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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert with Everett Fitzhugh before Kraken/Hurricanes (3/2) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike Layne cracking back in the win column of
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  Speaker 1: five one win over Vancouver. In those sixty minutes that
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  Speaker 1: you saw, what were the biggest differences between your play
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  Speaker 1: then and then you're playing the first two games out
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  Speaker 1: of the break in your mind?
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  Speaker 2: I thought we were a lot better through the neutral zone,
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  Speaker 2: way better pressure. Angles didn't give them. You know, there
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  Speaker 2: were times when they came through the neutral zone with
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  Speaker 2: some speed, but I thought we did a better job there.
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  Speaker 2: And I just think defensively in the D zone, closing
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  Speaker 2: and you know, getting out of our zone quicker. We
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  Speaker 2: talked about spending too much time in our zone in
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  Speaker 2: the previous two games, which allowed us to play more offensively.
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  Speaker 2: I thought our offensive game was pretty good against some
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  Speaker 2: own tucks and made some plays in.
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  Speaker 1: A game like that. You know, given the previous results,
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  Speaker 1: how important for you is it that that was a
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  Speaker 1: statement five to one win? Your best players were your
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  Speaker 1: best players. You had a couple of multi point Night's
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  Speaker 1: showy decord, you know, that confidence from him almost scoring
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  Speaker 1: his first goal of his career. How big was that
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  Speaker 1: for you to see the krack and win in that way?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I mean it was just it was good
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  Speaker 2: to see us get back on on the positive side
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  Speaker 2: of things. You know, Joey played well, our leadership stacked
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  Speaker 2: up in a game where we needed to needed to win,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that's Vancouver at home, is a game
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  Speaker 2: that we you know, in my mind, if we're you know,
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  Speaker 2: gonna go where we want to go, we have to
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  Speaker 2: win that game. You're not always gonna do that, but
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  Speaker 2: certainly you do yourself as a favor when you when
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  Speaker 2: you win a hockey game like that. And I thought
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  Speaker 2: our guys did a good job of stepping up to
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  Speaker 2: the plate. Uh, tonight, it's a different opponent, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a better opponent obviously, you know, but
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  Speaker 2: certainly we've got to be We've got to be good tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Wrapping up the Vancouver game, have you ever seen two
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  Speaker 1: hat tricks taken away in one season before?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, I never ever understand why they throw their
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  Speaker 2: hats on the ice anyway. I mean you got to
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  Speaker 2: go buy another one. But yeah, that was something else. No,
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen that before. But credit to our fans,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought they were outstanding on Saturday, right from
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  Speaker 2: the get go. Building one's full and you can sense
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  Speaker 2: that energy when they bring it and our guys feet off.
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  Speaker 1: That last time you played Carolina back in January, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was a close game in the score, but one
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  Speaker 1: area that the Krakend were limited was shots on goal,
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  Speaker 1: and that's been something you've been preaching here the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of games. How do you have that shot first mentality,
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  Speaker 1: especially against a team like Carolina where on the road
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  Speaker 1: they don't get a lot, they also don't give up
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  Speaker 1: a lot either.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you just have to take advantage of your
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  Speaker 2: opportunities when you get them. You know, if you get
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  Speaker 2: a two on one, you're gonna have to shoot the park.
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  Speaker 2: You can't try and make a fancy play shots create shots.
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  Speaker 2: They're extremely good defending team. What they do is they
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  Speaker 2: play man on man. So if you put to the net,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's when you have the opportunity to beat guys,
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  Speaker 2: beat guys on retrievals, and then you know have the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to shoot the buck again. But clearly going to
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  Speaker 2: be a difficult game. Our mentality going into this game
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  Speaker 2: is to understand.
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  Speaker 1: And know that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there can't be any level of frustration that's
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  Speaker 2: just a negative emotion when you're not getting shots and
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll see, we'll see how we have all that.
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  Speaker 1: You were asked this morning by Alison in the larger
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  Speaker 1: media scrum, how do you go about scouting a team
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  Speaker 1: like Carolina? You only see them twice a year? I
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  Speaker 1: know you yourself have coached against them numerous times with
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  Speaker 1: your time back out east. How do you go about
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  Speaker 1: preparing for a game like this in which you haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen this team only once since January and you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to see him again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we prepare for every team that we only
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  Speaker 2: see twice the same way. We prepare for every team
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  Speaker 2: with the same way. Or video guys too, She and
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  Speaker 2: Adam Turner do a great job of getting a video
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  Speaker 2: for us and areas that we scout. You know, as
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  Speaker 2: a coaching staff, we're all in the same page, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: and we put together a game plan, formulate a game
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  Speaker 2: plan based on what we see, and you know, we
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  Speaker 2: usually go back to Carolina's last three games, go through
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  Speaker 2: those and then take a look at the Carolina game
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  Speaker 2: that we played there, which I thought, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: interesting because even though we talk about, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: lack of shot volume in Carolina, we had some really
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  Speaker 2: good looks and we had three or four outnumbered rushes.
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  Speaker 2: Jayden Schwartz had a point blank one in the rate
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  Speaker 2: and the slot in the second period. You know, and
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  Speaker 2: and for the most part, you know that game was
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  Speaker 2: ours to be had. That was one of those ones where,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we felt that we kind of let it
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  Speaker 2: slip away. Certainly when you're you know, when you're we
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  Speaker 2: had the lead with probably six or eight minutes left
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  Speaker 2: in the game, so you know, we played a good
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  Speaker 2: enough hockey game. I don't let the shot clock fully
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  Speaker 2: all the time when you play the Carolina Hurricanes,