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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Win of a mammoth kind on Wednesday, and a mammoth matchup on Friday (12/11) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Kraken This morning a presentation of the Kraken
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  Speaker 1: Audio Network, Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 2: Tom's Watchbar is your official watch party headquarters for tonight's
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  Speaker 2: one off. As far as a road trip is concerned,
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  Speaker 2: when the Kraken take on the Utah Mammoth. Opening up
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  Speaker 2: at six pm Pacific, We're on air five thirty of
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  Speaker 2: your pregame shows served up by Frost Brewed Corps, Light
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  Speaker 2: Shoes Chill all across the Global Credit Union KRACK and
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  Speaker 2: Audio Network. With the Kraken looking for their first ever
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  Speaker 2: win at Delta Center and aiming for back to back
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  Speaker 2: wins for the first time since November, we will talk
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  Speaker 2: with Mike Fulda radio play by play voice of the
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  Speaker 2: Mammoth coming up in just a bit. Additionally, here from
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  Speaker 2: Vince Dunn. After the Kraken put together an inspiring comeback
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  Speaker 2: late in period three, eventually finishing off the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 2: Kings in overtime.
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  Speaker 3: For a three to two victory two nine.
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  Speaker 2: It's a go and Done certainly had a lot to
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  Speaker 2: do with this, so it kept the Kraken on pace
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  Speaker 2: with plenty of teams right now still in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the pack of the Western Conference, their record twelve
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  Speaker 2: ten and six for thirty points, three back of the
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  Speaker 2: cut line in the Western Conference. In this evening's game,
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  Speaker 2: a Mammoth won in more ways than one. With three
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  Speaker 2: teams ahead of the Kraken right now for a playoff spot,
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  Speaker 2: Utah is one of them, standing one point ahead of
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  Speaker 2: the Kraken heading into game twenty nine on the Kraken
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  Speaker 2: side and game thirty three already on the Utah side.
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  Speaker 2: The Mammoth have lost three in a row, but the
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  Speaker 2: Kracking getting back on the winning path two nights ago
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  Speaker 2: when they found a way in the last minute of regulation,
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  Speaker 2: pulling goaltender Joey to cord and embarking on a lay
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  Speaker 2: power play up.
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  Speaker 4: Off the draw Cope Paitar wins at Edmondson around the boards, done,
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  Speaker 4: saves it near corner.
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  Speaker 5: Here's Tobaden to the face off dot sinery.
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  Speaker 4: Passaires he directs the shot home on the power play.
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  Speaker 4: The Seattle pecking tie the Tame two to two, two.
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  Speaker 3: Forty eight twenty four point eight left in this third well.
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  Speaker 5: Seattle loses not draw at the offensive end of the ice,
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  Speaker 5: but it's fits done down inchestside the blue line, keeping
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  Speaker 5: the puck in. He gets it down to Tolvan and Tolvean.
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  Speaker 5: It sells the shot, lets it go. It's a deflection
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  Speaker 5: by Matty Vaniers that ties this game up in two.
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  Speaker 4: Every it's a tolven and across done stems fence gets
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  Speaker 4: it done and over time free two Seattle Well.
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  Speaker 5: A great setup by Jordan Eberley who feeds the puck
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  Speaker 5: over to Toby and Toban waits for Fvitz time to
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  Speaker 5: get in a position for a one timer in the
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  Speaker 5: high slot, slides it over to him. It's Bob crack
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  Speaker 5: and win.
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  Speaker 3: Three to two. Bring on the five kicks.
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  Speaker 2: So that riveting plot twist gave the Kraken a victory
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  Speaker 2: in their first matchup of the season over the Kings,
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  Speaker 2: eradicating an oz five and one skid in the last
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  Speaker 2: six games and Done putting up three points in the contest,
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  Speaker 2: becoming the fourth fastest active defenseman to post two hundred
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  Speaker 2: points with an NHL franchise. He also follows Jared McCann
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  Speaker 2: as a second player in Cracking history to reach two
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  Speaker 2: hundred points with the franchise as well, now putting Done
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  Speaker 2: up to seventeen points on the season right now tied
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  Speaker 2: for second in Crack and scoring.
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  Speaker 3: They can use a little bit more of it.
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  Speaker 2: May be here for this evening as we await the
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  Speaker 2: status of Jared McCann, who left the game lighton period three,
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  Speaker 2: which by the way, led to the Kraken power play.
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  Speaker 2: As he was tangled up with goaltender Anton Forrestburg, McCann's
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  Speaker 2: legs swept out from underneath them. You would need help
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  Speaker 2: getting off toward the dressing room tunnel. Forrestburg given a
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  Speaker 2: two minute tripping penalty and the course of Crack and
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  Speaker 2: cashing in, but also amiss the victory, holding their breath
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  Speaker 2: for one of their top scores. Nonetheless, it was a
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  Speaker 2: win that gave the Crack and a breath of fresh air.
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  Speaker 2: And Done talked more about it after the game with
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  Speaker 2: the media.
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  Speaker 6: I think it was a pretty satisfying game, honestly, Like
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  Speaker 6: I know, the five on five offense was close in there.
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  Speaker 6: We had our chances, and I didn't really see like
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  Speaker 6: a lot of frustration with their team right to the end.
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  Speaker 6: I thought that the guys stay pretty disciplined and really
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  Speaker 6: trust the process all the way to the end. Guys
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  Speaker 6: stuck to it when they weren't getting necessarily results on
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  Speaker 6: the scoreboard for us. But I think overall we can
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  Speaker 6: all feel pretty good about that game. It took everyone
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  Speaker 6: to draw penalties to defend to PK. I'm sure you
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  Speaker 6: notice our PK has changed a little bit too, and
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  Speaker 6: you know, stuff happens. They get the breakaways. It's an
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  Speaker 6: only play by them, and we'll live with those sometimes.
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  Speaker 6: And I thought, Ray, when we bound bounce right back,
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  Speaker 6: we get a good kill to finish it off and
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  Speaker 6: then get a lucky PPR way at the end to
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  Speaker 6: get back in it. So it's just important right now
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  Speaker 6: to to just stick with it all the way to
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  Speaker 6: the end. I think with wins and losses, the way
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  Speaker 6: we've had the games for us, it's it's always like
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  Speaker 6: a one goal or two goal games, so anything can
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  Speaker 6: really happen going both ways. So it's important for us
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  Speaker 6: to just stick with it right to the end. What
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  Speaker 6: are you guys dofferently on that power play?
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  Speaker 3: It's the third time you score in four games.
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  Speaker 6: I love our attack right now. I think we're just
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  Speaker 6: throwing everything at the net. It's it's disappointing when it
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  Speaker 6: gets blocked, but I think that maybe changes the way
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  Speaker 6: that they'll see us in front of them and makes
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  Speaker 6: them not feel so good when they know we're not
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  Speaker 6: just gonna pass it around and look for the highlight
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  Speaker 6: reel seams and things like that. So the guys did
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  Speaker 6: a great job, you see. Uh, you know, it was
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  Speaker 6: kind of a chaotic first power play goal and then
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  Speaker 6: Maddie's goal there, it's not much to it. It's throwing
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  Speaker 6: the puck where where guys are going to the net
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  Speaker 6: and you know eventually it's going to go in for us.
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  Speaker 6: And same thing at the very end. It's not anything
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  Speaker 6: specially drawing up. It's just taking the shot that's there
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  Speaker 6: and you know, hoping good things happen.
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  Speaker 3: How you manage to keep on that well, I think
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  Speaker 3: just reading where the d r.
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  Speaker 6: You know, if it's a left handed guy and on
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  Speaker 6: the inside, it's gonna come out the other side, and
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  Speaker 6: I'm just anticipating that. And I got fortunate it kind
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  Speaker 6: of got glued on the wall and settled down pretty nice.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes pretty hard on your backhand there, So I got
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  Speaker 6: pretty fortunate that it wasn't too difficult for me to
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  Speaker 6: keep it. And then you know, the other guys do do.
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  Speaker 3: All the work for me.
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  Speaker 6: Just got to pass it around and you know, let
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  Speaker 6: them try to finish it, and they did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: You were for TV.
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  Speaker 5: You censor your comments or did you speak just the
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  Speaker 5: way you always speak?
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  Speaker 6: I think, uh, it's always kind of in the back
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  Speaker 6: of your mind. But you know, it was a pretty
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  Speaker 6: friendly match there. I think, you know, the reps that
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  Speaker 6: we had and the team that we're playing, it's a
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  Speaker 6: fun team to kind of chat with and bicker with,
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  Speaker 6: and a very competitive atmosphere whenever we play them. So
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  Speaker 6: you know, that's that's the fun part, and it's it's
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  Speaker 6: good to kind of get that kind of attention out
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  Speaker 6: and let people kind of see the you know, the
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  Speaker 6: ends of the game. So you know, I don't mind
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  Speaker 6: doing that sometimes. It's pretty fun to be a part
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  Speaker 6: of it and being the guy miked up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, tough to see Jared get hurt on the play
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  Speaker 3: that Yeah, the layer.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been chaos.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't even stepped out of the room.
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  Speaker 6: Really. I got my brother over there, so you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's just a lot right now. I don't really know
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  Speaker 6: what's going on with him. So, you know, he played
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  Speaker 6: a really, really good game. I was telling them all game.
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  Speaker 6: I mean he made some elite plays. He was feeling
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  Speaker 6: good with the puck in Obviously, shooting the puck is
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  Speaker 6: what we need him to do every single night, So
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  Speaker 6: I hope it's nothing too bad.
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  Speaker 2: First matchup coming up and all a part of the
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  Speaker 2: dad's trip. This should sound familiar because the last team,
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  Speaker 2: the Utah Man the Face also had a parents' trip
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  Speaker 2: also in there as well, the mom's side of it.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you know, right back into Utah for
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  Speaker 2: the second round of this, I guess anyway. Mike Foulton
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  Speaker 2: joining us here radio played by a play voice for
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  Speaker 2: the Utah Mammoth ninety seven to five FM twelve ADAMKSL
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  Speaker 2: Sports Owners where you can hear him Mike.
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  Speaker 3: Great to hear from you.
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  Speaker 2: Looking forward to having you back out in these parts
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  Speaker 2: here sooner than later. But before I get into the
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  Speaker 2: meat of this first off, well done with the Mammoth nickname,
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  Speaker 2: the logo pops, the jersey's pop. The name sticks like glue.
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  Speaker 2: But what's been the overall reception once this took over,
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  Speaker 2: replacing effectively what was Utah Hockey Club.
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  Speaker 7: I think people are pretty fired up about it, and
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  Speaker 7: it was a unique process because it was opened up
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  Speaker 7: to the public. It was a fan boat. It wasn't
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  Speaker 7: just created in some lab behind the curtains. This was
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  Speaker 7: kind of a whole state of Utah coming together and say, hey,
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  Speaker 7: this is what we want. I think I think hearing
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  Speaker 7: from the power the d at the league office and
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  Speaker 7: maybe even some folks higher up in the organization, I
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  Speaker 7: think sentiment is that was awesome. It was really rewarding.
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  Speaker 7: We have what we want. Let's never do that again,
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  Speaker 7: because there's a lot that had to that had to
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  Speaker 7: go into it. But they absolutely nailed the logo. Everybody
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  Speaker 7: looks great in Mountain Blue, and it's been fun to
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  Speaker 7: go to different arenas and see that blue stand out
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  Speaker 7: in the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I can say, you know, just from the
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  Speaker 2: past teams on my resume and the past stops, if
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  Speaker 2: you can combine black and glacier blue and white, you're
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  Speaker 2: doing a pretty good job. Shout out there to the
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  Speaker 2: Alaska Aces who are no longer with this, but still
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  Speaker 2: those colors just certainly pop. But great to have you
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  Speaker 2: and a strong start that was eight and two just
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  Speaker 2: seemed like a dream. And the team recently hitting the skids,
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  Speaker 2: and I think we all know that by now it's
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  Speaker 2: a condensed schedule, injuries will happen, and this is the
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  Speaker 2: way that the NHL rolls in twenty twenty five and
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  Speaker 2: twenty six. So you're still hanging around with the picture
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  Speaker 2: right now. You're doing something, all right, But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think you could point to a crunch in the schedule,
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  Speaker 2: which I think caught them pretty good. But how do
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  Speaker 2: you look at this here with the challenges that they
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  Speaker 2: have faced recently.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think first of all, even despite the last
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  Speaker 7: couple of losses, Utah still played really good games. And
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  Speaker 7: we've kind of had a run of that back through
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  Speaker 7: November where the Mammoths have played really well. It came
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  Speaker 7: out with great intensity, They've shown a willingness to go
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  Speaker 7: to the dirty areas of the ice and all those cliches,
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  Speaker 7: and yet they can't find a way to come out
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  Speaker 7: on top like they were back in October. The Mamoth
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  Speaker 7: are seven games below five hundred since that eight and
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  Speaker 7: two start, and since that seven game win streak we
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  Speaker 7: saw in November, Utah really struggled on the power play.
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  Speaker 7: A big part of that was just the team wasn't
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  Speaker 7: generating a lot of power play opportunities, so there wasn't
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  Speaker 7: much rhythm in that regard. There were a few games
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  Speaker 7: that I think the goaltenders, both for Alva Malka and
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  Speaker 7: VTech Vanichick would have liked to have back. And when
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  Speaker 7: you add that on to some of the power play struggles,
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  Speaker 7: it kind of propagated into a couple losing skids here
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  Speaker 7: and there, and you know, you throw a six game
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  Speaker 7: road trip in there, six games in nine days, and
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  Speaker 7: all of a sudden, the man has had the worst
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  Speaker 7: record in the league through November. But on the flip
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  Speaker 7: side of that, the power play has now scored goals
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  Speaker 7: in three of the last five games. We're seeing great
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  Speaker 7: goaltending from Corel ba Melca, probably his best four games
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  Speaker 7: stretch of the season that started with a seven zero
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  Speaker 7: shutout win against the Anaheim Ducks last week, and a
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  Speaker 7: lot of other indicators are trending up. When you kind
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  Speaker 7: of open the hood and look at the analytics, it's
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  Speaker 7: just the team has to figure out a way to
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  Speaker 7: get the shift across the finish line at the end.
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  Speaker 7: They've had a couple of heartbreakers in the last two
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  Speaker 7: losses against La and Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Last time the Kraken visited Utah.
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  Speaker 2: It was back in April, and it was a game
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  Speaker 2: where Philip grew Bauer, Joey decortold me and grew Bauer
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  Speaker 2: fell ill and the cord was press into starting duty
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  Speaker 2: at the eleventh hour and Utah got into fifth gear
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  Speaker 2: pretty quick and the crack and couldn't get out of
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  Speaker 2: first gear from the jump. They will non see Logan
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  Speaker 2: Cooley in this game.
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  Speaker 3: Out of the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Two leg injuries and short order and he'll be out indefinitely. Mike,
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  Speaker 2: what are they missing with him out and how are
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  Speaker 2: they working on trying to repair the holes with them
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  Speaker 2: out right now?
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  Speaker 7: Well, he's a huge missy piece and he still leads
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  Speaker 7: the team in goals as we stand right now, he's
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  Speaker 7: missed the last three games. And it's actually funny, as
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  Speaker 7: we just started recording Mike news came down from the
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  Speaker 7: Utah Twitter account that he's going to be out eight weeks.
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  Speaker 7: So we just now have a timeline on that that
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  Speaker 7: basically takes us all the way up until the Olympic break.
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  Speaker 7: So the Mammuthter Olympic break a little buffer for Cooley
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  Speaker 7: as he comes back hopefully for the last twenty five
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  Speaker 7: games of the year right after the Olympic break in February.
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  Speaker 7: But he's Utah's most creative and dynamic player, and he
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  Speaker 7: also plays that crucial role of center where the Mammoths
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  Speaker 7: are a little thin compared to some of the other
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  Speaker 7: contenders in the Western Conference. Nick Schmaltz has moved over
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  Speaker 7: from wing to center. That's something that he's done a
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  Speaker 7: little bit throughout his career. Hasn't done it full time
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  Speaker 7: for the last four seasons, but he's playing a pivot
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  Speaker 7: role with Clayton Keller on one side of them at
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  Speaker 7: JJ Fittka on the other. When that line has a
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  Speaker 7: puck in the offensive zone and when they're humming boys,
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  Speaker 7: they are fun to watch because they can zip it
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  Speaker 7: around and there's a ton of skill. But not having Logan,
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  Speaker 7: Logan and Coolie in the lineup takes a lot of
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  Speaker 7: spark out of out of Utah's game and to the
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  Speaker 7: rest of the crew to make that up. And the
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  Speaker 7: Mamots have played the last two games without him really
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  Speaker 7: well here on home mikes, and a lot of that
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  Speaker 7: has been due to some line shakeups we've seen from
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  Speaker 7: head coach Andre Turney. But obviously everybody knows the Mammoths
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  Speaker 7: are a much more dangerous team, much more exciting team
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  Speaker 7: than my better number ninety two.
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  Speaker 3: He was their leading goal scorer with fourteen. He's out.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Gunther, former Seattle Thunderbird is next with thirteen. Right
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  Speaker 2: now Clayton Keller, though, is still a constant here in
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  Speaker 2: this organization. Twenty eight points leads him again in scoring.
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  Speaker 2: No surprise there, and he went through a heartbreaking period
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  Speaker 2: last month, Mike, he lost his father. What do you
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  Speaker 2: think people had to understand with the weight he carried
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  Speaker 2: and the magnitude of the game he played to score
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  Speaker 2: a goal in his first game since his father passed.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think it's really weighed on him, and you
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't necessarily know just from being around him. I think
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  Speaker 7: he loved the game first and foremost, so he definitely
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  Speaker 7: wanted to play, and his dad, Brian loved loved locking
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  Speaker 7: him play. His dad kind of helped make a rank
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  Speaker 7: in their unfinished basement, and so their basement walls all
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  Speaker 7: dented up, like you know, like a lot of families
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  Speaker 7: who have raised hockey players. But it was a really
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  Speaker 7: emotion few days in the aftermath. We got the news
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  Speaker 7: on Thanksgiving and Clayton played the next day in Dallas,
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  Speaker 7: was super charged in that game, playing on a lot
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  Speaker 7: of adrenaline, and then a couple of days later he
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  Speaker 7: went back to his hometown of Saint Louis and played
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  Speaker 7: the Blues there, and at that time you could kind
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  Speaker 7: of see it had been a few days since the
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  Speaker 7: news and the whole team was really carrying that emotion.
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  Speaker 7: And there's been a bunch of guys that have been
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  Speaker 7: with Clayton the last few years. You think of Nick
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  Speaker 7: Schmaltz and Lawson crowds who are watching their watching their teammate,
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  Speaker 7: their captain, and their friends go through just a really,
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  Speaker 7: really difficult time. And the tragedy didn't just weigh on Clayton.
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  Speaker 7: If you go back and listen to some of the
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  Speaker 7: post game sound it waited on the rest of the
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  Speaker 7: team as well. But Clayton loved the game and his dad, Brian,
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  Speaker 7: loved the game as well, and a couple of games back,
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  Speaker 7: Clayton got a goal and kind of pointed up to
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  Speaker 7: heaven and Brian's walking with the best seat in the house.
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  Speaker 7: But it's definitely been tough for Youasoner.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Folter joining us again. Radio play by a play
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  Speaker 2: voice of the Utah Mammoth here on Cracking this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Mike All of a sudden, Andre Tourney is the league's
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  Speaker 2: fourth longest tenure coach. It's crazy here to consider, and
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  Speaker 2: he was higher back in twenty twenty one when this
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  Speaker 2: team was still the Arizona Coyotes playing in not just
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  Speaker 2: one but two buildings prior. Even in this tough stretch,
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  Speaker 2: this team is still getting high marks for their effort.
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  Speaker 2: And this team's got a young core as well. How
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  Speaker 2: much more digging does he have to do to unearth
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  Speaker 2: their full potential?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's what we're all trying to figure out,
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  Speaker 7: because every time that this team gets called out, whether
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  Speaker 7: it's by Bear or whether it's by one of the
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: veterans of this group, there's a response, and that's what
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  Speaker 7: you want to see, and that's what tells you that
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  Speaker 7: they're still full buy in with this crew. Mammosata had
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: a bad loss six to three against San Jose the
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: other week, and they had a spirited pro the next
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: day with lots of one way conversations from Andre Turney
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  Speaker 7: to the group. And what happened the next game, Well,
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: they came out and they won seven nothing against an
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  Speaker 7: Anaheim Duck team that at the time was the second
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  Speaker 7: best team in the Pacific Division, actively leading the Pacific Division,
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  Speaker 7: i should say. And so when you see that type
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  Speaker 7: of response, that tells you that the coach still has
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  Speaker 7: a handle on the group. And I think one thing
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  Speaker 7: that I've come to appreciate about Bear is his steadiness
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: and his commitment to the process. And I think you
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: need that when you're trying to come out of a rebuild.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: But this Mammoth team is clearly still learning how to win.
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  Speaker 7: And as we've seen from the last couple of games,
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: you can play a really good game, and the NHL
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: is so competitive, especially this year, you can play your
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: A game and all that means is that it's going
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: to be a one shot game in the third period.
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  Speaker 7: Just because you bring your A game does not mean
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  Speaker 7: that you're going to win. The game is just too
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  Speaker 7: good for that.
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  Speaker 2: He Finally, Delta Center's undergone a renovation, and what I
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: really appreciate about it is that it maintains its soul,
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  Speaker 2: It maintains its foundation as one of the smaller venues
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  Speaker 2: here in the league and kind of out of here
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  Speaker 2: to the league's tapestry of uniqueness when it comes to
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: different venues across the NHL. Certainly Climb the Pledge Arena
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  Speaker 2: fits that mold. But to you, what's the biggest change
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: MIC and what's your favorite part about the makeover?
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  Speaker 7: Well, the favorite part is the dvantage point because where
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: we call the game from and wherever Fitsy is going
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: to call the game from, we're right at the top
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  Speaker 7: of the lower bowl, so you're really as close as
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: you can possibly get in the NHL to the action.
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: At a lot of places, we're up in a gondola
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  Speaker 7: like a Climate Pledge, which is at a great vantage point.
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  Speaker 7: But sometimes, like in Edmonton, you're a million miles.
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  Speaker 3: Away, halfway to Red Deer.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I just guys will be calling the game from Regina.
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  Speaker 7: But at Delta Center you are right there and it's
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: not just easier to see, but you can feel the
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: intensity of the crowd as well. It's a very steep arena.
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: It's not as steep for basketball, but because the hockey
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  Speaker 7: rink is bigger than the basketball floor, the stands are
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: actually on risers and so the angles of the seat
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  Speaker 7: change for hockey compared to basketball. So it's very very steep,
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: which can make it very very loud at times too,
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: especially when the Mountain Blue are rolling. But the home
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: team hasn't hasn't lost in this all time series yet.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: Between Battle and Utah, it should be a fun one
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  Speaker 7: here Friday night.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I remember, ever it fits you and al Kiniski raving
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: about the proximity of the ice cream machine and the
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: ice cream Man to what was their press base last year.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if that has changed. If it has,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: please give them a hug for me, and one of
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: these days I'll look forward to making the trip out there, Mike,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Thank you man.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: Of course, Chick fil A is nearby as well. Dinners
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  Speaker 7: on me whenever it's in the house.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: All right on bottoms up? Why not Mike Folta joining
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: us once again. Mammoth Radio play by play voice says
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the Kracking getting set for one of three matchups on
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: the season here with Utah and can the Kraken finally
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: break a trend in this head to head series? Last
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: year the home team won every game in the head
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: to head series, and this time the Kraken looking to
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: turn tables after they took a seven to one loss
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: and their only visited to Delta Center last week, but
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: as we pointed out, the Kraken with some extra energy
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: and family presence on the trip. This game also marking
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: the final leg of the Fathers and Mentor's trip, and
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: we caught up with plenty of Kraken players with plenty
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: of great stories. Vince done with his brother along here
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: for the ride. Brandon Montur has his father in on
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the trip as well, plenty of players also sharing similar testimonies,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: and the Kraken trying to capitalize off a little something
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: extra here in this one off stop before they come
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: back home for two in a row against the Buffalo
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Sabers and the Colorado Avalanche once again. Utah coming off
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: a four to two loss to the Los Angeles Kings.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: They have hit the skids recently after beginning of the
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: year eight and two. They are six thirteen and three
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: since October twenty eight, but they still boast plenty of
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: top end firepower even with the loss of Logan Cooley.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Dylan Gunther, the former Seattle Thunderbird, has goals in back
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: to back games. He leads him with thirteen goals on
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the season. Clayton Keller right now no surprise, top of
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: the pack for Utah, scoring with twenty eight points on
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the campaign. Without question, he's a go to guy the
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Kraken want to go after defensively, who leads all active
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: players on the Mammoth roster against the Kraken with ten
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: points in twelve games.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna be a fun one here this evening.
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  Speaker 2: Hope you can join us once again if you're around
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the area at Tom's Watch Bar right across from Climb
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  Speaker 2: the Pledge Arena for our watch party airtime opening up
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: at five thirty. Ever it fits you al Katiski at
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  Speaker 2: Delta Center with the call that opens up little past
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  Speaker 2: six pm Pacific all across the Global Credit Union crake
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  Speaker 2: In Audio Network. Hey, thanks again to Mike Folter for
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: joining us and for kracking this morning. I'm Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy the game. You're home for the Kraken.
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