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Head Coach Lane Lambert speaks with Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken/Flames face off (4/11) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike Lane. It was a gutsy come from behind
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: and win against Vegas the other night. Just take us
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: through two comebacks, two two goal comebacks and then the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate shootout winner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I thought we played I thought we played
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  Speaker 2: hard again. You know, we talked about it after the game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's been, you know, a large handful of
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  Speaker 2: games that were just like that that we ended up
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  Speaker 2: on the wrong side of, you know, So it was
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  Speaker 2: nice stand up on the right side, certainly being down
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  Speaker 2: to nothing then three to one in the third period
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  Speaker 2: and coming back and win the hockey game. You know,
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  Speaker 2: our guys showed a lot of character and for sure,
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  Speaker 2: it was an exciting hockey game. The overtime was great.
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  Speaker 1: Cracking got some puck luck to go their way for
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  Speaker 1: a James Berkeley Catton capitalizing off the stanchion goal. A
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  Speaker 1: very nice move by Maddie in the shootout, wouldjamake of
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  Speaker 1: the bounces in the Kraken. Generating enough offense in that
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  Speaker 1: game against Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, you know, I thought we generated enough.
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  Speaker 2: I thought we've been generating. You know, we certainly have
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  Speaker 2: generated more offense than meets the eye, and when you
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  Speaker 2: know the numbers indicate we've generated more often since the break,
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  Speaker 2: our defense have been hasn't been as good, So you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's that fine line, that balance that you have to
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  Speaker 2: come up with. But certainly, you know, great bounce for us,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for Berkeley to get his goal, which was
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  Speaker 2: a second goal, and then we just kept at it
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  Speaker 2: and we had some good opportunities. I give our power
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  Speaker 2: play credit for, you know, getting us into the game
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  Speaker 2: here down to nothing and scoring, and then we had
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  Speaker 2: some great momentum off of that as well. So we're
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to continuing that today.
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  Speaker 1: Nick A Coco set to get his first NHL start
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  Speaker 1: today for the Crack and he backed up last year
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  Speaker 1: and came in relief and victor ouspen called up as well.
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  Speaker 1: Three goalies all year long and now this weekend the
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  Speaker 1: Crack and have to call up two more. What's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the game plan for those two? And just
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  Speaker 1: give us your overall thoughts on the goaltending situation. How's
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  Speaker 1: Gubauer doing, How's Murray doing, how's the core doing well?
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  Speaker 2: Murr is tenant to a family matter which is extremely important,
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  Speaker 2: and he's been a good sold in a worrior for
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  Speaker 2: us all year long. Grubian and Joey are both out,
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  Speaker 2: and you know right now, day to day, we'll see
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  Speaker 2: how long that lasts. So you know, Osman played last
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  Speaker 2: night in Coachella Valley and he's in here to back
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  Speaker 2: up today. Coco gets his second I guess, his first
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  Speaker 2: start and his second appearance in the National Hockey League,
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  Speaker 2: you know, So you know, I'm looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 2: what that is and how that is. He's talked about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one of the kids of the future, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm certainly hoping that he has a good game.
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  Speaker 1: Bob Condor asked you this morning about the conversations that
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  Speaker 1: you have with Derek Laxtall and the staff down in
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  Speaker 1: Coachella Valley. What are those conversations and how do you
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  Speaker 1: prepare your defense and Nick Coco to come into a
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  Speaker 1: game like this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that first of all, with Lax and I,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's some communication. We're both busy. There's go
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  Speaker 2: betweens obviously bought Sin Troy Boder, and constant communication. You know,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the decisions on who comes up and
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  Speaker 2: down are made by those two guys. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: with Lax and I, you're just keep in touch about
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  Speaker 2: you know certain things system wise and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: and you know who he thinks is the best player
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  Speaker 2: at the time when somebody's getting called up. You know,
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  Speaker 2: as far as you know the goaltending, the defense, all that.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously there isn't you know, there isn't a familiarity between
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  Speaker 2: our defense corps and Coco. But you know, hockey's hockey,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we'll see what happens. But certainly we
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  Speaker 2: have to defend well for the kid and you know,
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  Speaker 2: do our best to try and keep their scoring chances
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  Speaker 2: at a minimum.
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  Speaker 1: Despite being eliminated from playoffs, the Flames are five three
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  Speaker 1: and two in their last ten games, so they have
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  Speaker 1: not rolled over in the last stretch of the of
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  Speaker 1: the campaign. What can the crack and expect out of
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  Speaker 1: this team.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight, Well, exactly. You know, they're in my mind, they're
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  Speaker 2: a big team. They got some size. Certainly, they go
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  Speaker 2: to the net hard. You know, that's the way they're built.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they made some deals at the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 2: moving some guys out for some pieces for the future
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  Speaker 2: and are playing good hockey right now. I expect it
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  Speaker 2: to be an extremely competitive, hard fought hockey game. You know,
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  Speaker 2: in a game where we need to win