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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert with Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken/Flames matchup (12/18) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Mike Lane. After the game against Colorado, you're talking
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: about the irony of how this team has been playing
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: well despite the results, and maybe playing better now than
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: maybe in those stretches when they were winning. Looking back
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: at the game against the Colorado Avalanche, what did you
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: like most about the game and where do you felt
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: where do you feel the Kraken may have faltered a bit?
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: And trying to pull that.
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  Speaker 2: Over the line. We played with pace.
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: You know, I thought our team was faster through the
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  Speaker 3: neutral zone, and I thought we I thought we did
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  Speaker 3: some good things offensively joining the rush obviously, you know
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  Speaker 3: the ever League goal, you know, with Larsen going to
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: the backside, I thought, you know Wright's goal, with Alexiak
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  Speaker 3: driving through the middle, We've created some more opportunity from
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: that standpoint, and we just played a faster.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: More direct game. You know, where did we falter?
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: We make little mistakes that you know, end up costing us.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: Just a simple control breakout where we you know.
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  Speaker 3: Double double clutch, don't execute, take a penalty, and then
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  Speaker 3: the next thing, you know, it's in the back of
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  Speaker 3: the net. It's mind boggling, to be honest with you,
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: that you know, we play so well, and we we
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  Speaker 3: haven't come out on the good side of things. But
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  Speaker 3: if we can clean up that stuff, then we'll, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll get back on the road that we need to
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  Speaker 3: be on.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Not the first time we've seen Seattle play the top teams,
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: top stars in this league. Well, go back to a
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: couple of games against Winnipeg Edmondson this year. How do
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  Speaker 1: you harness that momentum and that energy that we saw
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  Speaker 1: last night moving forward here to tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Well, to be honest with you, it shouldn't be hard.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, players are professionals. They getting paid a
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  Speaker 3: lot of money to play this hockey game, and they
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  Speaker 3: need to be ready every night.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: Any update on Brandon Montour, I know he was out,
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: didn't return for the third period after that skirmish early
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: in the period.
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  Speaker 2: Can you share an update on him? He's he's out
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: tonight and that's all. That's all I know for right now.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at the schedule for Seattle, you've got four games
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  Speaker 1: on this road trip before the holiday break, all in division,
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  Speaker 1: all against teams that are right with you or above
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  Speaker 1: you in the standings. Do you put any more importance
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  Speaker 1: or significance on these four games? Just given the spot
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  Speaker 1: that Seattle's in right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously, you know we're you know, we came off
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  Speaker 3: our road trip about you know, three weeks ago, we
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  Speaker 3: had a nice stretch of home games. You know, we
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: haven't gotten what we wanted out of those home games
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  Speaker 3: at all, and that just adds the significance of these
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  Speaker 3: next four games before the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: Some sickness going around the locker room, but it seems
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  Speaker 1: like the cracket, at least in practice and in the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of games, have been able to play through that.
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  Speaker 1: What is the state of this team just given all
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  Speaker 1: of that sickness and illness going around the room.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're I think we're good. I think we're
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  Speaker 3: kind of getting on the good side of it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we were worse off last week than we are right now,
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  Speaker 3: so that's a positive.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: And like I said, there aren't any excuses. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we have guys that have played sick. I think they've
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  Speaker 3: played well when they've played sick.
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  Speaker 2: Some guys that want a really good job of that,
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  Speaker 2: and you know there's been guys that just haven't been
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  Speaker 2: able to go. We're not at that point right now
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  Speaker 2: with anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Calgary Flames have a very strong penalty kill. They have
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  Speaker 1: played a lot better their last ten games and they
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  Speaker 1: did their first ten or fifteen games. What is it
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  Speaker 1: about the Flames that presents a lot of issues for
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  Speaker 1: your team tonight? Where have you seen the biggest growth
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  Speaker 1: in their game from game one to where we're going
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  Speaker 1: to see tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think at the start of the year they were,
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  Speaker 3: you know, doing what we're kind of doing now, making
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  Speaker 3: a mistake here and a mistake there, which was costing them,
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  Speaker 3: and it's tough to get off that track.
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  Speaker 2: But they've found a way to do that.
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  Speaker 3: They're special teams and certainly their penalty kill has been
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  Speaker 3: very good for them, and they've got a balanced line
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  Speaker 3: up it they're.
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  Speaker 2: Big, and you know, they play hard, they play physical,
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  Speaker 2: and you know that's kind of their mo o. And
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  Speaker 2: our challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Is we've got to come out and compete, and we've
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  Speaker 3: got to come out in battle. You're gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: win your one on one battles. The game hasn't changed
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  Speaker 3: for one hundred and twenty five years. It's one on
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  Speaker 3: one battles, and we've got to find a way to
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  Speaker 3: win more of those, certainly on the walls in our zone.
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  Speaker 2: Coming out of our zone.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at their second goal and even their
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  Speaker 3: third goal, you know we lose wall battles last game
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  Speaker 3: and it ends up in the back of our nets.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, our players as we continue to grow,
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  Speaker 3: and certainly players that haven't played in this league very much,
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  Speaker 3: as they continue to learn and grow the understanding of
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  Speaker 3: those imperative things, those little things that make all the
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  Speaker 3: difference in the world, have to get better.