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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert speaks with Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken/Wild game (4/7) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: All right, Mike, thank you Lane. Last night crack and
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: falling in Winnipeg. They had a decent start in that game,
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: taking the lead. But as we saw a couple of
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: weeks ago with that Tampa Bay Lightning game, it seems
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: like everything that could go wrong did go wrong for Seattle.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Some bad bounces, three power play goals against just you know,
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  Speaker 1: wrap up that sixty minutes worth of the border for US.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you know, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: you make your own breaks, right, you know, some of
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  Speaker 2: these bounces came.
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  Speaker 3: They were unfortunate bounces for sure. Started the game.
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  Speaker 2: Great, you know, played a really good first twenty minutes
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  Speaker 2: in you know, in terms of five on five. But
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you know, you got
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  Speaker 2: to look at it and say, we didn't get the bounces.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: But you know, there's two or three things that happened
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  Speaker 2: before you don't get the bounces that I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: potentially could have required a little bit more of a
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: commitment level from a couple of guys, And right now
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  Speaker 2: it's just not good enough.
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  Speaker 1: You've got six games left in the regular season. What
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  Speaker 1: is the goal that you you're trying to accomplish with
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  Speaker 1: these games moving.
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  Speaker 2: Forward, well, where our goal is to win every hockey
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  Speaker 2: game when we stay out on the ice, that's the
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  Speaker 2: bottom line, you know, and you know, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: have an ultimate compete level in order to do that.
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  Speaker 2: We're playing against teams that are fighting for you know,
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  Speaker 2: first place and you know, variation of different.
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  Speaker 3: Things from that standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got to be ready to go, you know,
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  Speaker 2: continue to get better, you know, and improve. Our defensive
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  Speaker 2: play hasn't been very good since a break in the
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  Speaker 2: last twenty games. You know, that was our identity and
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  Speaker 2: our staple. We've got to you know, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: build onto that and get better at that and certainly
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  Speaker 2: understand that that's uh, you know, that's the way we
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  Speaker 2: won hockey games at the beginning of the year, and
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  Speaker 2: this is that's the way we're losing hockey games right now.
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  Speaker 1: You touched on that last night postgame talking about bringing
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  Speaker 1: professionalism and that compete to these last hanfl of games.
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  Speaker 1: How do you go about getting that message into the
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  Speaker 1: locker room.
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  Speaker 2: You deliver that message into the locker room, and you
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  Speaker 2: know you have to rely on each and every player
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  Speaker 2: to embrace that message. Then you know, you get into
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  Speaker 2: a situation like this, and I haven't been in this
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  Speaker 2: situation much at all in my coaching career, but you
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  Speaker 2: find out a lot about your team in this situation
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  Speaker 2: as well. You know, we have to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: each individual is ready to play and they're ready to compete,
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  Speaker 2: and you.
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  Speaker 3: Find out about you find out about guys.
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  Speaker 1: Phil Gerbauer did not finish the game last night. Can
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  Speaker 1: you share an update.
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  Speaker 2: On him, just that he's not dressing tonight, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a lower body and we're not sure the time frame
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  Speaker 2: on that.
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota going into the playoffs currently right now with one
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  Speaker 1: hundred points in the Central Division, I mean, they're probably
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  Speaker 1: a stone throw away from second maybe, but it looks
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  Speaker 1: like they're going to be locked them in that third place.
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  Speaker 1: But against a team like the while to have won
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  Speaker 1: three in a row, they have a lot of offensive
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  Speaker 1: fire power, alot of skill on this team. What are
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  Speaker 1: going to be some of the key factors for your
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  Speaker 1: team tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, you know, first of all, they have two
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  Speaker 2: or three dynamic guys Hughes on the back end.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to make sure that we contain him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Boldy up.
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  Speaker 2: Front and Caprice Off upfront and got some talent there,
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  Speaker 2: world class talent, So you know, we've got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that we're prepared for that. They're a big hockey team,
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  Speaker 2: you know, will be challenged low in both ends. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to be able to get the puck stop in
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  Speaker 2: the defensive zone. I thought last night in Winnipeg that's
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  Speaker 2: where it started to fall apart for us a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: You know, some of their bigger forwards. We're controlling the puck.
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  Speaker 2: Down low on our zone and we ended up spending
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  Speaker 2: too much time in our zone.
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  Speaker 3: So we have to make sure that we win battles
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  Speaker 3: tonight in our zone and get the puck up.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked a lot you and I have about the
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  Speaker 1: starts to games, but it seems like the second period
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  Speaker 1: has presented some problems with the crack and whether it
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  Speaker 1: be long changes, whether it be that push, that inevitable
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  Speaker 1: push from the other team. How big is the second
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  Speaker 1: period going to be and what can you do to
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  Speaker 1: help remedy and stem some of those issues that have
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  Speaker 1: been happening.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's certainly, you know, there's certainly a way to
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  Speaker 2: analyze everything, and we'll certainly do that, you know, at
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  Speaker 2: the end. But you know, our first periods have been
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  Speaker 2: we're a minus whatever in the first period. Second periods
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: haven't been that battle though it looks like it has.
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  Speaker 2: The issue is, you know, again, when you don't get
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  Speaker 2: the puck stop in the defensive zone, when you do
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  Speaker 2: get the puck out, you need a change, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a long change, and you know, therefore, you know, at
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  Speaker 2: times we're getting exposed with our changes trying to get
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  Speaker 2: tired bodies off the ice.
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  Speaker 3: But you know we can and.
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  Speaker 2: Have to reverse that and you know, turn it the
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  Speaker 2: other way, you know, in terms of bus controlling fox
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  Speaker 2: and owning pucks and the offensive zone.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to attack this team tonight. You know, that's
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  Speaker 3: just the bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: We've played them well this year at home, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we're looking forward to doing it again today