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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert speaks with Everett Fitzhugh about the game against Montreal (10/28) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Hey, thanks Mike.
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  Speaker 2: We're back with cracking head coach Lane Lambert Lane back
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  Speaker 2: on home ice on Saturday after a very very long
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  Speaker 2: road trip, pick up the big win three to two
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  Speaker 2: over the Edmonton Oilers. Take us back through that effort,
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  Speaker 2: a really grinding, hard effort for the Kraken that resulted
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  Speaker 2: in two points.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought, uh, you know, I thought we I
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  Speaker 3: thought we played pretty well at times. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: was happy with our team in terms of our readiness.
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  Speaker 3: There was always the question mark coming off of the
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  Speaker 3: long road trip. What you know, what does the first
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  Speaker 3: game look like? Back to me, that's just an excuse.
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  Speaker 3: I thought our guys did a really good job of
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  Speaker 3: getting rid of that excuse.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I mean, as the game went along,
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  Speaker 3: they're They're obviously a talented team Edmonton. I I felt
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  Speaker 3: like we gave up a few too many chances for
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  Speaker 3: my liking. But at the same time, we knew we
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  Speaker 3: would probably need a pretty good game from our goaltender,
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  Speaker 3: and we got one, and we had a lot of
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  Speaker 3: commitment in certain areas, and I thought, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: they had their push on, I thought we defended well.
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  Speaker 3: There was you know, a couple of pockets in the
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  Speaker 3: third period where we spent a decent amount of time
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  Speaker 3: in our zone, but they were to the outside. And
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be moments like that with every team
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  Speaker 3: during the season where you're maybe hemmed in or under
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  Speaker 3: siege in your zone, and the question is how do
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  Speaker 3: you handle that?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, what kind of chances would you give up?
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  Speaker 3: So I thought we did a pretty good job of that,
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  Speaker 3: and really at the end of the day, we really
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  Speaker 3: capitalized on our opportunities, you know. So it was a
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  Speaker 3: hard fought game, hard fought win.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of playing in your defensive zone, you were asked
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  Speaker 2: this morning about the number of chances giving up on
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  Speaker 2: the outside, limiting the opportunities in the slot in the house.
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  Speaker 2: Are you I don't want to say okay, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to say okay. Are you okay with you know,
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  Speaker 2: as long as you're on the outside those long range shots,
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  Speaker 2: if we spend a few extra minutes in our d zone,
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  Speaker 2: as long as we're keeping them of the outside, or
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  Speaker 2: is that an area that you want to clean up
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  Speaker 2: and push them more out of your zone?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'd love to I'd love to push us more
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  Speaker 3: out of our zone. Obviously, you know, so that's you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's a focus for us, and and you know, certainly
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  Speaker 3: an area that we need to get better in. But uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, conversely, when we are in there, our guys
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  Speaker 3: are doing a good job of limiting I guess what
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  Speaker 3: I would call high danger opportunities, you know, which increases
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  Speaker 3: our goaltender's chance to make the safe and gives us
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  Speaker 3: an increased opportunity to win a hockey game.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan every missing forty games last season, coming back from
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  Speaker 2: a very rare injury to be effective this year? What
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  Speaker 2: is he meant to this team now leading the team
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  Speaker 2: and goals, the captain of this team. What have you
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  Speaker 2: seen from him? You know him very well from your
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  Speaker 2: time with the Islanders. Just how has he impacted this
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  Speaker 2: year's squad and how has he helped you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: further that mission and that voice in that locker room.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'm you know, we obviously have a relationship
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  Speaker 3: that goes back and had some success together. But certainly,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, he's a good player, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: so he was missed last year. There's no question about it,
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  Speaker 3: not only from the you know, just the playing standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: but certainly from a leadership standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: He has been a great captain.
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  Speaker 3: He's done everything that you know a leadership guy and
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  Speaker 3: a guy in a leadership.
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  Speaker 1: Role is expected to do.
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  Speaker 3: And you know he's driving the team, he's driving the
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  Speaker 3: message and driving the commitment level, and you know when
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  Speaker 3: he's playing good hockey. So it's it's been nice to
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  Speaker 3: see him come back from that injury and have this
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  Speaker 3: kind of success early on.
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  Speaker 2: Montreal I think has been one of the more surprising
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  Speaker 2: teams this year, depending on you talk to around the league,
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  Speaker 2: and you've seen them two weeks ago a game in
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  Speaker 2: which the Kraken were in it, they lost in overtime.
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  Speaker 2: When you go back and look at that game, where
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  Speaker 2: do you feel the Kraken did their best? What areas
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  Speaker 2: can they improve on to have a different result here tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I thought, I thought, really, First of all, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not surprised Montreal is doing well. I saw enough of
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  Speaker 3: them last year when I was in Toronto. Their good
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  Speaker 3: hockey team, got a lot of talent. I thought we
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  Speaker 3: were loose at times in Arizona. There was a cold
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  Speaker 3: Coffield goal that was scored from an area that you
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  Speaker 3: know he.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't have been alone in.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we we just and when I say loose,
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  Speaker 3: I mean there was just you know, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: made a couple of mistakes. And when you make a
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  Speaker 3: couple of mistakes against a team like that, you know
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  Speaker 3: they're able to put it in your in your net.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just the you know, it's the talent level
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  Speaker 3: that they have. So we'd like to clean up some
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  Speaker 3: of those areas. Certainly, you know, from an offensive standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: from a for checking standpoint, we feel like we need
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  Speaker 3: to you know, get in. We feel like we can
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  Speaker 3: for check and get the puck back. Certainly, their defense
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  Speaker 3: are really adept at joining the rush, so we can't
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  Speaker 3: allow them to do that, and then we can attack
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  Speaker 3: and we can make moneys offensively.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what we're looking to do tonight. Yeah,