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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert speaks with Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken face the Red Wings (10/9) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Lane, it was a tough 6-2 loss to Vegas the
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: other night. Just give us your thoughts on that game
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  Speaker 2: and where you thought the turning point was for Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't like the game at all. I thought we
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  Speaker 1: played tentative. That would be probably the best word I
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  Speaker 1: could put on it. I didn't think we had a
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  Speaker 1: chance right off the bat 15 seconds into the game
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  Speaker 1: to score a power play goal. Didn't execute. I just
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  Speaker 1: thought our execution was poor. we've got to be better.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about consistency. We talk about doing things the
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  Speaker 1: right way. And we come out and we play a
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  Speaker 1: game like that in front of our home fans. Not
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  Speaker 1: acceptable for me.
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  Speaker 2: Third period, the Kraken were still in the fight, quite literally.
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  Speaker 2: What did you make of that response, standing up for
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  Speaker 2: each other, even though that game was already out of hand?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we have to do it. You know, I love
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  Speaker 1: what Monty did. You know, we stuck together and we
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  Speaker 1: have to do that. It's part of building our culture
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  Speaker 1: and building our character as a team.
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  Speaker 2: What does that say about Brandon Montour? He talks about
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  Speaker 2: breaking his stick on the two-on-one, but he still owned
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: that responsibility, going in there, fighting Mark Stone. What does
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  Speaker 2: that say about his character and him as a leader?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's full of you-know-what and vinegar, as my dad
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  Speaker 1: used to say. And he's a character guy from that standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: So that's one of the reasons why we put.
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  Speaker 2: An A on him. Ryan Lindgren down for four to
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  Speaker 2: six weeks. What's that next man up mentality? It's been
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  Speaker 2: a tumultuous year to say the least for the Red
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  Speaker 2: Wings early on.
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  Speaker 1: They're a younger team, especially on the back end.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight, with this first game of this five-game road trip,
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  Speaker 2: how can you take advantage of the youth, of the
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  Speaker 2: potential distractions that they may have, and using that to
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  Speaker 2: your advantage to get two points?
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  Speaker 1: I just think we've got to focus on our hockey game.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what they've got going on. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to be better than we were against Vegas, bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want to see done differently? You talked
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  Speaker 2: about being too tentative. Was there something? In your preparation,
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  Speaker 2: was it the game plan? What do you feel were
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  Speaker 2: some of the reasons why the Kraken played that way,
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  Speaker 2: and what do they have to do here tonight?
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  Speaker 1: I think we saw Vegas two wins away from the
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  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup last year, and we came out tentative. We
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  Speaker 1: can't do that. I just want us to play with pressure.
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  Speaker 1: If we're going to go down, let's go down swinging.
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  Speaker 1: Don't take a third strike.