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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Trade deadline reactions ahead of Ottawa (3/7) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the krackin
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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: All right, the NHL trade deadline has come and gone,
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Speaker 2: and the Seattle Kracken moving forward now with a new
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Speaker 2: forward to their roster and a rejuvenated contract. Here for
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Speaker 2: their captain in Jordan Eberley, Welcome to Cracking this morning.
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Speaker 2: On a Saturday, March seventh of Kracking take on the
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Speaker 2: Ottawa Senators this evening. Face out little past seven o'clock
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Speaker 2: Pacific time. We're on air six point thirty pregame show
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Speaker 2: served up by Frostbrewed cors Light Shoes Chill ever it
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Speaker 2: fits you, al Kiniski on the call. I'll join you
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Speaker 2: once again back by the course light, landing in section
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Speaker 2: twenty plus myself with Anders Hurst for talking Kracking up
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Speaker 2: to an hour after the final horn for postgame. We
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Speaker 2: will be at Tom's watch bar, and we certainly hope
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Speaker 2: that you can join us. Coming up in just a bit.
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Speaker 2: Jordan Neverly's conversation with our own Ian Furness from one
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Speaker 2: to three week and this heard on Friday at Kraken
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Speaker 2: Community Ice plus on ninety three to three KJARFM, explaining
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Speaker 2: why every is looking forward to more after extending for
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Speaker 2: two more years were five point five million dollars annually
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Speaker 2: plus GM. Jason botterrel on the heels of a trade
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Speaker 2: today right as a deadline hit and his immediate reaction
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Speaker 2: with the media coming up very shortly.
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Speaker 3: As far as.
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Speaker 2: Game matters our concerned, It's been two days off after
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Speaker 2: the Crack and fell to the Saint Louis Blues. Foward
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Speaker 2: to two disappointing in the sense the Crack and facing
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Speaker 2: a Blues team for the second time in six days
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Speaker 2: and falling in both meetings the Crack and practicing on
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Speaker 2: Thursday and then resting for the Friday NHL trade deadline,
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Speaker 2: where the first move came from within their own dressing room.
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Speaker 2: Captain Jordan Eberley and the Crack and agreeing to a
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Speaker 2: two year contract extension at age thirty five. He's enjoying
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Speaker 2: a bounce back season with full health and leading the
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Speaker 2: Crack and right now with twenty two goals.
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Speaker 4: In fifty nine games.
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Speaker 2: Additionally, everly, should he finish out, this next contract would
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Speaker 2: complete seven years in a Crack in Jersey, matching the
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Speaker 2: longest tenure of any team for his NHL career, the
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Speaker 2: Edmonton Oilers right now in the clubhouse lead spanning from
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Speaker 2: twenty ten to twenty seventeen. So Jordan Neberley looking for
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Speaker 2: a bounce back season for the Krack and when it
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Speaker 2: comes to the Stanley Cup playoffs and aiming for his
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Speaker 2: second appearance in the postseason with the Crack and after
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Speaker 2: eleven points in fourteen games back in twenty twenty two
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Speaker 2: twenty three after that, the only question with the Crack
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Speaker 2: and make a trade. The answer was yes and it
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Speaker 2: came basically right at the final bell. Bobby McMahon is
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Speaker 2: headed west, the Krack in getting him from the Toronto
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Speaker 2: Maple Leafs and the deal that was consummated late and
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Speaker 2: I mean minutes right before the trade deadline as well,
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Speaker 2: McMahon bringing over nineteen goals in sixty games that would
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Speaker 2: immediately put him second right now behind on the Crack
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Speaker 2: and roster. Twenty goals is his career high that was
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Speaker 2: set last season back in seventy four contest and a
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Speaker 2: late bloomer as well, beginning his pro career in the
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Speaker 2: EHL with Wichita and Newfoundland as an undrafted free agent,
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Speaker 2: but McMahon working his way up the lineup, becoming a
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Speaker 2: serviceable middle six winger with size at six foot two
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Speaker 2: speed as well, and McMahon looking to make new beginnings
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Speaker 2: here potentially longer term. He will be an unrestricted free
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Speaker 2: agent at the end of this campaign at age twenty nine. Additionally,
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Speaker 2: he is reunited head coach Lane Lambert, the two together
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Speaker 2: on last year's Maple Leaf squad when Lambert was an
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Speaker 2: associate coach for head coach Craig Barrubi in Toronto. It
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Speaker 2: camped off a day where not many big names were
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Speaker 2: on the move, the largest Nozam Kadriy right back to
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Speaker 2: the Avalanche in the similar timeframe when the McMahon deal
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Speaker 2: went down for the Kraken, John Carlson going west from
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Speaker 2: Washington to Anaheim, the Red Wings getting Justin Falk from
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Speaker 2: the Saint Louis Blues, Brayden Sheen going from Nashville to
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Speaker 2: the New York Islanders, among other moves in the NHL,
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Speaker 2: which still saw Elias Petterson, Robert Thomas, Jordan Kyru and
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Speaker 2: other big names stay with their teams by trade deadline time.
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Speaker 2: Jason Botterrel has more context here for the crack and
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Speaker 2: dressing room meeting with the media. Before that, Jordan Everley signed,
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Speaker 2: sealed and delivered for two more seasons after this year,
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Speaker 2: and he explained on the Ian forness showed the reasons
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Speaker 2: behind staying in Seattle rather than hitting the free agent
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Speaker 2: market at age thirty five, and you get the sense
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Speaker 2: they had a lot to do with calling him this
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Speaker 2: place home, you know, I.
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Speaker 3: Think from you know, year one was tough for me.
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Speaker 3: That summer when the expansion draft happened, I got picked.
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Speaker 3: I had a lot of mixed feelings. I'd just come
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Speaker 3: from Long Island where we had gone back to back
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Speaker 3: conference finals. Being picked by an expansion team, I didn't
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Speaker 3: really know what to expect. I mean, that was a
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Speaker 3: tough year too, you know, just with the way the
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Speaker 3: season went. You know, we lost a lot of games.
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Speaker 3: It was hard. I think once year two hit and
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Speaker 3: the guys came back motivated and we got into the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: My son was born that year here, you know, it
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Speaker 3: just started to feel like, Okay, we're building something. You know,
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Speaker 3: this is that that was an enjoyable, enjoyable season. Watching
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Speaker 3: the fans and the passion they had, I mean they
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Speaker 3: had that Year one two, they showed up every day,
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Speaker 3: but you know that just the way I could see
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Speaker 3: the city get fired. And that's how you build a franchise.
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Speaker 3: You get into the playoffs, you win hockey games. That's
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Speaker 3: how you grow excitement around the team, and that's what
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Speaker 3: we did. Year three was for me, we kind of
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Speaker 3: took a step back in the way that we played it.
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Speaker 3: Then year four for me, I was hurt half the year.
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Speaker 3: So I mean this year it kind of feels like
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Speaker 3: year two again. I mean we're back to where, you know,
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Speaker 3: I know that the potential of this group and we've
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Speaker 3: shown it, maybe not as much as I want it,
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Speaker 3: as much as I think we had showed it, but
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Speaker 3: we still put ourselves in a position, you know that
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Speaker 3: we're in a playoff spot and we're gonna be grinding
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Speaker 3: down the stretch. So it just made sense. I was like,
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Speaker 3: I'm coming back here for sure. This is exciting. I
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Speaker 3: love it to hear, my wife, my kids, everyone loves
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Speaker 3: it and just the family and group of it. So
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Speaker 3: excited to get that done.
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Speaker 5: Today, Jordan, every joining me, How does that translate for
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Speaker 5: you and others that are here? Because I've heard the
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Speaker 5: same thing from Monty and some guys that have come in.
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Speaker 5: And he had a great line on Hockey Night in
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Speaker 5: Canada last week. I guess it was on after Hours.
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Speaker 5: He's like, yeah, I mean I didn't know anything about
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Speaker 5: really Seattle, and I had to kind of check with
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Speaker 5: a couple of guys, and we're kind of still an
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Speaker 5: unknown commodity out here. Everyone knows Vegas when they came
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Speaker 5: in the league. It's because Vegas people go there. Nobody
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Speaker 5: knows about this market yet. Lest I mean you you
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Speaker 5: probably popped in here what three times during juniors, like
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Speaker 5: in and out maybe right, so you really know anything
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Speaker 5: about Seattle? How do you and other players, because there
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Speaker 5: is a sense of recruiting, how do you sell Seattle
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Speaker 5: to people, whether it be you know, wanting to you know,
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Speaker 5: wave a no trade clause or even the summer with
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Speaker 5: free agency. What do you tell guys? What do you
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Speaker 5: tell guys around Lega? What do you hear about this market?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think, first and foremost just the the ownership group.
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Speaker 3: I mean the amenities that we have as a group,
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Speaker 3: going above and beyond any team that I've ever played on,
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Speaker 3: from the food to the way we get treated in
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Speaker 3: the locker room, to you know, this stuff like it's unbelievable.
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Speaker 3: You know, we get treated unbelievable. And then they want
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Speaker 3: to win. I mean they're going after players, they're trying
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Speaker 3: to get better. I think for me that was a
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Speaker 3: that's a huge selling point as I get older, that
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Speaker 3: you know, I want to win. That's that's what it
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Speaker 3: comes down to. I want to ring, and the willingness
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Speaker 3: that they have to be aggressive to get players. You know,
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Speaker 3: I think the fan base for me there this this
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Speaker 3: is a sports city. I don't think they I mean
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Speaker 3: everyone talks about the Seahawks and the Mariners, but the
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Speaker 3: fans that they get behind us, it's it's unbelievable. Those
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Speaker 3: three things. And for me, you know, you want to
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Speaker 3: play in a market that cares. They do. I think
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Speaker 3: on top of that, I've been in a market in
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Speaker 3: Canada where it's it can be hard, you're under the
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Speaker 3: spotlight a little bit. You don't really have that as
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Speaker 3: much here, which is kind of nice. I mean those
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Speaker 3: are all selling features, and then they're just the city
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Speaker 3: of Seattle. I think you know that visually it's beautiful.
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Speaker 3: I think the one thing that maybe guys get knocked
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Speaker 3: on about there is the rain a little bit and
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Speaker 3: it's really not that bad. So it's a little maybe today,
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Speaker 3: but most days, I must say, is not that bad.
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Speaker 3: So I mean it's just for me, it's been an
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Speaker 3: unbelievable place to pay. I love it.
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Speaker 4: I think that's I think that's well said.
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Speaker 5: And I you know, this team, it feels like it's
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Speaker 5: it's so strange because first of all, Edmonton I can imagine.
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Speaker 5: I can't even imagine how hard it would be to
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Speaker 5: play up there, I or other Canadian markets at times too.
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Speaker 5: You see that like that's Toronto's issue. But you know
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Speaker 5: here there is a little bit of pressure. I mean
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Speaker 5: there's people, you know, I'm hearing from guys today and
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Speaker 5: we're hearing from our listeners today like they want this
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Speaker 5: team to take that next step, and there is some
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Speaker 5: there is some push. So there's kind of a it's
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Speaker 5: probably a good balance along the way. What does this
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Speaker 5: team need to do because we've seen the good hell,
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Speaker 5: i'd say the great Monday's game against Carolina. That's an
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Speaker 5: elite Stanley Cup contending team. You guys, I don't look
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Speaker 5: at the shots on goal. I don't think any of
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Speaker 5: us really do, because they shoot from they shoot from
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Speaker 5: the space. Need a that team does. But what you
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Speaker 5: guys did in that game defensively, your structure, getting the
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Speaker 5: timely goals to get that win, and then you bounce
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Speaker 5: back and how what happened on Wednesday? Yeah, it's the
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Speaker 5: ups and downs. It feels like sometimes you play to
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Speaker 5: the level of competition. What does this team need to
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Speaker 5: do to Jordan take that next step and get to
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Speaker 5: the postseason?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I've heard that question about Carolina and
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Speaker 3: then Saint Louis. I think the one thing for me
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Speaker 3: is I put in this way that was an original question. No,
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Speaker 3: I've had that one the other day. Yeah, they were
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Speaker 3: asking me about it, and and the reality of this
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Speaker 3: for me is is this league is such it's just
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Speaker 3: so hard. Every team is good. I think people look
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Speaker 3: at the standings. You see where Carolina was at and
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Speaker 3: we're probably not favored going into that game, and we
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Speaker 3: come out right, and then they go into the Gangs
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Speaker 3: game against Saint Louis and they're like, oh, they should
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Speaker 3: win this one based on the state. But every team
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Speaker 3: in this league is good. It doesn't matter how you play.
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Speaker 3: You know, you're every team any night doesn't you have
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Speaker 3: a chance to win. Each team does. And that's just
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Speaker 3: the reality of this league and that's why it's so
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Speaker 3: hard to win a Stanley Cup. So, you know, Saint
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Speaker 3: Louis doesn't get enough credit for how good of a
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Speaker 3: team they are. You know, we definitely had our stretches
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Speaker 3: in that game where they kind of took it to us,
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Speaker 3: but I like the way that we pushed back a
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Speaker 3: little bit too. But for to answer your question, to
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Speaker 3: get over the hump, you know, I've seen the potential
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Speaker 3: and not just in the Carolina game, but the games
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Speaker 3: before the break, the last three weeks, two weeks, the
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Speaker 3: style of hockey that we were playing, and I've been
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Speaker 3: on some teams Vegas La were huge wins. I've been
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Speaker 3: on teams that are really good, and I've been on
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Speaker 3: teams that you know, I knew that we weren't good,
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Speaker 3: and playing in the last three weeks of the season
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Speaker 3: or before the break, the way that we were playing,
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Speaker 3: I was like, Wow, we're not just going to get in,
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Speaker 3: but we're gonna be a tough team to beat.
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Speaker 2: Great chat with Jordan Eberley again, looks like that he
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Speaker 2: has found a home in a long term home here
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Speaker 2: in the city of Seattle. Previously, after some uncertainty coming
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Speaker 2: out of the New York Islanders through the expansion draft,
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Speaker 2: beverly hoping he can make much more of a difference
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Speaker 2: potentially for a second playoff front here with the Krack
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Speaker 2: and after he helped the crack And get to within
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Speaker 2: one win of the conference final back in twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: two and twenty three, the Crack and again acquiring Bobby
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Speaker 2: McMahon to complete a trade deadline period where unless you
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Speaker 2: were a seller, every team in the Pacific Division made
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Speaker 2: a move, Vegas getting Rasmus Anderson and Nick dowd Anaheim
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Speaker 2: getting John Carlson, Connor Murphy and Jason Dicketson additionally going
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Speaker 2: to Edmonton Key for sure at an earlier acquisition reupping
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Speaker 2: though with the San Jose Sharks after this season, the
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Speaker 2: Kings of the course getting our Timmy panerin among others
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Speaker 2: as well, and what was a busy trade deadline where
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Speaker 2: not many big names were on the move, but the
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Speaker 2: Krack and finding a way to get a deal done
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Speaker 2: literally at the last minute when the smoke finally cleared,
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Speaker 2: GM Jason Boderol for the Kraken met with the media,
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Speaker 2: beginning with his recap on the moves.
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Speaker 6: When you have an opportunity to sign your captain for
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Speaker 6: another two years, your leading scorer, a player that exemplifies
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Speaker 6: so much that the Seattle cracking are about. You know,
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Speaker 6: we are just Ecstaduct of Jordan part of our organization
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Speaker 6: for two more years.
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Speaker 4: You know, he's a great leader for our young players.
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Speaker 6: I think even with injury last year, he's taken his
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Speaker 6: focus on training to another level, and then you look
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Speaker 6: at his on ice product and continues to help us
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Speaker 6: win and has put us in a playoff position here
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Speaker 6: right now.
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Speaker 4: So excited from that.
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Speaker 6: In the with the addition of Bobby McMahon, we wanted
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Speaker 6: to look and try to add a piece to our group,
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Speaker 6: someone who could play in our top nine. We look
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Speaker 6: at Bobby as a player that brings speed to our lineup,
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Speaker 6: gets pucks the net, gets the net, and I think
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Speaker 6: can compliment the.
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Speaker 4: Rest of our group very well.
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Speaker 6: And we talked a lot about making sure our chemistry
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Speaker 6: with our group stayed the same, making sure that our
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Speaker 6: young players still had an opportunity to grow. And just
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Speaker 6: the fact that you know Bobby has a relationship with
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Speaker 6: Lane from last year, I think we'll just make the
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Speaker 6: transition that much easier.
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Speaker 4: To Seattle here.
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Speaker 7: What was able to tell you about him from his.
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Speaker 4: Experience coach last year?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think the little things that we touched on right,
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Speaker 6: just his speed, his attacking style. You look at Bobby's history,
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Speaker 6: He's worked at every level to get his opportunity to
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Speaker 6: be a successful story at the National Hockey League. His
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Speaker 6: ability to play up and down the lineup. We just
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Speaker 6: felt it was something that would fit very well with
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Speaker 6: our group.
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Speaker 8: From his skills standpoint, how is he unique or different
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Speaker 8: than what you.
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Speaker 3: Currently have on?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think if you look at it, we're a
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Speaker 6: team that needs to continue to work on getting pucks
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Speaker 6: in net, increasing our shot totals.
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Speaker 4: That's what Bobby does.
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Speaker 6: And you know, I think we're a team that wants
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Speaker 6: to continue when we're playing well, when we're creating opportunities,
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Speaker 6: we're utilizing our speed out there hard on the ford check.
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Speaker 6: These are elements that I think he brings and helps
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Speaker 6: our group.
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Speaker 9: Do you see him as a top six forward.
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Speaker 4: On your look?
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Speaker 6: I think what we're doing that will be up to
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Speaker 6: Lane on where he puts him into the lineup. From
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Speaker 6: that standpoint, you've heard myself talk a lot about it.
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Speaker 6: You heard Lane talk a lot about it that we
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Speaker 6: certainly want to be a four line team. I think
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Speaker 6: sometimes even just look at the time on ice, you
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Speaker 6: don't know which way, what is our first line, what's
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Speaker 6: your second, what's your third, what's the fourth? So we're
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Speaker 6: just giving Lane more opportunities and to sort of set
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Speaker 6: up the lineup.
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Speaker 9: How did the market kind of shape up for and
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Speaker 9: I'm sure you were having discussions about other players as well,
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Speaker 9: right for some of the like really top top tier
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Speaker 9: type of players that might have been available out there.
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Speaker 9: I've seen reports that it was pretty high for some
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Speaker 9: of the asks.
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Speaker 3: What did you kind of come across or as much.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Look, there's always a lot of conversations going on.
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Speaker 6: There's always you know, discussions on big trades and big,
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Speaker 6: big acquisitions. Look, we certainly wanted to be involved with them.
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Speaker 6: We wanted to be aggressive and trying to help out
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Speaker 6: our team here at the TODA. It's something that I
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Speaker 6: touched on before, wanting to find a balance of adding
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Speaker 6: to our group but not blocking our young kids. And
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Speaker 6: I'm not just talking about Berkeley, Katon or Shane, right,
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Speaker 6: but you look at a player like Melanson or Winterton
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Speaker 6: and what they've come up and given us a certain
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Speaker 6: element to our group here, and we want to make
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Speaker 6: sure that they continue to have ice time and continue to.
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Speaker 4: Develop as you know, as players.
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Speaker 6: So it was a sort of finding that unique balance
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Speaker 6: here of you know, adding to the group but not
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Speaker 6: blocking players from our group.
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Speaker 4: And we're happy about it.
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Speaker 6: But from the bigger picture things, there's always going to
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Speaker 6: be a ton of discussion, whether things get done now
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Speaker 6: or at the draft or later on the summer. I
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Speaker 6: think you're at least initiating a lot of conversations that
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Speaker 6: can could go on. Well, look, I think he's playing
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Speaker 6: extremely wanted right now. We I think, you know, he's
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Speaker 6: a developing player, even at his age right now, like
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Speaker 6: he's worked his way up from you know, obviously been
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Speaker 6: a free agent in college to the HL, at the
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Speaker 6: American Ocke League, Towns, the National arche League. Yeah, he's
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Speaker 6: a developing player. How high you can get, I think
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Speaker 6: that's still up to him. And well that's what we're
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Speaker 6: looking forward to interacting with him on a daily occurrence here.
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Speaker 6: But no, it's a it's a it's a real success
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Speaker 6: story for how hard he's worked. And that's something that
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Speaker 6: Lane just touched on is just even maybe when the
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Speaker 6: goals aren't going in or the office is that going in.
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Speaker 6: He has that work ethic, that real backup b game.
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Speaker 10: Jason, you went into this week with four veterans on
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Speaker 10: expiring contracts.
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Speaker 4: One is now.
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Speaker 10: Tied up, you have three others. What went into thinking, well,
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Speaker 10: do we want to get assets back from them? Do
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Speaker 10: we want to resign them? Do we just want to
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Speaker 10: make sure that there are for the playoff push?
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 6: Look, it's a situation where we looked at it. We
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Speaker 6: we've stayed in touch with our representatives throughout this process. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: we could have maybe put some out in the trade
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Speaker 6: market and get something, but this this team is in
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Speaker 6: a playoff position, you know, and in previous years we've
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Speaker 6: we've made some difficult decisions and let some good players
16:19
Speaker 6: go because we weren't in a playoff situation and and
16:22
Speaker 6: got draft.
16:22
Speaker 4: Picks back and got draft assets back.
16:26
Speaker 6: You know, even this year we took out an NHL
16:29
Speaker 6: player to get draft draft picks back. We felt it
16:32
Speaker 6: was now time to utilize some of those those picks
16:34
Speaker 6: and bringing a player like Bobby here into the mix.
16:36
Speaker 6: And we clearly understand it's going to be a tough
16:38
Speaker 6: month here, right you look at our schedule, it's going
16:40
Speaker 6: to be a challenging month. It's been the story of
16:43
Speaker 6: the National Hockey right the parody of the league. But
16:45
Speaker 6: we're ecstatic that we're in the mix. We're in a
16:48
Speaker 6: playoff spot right now, and we think this is a
16:51
Speaker 6: great experience for young players and that's why we wanted
16:54
Speaker 6: to keep this team together and hopefully add which we
16:56
Speaker 6: did in Bobby.
16:57
Speaker 10: And we tell us exactly the numbers in term down
17:01
Speaker 10: to the penny uh that you're offering.
17:04
Speaker 4: To the other three players without a doubt.
17:06
Speaker 6: Look, it's a situation where we're extact to have them
17:11
Speaker 6: part of our group here.
17:12
Speaker 4: We've talked to them.
17:13
Speaker 6: I think there's always a balance of focusing on the
17:17
Speaker 6: business side and folksing in hockey, and right now, like
17:20
Speaker 6: our main focus is to help this group and stay
17:22
Speaker 6: focused on hockey, and we're just ecstatic about this group
17:26
Speaker 6: right now.
17:27
Speaker 7: I think I saw that it's a conditional second that
17:29
Speaker 7: you're sending to Toronto as a part of what's what's
17:31
Speaker 7: the condition on that with you?
17:32
Speaker 6: I think I believe the two picks that we have
17:35
Speaker 6: going through here again, I believe it's where we have
17:37
Speaker 6: Winnipeg and Columbus's pick.
17:39
Speaker 4: It's the lower of those two picks.
17:41
Speaker 9: Is there a hope that McMahon is with the team
17:43
Speaker 9: beyond this season?
17:45
Speaker 4: Look, it's we certainly have the space.
17:47
Speaker 6: It's I think right now what we've sort of talked
17:49
Speaker 6: to his representatives about is, let's just let's just focus
17:52
Speaker 6: on him getting to Seattle here just so everyone's No,
17:56
Speaker 6: he probably won't be in the lineup tomorrow and for
17:58
Speaker 6: a couple of days just from an immigrt standpoint, but
18:00
Speaker 6: we'll get him to Seattle, get him part of our mix,
18:02
Speaker 6: and just sort of see how he fits in. I
18:05
Speaker 6: think it's a situation of seeing how he fits in
18:07
Speaker 6: with our group and making sure that he likes Seattle,
18:09
Speaker 6: he likes his role here, and then we'll see where
18:11
Speaker 6: it goes in the off season.
18:12
Speaker 11: Jase, when you talk about adding to the current group,
18:14
Speaker 11: but how much did you consider packaging current guys for
18:18
Speaker 11: maybe other deals or how much we're trying to balance,
18:20
Speaker 11: you know, those moving.
18:22
Speaker 4: Around those assets.
18:23
Speaker 6: Look, there's always a balance of trying to find different
18:26
Speaker 6: things of being, like I said to you before, bringing
18:28
Speaker 6: veterans in, but still giving your young kids a lot
18:31
Speaker 6: of an opportunity. And I think that's what we're just
18:33
Speaker 6: really happy about in the second half here, how some
18:36
Speaker 6: of our players have come up from Coachella Valley and
18:39
Speaker 6: been impact players for us. I think just overall, you
18:42
Speaker 6: look at it from about I don't know what the
18:44
Speaker 6: day is exactly, December twentieth, you know, this team has
18:46
Speaker 6: played very well, and to get through January with seventeen games,
18:52
Speaker 6: you know, it was a big part of our depth.
18:53
Speaker 6: And whether it's Ben Myers, whether it's Ryan Winterton, Jacob
18:57
Speaker 6: Malans and these guys who've been in Coachell about coming up,
19:01
Speaker 6: they've really added a mix to it. And I think
19:03
Speaker 6: that's gotten out of the players we now look at,
19:06
Speaker 6: you know, it's it's something why we didn't really go
19:08
Speaker 6: out and get more dept players in the in the
19:10
Speaker 6: trade market.
19:11
Speaker 4: You know, whether it's you know, Oscar.
19:13
Speaker 6: Molguard or Yannie Newman or Gagara Ferkus or John Hayden.
19:18
Speaker 6: We feel we have a lot of forwards especially that
19:21
Speaker 6: can step in and play roles for us, you know,
19:23
Speaker 6: in the regular season and hopefully the playoffs.
19:25
Speaker 11: And we met, you know, aside from the depth, what
19:27
Speaker 11: else have you seen from the room to you know,
19:29
Speaker 11: give you confidence for the march into the as hope
19:33
Speaker 11: for the postseason.
19:34
Speaker 6: Like I said, I think we have good depth throughout
19:36
Speaker 6: our lineup, and this is a team that went through
19:38
Speaker 6: a tough stretch in December. Like the fact that they've
19:42
Speaker 6: been able to rebound from that and really take it.
19:44
Speaker 6: I like how we played at the end leading into
19:47
Speaker 6: Olympic group break. I thought, especially that homestand then going
19:51
Speaker 6: into Vegas grabbing a victory there, grabbing a victory in
19:53
Speaker 6: LA before the final break, that was excellent job. Or
19:57
Speaker 6: our team coming out of the break. I think there's
19:58
Speaker 6: still another level that we can get. I think, uh,
20:01
Speaker 6: you know, we've played solid defensively, but we do have
20:04
Speaker 6: to create more chances, create a little bit more offense,
20:06
Speaker 6: and you know that will be the goal starting tomorrow.
20:09
Speaker 7: You mentioned wanting to preserve the ability for young guys
20:12
Speaker 7: to have opportunity here yep, adding another guy in the group.
20:14
Speaker 7: Though somebody is gonna get much down to the fourth line,
20:16
Speaker 7: somebody's gonna have to get scratched. Kind of how do
20:18
Speaker 7: you see that situation playing out and what kind of
20:20
Speaker 7: challenge is that going to be for Lane to have
20:22
Speaker 7: to build out a lineup every night and find a
20:24
Speaker 7: way to keep guys like Myers and in the line.
20:27
Speaker 6: I think it's a challenge, but I think it's challenged
20:28
Speaker 6: most coaches are going to take right And unfortunately there's
20:31
Speaker 6: we have a lot of games here in March here.
20:33
Speaker 4: There are going to be intense games.
20:35
Speaker 6: I think you got a little taste of it on
20:37
Speaker 6: Monday against Carolina, just the atmosphere in the building and
20:39
Speaker 6: the and the energy that was out on the ice.
20:42
Speaker 6: And look, injuries are going to happen and uh find
20:46
Speaker 6: a different mix. And what I like right now with
20:48
Speaker 6: our players is I think Lane has different depending on
20:51
Speaker 6: the opponent, There's different players that he can put into
20:53
Speaker 6: the lineup that it's going to bring a little bit
20:55
Speaker 6: of a different element to our group. So those at
20:57
Speaker 6: the end of the day, those are gonna be Lane's decisions.
20:59
Speaker 6: And it's done a good job with it throughout the year.
21:01
Speaker 6: I'm sure you'll do it fine.
21:02
Speaker 4: Now what will it.
21:04
Speaker 10: Take for what do you need to hear down in
21:07
Speaker 10: Coachella Valley for Yannie Newman to be back with this
21:11
Speaker 10: team And what are they working with him on down
21:16
Speaker 10: there to bring him back to the NHL.
21:19
Speaker 6: Well, look, any one of our young players, whether they
21:21
Speaker 6: in the National Hockey League or in Coachella Valley.
21:23
Speaker 4: I think you see it out here and practice and stuff.
21:25
Speaker 6: They're constantly working there on their game, no matter what,
21:28
Speaker 6: whether you're in the Nationalkling America, like, you're still always working.
21:32
Speaker 6: It's what I like about our culture right now off
21:34
Speaker 6: the ice, in the weight room there continuing to build
21:37
Speaker 6: their bodies there on the ice, working with Justin Rye
21:41
Speaker 6: or Jess on just little aspects.
21:42
Speaker 4: Of their games.
21:43
Speaker 6: Someone like Yanni, to me, it's we know he can score, right,
21:46
Speaker 6: he's got the shot. The fact that he continues to
21:49
Speaker 6: work on just utilizing his size to his advantage, protecting pucks,
21:54
Speaker 6: gaining a little bit of an extra step, and then
21:56
Speaker 6: just continue to work on his defensive game. But look
21:59
Speaker 6: right now, like we have no hesitation to call Yanni
22:02
Speaker 6: up and put them in our lineup from that standpoint,
22:04
Speaker 6: And like I said, have a player like Oscar Moguard
22:07
Speaker 6: has been Olympics playing at that level and I thought
22:09
Speaker 6: he looked very well good over in LA too. Having
22:12
Speaker 6: those type of players at our disposal, I think gives
22:15
Speaker 6: us a great depth.
22:16
Speaker 4: Without the organization any differences.
22:19
Speaker 5: With this year's trade deadline from past one is just
22:21
Speaker 5: in the new CBA have any impact or that kind.
22:23
Speaker 4: Of Look, I I.
22:26
Speaker 6: It's tough to say in general, right, Like, we weren't
22:30
Speaker 6: a team that was right up against the cap from
22:31
Speaker 6: that perspective, so it didn't really impact us too much there.
22:35
Speaker 6: I think it was just more of like, look, there
22:37
Speaker 6: is so much parody. Even with the teams that are
22:39
Speaker 6: so called sellers, they're not that far off, you know.
22:45
Speaker 6: So and then you also look at it, there's not
22:47
Speaker 6: a lot of free agents. A lot of teams have
22:48
Speaker 6: our resigned their flip free agents, so you know, I'm
22:50
Speaker 6: sure that some of the discussions are with some teams
22:53
Speaker 6: like hey, okay, we get rid of these players, then
22:55
Speaker 6: who's going to be on our team next year?
22:57
Speaker 4: So it's just a situation.
22:58
Speaker 6: I think some of that came into the mix on
23:00
Speaker 6: maybe why there wasn't as many trades just you're.
23:03
Speaker 8: Competing with a lot of teams for a couple of
23:05
Speaker 8: couple of playoff spots here. Yep, for those teams that
23:08
Speaker 8: you saw that we were active and added, do you
23:10
Speaker 8: feel like in comparison, you did enough to improve your
23:14
Speaker 8: team during this period.
23:18
Speaker 6: Look, I think we have a lot of faith in
23:20
Speaker 6: our group We believe this is a team that can
23:22
Speaker 6: make the playoffs and we're excited about that. Like I
23:25
Speaker 6: said to you before, I think it's gonna be a challenge.
23:27
Speaker 6: I think our division is wide open. But the fact
23:31
Speaker 6: that our young players are going to get the experience
23:33
Speaker 6: of hey, scoreboard watching, you know, understanding that, Hey, there's
23:38
Speaker 6: the excitement, the nervousness of what's going on out there,
23:40
Speaker 6: but then trying to take care of their own business
23:41
Speaker 6: and continue to develop and just see how intense these
23:44
Speaker 6: games are. You know, I think it's it's a great
23:47
Speaker 6: experience for them all. We still talk about, you know,
23:49
Speaker 6: Matty Beiner's experience his first.
23:51
Speaker 4: Year playing fourteen playoff games. It really helped him a
23:53
Speaker 4: lot a lot.
23:54
Speaker 6: Now, just being a part of the mix yere for
23:57
Speaker 6: our younger players, whether it's Riker, whether it's Berkeley, whether
24:01
Speaker 6: it's Shane, I think is going to be a great experience.
24:03
Speaker 6: And but yeah, we believe in our group here. We
24:05
Speaker 6: do think we have an opportunity. We know it's gonna
24:07
Speaker 6: be difficult, but it should be a lot of fun
24:08
Speaker 6: in the next few weeks.
24:10
Speaker 9: There's you guys have stated that the goal is to
24:12
Speaker 9: become a perennial playoff contender.
24:14
Speaker 4: Yep.
24:14
Speaker 9: In the current that's the current goal.
24:15
Speaker 3: So assuming that we reach.
24:18
Speaker 9: That goal here, what is the next step? Like, how
24:21
Speaker 9: how do you worsen the steps that we taken common
24:23
Speaker 9: true contenders.
24:25
Speaker 6: Well, let's try to get to the playoffs first for
24:27
Speaker 6: the first one to make that step from that standpoint,
24:29
Speaker 6: But I think, like, look, we're really happy with our
24:32
Speaker 6: goaltending right now and our defensive play. I think there's
24:34
Speaker 6: always an opportunity to continue to develop our forwards. It's
24:38
Speaker 6: why we were looking to add a forward to our
24:39
Speaker 6: group here. It's why we've been so focused on development
24:43
Speaker 6: both in Coachella Valley and Seattle and developing our young forwards.
24:46
Speaker 6: I think that's the opportunity for us to really take
24:49
Speaker 6: the next step is just building that depth and building
24:54
Speaker 6: an offense that can contribute a little bit more for sure.
24:56
Speaker 2: So after all the fuss and all the flurry of
24:58
Speaker 2: the Crack and helping that this week was enough hear
25:01
Speaker 2: for a little bit of an extra push in this
25:03
Speaker 2: playoff race. As they stand right now still in wildcard
25:06
Speaker 2: spot number two and two points ahead of the San
25:10
Speaker 2: Jose Sharks. The Cracking had twenty nine twenty three and
25:13
Speaker 2: nine point total at sixty seven, and Ottawa still hanging
25:18
Speaker 2: in the playoff race right now, but four points beneath
25:21
Speaker 2: the cut line. Boston controls that the Senators at thirty
25:24
Speaker 2: twenty two and nine. The trade deadline brought them Warren
25:27
Speaker 2: Fullgal from the Los Angeles Kings. David Paran shipped out
25:31
Speaker 2: back to Detroit one day prior getting back a conditional
25:35
Speaker 2: fourth round draft pick in this next summer's NHL entry drafts,
25:40
Speaker 2: So a lot to sift through here for this second
25:43
Speaker 2: of two matchups. The crack And looking for a split
25:45
Speaker 2: after falling in a shootout back in October in Ottawa
25:49
Speaker 2: and aiming for their third win in four games in
25:53
Speaker 2: this six game homestand it looks like, according to reports,
25:56
Speaker 2: the crack In may have to wait for Bobby McMahon's debut.
25:59
Speaker 2: He is going through immigration clearance, so we'll keep our
26:02
Speaker 2: eyes here on the situation before he jumps in as
26:05
Speaker 2: the newest member of the Kraken once again.
26:08
Speaker 3: Face on for this evening little.
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Speaker 2: Past seven o'clock Pacific time. Aritime coverage at six thirty
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Speaker 2: Game four of the homestand every crack in this morning,
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