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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert speaks with Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken face the Toronto Maple Leafs (10/28) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mike lane, a five, one loss to Minnesota.
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: You've had a couple of days to digest that some
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: good practices between, uh, then and now, where do you
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  Speaker 1: feel the biggest hiccups were for Seattle in that game
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  Speaker 1: against the wild? And over these last couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: what have you done to get back to maybe your
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  Speaker 1: style of play, your game to reinforce some of those
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  Speaker 1: things that you want to see done here?
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  Speaker 2: I think, uh, as in maybe a couple of the
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  Speaker 2: games that we've talked about, I think our mistakes that
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  Speaker 2: we've made were catastrophic. Um, I give Minnesota full credit.
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  Speaker 2: They were hard to play against. The last 40 minutes,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't generate much. You know, it wasn't great from
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  Speaker 2: that standpoint. It wasn't like we weren't trying, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But they did a good job of clogging things up
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  Speaker 2: when they got, you know, a 4-1 lead. But how
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  Speaker 2: they got there was disappointing to me, you know, getting
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  Speaker 2: scored on right away, missed assignment, and, you know, the–
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  Speaker 2: breakaway goal that Coleman scored coming out of the penalty
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  Speaker 2: box those are things that you can't do and so
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  Speaker 2: you know from that standpoint I thought we kind of
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  Speaker 2: shot ourselves in the foot a little bit and took
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  Speaker 2: ourselves out of the game so to speak so you
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  Speaker 2: know if we clean those things up you know I
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  Speaker 2: think we'll be a lot better off obviously and you
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  Speaker 2: know it's just we've got to eliminate those catastrophic mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: Is it, and maybe comforting isn't the right word, but
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  Speaker 1: how does it feel for you knowing that it is
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  Speaker 1: just one or two mistakes and rather than just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a hole, a massive hole within your overall game plan?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I guess better than complete holes, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, at the same time too, we needed to
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  Speaker 2: generate more offense. We need to generate more offense. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just a variation of different things. And certainly
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  Speaker 2: we took a look at some of the things and, um,
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  Speaker 2: I had a couple of good days of practice, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what we get tonight here. It's a big
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  Speaker 2: game for our hockey team. We've got a chance to
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  Speaker 2: go 3-1 in this homestand against four very good hockey teams,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a big hockey game for us. So I
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  Speaker 2: want to see us rise to the occasion, rise to
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  Speaker 2: the challenge. Embrace it would probably be the biggest word.
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  Speaker 2: Let's embrace the challenge. Let's embrace whatever pressure we're feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Let's embrace that. With the biggest news of the week
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  Speaker 1: being Jared McCann now out for 10 weeks, I guess
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  Speaker 1: the saving grace is that you're losing him in game
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  Speaker 1: 11 and not game 60 when you're going to need
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  Speaker 1: him down the stretch. What do you lose with a
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  Speaker 1: Jared McCann out of the lineup, and who are you
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  Speaker 1: looking at at stepping up to help fill that void?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, the mantra is always going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: gives other guys opportunity and it does now in saying
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  Speaker 2: that you know i'm jared mccann i'm sitting there listening
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  Speaker 2: and i'm hurt and i know that i i'm a
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  Speaker 2: guy who provides a lot and we know he's a
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  Speaker 2: guy who provides a lot so i don't think you
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  Speaker 2: can ever completely fill that hole i guess that's my
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  Speaker 2: point but what we have to do here is we
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  Speaker 2: have to step up by committee and try and do
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  Speaker 2: a good job of taking care of that. Obviously, we've
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  Speaker 2: got Yanni Neyman has been called up. Yanni is a
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  Speaker 2: year older than he was last year, obviously, at this time.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking forward to seeing him play and see where
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  Speaker 2: he's at.
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  Speaker 1: With Newman, he leads the AHL in goal scoring with
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  Speaker 1: nine this season. Have you talked to the coaches down
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  Speaker 1: in Coachella Valley, the management there? What are they saying
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  Speaker 1: about how he's progressed from last year to this year?
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen from him in the first few
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  Speaker 1: practices that you've been able to watch him this year?
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was better in training camp this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think his understanding of the details and things like
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  Speaker 2: that are better now than they were. Sometimes when you're
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  Speaker 2: a young player who has a big shot and is
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  Speaker 2: used to scoring goals, you don't always see the defensive
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  Speaker 2: side of the game like you have to. That's what
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  Speaker 2: you have to have in order to gain trust from
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  Speaker 2: the coaching staff. and I think he's done a really
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  Speaker 2: good job of improving in those areas. Of course, I've
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  Speaker 2: talked to the coaching staff down there. I talk to
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  Speaker 2: them all the time. And, you know, I think the
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  Speaker 2: other thing about him is he's providing himself with opportunities
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  Speaker 2: offensively because he's going to the net hard. He's planting
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  Speaker 2: himself in front. You know, if you look at, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a guy like Alex Ovechkin, you know, everybody thinks he's
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  Speaker 2: got this big shot, which he does. Everybody thinks he's
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  Speaker 2: scored all these goals standing over there on the dock,
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  Speaker 2: which he's scored a bunch, but he's scored... more than
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  Speaker 2: that standing in front of the net. So that's what
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  Speaker 2: we need the hunter to do. We need him to
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  Speaker 2: get to the net and use his shot.