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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Kakko, Tolvanen react to Global Series, Larsson hits 1,000 (3/23) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Kraken This Morning, a presentation of the Kraken
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Speaker 1: Audio Network, Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.
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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.
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Speaker 2: A three prong version of Kracken This Morning coming your
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Speaker 2: way on a Tuesday, March twenty fourth, Mike Benton with
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Speaker 2: you as a crack and gets set to take on
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Speaker 2: the Florida Panthers. It will be the second and final
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Speaker 2: matchup of the regular season series coming up. Can the
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Speaker 2: Kraken make Amrabank Arena finally a place to turn their
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Speaker 2: road trip around? They are out to an zero to
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Speaker 2: two start, coming off a defeat to the Columbus Blue
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Speaker 2: Jackets when would give them a regular season sweep over
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Speaker 2: Florida and four wins in five games in the Sunshine States.
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Speaker 2: Pretty busy matters going on here for the last couple
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Speaker 2: of days. First off, we will hear from forward Zelly
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Speaker 2: Tulvenen and Coppocaco big news surrounding their potential homecoming next
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Speaker 2: year in Finland, when the Kraken will play two games
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Speaker 2: in Helsinki as part of the NHL Global Series and
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Speaker 2: for Coaco and Tolvenen a great chance to showcase their
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Speaker 2: best in their own home country in a two game
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Speaker 2: series coming up next November against the Carolina Hurricanes. Additionally,
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Speaker 2: defenseman Adam Larson set to playing game number one thousand
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Speaker 2: of his NHL career coming up this evening, and we'll
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Speaker 2: talk more with Larson in our latest Meet the Kraken series,
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Speaker 2: including his transition into life as a father and also
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Speaker 2: experience picked up from this last summer as part of
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Speaker 2: the World Championships. Adam Larson approaching game one thousand here
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Speaker 2: for this evening, we'll dive into more of the player
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Speaker 2: and the human being off the ice, and our latest
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Speaker 2: Meet the Kraken series coming up in just a bit,
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Speaker 2: recapping matters first off back on Saturday. Not exactly as
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Speaker 2: planned out of the gate and the sluggish dark cost
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Speaker 2: the Kraken, dearly falling behind three to nothing, eventually a
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Speaker 2: hole too deep to climb out of as they fell
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Speaker 2: five two to the Columbus Blue Jackets and their second
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Speaker 2: and final matchup at Nationwide Arena, Danton Heinen Damon Severs
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Speaker 2: said Matthew Olivier Eave scored in the first fifteen minutes
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Speaker 2: and sixteen seconds of the contest. Vince Dunn got the
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Speaker 2: Kraken on the board. One oh one later, Coppocaco added
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Speaker 2: a power play goal, but the Blue Jackets sped away
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Speaker 2: after that, Kent Johnson's scoring at nine thirty three a
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Speaker 2: period two, and Cole Sillinger wrapped matters up with an
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Speaker 2: empty net goal, and the Kraken right now facing a
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Speaker 2: hole that has gotten a bit deeper now and they're
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Speaker 2: deficit to catch the second wildcard spot in the Western
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Speaker 2: Conference playoff race. They stand four points back of the
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Speaker 2: Nashville Predators and two points back as well of the
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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Kings. After that, the Kraken spending two days
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Speaker 2: off in Florida. All around that, on Monday, the ownership
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Speaker 2: group of the Kraken, led by Samantha Holloway, announcing a
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Speaker 2: brand new parent brand overseeing the Seattle Kraken Climate Pledgarina
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Speaker 2: One Roof Foundation, Cracken Community ice Plex, the partnership with
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Speaker 2: the City of Seattle and Seattle Public Schools. Of course,
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Speaker 2: in the redevelopment process here of new Memorial Stadium at
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Speaker 2: Seattle Center, and of course the enterprise's interest in the
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Speaker 2: American Hockey leagues Coachella Valley Firebirds and Accrasure Arena. The
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Speaker 2: Umbrella Company will be called One roof Sports and Entertainment.
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Speaker 2: In a statement Monday, One Room Sports and Entertainment announcing
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Speaker 2: the agreement is on a quote pre planned ownership transition
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Speaker 2: designed to enable the pursuit of future opportunities end quote.
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Speaker 2: All the way saying in a statement, quote, increasing our
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Speaker 2: ownership in Climate Pledge arena allows us to consolidate operations
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Speaker 2: and sets us up for future opportunities end quotes. More
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Speaker 2: info on this, by the way at one roofs dot com.
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Speaker 2: With this going down, also the crack And making plans
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Speaker 2: for a global experience the team in the NHL, announcing
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Speaker 2: early Monday morning, the crack And will take on the
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Speaker 2: Carolina Hurricanes for two games next season in Finland as
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Speaker 2: part of the NHL Globals Series, going down in Helsinki
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Speaker 2: November twelfth and fourteenth at the famed Vecas Arena. It
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Speaker 2: will certainly be a magical, memorable and emotional homecoming for
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Speaker 2: Coppocaco and assuming these days after his contract year, Elie Toulvenen,
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Speaker 2: along with players such as Sebastian Ajo and Yesperry Coconaemi
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Speaker 2: on the Hurricanes and don't forget potential prospects could be
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Speaker 2: breaking through among those here from Coachella Valley Yonnie Newman.
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Speaker 2: So plenty of potentially loaded storylines coming up here for
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Speaker 2: this first ever trip of the Kraken overseas into European
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Speaker 2: in front of a new global audience coming up here
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Speaker 2: for the NHL Global Series, which has been to parts
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Speaker 2: such as Germany, Chechia, Sweden and much more. Certainly an
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Speaker 2: amazing opportunity for the Kraken, the Hurricanes, and the NHL
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Speaker 2: to expand the game's footprint to places where they don't
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Speaker 2: get to see much NHL hockey on a live basis. Well,
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Speaker 2: it was got out and the Kraken reacted Monday in Florida,
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Speaker 2: beginning before Coppo Coco meeting with the media.
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Speaker 3: First time there for me with the with the you know,
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Speaker 3: playing here, so it's it's gonna be nice, I mean
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Speaker 3: playing in front of my family and friends. So it's
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Speaker 3: always nice to go back there.
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Speaker 4: Did you ever have the chance to watch a game
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Speaker 4: like that when you were growing up at all?
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Speaker 3: I mean I was, I was never I got there
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Speaker 3: are and I'm in from TV about I mean, never
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Speaker 3: never been there. So so I mean now playing it's
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Speaker 3: it's gonna be more fun. But uh, Yeah, what do
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Speaker 3: you think.
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Speaker 4: It means to the community and kind of the hockey
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Speaker 4: culture there to have the NHL make this a priority.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a it's a big one over there.
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Speaker 3: You know, they they love hockey. I mean it's kind
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Speaker 3: of hard to watch NHL because the time difference, so
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Speaker 3: I mean it's it's easier, and it's it's you know, nice,
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Speaker 3: nice over there.
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Speaker 5: Hockey culture. Just how big is that hockey culture in Finland?
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Speaker 5: And when you were growing up, who are you watching
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Speaker 5: and trying to emulate your game after?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I woulday from the same city with him,
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Speaker 3: and then I mean I was always looking looking him,
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Speaker 3: and I mean ron T didn't play there, He's he's
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Speaker 3: a couple of years older about it. I mean he
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Speaker 3: was kind of playing in the in the team where
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Speaker 3: where I played also, so that was nice to watch him.
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Speaker 3: And I mean it's it's a you know, big thing.
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Speaker 3: A lot of a lot of people like likes hockey
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Speaker 3: over there. I mean the national team, those those games
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Speaker 3: are big, always in the end of the season, so
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Speaker 3: I think they're gonna love it.
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Speaker 4: I know you're obviously not from Helsinki, but what are
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Speaker 4: you kind of excited to show your teammates like kind
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Speaker 4: of experience with them and get them all all there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean money, Money is asking me all the
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Speaker 3: time what are we going to do out there? So
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Speaker 3: I got to set something up. I mean all of
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Speaker 3: it is from there, so he knows, he knows better.
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Speaker 3: And then I mean I've been there also, And then
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Speaker 3: I mean there's a lot of good restaurants there, so
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Speaker 3: a lot of things we can do, maybe a so
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Speaker 3: ona or something. So but I mean we still have
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Speaker 3: a lot of time to set something up.
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Speaker 4: Guys, got one more for you really quick. On Lars
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Speaker 4: obviously his one thousandth game tomorrow. What's it been like
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Speaker 4: for you to kind of come into this team and
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Speaker 4: get to know him and kind of see his game
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Speaker 4: now he handles himself over the last two years.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, great guy, Crede guy was it's been It's been
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Speaker 3: fun with him. I mean it was always hard to
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Speaker 3: play against him. He's a pretty good player. I mean
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Speaker 3: thousand games, you need, you need, you got to be
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Speaker 3: good to do that. So there's not not too many
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Speaker 3: players who can who can do it. Then, I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 3: like I said, funny, funny guy off the eyes, I
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Speaker 3: mean professional here, you know, like like you gotta do
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Speaker 3: something right to play a thousand games, so you know,
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Speaker 3: just try to follow him.
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Speaker 4: What do you notice about how he kind of takes
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Speaker 4: care of himself or prepares because he's only in vers
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Speaker 4: one game in this franchise history, Like, what do you
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Speaker 4: notice about how he makes that possible?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's taking taking care of like always
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Speaker 3: stretching off off the eyes, you know, and then he's
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Speaker 3: playing a lot also, you know, every game, so so
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Speaker 3: I mean looking at him, he's always like getting ready
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Speaker 3: for practice and then real pro I would say, so,
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Speaker 3: so yeah, just try to try to follow and see
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Speaker 3: what what he's doing to also play that many games.
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Speaker 2: You can basically mark it down as a once in
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Speaker 2: a lifetime experience, no exception here. To Elie Tulvanen in
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Speaker 2: his comments with the media on Monday, you know.
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Speaker 6: Dream of playing in ANHL game in Finland and have
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Speaker 6: family friends who are there, uh be able to play,
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Speaker 6: and he'll sink it too, it's a it's spiritual.
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Speaker 4: What is the like hockey culture like there? What do
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Speaker 4: you think the NHL going there will will.
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Speaker 5: Be like for the folks that live there.
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Speaker 6: Well, I think it's gonna be huge.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 6: I remember when I was looking at when I showed
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Speaker 6: those games. I think it's massive. Everybody. Everybody's really excited
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Speaker 6: about it. Yeah, I think hockey is uh, you know,
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Speaker 6: it's a big part of the culture and from them,
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Speaker 6: you know, they're really passionate about hockey players and the
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Speaker 6: national team. So you know, I think it's gonna be
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Speaker 6: really nice to go and uh, you know, be able
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Speaker 6: to play in front of finished people.
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Speaker 4: What is it the top of your priority list for
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Speaker 4: your teammates? Like, what do you think your teammates have
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Speaker 4: never been their need to.
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Speaker 6: Experience sami soup, Yeah, go to sauna. Yeah, this experienced
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Speaker 6: you know. Yeah, I think those are the biggest things.
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Speaker 7: And now different teams are going It seems like every
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Speaker 7: couple of years teams are going to hell Sanki or
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Speaker 7: we're I figured where the Panthers played last park Ops hometown.
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Speaker 7: But type, Yeah, to be able to go different teams,
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Speaker 7: it's good to spread the wilf a little bit, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: For sure.
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Speaker 6: You know, I think it's cool for you know, see
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Speaker 6: to do teams come in and of course Dampa, I know,
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Speaker 6: Florida and Dallas being there a lot of Finnish field players,
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Speaker 6: but you know it's it's I think it's nice to
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Speaker 6: see different teams too, and you know, got the opportunity
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Speaker 6: for the finish.
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Speaker 5: Players to go. There were some of the guys you
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Speaker 5: looked up to, uh you know when you were growing
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Speaker 5: up watching in the NHL. Now that you're here in
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Speaker 5: this league too.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well I remember when Anaheim played Team Masanu for sure.
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Speaker 6: You know, it's one of the biggest starts in Finnish hockey,
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Speaker 6: so you know he was one of them.
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Speaker 2: This isn't just for the players, coaches and staff. This
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Speaker 2: of course is going to be for the fans as well.
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Speaker 2: And the cool part about this and tour opportunities will
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Speaker 2: be coming, which will include flights, hotelccommodations, fan and player events,
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Speaker 2: sightseeing tours, and of course game tickets. AND's interested in
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Speaker 2: signing up can go to seattlecrackin dot com for more information.
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Speaker 2: Coming up the Crack and facing Florida for their second
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Speaker 2: game of the regular season series and looking to run
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Speaker 2: the table, which would be a big boost here for
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Speaker 2: two points right back in the direction of a playoff
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Speaker 2: Berth and the Kraken into Florida to celebrate a milestone
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Speaker 2: for the Big Cat. Adam Larson set to playing game
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Speaker 2: number one thousand of his NHL career, previously with New
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Speaker 2: Jersey Edmonton and now in his fifth season with the
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Speaker 2: Kraken on their blue line of fixture since the team's
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Speaker 2: expansion season back in twenty twenty one and twenty two.
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Speaker 2: But life has certainly in Shane since Larson was a
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Speaker 2: rookie back in twenty eleven and twelve with a New
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Speaker 2: Jersey team on their way to the Stanley Cup Final.
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Speaker 2: Larson and Wye Vera are parents to her daughter, Alba,
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Speaker 2: born nearly two years ago. When Larson ended his streak
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Speaker 2: of three hundred and forty three consecutive games in the
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Speaker 2: NHL lineup, certainly a good reason with family coming first.
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Speaker 2: And here's Larsen and I mee at the cracking conversation
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Speaker 2: beginning with the joys of fatherhood and at the stage
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Speaker 2: of his career, knowing certainly when to gear it up,
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Speaker 2: but when he leaves the ice, when to gear it down?
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Speaker 8: Easy to uh to leave howk at the rink? When
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Speaker 8: you when you get home and you kind of stop
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Speaker 8: thinking about it, when when you see her and see
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Speaker 8: your family. So on that aspect has changed a lot.
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Speaker 9: Als Alba as a sleeper these days.
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Speaker 8: She's good, she's good. Yeah, that's good news for everybody. Yeah,
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Speaker 8: a lot of things have happened throughout the summer, so yeah,
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Speaker 8: I would say, now it's it's going smooth.
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Speaker 9: So then, what's the best piece of advice that you
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Speaker 9: could give to any hockey player about to enter the
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Speaker 9: world of fatherhood.
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Speaker 8: Well, we're still in the in the early stage, or
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Speaker 8: probably past the non sleeping face, but now they begin
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Speaker 8: is always a grind, but it gets better and better,
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Speaker 8: and now it's it's awesome and I love every second
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Speaker 8: of it.
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Speaker 9: How far along are you to think of what kind
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Speaker 9: of teammates would make a good babysitter?
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Speaker 8: I don't know. I saw Donner in Cancatia this weekend,
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Speaker 8: so he looked pretty pre ready for it.
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Speaker 9: So dun's all set. If you can give me three
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Speaker 9: names that you would say, Okay, you've got all but
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Speaker 9: for a few hours, its date and night time for
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Speaker 9: the wifey and me. Who is most trustworthy?
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Speaker 8: Well, I would for sure say Ebbs because he has
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Speaker 8: three already.
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Speaker 9: He's a veteran more in more ways than one.
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Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, yeah, who else? Uh? Stevenson has has two,
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Speaker 8: so I would have to say him and I don't know.
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Speaker 8: I feel like Maddy would be a good entertainer for
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Speaker 8: for an hour and a half or something.
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Speaker 9: Personality.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 9: Let's go back a bit here. What's the best youth
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Speaker 9: hockey tournament that you ever played in?
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Speaker 8: Oh? Wow, we had a lot back home and I
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Speaker 8: don't know it was. We went on a lot of
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Speaker 8: fun places with the national team. I don't know if
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Speaker 8: that counts as a youth tournament. We went to one
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Speaker 8: under eighteen and Belarus was really fun.
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Speaker 9: That was the best part about the under eighteen experience, just.
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Speaker 8: Seeing all the players who played against growing up and
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Speaker 8: kind of or growing up, I would say just playing
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Speaker 8: against it was just like, yeah, you get to see
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Speaker 8: them and get to meet them, get to know them.
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Speaker 8: So it was a lot of fun to play with
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Speaker 8: the best.
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Speaker 9: Adam Larson with us right now, let's go back to
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Speaker 9: last season a bit. The consistency in your game, Adam
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Speaker 9: as a trademark eighty two games again you played in
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Speaker 9: last year. How tough is it to stay healthy as
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Speaker 9: you gather years upon years in the NHL.
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Speaker 8: I always say, it's just the way I play too.
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Speaker 8: It's uh, I need a little bit of luck too
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Speaker 8: to not get a puck in the wrong place, whatever
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Speaker 8: it might be. But I put in a lot of
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Speaker 8: a lot of time at home and a lot of
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Speaker 8: time in the gym, a lot of time on the
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Speaker 8: table to kind of stay loose and ready, a lot
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Speaker 8: of hours in the sauna, hot tub, cold tub. And yeah,
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Speaker 8: I would say activity for me is what my body
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Speaker 8: responds best to. And obviously some nights you don't feel great,
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Speaker 8: but as long as you're healthy enough to play, you'll
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Speaker 8: play these.
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Speaker 9: Days in a little bit more stretching, a little more
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Speaker 9: yoga helps the body out and goes a long way, right, Yeah, Yeah,
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Speaker 9: the bronze medal, you got to the World Championships. When
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Speaker 9: the NHL season ends and you still have more to
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Speaker 9: play for, what does that kind of competition do for
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Speaker 9: the goals you want to set as a player.
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Speaker 8: Well, I think every time you have a chance to
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Speaker 8: represent your country, it's it's a no brainer for me.
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Speaker 8: And obviously I don't like to end my season in
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Speaker 8: mid April. It was special this year or too, because
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Speaker 8: it was at home. I could sleep at home with
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Speaker 8: my family a couple of nights, so Yeah, it was
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Speaker 8: just fun to play against the against good teams and
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Speaker 8: keep playing hockey, and yeah, play with team sweeteness will
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Speaker 8: lose the fret.
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Speaker 2: It's often said players would do anything to play just
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Speaker 2: one game in the NHL when they dream of playing
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Speaker 2: in the NHL. Adam Larson one of the few who
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Speaker 2: have played one thousand. That statement will become reality tonight
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Speaker 2: when the Kraken take on the Florida Panthers in game
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Speaker 2: three of their six game road trip. The krack and
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Speaker 2: meanwhile on the ice trying to get healthier, still without
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Speaker 2: Jaden Schwartz out for the last seven games upper body ailment.
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Speaker 2: Jared McCann also missing Saturday's game with a lower body
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Speaker 2: ailment as well, suffering that during warm ups before the
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Speaker 2: Kraken took on Columbus. Ryan Winterton also out the team,
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Speaker 2: saying in a statement that'll be taken a temporary leave
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Speaker 2: of absence to attend to a family matter. No timetable
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Speaker 2: or further details available. Panthers' injury issues, meanwhile, continue to
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Speaker 2: grow on their list at a pretty alarming rate. Niko
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Speaker 2: Mika Lowill missed the remainder of the season, reportedly where
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Speaker 2: the left knee ailment suffered Friday against Calgary. Other players
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Speaker 2: that include Sam Reihart undisclosed reasons, Eubus Bleinskis, Mackie Samuskevich,
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Speaker 2: an Ton Lundell, and Brad marshand placed on LTIR with
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Speaker 2: an assortment of injuries. Reportedly, his season could be in
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Speaker 2: jeopardy as the Panthers will be coming home from a
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Speaker 2: four game road trip, dropping three of those, including their
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Speaker 2: trip opener in Seattle nine days ago. The Panthers back
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Speaker 2: home for a relatively brief pit stop. They'll take on
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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Wild after this on Thursday before getting back
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Speaker 2: on the road. It has been a very tough season
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Speaker 2: on their end, fourteen points out of the playoff picture
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Speaker 2: and getting closer to elimination from defense back to back
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Speaker 2: Stanley Cup championships. So Game two of the regular season series,
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Speaker 2: Game three of the road trip coming your way later
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Speaker 2: on today. Once again we will be on the air
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Speaker 2: four pm Pacific time for the opening face off, your
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Speaker 2: pregame show served up by Frost Brewed Corse Light Shows.
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Speaker 2: Chill is at three thirty. Ever it fits you, Al
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Speaker 2: Koniski in the booth in Sunrise, Florida, I'll join you
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Speaker 2: once again on site at thirty two Bar and Grill
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Speaker 2: at Crack in Community ice Plex. We certainly hope that
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Speaker 2: you can join us enjoy the game. For Cracking this morning,
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Speaker 2: I'm Mike Benton.
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