We
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: saw the Ducks do that. We see all the teams
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: that we go, yeah, whatever, and the Ducks then slid back.
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: Now they're back again. You know this full well, Bubble
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: didn't do that. They just kept winning and winning and winning.
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: They went all the way up from like second last
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: place all the way up to fighting for first place.
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: You can hear that alarm in my apartment when the
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: alarms excided. They're just testing the fire alarm. Don't worry, folks,
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: They're getting ready for the playoffs. That's what's going to
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: sound like when Buffalo scores goals. I think the Sabers
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: being in the playoffs will be a very exciting thing.
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: On that same note, I think Detroit has got to
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: be mentioned too, because I think they're going to also
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: break that gap. Interesting when I mentioned Detroit, the sound
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: went away. Maybe they're hiring up. I think Detroit are
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: the real deal. I think they're making I think Buffalo's
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: making it. Those are surprise teams, but you know this
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: mic for every good surprise, there's got to be it's
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: got to be a balance. Look how disappointing the Leafs
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: have been.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Goodness, and they looked awful here last week.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: They looked absolutely out of Saint out of touch.
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and they just beat Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. They
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: ten two of the the least teams no offense, Vancouver
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: and Calgary Calgary Triceard and they always need to do
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: well in Edmonton. The key for them be coming out
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: of the break. They're gonna play twice in Florida, then
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: they're here on the twenty eighth. I'm going to the game.
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: Ottawa's in town. Ottawa still thinks they can make the playoffs.
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: There's a whole lot of teams just like the West
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: in the East who MIC are bubbling three or four
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: points under. But I really believe Columbus are the team
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: right now. They've done everything they needed to do. They
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: got through the quote unquote easy part of the schedule
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: and won every game, Mike, they won every game. They
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: won what eight in row.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Whatever it is.
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: They're nine to one in their past ten or ten.
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: They're ten and one since Rick Bonus took over. I
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: think that's the stat. So suddenly they're right behind the Islanders.
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: They're closer to the Mets third spot than the wild card.
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: It's gonna be a crazy six and a half weeks.
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: You're gonna be calling your team who are going to
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: the playoffs and you're gonna be scoreboard watching like you've
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: never watched before.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Mine who's the scarier I think challenge right now in
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: the Pacific Division as far as the crack and two
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: get in. Is it more of the kings panerin? But
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: yet still they're scoring questions elsewhere? Is it Anaheim who
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: is young, they have firepower, but defensive issues still or
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: is it San Jose nearly in that same boat and
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: they've been taking a slide, but yet we know what
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Celebrini can do.
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: Celebrini's is a superstar already second year in. He's a superstar.
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: I mean, I don't say that often, but he is.
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: I'll answer it this way. I believe Vegas and Edmonton
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: still make the playoffs. I believe Seattle makes the playoffs.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: I believe Utah makes the playoffs, not the same division
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: but the same conference. But there'll be a wildcard because
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: they're not going to get to the top three. So
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: suddenly that leaves one playoffs bought left. I believe Saddle's in,
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: and I think Anaheim's gonna take it, I think, but
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: I think Sales's just gonna miss. But what a step
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: forward they've taken. If they miss it's it's going to
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: be a disappointment. But like again, back in October, we
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: wouldn't have said Santo's fighting for a playoff spot. We
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: wouldn't have So it's an advancement. How do they build
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: on that? I think the trick will be between you guys,
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: So I think you make it, you got you could
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: be first, you guys and Anaheim. It's gonna be what
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: does Pineren do for the Kings and how does that
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: upgrade their game? Man and and and as my my
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: co host Peter Burr said, do other teams make a
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: corresponding move? Because they got the arms race now and
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: they've got this guy.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: The Orders, the Orders are just kind of blood.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: We talk about the Least being blood. The Orders have
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: the same record. If the Orders were in the tough
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: Atlantic right now, which is crazy. Every team's good in
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: that division, but yeah, it's just crazy, then they wouldn't
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: even be in the playoff picture. The Least would be
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: fighting for first place in the Pacific. That's just it's cyclical,
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: it's how it goes. So I think in whatever order,
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: it's going to be Vegas, Seattle, Edmonton in the playoffs,
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: and I and and I think Utah's taking a spot.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: So what there are I think there's one spot left
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: for the other teams. I don't know, gonna be fun.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: What are you banking on more for the Olympics, Canada
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: versus US or somebody else like Sweden or Finland's taking
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: it into the gold medal game?
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, look, we want Canada US. There's some
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: political tensions now, but Canada US will.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Always be friends.
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: We'll get over this.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: We will get over this.
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: Half my family's American. I love the States. You know
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: that we'll get over it. But we have a good
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: rivalry too. We can We're like brothers. We can fight,
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: but we get along in the end. So we all
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: want Canada US. But you know, Sweden is a good team.
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: And wouldn't it be something with Sweden and Chechia in
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: the flying We're all going what happened? But folks, there's
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: so many great NHLs on those teams. I hope people watch.
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: In women's hockey, I think it's the US versus Canada
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: usually is. Other countries are coming along, but I think
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: the US are the power this year. So I think
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: the US women are going to get the gold and
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: it's Canada, US Sweden to me for the men's gold.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: I don't even know, you know what it is in
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: a short tournament. Who it's the bad penalty call? Who's
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: the goal to the States. Probably shouldn't be Canada on
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: the Four Nations face off, but mister Bidnington refound his
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: game and there you go. There's the difference.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if we have another gold medal game
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: going to overtime like last year in the Four Nations?
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: My goodness, that was theater, Mick. It was.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: It was fun and it was and I loved it
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: and smite who won. Yeah, I'm cheering for Canada, but
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: if the State's one, I would have been all right
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: with that. But you know what, I'm still gonna say
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: this mic. It's all fun, but I want the NHL back. Yeah,
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: That's what I'll be looking forward to in February twenty fifth.
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: Is most of the guys are going to the Bahamas,
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: the Bermude to rest on the beach, so hanging out
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: with you. But the stars and superstars they're gonna come back.
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: They're gonna be drained. Some of those guys maybe a
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: little off for a couple of games.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Mike, and it's gonna kind of feel like I think,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: sloppy October once again, but right back in March, right
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: where you have structures breaking down, you have players who
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: are lightlier to get hurt, and all of a sudden,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: you know, if you if you make a one wrong
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: way turn, all of a sudden, boom, it's April and
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: you got maybe two, three, four games to figure it out.
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: Oh, it's going to be crazy. You cannot afford and
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: elongated loose to you can find yourself out of it.
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: And I think this is going to go right down
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: to the final nights the NHL season. Who actually gets
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: in in the lower ashalon's of both conferences and also
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: seating outside of outside of well, even Colorado's come back
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: to the pack, that's not even a sure thing. With
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: Minnesota and Dallas, I think the only sure division. I
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: think Tampa takes first in the Atlantic, but not by much.
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: I think Carolina takes first in the met I think
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: they're clearly the best Metropolitan team.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: They certainly know how to play, they know how to skate,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: and it's like a sixty minute Cardio hit workout face
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: and then it feels like any kind of game night here.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: But if we go into the break, McKay appreciate this,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: keep up the great work once again and looking forward
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: to hearing from you once more on Under Review folks again.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Find him at sirius X and NHL Network Radio X
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: and Twitter at x bol Mick as well. Finally, before
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: we go Florida, Bahamas or other for you for the break.
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: Well, because we're working this. If I could, you know,
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: I've been to Bermuda, was beautiful and never been in Mohammas.
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: But I was in Tampa back in twenty fourteen. We
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: did the whole we were in Orlando, did the whole
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: NASA tour, which I'm a rocket guy.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: That was fun.
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: We went to Tampa and when it went to the
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: Causeway or whatever, it was beautiful there and we went
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: to see a Raised game against the Astros. Me and
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: like five other people, I fell in love with the
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: Tampa Saint Pete area, So I like, I think the
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: Gulf Coast is for me.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: I'm doing the staycation thing right now, but if I
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: can make it out there Florida sometime at least for
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: a few a couple of weeks, I'm taking the golf
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: clubs out there too. I talked to one NHL head
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: coach about a week ago and he said, I'm taking
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: the kids right to Florida once we're all done so
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: by you seriously can't get enough of sunshine and no
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: matter where you are, But mickay appreciate you. Thanks once
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: again and to look forward to getting you back on
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: once again here.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: Thank you anytime, Mike.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: All right, that's Mick Kurrn joining us. Big thank you again, Mick.
• 41:54
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• 42:01
  Speaker 1: on ninety three three KJARFM. All right, let's jump into
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: it here for the pull question update. And I really
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: don't think I'm surprised based on what happened to games ago.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Anaheim gets the majority of your vote right now as
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: far as biggest threat in the Western Conference playoff picture
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: for the Cracking as far as as concerned, Anaheim with
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: sixty eight percent of the vote, even with the King's
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: picking up our Timmy Paneren just two percent of your vote.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Next closest behind Anaheim is Edmonton twenty one percent. So
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: the Ducks right now a runaway favorite. Yet voting is
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: still open right now. Go ahead and check it out
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: at Twitter and xAd Crack in Audio Net for the
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Crack and Audio Network pull Question of the Week again.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: The biggest threat in the Western Conference playoff picture? Is
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: it the King's Ducks, Vegas or Edmonton?
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: What's ever?
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I think here biggest threat in this playoff picture the
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Kings after they got our Timmy paneren the Ducks right
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: now with who they have the young firepower, Vegas well
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: still being Vegas still but yet.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: A few whole as well in their game.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Or Edmonton who it seems like one day they are
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: struggling defensively and then the next day they have McDavid, Dry,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Sidle and Bouchard just going fall blown fifth gear.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: You know what right now, I'm going Edmonton. I'm sorry. Anaheim,
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: the Ducks.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: The last two games that the Kraken have played against Anaheim,
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: you mentioned the word clunker.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: The Kraken got off to slow starts.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: They're fast, they're skilled, they have that offensive fire power.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: They can score in bunches. They're a team that likes
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: to beat you. We talked about this against the Ducks
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: the other night. Anaheim. They did not allow Seattle to
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: get to their game hardly at all cracking, like the
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: slow things down on their breakouts, take their time reloading
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: the neutral zone. Anaheim, there was a lot of flushing
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: from behind the net. There's a lot of pressuring, a
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: very aggressive for check. Also when the Ducks broke out
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: it there's zone they use the boards a lot trying
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: to catch seattle against the wall. So that speed really,
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: I thought, has hindered the Kraken in recent games. A
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: four to two loss back on the twenty third, or
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: four to two loss a couple of nights ago on Tuesday.
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: So for me, I think the biggest hill to.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Climb, based on what I've seen in the last you know,
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: ten to fifteen games, is the Anaheim Ducks.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get to some more Olympic reaction with again
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Philip Grubauer, Acoppocco, Ellie Tolven and Oscar Fisco Mulgard among
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: the cracking players go into the Winter Olympics here. But
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: before that, our mail bag segment once again, you can
• 44:38
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• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Mike. I'm gonna jump into this one.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Here from Curtis and I'll take the lead on this,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: what do you think the Krakens pursuit of thirty four
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: year old ur Timmy Panarin says about where the Kraken
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: brass feels about where this team is at.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: And then if it's I'll let you take this away.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: As far as what you're understanding is of this here,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back and reference my opening thoughts here.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Of this, it's pretty clear cut they are a buyer
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: at this point. And for this reason, playoffs mean theater.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Theater means more eyeballs, and eyeballs as well are better
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: here long term for business.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: And adding on to this, I understand where so many.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Where a few folks will say, well, you know what
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: you have to build here for the long term future,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: why not go ahead and just tear it down?
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: No matter where you're at right now. In this playoff picture.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: The Kraken aren't as far as other teams, like say
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: where San Jose was accruing about twenty five plus years
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: in the NHL, Anaheim roughly twenty five plus years in
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: the NHL, where you have equity where you can go
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: ahead and go through a long term teardown, build that
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: team back up, because again we saw how many empty
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: seats were in San Jose and definitely in Anaheim when
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: they were going through all of this the crack and
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: are in a very unique spot and in a very
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: different spot as well. Playoffs again mean eyeballs. Eyeballs mean attention,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: and attention as well is very good for business here
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: at this point, so it's easy to understand why reportedly
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: they have been making strikes to add again a top
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: line forward here for this lineup and supplement players like
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Matty Beneers, Jared McCann, Jordan Eberley, Chandler Stevenson, etc.
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: Etc.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Even Bertley Catton, who has found his way in this
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: lineup when healthy amongst a pretty solid veteran core.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think the same again this organization.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: You know, Ron Francis now, Jason boscherl ownership, Todd LWICKI,
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: every one of the top They have been saying that
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: we want to add, We're going to be aggressive, and
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: I think that pursuit of our Temipenerian shows that. However,
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: I am perfectly fine, and this is my opinion.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: I'm giving my opinion here.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: I am fine with the Kraken not landing Panerin for
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: a couple of reasons. I think number one. Yes, he
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: is a very good player. He is a very strong
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: offensive player, but he's thirty four years old, and I
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: don't know if I was ready to commit the long
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: term deal that he wanted, the money that he wanted
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: for a player who is thirty four years old.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: You know, you look at his last couple of seasons.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: He had eighty nine points last year, one hundred and
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: twenty points last year, ninety two and ninety six.
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: So he's gone on.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Four straight years of eighty nine or more points, eighty
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: points at least in three seven of his last ten years.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: So again, yes, he's continuing to score and produce at
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: a high level, but it's that number then he he's
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: thirty four that scares me. And then that eleven million
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: dollars and the kraken you know, allegedly from what you
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: read unofficially from around the hockey world, the pundits, you know,
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: the crack and offered north of twelve and then they
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: offered north of three to four years.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: That's a little rich for me. I'm okay with them
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: not pulling the trigger on that.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: A couple of other players whose names have been floated
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: around there, I understand that our temmy Paneren is that
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: dynamic forward that.
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: This team has been looking for.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: But if the Kraken were in a position to make
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: the playoffs and to go on a deep run and
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: to win a Cup in the next couple of years, okay,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: maybe I can see it. But where this team is
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: right now in their development, in their maguration, I don't
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: know if he fits that mold of what this team's
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: trying to do.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: There's a certain type of ad in other words, they
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: have to go after, and he doesn't kind of fit.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: In that sweet spot, if you will.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Because Panera was apparently an ad because again reports were
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: out there that he wanted Florida, he wanted Tampa Bay,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: and there was a good mutual fit because they're in
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: a different tier than where the Crack and are at
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: right now as far as playoffs, and they're in a
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: must win now situation, just like you know saying you
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: know Vegas is, Edmonton is the Kings think they're there.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: There are discussions whether if they're truly there or not.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: But again, it is a star driven market and pen
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: aren't kind of set the bar for himself on that one.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: But you know, you do want to add but I
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: think ad within the realm of cash, where is it
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: going to make your team better but not take away
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: too much from what you have now.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: And that said, listen, I'm all for the big splash
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: you and I were talking about on the road trip.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: You know, we brought up the names of a Robert Thomas,
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: of a of ad Jason Robertson players like that. I
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: am all for making a big splash, but I do
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: feel like for where this team is right now, you
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: know you're right, you need a guy that fits the
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: certain mold of what you're trying to do here. And
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: also too, I think our Timmy pitarian is a guy
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: he needs a lot of high end skill around him
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: to play around him.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: And again this is a fact the Kraken.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: Just don't have that high level skill that maybe other
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: teams have.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: And that's okay.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: This is a hard working, grinding team. I've never known
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: our Timmy Panairen to be, you know, a grinding type
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: of player. There. There might need to be a few
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: nights where you're you're not gonna get a lot of touches,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So again, like I said,
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: I'm okay with the Kraken not making this move and
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: that that that you know and and or I guess
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: he didn't choose Seattle, and that's okay for me. But
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: that doesn't that doesn't say that Jason Botrel isn't going
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: to still try and swing for the fences here and again,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: depending on who who you listen.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: To and who you talk to around the league, the Kraken,
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: They want a big h what do they say, franchise
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: altering player. That's the phrase we keep hearing from all
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: the TSN guys, all the Elliott Friedman's of the world,
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: you know, those type of guys. That is who the
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: Kraken you know, are going after. Recording to those quote
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: unquote industry insiders, all.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Right, question here from Jim asking what do the players
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: not playing in the Olympics do during the break? Is
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: there a risk of getting out of shape? That from
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Jim on Twitter and x crack and we'll have Coppocaco,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Ellie Tulveden both out to Finland, Philip Grubauer, who should
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: be the starting goalie for Team Germany, Oscar Fiskra Mulgard
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: and a potential top nine, maybe top six roll perhaps
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: with Team Denmark as well. But for everybody else. I mean,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: there's not much time to let loose too much. Roughly,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: you will have a two week break to relax, unwine, recover,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: recapture what was lost as far as energy and stamina
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: from what was nineteen games in thirty five days. So
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: you go into the break right now with some good momentum.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: But this is where you find balance from a busy
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: month of January. Players go into exotic locations. You know,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if there is you know, some
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Mexico on the menu, some Hawaii on the menu, some
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: outer islands as well on the menu, but enough to
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: kind of get back what you lost as far as stamina,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: you know, get some well deserved vitamin D from there.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: It's good medicine.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: And then you come back Catri here because there's gonna
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: be a few days of practice.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: To get the mind back, get the legs back.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: So it's willing into before the crack and get back
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: into it with back to back at Dallas and Saint Louis.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: I want to I want to turn that question back
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: was Jim. Jim Will asked the question, Yes, yeah, I
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: want to turn that back on Jim.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: Hey, Jim, what did you do when you were a
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: mid twenties single something on vacation.
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: That's what they're going to be.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: Doing as mid twenties single something's on vacation with a
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: couple of days off of hockey.
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: No, I guys during the break, You're right, Mike, I mean,
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: this isn't summer vacation. You got a week you.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: Know, you're probably gonna you know, a couple of guys
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: are gonna they're they're gonna travel together, They're gonna go
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: out of town. I know a lot of guys with
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: families are gonna they're gonna finally be able to be
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: dad and husband at home and do things with their kids.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: You know, so they still understand what is at stake.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: They still have their eye on the prize. The NHL
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: is so unique. We are the only sport that has
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: a multiple week break within their season. No other sport
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: has two weeks off, three weeks off in their season,
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: and we're doing it every two years. Because you've got
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: the World Cup of Hockey or the Four Nations, whatever
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: you want to call it, coming back, and then now
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: you're going to have the Olympics. You know, I would
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: be willing to have the argument that on odd I
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: guess every four years the Olympics should replace the World
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: Championships and be in the Summer Olympics. Like basketball is
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: Basketball is in the Summer Olympics. It's a winter sport, right,
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: Why isn't hockey in the Summer Olympics as well? Because again,
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: taking three weeks off I think is very hard financially
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: for a lot of these ownership groups, but also as fans.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: You know, you take that throughy break, but they understand
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: what what the what's that stake here?
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: But no, there, they're gonna go to an island. They're
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: gonna go somewhere warm.
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: There's gonna be some umbrellas in their drinks. There's gonna
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: be some limes in their drinks.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: And they're gonna they're gonna rest and recuperate, a lot
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: of therapy tubs, a lot of hot tubs.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: A lot of sleeping in.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: Maybe they don't wake up at eight am, who knows,
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: But yeah, just go back to when you were twenty
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: something and you were going on vacation with your butts.
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: That's what That's what they're gonna be doing.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Also, don't forget as well, there are teams like Vegas.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: There are teams like Los Angeles anywhere between five to
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: nine players, Tampa Bay you can throw in there. So
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: I mean it's great once you can pursue a medal,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: and a lot of players want to play in these
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Olympics here, But what's going to happen in March when
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: they come back and were facing the same schedule, crush
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: the crack and only have three full time players if
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: you know, you count the majority of Fisco Mulgar's time
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: in Coachella Valley where rest is going to be on
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: their side once we get right back into this everet Yeah, yeah, no, And.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Listen, that's a very good point that I don't think
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: people realize is that the Kraken just came off of a.
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: Seventeen game month of January.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: They got thirteen in March, right, So it's not like
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: it's gonna get any easier. And the Kraken, you know,
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: with only three full time guys going to the Olympics
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: and you're knocking on all the wood, you can find
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: that those two guys come back healthy. Every single year,
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: someone's going to get hurt. Every Olympic, every four Nations,
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: every World chant, somebody always gets hurt. I was reading
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: today that was a Team Finland, the women's side. Team
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: Finland doesn't have enough players to play against Team Canada
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: because of the neurrovirus that infected their team. There's like thirteen,
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: got thirteen ladies on their team. They don't have enough
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: to fill an entire roster, so they had to postpone
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: their first game of the Olympics. So someone always always
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: gets hurt or gets you know. You hear about the
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: home run derby in baseball, does that ruin their swing?
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: It didn't for cal Rally this year, thank goodness. But
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: you know, if you do the home run derby, is
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: it going to ruin your swing coming.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: Back down the second half of the season. So that's
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: something to keep an eye on.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: And I think you're right, Mike, with Vegas having eight
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: to nine guys, Colorado has all these guys. Most of
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: Dallas or most of Finland is on Dallas's team.
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: And you know, I do think.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: That that is maybe a silver lining of the Kraken
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: not having a lot of Olympians that set. I think
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: down the road we're gonna have a Maddy Vaniers and
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: a Berkeley Caton and a few other players in Olympic
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: conversations for years to come. But this season, rest is
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: a weapon and and the Kraken I think are going
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: to be one of the more weaponized teams coming out
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: of the Break again, hoping and assuming that Tol, the
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: KK and Gruby stay healthy.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Let's get to our three stars before we get out
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: and finally get to break because Everet's got places to go.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: Lego Lands a visit as well.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: I got a staycation in a honey due list, maybe
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: some golf as well thrown.
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: Into and then we're I have a bed to get
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: back to.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: The Yeah, I've had to throw that in there as
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: well too. I'm first gonna go with my three stars.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: My thirst star is Chandler Stevenson, who had four assists
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: in the previous two Kracking victories, tied for the team
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: lead five points since the last show. The delicious Pass
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: last night he threw Adam Larson again was an embodiment
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: of the kind of playmaker I think the Krack and
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: need from him to really fortify their depth heading into
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: March and into April as well.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: The face off circle.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Again has always been a strength of his the Kings game,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: he won eleven face offs out of twenty one fifty
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: two percent.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: That is not easy against an i'm J.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Coopepatar led team, or he's getting thrown out with plenty
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: of draws and cope. Patar was unconscious twenty one of
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: thirty face offs he won in that game last night.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: But the more depth of Cracking can have up and
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: down their lineup, It's always set in hockey. You have
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: to have a good spine, which also means your centers
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: line one to line four. Vaniers is reaching a new tier.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: It appears Stevenson is reaching once again a level of
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: play that where if he can be this productive, the
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: crack And are going to be a playoff team. And
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: we saw again some and four goals in the last
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: week for Shane Wright that deserves mentioned as well. But
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: I think for Chandler Stevenson, this is where you're starting
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: to really I think find the savvy and the playoff
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: experience he's had from previous dips in Washington and Vegas
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: really kick in. I know for some folks who don't
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: watch this team day after day and they'll go back
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: here into the analytics, well again, I want to again,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: I want to challenge you watch the game, watch him
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: shift by shift and what he can do because right
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: now is no accent that he's also third right now
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: on this team in scoring where they want to have
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: depth as a hallmark of their production. Chandler Stevenson is
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: my third star of this past week. My second star
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: is Joey Decord, who was brilliant in thatt against Vegas,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: brilliant and net once again last night against the Kings.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: There have been games.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Previously where he has had to, I think be more
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: active athletically, but he shook off the goal from Andre
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Kuzmenko in period one, which a goal that he might
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: want to have back, but the Cracker responded and then
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: you saw Decord once again settled into his game. He
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: was challenged Glove's side and he answered those challenges and
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: Joey Decord a big reason why the Crackers were able
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: to pull out that win over the Kings last night.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Joey Decord two wins against two very challenging Pacific Division opponents,
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: twenty five saves last night against the Kings. He is
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: my second star. My first star is Jared McCann as well.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Just passing game seven hundred of his NHL career, anty
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: was Stevens send five points this last week. Jared McCann
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: is once again finding a role on this top line
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: with the Kraken. He has been producing with Matty Beniers
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: producing here with Jordan Eberley, and the game that he
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: is right now producing as well says well on his
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: way to a forty goal type of pace. It's pretty
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: clear that the injury that he had earlier it is
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: well a thing in the past, and McCann right now
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: is going to be a very valuable piece of this
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: playoff run. With sixteen goals in thirty two games as
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: the crack and trying to march here for their second
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: playoff Berth.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: Jared McCann is my first star.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you and I are kind of a line here.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna break some rules though. So my third star
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: is going to be Joey Decord three. He's one four
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: to row, three wins in the last week. He's got
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: a two goals against average over his last four games,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: so I mean the two goals in each of his
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: last four wins, So I mean that's been phenomenal. Goaltending
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: has been the best you know, I think part of
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: this team all year long, and and the job that
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: Colin Julianello has done with Philip Grubauer, with Joey Decordtt
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: Murray when he comes back healthy.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: I thought, Joey Decord.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: You need big goaltending this week, and you got it
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: from him.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: So he's my number.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: Three star, the first star of the week of the NHL. Well,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: Jared McCann, he's my second star of the week four Seattle.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: I told you I'm breaking some rules here. I'll tell
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: you why in a second. And again, you're right, Jared McCann.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: I mean he's proving that that injury is well behind
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: him right now. I mean, Jared McCann, where's my sheet here?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: So Jared McCann has played in thirty two games this season.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: He has got points in twenty three of those thirty
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: two games this season, currently on a five game point
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: streak with four goals and five assists in that time.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: So he's absolutely crushing it this season.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: Jared McCann's my number two star. My number one star iszizzzzz.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: It is such an honor to represent your country. I'm
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: gonna give Philip Grubauer, Eli Tolven and Coppolocaco and Oscar
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: Fisker moleguard my collective number.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: One star as they send off to the Olympics. I
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: hope they have the best time.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: I hope they soak up this opportunity, enjoy representing your
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: country and your families and your friends and your homelands.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: Of course they're gonna listen to this and take all
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: these words to heart, but those four are my number
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: one star. An Olympics send off to those guys.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: Coppocaco scored a very important goal against Vegas as the
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: game winner as well, Ellie Tolbden producing and also with
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: some fine defensive play back in his own zone. And
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: they're gonna support filming a very very important depth role
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: each for them. Philip Grubauer is going to be your
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: starting goaltender. Rind Ap peers here for Team Germany. And
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: then we're gonna look forward to seeing what Oscar Fisco
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Mulgard can do against some elite, world class competition as
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: he tries to make that next step. Then once again
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: turn some attention toward his way after some very good
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: low key play last night against the Kings and thinking
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: about the shot block and then the reaction that the
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: bench had as well and well deserve for the four
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: of them to be going off here to represent the
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: crack and at the Winter Olympics.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: Yep, it's gonna be great for them.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: And I listen, I become very very star spangled awesome
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: during the Olympics.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: Don't ask me why.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: For whatever reason, I will. I don't care if it's
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: if it's skeet shooting or slalom skiing or whatever. I
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: will watch any and all Olympic coverage that I can find.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: But individually there will be some loud cheering and fist
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: pumping and high fiving whenever La Tolwin and Oscar Fisker, Mulgard,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: Coppo Cocao and Philip Grubauer do something good for their team.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: So I'm rooting for those four. I want those guys
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: to do well. You know, I think Finland is in
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: that category of top four.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: Germany, their schedule is a little bit.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, their group is manageable, and I think they've
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: got some pretty good talent on their team. Germany could
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: surprise some people, maybe get to a knockout stage. And
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: you know, Denmark again, it'll be Fisker Mulgar, it'll be
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: Oliver b york Strand as well. Good luck to former
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: Crack and Oliver york Strand on that list.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: So you know. But I think Finland and.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: Germany and particularly they can make some noise. But I
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: hope all four of them have fun. I hope all
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: four of them come back healthy.
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  Speaker 4: I hope.
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  Speaker 3: I hope one of them, or maybe all four of
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  Speaker 3: them bring back a metal.
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  Speaker 4: How about that? How about well? Can you imagine if
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  Speaker 4: we had Finland.
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  Speaker 3: Gold, Germany's oh goodness, and Mark Bronze, Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 4: I hope someone comes home.
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  Speaker 1: With a metal, but USA all the way that will
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  Speaker 1: do it here for us, it's break time once again.
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  Speaker 2: Big thank you to Mike Curran, big thank.
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  Speaker 1: You as well to Everett each and every week, Al Kadisky,
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  Speaker 1: we miss you.
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  Speaker 2: Looking forward to having it back here.
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  Speaker 1: and forever it fits you, I might and see you, yeah,