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POSTGAME: Kraken totally reedem themselves with 4-3 shootout win over Red Wings (10/20) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 2: We're back inside of climate pledge arena everett fits you
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Speaker 2: alongside big al ice level Not how they drew it up, partner,
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Speaker 2: but the Kraken a 4-3 win in a shootout. They
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Speaker 2: had a 3-0 lead coming into this third period. They
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Speaker 2: give up three goals, outshot 13-4 in the third. But man,
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Speaker 2: they put on a heck of a display in overtime.
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Speaker 2: They had some good looks, some good chances in the shootout.
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Speaker 2: Philip Grubauer was stellar on the Kraken's way. to snapping
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Speaker 2: their brief two-game slide. Yeah, just no easy wins in NHL,
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Speaker 2: are there?
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Speaker 3: You play against a team that you put up six on,
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Speaker 3: and you see them less than two weeks later, and
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Speaker 3: they battle back in the third period and give them
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Speaker 3: a lot of credit for doing so. This is a
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Speaker 3: team that's on the ropes right now, and they're looking
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Speaker 3: to find ways to win, and they almost did here tonight.
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Speaker 4: Three goals tonight for Seattle. They get the fourth in
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Speaker 4: the shootout. We've talked about it before.
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Speaker 2: They're not going to be able to get five or
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Speaker 2: six goals every other night, but how big of a
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Speaker 2: win was this? Obviously, you get the win. Any win
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Speaker 2: in this league is huge, but after a long road trip,
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Speaker 2: you're back home. Just where would you put the level
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Speaker 2: of this win?
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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, if I'm Coach Lane Lambert, I'm telling
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Speaker 3: the guys, hey, you found a way to win. That's important.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't the best third period. We've got to talk
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Speaker 3: a little bit about that. We've got to talk about
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Speaker 3: giving up two power play goals, maybe even the number
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Speaker 3: of penalties taken. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: finding a way to win is the most important thing. So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: there's definitely stuff to clean up. And I think that's
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Speaker 3: the mindset of every player on this team, of the
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Speaker 3: coaches as well, is that there are no perfect games
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Speaker 3: and they want to continue to get better.
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Speaker 2: Two goals from the blue line here tonight. Another point
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Speaker 2: from that bottom six forward group now up to 37
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Speaker 2: points on the year. From that third and fourth line,
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Speaker 2: once again, the offense really being spread out here.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, absolutely.
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Speaker 3: At the end of the game, I think it was
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Speaker 3: 13 players with two or more goals. We talk a
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Speaker 3: lot about the depth of scoring in this team, and
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Speaker 3: it just isn't a talking point. It's reality, and it's
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Speaker 3: an important part of the way this team has success.
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Speaker 5: They've got to be able.
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Speaker 3: To spread that scoring around because it makes them a
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Speaker 3: bigger threat.
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Speaker 5: Against other teams.
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Speaker 3: Other teams can't target one line or a couple of
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Speaker 3: guys when you've got depth of scoring up and down
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Speaker 3: your lineup.
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Speaker 2: Power play gets on the board. PK allows one on three.
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Speaker 2: Any special teams thoughts from you, sir?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that to stay out of the box,
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Speaker 3: first of all, is number one. Four penalties or four
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Speaker 3: power plays is too many. But you've got to clean
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Speaker 3: that up because there are teams in this league with
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Speaker 3: much better power plays that will hurt you much deeper
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Speaker 3: giving four power plays. So that's got to be an
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Speaker 3: area of attention.
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Speaker 2: We'll step out for a break, come back, and wrap
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Speaker 4: Everett Fitzhugh back with you. It's a 4-3 Kraken win
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Speaker 4: in a shootout.
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Speaker 2: They snap an 0-1-1 slide their last two games. Get
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Speaker 2: back in the win column in game one of a
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Speaker 2: four-game homestand and their first of six of their next
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Speaker 2: seven here at home.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, listen, this is exactly what you want to
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Speaker 3: do is– get the, uh, get the homestand going with
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Speaker 3: two points here tonight. It wasn't the way you drew
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Speaker 3: it up, but you found a way to win and
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Speaker 3: you know, you carry that into a Thursday's game.
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Speaker 4: Any final thoughts, key takeaways from you, buddy?
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: First of all, uh, the score of the first goal,
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Speaker 3: I'll take it every time. The Kraken have scored the
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Speaker 3: first goal for the last five games that got things going.
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Speaker 3: That was the Sam Miskevich goal back in the first period. Uh,
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Speaker 3: we talked about blue line scoring Montour and Evans with
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Speaker 3: two goals tonight as well. And, uh, There are only
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Speaker 3: two players that have played six or more games this
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Speaker 3: year that still have zeros in the goal column. And
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Speaker 3: it comes from the blue line. So I'm looking at you,
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Speaker 3: Adam Larson and Josh Mara. And then the last thought is, yeah,
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Speaker 3: not the way you drew it up. And it never is.
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Speaker 3: You always have a plan going into a game, really.
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Speaker 3: Does that plan roll out the way you intended and
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Speaker 3: the guys adjusted and found a way to win? So
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Speaker 3: that was important. Mama K's three stars tonight. Third star
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Speaker 3: goes to Mackie Samuskiewicz. He had that first goal of
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Speaker 3: the game. Second star goes to Brandon Montour.
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Speaker 5: He had a goal.
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Speaker 3: He was plus two. Three shots on goal tonight for
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Speaker 12: And the crowd filing in here for this one after
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Speaker 8: Everett Al, thank you very much.
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Speaker 12: 3-0 lead, not enough to hold off Detroit in regulation,
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Speaker 12: but enough to get this one into overtime and into
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Speaker 12: a shootout where.
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Speaker 8: Bobby McMahon and.
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Speaker 12: Philip Grubauer ultimately helping take care of business. The Kraken
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Speaker 12: hold off the Red Wings in sweating-like fashion tonight. 4-3,
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Speaker 12: your final score as the Kraken sweep the season series
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Speaker 12: a shootout as Bobby McMahon got the go-ahead goal in
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Speaker 12: and the Kraken knock off the Red Wings 4-3, the
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Speaker 12: final in a shootout to sweep the regular season series.
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Speaker 12: for the first time since 2022 and 23. They get
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Speaker 12: some depth as far as scoring up front and also
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Speaker 12: on their back end. Grubauer looking sharp early on, but
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Speaker 12: also take a lesson learned maybe as far as closing
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Speaker 12: out games as this one could have been over by
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Speaker 12: the end of regulation, but the Kraken eventually pick up
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Speaker 12: the victory here via the shootout. Their record now 6-3-1
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Speaker 12: with 13 points on the campaign and against Detroit, improve
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Speaker 12: their record to 6-3-3. The Red Wings fall to threes
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Speaker 12: across the board. Three wins, three losses, three going into
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Speaker 12: a shootout. They have now nine points on the season,
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Speaker 12: Well the Kraken had a vision on starting hot out
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Speaker 12: of the gates. Mackie Samuskevich had this look as far
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Speaker 12: as the box to check off. A little over six
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Speaker 12: minutes into period one.
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Speaker 5: And now the Kraken are back in.
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Speaker 8: Here comes Stevenson.
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Speaker 4: Hands it off. Samuskevich fires.
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Speaker 19: Scores!
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Speaker 2: It's the return of the Mack!
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Speaker 4: Macky Samuels-Skevich back home in Seattle on the Kraken. have
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Speaker 4: a 1-0 lead, 13-15 to play in the first.
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Speaker 3: A great zone exit, we talk a lot about first passes,
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Speaker 3: this time out of the zone it's that first pass
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Speaker 3: goes right to Chandler Stephenson, gets down that left side,
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Speaker 3: he's got Samiskiewicz trailing behind him, leaves a nice drop
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Speaker 3: pass to him, creates some interference with the defensemen of Detroit,
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Speaker 3: Samiskiewicz has lots of time to put this one home,
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Speaker 3: blocker side, 1-0 Seattle.
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Speaker 12: Well, after a quiet run recently for the top six
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Speaker 12: and a switch in the line combinations, apparently it paid
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Speaker 12: off at 645 as Mackie Samaskevich with his new line
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Speaker 12: mates helped chip in for a 1-0 lead. And a
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Speaker 12: nifty player, Samaskevich, was able to dart his way into
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Speaker 12: the middle and use a screen, beating Daniil Tarasov for
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Speaker 12: his fourth goal of the season, getting him out of
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Speaker 12: a four-game goal-scoring drought. Samaskevich getting his fourth goal from
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Speaker 12: Chandler Stevenson. Made it, 1-0 Kraken, and the early return
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Speaker 12: showed that they were dialed in from the get-go, out
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Speaker 12: shooting the Red Wings 9-7 in the first 20 minutes
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Speaker 12: of this game. The Kraken then with a great chance
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Speaker 12: to open things up further as they went to a
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Speaker 12: 5-on-3 after Detroit. Got a too-many-minute-on-the-ice penalty 34 seconds into
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Speaker 12: the game and then complicated their own matters when Axel
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Speaker 12: Sandin Pelika threw the puck over his own defensive zone glass.
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Speaker 12: That's a penalty, two minutes for delay of game. And
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Speaker 12: the Kraken falling short on the five-on-three, but what could
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Speaker 12: they do at five-on-four?
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Speaker 15: Perfect cat in the slot, hands it off, Riker Evans scores!
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Speaker 15: Riker Evans, all the time in the world, walks into
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Speaker 15: the high slot, bangs one in.
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Speaker 4: Bass tear us off, 2-0 Seattle.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if this will go down as a
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Speaker 3: power play goal partner, but it was a nice pass
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Speaker 3: under the corner to Riker Evans.
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Speaker 5: As you said, tons of time to.
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Speaker 3: Get his head up, pick his spot. He's got a
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Speaker 3: second of the year. The Kraken up their second of
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Speaker 3: the night. They're up 2-0.
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Speaker 12: Power play goal for the Kraken in three of the
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Speaker 12: last four meetings against.
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Speaker 8: The Red Wings.
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Speaker 12: Indeed put them out to a 2-0 lead. Riker Evans after...
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Speaker 12: A Detroit giveaway. Pop one right from the slot past Tarasov.
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Speaker 12: That's his second goal of the season coming at. 322
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Speaker 12: and a pretty important goal to give the Kraken some
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Speaker 12: breathing room at that point with Riker Evans on the
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Speaker 12: board to make it 2-0. But the Kraken trying to
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Speaker 12: not stop there as they got an offensive zone faceoff.
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Speaker 12: What could Berkeley Catton do to set up a very
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Speaker 12: important trigger man on the back end?
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Speaker 8: Gatton wins a face-off.
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Speaker 4: Montour scores!
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Speaker 14: A clean face-off win, left circle, and Brandon Montour steps
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Speaker 14: into a bomb from the high slot, and the Kraken
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Speaker 14: kick the field goal.
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Speaker 4: They're up 3-0 with 3.59 to play in the second.
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Speaker 3: Starts with a face-off win. Berkley Catten out to Brandon Montour.
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Speaker 3: A quick shot on net. Brandon Montour's got his first
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Speaker 3: of the year. Snapping it past Tarasov.
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Speaker 5: 3-0 Seattle.
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Speaker 12: Berkeley Catton again dropping more hints that his game continues
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Speaker 12: to improve each and every night. He went 5-9, by
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Speaker 12: the way, at the face-off circle. And that face-off win,
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Speaker 12: a pretty important one, setting up Brandon Montour at 16-01.
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Speaker 12: To get Montour on the board for his first goal
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Speaker 12: of the year. And that also lifting Catton to five
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Speaker 12: points last six games. Apparently the Kraken had this one
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Speaker 12: well in hand with a 3-0 lead. Brandon Montour from
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Speaker 12: Berkeley Catton. That going down at 16-01. And all the
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Speaker 12: Kraken had to do was play efficient hockey to close
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Speaker 12: out the Red Wings in the final 20 minutes. But
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Speaker 12: the Red Wings had different ideas. Victor Arvidsson got them
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Speaker 12: on the board from off the rush. He beat Phillip
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Speaker 12: Grubauer through his screen at 625 yards. Fourth on the
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Speaker 12: year from Finney and Johansen. And then Lucas Raymond, courtesy
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Speaker 12: of power play goal at 724, made it a one-goal
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Speaker 12: game as he stuffed a rebound blocker side of Grubauer
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Speaker 12: to Brinkett. And Larkin had the assist on the play.
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Speaker 12: The Kraken complicating their matters as well as Chandler Stephenson.
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Speaker 12: Mackie Samuskevich, Riker Evans, Brandon Montour. That should have been
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, listen, as much as you'd like every
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Speaker 12: I think we're going to kind of go through this
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Speaker 12: But we're going to get into, I think, a lesson
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Speaker 12: on their way, sometimes struggle with this. San Jose is
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Speaker 12: their broadcast side did, when they faced, guess who, the
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Speaker 12: but if I can kind of get to this theme,
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Speaker 12: I think, yeah, what we're looking at is that You're very,
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Speaker 12: I thought looked great in the opening minutes. Getting Brandon
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Speaker 12: collectively here with the entire defense, looked like they were
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Speaker 12: locked in and in lockstep first two periods. But then
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Speaker 12: out games because against the Red Wings, I use the
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it absolutely is.
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Speaker 3: And you know, this team's success has always come from
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Speaker 3: just not able to finish. I would have liked to
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Speaker 3: They needed both of these points. They took the long path.
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Speaker 5: To get them.
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Speaker 12: I think you raise a great point there because, again,
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Speaker 8: And they come up empty.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Listen, and one game doesn't tell the tale of the season, but,
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37:08
Speaker 5: Matty Beneers did as well.
37:10
Speaker 8: Beneers as well.
37:11
Speaker 12: And that, I think, helped them maybe get settled in,
37:14
Speaker 12: where you figure you don't get one pop right by
37:18
Speaker 12: you here in the first minute, two minutes, and things
37:20
Speaker 12: are going to be fine. You know, you've got a
37:22
Speaker 12: goalie back there to also take care of you. And
37:24
Speaker 12: by the way, Philip Grubauer, despite Three getting past him.
37:27
Speaker 12: I would argue not his fault here for tonight. But
37:29
Speaker 12: also on top of that, first period, two good looks early.
37:33
Speaker 12: You get Beneers with a two-on-one. Unfortunately, that goes by
37:36
Speaker 12: the wayside. And I kind of give credit. Ben Sherrod
37:38
Speaker 12: did a great job breaking that one up. But then
37:40
Speaker 12: also Chandler Stevenson, right circle. Eventually, something was going to happen,
37:46
Speaker 12: and Mackie Samuskevich made a very, very mature offensive play
37:49
Speaker 12: to make it 1-0.
37:50
Speaker 3: No, he absolutely did, and it was a great play
37:53
Speaker 3: by Chandler Stevenson to start it off because Chandler Stevenson's
37:56
Speaker 3: obviously got to drop the puck to him down that
37:58
Speaker 3: left side, but then you don't quit on that play.
38:01
Speaker 3: You still have a role to play, and Stevenson did
38:03
Speaker 3: it perfectly, whereas he keeps pushing forward to push those
38:06
Speaker 3: defensemen back. That defenseman can't get to Mackie Samuskivich. That
38:10
Speaker 3: gives Samuskivich time and space. He moves from left to right.
38:14
Speaker 3: He gets Tarasov moving. He puts it against the grain
38:17
Speaker 3: back in the corner.
38:18
Speaker 5: Great goal.
38:19
Speaker 12: Second thing I was looking out for here tonight was
38:22
Speaker 12: top six production. We got right back here to this.
38:25
Speaker 12: You get production out of one line. You get nothing
38:27
Speaker 12: here out of the other. So you go through a
38:31
Speaker 12: period of two to three games of trying to figure
38:35
Speaker 12: out where is this coming from.
38:36
Speaker 8: You maybe get frustrated as a coach here.
38:38
Speaker 12: But as you said, one game is not an ultimate result,
38:43
Speaker 12: ultimate end game make. So when you make a change
38:45
Speaker 12: like this, how long do you kind of ride this
38:48
Speaker 12: out before you almost kind of make too many changes
38:51
Speaker 12: here and you're effectively spinning your own wheels?
38:53
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, whenever you make a change to a line,
38:56
Speaker 3: a forward line, ideally you're keeping two guys together and
38:59
Speaker 3: you're only changing one piece of it. Because you like
39:02
Speaker 3: two guys that play as pairs together. You like the
39:04
Speaker 3: way they play. So the question then becomes, when you
39:07
Speaker 3: add that third player, does it make the whole better?
39:10
Speaker 3: And if it does, that's great. But sometimes it takes
39:12
Speaker 3: three or four games to really get an idea if
39:15
Speaker 3: that move was the right move. And it's still too
39:18
Speaker 3: early to tell at this point.
39:20
Speaker 12: The third thing I was looking out for tonight was
39:22
Speaker 12: the bottom six. And it looked like, again, that they
39:26
Speaker 12: were dialed in when they were deployed back in the
39:29
Speaker 12: first period. I think there's kind of a common theme
39:31
Speaker 12: here for this. Berkley Catton now has got five points
39:34
Speaker 12: in six games. It looks like that he's very comfortable, obviously,
39:38
Speaker 12: as a hockey player. But you put him even in
39:40
Speaker 12: the offensive zone. He's going to win you face-offs. He
39:43
Speaker 12: looked great, I thought, at the face-off circle. And he
39:45
Speaker 12: finds a way to set up what was ultimately a very,
39:48
Speaker 12: very important goal. But then you get to Freddie Goudreau's
39:51
Speaker 12: line as well. Ben Myers on the left wing and
39:54
Speaker 12: then Ryan Winterton as well on the right wing. Overall
39:58
Speaker 12: for tonight, even though you don't get a goal out
40:01
Speaker 12: of Goudreau, you don't get a goal or even a
40:03
Speaker 12: helper out of Ben Myers or Winterton, they play a
40:07
Speaker 12: different game as far as their role and their purpose.
40:10
Speaker 12: So where do we land at as far as the
40:12
Speaker 12: end result for them?
40:13
Speaker 3: Well, they're a checking line when they're not scoring, which
40:16
Speaker 3: is to say, Their primary objective is to go, especially
40:19
Speaker 3: at home, Mikey, to get matched up against lines that
40:23
Speaker 3: they can shut down. That's their primary objective is don't
40:26
Speaker 3: get scored on. Don't read me the plus minus. I
40:29
Speaker 3: don't want to know it, but I'm hoping they're at
40:31
Speaker 3: least on the neutral side. But regardless, that's their job.
40:34
Speaker 3: And if at the end of the night they're either neutral, zeros,
40:37
Speaker 3: or they're in the plus, they've done their job. Now
40:39
Speaker 3: if they start putting pucks in the net as well,
40:41
Speaker 3: now you're getting bonuses out of them. Now you're getting
40:44
Speaker 3: things that take pressure off the other three lines a
40:46
Speaker 3: little bit. And now you're getting the kind of guys
40:48
Speaker 3: that can help you get not just into the playoffs,
40:50
Speaker 3: but through the playoffs.
40:51
Speaker 12: Well, in case you ask, there are only two players
40:54
Speaker 12: who finish in the minus. That was Josh Mahura and
40:57
Speaker 12: that was Ville Odovainen. Everything else was even or plus.
41:01
Speaker 3: So three goals scored on each side. Yeah, there was,
41:04
Speaker 3: I think, two power play goals for Detroit. But they're
41:09
Speaker 3: not minus. So box checked. They did not hurt you
41:14
Speaker 3: defensively in your own end of the ice. But where
41:16
Speaker 3: they really become effective is when they can help you
41:19
Speaker 3: offensively as well.
41:20
Speaker 5: And over that road trip, they were doing it night
41:22
Speaker 5: in and night out.
41:23
Speaker 12: As we said earlier, two things can be true about
41:26
Speaker 12: how you measure and evaluate this game. We got to
41:29
Speaker 12: a lot of the good stuff here. Now, the ultimate
41:32
Speaker 12: burning question is how do you close out games like this?
41:38
Speaker 12: Detroit's good, but it requires a little bit more than
41:40
Speaker 12: just looking at, well, they're good and they're skilled.
41:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think I'd start by saying not
41:45
Speaker 3: taking three penalties in the third period. That's one way
41:47
Speaker 3: to close games out. Now, easy to say, difficult to
41:51
Speaker 3: do sometimes. But that's where Detroit started having success was
41:55
Speaker 3: two power play goals tonight. They've got a lot of
41:58
Speaker 3: talent on that bench that can put pucks in the net,
42:00
Speaker 3: especially when they're a man up on you. So Seattle
42:03
Speaker 3: gave them just too many chances on their power play tonight.
42:06
Speaker 3: I think that was a big reason for not just
42:09
Speaker 3: the third period, but for Detroit. been in the game
42:12
Speaker 3: for a lot of the night.
42:13
Speaker 12: The difference for me between period two and period three,
42:18
Speaker 12: and again, the Kraken had a 13 to four edge
42:21
Speaker 12: in shots over the Red Wings, but it really requires
42:24
Speaker 12: more than just looking into shots on goal. We saw
42:27
Speaker 12: Detroit give a pretty healthy push. Middle of period two,
42:31
Speaker 12: but it really didn't look and feel like the Kraken
42:35
Speaker 12: were scrambling, that they were panicking. Once Victor Arvidsson scored
42:39
Speaker 12: in period three, You had a lot of puck watching.
42:42
Speaker 12: You had a lot of scrambling. And you almost kind
42:45
Speaker 12: of had a sense where, you know, how many guys were,
42:48
Speaker 12: I don't know, but a sense of being mentally locked up.
42:51
Speaker 12: It was almost as if you're playing to avoid losing
42:56
Speaker 12: a game rather than trying to play to try to
42:58
Speaker 12: land a knockout blow and get two points.
43:00
Speaker 4: Sure.
43:01
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, when there's a zero up on the board,
43:03
Speaker 3: you have a dam that's holding back water. And as
43:06
Speaker 3: soon as there's a crack in that dam, that first goal,
43:09
Speaker 3: It's hard to stop the crack from spreading. And if
43:12
Speaker 3: you're the team that's trying to get back like Detroit
43:14
Speaker 3: was tonight, as soon as you break that zero, you
43:16
Speaker 3: get momentum. You feel like, hey, this Grubauer guy, he's
43:19
Speaker 3: not standing on his head tonight. He can be beat.
43:22
Speaker 3: And you continue that onslaught of pucks to the net,
43:25
Speaker 3: which Detroit is known for a lot of shot attempts.
43:27
Speaker 3: You start to have a lot more confidence. And you
43:29
Speaker 3: could see that building in the third period as they
43:32
Speaker 3: started to get more and more attempts defensively. And finding
43:34
Speaker 3: the back of the net, they felt like they couldn't
43:36
Speaker 3: be stopped.
43:36
Speaker 12: We're going to get to your reaction again. 49451 Tacoma
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Speaker 12: Dash text line coming up in just a bit. Plus
43:41
Speaker 12: also reaction from Lane Lambert a little bit later on here. But, Al,
43:45
Speaker 12: you bring the penalties up. I thought it was great
43:47
Speaker 12: because when you get into period three and a closeout situation, well,
43:51
Speaker 12: the rule of thumb is just stay out of the box, period.
43:54
Speaker 12: But you and Everett brought back up in period three.
43:58
Speaker 12: The roughing penalty to Chandler Stevenson at 1835. Now, difference
44:03
Speaker 12: here for me, and Lane Lambert has hinted at this,
44:06
Speaker 12: he's fine with the rough stuff. It's the stick fouls.
44:10
Speaker 12: It's the slow feet fouls that are inexcusable. But calling
44:14
Speaker 12: a roughing penalty like that late in the game, do
44:17
Speaker 12: we look at it differently now than, say, versus 25
44:20
Speaker 12: minutes ago?
44:20
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, listen, referees would tell you they don't
44:23
Speaker 5: look at it differently. A penalty is a penalty.
44:26
Speaker 3: I think I would look at most games and look
44:29
Speaker 3: at the last two minutes of those games and rarely
44:31
Speaker 3: see single roughing penalties. Now, you might get two guys
44:35
Speaker 3: that battle in the corner. They both go for roughing penalties.
44:37
Speaker 3: That's different. But to send one guy to the box
44:40
Speaker 3: with two minutes left in the game as a rough,
44:43
Speaker 3: I want to see a hook, a right hook to
44:47
Speaker 3: the head. And in that case, it was Chandler Stevenson.
44:50
Speaker 3: just in a hand battle where he pushed off the
44:53
Speaker 3: Red Wing player. Yeah, it was in the back of
44:55
Speaker 3: the helmet, but it was a push-off. It's a 50-50 call.
44:59
Speaker 3: In the last two minutes of the game, I'm surprised
45:02
Speaker 3: that that call was made.
45:03
Speaker 12: Now, I think also on top of that, you want
45:05
Speaker 12: to look back at, well, don't put yourself in position
45:07
Speaker 12: to get like that. So, I mean, this game began
45:09
Speaker 12: to unravel. I mean, let's just be fair and honest here.
45:12
Speaker 12: It was unraveling a lot more before that. And then
45:14
Speaker 12: you still had a chance to kill this game off
45:17
Speaker 12: and you can't fumble the puck back in your own
45:19
Speaker 12: zone last minute.
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Speaker 5: No, no, you can't. And there were other mistakes made
45:23
Speaker 5: at that point. That was just one of a few.
45:26
Speaker 12: Again, 49-451, Tacoma Dodge text line. Let's get to some
45:29
Speaker 12: reaction right now. And from the 406 asking, what do
45:32
Speaker 12: you think about putting Freddie Gaudreau here on the first line?
45:35
Speaker 12: Phillip Grubauer is on fire as well. That from the 406.
45:38
Speaker 12: I look at what Lane Lambert said earlier today, and
45:42
Speaker 12: I'm going to kind of keep like a running tab
45:44
Speaker 12: of what he says here in, you know, Media scrums, one-on-ones,
45:48
Speaker 12: because it's absolute golden. To kind of paraphrase this, some
45:54
Speaker 12: guys are in the right seat on the bus. That's
45:57
Speaker 12: in reference to the Catton line and the Gaudreau line.
46:00
Speaker 12: I mean, yes, he's your leading goal scorer, Freddie Gaudreau,
46:04
Speaker 12: but I don't think you want to rob Peter here
46:06
Speaker 12: to pay Paul, so to speak, to move him up,
46:08
Speaker 12: and that basically blows up the entire scheme.
46:11
Speaker 5: No, I don't think so. I think that you want to.
46:16
Speaker 3: You want to encourage that scoring whenever you can without
46:20
Speaker 3: disrupting other areas of the ice.
46:22
Speaker 5: And if Freddie Goudreau is your number one scorer, that's great.
46:25
Speaker 5: I love Freddie Goudreau. I love the role he plays.
46:28
Speaker 5: He shouldn't be the number one scorer on this team.
46:30
Speaker 3: Now, I don't believe he will be, but you've got
46:33
Speaker 3: to start getting numbers going from your top six.
46:36
Speaker 12: 206 saying frustrated as a Kraken had to close out
46:39
Speaker 12: a game like that and not let the other team
46:41
Speaker 12: back in, but also said the officiating had two mystery calls.
46:46
Speaker 12: That from the 206. 425 saying happy. The Kraken were
46:49
Speaker 12: able to get the full two points, but it shouldn't
46:51
Speaker 12: have gone to a shootout even with soft penalties. The
46:54
Speaker 12: lack of closing in on the third is concerning at
46:57
Speaker 12: this point.
46:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they're right.
47:01
Speaker 3: Is it concerning at this point? It's always concerning. I
47:05
Speaker 3: don't care what time of the year it is. You
47:07
Speaker 3: need to be able to close out games. Did the
47:09
Speaker 3: Kraken close it out? Yeah, they got the two points.
47:12
Speaker 3: They gave up a point. As Everett said, if you're
47:14
Speaker 3: going to give one up, why not give one.
47:15
Speaker 5: Up to the Eastern Conference team? It doesn't hurt you.
47:18
Speaker 3: So you'd like to see that get closed out in regulation, though,
47:21
Speaker 3: against Western Conference teams.
47:23
Speaker 12: 4-2-5, saying the Kraken facing a little adversity, yet got
47:27
Speaker 12: it done. We'll take the two points and just looking
47:29
Speaker 12: for an increase here in energy and an increase in
47:31
Speaker 12: the physical side against Utah coming up. Spoiler alert, we're
47:35
Speaker 12: going to get to Utah because they are rolling right
47:37
Speaker 12: now to begin this season.
47:39
Speaker 8: That from the 4-2-5.
47:41
Speaker 12: 2-5-3, you never, ever play not to lose. You always
47:45
Speaker 12: play to win. That basically is the theme of this
47:47
Speaker 12: one here from the 2-5-3. Once again, Kraken goals, Mackie Samaskevich,
47:53
Speaker 12: Riker Evans, Brandon Montour, enough to guarantee overtime, but Detroit
47:58
Speaker 12: forcing overtime. Victor Arvidson, Lucas Raymond, Alex Dabrinkit, all in
48:03
Speaker 12: period three of the Kraken, though.
48:05
Speaker 8: Prevail 4-3 in a shootout. Lane Lambert, yes.
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Speaker 12: Reaction from head coach Lane Lambert right around the corner
48:13
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48:16
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Speaker 8: Are you elated? Are you relieved? Or are you.
48:42
Speaker 12: Concerned there is still more time to get your reaction in?
48:45
Speaker 8: 49451 Tacoma Dodge text line.
48:48
Speaker 12: The Kraken get enough to get a 4-3 shootout win
48:51
Speaker 12: over the Red Wings. Despite holding a 3-0 lead in
48:54
Speaker 12: period three, they survive a three-goal rush by Detroit to
48:58
Speaker 12: force overtime. Eventually, Phillip Grubauer stopping Dylan Larkin to close
49:03
Speaker 12: things out. All right, without further ado, again, Mike Benton,
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Speaker 12: Al Koniski back at Tom's Wash Bar. Back across the
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Speaker 12: street we go. Downstairs for more reaction now with Kraken
49:11
Speaker 12: head coach Lane Lambert. Lane, we talked recently about consistency,
49:16
Speaker 12: and tonight I think for two periods you guys had it, third.
49:18
Speaker 8: Period did you lose it?
49:20
Speaker 18: What happened there in the third period? I don't know
49:23
Speaker 18: that we necessarily you know it comes off and appears
49:26
Speaker 18: that we lost it but to be honest with you
49:29
Speaker 18: I thought our start was great in the third period.
49:31
Speaker 18: We had two or three chances to make it 4-0
49:35
Speaker 18: and I thought we were on our toes and then
49:40
Speaker 18: We ran into a little bit of penalty trouble and,
49:43
Speaker 18: you know, turned a little bit on a dime. We
49:45
Speaker 18: made a mistake through the neutral zone on their first goal,
49:50
Speaker 18: you know, which gave them some momentum and gave them
49:52
Speaker 18: some life, clearly. And then ran ourselves into penalty trouble.
49:57
Speaker 18: I didn't agree with the penalties that were called and
50:02
Speaker 18: put us on our heels. So I think I'm pretty
50:06
Speaker 18: happy with, obviously, the result. and I'm pretty happy with
50:10
Speaker 18: most of the game. You know, you can't control certain
50:15
Speaker 18: things that happen, bounces and this and that, and certainly,
50:18
Speaker 18: you know, when they have a face-off six on five
50:21
Speaker 18: and they're holding our guy up, clearly interfering with him,
50:25
Speaker 18: and our guy's trying to get out there, and we
50:26
Speaker 18: end up in the penalty box, it's kind of astonishing
50:30
Speaker 18: to me. So, you know, I think we ran into
50:32
Speaker 18: penalty troubles, and that kind of put us on our heels,
50:36
Speaker 18: but overall, I thought we played very well, and we're uh,
50:40
Speaker 18: really focused for, um, first game back off a road trip.
50:44
Speaker 23: Are you referencing the Stevenson penalty there?
50:46
Speaker 3: I am.
50:46
Speaker 2: Yeah.
50:47
Speaker 8: Um, the, you mentioned also you were looking.
50:49
Speaker 23: For a spark from your top two lines. Did you
50:51
Speaker 23: see that tonight?
50:52
Speaker 18: Yeah, I started, uh, you know, obviously, uh, made a
50:54
Speaker 18: little switch there with the top two lines, switched, uh,
50:58
Speaker 18: switched Mackey and Ebbs. And I thought, uh, you know, Mackey,
51:01
Speaker 18: Mackey had a good night. Uh, certainly I thought Chandler
51:04
Speaker 18: played well. I thought he was skating, um, made some
51:07
Speaker 18: good plays and, um, So those guys got us on
51:11
Speaker 18: the board for sure, and it was good to see.
51:16
Speaker 19: Coach, I believe Brandon Montour was the 12th different Kraken
51:21
Speaker 19: skater to score for your team, and I believe only
51:26
Speaker 19: Vegas has that many different goal scorers. I'm sure that
51:32
Speaker 19: jives with your wanting everybody pulling on the rope.
51:37
Speaker 18: Yeah, no, it's we, you know, everybody matters in our
51:43
Speaker 18: locker room, no matter what your role, what your job is.
51:47
Speaker 18: And we have to have a complete team effort in
51:49
Speaker 18: order for us to have success. So it's nice to
51:53
Speaker 18: see contributions from everybody for sure.
51:58
Speaker 23: Lane, in the room, Brandon told us that there's been
52:00
Speaker 23: a greater focus on shootouts for you guys this year
52:03
Speaker 23: and the effort that you guys want to put into them.
52:05
Speaker 23: To see a couple wins come out of that area
52:07
Speaker 23: for you so far this season, both with how groovy
52:10
Speaker 23: it's been in those moments, but then on the goal
52:12
Speaker 23: scoring side too, what have you liked about the shootout
52:14
Speaker 23: and what's gone into the decision to maybe put a
52:16
Speaker 23: little bit more emphasis there?
52:17
Speaker 18: Well, certainly we didn't have as much success last season
52:24
Speaker 18: as we wanted to. These are huge points to.
52:26
Speaker 4: Be able to earn.
52:29
Speaker 18: And it wasn't like we didn't work on it last
52:32
Speaker 18: year either, but I think our goalie coach, when you
52:36
Speaker 18: look at it, he did a really good job calling
52:38
Speaker 18: Zuliano and putting together a presentation. Spent a lot of
52:42
Speaker 18: time doing it over the summer and really put together
52:47
Speaker 18: a good presentation, and I know guys work on it
52:50
Speaker 18: in practice. Our e-bug... I think he, I don't know,
52:55
Speaker 18: one day he took about 150 penalty shots. He probably
52:57
Speaker 18: couldn't even move anymore, but guys are working on it, right? And,
53:04
Speaker 18: you know, in order to understand, and I think it
53:07
Speaker 18: was beneficial for our guys to see it from a
53:11
Speaker 18: goaltender's perspective, our goalie coach's perspective, and we've been executing
53:17
Speaker 18: on some of the things that he's come up with,
53:19
Speaker 18: and obviously, you know, Gruby's played.
53:21
Speaker 4: Well in the.
53:23
Speaker 8: That's head coach Lane Lambert.
53:24
Speaker 12: And before we get to more reaction on the meat
53:26
Speaker 12: of this game here, I have tried to play goaltender
53:29
Speaker 12: before at the professional level.
53:31
Speaker 8: It was an optional skate.
53:34
Speaker 12: It was an optional skate back in the East Coast
53:36
Speaker 12: Hockey League days of the Stockton Thunder. Keep in mind,
53:40
Speaker 12: I faced maybe 25, 30 shots on that. I even
53:43
Speaker 12: faced Al McInnes' son, Aaron McInnes, who can let it fly. 25,
53:47
Speaker 12: 30 shots.
53:49
Speaker 8: I woke up next day and couldn't move.
53:51
Speaker 3: 150!
53:52
Speaker 12: Al, I don't know what to say.
53:56
Speaker 3: I mean, Lane Lambert giving props to his e-bug, Dolan Gilbert. Listen,
54:01
Speaker 3: this is a kid that quietly shows up to every practice.
54:05
Speaker 5: He's the last goalie off the ice.
54:08
Speaker 3: He fills in for morning skates when maybe the starting
54:11
Speaker 3: goaltender doesn't want to go or doesn't want to stay
54:13
Speaker 3: up for the whole morning skate. When Joey Decord or
54:18
Speaker 3: Phillip Gruber maybe need some time off he fills in
54:22
Speaker 3: he's at every single skate and I tell you quietly
54:25
Speaker 3: says nothing about it and does his job.
54:28
Speaker 12: Prior to Michigan State and those crispy white and green
54:31
Speaker 12: pads and gear still shines on through again that reaction
54:34
Speaker 12: from head coach Lane Lambert before we get out of
54:36
Speaker 12: here I thought a very very important thing that Lane
54:39
Speaker 12: Lambert said and I think a different direction maybe as
54:42
Speaker 12: far as how a lot of you know reaction that's
54:45
Speaker 12: pouring in right now is feeling about this game there
54:48
Speaker 12: is I don't want to say that the Kraken are
54:51
Speaker 12: in a fragile state here. But I thought it was very,
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Speaker 12: you know, it was a very interesting route that he
54:57
Speaker 12: took to show that, you know what, five-on-five play, okay.
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Speaker 12: I'm fine with it that this team had a rough
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Speaker 12: ride maybe last couple of games. To get a win
55:04
Speaker 12: was very important for them because it's important to be
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Speaker 12: in the right kind of frame of mind once you
55:09
Speaker 12: go back in for what's going to be not just
55:11
Speaker 12: one but two tough games coming up on Thursday and Saturday.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 3: And, you know what, Two-point wins are no different than goals.
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Speaker 3: They don't ask how, they just ask how many. And
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Speaker 3: at the end of the season, you're going to look
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Speaker 3: at that column and say, did they get enough wins,
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Speaker 3: enough two-point games to get themselves into the playoffs? And
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Speaker 3: as much as you'd like to see a blowout 4-0
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Speaker 3: win against a team like Detroit that's struggling, you've still
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Speaker 3: got the two points, so that's all that matters.
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Speaker 12: I thought it was interesting with the route he took.
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Speaker 12: I think he thought... Also, what we thought about the penalties.
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Speaker 19: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: And you just have to brush them off.
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Speaker 3: At least the Chandler-Stevenson one. Everett and I scratched our
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Speaker 3: heads on that one. You watch the replay, two guys
55:51
Speaker 3: just in a hand battle with a little shove at
55:53
Speaker 3: the end by Stevenson.
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Speaker 8: It won't get called again.
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Speaker 5: Again. Likely.
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Speaker 3: First period, second period, maybe it gets called. But last
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Speaker 3: two minutes of a tight game, I was really surprised.
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Speaker 12: I thought also very important to point out the shootout
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Speaker 12: because we often kind of just brush aside. It's not
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Speaker 12: a very, very– important part of the game as far
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Speaker 12: as the fundamentals. It's a mechanism here to close out
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Speaker 12: a game that's at a stalemate following overtime. But there
56:20
Speaker 12: is something to be said of how much this team
56:23
Speaker 12: has struggled, maybe, in the shootout. And you're finding more
56:26
Speaker 12: and more guys who are performing with confidence. And that begins,
56:29
Speaker 12: of course, with your goaltender, where Grubauer once again looked fantastic.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, listen, you can talk a lot about
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Speaker 3: the guys that got it done at the offensive end
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Speaker 3: of the ice, putting the puck in the net. It was...
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Speaker 3: It was Bobby McMahon with the game winner and Freddie
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Speaker 3: Goudreau that scored also. Both of those guys have worked
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Speaker 3: on their shootouts, but it doesn't matter if they score,
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Speaker 3: if Philip Grubauer doesn't do his job at the other
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Speaker 3: end as well. So, yeah, Bobby McMahon got the first
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Speaker 3: story of the game, but you could also give that
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Speaker 3: to Philip Grubauer for getting it done at the other end.
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Speaker 8: So, up next Thursday, the Utah Mammoth.
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Speaker 12: No surprise, they are 7-3, first 10 games, playing under
57:09
Speaker 12: Heightened expectations this season as it'll be right now a
57:14
Speaker 12: year where they're trying to even find more out of
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Speaker 12: Clayton Keller. 88-point year he had last year. Dylan Gunther
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Speaker 12: hitting 40 goals. Logan Cooley in the injury-shortened campaign. 43-54,
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Speaker 12: and yet they add Anders Lee and Vincent Trocek as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and let's not forget one of the heavyweight bouts
57:29
Speaker 3: of the year with McBain and Frederick from the Edmonton
57:32
Speaker 3: Oilers going toe-to-toe the other night.
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Speaker 5: That was a good one.
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Speaker 3: Look it up if you didn't see it, but Yeah,
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Speaker 3: those boys are coming to town Thursday, and it's going
57:40
Speaker 3: to be a tougher test than this test was tonight, Mike.
57:42
Speaker 3: And again, you don't want to say that Seattle played
57:45
Speaker 3: down to Detroit, but this test on Thursday is going
57:48
Speaker 3: to require a bigger effort than what you saw tonight.
57:51
Speaker 3: And we've seen this team do it. They can rise
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Speaker 3: to the occasion. I'd like to see them play hard
57:57
Speaker 3: against this Utah Mammoth team.
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Speaker 12: They will have to slow down a Utah team that
58:00
Speaker 12: scored 17 goals against them last year in three games,
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Speaker 12: and the Kraken trying to end a four-game series winning
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Speaker 12: streak here by.
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Speaker 8: Utah in the head-to-head series.
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Speaker 12: Again, Thursday, national TV game, only local source of coverage
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Speaker 12: right back here. Two teams, again, we'll meet in Utah
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Speaker 12: the 19th of February and right back here in Seattle
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Speaker 12: on March 30th. Again, face-off Thursdays at 7. airtime at 630.
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Speaker 12: Hope that you can certainly join us. That will do
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Speaker 12: it for here. Once again, big thanks to Travis Moger,
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Speaker 12: Technical Director, Terry Ryan, our on-site engineer, and for Al Koniski,
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Speaker 12: this is Mike Benton saying goodnight from Tom's Watch Bar
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Speaker 8: Thank you for joining us.
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Speaker 12: Your final score, once again, in a shootout, the Kraken
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