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KRAKEN WEEKLY: Lineup shuffling, Detroit reaction (12/8) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 3: what's ahead here on the Crack Inside. Additionally, Jonathan Davis
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  Speaker 3: the West Coast, and we're gonna get with Jonathan in
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  Speaker 3: just a little bit here too, talk about the cracket
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  Speaker 3: heading into this week. Additionally, matters around the Western Conference
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  Speaker 3: and how the Krakens stack up against the likes of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: The Kings, and much more.
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  Speaker 3: Jonathan Davis joining us on the show later on today.
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  Speaker 3: But first things first, here's a little taste of what
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  Speaker 3: happened this last week on calls from Everett fits you
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  Speaker 3: and Alkiniski told it up top.
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  Speaker 4: Montor shot breaks his stick back to Toleran. It scores
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  Speaker 4: Ellie tolanand right as the power play expires, but it's
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  Speaker 4: the kracket on the board. It's a free one at
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  Speaker 4: Minton oiler lead Well.
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  Speaker 5: I'll turn it out with a broken stick. Shot from
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  Speaker 5: Montour at the point, but it gets down to Tolben
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  Speaker 5: it he doesn't break his ship. It's stick on the
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  Speaker 5: shot and it finds the back of the net. Three
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  Speaker 5: one admotor.
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  Speaker 4: Come Seattle into the defensive zone of the high slot
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  Speaker 4: as Winterton forced off.
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  Speaker 6: The puck now.
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  Speaker 4: Turned over in front, backhead scars, Freddy Gadreau forces the turnover,
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  Speaker 4: undresses Calvin pickered out in front and the Seattle crackhead
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  Speaker 4: pulled back to it in one twenty seven seconds to
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  Speaker 4: play in the first three to two Edmonton well.
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  Speaker 5: Freddy Gudroau showing why it's so important to go on
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  Speaker 5: the attack on the on the fore check, and it
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  Speaker 5: was Leon Dreisidle in the hash marks right in front
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  Speaker 5: of his own goal that gave up that puck to
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  Speaker 5: Freddy Gudreaux. And it was a nice toe drag move
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  Speaker 5: that he got skinnered to bite on. Came back against
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  Speaker 5: the grain, buried it in three quarters of an open
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  Speaker 5: necks lark.
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  Speaker 4: It wings getting behind the defense, shot light side from
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  Speaker 4: Raymond and a big.
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  Speaker 1: Hit same cay I towing the cards.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody hears turns away Raymond's thresher now everly to mar
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  Speaker 4: shot Brandon Montour from the right circle, goes far down
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  Speaker 4: and the Seattle crack and tie this game one one,
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  Speaker 4: three four left.
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  Speaker 5: In the first well, this place starts back in the
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  Speaker 5: seattle out of the ice many years with a great.
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  Speaker 1: Move to alleviate a redwind.
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  Speaker 5: Checker feeds it up to him and every everybody grunts
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  Speaker 5: gets the offensive. New line, creates some traffic, draates the
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  Speaker 5: screen drops into Montour. Montour goes blacker side top shelf.
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  Speaker 2: This title this game.
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  Speaker 4: Titan Washington gets it off the board here side done,
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  Speaker 4: Rick Whine, Larson fires start a laser from Larsen on
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  Speaker 4: the right side, has a crack and Reid tie the
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  Speaker 4: game thirteen sixteen to play.
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  Speaker 6: The second two's aside well some.
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  Speaker 5: Excellent four checking by the cracking at the other end
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  Speaker 5: of the ice, Carja moves that buck back to dun
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  Speaker 5: Dunn slided it over to Larsen and Larson with a
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  Speaker 5: se n shot for three different players, gets his second
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  Speaker 5: of the season miss Games title.
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  Speaker 1: Tuber behind the cage in front of break it bick
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  Speaker 1: same by Joey to card.
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  Speaker 4: He goes down and slaps it out of mid air
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  Speaker 4: with the glove. The cracket ice it the other way,
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  Speaker 4: but my goodness, Joey's a card, a.
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  Speaker 1: Goal saving save.
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  Speaker 4: Nine twenty four, letting the second tie a Timen right
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  Speaker 4: sign Tolvenen up.
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  Speaker 1: Top shot Larsan sky.
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  Speaker 4: Plong bomb from Adam Larson Reeds erected in by Chandler Stevenson.
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  Speaker 6: He broke his stick on the shot.
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  Speaker 4: The Seattle Crackett take a three two lead seven fifteen
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  Speaker 4: to play.
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  Speaker 5: In the second well, Chander Stevenson posts up with that
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  Speaker 5: slot area Hashmarks presentsu stick. Carson gets that shot off
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  Speaker 5: and it goes off the shaft, but Chandler Stevens stick
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  Speaker 5: off the left ear of John Gibson boh and into
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  Speaker 5: the natal Linger back again.
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  Speaker 7: Patrick Kane walks in and scores two twenty nine a
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  Speaker 7: play in the third.
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  Speaker 4: The Red Wings take the lead late for to three
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  Speaker 4: NHL goal for nine to seven for Patrick Cage.
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  Speaker 3: So the bottom line the last two games matter off
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  Speaker 3: at the previous five havn't gone exactly has planned the
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  Speaker 3: Krack and dropping a nine to four defeat to the
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  Speaker 3: Edmonton Oilers this last Thursday, where the experience was quite
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  Speaker 3: combustible when you consider the Kracking going through goaltending and
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  Speaker 3: penalty kill issues that night, and Edmonton icing as close
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  Speaker 3: as a guest to a healthy lineup, especially on the
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  Speaker 3: power play, and the Kraken finishing on the tough side
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  Speaker 3: of his to read that night, nine goals giving up
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  Speaker 3: new franchise record for one game, four power play goals
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  Speaker 3: giving up, also a new franchise record for one game.
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  Speaker 3: The Kraken were so close very next night this past
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  Speaker 3: Saturday to snapping out of their recent skid, but a
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  Speaker 3: pair of goals by Detroit in the latter stages. Each
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  Speaker 3: a period two in period three were a game changer,
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  Speaker 3: and Detroit eventually getting a four to three win on
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  Speaker 3: Patrick Kane's game winning goal with two twenty to nine
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  Speaker 3: left in regulation. Tough to take because the Kraken putting
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  Speaker 3: together a pretty solid effort for much of the first
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  Speaker 3: forty minutes, despite Detroit cashing in on their only man advantage.
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  Speaker 1: So going to.
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  Speaker 3: Bed, the Kraken ending the evening three points out of
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  Speaker 3: the cut line in the Western Conference, their record eleven
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  Speaker 3: nine and six, twenty eight points and three back each
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  Speaker 3: of the Edmonton Oilers and the Utah Manmoth. After the
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  Speaker 3: loss to Detroit, here's more reaction for up defenseman brand
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  Speaker 3: A Montur.
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  Speaker 8: As a defensive group, I mean, how much did the
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  Speaker 8: other night just impact the group as a whole, and
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  Speaker 8: how much how important was it to come back and
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  Speaker 8: just try to do a better showing here.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think it impacted really anything other than maybe
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  Speaker 9: a little reset, get back to kind of basics. But yeah,
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  Speaker 9: good game, good team over there, desperate team over there
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  Speaker 9: that needs some wins as well, and you can't let
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  Speaker 9: up one late at the late in the game.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 8: How do you feel the guys played overall? I mean
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  Speaker 8: it looks I mean, guys came back, we took the lead.
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  Speaker 8: It looked like you did a lot of what you
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  Speaker 8: wanted to do, a.
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  Speaker 9: Little bit more energy, you know, got in the for check,
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  Speaker 9: a little bit more of zone time. Third period. Kind
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  Speaker 9: of a little boring think on our side, but kind
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  Speaker 9: of team that's pressing to get collect points as well,
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  Speaker 9: and they found one late.
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  Speaker 8: We've talked a lot about creating more scoring chances for
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  Speaker 8: the team. It looks like lately you've been getting a
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  Speaker 8: lot more puts to the net.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, how much?
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  Speaker 8: How much has the shoot first mentality?
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  Speaker 9: Do you think me personally or team?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I guess we don't we you know,
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  Speaker 9: we have a tough time scoring goals. No that we
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  Speaker 9: can't score goals. It's just not going in or we're
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  Speaker 9: just not getting enough to the net or making a
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  Speaker 9: hard on our goaliet making hard on the d. So
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  Speaker 9: the best way to kind of get out of that
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  Speaker 9: is to shoot more pucks at net. And yeah, we're
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  Speaker 9: trying to. We're trying to get on there. Last couple
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  Speaker 9: of games, we've got a few more. But again, that's
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  Speaker 9: still something that we can keep keep working on.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, here we are with the Crack and
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  Speaker 3: still hanging around this playoff mix, but after what was
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  Speaker 3: a tough one to take on Saturday without further ado
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  Speaker 3: ever it fits you, Al Kadisky here for our roundtable.
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  Speaker 3: Jonathan Davis for Serious XM NHL Network ready to be
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  Speaker 3: joining us a little bit later on here for an
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  Speaker 3: outlook of the Western Conference teams on this schedule this week.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, guys, let's first just get into it
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  Speaker 3: from this past week and just get right into the
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  Speaker 3: deep end. And I'll kind of categorize this from two
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  Speaker 3: places shout outs and then concerns. And I'll begin here
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  Speaker 3: with this because for all intents and purposes, is you
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  Speaker 3: take that Thursday game and just throw it out the window.
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  Speaker 3: It was a low point onlike maybe any other. So
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  Speaker 3: a lot of this, from what I'm looking at, is
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  Speaker 3: more geared to more focus towards Saturday against the Red Wings.
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  Speaker 3: So my shoutouts here to begin with the second period
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday, and even going back a little bit into
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  Speaker 3: the first barad it showed that the Krack and were
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  Speaker 3: in control of this and against a very skilled team
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  Speaker 3: and a team that can make a sweat defensively any
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  Speaker 3: given night, and I think for the body of work
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  Speaker 3: that they have built up trying to stay away from
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  Speaker 3: the penalties. That was a big issue of course early
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  Speaker 3: in the game, and it was a carryover from Edmonton.
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  Speaker 3: Five on five play looked fantastic, and then they found
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  Speaker 3: a way to put their foot on the gas pedal
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  Speaker 3: and finding ways to get offense from their defense, and
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  Speaker 3: it clearly showed that Detroit was giving them point shots
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  Speaker 3: and the Kraken kept going right back.
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  Speaker 1: To that well over and over and over.
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  Speaker 3: Secondly, I think for me is Lane Lambert and he
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  Speaker 3: made a tough decision sitting Jamie Alexiak, but it's becoming
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  Speaker 3: clear there are no favorites on this team, and if
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  Speaker 3: you have to sit, you sit, and that's called accountability.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Alexiak's a pro. He's not the first VET
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  Speaker 3: in this league, of course, to take a seat in
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  Speaker 3: the press box and a situation like this, and the
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  Speaker 3: odds say that he'll be better off here for this,
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  Speaker 3: but yet it sends a crucial message here, I think
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  Speaker 3: to the rest of this entire team as far as
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  Speaker 3: what Lane Lambert wants to set in place. My third
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  Speaker 3: shout out here for this week is puck play. I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was much better for Saturday, more shot attempts
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  Speaker 3: as well, less one and done's and there was a
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  Speaker 3: shooter's mentality which got better as the game went along,
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  Speaker 3: but then unfortunately dried up in period three. My concerns
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  Speaker 3: and I'll just get through this year to clear the
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  Speaker 3: floor for you guys. First off, the Thursday clunker, because
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  Speaker 3: goaltending and special teams had a rough night for the
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  Speaker 3: Ages and has cleared the crack and knew what they
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  Speaker 3: had to do to basically get out of the gate
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  Speaker 3: and respond here for Saturday. Secondly, rush chances at the
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  Speaker 3: wrong time against Detroit, and it was late in period two,
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  Speaker 3: late in period three, and this came back to haunt them.
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  Speaker 3: Third the penalty kill. They're still in one right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's clear something's very amiss and they're letting too many
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  Speaker 3: passes get through the box through the interior. But it
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  Speaker 3: also puts on a strain I think for not taking
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  Speaker 3: a penalty which can affect teams of five on five.
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  Speaker 3: That's my concern right there. The Kraken, we're good at
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  Speaker 3: that for the most part. On Saturday, but you've got
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  Speaker 3: to be good at this again, coming up here against
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota where they own the ninth best power play in
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  Speaker 3: the entire NHL.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a lot.
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  Speaker 4: That's a lot to digest. I mean, I think you're
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  Speaker 4: spot on. I think for me, the shout out that
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  Speaker 4: I will give is just I think Saturday as a whole,
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  Speaker 4: stopping at the result. You know, they needed a bounce
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  Speaker 4: back from Edmonton. I like the game they played against
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  Speaker 4: the Wings. It was a heartbreaker. You know, Patrick Kine
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  Speaker 4: is as good of a goal scorer as we've seen
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  Speaker 4: in our generation. You know, he's he's scored a million
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  Speaker 4: of those type of goals and eighty third career game
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  Speaker 4: winning goal.
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  Speaker 2: For that one.
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  Speaker 6: So but yeah, man, you know this week was it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was a frustrating week for a variety of reasons.
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  Speaker 4: I think, you know, Alan and I were talking about this,
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  Speaker 4: anytime you put up four you should win the game,
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  Speaker 4: unless you gave up nine. And I think Jordan Ebery
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  Speaker 4: pretty much said all of that in his media availed
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  Speaker 4: before the Detroit game.
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  Speaker 6: But no, I like the puck play this week.
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  Speaker 4: I like the response in in the second period, But
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  Speaker 4: I think overall the game I Also, I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 4: a special shoutout to Vince Done, who are going to
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  Speaker 4: revisit in my in my three Stars week, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna give a shout out.
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  Speaker 6: To Vince Done because.
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  Speaker 4: For the first time, I think in a couple of games,
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  Speaker 4: he stood up for for his team. And I'm not
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  Speaker 4: saying he hasn't done it. I'm not calling him out
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  Speaker 4: in particular, but there have been a number of occasions
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  Speaker 4: in the last handful of games where Berkeley Catton, where
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  Speaker 4: Freddy Gadreau, a handful of others have been taken the
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  Speaker 4: task by other teams, and the Kraken didn't have the
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  Speaker 4: physical response that I think they should have had. I'll
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  Speaker 4: go back to the Saturday game against Edmonton, right, say
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  Speaker 4: what you want about Darnol Nurse and Marshmitt and all
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  Speaker 4: that other stuff that was.
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  Speaker 1: Going on and on Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: Off about it last Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I know I went off on it last week,
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  Speaker 4: but it's like, you know, where was that in the
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  Speaker 4: second period? I didn't need that in the third period.
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  Speaker 4: So we're gonna chase Darno Nurse. We're gonna go around
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  Speaker 4: and do all that.
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  Speaker 6: Tiki tac stuff.
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  Speaker 4: But when Freddy Gadroau gets two handed into the wall,
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  Speaker 4: when Berkeley Catton gets plastered against the boards and there's
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  Speaker 4: no response, that was bothersome to me.
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  Speaker 6: That's a concern to me.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm going to give Vince Dunn, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: shout out for in that game against Detroit, trying to
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  Speaker 4: mix it up and trying to be a shift disturber, as.
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  Speaker 6: We like to say.
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  Speaker 4: So those are my thoughts following the last couple of games.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'll just add onto that too. You know,
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  Speaker 5: the Vince Done standing up for Jordan Everley after he
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  Speaker 5: took an elbow to the face. You know, Vince Dunn
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  Speaker 5: didn't fight, didn't spare it, didn't take a penalty, but
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  Speaker 5: he responded right away. And I think as a player
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  Speaker 5: on an opposing team, if you know that someone's coming
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  Speaker 5: for you, if you do something on a line in
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  Speaker 5: this case it was Vince Done, guess what, you're less
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  Speaker 5: less likely to do. It doesn't mean it's not going
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  Speaker 5: to happen, but you're less likely to do it. Now
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  Speaker 5: the opposite, It's also true if there is no response,
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  Speaker 5: then guess what. All twenty guys on the team, they're
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  Speaker 5: all tough guys. Everybody's a tough guy because they know
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  Speaker 5: they can be a tough guy, and so other teams
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  Speaker 5: need to know that there will be a response if
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  Speaker 5: they step out a line, and I don't think right
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  Speaker 5: now that's the case. So yeah, I agree with the
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  Speaker 5: kudos to Vince Done. I think the other thing about
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  Speaker 5: the game against Detroit, the four to three loss, is
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  Speaker 5: this time there were no self inflicted wounds, you know,
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  Speaker 5: not the last Edmonton game that won.
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  Speaker 2: Before that.
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  Speaker 5: We saw bad changes, we saw bad penalties, selfy neutral zone.
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  Speaker 10: Players couldn't catch a pass. It was very sloppy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: it wasn't that in that loss. So, you know, Mike,
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  Speaker 10: you and I talked about this in the post game.
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  Speaker 10: I guess, you know, maybe on paper, a step forward.
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  Speaker 10: Obviously the result is the same, a loss in regulation,
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  Speaker 10: but a step forward. I think to make that next step,
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  Speaker 10: they're going to have to get this special team's thing
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  Speaker 10: sorted out. And again I'm not saying you're turning it
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  Speaker 10: into a twenty twenty five percent power play overnight and
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  Speaker 10: one hundred percent on the penalty kill, but you've got
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  Speaker 10: to start working your way back up the standings right
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  Speaker 10: now at the bottom with the penalty kills. So something's
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  Speaker 10: got to change there. Ros that will be a weak
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  Speaker 10: spot going forward.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the you know the power play, It's funny you
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  Speaker 4: say that because I'm gonna use I'll use Detroit Edmonton
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  Speaker 4: clearly because they're the last three teams that the crack
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  Speaker 4: in the three games they've had. You've got Minnesota coming
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  Speaker 4: in here. You've got the La Kings coming in here
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  Speaker 4: as well, and then you go to Utah. You've got
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  Speaker 4: some really good skill on the teams that you're about
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  Speaker 4: to face and that you have faced. And I think
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  Speaker 4: the biggest difference that I've noticed between Seattle's power play
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  Speaker 4: and the other power plays are that the Red Wings
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  Speaker 4: and the Oilers they are zipping that puck around it is,
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  Speaker 4: they're stretching out the PK. It is scene passes, rink wide,
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  Speaker 4: dot to dot, back door tap ins.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 4: The the Kraken PK seemed just to be in a
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  Speaker 4: blender half the time. And then so I'm looking at
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  Speaker 4: those power plays and yes, you give credit to Connor
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  Speaker 4: McDavid and Lean drys and Dylan Larkin, Maurice Sider.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to break it to.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Break it, You've got a number of high skill guys
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: that let's frank, let's say it.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: I'm not I'm not throwing smoke here, I'm not throwing
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: shade and don't have those guys. I get it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: But when you see just the speed that other team's
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: power plays operate with, the crispness of their passes, the
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: sharpness of their system, you know their their ability to
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: get pucks through. That for me has been the biggest
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: glaring thing that I've noticed about the Kraken power play
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: versus the other power plays that we've seen in the
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: last hanfle of games.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I want to touch on the penalty kill because often
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: it's also said that your goal is got to be
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: your best PK or now that goes hand in hand
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: structure and goaltending on top of that, but on the
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: overall scale, with Joey Decore, I thought into the second
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: period he was building a strong, strong case against the
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Red Wings for a redemption game. That third goal he
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: gave up to James Van Riemsdyke, maybe he wants that
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: one back. Patrick Kaine scores off the rush wide open,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: beat some gloves side as well. So at this point,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: back from injury, what's our reaction to Joey to court
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: at this stage.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought that he had a great save on
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: the drinket opportunity. Highlight real save.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: That's phenomenal.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: It was phenomenal.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: And to your point, Mike, I thought that, yep, he's
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: going to have one of his games here and put
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: his team in a position to win. And let's be honest,
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: he did you know, three goals or less, you're putting
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: your team in a position to win. And unfortunately the
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Crack can give up that fourth goal. But I think
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: at least one or two of the goals. I think
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Joey to the court is going to look at tape
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: and think I probably should have had that one or
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: played that one differently. The van reems that goal. You know,
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: we looked at the repail a little bit. I'm not
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: a goalie. I've never played goal, but it looked odd
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: to me that Joey Decord had his right knee down
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: and it was that side of the net that Van
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Riemsyke put the puck in.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know why that and you went down.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: I don't know if he was thinking about pushing across
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: to try and make the save if the pass got through,
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: but that may have opened up enough daylight for Van
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Raamske to put that puck in. Again, that's my non
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: goalie view of it. I'd be interested in his thoughts
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: on that. Probably off the air.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think Joey coming back. He's getting
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: back to the form. And anytime a goalie has an injury,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: you never know how that's going to impact him, right,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, goaltenders are they're quarterbacks, They're.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: They're the most scrutinized. They're the ones.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Who were in the spotlight at all times, you know,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: because they're always on the ice, So you never know
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: what lingering effects can come with injuries. You know, there
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: have been number numerous times throughout you know, the history
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: of this league where you know, yeah, a goalie is
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: well enough to play, and and but is he Is
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: he one hundred percent? So not suggesting that Joey isn't
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: one hundred percent, but you never know what could happen
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: or what's been happening. But I think that for him,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: you know, we're slowly starting to see the flashes of
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: where the of the of the consistent greatness that we
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: saw a lot of over the last couple of seasons,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: and it takes some time. So I mean, Joey now
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: has started UH for five games in a row and
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: six of the last seven now for Seattle.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: So I wonder with Minnesota in here tonight or.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: LA on.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: UH Wednesday, I wonder maybe if Grubauer will get one
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: of those two games, we'll see, you know, Ley Lambert,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: as is the case with a lot of coaches, very
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: tight lipped on the goaltending schedule in the calendar. But
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm he's still the number one on this team.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I think, yes, he's probably had some down games, but
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I think we view them as down because Joey Decord
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: sets such a high bar for himself. These last couple
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: of seasons, Joey Decord has been a large part of
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: the reason why Seattle has been in the playoff conversation
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: until you know, later in the year then they fell off.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: So I think our expectation and our standard of Joey
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Decord rightfully, so you know, you're a five million dollar
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: goalie is high, and I think anytime you see like,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: oh wow, you know he's I don't want to say struggling,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: but he's not making scorpion saves every other night, like.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: We're used to seeing. It's it's it's.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Maybe a bit of a bit of a desert mirage,
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: if you will. He's still a good goalie, but because
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: he's not winning every single night anymore, you're saying to yourself, Oh,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: what's going on.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: I still think he's the number one on this team
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: and he's getting back to that level.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Now. I'll let you take it away after this year.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: But also wouldn't surprise me to see Philip Grubauer against
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Utah because he looked great and had two wins against
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: him last season as well.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's the whole question, right, And we
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: talked about this in the booth before the last two games.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Is after that nine to four loss to Edmonton, would
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: we see Joey to court again? I thought we would
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: see Philip Grubauer, But the argument was presented, you give
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: your number one, Joey's your number one. You give your
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: number one an opportunity to redeem himself.
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So he goes out and the team loses to
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Edmonton in that game, So then you think, okay, probably
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: going to see Groenauer for Detroit again. Joey starts again,
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: So I'm o for too. Over the last two games
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: on who I think might be starting. I'm not sure
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: if Grubauer will go against Minnesota or not, but again
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: I'm going to say it wouldn't surprise me if he did.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: We had a top line that remained consistent, and after
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: that everything else shuffled on Saturday and we didn't even
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: get the defensive core here with alexiak out as a
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: healthy scratch.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: But mccam, ben year Zebralee, you see something there.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: And I want to touch on Maddy later on here
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: because this is I think a very important part of
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: this conversation with his growth and where the crack and
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: are at here for this season. Ellie tolven and Chandler
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Stevenson Coppocco, then Mason March meant Freddie Gadreau, Berkeley Catton
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: and some shuffling went around a little bit there, but
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: then he had Ty Cartier, Shane Wright, Ryan Winterton with
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: limited exposure, still look pretty effective and pretty solid. And
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: a spoiler alert here, Krchi may be coming up in
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: one of our three stars at the very end of
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: this here for this drop. So as far as the
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: forwards are concerned, what did we make out of the
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: lineup changes?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Love the three star teas. It's very well done.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: I think this is just going to be something that
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: we as broadcasters need to get used to, is that
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Leid Lambert is not afraid to make an in game
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: adjustment on a regular basis.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, there.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: Aren't too many games over the course of the first
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: twenty six where I think all four Ford lines have
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: stayed in tact throughout the game. I mean, there's certainly
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: a lot fewer of those games than games where there
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: hasn't been adjustments. I just think that he's okay with,
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: you know, making those tweaks in game, hoping to squeeze
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: a little more juice out of his lines. And as
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: far as the lineup goes in that that Detroit game, yeah, I.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Mean I liked, you know, writ and Gadreu in the middle.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: I'm that bottom six, and I thought Coco was going
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: to fit in well with that.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Tolbyn and Stevenson line. Stevenson such a great playmaker.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: I thought, you know that both Coco and Tolbden would
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: get some great opportunities for shots on goal. I know
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Coco's only had one since he came back into the lineup,
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: and he's the kind of guy that should be scoring
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: every couple of games and grabbing, you know, especially in
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: the top six multiplay games every few games as well.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: So I know he wants more personally out of his game.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: I thought that that line might be the right combination
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: to do it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I like, I liked the look of that line.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Toilvan and Steven Coppo Coppo Coco. They've got a little
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: bit of everything.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: I think on that line. I have zero issue.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: With Lane Lambert sometimes blending up the lines. I love
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: the game within the game, and I think that is
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: the sign of a coach that's active, that's dialed in.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: He sees things that maybe aren't looking right, or maybe
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: the crackheader being exposed in this area. And you've got
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: the pieces to plug and play, and this lineup lends itself.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: To do just that.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: You've got a number of guys I think everyone in
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: this lineup, I mean maybe outside of your top line,
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: everyone in this lineup can play everywhere else. Right, I
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: would feel comfortable with car Cha, right, Ryan Winterton as
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: your second line. I would feel comfortable with Marchmint, Gaudreau
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: and Catton as your second line.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: I think that everyone on this roster can play anywhere.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: But I will say the one thing that and I
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: gotta I gotta phrase this carefully because I'm not trying
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: to from a position of criticism or or combativeness. But
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I think the one thing that I'd like to see
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: more of is maybe more consistency for Shane Wright and
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Berkeley Catton, especially young players in the league. You're trying
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: to see what you have with Shane Wright. And I
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: know I'm starting to sound like the Internet and the
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: people that are like Shane Wright's ally got eight minutes
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: in the fourth line tonight, Yeah, play right more.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: I get it. I know.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: I know that I'm coming off as a fan right now,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: and please to our loyal listeners forgive.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: Me, But but I don't know.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: I would like to see Shane Wright in that in
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: a spot for five consecutive games. I'd like to see
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Berkeley Catten in a spot for for five consecutive games
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: and see what you have with them.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: But outside of that, I think that the.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Lines that that we're seeing every night, I'm fine with them.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: The defense has never been the issue. The personnel. I
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: think if you look at the crack and defensive personnel,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: it got probably one of the best decours in the conference.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: But you know, it's just you're trying to find that
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: mix every night that works. But I think because you've
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: got so many versatile players in your bottom nine forward group,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: it can be hard to find a consistent mix.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: The issues kind of override maybe the personnel matters here
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: with him being on and we saw this a long
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: time before he got hurt. But Jaden Schwartz, how much
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: does this team miss him? How do they react here
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: for this week?
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: As far as the lineup, yeah, I think you're really
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: seeing the impact of having seventeen nine of the lineup.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Special teams, physicality, you know, NetFront, presence, all of the
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: above are impacted with him out of the lineup, and
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: you think, well, it's going to give other guys opportunities
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: to do the same that that gay just hasn't been
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: filled since since he's been out, So you're not gonna
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: You're likely not going to see him for the remainder
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: of December. You know, when in January he's back, who knows,
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: but you know they're going to have to continue to
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: look for ways to try and solve the missing piece
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: of Jaden Schwartz.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: There is a there is a certain calmness about Jaden Schwartz.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: When he's on the ice, when he's on the.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: Bench, he's in the locker room, you know. And I
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: think I said this last week too. It's almost like
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: everyone just gives this, all right, bro, kind of here
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: we go, right, And I think you're missing You're missing.
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: That al Al loves. I love the visual that Al gives.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: You need a guy that's willing to go to the.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Net and score a goal off his face, and Schwartz
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: is a guy who will do that.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Never mind the power play. You're missing that net front guy.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: You're you're missing a player that I think adds that
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: little extra for everyone else in the lineup. I think
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: he is a player that people will say, oh, if
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: he can do it, I can do it. If he's
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: doing it, then I'm going to the corners. If he's
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: going to the front of the that blocking shots, then
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go block shots. And you miss that piece
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: of your of your identity. With Swartz out of the lineup,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: and and Alan and I were talking, this also presents
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: an opportunity for other players to step.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: Up in that role.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: I know, Yannie Newman was a name that you know,
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: I'd love to see him use his frame and his
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: size and add a bit more of a power physical
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: element to his game. Coppolcaco, I know that it's been
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: a rough go for him this season, but again that
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: size of his you know, if he can safely and
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: healthily go to the dirty areas and and and add
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: a little bit more of that of that, you know
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: what you to your game to his game. I like
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: where the Kraken are going, but you do miss so
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: much with Schwartz that might not always show up on
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: the score sheet.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: I'll just add to that list Ellie told you to lead. Yeah,
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: team sixty three hits, Mason Marshman sixty five two twelve.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: There's a couple of guys that should be in front
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: of the net every single time they're on the ice.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Well, certainly, when you go back and think of who
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: you miss the most, it's guys who are closest to
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: your own identity. I mean, when you have a guy
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: out like Schwartz, who's a leader based on his experience,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: who's a leader based on how he plays, you go
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: to the front of the net. That's where this team
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: has to live offensively. And not only that, but the
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: way that he's able to get pucks, clean up ice,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: he makes smart plays. It fits this system here to
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: a t, which I mean, I think going back when
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: he was knocked out, of course, what do you know,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: it was a play at the front of the net.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: But you're kind of thinking, Okay, holds your breath right now,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: because this is where it's going to get really, really
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: tough to fill that kind of hole. And you know,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: it's one of those adversity moments that that this team
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: has to respond with. So I love what you mentioned,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Everett and the fact that it's gotta be next man
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: up here, and you have plenty of veterans, plenty of rookies,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: especially Yannie Newman, who have got to find a way
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: not just to live offensively off his shot, but find
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: a way to also live right at the front of
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: the net.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: This door is wide open now.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna gush over Jaden Schwartz. Oh just
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: a little bit more. When I look at players in
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: this league that have been around for a while, they've
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: won Cups, they do the right things, and I cannot
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: think of a time in the five years now that
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: we've had Jaden Schwartz.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: In our organization where I've said.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Man, he didn't look good tonight. Man I need more
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: from him. Man, he just doesn't have it tonight. I
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: cannot recall a single time ever saying that. And he
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: is a guy that does everything right. He does everything well.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: He might not be great eight at anything in particular,
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: but he does everything so well and that's what makes
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: him a great player and the consummate pro.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: Whatever you want to whatever you want.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: To say, Jaden Schwartz, I think around the league is
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: probably one of the more underappreciated, not underrated, because I
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: think everyone knows his game, but I think underappreciated for
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: the value that he brings to a lineup.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's two things you can count on. One is
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: the is. The is the the effort.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Like you said, there's a lot of things well, but
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: the effort is going to be there every single game.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: That leadership is the other thing. And I'll just add
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: you know, everybody wants to talk about details and jams.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Swartz is one of those guys where he knows what
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: the right details are, he knows how to execute those details,
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: and he will share those with other players making the
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: team better as well.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: I remember last year I think Jaden Schwartz had a
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: a lengthy point drought and you could tell that he
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: was You could tell he was frustrated.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: You could tell that he was.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: Upset, but but you didn't he didn't let that shine
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: through in his play, you know.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: And it was it was something it was two years ago.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: I forget what it was, but there was a time
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: I remember when Schwartz had a lengthy point drought and
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: he wasn't scoring like he wanted to and all of that,
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: but he never let.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: It get him down.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: And he was still doing so many things to help
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: the team. I mean, if they were if they gave
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: out third assists, he probably would have had twelve of
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: them because of how he started plays and how he
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: helped break the puck into the zone, and and and
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: he would hit a guy and he would create the turnovers.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: So again I'm talking in circles, but I just I.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Love the guy and I really appreciate what he does
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: and what he means and brings to this lineup.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: I want to get to Maddy Beniers here. When you
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: look at the numbers, you first look at this, I
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: think in two different ways. Three goals in his first
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: twenty games. You may be looking for more out of
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: him defensively, he's looking dialed in. You're leading a SIS
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: guy as well on this team, and he right now
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: is tied with the team leading scoring with Jordan Eberley.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: He's on pace for a fifty point season. Now you're
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: looking for more maybe as he gets older and older
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: and older, But as of right now, that is emerging
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: to be his second best output in his best season
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: since he won the Calder Trophy back in twenty twenty two,
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: twenty three. So what do we make out of Maddie's
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: progress so far this season?
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about this in the broadcast, Mike.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: I've been real happy with Maddie's game from his own
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: blue line in this season. And I think that you know,
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: you do you say, well, does it make up for,
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: you know, the lack of scoring?
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Maybe? Maybe not?
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: You know, I if he's playing in last year's system,
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: he's probably got a lot more goals, but his plus
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: minus probably looks worse because he's not as playing as
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: much defense. So, because this team has bought into this
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: defense first structure mentality, a guy like Manny Bneers is
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: not going to score as often. I just I truly
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: believe that. And it's not just Maddy. You bring any
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: top scorer in if they're going to play this style
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: of hockey, they're not going to score as much. And
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: some players don't like it. But as far as what
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: I can tell, everybody's bought into this system, and you
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: have to sacrifice a little bit to buy into it.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: Maddy's fully bought into it. His his his stick work
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: along the wall, on the wall, his battles. He's coming
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: up with the puck more often. The Monteur goal last night,
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: he picked up the puck inside of his own blue line,
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: made a couple of dip backs, you know, shook off
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: his attacker, and then fed it out to every to
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: set that goal up. So that doesn't happen for Maddy
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: vaneers one two years ago.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: I don't think. I think he gives that puck up
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: and that goal never happens.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I the fans side of me is screaming three goals?
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: What are we doing here?
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: But when you when you watch his game and you
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: see just how much he has matured and grown on
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: the ice, in the locker room, he's a leader. He's
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: a voice on that bench. You know, he he is
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: I genuinely believe that Matt eveniers Is is a top
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: two way forward definitely in the in the division, if
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: not the Western Conference already. And and and I think
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: you know, there's been a number of folks who are
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: who were giving him, you know, Dark Corse, uh, Dark
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Corse Selki.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: You know potential right this year.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: So I love the way that Maddie's game has has evolved.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: I love seeing how responsible he is. He is starting
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: to get in the mix a bit more. He's added
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: a little bit of a physical elements.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Gone next level now with him. I saw that the
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: other night.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: And when I say physical element, I don't mean he's
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: getting in there trying to fight guy. But he's not
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: shying away from board battles. He's going into the corners.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: He's not afraid to take a hit to make a play.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: He spins off of guys. And you're right, you didn't
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: see that two years ago. So his hockey, IQ, the
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: way that he's played the game has has gotten so
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: much better. He has been a joy to watch. But
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna put my fan hat on and I'm like, Maddie.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: I need more than three goals. I love you, I
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: need more but I get it.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: I love that his game has become so complete, and
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: you're right, al in this system, you're going to sacrifice
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: a few things, you know, But I think that you know,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: if we're talking first half pre Christmas Kraken MVP, I
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: mean Maddy Mniers is on that list for me.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, And you know, as far as the fan goes, yeah,
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: that hat nearby, but I'll put it that imaginary fan
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: hat on. I would say, why can't he be both?
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: Why can't he be the two hundred foot center that
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: you have to become this year and still score goals?
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: That's what the fans want.
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: His last goal, I remember when was this.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: This was back against Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: That goal he scored just a snipe from the circle.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: Like you forget sometimes that Maddy Beniers has a really
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: good shot and you see it in practice, you know,
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: he he I remember last year he was working on
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: his release a lot after practice and trying to get
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: a fraction of a second quicker with his release. I'd
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: love to see him use that shot more and again
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: we've talked about it. Funneling pucks toward the net. Laine
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Lambert has said multiple times on the record, off the record,
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: I want these guys to be more selfish.
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: I want guys to shoot the puck more.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: And you know, the famous Michael Scott once said, you
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: So listen, I want Maddie to start shooting the puck more.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: But I'm with you. You know where he's grown so
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: much in his game is just so valuable for what
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: this team's trying to do.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go down.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go down this legendary player's resume as
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: far as point totals, which began more or less at
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: the prime of his career, when he began to win
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: and win successfully, thirty nine points, fifty two points, fifty seven,
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: sixty four, thirty two in a shortened year, sixty two,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: fifty five, sixty eight, fifty three, sixty three, then seventy nine,
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: fifty six, et cetera. That player was Patrice Bergeron, And
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: that's the player Matty Beineer's wants to be.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: That's his that's his favorite player.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: That is to a lot of folks, compare want to
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: compare him to being from Boston. Listen, if you're telling
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: me the Cracking I've got Patrice Berger on two point.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: Oh, I am probably fine with that.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And you know, going back to that comment
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: you made about his shot, his shot release. If you're
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: listening to this right now, now you're saying, I don't
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: know what you mean by shot release. What's a fast one?
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: What's what's what's a slow one? Fast one? Watch the
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: game winning goal by Patrick k last night. Yeah, he
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: receives the puck and not in the best position. He
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: actually has to choke up on his stick a little bit.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: But from the.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: Time that puck hits the blade of his stick until
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: the time he gets it off, it's barely a second.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: And I think when.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: You've got to release like that, you don't have to
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: have the hardest shot, but if it's accurate and it's quick,
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: you're going to score a ton of goals. And I
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: know that's what Maddie Deniers is working on.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Fitz is gonna go take a break.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: Let's go to the Beacon Plumbing hotline right now. Time
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: to bring on our special guest, his debut here on
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Crack and Weekly. His name is Jonathan Davis, a Vson
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: hockey betting analysts You can also hear him as a
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: correspondent on Sirius XM. NHL Network Radio does some fantastic
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: work based on the West Coast. Jonathan, great to have you.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us here. And I first want
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: to dive into this. The krack And will be out
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: there before the holiday break in Los Angeles, and it
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: takes me back here. It's a growing up in the
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Glendora area where sometimes I mean managed shorts weather on
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Christmas Day, I mean, Jonathan, for the trip out there.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Do you think that we're going to be backing light?
• 41:08
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, look, I just before we started this interview,
• 41:11
  Speaker 11: I was just out of the beach and watching all
• 41:13
  Speaker 11: everybody surfing. It is you know, for a guy it
• 41:17
  Speaker 11: was born in Montreal and raised in Toronto. I made
• 41:21
  Speaker 11: the right decision a long time ago to trade snow
• 41:24
  Speaker 11: for beach.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: You take me back, and I think you nail the
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: secret here to success. Spend less money on clothes and
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: more on experiences. Let's get down to the this part
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: of the week here, the crack And are playing in
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: a stretch of eleven games and twenty days. It's getting
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: busy and this could have a major effect on their
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: playoff fortunes and they're still trying to figure out figure
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: things after going winless in five in a row. Now
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: they can play defense, their goaltending has been mostly dialed in,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: but they're experiencing a ton of issues as far as
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: offensive generation, pedally kill issues. Also on top of that,
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: when you consider the overall scope of the season, So
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: Jonathan to you, what's weighing on their playoff hopes from
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: both sides when you consider how their strains stack up
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: against the rest of the league and what they're needing
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: to level up with.
• 42:17
  Speaker 11: Well, I mean, look, the biggest problem that they face
• 42:19
  Speaker 11: is that they're offensively challenged.
• 42:21
  Speaker 12: I mean, you know, Matty Veneers and Jordan Everley with.
• 42:25
  Speaker 11: Sixteen points lead the team, and that puts them about
• 42:28
  Speaker 11: one hundred and forty first in scoring in the NHL.
• 42:32
  Speaker 11: So if you're the opposition, you know, and you're putting,
• 42:35
  Speaker 11: you know, you've got all the lines on your on
• 42:37
  Speaker 11: the whiteboard of your you know, the cracking there's not
• 42:41
  Speaker 11: a big heavy game planning issue.
• 42:44
  Speaker 12: So I think you know.
• 42:46
  Speaker 11: Then you know, not having a game breaker really hurts
• 42:49
  Speaker 11: the cracking. And for the early part of the season,
• 42:52
  Speaker 11: you know, they were able to do it because whether
• 42:54
  Speaker 11: it was Joey deccord or Philip Grubauer or Matt Murray,
• 42:58
  Speaker 11: they were getting saved and they were able to stay
• 43:01
  Speaker 11: in games.
• 43:02
  Speaker 12: And right now, you know, they've gone.
• 43:04
  Speaker 11: You know, it wasn't long ago that they were what
• 43:06
  Speaker 11: top too or at least top five in goals against,
• 43:10
  Speaker 11: and now they're sitting you know, I think around fifteen.
• 43:13
  Speaker 11: So if you can't score and now you're starting to
• 43:17
  Speaker 11: give up goals, it makes it really tough for this
• 43:21
  Speaker 11: cracking team that's been able. You know, look, their success
• 43:25
  Speaker 11: early on is being able to get games to overtime
• 43:28
  Speaker 11: and pick it up.
• 43:29
  Speaker 12: That that loser point, there's no I mean, you can't
• 43:32
  Speaker 12: hide behind that.
• 43:32
  Speaker 11: So you know, for this front office, they've got to
• 43:36
  Speaker 11: find a way to get themselves more guys that can
• 43:40
  Speaker 11: can score.
• 43:41
  Speaker 12: Because when you look.
• 43:42
  Speaker 11: Back to you know, look when they that year that
• 43:44
  Speaker 11: they took you know, they knocked out Colorado, there are
• 43:47
  Speaker 11: six guys that are no longer on that team were
• 43:52
  Speaker 11: from that year.
• 43:53
  Speaker 12: You know, I look back, it's it's like the Org Strand.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Wehenberg Donado.
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: City.
• 44:01
  Speaker 12: Yeah, geeky, So you know, six.
• 44:05
  Speaker 11: Guys you haven't been able to replace. So it's it's
• 44:07
  Speaker 11: tough when you can't score and now you're really relying
• 44:10
  Speaker 11: on your goalie to bail you out, you know, most nights.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: And we had a conversation here also losing Jaden Schwartz
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: out of this mix until maybe the last part of
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: the month, maybe even to New Year's certainly really dense
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: the plans here as far as far as this is concerned.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: So top line scoring with that has been a big
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: part of the discussion in the hockey world here for upgrades,
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, is there a certain type of player, Jonathan
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: you think that is the best fit in this situation
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: or is this a matter of whatever guy that you
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: can get to pump in you more points that makes
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: the upgrade worth pursuing.
• 44:44
  Speaker 11: I don't think they're one player away, if that's what
• 44:47
  Speaker 11: you're asking. So I think there's there's just more more
• 44:51
  Speaker 11: than one player that this team needs to be able
• 44:54
  Speaker 11: to take itself to the next level. I mean, so
• 44:58
  Speaker 11: you know, yeah, they're not one right away, That's that's
• 45:01
  Speaker 11: pretty much it. Or they're not one player away, I
• 45:03
  Speaker 11: mean unless unless they do some major overhaul with this roster.
• 45:09
  Speaker 11: You know, look, there there's definitely some some things, you know,
• 45:13
  Speaker 11: guys to get excited about. You know, I love you know,
• 45:17
  Speaker 11: look Shane, whit continues to develop, and you've got ty
• 45:20
  Speaker 11: Krcha and you've got oh my god, I'm.
• 45:23
  Speaker 12: Trying to think of the kid out of Spokane.
• 45:28
  Speaker 11: Yeah, so there are you know, but this is a
• 45:31
  Speaker 11: team that's a couple of years away.
• 45:33
  Speaker 12: They're not just one not one player away.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: Jonathan, you know the krack and have obviously employed this
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: defensive first structure this season. And you know, my broadcast
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: partner Everett and I talk about it a lot that
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: it tends to be boring hockey from a fans standpoint,
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: but as you pointed out, when you're having trouble scoring goals,
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: your only option is to try and keep them out
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: of your own net. What do you think about that
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: approach to the game and is it something that's sustainable
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: through eighty two games and potentially in the.
• 46:00
  Speaker 11: Laos Well, look, Kings fans can echo those same thoughts, guys.
• 46:04
  Speaker 11: You know that's the problem here in Los Angeles. I
• 46:06
  Speaker 11: mean I took a look at the numbers. They're like
• 46:08
  Speaker 11: three and twelve this year. When they give up three
• 46:11
  Speaker 11: goals or more, they need to play low event hockey
• 46:14
  Speaker 11: as well, at least under the style of play that
• 46:19
  Speaker 11: Jim Hiller wants them, you.
• 46:20
  Speaker 12: Know, to play. So look, there, you have to deal
• 46:24
  Speaker 12: with what you've got. And so when you don't have the.
• 46:28
  Speaker 11: Game breaker, you know, you have to find a way
• 46:31
  Speaker 11: to shut things down. What was interesting was Seattle guys,
• 46:35
  Speaker 11: like I took a look last year, the overwhelming majority
• 46:40
  Speaker 11: of their wins last year they happen to score four
• 46:43
  Speaker 11: goals or more, which I thought was kind of interesting. Yeah,
• 46:47
  Speaker 11: but it's just not a long term recipe right now
• 46:49
  Speaker 11: with the roster that they have.
• 46:51
  Speaker 12: So they've got to play defense first.
• 46:54
  Speaker 11: The problem with is it, you know, is it everybody's
• 46:57
  Speaker 11: got to be at their best every night. If they're not,
• 47:01
  Speaker 11: then the other team's going to find a way to
• 47:03
  Speaker 11: break through.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: And that's that's tough mentally on the group.
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's and that starts in goal obviously as
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: well as well. And you know, for a period of
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: time a week or so ago, Seattle had three goaltenders,
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: one that's injured, all above the nine hundred save percentage.
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: And it's a real key to playing that kind of hockey.
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: But speaking of goaltenders, you guys got Darcy kemper Back
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: looked like he put up a goose egg the other.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Night against Chicago. That's going to feel good for you guys.
• 47:29
  Speaker 11: Yeah, But I look also, you know, I looked at
• 47:33
  Speaker 11: the Chicago game and I was talking with a group
• 47:35
  Speaker 11: of friends of mine.
• 47:36
  Speaker 12: You know, Chicago with that rare, you know, two games
• 47:39
  Speaker 12: in one city, which I think would be is.
• 47:42
  Speaker 11: I don't know if fans like it, but you know,
• 47:44
  Speaker 11: we're seeing all the injuries the players are going through.
• 47:46
  Speaker 11: I think it may be better for teams to do
• 47:49
  Speaker 11: more of it. But I really think that that Saturday
• 47:52
  Speaker 11: game against UH for for Chicago's standpoint, was a schedule loss.
• 47:57
  Speaker 12: And I say that because they got to win on.
• 47:59
  Speaker 11: Thursday against LA and they've got Anaheim on you know
• 48:03
  Speaker 11: today here Sunday as we record, and that's the game
• 48:07
  Speaker 11: that they were looking towards, and I think they looked ahead.
• 48:10
  Speaker 12: And you know, but good on LA.
• 48:13
  Speaker 11: But that win for LA, guys isn't going to mean
• 48:16
  Speaker 11: anything if they can't go into Seattle and put up
• 48:20
  Speaker 11: another performance like they did in that Saturday win against Chicago.
• 48:24
  Speaker 11: I mean, look, the future of Jim Hiller is definitely
• 48:27
  Speaker 11: in question in here in Los Angeles you know, so
• 48:33
  Speaker 11: we'll see where it goes. But you know, LA, I
• 48:36
  Speaker 11: don't see LA making a coaching change before Seattle, but guys,
• 48:41
  Speaker 11: it wouldn't surprise me. LA's got two days off for
• 48:44
  Speaker 11: the first time coming up Thursday and Friday of this
• 48:47
  Speaker 11: week before they play Calgary on Saturday. It's something to
• 48:51
  Speaker 11: pay attention to that LA decides that they want to.
• 48:54
  Speaker 12: Make a coaching change.
• 48:55
  Speaker 11: It wouldn't surprise me if they did it after their
• 48:58
  Speaker 11: game against Utah and Wednesday. I'm not look, Jim Hiller's
• 49:02
  Speaker 11: Jim Hillers a great guy to deal with, but there
• 49:04
  Speaker 11: they need something here in Los Angeles and they've got
• 49:09
  Speaker 11: to build on that win from Saturday when they face
• 49:11
  Speaker 11: you guys on Monday.
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: Well, those two those two days off will follow the
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: first of two meetings against Seattle this month. Two of
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: those eleven games will be against LA, So it'll be
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: interesting to see if something like that were to happen.
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: It could be based on what happens in that game
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: versus Seattle.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Two.
• 49:27
  Speaker 11: Yeah, so Seattle game is Wednesday, maybe it's Utah and Monday.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Is that okay?
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just kind of mixing Wednesday and then and then
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: later the last game right before Christmas and the twenty
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: third as well.
• 49:37
  Speaker 12: All Right, so it's you there. LA's in Utah on
• 49:39
  Speaker 12: Monday and then okay, Seattle Wednesday. So for me, yeah,
• 49:43
  Speaker 12: in audition to see what happens.
• 49:44
  Speaker 11: But yeah, LA, Like I said, bottom line for LA
• 49:47
  Speaker 11: is that they're far better when they keep games to
• 49:50
  Speaker 11: like two one, three two. The six nothing game was Look,
• 49:54
  Speaker 11: that's that's a rarity for Los Angeles, you know, to.
• 49:58
  Speaker 12: Put up a six spot.
• 49:59
  Speaker 11: But I get the sense here in Los Angeles that
• 50:01
  Speaker 11: players are a little frustrated with the type of style
• 50:05
  Speaker 11: of play that that Jim Hiller wants them to play.
• 50:08
  Speaker 11: They you know, guys want to score obviously. You know
• 50:12
  Speaker 11: you heard Jim Hiller the last couple of games talk
• 50:15
  Speaker 11: about how guys have come some players have gone.
• 50:17
  Speaker 12: Rogue on the system.
• 50:19
  Speaker 11: It'll be just to see how things transpire over the
• 50:22
  Speaker 11: next couple of days.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Jonathan.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: We're seeing a lot of stars pass up a chance
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: these days to take the bag in the off season,
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: and instead they stay put. Adrian Campe is the latest
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: testimony here to this. What made the biggest difference for
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: him with getting his extension done.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: He wanted to be here, plain and simple. You know, he's.
• 50:45
  Speaker 12: You know, just had a baby. He loves being in
• 50:49
  Speaker 12: Los Angeles.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: I think his wife wife went in the labor.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Matter of fact, last time the kid the crack and
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: we're in Los Angeles back in April, remember that.
• 50:58
  Speaker 11: So yeah, I mean, bottom line is that he wanted
• 51:01
  Speaker 11: he wanted to remain here. He you know, his family
• 51:04
  Speaker 11: lights living out here, and I mean, you wouldn't like
• 51:07
  Speaker 11: living out here in so cal So look me personally,
• 51:13
  Speaker 11: like if I'm Adrian Kempe and I want to win,
• 51:16
  Speaker 11: I don't know why I would resign.
• 51:18
  Speaker 12: I mean, the future of this team.
• 51:20
  Speaker 11: Look, the best the best California teams are going to
• 51:23
  Speaker 11: be in San Jose and Anaheim for the next.
• 51:25
  Speaker 12: Couple of years. LA is very thin.
• 51:27
  Speaker 11: But bottom line, the answer your you know, the answer
• 51:30
  Speaker 11: to your question is is that he wants to stay
• 51:32
  Speaker 11: in Los Angeles. And that was you know, quality of
• 51:35
  Speaker 11: life is important to him. So you know, that's why
• 51:38
  Speaker 11: still l.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: I came Minnesota is coming up on Monday before the
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: matchup against Los Angeles, and it seemed like this last
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: month nobody could beat the wild and they're on a
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: bit of a slide once again. Though it may seem
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: a bit subtle. So I think, to you, what's your
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: feel as far as last month being a statement or
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: versus saying, do you need to see more here from Minnesota?
• 52:01
  Speaker 11: Well, I look, I think Minnesota is a team that's
• 52:03
  Speaker 11: built for the regular season and not the playoffs.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: I got.
• 52:08
  Speaker 11: They're just not deep enough. I mean, ultimately, they're They're
• 52:11
  Speaker 11: two lines deep.
• 52:12
  Speaker 12: And that's it.
• 52:12
  Speaker 11: And that's the problem they had when they faced Vegas
• 52:15
  Speaker 11: last year in the playoffs. Once Vegas was able to
• 52:18
  Speaker 11: shut down the Big Three or at least contain them,
• 52:21
  Speaker 11: Minnesota just doesn't have enough there. They've got two lines
• 52:26
  Speaker 11: and they've had two really good goaltenders, but that's it.
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: And so that, like, I just think that they're built
• 52:32
  Speaker 11: for eighty two. They're not built to make a long run.
• 52:36
  Speaker 11: And you know, we'll see what Bill Garon is able
• 52:40
  Speaker 11: to do with their roster. They've got a really strong
• 52:42
  Speaker 11: blue line. You know, Walstatton Gustason have played really well.
• 52:46
  Speaker 12: They sure they've run into this bugaboo.
• 52:48
  Speaker 11: You know, they've given up eight goals or well seven
• 52:51
  Speaker 11: goals passed the goalie in the last two games. I
• 52:55
  Speaker 11: just don't think that. I just think that their their
• 52:57
  Speaker 11: lack of depth is the issue for the while.
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it seems like there's really three levels of teams
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: in this league. Teams that well, I mean before if
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: you count teams that are just out of the playoff one,
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: the teams that get in and are trying to get in,
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: that would be one. Teams that are likely to get in,
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: like the Minnesota description you just gave, but probably won't
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: get deep into the playoffs, and then you get your
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: Cup contenders. And I think where the crack and are
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: at this season is that after going two seasons without
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: getting into the playoffs, getting into the playoffs would be
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: obviously a big step forward for them. And I think that,
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: you know, while I don't disagree with what you said,
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: they're more than a player away. I think with the
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: right move that gets them into the into the first
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: round or maybe back into the second again, is going
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: to be considered a success for them. So it'll be
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: interesting to see what happens between now and trade deadline
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: with with you know, those decisions, we speculate all the time.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you know who knows.
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: The analogy I use it's like asking somebody, are you
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: going to sell a car today.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I don't know if someone's going
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: to come in. I don't know if they're going to
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: want to pay the race I'm offering. So we'll see
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: what happens with that.
• 54:03
  Speaker 11: Yeah, look, I think Look, I think Seattle would be
• 54:07
  Speaker 11: better served to get themselves a very high draft pick
• 54:10
  Speaker 11: than to go around in the playoffs. Like I don't
• 54:12
  Speaker 11: think I don't think that would serve this organization.
• 54:16
  Speaker 12: Well, you know the Genny.
• 54:20
  Speaker 11: Look, it was a great story two years ago and
• 54:22
  Speaker 11: what they did with Colorado, But at the end of
• 54:25
  Speaker 11: the day, I just wonder did it really helped them
• 54:27
  Speaker 11: long term the way that you you know, you look
• 54:30
  Speaker 11: at this roster. So I think that they would be
• 54:33
  Speaker 11: you know, if they could get themselves a very high
• 54:36
  Speaker 11: draft pick.
• 54:37
  Speaker 12: I think that's better than going around in the playoffs.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: Touching on one more Western Conference team that is on
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: the slate here for this week.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: The Kraken will be in Utah Friday.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: The Mammoth. They are going to be around this picture,
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: maybe Jonathan for a long time. But will there be
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: a playoff Berth this spring? Maybe hold the phone on
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: that one for now. But what's the deal breaker? You're
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: thinking to be for Utah to in this race this season.
• 55:02
  Speaker 12: I think Utah needs to get bigger.
• 55:04
  Speaker 11: Like they they they're highly skilled, but they've got a
• 55:09
  Speaker 11: lot of small players and they need to get bigger upfront.
• 55:13
  Speaker 12: They need to be able to score more greasy goals
• 55:15
  Speaker 12: than they do.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: Uh jj.
• 55:17
  Speaker 11: Turk has worked out well for them, he's now you know,
• 55:20
  Speaker 11: he's back up from the top power play where he
• 55:22
  Speaker 11: didn't start.
• 55:23
  Speaker 12: At the beginning of the year. But I think that
• 55:25
  Speaker 12: they need to add some size up front.
• 55:28
  Speaker 11: They've got themselves a goaltender and Vimelka that you know
• 55:31
  Speaker 11: I would trust to win a big game.
• 55:34
  Speaker 12: Their blue line has been good.
• 55:36
  Speaker 11: Mikhail Sergachev has worked his way into being their number one.
• 55:40
  Speaker 12: I'm not sure if he is a true number one.
• 55:42
  Speaker 11: But I just think the biggest thing for them is
• 55:44
  Speaker 11: they need to add a little more. They need to
• 55:46
  Speaker 11: add more size up front.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: You're a busy man, putting your minor to a lot
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: of Western Conference manner has certainly appreciated. Jonathan, Thank you
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: very much for your time.
• 55:54
  Speaker 12: Thank you. I appreciate you guys having me all right.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: Jonathan Davis joining us once again, and we're about to
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: wrap this thing up as far as the week ahead
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: and our three stars. So it's getting busy now, cracking
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: in the middle of eleven games in twenty days and
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: then bam right into the holiday break. So as far
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: as this week, they're still back at home. Of course
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: tonight against Minnesota, who has been struggling. Then you got
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: the Kings who are on a heater right now. But
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: as we've heard, of course, there still could be some
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: changes of foot. Who knows, we'll see, but you can
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: at least expect editing from the opposite of nine to
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: eight from what we saw back in twenty twenty two
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: to twenty three. You have Utah who's slipping down the
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: stairs a little bit, and then there's Buffalo, who is
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: right back into the Eastern Conference basement. This game against
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: Minnesota should be fun the Freddie Goodreau faces this former
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: team game on top of that, But considering all the
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: crack and had with these obstacles here, you've got eight
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: points on the table. Do you set the bar here
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: at five to call this a successful week?
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: I think that's really I mean, obviously, you know you've
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: given up a couple of games here in the start
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: of December that you were hoping to get something out
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: of but unfortunately you walk away with nothing, so that
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: the priority as absolutely points. So five in those six
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: I don't think that's unreasonable. They're going to be difficult
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: games or you know, I expect probably both of them
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: to be fairly low event if the Kraken are able
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: to play their style.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: We know La likes to think.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, Wednesday will be you bet that, Yeah, you bet that.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: So.
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: You know it's it's going to be who plays that
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: system better, and uh, you know, I'm looking forward to it.
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: But I think you're right, Mike, five points would be
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: considered a win.
• 57:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I'm gonna go five. I'm I mean,
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: if I could, I'd say five and.
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: A half, just because the difference you're falling, You're you're
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: you're falling. Right now, You've got three points in between
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: you Edmonton and.
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: Utah of for the first and second lolid card spots.
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: You've now been jumped by San Jose and the division
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: standings there twenty nine. You've got Minnesota who's ahead of you, La,
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: Who's ahead of you by five points. Minnesota's ahead of
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: you by seven points, Utah's.
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: Ahead of you by three points.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: So I mean, even if you win all of those games,
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: you're still not guaranteed to be back in a wild
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: card spot. So I mean, I'm gonna go so far
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: as to say, I mean, I'll say five and a
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: half like.
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: You got Yeah, you have to get five points.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Does a half point come off of effort?
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, like if you lose, you can't lose three nothing,
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: right I.
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: Stand.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: I love that you need.
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: Two wins and a and a shootout loss.
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: And they have to show that you're you're going in
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: the right direction. You know, you have to leave no
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: doubt that the last now five games, four and one
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: were just a blip in the season and you're getting
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: back to winning games and getting back to cracket hockey,
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: which which has been established in the first twenty plus
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: games of the season.
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: And the ace in their pocket and again I would
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: underplay this if I was part of the coaching staff,
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: But yeah, you need five and a half points, you know,
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: in this in this stretch. But the ace in their
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: pocket is other than the Vegas Golden Knights. This cracking
• 59:22
  Speaker 5: team has between two and four games in hand on
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: everybody else in the conference. Yes, So if you don't
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: waste those two to four games. If you get points
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: through those two to four games, all of a sudden, you're,
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: you know, once you're matching up to those other teams
• 59:34
  Speaker 5: that have twenty eight to twenty nine games played cracking
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: are at twenty six.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, you're back at the top of
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: that of that conference.
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: And then two like I brought this up the other
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: day as well, the game's coming up. I mean, Minnesota's
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: ahead of you, the Kings are out of you, Utah's
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: ahead of you.
• 59:52
  Speaker 6: Colorado, well, you know they're ahead of you.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: Is a good game on that one?
• 59:56
  Speaker 6: I don't I.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: Believe I have used the phrase ten thou wagon once
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: or twice to describe them.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: You've got Anaheim, You've got San Jose, Anaheim LA. You've
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: got Vancouver who only there three points back of you
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: twice in a three game spend. You've got Minnesota again
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: early January. Then you go out east, and then you
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: come back for a game against Utah, Anaheim, Vegas, Anaheim, LA.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: So your next ten or so games in your division,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: only two of them are against teams that are out
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: of it. So I mean every game coming up between
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: now and the All Star break against the Western Conference.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: I mean you need to win those games or get
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: points in those games between now and the Olympic break.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: Let's get to our three stars here for the week
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: before we duck out of here and get right back
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: to busy stuff. This week with four games on tap,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: I'll begin with my third start, Berkeley Catton. And there
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: are moments I watch him in this is your best
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: player on the ice. Feed him more ice time, get
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: him out, get him out, get him out, get him out.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: He was three of six in face offs against Detroit.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: He's starting to move in the right direction in that area.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: He had also three block shots in that game. He's
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: also committing here to the bit defensively, and he has
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: been asked to play everywhere in this lineup, left wings, center,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: right wing. I'm shocked not in net here at this point.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: That first goal is coming. I'm not concerned about that.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: He's working for offense eventually, lot of averagescy in this league,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: you work like him, the goals will come. I'd be
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: a lot more concerned if he would go through games
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: like a passenger, but he's not. And Berkeley Catton, no
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: matter where you play, where you play him, he's making
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: a difference here. My second star is Ty Cartier. Had
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: an assist against the Red Wings. He carried the puck
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: with confidence. He had four hits as well in that game,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: and he had to play sheltered minute. But to me,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: he was very, very effective when he was out there,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: and I thought one of the more upper tier players
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: committing to the way that Lane Lambert wants to play
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: with the meat and potatoes type of brand. My first
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: star is Brandon Montour. Ten shot attempts on Saturday ten.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: He had a monster shift with a great defensive play
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: back in the first period. Very next shift came right
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: back snipe one on John Gibson. That was a game
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: changer at that point. He is shooting the puck, he
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: is working both ends, he is leading. That's the kind
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: of secret ingredient to eventually get this thing turned around.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: Brandon Montour is my first star of the week.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you on on on Montour. My third
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: start of the week is Brandon Montour. I think for
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: the reasons that you just outlined, you know, it was
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: it was hard. I was going between two guys. I
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: like Montour again in a week that defense and I
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: say this, you know, with the utmost respect in a
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: week where it's seeing that defense was optional in terms
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: of the scorer on the board. I thought Montor really
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: was steady. He was trying to drive offense and generate offense.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: And you know, I go back to the little conversation
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 4: he had with the referee in Edmonton.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 6: He got the double minor and the referee.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: Was like, I gotta call that one A, so I'll
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: go Monsur and also to a quick shot out. We
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: had a partner, a season ticket holder trip on Thursday
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: to Edmonton, and there was an eight year old on
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: our flight and we had we do these trips all
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: the time, and we had never had a kid on
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to give his name, but we've never
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: had a youth on our plane. Montor comes up, talks
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: to the kid for good five or ten minutes, and
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: you could tell that he was just very, very nervous.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: But I was talking to his dad and he said,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: you know the guys you're getting on the plane, and
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: he goes, hey, Dad, that's Manys, Hey Dad, that's Grubauer,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: Hey Dad, that's so and so.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: So.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: For Monty to come up and talk to him, I
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: thought that was great. My number two star is going
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: to be Adam Larson. Two points against the Wings, goal
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: and assist, and again I think defensively he he did
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: what he could against the Oilers.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: But I like his jam this week.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: I thought he had some good hits, he had some
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: good plays, a couple of shot blocks. Again, I've always
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: said that Adam Larson is so reliable, so dependable. If
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: you don't notice him on the ice, then he's doing
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: a great job. And I think today or this week
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: you noticed him on the score sheet. He got rewarded
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: with some much deserved offense and some points on the
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: score sheet. And then my number one star, Vince done
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: your three hundredth NHL point, your three hundredth game with
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: the Seattle Kraken on Thursday. The point came on Saturday
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: against Detroit. And then you know the response to the
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: everly hit. I don't want to sound too harsh. Someone
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: had to do it. I was a little disappoin winted
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: with the lack of response this week when when your
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: guys are getting hit.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: And I.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: Like Vince Dunn and what.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: He did for the captain, so hopefully that can filter
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: in and if someone else wants to take a liberty
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: tomorrow or Wednesday or anywhere moving forward down the line,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: I'm hoping some of that done ther takerness will wear
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: off on the rest of the roster.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: Love it well. My third stars is Shane Wright.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 5: Sixty nine percent in the faceoff dot over the last
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 5: two games. You know, he's a left handed center and
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: Channer Stevenson's a right handed center. Channer Stevenson is considered
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: probably the number one guy goes into all the key
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 5: face off situations. If Shane Wright can become that number
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: two face off guy, now you've got a left hand
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: in or right handed center that can win in most situations.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 5: So sixty nine percent in the dot for him over
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: the last two games. He had an assist in the
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 5: Edmonton game. So he's my my third star. Second star
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 5: I gave to Maddy Beniers to assists in the last
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 5: two game games. He sits six talking about his two
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 5: hundred foot game. He sits sixth on the shot block
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: count for the KRACK And guess what the five guys
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  Speaker 5: above him, they're all defensemen. So he is the first
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  Speaker 5: forward on the shot block list in terms of most
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  Speaker 5: shot blocks in the team at twenty three. When you're
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  Speaker 5: thinking about how he's developing his two hundred foot games.
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  Speaker 5: So he's my second star and first stars. As ever
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  Speaker 5: previously mentioned there, Adam Rson a goal, one assist in
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  Speaker 5: that four to three loss. He was plus two plus
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  Speaker 5: two guys in that Edmonton yeah ninety four.
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  Speaker 6: I left that part out. He was one of the
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  Speaker 6: very few pluses in that game.
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  Speaker 5: He had three hits in that game. And he's had
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  Speaker 5: six block shots over the last two games. So his physicality.
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  Speaker 5: You know, he leads the team with shot blocks. He's
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  Speaker 5: the top of that list with fifty seven. He's a guy,
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  Speaker 5: and I agree with you, Everett. You don't notice him
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  Speaker 5: that much. You did notice him in that Detroit game
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  Speaker 5: because he had a goal and assist, but you don't
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  Speaker 5: notice him as much when he's blocking shots and he's
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  Speaker 5: playing well defensively because he just feels like that's his
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  Speaker 5: job and he just goes out and does it every night.
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  Speaker 5: There's no fans celebration for that. But that's why I
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  Speaker 5: love about his game.
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  Speaker 3: All right, guys, appreciate you. That's all the time we
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  Speaker 3: have folks here for today. Once again, the crack in
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  Speaker 3: four games this week will lay this all out for
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  Speaker 3: you right now. Beginning this evening against the Minnesota Wild,
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  Speaker 3: then Wednesday the Los Angeles Kings, both games opening up
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  Speaker 3: at seven o'clock. Friday the Kraken on the road at
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  Speaker 3: Delta Center to take on the Utah Mammoth, and then
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  Speaker 3: back home Sunday against the Buffalo Sabers. Friday's game at
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  Speaker 3: six pm. Sunday's home game five pm Pacific, All games
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  Speaker 3: opening half hour on air with your pregame show served
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  Speaker 3: up by Frost Brewed cors Light Shoose Chill take note.
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  Speaker 3: Every game this week Monday, Wednesday, Friday's road game, and
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  Speaker 3: Sunday we're gonna be at Tom's Watch Bar for postgame,
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  Speaker 3: and Friday will be an all broadcast affairs. So certainly
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  Speaker 3: hope you can join us right across the street from
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  Speaker 3: Climate Pledge Arena. More tickets and promo details by the
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  Speaker 1: Do it for here.
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  Speaker 3: Big thank you again to Jonathan Davis for joining us
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  Speaker 3: and forever it fits you and Al Kadiski.
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