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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert speaks with Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken face the Detroit Red Wings (10/20) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Mike. Lane, finally cracking her back home after a
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  Speaker 1: 3-1-1 road trip. Overall successful. You take 7 of 10
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  Speaker 1: points against some tough competition. Wrap up the last week
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  Speaker 1: and a half for Seattle and where you feel this
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  Speaker 1: team is now compared to where they were after that
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  Speaker 1: Vegas game.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, obviously we had some success. We
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  Speaker 2: had some good goaltending. I thought, you know, if we
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  Speaker 2: can just continue to find some consistency in our game.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't. Loved our game against Florida. At least the
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  Speaker 2: last 42 minutes of it I didn't like. The first
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  Speaker 2: 18 were fine. So, you know, just continue to build
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  Speaker 2: on consistency and continue to understand what we need to
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  Speaker 2: do to have success, and that is use speed and
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  Speaker 2: have some pressure. Make sure that we're tight on people
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  Speaker 2: and playing in other teams' faces. So I think when
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  Speaker 2: we do that, you know, we have success and when
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  Speaker 2: we don't, we don't. It's very, it became very evident
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  Speaker 2: on the road trip.
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  Speaker 1: When you get to the end of a long road
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  Speaker 1: trip like that, you and I were kind of talking
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  Speaker 1: off mic just about how long that trip was and
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  Speaker 1: how guys are itching to get back home. How do
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  Speaker 1: you keep the focus knowing that you've been gone for
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  Speaker 1: eight to 10 days at a time and you still
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  Speaker 1: have some tough opposition ahead of you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's, you know, it's your job. That's all there
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  Speaker 2: is to it. And, you know, there was, I think
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of fatigue that came into play. I
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  Speaker 2: thought that the trip for me was one game too long.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously it turned out to be that way, but, um,
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  Speaker 2: I said it before the game, uh, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can only go on the road for so long before
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  Speaker 2: it starts to wear on you. Um, that's just the
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  Speaker 2: nature of the nature of the beast. But at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, uh, you know, like I said, I thought
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  Speaker 2: we played pretty well in Florida for the first 18
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  Speaker 2: minutes of the hockey game. And then it got unraveled
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  Speaker 2: on us. We started to make some mistakes, um, you know, and,
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  Speaker 2: Panic set in and we just didn't handle it as
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  Speaker 2: well as I think we can moving forward. But certainly
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity for us to learn and grow from that.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of opportunity, your bottom six forward group has been
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  Speaker 1: playing very well as of late. You get 16 points
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  Speaker 1: from your fourth line on that road trip. The Cat
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  Speaker 1: and Kako and right line have been playing very well
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  Speaker 1: as well. When you look at trying to elevate guys
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  Speaker 1: up the lineup and giving guys more ice time, where
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  Speaker 1: do you see those two lines roles evolving moving forward?
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  Speaker 2: Well, those, those lines, uh, for me, you know, talk
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  Speaker 2: about as a hockey team, you have to have people
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  Speaker 2: that are in the right seat on the bus and
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  Speaker 2: they're in the right seat on the bus. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we need our top six guys to, you know, get
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  Speaker 2: going here five on five. Um, I don't see, uh,
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  Speaker 2: there being a bunch of change down, you know, in that,
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  Speaker 2: in that area. Um, Because they had success in that area.
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  Speaker 2: So why would we change that? What we need is
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  Speaker 2: we need more of our top six guys.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at tonight's game against the Red Wings, 6-3 win
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  Speaker 1: over Detroit to start the trip about a week and
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  Speaker 1: a half ago. What did you learn about the Red
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  Speaker 1: Wings in that game? And what should the Kraken be
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  Speaker 1: prepared for here tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're a fast team. I thought, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: we started the game against them, I thought Philip Grubauer
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  Speaker 2: played amazing. And they probably in the first period should
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  Speaker 2: have been up a couple goals, and they weren't. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we ended up responding. I thought that, to be honest
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  Speaker 2: with you, I thought their goaltender didn't play very well,
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  Speaker 2: which gave us an opportunity to, you know, shoot the
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  Speaker 2: puck in the net. And that was probably the pivotal
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  Speaker 2: part of the game for me was our goaltender played
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  Speaker 2: better than their goaltender played. Now, in saying that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they are a high-shot volume team. They go to the
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  Speaker 2: net hard. They make plays. They've got good players, Sider, Raymond.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Larkin, these guys are legit stars in the NHL,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to have to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 2: ready to go.