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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert speaks with Mike Benton before the Kraken/Flames game (1/5) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Andrews, thank you very much. Back you're a cracking head coach,
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  Speaker 1: Lane Lambert and Calgary and Lane pretty crazier as far
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  Speaker 1: as this upcoming schedule with nothing as far as the
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  Speaker 1: two days off in between really until this next month.
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  Speaker 1: So we talked to Jerry McCann about the value of rest.
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  Speaker 1: What about that part and how these guys manage their
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  Speaker 1: bodies is really going to play a positive effect with
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  Speaker 1: weighing into how this team progresses through out this next month.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're going to have to be smart with that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't anticipate us practicing very much. And you know what,
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  Speaker 2: we're not the only team in the league. We obviously
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  Speaker 2: play the most games, but maybe it's the most games
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  Speaker 2: by a game or two, so everybody's playing a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's going to be a lot of
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  Speaker 2: teams in a national hockey league that are going to
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  Speaker 2: be practicing that much. Rest is a weapon and you
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  Speaker 2: have to have energy in order to play the games.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we're going to look forward to.
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  Speaker 1: Going going back to Friday at Vancouver in a game
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  Speaker 1: that went right down to the wire, I can't help
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  Speaker 1: but think of the great analogy you made as far
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  Speaker 1: as a shootout where you're lining up a putt in golf,
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  Speaker 1: and it comes down to like a pressure situation. So
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  Speaker 1: when you think about it, for a guy like Matty
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  Speaker 1: ben Ears to make the move that he made, how
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  Speaker 1: much work has he put into being able to meet
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  Speaker 1: that kind of moment? Ah?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's Maddy. You know, Maddy relishes those
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  Speaker 2: kind of moments. So the question probably is why hasn't
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  Speaker 2: he gone until then? You know, we uh we felt
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  Speaker 2: like you know, he could he could do it in
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  Speaker 2: that moment, and he did it in that moment, and
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  Speaker 2: you know it was nice to see our team get
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  Speaker 2: a get a shootout win. And certainly, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: in in terms of his entire game, Maddy relishes, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the moments where they matter, you know, whether
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  Speaker 2: it be three on three in overtime or whether it
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  Speaker 2: be uh you know, five on six when he's out
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  Speaker 2: there trying to protect the lead. You know he has
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  Speaker 2: that ability and that sort of ice in his veins
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  Speaker 2: to do that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Is linemate. And your captain Jordan Eberley has got a
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  Speaker 1: big night ahead here and played an in career game
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  Speaker 1: number eleven hundreds. So for as long as you have
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  Speaker 1: known him and watched him, what kind of value has
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  Speaker 1: he given this team there for the season.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's been great. He's been a great leader for us.
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  Speaker 2: I knew him, you know, four years ago, four or
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  Speaker 2: five years ago when I was with him in the Island.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen him grow from that standpoint in a leadership
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  Speaker 2: role here. And you know, hats off to him for
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  Speaker 2: playing eleven hundred games. There's a very small, small, small
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  Speaker 2: percentage of guys that play hockey International Hockey League that
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  Speaker 2: reach that level. So it's a tremendous honor for us
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  Speaker 2: to be able to see it happen, for me to
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  Speaker 2: coach him, and for him to be able to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it comes down to being able to have a
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  Speaker 1: coachable latitude or the physicality part of it, or even
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  Speaker 1: just the brains part of it. What have you noticed
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  Speaker 1: about players in being able to last as long as
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  Speaker 1: far as what they have in common?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's it's a commitment. It's a commitment
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  Speaker 2: to their craft, and it starts off the ice. It
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  Speaker 2: starts with you know, working out training, it starts with
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  Speaker 2: nutrition and you know Ebbs had that injury last having
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  Speaker 2: the second best start to a season of his career
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  Speaker 2: at this age after coming off with significant injury. It
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  Speaker 2: just tells you everything you need to know about Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: Early last couple of weeks, you've found some continuity here
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  Speaker 1: in the lineup. Been part of this has been by
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  Speaker 1: necessity where you find a guy like Kale Florie stepping
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  Speaker 1: into Brandon montor out and for a guy who had
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  Speaker 1: to wait to turn quite a bit, what have you
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  Speaker 1: noticed about Kale Flory's game that has made so much
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  Speaker 1: sense with him with Ryan Lyn Grin back on that pairing,
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  Speaker 1: it just.
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  Speaker 2: Keeps it simple. He's strong in battles, he understands the
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  Speaker 2: defensive side of the game, and you know he's playing
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  Speaker 2: against other team's top lines and he's doing a really
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  Speaker 2: good job of it. But it's just simple, simple, smart
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  Speaker 2: hockey for him.
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  Speaker 1: You get one more crack at Calgary, a team that's
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  Speaker 1: been very good at home ice and been quite a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you see as far as the greatest
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  Speaker 1: challenge for this evening.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've got to have a good start and you're
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  Speaker 2: not wrong. They're eight and two in their last ten
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  Speaker 2: at home, so you know they're feeling it here at
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  Speaker 2: the saddle Dome. You know, we have to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that we're ready to go right off the bat. We
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  Speaker 2: talked a little bit about the last time we were
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  Speaker 2: in here, some of the things that maybe we didn't like.
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  Speaker 2: Make a couple of adjustments there, but at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, we're gonna have to be ready and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna have to be ready to go to battle.
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  Speaker 2: They're a big hockey team. They play quick and they
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  Speaker 2: go to the nethard their deer very active, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna have to be making sure that we understand
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  Speaker 2: what we need to do in order to win the
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  Speaker 2: hockey game.