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KRAKEN WEEKLY: Finally back home, and off with a bang! Alex Faust joins (10/27) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: This is Jordan Ebly.
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  Speaker 2: This is Vince Done.
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  Speaker 1: This is Jaden Schwartz. This is Jared mccannon. Yes, this
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  Speaker 1: is Ryan Lindren. This is Maddie Beniers. You're listening to
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  Speaker 1: Cracking Weekly with Mike Bent.
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  Speaker 3: All right, happy have it wing to those who celebrate
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  Speaker 3: no scaries. Here Cracking Weekly is right back with you
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  Speaker 3: once again, a presentation of the Crack and Audio Network.
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  Speaker 3: You can hear this, by the way, on demand via
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  Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app. Just sign up for free to get
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  Speaker 3: it at sports radio kjar dot com.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mike Betting with you.
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  Speaker 3: Glad you're hanging out with us. We're gonna recap this
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  Speaker 3: past week, the Cracking getting back off the road. Where
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  Speaker 3: does perception with a five to two and two start
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  Speaker 3: meet reality here for this team, ever it fits you,
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  Speaker 3: al Kiniski and I will talk about it. We're also
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  Speaker 3: gonna hear from Alex Faust, radio play by play voice
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  Speaker 3: for the New York Rangers, a long time part of
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  Speaker 3: this NHL broadcasting circle. They'll talk with us about the Rangers,
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  Speaker 3: a little more about Montreal, and a view here from
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  Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference where we'll catch up with Alex in
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  Speaker 3: just a bit plus more reaction from crackenhead coach Lane
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  Speaker 3: Lambert after practice today with some updates especially on coppocnco
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  Speaker 3: Could he be nearing a return? Before we get to
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  Speaker 3: Lane Lambert's let's replay things right back for you. We
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  Speaker 3: had some highlights here from this past week. Berkeley Catton
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  Speaker 3: getting his first point in an NHL jersey, the Cracking
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  Speaker 3: getting through a couple of tough losses against Philadelphia and
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  Speaker 3: Washington to bounce back and roar their way to victories
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  Speaker 3: over Winnipeg and Edmonton. Now they did it. Among the highlights,
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  Speaker 3: here's what you may have missed here in our calls
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  Speaker 3: from this past week. Vineers takes it back and our
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  Speaker 3: rims around of the right wards for Catton, ont of
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  Speaker 3: the line for Flurry here.
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  Speaker 1: Shot through traffic, face gold.
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  Speaker 3: Jordan every set a screen front of damn with r
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  Speaker 3: but twelve forty four to go in period one. It
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  Speaker 3: came off the point shot from Kale Flurry and set
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  Speaker 3: up by Berkeley Canton and the cracket bun to well
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  Speaker 3: one nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, yeah, great work by Cotton picking up puck off
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  Speaker 4: the wall. They're getting back to Kale Flurry at the point.
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  Speaker 4: Who got a shot on net. It was about hip
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  Speaker 4: Hi Everley gets a piece of it one nuffing Kracking
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  Speaker 4: and Berkeley Catton has his first point in the.
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  Speaker 5: Eight shorts back to the line fresh off the bench
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  Speaker 5: and a shot from Myers turned aside rebound scaress.
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  Speaker 1: Jana Schwartz from the near circle.
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  Speaker 5: Beats Logan Thompson and the Cracking get their first goal
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  Speaker 5: in the game, three to one, sixteen to ten to
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  Speaker 5: play here at this third what it.
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  Speaker 4: Was jakeens Schwartz from behind the Capitol's net that dug
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  Speaker 4: that puck out and recognized that the Cracking were on
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  Speaker 4: a change. It was Ben Myers coming from the bench
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  Speaker 4: that was coming back to the offensive zone.
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  Speaker 1: Schwartz put it back up to the blue line.
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  Speaker 4: Ben picked it up, got a big shot which fort
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  Speaker 4: Logan Thompson to give up a big rebound that rebound
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  Speaker 4: went right to Schwartz. This game's three to one out.
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  Speaker 5: Like wis to Jonathan Taine a shot left side that
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  Speaker 5: one turned away the rebound Anita Ryder and that forced
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  Speaker 5: away as well by Joey to Kohor. Back to back
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  Speaker 5: big saves for Joey d to keep this a scrorellless
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  Speaker 5: games back up Tom Held hit My Larsen right side
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  Speaker 5: back to Shane right for a shot Tipton goal. Rebound
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  Speaker 5: scares Jaden Schwartz, crashing the goal and the Seattle Kracken
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  Speaker 5: bury the loose change. It's a one nothing Cracking lead,
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  Speaker 5: seventeen thirty two left in the second variant.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Kracking doing a fantastic job with the change.
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  Speaker 4: Once the puck cut in the offensive end, they were
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  Speaker 4: able to get their defenseman off the ice. It was
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  Speaker 4: Adam Larson, who came from the bench that got the
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  Speaker 4: puck back on the point, got a shot off. Jonny
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  Speaker 4: Newan found the rebound, got it over to you to
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  Speaker 4: Janie Schwartz.
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  Speaker 1: He puts it in the back of the net. One
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  Speaker 1: nothing Cracker.
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  Speaker 5: The Catton, in his home debut, sends it up to
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  Speaker 5: the ears left side.
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  Speaker 1: Two on one every fires.
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  Speaker 6: Jordan Everley finishing off two on one with Mattymaniers and
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  Speaker 6: the Seattle Kracken take a one nothing lead eighteen thirty
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  Speaker 6: seven to go on the.
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  Speaker 4: First well, after Vince Dunn sets a toad with a
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  Speaker 4: shove to throw excuse me to McDavid.
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  Speaker 1: The Crack goal the other way, it's Maddy Butteer's down
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  Speaker 1: the left side.
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  Speaker 4: He makes a great cross. I feed top of the circles.
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  Speaker 4: Jordan Everley. Jordan Everley wasted no time beating Skinner one
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  Speaker 4: up in cracking.
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  Speaker 1: Bouncing buck back to the line.
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  Speaker 5: Let's yeah, I couldn't hold it in and the Oilers
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  Speaker 5: break it ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Frederick looking in.
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  Speaker 4: Front on goal.
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  Speaker 1: What a same?
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  Speaker 5: Why joined a card?
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  Speaker 4: Noah? Philp angled his skate on that he get his
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  Speaker 4: stick was tied up.
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  Speaker 1: He angled his skate, which you can do to try.
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  Speaker 4: And redirect that bucket into the back of the head.
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  Speaker 4: But Joey, the cord came up big on it comes.
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  Speaker 5: Ryan winter tam he'll find a step on. Henry top
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  Speaker 5: to carchiay, stop tie carsiay what a shift?
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  Speaker 1: If a miss?
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  Speaker 7: Four fine block shots and a goal.
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  Speaker 1: On the other end, it's a tune out thing. Seeattle
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  Speaker 1: lead But you're right.
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  Speaker 4: After blocking two shots in the defensive end of the ice,
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  Speaker 4: Ryan Winterdon picks the puck up, goes down that right side,
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  Speaker 4: turns the jets on, pulls all of the defenders to him,
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  Speaker 4: waits to the last second feet at the ty cart Jade.
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  Speaker 4: He beat Skinner. Tune up the cracking shark couldn't keep
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  Speaker 4: it off side, but here's ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Every walks into Oh, captain, by captain, that's two the
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  Speaker 7: seattle cracking back up by too.
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  Speaker 1: It's a free one cracking lead.
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  Speaker 4: We'll crack and put diesel pressure on the oiler defenseman
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  Speaker 4: right in the blue line. They cough it up, not anybody.
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  Speaker 4: Heers finds it right at center. Rice sweeps enough to
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  Speaker 4: every every goes blocker side top shelf, free one cracking.
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  Speaker 3: Today's taking here.
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  Speaker 5: To get back to game action finement.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's progressing, obviously, and he was in some drills today,
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  Speaker 8: so that was nice to see, you know, and we'll
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  Speaker 8: just see where we go from here. He's still day
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  Speaker 8: to day, but certainly as it has been for the
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  Speaker 8: last little bit, encouraging that he's on the ice and
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  Speaker 8: back in practice. For sure.
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  Speaker 3: You've been through kind of the gauntlet of six games,
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  Speaker 3: ten days on the road back home. Now, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: what benefit is there now to have a bit of
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  Speaker 3: a lighter's schedule this week to do what you want
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  Speaker 3: to do in practice?
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  Speaker 8: Now, Well, we haven't had a lot of practice time
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  Speaker 8: because we have been on the road and we have played,
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  Speaker 8: you know, pretty much every second day, you know, with
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  Speaker 8: the back to back in there, but you know, you
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  Speaker 8: get a little bit more opportunity to work on a
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  Speaker 8: couple of things that you need to work on, So
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  Speaker 8: that's the benefit of it, you know, And then a
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  Speaker 8: little bit of rest.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 8: The interesting thing with that is is there's a balance
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  Speaker 8: between rest and rhythm. And when you get playing every
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  Speaker 8: second night, you get into a bit of a rhythm.
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  Speaker 8: So you have to understand that there's a a rest component,
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  Speaker 8: but you have to keep your rhythm.
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  Speaker 5: How do you keep that rhythm up? Then during the.
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  Speaker 8: Practice practice, Yeah, you got to have intensity in practice
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  Speaker 8: and some pace and things like that. So, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 8: do some things five on five in practice like we
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  Speaker 8: were doing today.
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  Speaker 5: You just faced Montreal pretty recently. Again, what did you.
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  Speaker 3: Learn from that game, both with your team and the
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  Speaker 3: other team, what you can kind of do differently?
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  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I mean there's a few things potentially that
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  Speaker 8: we can make, you know, make little adjustments to. I
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  Speaker 8: thought the game itself, for the most part, was was
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  Speaker 8: a good hockey game. I thought it was well played
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  Speaker 8: by both teams. They're a fast team and you know,
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  Speaker 8: they they're in first place obviously in their division. You know,
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  Speaker 8: they're I think six there's something in goals for per game,
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  Speaker 8: so they're scoring goals. They've got a lot of skill
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  Speaker 8: and a lot of speed.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously they've got some dynamic defenseman as well. So they're
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  Speaker 8: they're a very very challenging hockey team for anybody, and
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  Speaker 8: they're proving that right now being in first place.
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  Speaker 5: When you talked a little bit about Vince in those
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  Speaker 5: game last game, what are the elements of his play
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  Speaker 5: that you find so valuable to this group.
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  Speaker 8: Well, he's got a he's got a super super smart
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  Speaker 8: with the puck. Uh, he can make plays. He has
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  Speaker 8: the ability to escape, you know, four checks on his
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  Speaker 8: own to a certain degree and then and then make
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  Speaker 8: a play.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 8: So he's a good puck mover, and he's a he
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  Speaker 8: can be a physical element, a physical presence.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 8: When I started watching a lot of them in the summer,
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  Speaker 8: I was very impressed with with that side of his game.
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  Speaker 8: I think he's played very well for us.
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  Speaker 5: Is Jared mccannon progressing in all or is he kind
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  Speaker 5: of just element.
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  Speaker 8: He's right now He's in a little bit of a
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  Speaker 8: holding pattern, So we'll see where we go with him.
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  Speaker 8: You know there should be we should know more here
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  Speaker 8: day to day as we go forward.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Coppo Coco could be close. We'll wait and see,
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  Speaker 3: Jared mccannon right now. Still maybe a work in progress,
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  Speaker 3: as Lane Lambert said in a holding pattern right now.
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  Speaker 3: That's Lane Lambert after practice Monday, plus your highlights from
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  Speaker 3: what was a busy week, the crack and losing back
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  Speaker 3: to back of Philadelphia and Washington and what a way
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  Speaker 3: to bounce back at Winnipeg and Edmonton. So here we are,
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  Speaker 3: game two of the fine game homestand upon us tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: night income the Montreal Canadians and then series is over.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't even hit Halloween yet, and this is going
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  Speaker 3: to be a series all done, Mike Benton, ever it
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  Speaker 3: fits you, al Kiniski. Our whole round table back together
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  Speaker 3: again now for Crack and Weinkly Pillaus. It was my
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  Speaker 3: first round up with all of you. And what I
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  Speaker 3: want to first ask before we get into the hockey
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  Speaker 3: component here of this is what do we learn from
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  Speaker 3: our favorites on the road. I think for me, when
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: it comes to eating in Philadelphia, one lunch, one she
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  Speaker 3: steak might mean two meals.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, man, we listen I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you, Mike,
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  Speaker 5: like it is. It is such a joy to have
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  Speaker 5: you on the road hanging out with us, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and I mean it you worn't so hard, and like
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  Speaker 5: obviously we each have our own jobs and we you know,
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  Speaker 5: we we know what we signed up for. But for
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  Speaker 5: you to be able to get these you know, drop ins,
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  Speaker 5: these parachute moments on the road, Like, I know it
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  Speaker 5: means a lot for you, but it means a lot
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  Speaker 5: to me to be able to have you on the
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  Speaker 5: road and you know, welcome you in our world for
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  Speaker 5: a little bit. But I mean as far as as
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  Speaker 5: far as on the road, if it's if it's a
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  Speaker 5: nice honk of meat and a nice glass of red
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  Speaker 5: wine or a nice bourbon or old fashion and my
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  Speaker 5: partner Al, that's all I need. I'm happy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm kind of the same way Mike checked all
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  Speaker 4: the things that ever just said. But I think also,
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  Speaker 4: you know, sometimes on the road it's about convenience too.
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  Speaker 4: You're you're figuring out how much time you have, you know,
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  Speaker 4: between a morning skate and a bus and how much
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: time you need for work, and sometimes it's convenient to
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  Speaker 4: you at the hotel, and some of the hotels have
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  Speaker 4: better food than others. But you know, I'm always down
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  Speaker 4: with finding a place with a delicious steak and a
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  Speaker 4: bourbon a glass of wine.
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  Speaker 3: When we got the time, what's the most important thing
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  Speaker 3: for breakfast? Are you guys just more on the train
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  Speaker 3: of hey, load up right now? Are you gonna go
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  Speaker 3: as light as you can for breakfast?
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  Speaker 5: I'm the worst for breakfast, man, Listen, give me a
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  Speaker 5: give me a Starbucks sandwich and a cup of coffee
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  Speaker 5: and a banana that'll hold me over.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was you who ordered the fruit loops
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  Speaker 3: over at the five star restaurant.
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  Speaker 5: Though, honestly man like, So I look at a guy
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  Speaker 5: like John Foreslyn and jt Right, they're up at the
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  Speaker 5: crack of dawn working out getting a breakfast, hearty, hearty
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  Speaker 5: meal to start the day. Nah, brother, we have a
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  Speaker 5: ten fifteen bus text NOL nine to forty five lobby.
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  Speaker 4: You want a coffee? Great?
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  Speaker 5: And I get a sandwich and a banana that I
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  Speaker 5: picked up from the night before. And yeah, I'll see
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  Speaker 5: you at lunch at noon. I'm good.
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  Speaker 4: I've got the Angel and the devil on my shoulders.
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  Speaker 4: The devil is like, you know what, there's a delicious
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  Speaker 4: buffet breakfast downstairs and at you know, eight am or
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  Speaker 4: eggs benedict here are really good. And then there's the
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  Speaker 4: angel going, you're not even hungry. You ate stayed for
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  Speaker 4: dinner last night. Why don't you fast until noon or one?
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  Speaker 4: You big loser?
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  Speaker 5: Listen, it's the NHL. The NHL does not stand for
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  Speaker 5: National Hockey League. It stands for never hungry league exactly.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I fight the battle because I love breakfast,
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  Speaker 4: but I also need to space out the eating because
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  Speaker 4: as ever it says there's never a shortage of food.
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  Speaker 3: I think I had the avocado toast last trip for breakfast.
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  Speaker 3: So me being born in nineteen eighty one, there was
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: a millennial joke in there somewhere that when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to house leasing as well. But hey, let's just sive
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  Speaker 3: into it here. First off, guys, it was a pleasure
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  Speaker 3: and an honor to be with you on the road
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  Speaker 3: and I can't wait here for the next round up.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that you're pining here to buy the
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: next round of beverages here, and I'll certainly be happy
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  Speaker 3: here to do that as well. What we learned from
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  Speaker 3: last week after a loss of Philadelphia. To me, it
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  Speaker 3: was about I think they were due for a clunker
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  Speaker 3: one of these days. Loss at Washington unfortunately do for
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  Speaker 3: a clunker as well, and then you bounce back against
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  Speaker 3: Winnipeg in the fashion that they do it. And then
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  Speaker 3: you come in first game into the home stand, no
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  Speaker 3: dipping your toe into the water. You had to hang
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  Speaker 3: on a bit, but you found a way to win.
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  Speaker 3: How many times have we said in the last year
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  Speaker 3: two years, the Kraken found a way to win.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, I think we've talked a
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  Speaker 4: lot about, at least in the last season, about the
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  Speaker 4: closing games out in the crack and just not having
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  Speaker 4: the ability to do it so many times. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: they scored a lot of goals in the third period
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  Speaker 4: making efforts to get back into games last season, But
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  Speaker 4: I don't think you know there were as many times,
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  Speaker 4: certainly not over the first ten games where the Kraken
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  Speaker 4: scored the first goal of the game. What is it,
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  Speaker 4: seven of the of the of the first nine score
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  Speaker 4: in the first goal of the game, holding on to
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  Speaker 4: a lead in the third period. It's a very different
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  Speaker 4: feeling now in that last twenty minutes than it was
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  Speaker 4: last year. So to me, that's one of the biggest differences.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I have no problem with a clunker,
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  Speaker 5: with ann clunker every now and again. It's when you
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  Speaker 5: string together two, three, four, five plunkers that you start
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  Speaker 5: to question things. But the Philly game, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: loved when Laying came out and said I didn't like it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I wasn't happy with the performance. We weren't
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  Speaker 5: good enough. And then I even tried to soften it
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  Speaker 5: a little bit and I gave them an out and
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  Speaker 5: I said, hey, did the schedule back to back? You
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  Speaker 5: don't have it, you have injuries, YadA, YadA, YadA, does
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  Speaker 5: that all does the situation play? And he goes, I
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  Speaker 5: don't care, like we're supposed to win, and that just
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  Speaker 5: it felt so good to hear him say that, and
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  Speaker 5: I think it was the bounce back for me. You
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  Speaker 5: go into Philadelphia, Joey de Koor gets or Washington rather,
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  Speaker 5: Joey de Koor gets pulled for the first time that
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  Speaker 5: I can remember. He's got a goals against over three
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  Speaker 5: and a say percentage under nine, and he said, well
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  Speaker 5: enough of that. And he comes back with back to
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: back games a shutout and arguably the toughest building to
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  Speaker 5: play in in the NHL over the last year and
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: a half. And then you come home and you you know,
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: I said it on the post game show, I'm gonna
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: give darn Ol Nurse half a goal because it was
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  Speaker 5: tipped in Joey had it. But then you know, you
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: beat the Oilers back to back for the first time ever,
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  Speaker 5: just your fourth win all time against Edmonton. So I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it was about as close to a perfect week as
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna get. And I'm not putting too much stock
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  Speaker 5: into the Philadelphia and the Washington games because the bounce
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  Speaker 5: back for them was so good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would add on to that too. Not only
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  Speaker 4: was the bounce back so good, but I think the
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  Speaker 4: lesson in that week to the players was we cannot
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: play at a moderate level because they will lose. We
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: need to play at this top level. Not no mistakes.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: No one could play a perfect game, but you know,
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: they've got to play the structure that Leane Lambert has
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: put out there, and if they don't, if they take
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: a shift off here and there, you're going to see
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: a Philadelphia or a Washington game. So better to get
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: that lesson early in the season rather than later in
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: the season when you're fighting maybe for a playoff spot.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Now that were forty eight hours past this here and
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: we can have this win, digest it a little bit more.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: I can go back and think of three, maybe even
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: four plays that made a massive difference with me and
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: your question maybe was there enough to pull through with
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: it last year on that same level, I think for me,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: number one was the Vince Dunn hit on Connor McDavid
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: and then boom, you go right back down Icen's score immediately.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: There is no better way to inject a jolt into
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: a building than that kind of sequence. Then I think
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: the Joey to Cord save right before the horn to
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: end the period. Then I go back and think the
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: otherworldly shift that Ty Cartier, Ryan Winterton, etc. Had and
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: fits you nailed the goal call. I think right hook
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: line sinker. As far as what that shift meant to me,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: it's right now club asslead for shift of the year.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Then I go and think of what Lane Lambert did
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: situation three by putting his veterans out, mixing his lineup
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: up in just an incredible coaching decision to put Schwartz
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Benier's every they withstand the fire, go right back down,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: make it three to one. That was your dagger. And
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: then despite the Oilers making it three to two, this
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: to me defines lane Lambert hockey right into the muck
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: of it. Then's done, lays down blocks of shot, game over.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: First guy over Joey to court about bear hugs him.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he jumped in front of a bullet there at
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: the end. That was an assassination coming towards Joey to
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: court and he jumped in front of a bullet and
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: the first guy to go top him on the head
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: was Joey to court. And I thought that was a
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: really cool way to end the game.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought that that car Jay shift for me,
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: that line over the last couple of games, but in particular,
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: you know that that play was was was huge. I mean,
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: if if you'd had the prop bet of holding McDavid
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: off the score sheet, I would have taken that one.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean. But listen, you're never going
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: to when you have a team at the Oilers, right,
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: it's never going to be easy. You know, you get
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: the first goal on the what second shift of the
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: game whatever it was, and then you knew the push
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: was coming, but you continue to frustrate them. You continue
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: to play the style that again we're nine games in,
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: so talk to me twenty nine games in, but the
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: style that has been so successful and so consistent early
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: on here, you're setting a tone early for the league,
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: and I think for your schedule. I mean, I can't
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: think of the oiler game, in particular, in the Winnipeg game.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: I can't think of two better games played this season.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: For a variety of different reasons. The result was the
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: same two points in the win column, but they were
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: just very different ways, very different styles. But ultimately the
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: goal and the objective was the same two points and.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: You got them. Yeah. The Winnipeg game, and Mike and
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: I talked about this in the postgame a little bit
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: was all about structure and consistent shifts and keeping pucks
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: to the outside. Whereas the Edmonton win was a grind.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: It was a grind. You got to grind for everything.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: You know you're not gonna be able to win this
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: game one nothing, so you better go get a couple more.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: And they did, and you knew that Edmonton was going
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: to come back and get on the board. It was
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: a grind of a game, but You're right, two different wins.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: But I think the thing that stood out to me
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: and Mike and I also talked about this in the
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: postgame show, which was the X factor of the Edmonton win,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: and that was Brandon Montour. Brandon Montur coming back into
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: the lineup. Like, I've never been in a locker room
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: where somebody's lost somebody that close to them, but I
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: have been in locker rooms where they've dealt with a
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: tough issue and they've been away from the team, and
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: having that player come back to the lineup, it just
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: injects a drug into the team that you just can't match.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: And I think you saw that with the guys and
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: how they rallied around them in that game. So that
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: was definitely an X factor for me.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I said, it was the heaviest presser I had been
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: through my entire career, heaviest in my entire career. So
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: I'll put this up there. I mean, I don't think
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: you can really quantify how much Brandon Montur means here
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: to the dressing room, and then with the kind of
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: human being he is, how much he means to this
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: entire community. But I mean, how emotional was this seeing
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: him back on ice on Saturday.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I think it was. And I think, you know,
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: having having never experienced that level of loss, you know,
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: I have no idea what it's like to have to
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: perform at the highest level of my ability in the
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: wake of something like that, let alone a brother, a parent,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: a spouse, you know, someone very very close to you.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: And again, I think for him to compartmentalize in the
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: way that he did, and who knows, maybe he was
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: just out there like, you know, I'm just gonna do
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: this until I can't do it anymore, you know what
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: I mean. Who knows what was really going through his mind.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: But I mean, all you can do is commend him.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: And I'll tell you what, man, I don't care if
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: he scored a hat trick in that game. I don't
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: care if he took one shift and and said that's it.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: I can do it. The fact that he got out
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: there after being home for that long and and dealing
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: with that type of loss, just the fact that he
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: put the uniform on is commendable to me.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: And then and then to see at the beginning of
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: the game basilly Pod Coles and come.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Up to him, Oh, yes, that short.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: It was probably a half a second, little arm arm
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: around each other. I watched the video a couple of times.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure I could see him mouthing the word brother.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: And you know, we don't know what he said, but
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: to know that pod Coles and went through a similar
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: loss in the past year, that was a really cool
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: thing to see, just in terms of listen, these guys
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: are gladiators. They go, they go to war against each other.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: They beat the crap out of each other every game.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: But to recognize that before that puck dropped, he wanted
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: to go recognize that situation with Montour. I thought that
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: was really cool.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: And then they shake hands at the end of every
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: playoff round and they say that the hockey world is
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: certainly a small world.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Fits yeah, And I was gonna say Pod Coles and
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: I mean again, he lost his dad. I think that
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: was his first game back or second game back since
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: he had been over in Russia for for a few
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: weeks with the loss of his father and his story
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: as well. His dad last year in the Cup final
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: was at every game the Oilers played. So again, luckily,
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: and and I don't I don't say that lightly. Luckily,
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: I have not had to experience that. So I don't
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: know what it's like, but I can't even begin to
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: imagine what those two players are going through on Saturday
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: and now as they try to to move on without
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: big pieces of their life.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: We're getting set here for again Montreal coming up tomorrow night,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: and then the New York Rangers here on Saturday. Alex Spouse,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: by the way, is gonna be with us here in
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: just a bit on Crack and weekly the play by
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: play radio voice here for the New York Rangers as well.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I want to get down to Berkeley Catton because last
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: night or two nights ago, I should say, what assist
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: plus one had eleven minutes of ice time? Couple shots
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: on net, but also one block shot as well, was
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: in on the Jordan Eberley goal to make it one nothing.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: And we're now four games into this where the Crack
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: can have to make a decision by game nine do
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: you keep him long term or do you send him
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: back to WHL spoke in So for Berkeley Catton, al
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: we address this a little bit and fits I'll give
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: you the floor on this. How much more does he
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: have to prove to stay here long term?
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, listen, it's the million dollar question that we're
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: not gonna have to answer after this season. I will
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: say that Berkeley Catton, for my money, has shown that
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: he's an NHL player. He's still learning the game, but
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: I haven't really seen him taking glaring steps back. Maybe
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: he plays well one game and then maybe the next game,
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: maybe he makes a mistake. That okay, rookie mistake. But again,
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: you're nineteen years old. I get it. Move on, We'll
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: play on. Louis Debrust for the Oilers broadcast crew. We
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: were talking about that the other day as well, and
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: I said that same thing, and he goes, that's not
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: a bad thing. He's nineteen. He's going to make mistakes,
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: and it's about how he rebounds. I do think that
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: he's done enough to have earned a spot on the team.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: But the only problem, though, and Alan I talked about this,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: is that if everyone was healthy, if McCann and if Coppococo,
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: and if all these guys were in the lineup every
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: single day, is Berkeley Catton here? And I think that's
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: the question that we have to answer. You know, what
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: does he have to prove? He's got to take a spot?
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: And while he I think has played very, very well.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: You're not gonna put him on your fourth line. He
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: needs to be in a top minimally top nine, but
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: probably top six capacity. I don't know if he's there yet,
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: with everyone healthy, when Coco comes back, when Gadroau comes back,
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: and McCann when he comes back. Now again, you know,
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: we don't know the status of those guys. Cocko was
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: skating the other day. We don't know about Goodrow, We
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: don't know about McCann. Rker Evans is obviously on defense,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: so he doesn't count for this exercise. But I think
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: that you know, it's gonna be a tough decision to make,
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: But I will say I think he's making the most
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: of his ability. But I just don't know if everyone's healthy,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: if he's.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Here, Yeah, I would agree and disagree with some of
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: the I would agree in that he has played well
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: enough to show that he can play in the NHL.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: YEP.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know that he's taken a spot away from
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: a fully healthy cracking team.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Yet, and I agree.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I agree, Yeah, when I look at the middle of
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: the of the of the forward forward lines, he's not
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: going to take Benier Stevensoner rights position.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: And you're not gonna Yeah, you're not gonna.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Play him on the fourth line. So so the middle
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: is out for Berkeley Cat and staying this season. When
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: you look at that left side, obviously McCann has got
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: that top spot when he comes back whenever that is,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: then you've got Marchinton Schwartz. I don't think he's taken
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: either of those spots either. So again you're back down
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: to the fourth line. With that, we're car Chase. It's
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: in the left wing. So the answer to my question
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: or your career question, Mike, is he's played well enough
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: to show that he can play at this level. I
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: don't think he's taking anybody spot away yet.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: When it comes.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: And that's and that's and that's what I was saying about.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: You know, he's earned a spot, but I don't know
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: if he's on this team if everyone's healthy. And I'm
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: with you, right, okay, exactly, Yeah, I think I may have.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: I may have went around the world a bit till
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: on that one, but no, I'm I'm one years side,
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: one hundred percent.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: With Coppo Coco back soon, we presume, because he is
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: making progress and Lane Lambert said this week is going
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: to be pretty telling. As far as when his return
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: date's going to be, Jared McCann is still day to day.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: We don't know yet though when he's due back. So
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: right now, here's how your top six looks. Caton Beaniers,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Eberly march Mint, Stevenson, Tolvenan, and he got Jayden Schwartz
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: a leading score right now playing on a line with
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Shane Wright and Yonnie Newman. So Coco, I would assume
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: would plug right up with Matty Benier's he's your right winger.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: And then as far as Jared McCann, is that going
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: to be maybe a left wing thing with Beaniars, a
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: left wing thing with Stevenson, We'll see. But what's your
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: feel on this right now?
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know that the tolven and Stevenson Marchmint
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: line has been cemented yet. I think that that Lane
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Lambert is still looking for more from that line. I
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: think Stevenson has played well individually from a face off standpoint.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: I don't know if Toulvenan and Marchman are clicking with
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Stevenson the way that Lane Lambert would like. So if
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: he's going to if he's going to fiddle with the line,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: it's probably that one. I don't see any reason why
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: when the Can comes back, he wouldn't take that left
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: wing spot from Catton, and when Coco comes back, he
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: wouldn't take that right wing spot from every which means
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: where does every go. I've got to believe it's probably
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: to that second line with Stevenson, which pushes his Toulvenen
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: down the spot as well. And then you get into
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: the Newman and Winterton conversations. But you know, it's it's
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: it's fun for us to speculate. We just don't know
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: the timing of these events. And until now or until that,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: until that time comes when Cocko comes back, they'll figure
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: that out then. So they're gonna have to deal probably
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: with the right wing spot before they deal with them
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Can return. But once they're both back, yeah, I like
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: I said, Carton probably goes back to watching a lot
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: of games from the from the press bridge and getting
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: ready to go to World Juniors.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, I think just looking at the line
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: sheet from from the game against Edmonton on Saturday, I
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: like March Mint Stevenson, every line. I think that line
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: has a lot of IQ. You've got offense, you've got
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: Marchman who's not afraid to stir it up, and then
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: all of that. But I don't know if McCann comes back,
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: you know, so you go nineteen ten to seven. Maybe
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: you put Coco on the right side of that March
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Min Stevenson line, and you know, you've got two players
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: in MARCHMNT and in Coco who aren't afraid to go
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: to the net, which you drop Toulvenin down to Schwartz,
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: right Tolvenen again, I think that line has got on
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: paper lose some potential. And then as of right now,
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: Gadreu's out for a while, so you're gonna go Cartier, Myers,
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Winterton slash Newman. But again, Winterton and Cargia I think
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: have been playing lights out the last couple of games.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: So Newman's your or is your odd man out in
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: that scenario? But yeah, I mean I'm with you. I
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: think the odd man out in this entire situation is
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: Berkeley Catton. And then you're asking yourself, you keep them
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: up here to practice with the team, go to World Juniors,
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: and then you send them back to Spokane if you're
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: gonna burn the nine games already and eat up the
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: year I mean, because maybe out of necessity, are we
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: gonna get those guys back in the next five games,
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: or do you sit you bring Hayden back in, maybe
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: sit Catton for a game or two to stretch that
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: timeline out a little bit. There's a lot of questions
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: that I don't envy Lane and Jason Bostroll cracking GM
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: over the next you know, ten to twenty one days here.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: See, I actually see.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I have two thoughts on that, and I think number one,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: it goes right back to Berkeley Catton and if he's
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: gonna stay here long term, is he going to perform
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: head and shoulders above the rest, because that has got
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: to be the bar right now with every other veteran
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: that he's up again, so to speak, here in this lineup.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: And that's just the reality here of where they are.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: And number two, this is almost kind of like a
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: coach's dream, but a coach's dilemma when you get players
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: who are playing so well that you are creating competition
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: in your lineup and they are making decisions hard for you.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: This is what it's going to come down to, is
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: can they make decisions hard here for Lane Lambert? And
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: part of this here is also dealing with the three
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: goalie system. It takes you know, someone else away here
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: from the ford and defense that you could easily fill.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: But that's just the reality. Where does cat and fit,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Where it could car Sheate fit? Where could Winterton fit?
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: And Yannie Newman who's playing himself out of that conversation.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: He's got three goals already, but still a lot of
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: veterans here in this lineup, and for the next few weeks,
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: this is how it's going to roll out because they
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: are still competing for a long term spot.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree. I think that this team's going to
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: have some difficult decisions to make once they're healthy. You know,
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I think Winton had a great game in the in
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: the Edmonton game, but he probably probably his best game
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: car as well. You know, when Goodroau comes back, I
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: have to believe Ben Meyers drops down to Coachella and
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: he gets that center spot back. So you know, the
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: questions are going to be on the wings. Like I said,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: other than Goodrow coming back to that fourth line, the
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: questions are going to be on the wings and and
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: what happens with Caton and Newman and uh and Winterton
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: when when we're healthy.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: All right, and I think real quick, Mike, I think too.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: You know, this team is five two and two through
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: nine games without McCann, without Cocko and Evans and Goodrow,
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: right or I mean Goodroux was over the first handful
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: of games.
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: But when when these guys get back, and let's say
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: the Kraken are still on this trajectory of taking you know,
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: five out of every six points or five out of
• 33:59
  Speaker 9: every seven points, you know what I mean, and you're
• 34:02
  Speaker 9: still in second place two weeks from now.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: When these guys come back, you don't want to upset
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: the apple cart too much, you know what I mean.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: You're trying to find where these guys go. So that's
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: another wrinkle in the system. You know, if again, I'll
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: go back to you know, Cat and Beaniers Everly. So
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: let's say we'll put McCann up there for Mccanvaniers ever League.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: Those two are clicking well. Then Coco comes back. But
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: Mccannvaneers and Everly have got points in hypothetically five straight games.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: Are you really trying to break up that line? Because
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: they perform so well, right Cartchia and Winterton have been
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: really good on either side of Ben Myers, so you
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: have to imagine that those two when Gadrou comes back,
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: are still gonna have a damn good line. Are you
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: really gonna want to take Winterton out of the lineup
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: if he's complimenting Krts and Goodrow in that way? So
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: there's another area I think that we have to look
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: at if And again this is all if in hypotheticals
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: and down the road, but if this team continues to
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: do well, you really don't want to muck things up
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: too much.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: One more piece of speculation that I'll add, maybe as
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: a wrinkle, but I'd love to hear both your thoughts
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: on it. Fifth you and I had a conversation with
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: a third person last night pre game where we talked
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: about how long can the crack and play this style
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: of play? Yeah? You know, I saw the article today
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: that oldest teams in the league. It turns out Winnipeg's
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: actually the oldest team, but Seattle's in that kind of
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: bottom third or top third. How you want to range
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: it in terms of age? Yeah, you know, is this
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: a team where over an a two game season, they're
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: just going to have a couple two three guys out constantly.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: It's going to be different people but they're going to
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: need this depth that they have right now that they're
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: winning with because of the way they're going to play
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: these eighty two games. And you know that that could
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: be part of the plan as well.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: It's hard, it's heavy, it's a grinding style, and you know, everyone,
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: it's the NHL. No one's gonna be one hundred percent
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: healthy at all times. But how many times have we
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: seen guys walking down the aisle, walking off the plane,
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: walking down the stairs and there's a little bit of
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: a limp, there's a little bit of a you know,
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: it is a rock in your shoe. There's a couple,
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: maybe one or two extra guys with one or two
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: extra ice bags. Right. This is a demanding style that
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Lane has. It's working. But going back to that conversation
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: that we had, is it sustainable over the eighty two games.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: It's going to have to be because you know, Lane
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: is a no excuse, no nonsense coach. However, I think
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: you're right like this, we may have to get used
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: to a lot of day to day. It's a lot
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: of week two weeks. How many guys on this roster
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: are gonna play all eighty two maybe Adam Larson's about
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: the only one. But yeah, there might not be a
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: a lot of eighty two games played players on this
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: team this season.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: See maybe more opportunities for Coachella players coming up for
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: that reason.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of use the baseball comparison of this.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: It's like, how much can you fill your pitching staff
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: with guys are going to max out there? Or I'm
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: trying to throw one hundred miles an hour as well.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: I mean you can dial it back a little bit,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: but I mean velocity attends to me the name of
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: the game here, Whereas so in hockey, we're starting to
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: see bullyball make its way back now into the NHL.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: I think for me it goes down to two things.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: I think, number one, yes, you have to play a
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: certain style and you have to play physically. You have
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: to grind it out, but there will be injuries along
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: the way.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: So number two.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Then I look at this where and I say, you
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: want to win now? And this team is said they
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: want to win now. That's why they've retained so many veterans,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: that's why they're trying to slow play their prospects. But
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: there's two ways to do this. One do you open
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: the flood gates like Edmonton, they're not built that way.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Er two, can you find a way to grind it
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: out and win games two to one or three to two.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: You don't have to rely on six to seven to
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: eight guys to get you twenty five thirty goals up
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: and down your lineup. What you can do to rely
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: on is play good, sound, structured defense and get reliable
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: goaltending every game. That's gonna be your ultimate out card
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: right there. That's your outpitch in this game for the
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Kraken is can you get defense? Can you get goaltending?
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: And so far they're getting it. The reality is we're
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: gonna probably be seeing guys on the shelf, as you
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: said over and over and over, but can you avoid
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: the injuries here to the big key guys?
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: And I also think and I think too. You know,
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: we talked to JT about this all the time. Because
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: of the condensed schedule as it is right the crack
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: in this week, I think this is the first of
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: four occasions that they're gonna have more than two games
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: two days off in between games. This team is playing
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: every second or every third day all year long. You're
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: gonna see a lot more optional skates. You're gonna see
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: a lot more cancel practices. You're gonna see a lot
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: more load management.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Right, It's not to reward the players, it's to help
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: them heal.
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, hundre percent, right on hundred percent. Like I mean,
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: we listen, they're they're we we can probably and again
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: this is all speculation, but I mean between now and Christmas,
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: I'm guarantee. I bet you we see fewer than ten
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: full practices between now and Christmas. Right, Like, you're gonna
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: have some optionals, your morning skates are gonna be get
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: what you need and get off, you know what I mean.
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: But because you're playing every day or every third day,
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: uh for the most of the season, you know, you
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: gotta find ways to keep guys healthy, holding guys out
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: in practices, maybe not going as heavy in practices. Those
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: are some areas that potentially we could see uh being
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: used to keep guys fresh for games.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: So how is this gonna hold up against the New
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: York Ranger. It's great time to bring in. Here are
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: gus for cracking weekly on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. That
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: is Alex Faus, play by play voice for the New
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: York Rangers on the radio side, Alex, welcome back. Great
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: to have you, great to see you also take on
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: a new adventure here play by play voice for the
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Rangers side. And I'll just ask you this way as
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: far as how you're doing, what does it mean to
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: take on this kind of opportunity with this kind of franchise.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 40:23
  Speaker 10: You know, there's no place like home, right I'm a
• 40:25
  Speaker 10: native New Yorker and to have the opportunity to work
• 40:29
  Speaker 10: for your hometown team, a team you you grew up
• 40:32
  Speaker 10: rooting for, you know, it's a it's a dream come true.
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: You know, sometimes you got got to be in the
• 40:39
  Speaker 10: right place at the right time, and that certainly was
• 40:42
  Speaker 10: the case here. So grateful for the opportunity to be
• 40:45
  Speaker 10: able to be a part of this broadcast crew. And
• 40:49
  Speaker 10: you know, they've always been a you know, a group
• 40:52
  Speaker 10: that I've I've looked up to as one of the
• 40:54
  Speaker 10: best in the business. So to be able to work
• 40:56
  Speaker 10: with the folks at MSG Network is just it's a
• 40:58
  Speaker 10: professional dream come true as well. Never mind the crest
• 41:01
  Speaker 10: on the front.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Of the jersey, I can't I can't say enough and
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: how happy I was for you when the news broke
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: that you were jumping on board full time. And I
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: know that in this business we're often you know, told
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: be yourself, don't copy somebody else here. But I mean,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: with the transition and a legend like Sam Rose and
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: moving on after so many years, what kind of a
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: legacy has he left in the boot for others here
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: to follow.
• 41:26
  Speaker 10: Well, at the bottom line is that Sam was all classed,
• 41:31
  Speaker 10: and you know, he and Joe both just you know,
• 41:34
  Speaker 10: when they came into town, when the Rangers were in
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: the and the MSG networks covering the game, you knew
• 41:41
  Speaker 10: that let's say you were an opposing coach or imposing
• 41:44
  Speaker 10: GM or a referee or whatnot, and you know you
• 41:48
  Speaker 10: have a chance to talk with those two guys, you
• 41:51
  Speaker 10: just come away feeling like, Wow, this this was the
• 41:54
  Speaker 10: classiest interaction I've ever had. And that's how I felt,
• 41:57
  Speaker 10: you know, when I was in LA even it got
• 41:59
  Speaker 10: to meet those guys for the first time. You know,
• 42:01
  Speaker 10: I grew up watching Sam Rose and John Davidson on TV, right,
• 42:05
  Speaker 10: and to be able to, you know, meet somebody who
• 42:09
  Speaker 10: you've looked up to in this business, you know, it
• 42:11
  Speaker 10: couldn't have been nicer. And you know, got to know
• 42:15
  Speaker 10: me as a New Yorker too, and I got to,
• 42:17
  Speaker 10: you know, be around for his final couple of years
• 42:19
  Speaker 10: here on a on a part time basis, and it
• 42:23
  Speaker 10: was kind of awesome to to be able to swap
• 42:25
  Speaker 10: stories from, you know, growing up in the city here.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: A bit of a rocky start for the Rangers, losing
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: five to one two Calgary Sunday night.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Uh, what are.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: Some of the challenges you think the Rangers are facing
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: that's not really aligning with the external expectations for this group?
• 42:40
  Speaker 10: You know, I think you can go back to some
• 42:44
  Speaker 10: of the injuries that they've had to deal with, which
• 42:47
  Speaker 10: may not seem all that significant on the surface, but
• 42:49
  Speaker 10: our Timmy Paneren and JT. Miller both had what I
• 42:53
  Speaker 10: would describe as false starts in training camp. They were
• 42:55
  Speaker 10: both banged up, didn't get the full camp, and I
• 42:58
  Speaker 10: firmly believe they may not have been one hundred percent
• 43:01
  Speaker 10: when the season got underway. And then shortly after the
• 43:04
  Speaker 10: season started, Vincent Trocheck went down with injury. And you're
• 43:08
  Speaker 10: talking about a guy who you know, is one of
• 43:10
  Speaker 10: the top centermen in the league. The plan was to
• 43:14
  Speaker 10: have Mika's avantaje ad play on the wing this season,
• 43:18
  Speaker 10: and not be a full time center like he's been
• 43:21
  Speaker 10: in the past. Well, that plan immediately got torn to
• 43:25
  Speaker 10: bits when Trocheck went down with injury. You know, the
• 43:30
  Speaker 10: feeling was that they wanted to get Mika up on
• 43:32
  Speaker 10: the fore check, a little bit more on the wing,
• 43:35
  Speaker 10: and he's bought into kind of a more physical north
• 43:39
  Speaker 10: south game. But without Trocheck in the middle, you're talking
• 43:42
  Speaker 10: about a guy who is grade five on five, a
• 43:44
  Speaker 10: point producer, is on your top power play unit, kills penalties,
• 43:49
  Speaker 10: never mind slots the rest.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Of your forwards where they should be.
• 43:53
  Speaker 10: The knock on effect from that injury, I think has
• 43:56
  Speaker 10: created a lot of problems. You Know, the first couple
• 43:59
  Speaker 10: of weeks of this season, you could look at the
• 44:01
  Speaker 10: Rangers record and say, well, you know, they're losing all
• 44:04
  Speaker 10: these games. But actually the sense was, and I'm not
• 44:08
  Speaker 10: just talking from a team standpoint, but from the fans
• 44:11
  Speaker 10: from the media covering the team, that their process was fine.
• 44:15
  Speaker 10: They were out playing their opposition at five on five,
• 44:19
  Speaker 10: they were dominating them defensively, and the issue was they
• 44:22
  Speaker 10: weren't getting goal scoring.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Well, now their game.
• 44:25
  Speaker 10: Has slipped a little bit defensively and the goal scoring
• 44:29
  Speaker 10: hasn't picked up.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: With it to try to cover for all of that.
• 44:32
  Speaker 10: So what you wind up with is a team that
• 44:36
  Speaker 10: you know, probably shouldn't have, you know, as low a
• 44:40
  Speaker 10: record as they have, but by virtue of not winning
• 44:43
  Speaker 10: games where they outplayed their opposition, they find themselves in
• 44:47
  Speaker 10: this early hole.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that things weren't going to script early here
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: as far as what Mike Sullivan had intended off the
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: bat here for his brand new job coming over from
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Penguins, as well as Alex Bausch joining us
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: right now and crack and weekly. But what have we
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: learned so far with what Mike Sullivan is all about
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: his core values and how much more time that this
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: team needs to really get things locked in as far
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: as his vision.
• 45:13
  Speaker 10: To be honest, I thought that there was a lot
• 45:15
  Speaker 10: of buy in right away in training camp. I think
• 45:18
  Speaker 10: this group was craving more structure, more of a set standard,
• 45:24
  Speaker 10: and Mike Sullivan has been adamant about that this group
• 45:28
  Speaker 10: needed to set a new bar as far as a
• 45:30
  Speaker 10: standard of play. And going back to the first couple
• 45:34
  Speaker 10: of games, you know, they play Washington really tough, and
• 45:37
  Speaker 10: Charlie Lingern put in a great performance. They play the
• 45:39
  Speaker 10: Mayle Leafs really tough and lose that one. You know,
• 45:42
  Speaker 10: over time, you look at some of their early results
• 45:46
  Speaker 10: and some of their tight losses to begin this season,
• 45:50
  Speaker 10: and they were playing to that standard. They were playing
• 45:53
  Speaker 10: what the way Mike Sullivan wanted them to play, by
• 45:58
  Speaker 10: being responsible, by playing hard North South. And I think that,
• 46:03
  Speaker 10: you know, as they've slipped a little bit here and
• 46:06
  Speaker 10: lost a couple of games, you're seeing Sulivin trying to
• 46:10
  Speaker 10: bring the group back to that standard. You know, the
• 46:13
  Speaker 10: Rangers made a clear investment in Sulivin as their head coach,
• 46:17
  Speaker 10: and you know they they feel that the way that
• 46:20
  Speaker 10: he runs this operation on the day to day is
• 46:25
  Speaker 10: absolutely what this group needs.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: And I think you're seeing it that.
• 46:27
  Speaker 10: When this team is playing at its best, it's probably
• 46:30
  Speaker 10: the most defensively sound you've seen the Rangers.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Play in a long long time.
• 46:36
  Speaker 10: But now it's just about, okay, how can you how
• 46:38
  Speaker 10: can you pair that with you know, some of the
• 46:41
  Speaker 10: creative skill on this team and getting a little bit
• 46:43
  Speaker 10: more finished right now.
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: Sometimes when you're trying to get over that that position
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: of maybe not playing to where you expect a team
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: to play, you can look at areas of improvement when
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: you when you talk about training camp and the vets
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: and you know maybe what they did or didn't get
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: out of that in preseason, and then you look at, well,
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: who do you think when you're putting down the roster,
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: who do you think has the most upside? Get this
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: thing righted a little bit?
• 47:11
  Speaker 10: You know, I think they're they're looking at two guys
• 47:14
  Speaker 10: that you know have been off to slow starts, Will
• 47:16
  Speaker 10: Cooley and Alexi la Frenier. You know, both were expected
• 47:20
  Speaker 10: to carry more of a higher load this year. I
• 47:24
  Speaker 10: mean la Frenier, you know, his body of work speaks
• 47:27
  Speaker 10: for itself, right and the skill is plainly obvious, but
• 47:30
  Speaker 10: can't he keep that up.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: On a consistent basis?
• 47:34
  Speaker 10: For you know, Will Cooley, who burst onto the scene
• 47:37
  Speaker 10: a couple of years ago, I mean this is his
• 47:39
  Speaker 10: third full NHL season.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: I think what.
• 47:43
  Speaker 10: What's interesting with a younger player is when you elevate
• 47:47
  Speaker 10: him into a new role, is then pressure starting to
• 47:52
  Speaker 10: set in? Okay, I have to match expectations of being
• 47:55
  Speaker 10: in a certain place, and then do you wind up
• 47:57
  Speaker 10: maybe trying to do a little bit too much? And
• 48:00
  Speaker 10: we see this all the time with younger players around
• 48:03
  Speaker 10: the league. I mean, Will is still only twenty three
• 48:05
  Speaker 10: years of age. It's hard to, you know, instantly be
• 48:10
  Speaker 10: thrust into a newer role where you're expected to carry
• 48:15
  Speaker 10: more of the team and not stray from the simple
• 48:21
  Speaker 10: game that got you there. So right now it's about
• 48:24
  Speaker 10: how you can, you know, get this guy who plays
• 48:27
  Speaker 10: a really great North South game and stick with it.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Right So, you're you're out on a four game road
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: trip West Coast, you're one game in. Does being out
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: on the road do you think that helps kind of
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: galvanize the guys a little bit, to get away from
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: MSG for a few days. Do you think that helps
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: get the team right it a little bit?
• 48:49
  Speaker 10: You know, I think given the way that you know
• 48:51
  Speaker 10: they struggled at home to begin, you know it can't hurt.
• 48:56
  Speaker 10: I think we hear often in today's NHL that go
• 48:59
  Speaker 10: on the road, regardless of which team you play on,
• 49:05
  Speaker 10: is actually more of a structured environment than when you're
• 49:08
  Speaker 10: playing home games.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: And we've actually seen it across the league.
• 49:11
  Speaker 10: I was looking up and we're taping this on a Monday.
• 49:16
  Speaker 10: I was looking at the league wide points percentage of
• 49:18
  Speaker 10: ball road teams. It's five point forty one to begin
• 49:21
  Speaker 10: the season. So across the league you're seeing this where
• 49:24
  Speaker 10: when teams get out on the road and they can
• 49:27
  Speaker 10: jail as a group and they can leave you know,
• 49:31
  Speaker 10: some of the things that you may occupy their time
• 49:33
  Speaker 10: when they're at home, family obligations and other things.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: It actually sometimes can aid in performance.
• 49:40
  Speaker 10: So I think that's what the hope is for this
• 49:42
  Speaker 10: Rangers team is that they can take advantage of being
• 49:45
  Speaker 10: on their longest road trip of the season stacked together
• 49:48
  Speaker 10: a couple of results, feel more confident about their game
• 49:51
  Speaker 10: when they return home.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: Alex this is going to lead to the reunion game
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: that we have certainly been pining for for a while.
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: On the Kraken side, we'll see if o'cacka was back.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: But Ryan Lindgren is here, and now Will Borgan is
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: back in Seattle for the first time since the trade.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: From this last season, I mean, he's earned playing time
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: up and down the defensive pair. But through ten games
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: so far and sixty one overall, what's the Will Borgan
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: experience like in New York and how he fits in
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: here to Mike Sullivan's plans.
• 50:22
  Speaker 10: Well, we're actually at a couple of reunion events here
• 50:26
  Speaker 10: with JT. Miller as we taped this on a Monday
• 50:29
  Speaker 10: before the Rangers playing Vancouver on Tuesday, So that's gonna
• 50:32
  Speaker 10: be a big one to mark down.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: But you know, I think when when.
• 50:35
  Speaker 10: The Rangers traded for Will Borgan in the Coppococo deal, they.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Were looking for some.
• 50:45
  Speaker 10: More consistent play out of their back end, just a sturdy,
• 50:49
  Speaker 10: stay at home defenseman. I have been impressed from the
• 50:52
  Speaker 10: moment Borgan got here. You know, I don't think you
• 50:56
  Speaker 10: know he's going to tell you that he has an
• 50:58
  Speaker 10: offensive streak to his game, but he'll step up joined
• 51:00
  Speaker 10: the rush.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: He's got a pretty good shot.
• 51:04
  Speaker 10: I think everybody around the organization has been really happy
• 51:07
  Speaker 10: with what Will brings to the table.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: He plays with a bit of an edge. He's a
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: tough guy. I mean I've seen already.
• 51:15
  Speaker 10: I mean we're less than a month into the season,
• 51:17
  Speaker 10: and he's taken some punishment, whether it's block shots or
• 51:21
  Speaker 10: tough hits, and he keeps on ticking. He is one
• 51:25
  Speaker 10: tough customer and I think he's been a great fit
• 51:28
  Speaker 10: for what this Rangers team wants to be.
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: Identity wise, Alex talk a little bit about sister and
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: obviously a top goaltender, in this league. What's he like?
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: What are the fans need to do about him in
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: terms of how he approaches the game. You know, they
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: see the stats obviously, but talk a little bit about
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: his professionalism as a goaltender.
• 51:51
  Speaker 10: Boy, he's dedicated to his craft. You know, any goalie
• 51:58
  Speaker 10: will tell you that they're hard on themselves.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: I think Igor channels it in such.
• 52:02
  Speaker 10: A way where we were looking up some stats the
• 52:05
  Speaker 10: other day that you know he gets. He lost to
• 52:07
  Speaker 10: San Jose in a six or five overtime decision, and
• 52:11
  Speaker 10: in his career he's bounced back from those better than
• 52:15
  Speaker 10: most goaltenders. He has a really he has a gaudy
• 52:18
  Speaker 10: win loss percentage in his favor when he's coming off
• 52:22
  Speaker 10: of a loss where he's given up let's say five
• 52:25
  Speaker 10: or more goals, And it speaks to, you know, his
• 52:27
  Speaker 10: professionalism and how deeply he you know, studies the game.
• 52:33
  Speaker 10: You know, his his movement when he's square to the puck.
• 52:36
  Speaker 10: You know, I would put him up against any goaltender
• 52:38
  Speaker 10: in the league, and I'd say, you know, he's probably
• 52:41
  Speaker 10: the best in that regard. You know, until last year,
• 52:45
  Speaker 10: he had won thirty six plus games three seasons in
• 52:48
  Speaker 10: a row. I mean, you're you're talking about the kreme
• 52:51
  Speaker 10: de la creme in this league. That's why he earned
• 52:53
  Speaker 10: that large contract extension, the highest for a goaltender in
• 52:58
  Speaker 10: league history.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: But you know, I think where it's so funny.
• 53:03
  Speaker 10: You look at his goals against and he got binged
• 53:06
  Speaker 10: up a little bit to start the road trip in.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Calgary, but he had a sub two goals against.
• 53:10
  Speaker 10: Average and he's a game under five hundred starting this
• 53:13
  Speaker 10: road trip, you know, so it just goes to show
• 53:16
  Speaker 10: kind of where the Rangers are at that you know,
• 53:18
  Speaker 10: he's done his part but needs a little bit of
• 53:21
  Speaker 10: run support.
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: Alex.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Up next will be Montreal on the crack inside. They've
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: seen them once at Bell Center. The Rangers, I've already
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: seen them once. But there's seven to three right now
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: to begin this season and yet own the youngest team
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: right now in the NHL on paper. I mean, as
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: far as what you've seen, how much is the start
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: reflective of what they can be all season one?
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 53:43
  Speaker 10: For my money, I think the Montreal Canadians might be
• 53:46
  Speaker 10: the most exciting team in the National Hockey League right now.
• 53:49
  Speaker 10: And I don't think I'm speaking out of turn by
• 53:51
  Speaker 10: saying that. You know, just the skill on display, the.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Style that they play, the speed with which they play.
• 54:01
  Speaker 10: When we were in Montreal, you know, Dave Maloney and
• 54:04
  Speaker 10: I you know, would have each TV time out look
• 54:07
  Speaker 10: at one another and say, Wow, these guys play fast.
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 54:11
  Speaker 10: I think the biggest question is it has been for
• 54:14
  Speaker 10: the last couple of years, is you know your ice
• 54:16
  Speaker 10: love Kowski the evolution in his game.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Can he keep up?
• 54:19
  Speaker 10: And I think we've started to see he holds his
• 54:22
  Speaker 10: own from a physicality standpoint better than when he first
• 54:25
  Speaker 10: got in the league. But man, Cole Callfield's an elite sniper.
• 54:29
  Speaker 10: Laane Hudson deserving the Callege Trophy last year.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: He's skaced like the win.
• 54:34
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's it's like a Kate mccarr two point
• 54:36
  Speaker 10: zero uh kind of deal. And then you've got a
• 54:40
  Speaker 10: couple of guys that you know fit very different roles
• 54:43
  Speaker 10: and and seem to work well. I mean, you've got
• 54:45
  Speaker 10: some bulk with arbor Jack guy, if you need to have.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: Him in there.
• 54:49
  Speaker 10: Noah Dobson, who's just been such a sturdy defenseman in
• 54:52
  Speaker 10: this league the last couple of years. You've got centered depth.
• 54:56
  Speaker 10: Now I know Alex new Hook is out for a
• 54:58
  Speaker 10: while with injury, and that's that's gonna be area where
• 55:00
  Speaker 10: they're going to be tested here. But you know, when
• 55:03
  Speaker 10: he's healthy, you've got a pretty good lineup up the middle.
• 55:06
  Speaker 10: And then Sam Montebo, who's you know. I think he
• 55:10
  Speaker 10: follows in a great line of Quepaquah goaltenders who have
• 55:15
  Speaker 10: a flair for the dramatic. He plays that way and
• 55:19
  Speaker 10: loves to entertain.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, coming up Montreal tomorrow night only visit they have
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: here into Climbate Pledge Arena at seven thirty and then
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: the Rangers this Saturday at seven o'clock at Climate Pledgerina.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: Alex been too long looking forward to having it back
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: up in these parts up in the Gondo Love. But
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: in the meantime, keep up the great worker. I was
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: welcome back here with us, and they're looking forward to
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: catching up soon with you.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Thanks again, appreciate you guys, Thanks for having me on.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: All right, great stuff. One of our great friends here
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: in this business, Alex Fast joining us here on Cracking
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: Weekly now in his first full season behind the play
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: by play Mike for the New York Rangers as well.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: Great insight from him leading us into the week ahead
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: here for the crack And and Everett got to this earlier.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: It's pretty light Montreal coming up tomorrow night, and the
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: New York Rangers as well coming up on Saturday. And
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: that's it. We're not gonna have many weeks like this
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: again much for this entire schedule. So I'll begin with
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: the Montreal game. And I think to me, after the
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: krack And lost this one back at Bell Center in overtime,
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: assuming that he starts, I'd be led to believe that
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: Joey Decord wants a massive do over. I think here
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: for this game, and he's like fantastic in the last
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: two games against Winnipeg and Edmonton. But again, what that
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: game told us, You can't take late penalties. It led
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: to the power play goal to tie the game. Can
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: you contain I've been Demo Dobin, Oh boy, does he
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: look good right now? And Cole Cawfield And because with
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: that more pucks flowing through them because Patrick Lyone is
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: out three to four months with core surgery.
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that that game Montreal started on sloppy.
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: They slowly got it cleaned up in the latter parts
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: of the first and second period, but it didn't start
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: on time as ever, likes to say, and I think
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: that's going to be something that they'll be thinking about
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: in this game against Montreal. You know I talked about
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: Seattle being thirteenth oldest team. Well guess who's the youngest
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: team in the league against Montreal. And so they are
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: a fast team, they are an agile team. They're a
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: youthful team, full of energy, and the Cracker are gonna
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: have to find a way to slow that down. Yeah.
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: I mean, listen, anytime you have a rematch of the
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: nineteen seventeen Stanley Cup final between Seattle and Montreal, I
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: mean it is appointment viewing. No, I listen the Kraken.
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: I felt that they man Cawfield was so good in
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: that first game that that should have been a two
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: point night. But Cawfield was was was on hold my
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: beer right home opener, emotional home opener. And I've always
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: contended that I think it's it's a lot easier for
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: the team that lost in the second game to win
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: than it is for the team that won, because if
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: you won, it's easy to go out there and say,
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: all right, boys, let's running back do it again. But
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: if you lost, you're making the adjustments, you know, where
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: you slipped up, you knew where you failed. I think
• 58:14
  Speaker 5: where the Kraken, you know they They've contained the last
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: two teams top lines pretty effectively. Even though dry Title
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: and Ryan Nusan Hopkins did get points in that game
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: against the Edmonton Oilers, News had an assist and dry
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: Title had the two assists there, but David off the
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: score sheet. I still think that you know you can,
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: you can shut down and a Suzuki a caw Field.
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: It's not going to be easy. Elaine Hudson. It's not
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: gonna be easy, but I do think it's really a
• 58:49
  Speaker 5: rinse and repeat. You know it's not period one of
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: of the Montreal game. It's really gonna be period seven
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: of the Winnipeg Edmonton games can continued if they want
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: to have success going up against Montreal.
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: The youth of Montreal needs to get matched with some
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: of the youth on Seattle. I see above Berkeley Cotton,
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: I mean same age as Demidov, Like, hey, you want
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: to play in the NHL, go out and you take
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: this guy off the score sheet, stick with him the
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: whole game, like match him. So uh, the Cracker are
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: going to have to use their their limited number of
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: of of skaters that can stay with some of this
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: youth on the Montreal team to match them.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Rangers coming up this Saturday, and before I get onto
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: the festivities, because where we record this year on the
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: back of my walls, I think one of the slickest
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: third jerseys I have ever seen in my life, and
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: they will debut here for this weekend. But for the
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: on ice matters, the Rangers coming off what was again
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: a clunker at Calgary five to one loss, and you
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: have to wonder with Mike Sullivan and the guys they
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: have top to bottom one their takeoff game gonna be.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: So this is what really concerns me. I think despite
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: them coming to the end of their road trip into
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: Seattle goal prevention, they have been mainly top notch to
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: the Igor Shasterkin, but he gave up five goals on
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: thirty shots at Calgary, but for the most part this
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: year he's received little run support. They only got one
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: goal in that loss at Calgary, and that only goal
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: came ten seconds after Kevin Ball beat Shasterkin from about
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: roughly fifty feet a moving screen as well, but it
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: was one of the more uglier goals we have seen
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: Shasterkin give up here for his career. So depending on
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: what happens at the end of this Ranger road trip,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: I think, for me, can you jump on them early
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: in period one and just like you did maybe against Edmonton,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: but number two find a way to see out of
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: the box for their weapons that they have because they
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: can get their cookies on the power play. Despite them
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: struggling early this season.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean at the time of us recording this show,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 5: you know, they're one four and two in their last
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 5: eight g or what is that, seven games after starting
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 5: the year two and one, and you listen to a
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 5: lot of the pundits and the people around who were
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 5: talking about the Rangers. You know, they seem a little deflated.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 5: They don't have they don't have that typical jump that
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 5: we're used to seeing. And before they come into Seattle
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: they still have to play Vancouver and Edmonton both, I think,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 5: who are a little ticked off by their start, So
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, you never know what could happen, and I
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: think you can't afford Number one to take the Rangers lightly,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 5: you know, and in that regard, but you're right, a
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: lot of those young players and they've got some talent
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 5: on that team with Mike Sullivan now the coach, there
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 5: like a lot sets up for you know, you don't
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: want to be the slump buster. You don't want to
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: be the street buster. Right. We've seen in the Crack
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: in the last couple of years, you know, struggle with
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: the likes of Anaheim San Jose when they're coming off
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: of Chicago, right, So Ottawa, you know, I mean, there
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: are teams that you feel that you should beat in
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: the last couple of years, and Seattle's not been able
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 5: to get it done. So you don't want to fall
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 5: trap to that. But also too, you see these teams
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 5: twice a year, and I mean the Eastern Conference. You
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 5: never know what you're gonna get out East. It's different styles,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: it's different personnel. Again, you know you're seeing these the
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 5: Cracket have not seen the Rangers since what February I
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 5: want to say, early March, so it's been a while.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: It's been a while since the Crack and have seen
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 5: the Rangers play, So you know, that's another thing you
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: don't know what to expect. Also, Litt Morgan, he's gonna
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: be fired up coming back to c PA, you know
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: what I mean. And Carson Susy that'll be fun. But
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: but no, I think for the cracking. You know, it's
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: not going to be easy this week. But we talked
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: a little bit about the more manageable parts of the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: schedule as you get into November, and I think this
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: week two games in the week and you can finally
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: rest and relax and get some energy back. I think
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: these are two games that if you're Seattle, the goal
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: needs to be at minimum three points out of the
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 5: Canadians and the Rangers.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would never sleep on a team that's coached
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: by Mike Sullivan. Oh No, Schustkin is absolutely one of
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: the best goaltenders in the league. He might not be
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: get getting the defense support that he needs right now,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: but I would not sleep on this team. Panerin Miller,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: Adam Fox A, Benajat like these guys are our offensive juggernauts.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: And if you look at any of these games and say, well,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: this team is on a slide, it's going to be
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: a little easier. Maybe I don't have to commit to
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: the structure as much as I normally would. Against Ay
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: and Edmonton, they're going to catch you sleep and they're
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: going to put a couple up real fast, So I'm
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: not concerned about that. I think that that, you know,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: Lane Lambert is the same guy whether this team wins
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: or loses, at least from we see. You know, the
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: highs aren't too high and the lows aren't too low.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: And I think that's just because that's the way he
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: likes to operate. That's the way he likes his guys
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: to operate. So you know, he's not going to treat
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: any team as well. This will be an easy win
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: and his cadence will be off. And I say his,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: I mean lanes where you know he's a little loose
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: in the dresser. He's going to be the same every
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: game because he wants the guys to prepare the same
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: for every game.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: Motivational fuel night with Will Borgan back in the House
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: and the Crack, and they're going to have Ryan Lindgren
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: facing his former team or he was a lynch pin
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: on that back end for the first time since he
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: was traded to Colorado also last year. And if Coppocco
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: can find a way to get back and make that
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: is season debut, the stories just right themselves.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 5: Sometimes I don't you know, I don't care if he
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 5: is healthy enough just get him out there and get
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: him a couple of shifts. That's the feeling against the range,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 5: rop him and bubble rap firsh.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: How fun would that be?
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: How fun would that be if the crack and are
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: wearing that thing right behind me, that black third jersey.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: They look sharp. I've been waiting for a long time
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: to see those things in game action.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we've got a you know, a lot going on
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: around it too, Right, there's there's an intro, there's a
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 5: special activations in the arena. We've added a ton of
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 5: blue lights or black lights rather in the building to
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: help make those things pop on the ice and in
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 5: the stands. So if you're listening to this and you're
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 5: you're you're trying to decide whether to pull the trigger,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 5: bang bang, pull the trigger, grab yourself a jersey, grab
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: yourself a ticket, and we'll see you on Saturday.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: One thing I can easily say is that Milema mater
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: Azusa Pacific black red and white colors. It's a natural match.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: It's the lunge and brown of the bowling. You can
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 5: edit that part out, it's fine. I'm not sure the
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: editors would really like that.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: Just roasting goes on in this podcast. Am I just
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: stay in there, but it's gonna be a fun one again.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: Third Jersey gonna be unveiled again coming up this Saturday
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: for game action against the New York Rangers. Before that
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: special time puck drop Tuesday at seven point thirty Kraken
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: Montreal take note. We're also gonna be at Tom's watch Bar.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: We'll be at Tom's watch Bar for postgame Allan myself
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: come right in across the street, hang out with us.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: Tom's watch Bar the place to be beginning Tuesday. Let's
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: go for a three Stars of the week right now
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: before we get out of here.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: Ever, go ahead, So I think my first star, I
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: mean it was a toss up, but I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 5: go what the way he has played and what he's
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  Speaker 5: my third star. Sorry, we'll go the other way. My
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  Speaker 5: third star, the fourth line. I'm going all three. I'm
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  Speaker 5: going I'm going Carts, I'm going Benny, and I'm going wins.
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  Speaker 5: Like those three guys, especially in the Winnipeg Edmonton games,
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  Speaker 5: were just huge for for this team. I think they
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  Speaker 5: tilted the ice against Winnipeg and you know Carts' goal
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  Speaker 5: that shift against the Oilers. They're my third Star of
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  Speaker 5: the week. My my second star of the week is
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  Speaker 5: uh Joey the court. He needed those two bounce backs
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  Speaker 5: from from Washington. I thought he got it vintage Joey
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  Speaker 5: in uh in in Winnipeg and then a really good
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  Speaker 5: strong performance against the Oilers. This one's hard for me
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  Speaker 5: my my first star of the week, because I think
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  Speaker 5: both contributed in in a variety of different ways. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to go with Jayden Schwartz barely barely over
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  Speaker 5: Jordan Everley because of how he played consistently throughout the week.
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  Speaker 5: He provided offense. He he he was the best player
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  Speaker 5: I felt for Seattle. Uh best skater for the Kraken
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  Speaker 5: I thought all week was was Schwartz. So those are
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  Speaker 5: my three stars. I got the fourth line at three,
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  Speaker 5: I got Joey at two, and I got Schwartz at one.
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  Speaker 5: But maybe it's half and then Ebbs of the other
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  Speaker 5: half and then they make up one star together. But
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  Speaker 5: that's those are my three and a half stars.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Schwartz third star. I love the leadership
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  Speaker 4: over the week from him. I love the two goals
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  Speaker 4: one assist he had in the Winnipeg game. Just you know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that game happens the way it does
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  Speaker 4: without without Jayden Schwartz. He's my third star for the week.
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  Speaker 4: Joey Decord is my second star. I love the bounce
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  Speaker 4: back from how things didn't go well at the start
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  Speaker 4: of week to how they how well they went for
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  Speaker 4: him in Winnipeg and obviously in the Edvonton game as well.
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  Speaker 4: So he's my second star and I gotta go. Jordan Eberley,
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  Speaker 4: the captain of this team, is my first star. His
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  Speaker 4: play throughout the weeks ending ending with the winn the
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  Speaker 4: win against Edmonton. The thing that pushed him to the
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  Speaker 4: first star for me was comment he made after the
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  Speaker 4: win versus Edmonton where he said, I still think this
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  Speaker 4: team has another level. And I don't know if he's
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 4: saying that because of the injuries that are happening right now,
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  Speaker 4: or if everybody that's on the roster that's healthy right
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  Speaker 4: now has more to give, but I love hearing that
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  Speaker 4: from the captain.
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  Speaker 3: For me, my third star is going to go to
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  Speaker 3: Joey Decord, and for many of the reasons that you
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  Speaker 3: guys said, but I think to me, it really is
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  Speaker 3: a telltale sign of what kind of a competitor you
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: have in a goaltender when he can bounce back after
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: what was a dud against Philadelphia and find a way
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  Speaker 3: to do something that no one's done here to the
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  Speaker 3: Winnipeg Jets really in about two years and blank them
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  Speaker 3: on their own home ice. Then to do what he
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: did as well against Edmonton. He outplayed Stewart Skinner. He
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: was a big, big, big reason why the Kraken led
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  Speaker 3: in this game third period and also finished off the
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: Edmonton Oilers.
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  Speaker 5: First shutout of the Jets at home for Winnipeg since
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  Speaker 5: January of time twenty four. The twenty three twenty four
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  Speaker 5: season was the last time the Jets were shut out
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  Speaker 5: at home.
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  Speaker 4: Incredible, Yeah, awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Number two for me, it goes to Maddy Beneer's and
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: I said again in the postgame show on Saturday, where
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: Matty Beneers goes, this team will go as well. Two
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: assists when he faced a ton of ice time against
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: Connor McDavid, and he neutralized McDavid to the point where
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: he looked very very very human. One shot on net,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: nothing on the score sheet, and got absolutely run over
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: at the face off circle. Matty Beaniers also would to
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: assist in that game, won ten of fourteen faceoffs. Phenomenal
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: work by the guy. We're at number ten. Took another
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: big step and a big reason why the Kraken were
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: in position to win that game. For me, my first
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: start is a very emotional pick Brandon Montour, to be
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: able to pick things right back up after what was
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: an absolutely tough week. Fits you said a best I thought,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: we really don't know the gravity of what he's felt,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: and I don't think we ever ever will. But to
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: find the right time to come back and to say
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: I want to do this, but also be willing to
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: speak about his brother for all the world to hear,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: and then come back in wearing his shirt before the game. Camstrong,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: our hearts go out to Brandon Montour. He's my pick
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: here for our first start of the week. Fella's gonna
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: wrap it up here.
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  Speaker 1: This was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it again soon, Let's do it tomorrow night.
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