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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Dunn's big game, the Sharks big threat (11/15) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the Cracking
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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton, final game of the homestand coming up.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this morning. On a Saturday, November fifteenth,
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Speaker 1: the cracking taking on the San Jose Sharks feels just
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Speaker 2: the course, trying to add the salme stand with a
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Speaker 2: win also in a game that has extra meaning because
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Speaker 2: month of November, the Kraken joined the NHL to support
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Speaker 2: Walk ups welcome through the first intermission. Of course, tributes
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Speaker 2: also coming for this game throughout the entire evening. As
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Speaker 2: far as game matters, the Crack in facing San Jose
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Speaker 2: and their second matchup of the season and the Sharks
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Speaker 2: back in matchup one showing they mean business. The Kraken
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Speaker 2: fell six to one in that game on November fifth,
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Speaker 2: back at Climbate Pledge Arena, but the Crack and bouncing
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Speaker 2: back after that, going two to zero and two. Ever
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Speaker 2: since that game, setting third right now in the Pacific
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Speaker 2: Division and amidst a very very compact Western Conference. The
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Speaker 2: point gap right now, well, let's put it this way.
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Speaker 2: Unless you're the Colorado Avalanche, it is tight quarters right now.
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Speaker 2: There are ten teams within six points of each other,
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Speaker 2: beginning with second place Dallas in the West. So with
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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving coming up, which typically serves as a benchmark for
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Speaker 2: teams separating themselves from the pack for the playoffs, there
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Speaker 2: are still a lot to be decided here in a
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Speaker 2: very very tight Western Conference. We'll hear more from defenseman
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Speaker 2: Vince Dunn in just a bit in his reaction from
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Speaker 2: Thursday night and where his game's aff from a three
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Speaker 2: point output which also included plenty of depth up and
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Speaker 2: down the Craken lineup. Additionally, Dan Rousanowski joins us here
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Speaker 2: on Cracking this morning, his reaction from this start to
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Speaker 2: the Sharks season Dan Rusanowski and his words on the
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Speaker 2: Sharks coming up in just a bit. Well, the Kraken
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Speaker 2: taking on the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night and facing
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Speaker 2: a pretty stiff challenge after the Kraken offense nearly went
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Speaker 2: dry in a two to one shootout loss to a
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Speaker 2: very very tired Blue Jackets team that was also under
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Speaker 2: the weather. The Kraken, though, facing Winnipeg with ailments of
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Speaker 2: their own. No Joey Decord, no Jared McCann, no Freddie Gudreaux,
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Speaker 2: and even after a first period goal, no Coppocco exiting
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Speaker 2: with a lower body injury. But the Kraken trying to
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Speaker 2: fight for their lives. In period three, down by a goal,
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Speaker 2: they found an extra gear which told them they were
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Speaker 2: down but not out.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 4: It's Tolbanant back to the point bits dunt straightaway tolban.
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Speaker 5: It suits stood.
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Speaker 6: Helly Tolbanan with a rocket from the right side. It's
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Speaker 6: a power play goal. Fifteen to forty nine to play
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Speaker 6: the we're tied at three.
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Speaker 7: But much like the same goal Elliethoven scored the other day,
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Speaker 7: it's on a power play, top of the circles, cracking
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Speaker 7: and moving the puck around the perimeter, but it gets
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Speaker 7: back to Vincetonne at the point he sends it down
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Speaker 7: to tobd In on that right circle. He puts everything
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Speaker 7: into it, beating hill of black blocker side down low.
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Speaker 4: This gave a tight an earies back to Marshman in
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Speaker 4: the circle. It's a hip check in the the master.
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Speaker 8: Call down black.
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Speaker 2: Star.
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Speaker 6: Maddy vaneers top of the right circle. He fights every
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Speaker 6: down low tick tag goal not captain, let's stop cracking.
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Speaker 7: On top by a four to three score. Well, this
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Speaker 7: one starts with a Mason Marshman down that right side.
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Speaker 7: He turns his body to protect the puck, gets it
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Speaker 7: back to Matty Veneers. As Jordan Niberley is swinging around
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Speaker 7: the back side of the dead we had a great
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Speaker 7: angle for him. From up here you can see Maddie
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Speaker 7: waiting for Jordan Nibley to get into position. As soon
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Speaker 7: as he was there, boom on a stick, tap of
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Speaker 7: the neck.
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Speaker 6: Board three cracker, three Seattle extra attacker off for Winnipeg,
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Speaker 6: Ryan Ling.
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Speaker 8: GrITT, he'll push it up the boards.
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Speaker 1: Winnipeg, not a little hold.
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Speaker 7: The line not even.
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Speaker 4: Ears near side.
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Speaker 2: The captain walks in stood back to back goals.
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Speaker 6: For the captain. He's got two. The tracking ahead by
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Speaker 6: two five, three, one thirty five left at Seattle.
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Speaker 7: One of the ways the cracker we're gonna have to
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Speaker 7: win this game was puck battles.
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Speaker 8: In that time.
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Speaker 7: There not even ears with a puck bottle win along
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Speaker 7: the boards, pokes it forward, finds differently over the far
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Speaker 7: side of the ice all by himself, imfidit goal for
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Speaker 7: seven second.
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Speaker 9: A goal for.
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Speaker 8: Seven is into by man engineers.
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Speaker 6: Five three crack seconds on the clock, shifely right side centers,
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Speaker 6: a pass.
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Speaker 4: In front that dies by everyone.
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Speaker 2: Five seconds left, puck tight off on.
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Speaker 6: An airboards, Horassey down low, Kyle Cutter, China pumping in,
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Speaker 6: He'll go it.
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Speaker 5: Fuck's hard.
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Speaker 6: The Seattle Cracket survive a late flurry from the Winnipeg
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Speaker 6: Jets to pick up their second win up a season
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Speaker 6: over Winnipeg five three here at home.
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Speaker 2: So we're not even at Thanksgiving yet, and the Kracking
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Speaker 2: have already claimed the head to head season series in
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Speaker 2: a five to three win over Winnipeg with one more
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Speaker 2: matchup to go, and that's not until April. But yet
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Speaker 2: the Kracking bouncing back from that Columbus loss in a
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Speaker 2: shootout that really wasn't the most impressive part of it
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Speaker 2: when they hung up five goals on Winnipeg, and that
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Speaker 2: bounced back type of effort impressive as it was, the
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Speaker 2: Kraken still made plenty of mistakes against Winnipeg and found
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Speaker 2: a way to hang four goals on Connor Hellibuck plus
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Speaker 2: and empty net Goldi claim their first comeback win of
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Speaker 2: the season when trailing after two periods, handing Winnipeg their
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Speaker 2: first loss when leading after two periods, as well the
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Speaker 2: krack and surviving wild swings with special teams, eventually coming
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Speaker 2: out one for three on the power play, holding Winnipeg
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Speaker 2: to one for three on the man advantage, plus Matt
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Speaker 2: Eveaneers in his line finding the extra gear in that
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Speaker 2: victory after being put together with him, Jordan Eberley and
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Speaker 2: Mason march Men Everley the captain with two goals, Matty
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Speaker 2: Baneers to assist, Mason march Mint to assist, but no
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Speaker 2: one had a bigger night offensively then Vince Done three
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Speaker 2: point game on his side. He owns twelve points in
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Speaker 2: seventeen games, and that three point outing was a new
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Speaker 2: season high. Here's Done's reaction after the game, meeting with
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Speaker 2: the media.
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Speaker 8: Pretty emotional out there. What do you think of the
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Speaker 8: third period?
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Speaker 9: It's pretty good. I think just a lot of character
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Speaker 9: to close the game out, and we knew the game
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Speaker 9: was close and we.
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Speaker 5: Fought the start of the game.
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Speaker 9: I think that both teams were battling pretty well out there,
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Speaker 9: and we didn't panic when we were down or when
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Speaker 9: we made little mistakes on the power play or to
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Speaker 9: get us onto the penalty killer, just five on five breakdowns.
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Speaker 9: So I think it's just good for us to know
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Speaker 9: that things happen in games and we can adapt to
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Speaker 9: them and pick each other up and close games out
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Speaker 9: when we need to.
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Speaker 7: To be able to come back from a goal down
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Speaker 7: three different times tonight, What does that kind of say
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Speaker 7: about your guys and way you were able to battle
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Speaker 7: for it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been a lot of the opposite.
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Speaker 9: We're usually up and then letting teams back, So we
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Speaker 9: know we have both of those situations in us and
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Speaker 9: we need to be able to handle both. So it's
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Speaker 9: good to see our character in those times and guys
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Speaker 9: show up and just slowly chip away at the game.
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Speaker 9: It wasn't we didn't chase the game when we were down.
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Speaker 9: I think it's a good feeling when guys are buying
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Speaker 9: into each other and rolling over with four lines. I
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Speaker 9: thought everyone contribute a lot tonight, and it wasn't just
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Speaker 9: one certain player one certain line to get us that win.
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Speaker 9: Everyone was dialed in all the way to the end.
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Speaker 9: A lot of big plays when it was six on five,
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Speaker 9: and just a lot of different special teams and situations
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Speaker 9: to get us through that game.
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Speaker 5: It's a it's a character win on your goal.
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Speaker 4: What made you kind of circle to the front of
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Speaker 4: the net there instead of just going straight back to
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Speaker 4: the point.
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Speaker 9: Was there something that happened that made you think that
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Speaker 9: it was gonna pop out there for you. Usually when
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Speaker 9: you go down, the forward replaces the chandler was really
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Speaker 9: screaming go So I just kind of took my shot there.
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Speaker 5: I got a fortunate balance.
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Speaker 9: I think right now, we've been trying to make a
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Speaker 9: lot of plays, and I think today we dummied it
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Speaker 9: down a little bit. We were throwing pucks at the net,
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Speaker 9: slinging pucks and hoping to get better chances. I don't
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Speaker 9: think wins was necessarily trying to make that play to me,
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Speaker 9: but I respect what he did.
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Speaker 5: It was it was a great.
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Speaker 9: Play by him taking it to the net, and that's
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Speaker 9: how we're going to have to create goals. It's it's
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Speaker 9: not easy to score in this league, and it was
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Speaker 9: a great play by him to just try to get
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Speaker 9: it there and hope that good things would happen.
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Speaker 3: Vince on Capo's goal, is that the first time you
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Speaker 3: ever recorded and assist and a hit at the same time.
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Speaker 5: Maybe, to be honest, yeah, I really didn't. I kind
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Speaker 5: of like Blanko when the guy came at me. I
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Speaker 5: was just kind of didn't want to dive in.
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Speaker 9: Because sometimes, you know, you get too active and the
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Speaker 9: puck turns over, it can shoot back, and they're pretty
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Speaker 9: good off the rush and transition.
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Speaker 5: So I guess. So, I don't know. I wouldn't know
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Speaker 5: that answer. Yeah, maybe.
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Speaker 2: So for the krack end, it's time to move on
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Speaker 2: to San Jose and naming for payback. In the second
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Speaker 2: matchup of the year, San Jose took their lumps two
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Speaker 2: nights ago in a two nothing lost to Calgary at
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Speaker 2: the Saddle Dome, but not indicative of their recent run,
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Speaker 2: exploding for an a three and one burst in the
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Speaker 2: last twelve games and all part of this macln Celebrini
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Speaker 2: already going next level and hovering around the NHL scoring
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Speaker 2: lead right now with twenty six points in eighteen games.
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Speaker 2: Joe Thornton is also a part of helping lead the
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Speaker 2: San Jose youth. He's now part of the Hockey Hall
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Speaker 2: of Fame, of course, but he's been a new home
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Speaker 2: in San Jose post career with a purpose We spoke
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Speaker 2: more on that, plus more on the Sharks this week
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Speaker 2: with Sharks radio play by play voice and Hall of
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Speaker 2: Famer Dan Rusanowski in this cut from Cracking Weekly. Dan,
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Speaker 2: good to see you a few days ago, back here
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Speaker 2: in Seattle, looking forward to the next one already here,
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Speaker 2: But I want to first begin just from the first
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Speaker 2: time that these two teams met. What surprised you most
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Speaker 2: may be about the Sharks start here to this season.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think that it's taken a little while for
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Speaker 3: all things to start to piece together. I think that
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Speaker 3: that's been part of the story, and we have to
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Speaker 3: keep reminding ourselves how many different players are on the roster,
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Speaker 3: and that probably led to the somewhat slow beginning. It
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Speaker 3: was getting a little bit tiresome in San Jose, simply
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Speaker 3: because the last three years it's been really tough in
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Speaker 3: the month of ock, and so there was a kind
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Speaker 3: of a feeling of, oh no, here we go again.
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Speaker 3: But very very quickly things started to dissipate in that direction.
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Speaker 3: The Sharks started to, you know, show what they are
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Speaker 3: made of. And I think that they're only right now
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Speaker 3: beginning to really feel that they're in a position to
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Speaker 3: have a home iice advantage to make sure that they
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Speaker 3: can compete against anybody, and with recent results, I think
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Speaker 3: they've done a really good job against top teams, and
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Speaker 3: I think all of that is lent to the confidence
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Speaker 3: of the team. But then you throw on what Macklin
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Speaker 3: Celebrini's doing at age nineteen. You know, you usually look
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Speaker 3: at players and you say, Okay, he's a young guy,
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Speaker 3: and he's scoring a lot of points. All right, great, well,
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Speaker 3: most of the time, if you take a look at
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Speaker 3: it and you break it down between home and road,
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Speaker 3: usually that you know the young guy will get a
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Speaker 3: lot of points at home, won't score as much on
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Speaker 3: the road because they don't have the matchups, you don't
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Speaker 3: have the last change, and a whole variety of other factors.
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Speaker 3: Macklin Celebrini's leading the National Hockey League and scoring on
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Speaker 3: the road at age nineteen, and that's just sort of
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Speaker 3: testimony to what he's meant to the team and how
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Speaker 3: things are clicking for him and how we're looking at
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Speaker 3: the development of a next great era of unbelievable superstar
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Speaker 3: in the league.
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Speaker 2: I remember having a conversation with you with Randy Han
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Speaker 2: when you guys were here, and I think it just
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Speaker 2: kind of shed more light as far as just the
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Speaker 2: potential he's got, but already how special of to start
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Speaker 2: that he is up to. So before we touch more
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Speaker 2: on that, I can't help but think after the winless streak,
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Speaker 2: you guys go into New York and get a game
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Speaker 2: into overtime, win, a Celebrini hat trick, five point game,
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Speaker 2: and then the win for instance against New Jersey, a
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Speaker 2: team that is rolling right now under Sheldon Keith. Was
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Speaker 2: there a specific game that you really began to see
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Speaker 2: the pieces begin to really fall into places for this team.
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Speaker 3: I'd say probably that road trip. I'd say probably that
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Speaker 3: gaming reference at Madison Square Garden is probably the best example,
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Speaker 3: because in that amazing atmosphere, with that spotlight on the team,
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Speaker 3: the Sharks rose to the occasion and it wasn't just
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Speaker 3: Celebrini and I and we shouldn't, you know, we do
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Speaker 3: need to sing his praises and talk about what he's
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Speaker 3: meant to the club and what he's going to mean
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Speaker 3: in the future, not only to this club but to
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Speaker 3: the game of hockey, but also you know, the players
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Speaker 3: like Will Smith and Mario Ferrero and Colin Grath and
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Speaker 3: you know, I can go through the entire roster. Both
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Speaker 3: goaltenders started to play quite well. That was another thing too.
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Speaker 3: It took a while for both goaltenders to start to
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Speaker 3: really really click. And I think that game Madison Square
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Speaker 3: Garden was a big one because it was in the
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Speaker 3: big spotlight that they performed and after that they had
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Speaker 3: some confidence and they said, okay, we can do this.
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Speaker 3: They had a few other challenges. I think that you
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Speaker 3: know that that has developed and you know that sort
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Speaker 3: of is blossomed really with the first meeting in Seattle
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Speaker 3: where you know, the Sharks. The morning of that of
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Speaker 3: that game, we're not expecting to play seven defensemen and
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Speaker 3: eleven forwards. They were expecting to play a standard six
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Speaker 3: d and twelve forwards. Michael Misa got dinged up in
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Speaker 3: the morning skate, so they called Vinnie deharn and after
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Speaker 3: you know, they started really bag skating him and they said, well,
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Speaker 3: you're gonna have to You're gonna have to come in
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Speaker 3: a little earlier because you think you might have to play.
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Speaker 3: He ends up playing really well in the penalty kill.
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Speaker 3: And I think that they were very prepared special teams
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Speaker 3: against that team, so every time they had something thrown
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Speaker 3: at them, they seem to respond to it and do
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Speaker 3: it with enthusiasm and accept that challenge instead of letting
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Speaker 3: the challenges get to them. And I think that's sort
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Speaker 3: of a description of the way the season is going.
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Speaker 8: Dan, talk a little bit about the culture of this team,
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Speaker 8: the personality, if you will. You know, from the outside
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Speaker 8: looking in, it seems like a bunch of guys that
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Speaker 8: obviously take their jobs very seriously, but don't take themselves
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Speaker 8: very seriously. They keep things light. At a chance to
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Speaker 8: be between the benches last night, and you know, it
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Speaker 8: wasn't just towards the end of the game when it
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Speaker 8: was certainly out of hand for the cracking, but you
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Speaker 8: could see it throughout the game, a lot of smiles
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Speaker 8: on the bench, you know. Talk a little bit about that.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think that that's a big part of it.
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Speaker 3: You know, Larry Robinson used to always tell us back
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Speaker 3: in the day that one of the keys to all
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Speaker 3: of the Stanley Cup championships that he won, not only
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Speaker 3: as a player but later on as a coach or
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Speaker 3: a member of management, was because they remember that it
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Speaker 3: was just a game and that they have to have
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Speaker 3: fun playing the game. And you know, Igor larryanoff used
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Speaker 3: to always tell us, you don't work hockey, you play hockey.
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Speaker 3: And that's the side of it that you have to
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Speaker 3: remember about this game that's really important. So you probably
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Speaker 3: saw that. On the bench, they've got an element of that.
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Speaker 3: Of course, they've got prodigious talent to be able to
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Speaker 3: back it all up. But then again, behind the bench,
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Speaker 3: you've also got Ryan Warsowski who understands this generation quite well.
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Speaker 3: He's a very young coach in the National Hockey League
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Speaker 3: and he seems to get the best out of out
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Speaker 3: of that group of people. And you know, we saw
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Speaker 3: what he's already done with Team USA and the World Championships,
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Speaker 3: winning a gold medal too, So you know that's another
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Speaker 3: another factor that's important.
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Speaker 2: Dan touching on Maclin celebrating more, we've heard a lot
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Speaker 2: of the supplaieratives already about the comparisons his game. But
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Speaker 2: what do you see right now with where he's at
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Speaker 2: in just his nineteen year old season versus say, when
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Speaker 2: he could be, you know, peaking topping out at say
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Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven years of age.
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Speaker 3: Sky's a limit for the kid. He can do everything,
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Speaker 3: he does it in all three zones and he does
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Speaker 3: it with a joy about the game that's very infectious.
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Speaker 3: He gets people to follow him as he drives the
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Speaker 3: energy and the level of the team. When things aren't
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Speaker 3: going well, he plays with a great competitiveness to try
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Speaker 3: to get things back under control. And all of these
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Speaker 3: things are things that are just starting to develop. I
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Speaker 3: think just before we played, you know, we had we
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Speaker 3: played the game between the Sharks and the Kraken. There
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Speaker 3: was a back to back set of games against Colorado
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Speaker 3: against Detroit where the Sharks beat Colorado in overtime. Next
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Speaker 3: game they were playing against the Red Wings, and through
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Speaker 3: that entire game, he and Maurit Sider had an unbelievable
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Speaker 3: back and forth Batleary going intensely at it, and he
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Speaker 3: just put his arms around that and it absolutely loved it,
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Speaker 3: and his teammates loved it too, And of course he
18:03
Speaker 3: was doing that with the knowledge that if things ever
18:04
Speaker 3: really did get out of hand. Number one, he was
18:07
Speaker 3: showing Detroit that he wasn't going to put up with that.
18:09
Speaker 3: But number two, he showed confidence that his teammates would
18:12
Speaker 3: would be right there to back him up, which of
18:14
Speaker 3: course they would be. So I think it's infectious. I
18:17
Speaker 3: think it's I think it's fun and it's spectacular.
18:19
Speaker 2: When it comes to Will Smith, who has been you know,
18:22
Speaker 2: along his side basically here for the last couple of
18:24
Speaker 2: years and a big part of this score. I mean,
18:26
Speaker 2: we've seen a lot of the skill that was on
18:28
Speaker 2: display here for the first game between these two teams
18:31
Speaker 2: in Seattle.
18:32
Speaker 5: Again.
18:32
Speaker 2: But you know, I kind of asked a similar question
18:34
Speaker 2: previously with Mattlan celebrating, But is there anybody you've seen prior,
18:38
Speaker 2: whether it might be on the Sharks or in the
18:41
Speaker 2: NHL that kind of reminds you of Will Smith in
18:43
Speaker 2: his game.
18:43
Speaker 3: Not really, He's got a combination of a lot of
18:46
Speaker 3: different types of players. I think the biggest thing that
18:48
Speaker 3: he has is an incredibly high hy iq. He knows
18:53
Speaker 3: where the puck is going. I don't know how he does.
18:56
Speaker 3: He has sort of a premonition as to where things
18:59
Speaker 3: are going to happen. He puts himself into a position
19:02
Speaker 3: because he's able to buy more time for himself. He
19:05
Speaker 3: makes himself appear faster than perhaps the actual reality is,
19:09
Speaker 3: and I think that that's really important. But there's another
19:11
Speaker 3: factor about Will Smith too that has nothing to do
19:13
Speaker 3: about hockey, and that has to do with the fun
19:15
Speaker 3: part we were just talking about. I think that Macklin
19:18
Speaker 3: is just very serious, very driven, very into it, and
19:20
Speaker 3: yes he's got a great personality, but Will brings out
19:23
Speaker 3: the lighter side in Macklin. And I think Macklin brings
19:26
Speaker 3: out a more serious side and Will. So it's really
19:29
Speaker 3: an interesting combination. You know, when you're trying to put
19:32
Speaker 3: together a great team, every club needs a Batman and
19:35
Speaker 3: a Robin, and it looks like the Sharks have both
19:37
Speaker 3: of those superheroes on their roster.
19:40
Speaker 7: Talk a little bit about and I've read this, I've
19:43
Speaker 7: got to believe it's true, But talk a little bit
19:45
Speaker 7: about the living situation with Macklin celebrity.
19:48
Speaker 8: I understand he might have a roommate from a former Shark.
19:52
Speaker 3: Well, it's not just Macklin, it's a whole group of
19:55
Speaker 3: him now. So Macklin Celebrini lives with Joe Thornton, hall
19:58
Speaker 3: of famer, somebody that also knew exactly how to approach
20:03
Speaker 3: day to day life and knew how to enjoy the game.
20:07
Speaker 3: Will Smith lives with Patrick Marlowe, which I think is
20:09
Speaker 3: an interesting combination. Joe Thornton was number one overall, so
20:15
Speaker 3: he knows exactly what Maclin is going through. He understands
20:17
Speaker 3: all the pressures. He played in Boston, played for the Sharks,
20:21
Speaker 3: always had the weight of the world and his shoulders
20:24
Speaker 3: and on the other side of it, Patrick Marlow was
20:26
Speaker 3: always kind of that second guy, even though he was
20:29
Speaker 3: a superstar. He's likely going in the Hockey Hall of
20:32
Speaker 3: Fame too. He was always sort of in the shadow
20:34
Speaker 3: of Joe Thornton is the second overall guy, and Will
20:37
Speaker 3: Smith is sort of in that area right now too,
20:39
Speaker 3: so it's really interesting to see how those guys have
20:41
Speaker 3: combined together. The third kind of leg of that appears
20:45
Speaker 3: to be Michael Misa, who now was eighteen years of age.
20:48
Speaker 3: I guess is spending a lot of time with the
20:50
Speaker 3: Tyler Tiffoli family. So you know, another veteran player who's
20:54
Speaker 3: been through everything. He's won a Stanley Cup, and these
20:58
Speaker 3: kids are really benefiting from the fact that their living
21:01
Speaker 3: situations are like that. Think about it when you know,
21:04
Speaker 3: if I were nineteen years old and I were out
21:06
Speaker 3: in the NHL and you gave me a million dollars,
21:08
Speaker 3: I'd probably be dead right now. But these guys are so,
21:11
Speaker 3: you know, such great shape. Pardon me, and and they're
21:14
Speaker 3: they're they're really uh, they're really amazingly qualified. But they
21:20
Speaker 3: have that balance with these players.
21:24
Speaker 2: I can't imagine what I would want to do at
21:25
Speaker 2: nineteen years of age with a million dollars in anywhere
21:28
Speaker 2: I would want to live or anywhere i'd want to go.
21:30
Speaker 2: It'd be a scary combination here. But that's what but
21:32
Speaker 2: surety is for when you grow up. Here a little
21:34
Speaker 2: bit more, Dan, I want to ask you about remember this.
21:37
Speaker 3: Remember this one thing too that it's really important to
21:40
Speaker 3: add to that is that, you know, we joke about
21:43
Speaker 3: a little of that, but the truth is they are
21:45
Speaker 3: still kids and part of them they are you know,
21:48
Speaker 3: you see that off the ice, but on the ice
21:50
Speaker 3: they're total pros. But you have to remember that, you know,
21:54
Speaker 3: the process of becoming a full fledged adult is a
21:58
Speaker 3: is a sometimes like a stock market art. You have
22:00
Speaker 3: some moments where things go right and they don't. So
22:02
Speaker 3: it's great to have people around you that show you
22:05
Speaker 3: the right way. I mean, the biggest thing for me
22:09
Speaker 3: is that number one to Bee of Thornton, Joe's wife
22:12
Speaker 3: is an awesome cook. Christina Marlow makes the food like
22:17
Speaker 3: nobody else. So they're getting proper nutrition, and they're getting
22:20
Speaker 3: proper guidance with sleep. And they're also getting guidance between
22:24
Speaker 3: with men that have their own families, that care about
22:27
Speaker 3: their kids, that spend a lot of time away from
22:29
Speaker 3: the rink with their children and take that responsibility. And
22:33
Speaker 3: I think that that's just a great example for any
22:36
Speaker 3: of these people.
22:37
Speaker 8: It sounds like there's a lot of focus on the
22:39
Speaker 8: off ice stuff. What about the on ice stuff.
22:41
Speaker 7: Like Jumbo and Marlow reviewing tape with them at home
22:45
Speaker 7: or they leave that stuff alone.
22:48
Speaker 3: No, they probably do spend a little bit of time
22:51
Speaker 3: talking about things like that with them, but I think
22:53
Speaker 3: it's a little bit less organized when it comes to that.
22:56
Speaker 3: You know, maybe if these guys ask them the question.
22:58
Speaker 3: You know, both Joe Thornton and Patrick Martle were part
23:01
Speaker 3: of the Sharks development staff and that's official as this year.
23:06
Speaker 3: With Joe Thornton, once he got into the Hall of
23:08
Speaker 3: Fame and so forth, we used to call him the
23:10
Speaker 3: Director of Vibes with the Sharks. I'm not sure if
23:12
Speaker 3: he still has that sort of unofficial title, but he's
23:15
Speaker 3: part of the development staff. Patrick Mardl is a development
23:18
Speaker 3: coach and they spend a lot of time with a
23:21
Speaker 3: lot of the young prospects in the organization. And you
23:24
Speaker 3: know the way it's worked is, you know, they go
23:25
Speaker 3: back and they might even talk to a kid that's
23:27
Speaker 3: playing junior and watch him play a little bit. And
23:30
Speaker 3: we've got another group of people Tommy Wingles, Lucas Spiek's,
23:33
Speaker 3: people that have had long careers that spend a lot
23:36
Speaker 3: of time with these young players. And even in the
23:38
Speaker 3: goaltending department. You again, you to back office, the director
23:41
Speaker 3: of goaltending, but they've got Ryan Miller out there scouting
23:44
Speaker 3: future goaltender prospects for the Sharks. And I think that
23:47
Speaker 3: it's very organized to make sure that they have the
23:49
Speaker 3: tools that are necessary for these kids to succeeds. Yeah,
23:54
Speaker 3: they are, and they you know, if I had somebody
23:57
Speaker 3: like that to be like Yoda, you know, I'm saying
23:59
Speaker 3: that these guys really understand what needs to be done,
24:03
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, they are also there for when
24:06
Speaker 3: things don't go well. I think that might even be
24:09
Speaker 3: the most important thing, because you know, they have to
24:12
Speaker 3: be reminded that yes, they're gonna have great careers, yes
24:16
Speaker 3: that you know, they need to feel really good about themselves.
24:19
Speaker 2: We have a star Wars reference now checked, and we
24:21
Speaker 2: can also can say Patrick Marlow I've mentioned here on
24:24
Speaker 2: this conversation with Al Koniski to former Seattle Thunderbirds check
24:28
Speaker 2: as well for that reference. Andrew Zanowski joining us here
24:31
Speaker 2: on the Beacon Plumbing hotline, and Dan, last couple of
24:33
Speaker 2: things before wet you go here.
24:35
Speaker 8: Yeah, check.
24:37
Speaker 2: I mean, once upon a time the San Jose Sharks,
24:40
Speaker 2: an infant organization coming out of the cal Palace looking
24:43
Speaker 2: to grow the game in San Jose, and the ninety
24:45
Speaker 2: two massive playoff runs. And now you have players like
24:49
Speaker 2: Joe Thornton from London, Ontario is ticking around, Patrick Marlow
24:52
Speaker 2: as well, and the Baka that you mentioned, Tommy Wingles.
24:55
Speaker 2: What's the What's what's the common uniting theme here with
24:59
Speaker 2: what has now attracted players to stay and build a
25:04
Speaker 2: greater foundation in San Jose, kind of like what the
25:06
Speaker 2: Kraken want to be, you know, years upon years down
25:08
Speaker 2: the road.
25:10
Speaker 3: It takes a long time to do that. And of
25:12
Speaker 3: course you also have the added factor. You have two
25:15
Speaker 3: things going on here. Number one, no offense to any
25:18
Speaker 3: place else, but we really believe Northern California is the
25:20
Speaker 3: best place to live in the world. There are the
25:23
Speaker 3: cost of living issues certainly that get involved the cost
25:25
Speaker 3: of housing, so forth and so on. But the facilities
25:29
Speaker 3: are great, the weather is beautiful, and the one thing
25:34
Speaker 3: that we've always said is that the guy's wives and
25:36
Speaker 3: girlfriends really love it in Northern California. So that's all
25:39
Speaker 3: check marks in favor. But what you're talking about, too
25:43
Speaker 3: is the development of the game. Scott Hannon, who's another
25:45
Speaker 3: former Shark, another former Western Hockey leaguer, ended up. He's
25:49
Speaker 3: run now running the junior Sharks program, and so that's
25:52
Speaker 3: a real upgrade in terms of the total overview of
25:57
Speaker 3: the coaching and working with the kids. I think that
26:00
Speaker 3: the goal is to make the Sharks junior program here
26:04
Speaker 3: stronger as time goes on. What's happened over years, and
26:07
Speaker 3: what happens oftentimes with young kids is they get to
26:10
Speaker 3: be about fifteen. This was the tradition in the Northern
26:13
Speaker 3: California area. You become really good and then you leave. Well,
26:16
Speaker 3: now they want to make it so that they can
26:18
Speaker 3: stay and you've got more people sticking around.
26:21
Speaker 7: You know.
26:21
Speaker 3: You remember a few years ago, I think it was
26:23
Speaker 3: one year, I can't remember the exact year, but four
26:25
Speaker 3: people were drafted in the first round and they were
26:27
Speaker 3: all from the Saint Louis area. Well, that's because of
26:31
Speaker 3: all of those guys that's stuck around to Saint Louis
26:33
Speaker 3: and now are coaching all these kids. And I think
26:36
Speaker 3: that that's the kind of direction we like to see
26:39
Speaker 3: things going here. Most of it still is with the
26:42
Speaker 3: you know, the the NHL team's development staff and so forth.
26:45
Speaker 3: But you know, Mark Smith lives here. He's involved in
26:49
Speaker 3: coaching girls and guys in the Junior Sharks program. Scott
26:53
Speaker 3: Hannon is here. There are a number of other people
26:56
Speaker 3: that have stuck around, and I think it creates a
26:58
Speaker 3: great atmosphere for.
26:59
Speaker 2: The all right, great to hear from the Hall of
27:02
Speaker 2: Fame voice Dan Rosanowski for the radio side of the
27:05
Speaker 2: San Jose Sharks, a part of them since expansion back
27:09
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety one. Dan Rusanowski, that conversation, by the way,
27:13
Speaker 2: more in full all a part of Crack and Weekly,
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Speaker 2: with the Crack and trying to end their homestand with
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Speaker 2: a win and with a bang. After this four straight
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