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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert joins Mike Benton before the game against the Avalanch (12/16) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Crack an avalanche coming up here and back now with
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  Speaker 1: cracket head coach Lane Lambert and Lane. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: that it's that time of year right now where more
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  Speaker 1: meds are on the menu here to essentially combat illness.
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  Speaker 1: So how valuable first off, can your support staff be
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  Speaker 1: to get as many guys back on the right path,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's be a hands on approach or just their
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  Speaker 1: intel as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, obviously, like you said, there's there's illness,
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  Speaker 2: but I think it. You know, there's illness going throughout
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  Speaker 2: the league, right and you know, you see on a
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  Speaker 2: nightly basis, you know two or three guys from each
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  Speaker 2: team that are you know, out maybe because of illness.
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  Speaker 2: But what you don't see is you know, the other
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  Speaker 2: six or eight guys that we had the other night
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  Speaker 2: that we're playing and we're sick. You know. So that
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  Speaker 2: support staff is huge for us in terms of trying
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  Speaker 2: to get these guys healthy as much as possible, do
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  Speaker 2: the right things and combat it, you know, sort of
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  Speaker 2: be a little bit more proactive than reactive. But certainly
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  Speaker 2: this is the time of year for this kind of
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  Speaker 2: thing right now.
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  Speaker 1: We often hear more and more of these days that
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  Speaker 1: is a weapon, and there's five games here to play
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  Speaker 1: in this next week before the holidays. So to you,
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  Speaker 1: how much has this game changed over the years, what
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  Speaker 1: is approached to rest time and rest days as well.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's changed a lot, to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: which is really kind of strange, because you know, back
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  Speaker 2: in the old days when I was playing, we used
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  Speaker 2: to fly commercial, so it would stay overnight after the game,
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  Speaker 2: get up, go to the airport, go through security, all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. Now we just jump on a plane and
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  Speaker 2: we're gone, you know, And so they feel like we
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  Speaker 2: even practiced a little bit more back then. But the
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  Speaker 2: schedule right now, the travel, you know how demanding it
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  Speaker 2: is on the players and each individual game itself. You
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  Speaker 2: have to put everything you have into that. And it's
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  Speaker 2: one thing that you know, I want fans to understand
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  Speaker 2: is that, you know, they're giving everything they have and
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the game, they're spent, and so
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  Speaker 2: the rest ratio is super important. You know, we practiced yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: which was our in between day. You know, who knows
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  Speaker 2: what we're going to do tomorrow, and you know, and
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  Speaker 2: in San Jose and then again in Anaheim because we
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  Speaker 2: play so many games that if you don't have energy
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  Speaker 2: for the game, you'd decrease your chances of winning right
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  Speaker 2: off the hawk.
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  Speaker 1: If we can go back to the penalty kill. On Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: they get two or two against Buffalo, which in theory
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  Speaker 1: is good of course for no goals allowed. But what
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  Speaker 1: are you noticing about how the fores and defensemen are
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  Speaker 1: reacting to what's been thrown at them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're doing good. We changed it clearly needed to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it was to the point where, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you hate to change something on an in between day
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  Speaker 2: and make it a real significant change. But we just
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  Speaker 2: weren't able to grasp the concepts that we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: go with, and so we've had to make some adjustments
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  Speaker 2: to that. I think those adjustments have put more onus
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  Speaker 2: on our defense and less onus on our forwards. And
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  Speaker 2: so what we've done is we've tried to take our
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  Speaker 2: veteran defensemen and make them have more of the reads
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  Speaker 2: than our young forwards, some guys that haven't even killed
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  Speaker 2: in this league before, or killed very minimally in this league,
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  Speaker 2: and we're continuing to make mistakes, and so we've had
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  Speaker 2: to make that adjustment.
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  Speaker 1: You must to say Colorado is rolling right now. And
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  Speaker 1: we talk with Brandon Monteur the other day about Nathan
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  Speaker 1: McKinnon saying that he'll get his chances, but close attention
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  Speaker 1: matters when it comes to defensive covers. So what's the
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  Speaker 1: mindset you want the guys going out with here for tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Well, I mean, we obviously have to be aware
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  Speaker 2: of these guys. They're dynamic. You know they will get chances.
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  Speaker 2: We have to give them this few chances as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Our mindset is pay close attention to those guys, don't
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  Speaker 2: give them too much time and space than in saying
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  Speaker 2: that that doesn't mean you're backing up. We've got to play.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to play north, we've got to play on
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  Speaker 2: the attack, and you know we don't want to be
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  Speaker 2: on our heels. So this is clearly the best hockey
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  Speaker 2: team in the league by a mile by right now.
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  Speaker 2: You know, McKinnon's already plus forty usually, you know, plus
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  Speaker 2: forty wins the plus minus over an eighty two game schedule.
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  Speaker 2: It's mind bloodling to me what this team has done
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  Speaker 2: so far with two regulation losses. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a great challenge for us, and we're looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: it