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KRAKEN WEEKLY: It's time to pull up the bootstraps (4/1) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Seattle, keep sitting this owne Montour, left Circle, delay suits STOs,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Montour, the hero in Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: It's a four.
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  Speaker 1: To three crack and win in overtime.
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  Speaker 3: Hey all, we can say, can the crack and get
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  Speaker 3: a little more of that? Matter of fact for the
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  Speaker 3: majority of the nine games left here for the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Cracking Weekly once again. Mike Benton alkiniski with you.
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  Speaker 3: Everett is off here for the evening. Don't worry, he's
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  Speaker 3: got commitments, so'll be back with us again. Do this
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  Speaker 3: next week, hopefully with a better condition at hand here
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  Speaker 3: for the Crack and then where they're at right now
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  Speaker 3: coming off a three to nothing lost to Edmonton. But
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  Speaker 3: we have a lot to get to. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: It, including the extended conversation, which we tend to upload
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  Speaker 3: just hours after this show is all done. All right,
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  Speaker 3: joining me and out here for this evening. Alison Lucan,
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  Speaker 3: our friend from the TV side, crackin Hockey Network or
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  Speaker 3: handywork at Seattlecracking dot com. Also PWHL torrent On Foxer Team.
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  Speaker 3: Plus we will cover reaction from this trip. Bobby McMahon
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  Speaker 3: PWHL presence also in Seattle, plus the legacy of Adam Larson,
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  Speaker 3: who will be honored tomorrow night against Utah for his
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  Speaker 3: one thousandth NHL game. Alison Lucan will be joining us
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  Speaker 3: here in just a bit, plus your mail bank questions
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  Speaker 3: and reaction, and our three stars al three stars mine
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  Speaker 3: as well too. All Right, so here we go, with
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  Speaker 3: nine games left in the regular season. Would you have
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  Speaker 3: taken this back in set September? The Kraken two points
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  Speaker 3: back waking up today thirty two, thirty and eleven, But
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  Speaker 3: they have plenty of competition San Jose winning tied with
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  Speaker 3: them at seventy five points. Winnipeg now is one point ahead,
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  Speaker 3: the Kings one point ahead. How big will that Winnipeg
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  Speaker 3: game be next Monday? How big will the game against
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  Speaker 3: the Kings be? Potentially here for the home finale. Plus also,
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  Speaker 3: of course, Nashville is two points ahead for a wild
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  Speaker 3: card spot.
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  Speaker 2: Number two.
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  Speaker 3: There are plenty of balls still up in the air
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  Speaker 3: right now, coming off of one to three and to
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  Speaker 3: road trip the Crake and again back home tomorrow night
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  Speaker 3: against Utah seven o'clock and then Saturday Chicago, end of
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  Speaker 3: two games straight at home, which will then also open.
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  Speaker 2: Up three of four.
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  Speaker 3: As far as games versus day Chicago, Winnipeg and Minnesota,
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  Speaker 3: all right, tend to bring in out kadiski right now
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  Speaker 3: here for this, and I'll begin with opening thoughts, sal
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  Speaker 3: And there's there's big picture in small picture to this.
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  Speaker 3: I think again, if you asked anybody back on September one,
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  Speaker 3: would they take being two points out of the playoffs
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  Speaker 3: on April one? The answer is yes. That's my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: Meaningful hockey is here. It's captured the attention of the
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  Speaker 3: Pacific Northwest. But also with attention come demands, much as expected,
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  Speaker 3: and the crack and or back home after six on
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  Speaker 3: the road where they went one to three and two
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  Speaker 3: outscored twenty to thirteen their power play one for twelve.
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  Speaker 3: They got out to a one to nothing lead just twice.
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  Speaker 3: One of those games they led to nothing and squandered it.
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  Speaker 3: So to me, this did not mean expectations, and I
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  Speaker 3: think with that end result comes here, the harsh reality
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  Speaker 3: of this. You want to make the playoffs, pull the
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  Speaker 3: bootstraps up. Nine games left, five home, four on the road,
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  Speaker 3: and at this point, because who you're facing on the road,
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  Speaker 3: it boiled down to this imaginary drum roll Winnipeg, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 3: Vegas and the Avalanche, you have got to make every
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  Speaker 3: morsel of hay at home. The margin for air has
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  Speaker 3: basically runouts. I think the players out understand the gravity
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  Speaker 3: of this situation. I think Thursday tomorrow should bring a
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  Speaker 3: lot of high energy because this time of year al
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  Speaker 3: it demands nothing beneath that, it is go time.
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  Speaker 2: With that, the flora is yours for your opening thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, nine games left, Mikey and the krack and need
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  Speaker 4: as many of these points as possible.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't say all of them, although that would be.
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  Speaker 4: Nice, But I think that if they can get fifteen
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  Speaker 4: to these points, sixteen these points, I think fourteen might
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  Speaker 4: be right on the edge, this team might find themselves
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  Speaker 4: into a wild card two spot. Just like you outline,
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  Speaker 4: there five games left at home Utah Chicago to start with,
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  Speaker 4: two back to backs, and these remaining nine nine games,
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  Speaker 4: Winnipeg Mini as you said, and then finishing with Vegas Colorado.
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  Speaker 5: It's a gauntlet of these nine games.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a couple of easier ones in there, but
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  Speaker 4: as we've seen in other easy games, and I'm doing
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  Speaker 4: air quotes right now, throughout the season, it's not always
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  Speaker 4: a guaranteed easy win for the Crack And they've got
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  Speaker 4: to play the same way for all nine of these
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  Speaker 4: games to be in them to get wins and and
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  Speaker 4: minimally squeak out a point of each of these games.
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  Speaker 4: So no easy games left for the boys. But listen,
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  Speaker 4: it's the it's the end of the season. If you
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  Speaker 4: had the grind meter those first twenty games of the season,
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  Speaker 4: it's not a grind. You're figuring things out. You're figuring,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you're you're gelling, you're coming together. Look at
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  Speaker 4: the oilers early in the season. But in the last
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  Speaker 4: ten games.
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  Speaker 3: Of an eighty even just like maybe like a month
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  Speaker 3: and a half ago, serious questions.
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  Speaker 4: The last ten games of an eighty two game season,
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  Speaker 4: the grind meter is peaking in Every single mistake can
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  Speaker 4: result in a goal, and you might you might make
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  Speaker 4: three mistakes and the other team might make two and
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  Speaker 4: you and you lose by a goal. It's that tight
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  Speaker 4: right now, which is why we call it playoff style hockey.
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  Speaker 4: So all that to say that these nine games, the
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  Speaker 4: crackn have to do everything in their power to play
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  Speaker 4: their defensive structure, to have good to great goaltending to
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  Speaker 4: keep them in the game, and they've got to be
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  Speaker 4: able to capitalize on the opportunities they get because there
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  Speaker 4: just aren't that many of them in these in these
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  Speaker 4: later in the season games.
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  Speaker 3: I just really hope that it doesn't boil down to this.
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  Speaker 3: But you just go back and think of what if,
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  Speaker 3: and I remember, and I go back and recall, what
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  Speaker 3: if you could just squeak one, just one goal on
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  Speaker 3: that game at the Islanders back end November. What if
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  Speaker 3: you can just find one more and hold off Vancouver
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  Speaker 3: December twenty ninth, losing that game in a shootout. What
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  Speaker 3: if you found just one more goal to hold off
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota already up to nothing back on January eighth. And
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  Speaker 3: then what if you get a better start at Florida
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  Speaker 3: from this last road trip before you finally hit pedal
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  Speaker 3: to metal with a four goal third period. The little
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  Speaker 3: things just add up over time, And I mean you
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  Speaker 3: take a little bit here and there, all of a
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  Speaker 3: sudden you're possibly finding yourself on the way inside here
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  Speaker 3: for this playoff picture.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah no, I think that that's what you often do
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  Speaker 4: when you come so close to that cut line but
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  Speaker 4: don't make it. As you go back and look at
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  Speaker 4: those games and you play the what if game, I
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  Speaker 4: hope the Cracking are not going to be in that position,
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  Speaker 4: But you just call out a bunch of them where
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  Speaker 4: you know you expect to get wins or minimally points
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  Speaker 4: in those games, but you don't, and you think, okay,
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  Speaker 4: well that's one. Well there's another one, there's another one,
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  Speaker 4: and they start to add up, and then you think,
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  Speaker 4: over the course of an a two game season, there
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  Speaker 4: might be ten to twenty points in there that you
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  Speaker 4: feel like you should have gotten. Now, there are other
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  Speaker 4: games where you come out on top, like a car
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  Speaker 4: a two to one Carolina win. Yeah's on that coming.
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  Speaker 4: But that was a big win for the boys. So
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  Speaker 4: there are certainly games that go the other way as well.
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  Speaker 4: The recent to Ot win in Tampa was a big one.
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  Speaker 4: You get those other games as well, where the oddsmakers
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  Speaker 4: say Cracking won't have a chance in this one. And
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  Speaker 4: they pull out a win. So hopefully it balances out
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  Speaker 4: over in an eighty two game season, but it's hard
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  Speaker 4: not to play that what if game if the Crack
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  Speaker 4: And fall short short by a point or two.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to get to your mail bag questions here
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  Speaker 3: a little bit later on. Find me at Twitter, at
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  Speaker 3: always looking for more here to build the brand. As
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  Speaker 3: we say, I will talk highs of this trip and
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  Speaker 3: loads of this trip. Al First off, the high for me,
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  Speaker 3: of course, it's obvious the win in Tampa, but there
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  Speaker 3: there was also the light at the end of the
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  Speaker 3: tunnel in Florida. Then there's Bobby McMahon producing like he's
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  Speaker 3: going to rightfully earn the bag.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's Coppocaco in there as well.
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  Speaker 3: The lows of this basically for me, boiled down to
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  Speaker 3: the sluggish start in Nashville. That was the first game
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  Speaker 3: you had to really make a big impression and the
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  Speaker 3: Kraken got only one goal.
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  Speaker 2: Out of that.
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  Speaker 3: Then there was a sleepwalk in Columbus. I mean, Florida,
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  Speaker 3: you're behind the eight ball. To me, the bottom line is,
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  Speaker 3: once again, you cannot chase games in the NHL. And
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  Speaker 3: there were several players that I'm curious how they rebound
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  Speaker 3: coming into this first home game in a while, because
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this last six game trip it was tough.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you go back and look, Jordan Eberley just
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  Speaker 3: two points in six games, Matty Beniers just one goal
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  Speaker 3: and that was it in six games. Jared mccannon was heard,
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  Speaker 3: came back in, but then no goals in three games.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, you've got to have your top line
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  Speaker 3: find a way to hit a next level here. But
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  Speaker 3: this is again, this has to be once more the
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  Speaker 3: collective effort chipping in just like and I'll use the
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  Speaker 3: example Bobby McMahon, Chandler Stevenson, Coppocaco.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean those guys are clicking right now, and
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  Speaker 4: and you know you need that leadership from a broader
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  Speaker 4: group of guys to again go out and get as
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  Speaker 4: many of these points as possible. But that game in Florida,
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  Speaker 4: the Boys making a comeback in the third period goals
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  Speaker 4: by McMahon goals by every beniers and ranker Evans to
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  Speaker 4: start it off.
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  Speaker 5: That was a huge character builder.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not surprised that they went into Tampa and played
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  Speaker 4: some of the best hockey we've seen all season and
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  Speaker 4: pulled in an overtime win because of what happened in
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  Speaker 4: that third period in Florida. But I think you need
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  Speaker 4: more contributions. You need contributions from your top nine guys.
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  Speaker 4: You need that that third line contributing, need an impactful
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  Speaker 4: fourth line. The crackermer getting pushed around a little bit
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  Speaker 4: last game. You could see it on the on the
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  Speaker 4: hit charts, and you wonder sometimes that Jacob Lnson not
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  Speaker 4: be in the lineup, what effect does that have. But
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  Speaker 4: you know they've been putting in a lot of shots
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  Speaker 4: on goal lately. Interestingly, one of the lowest shot shots
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  Speaker 4: on goal totals in the last handful of game is
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  Speaker 4: that overtime win in Tampa.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, quality over quantity. Yeah, I'd always take.
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  Speaker 4: Quality because I just feel like if you're getting pucks
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  Speaker 4: to the net, you never know what it's going to
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  Speaker 4: deflect off of. You never know what kind of a
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  Speaker 4: rebound's going to be given up, and if you're just
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  Speaker 4: waiting for that perfect opportunity to shoot, it may never come.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and this is also I think what stings.
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  Speaker 3: From last night losing three nothing at Edmonton, because again,
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  Speaker 3: if you're keeping Edmonton to under twenty five shots, if
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  Speaker 3: you're keeping Connor McDavid, the best player on the planet,
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  Speaker 3: off the board except for an empty net goal, nine
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  Speaker 3: times out of ten, you're in position to win. But
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  Speaker 3: the Crack unfortunately couldn't get anything going.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that those were two of my keys, right
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  Speaker 4: there was Connor McDavid and Evan Bouchard and other than
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  Speaker 4: an empty net goal for McDavid held off the board.
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  Speaker 4: But you got Max Jones getting his third goal of
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  Speaker 4: the season in the Aespire cabinet, I think he had
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  Speaker 4: his eighth that got it for the Edmonton owners. That's
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  Speaker 4: what happens when you get depth scoring, is everybody focuses
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  Speaker 4: on those top two lines, on that top defenseman at
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  Speaker 4: Evan Bouchard, and your third or fourth lines.
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  Speaker 5: Go out and get it done. That's what you need
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  Speaker 5: this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna get to also our reaction with Adam Larson
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  Speaker 3: because tomorrow night is going to be a big one
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  Speaker 3: for him to begin or before opening face off, or
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  Speaker 3: he'll be saluted for his one thousandth career NHL game.
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  Speaker 3: Philip Grubauer also a not for him for playing in
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  Speaker 3: career game number four hundred and certainly deserve better in
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  Speaker 3: that loss to Edmonton. But I also go back to
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  Speaker 3: round period two al where I think right before the
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  Speaker 3: defining moment of this game, and which was the squadroned
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  Speaker 3: power play with McDavid in the box. There was also
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  Speaker 3: a bit of a shuffle Berkeley Catton on the top
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  Speaker 3: line then was moved to line three. Jared McCann goes
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  Speaker 3: right back up, and we heard Lane Lambert say, for
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  Speaker 3: as long as Catton is doing the right things, of course,
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  Speaker 3: production is a spected but as long as he's doing
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  Speaker 3: the right things, he's got a long leash on that
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  Speaker 3: top line.
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  Speaker 2: We saw the switch. How long do you see this
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  Speaker 2: staying put as is?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's a question of production. You cannot be on
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  Speaker 4: the top line in the ANHL and not produce. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm not talking about just your your center or your
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  Speaker 4: top center. It's got to be all three guys. All
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  Speaker 4: three guys need to be contributing on the goals. And
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  Speaker 4: assists column. If they're not, you're going to look at
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  Speaker 4: somebody else that's maybe having some success on lines two
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  Speaker 4: or three and move them in there. So that line
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  Speaker 4: went out didn't have a lot of success in that
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  Speaker 4: Edmonton game. Jared McCann back from injury. I believe it
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  Speaker 4: was the second game back. I think Lane Lambert saw
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  Speaker 4: some of the history with the success that he's had
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  Speaker 4: with Veneers and Everly and wanted to try and pull
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  Speaker 4: it out to get something going there in that game,
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  Speaker 4: and that's why he made the switch. So I think
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  Speaker 4: it was more about trying to generate more and less
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  Speaker 4: about Berkeley Catton and maybe what he was not doing.
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  Speaker 4: I think Berkeley Catten can have success on any of
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  Speaker 4: the top three lines, but certainly when he's playing with
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  Speaker 4: Viniars and Everley, you see him playing towards the top
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  Speaker 4: of his game.
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  Speaker 3: And see I think also that this goes here to
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  Speaker 3: the point where about five years from now, we're a
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  Speaker 3: little bit I think more critical about production or no
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  Speaker 3: production from Berkeley Catton and where we are now. And again,
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  Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, this isn't the case that we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to, you know, treat him with kid gloves here
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  Speaker 3: in this case, because I mean, again, you play in
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  Speaker 3: the NHL, it is a result driven business. But with
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  Speaker 3: Berkeley Catton, he's coming in earlier this year, nineteen now
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  Speaker 3: twenty years of age. It's a hard league to adapt to,
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  Speaker 3: the greatest league in the entire world as far as
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  Speaker 3: this game is concerned. So it's like going from say
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  Speaker 3: entry level history and college to like all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: you know, level four hundred with playing this game, the pace,
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  Speaker 3: the processing, all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But the point I'm getting at here is that he's.
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  Speaker 3: Doing so many right things with the Puck's just the
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  Speaker 3: finish that is yet to find him on a consistent basis.
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  Speaker 3: But that comes with time, and that comes also with age.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that when you see some of the
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  Speaker 4: players come out of the draft that step right into
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  Speaker 4: NHL roles, that's one of the biggest differences is they
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  Speaker 4: have that confidence right away and their ability to contribute,
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  Speaker 4: their ability to shoot the puck, their ability to play
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  Speaker 4: at the NHL level, And I think Berkeley.
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  Speaker 5: Has a lot of that already in place.
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  Speaker 4: I still think he's developing his confidence with the puck
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to shooting, not necessarily passing. He's trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure out the soft areas and his linemates and
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  Speaker 4: where they're going to be and set them up accordingly.
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  Speaker 4: But the last couple of games he said, the puck
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  Speaker 4: in the slot, the low slot area, and he surprised
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  Speaker 4: me looking for a pass a couple of times. And
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  Speaker 4: I just think that's a lack of confidence in your
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  Speaker 4: ability to put that puck up. Jared mccannon's not passing
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  Speaker 4: that puck. Jared mccannon is firing that puck. Bobby McMahon
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  Speaker 4: is firing that puck. And I think that Berkeley Catten
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  Speaker 4: needs to get where, you know, eighty percent of the time,
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  Speaker 4: ninety percent of the time he's firing that puck as well.
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  Speaker 4: And it might not be a snipe, but it might
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  Speaker 4: turn into a juicy rebound for somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight, My goodness, it is such a big scoreboard watching night.
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  Speaker 3: Just three games in the NHL, two of them on
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  Speaker 3: the West Coast, one already underway, Kings and Blues, Sharks
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  Speaker 3: and Ducks getting underway at about right now. San Jose
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  Speaker 3: is still hanging around this and many thought that they
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  Speaker 3: were dead about roughly a week ago, but they're all
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  Speaker 3: of a Sudden now tied with the Kraken despite the
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  Speaker 3: crack and having one game in hand on them. Tonight
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  Speaker 3: they will take on the na Or they are taking
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  Speaker 3: on the Anaheim Ducks. Kings underway with the Saint Louis Blues.
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  Speaker 3: Saint Louis is still two points back. Crazy enough here,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: but the Kings the biggest concern right now, one point
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: ahead of the Krakend. They each have played seventy three
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: games so far. So I'll give it to me which
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: team scares you the most here in these last roughly
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: two and a half weeks the season.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Well, I gotta look at that. With the talent they
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: have on that team, you know they can. They can
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: pull through a lot of difficult games, starting with Celebrini
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: on the front end. But yeah, you're right, four teams
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: l A, Winnipeg Sounds and of course the Kraken all
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: trying to fight for one likely one wild card spot,
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: with which the Predators now hold, and everybody's one or
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: two points away from tying that spot. So I mean,
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: it's it's going to be a grind right till the
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: final game game of the season.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: And all you're saying is here for LA and Saint Louis.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: No three point game, no three point game, no, no three.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Point game regulation.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Before we get to break and get to Alison Luke
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: and we will talk a little bit more about Adam Morrison,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: but I want to get our initial thoughts here on
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: this as will be saluted for a one thousandth NHL
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: game and similar breadth as the Kraken and the Pacific
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Northwest Faith will have saluted. Jordan Eberley. Also back in
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: the expansion year, Marcher Dana was, well, the one thing
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: that has always, you know, gripped me about Adam Larson is,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: of course, there's the trademark toughness, there's the trademark quiet
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: strength that he brings. But it's also the sneaky sense
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: of humor that you can, I think, really really get
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: used to and understand where it comes from once you
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: are around him in the dressing room, say after practice,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: say after morning skate. I think for me, one one
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: classic example is say if I'm talking with Vince Dunn
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: and he sits by his stall, has sat there for virtually,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: you know, his entire Craken career, what you at least
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: try to do and I'm kind of peeling back the
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: curtain here is you know, when you're in you're in
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: your in an interview situation, usually a scrub means you
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: just huddle around the player and you're kind of like
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: in like a half circle. If it's a one on
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: one situation, that that that it's also kind of what
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: you know, the the sandbox I play in, so to speak,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: where you're looking to bank, you know, conversations here for
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: our broadcast coverage, et cetera, podcasting as well when you're
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: in a one on one situation. To me, shoulder to
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: shoulder means a lot more where you can, you know,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: find a way to have a level of conversation with
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: not just the athlete, but also the human being. So
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: for me, there are two things I pay attention to.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Is one the course of the conversation and two stay
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: out of the way of the guy who's coming in
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: in his stall right balking to me. I have briefed
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: this a couple of times on accident. A lot of
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: forgiveness has been delivered my way, which I appreciate. But
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: a couple of times I've seen the big cat walk
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: in as I'm delivering question one or two events done,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: and I just got to get up and say I'm sorry.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: He looks at me like, nah, no, no, but he's
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: just kidding. The That to me is a quintessential Adam
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Marson experience quiet strength, but quiet and the sneaky sense
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: of humor.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you when he hit his A thousands
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: of game a few games ago, his wife was in
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: town to celebrate and had a chance to meet her
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: at the hotel. And and I know Everett's told this
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: story as well, but she's always surprised to hear other
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: people talk about how quiet he is. And she says,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: he's a goofball at home. He's he's the he's he's
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: the guy making all the jokes. He's the he's the
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: externally funny guy. And uh, I you know, for whatever reason,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: we don't get a chance to see as much of that.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: But you're right when you do. Uh, when you do.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Get a little bit close, a little too close to
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Adam Larson, some of that humor starts to rub off and.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: You can.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, you get yourself and look at him, go
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: that was funny. You know, I I I listen. I
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: love the family man he's become. I love the the
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: ambassador of the game. He's becoming Seattle. I love his
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: game itself. He leads his team in blocked shots. And yeah,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: you can lead the team and goals and assists and
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: shot and shots, But when you're leading the team in
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: block shots throwing your body in front of a pucket,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: if you're if you your position is not goaltender, you're
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: a brave soul. And Adam Larson is that guy. He
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: stopped so many shots of getting through to the to
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: the net of Grubauer and Decord over the past few seasons.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: I think they own at least a couple of steak dinners.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: He is such a quintessential pro.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Again, his body takes a beating for the kind of
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: job that he has to do, but he shows up
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: every game and the only game, the only time that
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: ended a consecutive games played streak for a pretty good reason,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: and the best reason the birth of his daughter, Albus.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: So are slow here to Adam Larson.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: He'll be again saluted by the home faithful tomorrow night
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: at Climate Pledgerina. Before the opening faceoff for his one
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: thousandth career NHL game, played all right, our Crack and
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Whitley poll question, when nine games left, what do you
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: think is the biggest game of the year. Is it
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: tomorrow night against Utah? Is it next Monday at Winnipeg?
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Is it the home finale against Los Angeles Kings Or
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: is it Game eighty two regular season finale against the
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: call Rotto Avalanche in Rocky Mountain High Allison Luke in
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: with us after this right here on Cracking Weekly ninety
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: three three kJ RFM, looking for a road.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Again, broken up Momentari leaving the Firebirds handle Chugg Knoff
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: weft side Shaal Bilman inside Fires.
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  Speaker 5: Swanny.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: First goal of the season for Newman comes in its
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: thirty first game.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: The Firebirds strike of the powder playing lead one.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Now big thanks to Evan Pivnik and the Firebirds broadcast
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: team for that call. All right, it is April Fool's Day,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: but don't be fooled. The Coachella Valley Firebirds look a
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: lot like a playoff team these days. Mike Benton again
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: with you bank here on Cracking Weekly with Al Koniski.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Firebirds have won five in a row. They're also coming
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: off a four to one win over San Jose. That
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: goal you had just heard a part of a for
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: two win over the Barracoot last Saturday, courtesy Yannie Newman.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: He and the Firebirds getting closer here to a playoff
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: berth with nine games left. Magic number is seven to Clems,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: their fourth right now in the Pacific Division, thirty seven
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: to twenty one and five their record under Derek Waxtall.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Back in action tonight against the Ontario Rain. Of course,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: the Firebirds just getting Logan Morrison back from the crack,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: and he, of course recalled under emergency conditions. He leads
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: the Firebirds right now fifty seven points in sixty two games.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Jaggerfurcus is also two points back Morrison's fifty seven points
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: tight for eighth right now in American Hockey League scoring.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: That's our look at the Firebirds and again for more
• 23:43
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• 23:47
  Speaker 3: further Ado joining us now on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline,
• 23:49
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• 23:53
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• 23:56
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• 24:00
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• 24:03
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• 24:06
  Speaker 3: She's working hard. She's Alison Lucan Alison, without further ado, Hi,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: how are you.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: I'm great, Thanks for having me, guys, happy.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: To be here any time here.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish we were talking about, of course, a
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: son of your picture after last night and a lost
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: to Edmonton, but coming off of three nothing loss, a
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: day off here to recalibrate before two games at home, Allison,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: give us your state of the Crack and right now
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: with nine games left.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think everyone's seeing what's happening and
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: feeling the joy and despair that is this time of year.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: You know, I think let's start a big picture.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: I think that even I was saying going into this season,
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: if this was a team that could get to a
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: place that was playing meaningful hockey in late March and April,
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: we would all be thrilled. So I think we have
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: to big picture, appreciate that small picture.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: The team has said coach Ambert has said, this is
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: playoff hockey for them now, and in playoff hockey, scoring
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: drives up, everything gets tighter, and that's what's happening to
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: the Crack. And I don't mind a ton of how
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: they played versus Edmonton, but they.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: Just couldn't score.
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: They couldn't put the puck in the net, and some
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: small mistakes against some skilled players really burned them. I
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: think that once this season is over, this team is
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: going to have earned what they get. You know, there's
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: been some key games and we can all point to
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: some of them that I think were missed opportunities that
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: make now a game like last night have higher importance
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: than maybe it had to have if they'd started a
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: little bit better coming out of that Olympic break in particular.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll get to hear for the you know, the
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: just following up on that was six games on the road,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: that's all done. You know, we saw maybe the emission
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: of guilt with getting out of the gate against teams
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: like Nashville, Columbus and Florida, and then the fire was
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: lit in Florida and then that led into the big
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: overtime when at Tampa. So what do you think that
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: we learned maybe about those six games affecting how the
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: crack and had to approach the.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Final nine left here with road.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Games still left in Winnipeg, Minnesota, Vegas and Colorado.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean again, how to approach is the time
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: for tweaking things is done well passed, and we all
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: here intimately know that practice time is at a premium
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: as well. I think that you know and we all
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: know this also that you have to lead by example.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: And I think particularly in that game in Tampa, you
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: know Brandon montor Chandler Stevenson. I'll even put Maddie Benier's
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: in this category, and Philip Grubauer too. We're seeing some
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: players who know what this time of year means and
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: what it takes take it to another level. And I
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: think that now the challenge is to the rest of
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: this roster, and no one's you know, phoning it in
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: or not trying to play well.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: But this is about leveling up.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: And really I talked to some guys when they here
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: the other day and someone said to me, it comes
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: from the fact that I hate to lose even more
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: than I care about winning, and that switch needs to
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: flip for more players than the few that I mentioned.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: Alison.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Despite to where the krack and are right now two
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: points sort of a wild card spot, they have injected
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: some life into their lineup since the Olympic break. Talk
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: a little bit about Coppocaco and Philip Grubauer coming off
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: the Olympic break, and also the addition of Bobby McMahon.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: I know that he's been on a terrorism late.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, for sure.
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: I mean Bobby McMahon has been I've argued this and
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: perhaps the best trade deadline move across.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: The league this season.
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: I mean you could suggest in terms of fit and
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: also production, I think he's been fantastic.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: I like the way he plays.
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: I think that the simpleness of his game, and I
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: mean that is a compliment, makes him easy to play with.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: He's direct, he's not afraid to shoot, he's not afraid
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: to go to the net, and we've seen his speed
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: on display as well, and so I think when a
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: player comes in and plays that way, again easy to
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: play with, but also easy to see the impact. And
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: when we talk about players kind of pulling each other
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: into the fight, I think his style does that. And
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: to your point, Coppo and you know Grubauer, I think
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: these are two players who in some ways, and I
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: think we see this on the men's and women's side.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: The Olympics are this.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: Amazing, awesome thing and you love that players get to
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: do it. But then it's almost like an exhale when
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: they're done right, because there's been competing things pulling at you,
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: competing loves pulling at you. And I think for Grubauer,
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: you know, having more regular play going into the Olympics,
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: playing well at the Olympics really sets him up to
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: now be solid first time with three straight starts this season,
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: just last night and then Coppo, same kind of trajectory.
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: I think he found confidence being back with his fellow fins.
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: And I think also for him it's health right, it's
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: just consistent reps and health. It will stop start for
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: him so much at the start of this season. I
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: think we're just seeing him hit his stride with support
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: of a great Olympics performance because he's healthy and now
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: can do what the team needs him to do.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Allison Luke and joining us here at the Beacon Plumbing
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: hotline right now and another Olympian that I'll get to
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: maybe a bit more under the radar, but I mean,
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: my goodness, he goes out and plays there and overall
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: it seems like he doesn't skip a bea coming back up.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: That's Oscar fisk Er Molegard and we'll see at the
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: front office as different plans, But I mean, I love
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: how he is fitting in right now from the overall
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: scope of things, But what does this last stretch of
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: games potentially you think mean for him for this next season?
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: And then what's impressed maybe you the most here about
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: what he's brought coming back up.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think for him personally and individually,
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: I think he's got to feel good right because he's
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: being used more. Lane Lambert was clear about that we're
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: going to give him more ice time than what he
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: saw that first couple of times he came up, So
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: he's got to feel c confident. And I think this
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: is a player, to Al's point, that did benefit from
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: an Olympic experience. I talked to Oliver Buorick Strand when
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: Tampa Bay was here, and he was very impressed with
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: what Oscar did in the Olympics with their country's team.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: So I think he did get that confidence boost, and
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: I think this is an important step in his development
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: as far as what he's doing right now. You know,
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: I like how he's playing, he doesn't he He has
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: a confidence, a simple quiet confidence to the way he
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: plays that I really appreciate. I also appreciate how well
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: he reads plays, he knows where to be, he knows
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: how to break up opportunities, break up possession, and I
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: think he has an offensive mind to him too, coupled
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: with that defensive responsibility. I think, is this a player
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: who maybe still continues to move, you know, back and
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: forth between AHL and the NHL.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: For a little bit more sure And is that a
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: bad thing?
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: Absolutely not, because he's he's really proving to be one
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: of those solid types of players that can really help
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: make a solid NHL roster long term.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: So with nine gyme left, eighteen points in the line,
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: I look at the last five Allison and I see
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: twenty shots on goal in Tampa Bay and that was
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: the the OT winner. It seems to me, and this
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: is this is where my questions. It seems to me
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: that this team has success when they play from their
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: own posts out But you know the numbers better than anybody.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: What do you think about that?
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's funny because if you go quote
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: unquote by the numbers, and it's funny. This is a
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: Laine Lambert team. When he was hired. I looked at
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: his Islanders team and it's very similar. They kind of
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: defy what common knowledge thinks, and to me, that's a
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: trigger to say, there's something missing in what we're doing
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: with the numbers right now, and it's measuring how defense
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: to offense.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Really can be effective. We aren't. We can't. They are
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: being outshot on the regular this team, and they are
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: usually a.
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: Low shot count to your point, but they have won
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: a lot this year playing that way.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: So in this case, to me, and.
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: I've said this on air, like at this point, I
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: don't necessarily look so much at the shot count with
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: this group. I look at what they're doing defensively, and
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: I look at how confident they are with the puck
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: and in their transition play, and those things aren't available publicly.
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: I can see some of that. But you know again,
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: I think teams like this, the flip side of that
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: is the Carolina team that shoots every single thing they can,
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: and that doesn't necessarily tell the story of how they
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: win either. So I think if the kracking can continue
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: to find success in the way they play, those of
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: us who look at numbers should be challenged to say,
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: what are we missing because these numbers don't support what
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: they're doing, but they're doing something, which means we're not
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: measuring the right things.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: In this instance, you can call the Pacific Division maybe crazy,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: you can call a chaotic. Connor mc david will call
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: it a pillow fight here. But I mean, in this
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: whole scope, you still have the kings hanging around this
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: picture right now, San Jose. They're hanging on for dear life.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: But what maybe surprised you the most about how this
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: division has unfolded at this point of the season.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: I mean, I think it's literally just the lack of
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: like someone coming up and seizing this thing right like
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: it's crazy. Honestly, I think what surprised me is Anaheim.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: I saw them as a team coming up, and I
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: do think and this is they're going to be good
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: long term because of how they've been built, but they're
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: not necessarily great defensively yet a little similar to Sam Jose,
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: but a different vibe and so, but it surprised me
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: that they've been able to claim to the number one
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: spot like they have good for them. And then I've
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: also been surprised by how lack of days ago Vegas
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: has gone about taking care of their business this year,
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: and we see they get a coaching change as a result.
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: But yeah, I think overall this division.
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: And I think that's part of what you know, maybe
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: Krack and fans are feeling too, is that in a
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: division where no one's laying claim to it, come on
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: cracking just right and they'll be the team that steps up.
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: So yeah, a weird year, A weird year for sure
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: in this division.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the goalscoring differentials plus ten for edmund
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: ten and plus twenty.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's insane.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: And to me, you know, if you take out Edmonton
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: obviously Connor McDavid there, it could just be, you know,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: a lack of high performance scoring that has these coupled
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: with goaltending that has a lot of these teams in
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: the red that are still making playoff positions. Nashville Predators
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: dash twenty six goals, franchill and they're in the wild
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: card two spot right now. So what do you see
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: is the secret sauce here of these last nine elis.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: And obviously we talked a little bit about defense and
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: playing from the posts out I think that's huge, But
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: what are the crawd What are the three things that
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Krack can have to do to get as many of
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: these points left on the table.
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I think taking care of the puck
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: is key. I mean, and you know, again this is
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: not Adam Larson did not lose that game last night,
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: but you know, Adam Larson has a turnover and that
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: eventually leads to a second goal against.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: That makes it that much harder to dig out.
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: And I think we saw this in the game versus
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: Columbus as well, just a lack of puck management. I
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: think that's what I hear as well when we hear
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: Coach Lambert say things about not getting to fancy. We
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: don't need a fancy pass. We don't need you to
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: try the extra move or the extra pass. Just get
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: to where you need to be and shoot the puck
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: or get out of your zone. Do the task at hand.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: That's number one for me. Number two for me is
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: consistent goaltending continuing. That's really been such a big part
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: of what this team did all season. And I'm certainly
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: not saying it's falling off, but it has to stay
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: solid and then and I think we all talked about
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: this yesterday, you know, seeing the shooting mentality.
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: They picked it up in the second and third periods.
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: But this is a team that does have to work
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: hard to get it scoring chances, so when you get
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: them again, don't take the extra pass, don't hesitate, don't
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: dust it off unless you absolutely have to. To settle
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: the puck. Shoot everything you can towards the net.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: I moved down the hallway, so to speak. As far
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: as the hockey conversation here, of course, your work with
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: the PWUHL tour and fantastic as usual, by the way,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: but they just get hillarvery night back from the mcl
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: scare at the Olympics. I mean, tough news a Hannah
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Bilka being out for the season. I love watching her play,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: but first off, what's the overall scope of this, Dallas,
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: And as far as what the Winter Olympics, did hear
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: the women's gold medal and how much that helped the
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: game's exposure around here?
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's been amazing, right.
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: I think that you know, Hillary has said this and
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: she would know even better than I that that was
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: perhaps the best team USA ever assembled, her team that
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: she captained, and they just steamrolled through those Olympic Games.
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: It was awesome to watch. And then I think coupled
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: with the effect that you know on the women's side
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: the men's side, you've always been able to if you
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: wanted to watch hockey around the world, there were places
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: to go do that. Prior to the PWHL, there really
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: wasn't an easily accessible way for that to happen. You
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: saw this team, you got excited, and then four years
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: later you saw him again. So I think we're starting
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: to see, particularly you know here in Seattle, where we
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: love our women's sports and our men's sports, people can
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: now go and support these athletes and say, I want
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: to be part of this, And I think it's a
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: very accessible way to the sport, a more financially accessible
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: way into the sport.
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: And you know, I love too.
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: While Hillary couldn't play while she was recovering, I love
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: that she was able to go out and be an ambassador,
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: to raise the spotlight on what these women did, what
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: this team did, and just be celebrated and have the
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: paradigm continue to start to shift that there is no
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: difference between a women's sport and a men's sport. They
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: should be celebrated for what they accomplish, and when they're great,
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: they should be recognized as such, and if they can
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: compete at a high level, we should all go watch
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: and support them.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Torner back taking on the New York Sirens this Saturday
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: over sixteen thousand for the return of Hillary Knight in
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: that loss to Ottawa. Been a tough year, twenty two
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: points seven games left right now in the season for them,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: it's good to have a course of captain back. But Allison,
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: how much do you think the draft for them is
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: going to help reshape this team short term and long term?
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: So you know it's going to be interesting because the
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: PWHL doesn't handle drafting like most national sports do, and
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: I love it. They do what's called gold Plan drafting,
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: which means when your team is eliminated, the clock starts fresh,
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: and every point you earn, the team with the most
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: points has the best chance of improving their draft position.
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: So you're not going to see tanking. You're not going
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: to see teams just mailing it in. It's really really cool.
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: But I think, you know, again, this is the power
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: of those Olympics is that you saw some players in
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: those games, like KK Harvey, you know, Leila Edwards, that
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: those kind of of talents coming to a team whoever
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: is lucky enough to get them is just awesome. And
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: it continues that cycle of oh, we know that player,
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: and now that player's here, and even if that player
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: isn't here, you're going to see that player when that
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: team comes through your market where you play.
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: So, and I think.
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: Too for this, for this Torrent squad and all the squads,
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: next year could be interesting. There's talk of expansion again,
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: so rosters are going to be reshaped again. But for
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: a Torrent and even a GoldenEye, you're going to have
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: a year under your belt.
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: You're going to have a year.
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: They've never had travel like this in this league before,
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: so there's been a big learning curve to that. There's
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: a more established culture, there's a more established lifestyle, so
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: many things that they had to figure out fresh are
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: going to be in place. Systems, the teammates who stay
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: under contract will still be here, So I think draft
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: plus familiarity is going to help both of those teams.
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: And then maybe there's.
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: Two new or four new who's to say, we don't
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: know for sure coming on board to make things even
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: more interesting.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: And then there's the NBA coming to town as well, allegedly, So.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Allison, Finally, Adam Larson one thousand games still be
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: saluted Tomorrow night when the cracking come back home to you.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: What's this legacy meant so far for the first four
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: plus seasons here.
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think I from my experience, I
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: don't know that. I think fans feel this and they
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: maybe don't articulate it yet, and that's totally fine. But
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: this is a player who chose to come to Seattle
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: and chose to stay in Seattle.
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: I think that's going to be a huge.
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: Part of his legacy, of being a player that wanted
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: to be here and wanted to build this. I think
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: his style and his demeanor endears him to both teammates
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: and fans alike. And I think on the ice, it's
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: easy to talk about how strong and excellent he is
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: as a defensive player. But for me, the other thing
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: that I think he should be heralded for is he's
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: kind of been the magic to unlock Vince Dunn's game too,
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: right in that Vince Dunn loves playing with him, and
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: Vince did a lot of work in these off seasons
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: to get to a level where he can continue to
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: play with Adam Larson. Then they have a chemistry now
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: that really works. And so I think that you know,
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: in five ten years Crack and fans should still be
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: saying the name Adam Larson as a big part of
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: a team that was built on a defensive identity and
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: live true to that and gave everything he could and
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: was perhaps one of the most dedicated players to the
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: game that comes through this arena to date.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Well said, he's going to be a slid before the
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: opening face off of the Kraken and the Utah Mammoth.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: As far as you well said, well written as well.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Appreciate the time, Alison, Thank you. We'll talk to you
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: again soon.
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: Thanks so much.
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: This is fun with al here breaking out a bigger team.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: That's good.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me, guys.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Thanks great stuff, you bet.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: I always looking to get bigger and better big Thanks
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: again to Alison Luke and for joining us. By the way,
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: find her at Twitter and X at Allison L. Allison
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: with one L before the letter L A L I
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: S O N L is a place to find her
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: at Twitter and X. All right, mail bag, three stars,
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: all wrap up, all right after this right here on
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Cracking Weekly on ninety three to three KJRFM. All right,
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: let's hear it. Nine games left. What do you think
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: is the biggest game of the year, and a lot
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: are you saying, Well, the time is now to put
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: foot to gas. It is tomorrow night against a Utah
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: mammoth that got fifty percent of the vote thirty three
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: percent of you. By the way, say the home finale
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: against the Los Angeles Kings will be the biggest game
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: of the year. A lot to shakeouts before that game
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: on April thirteenth, But again let's hear it from you.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Drop your vote right now at Crack and Audio and again,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: with nine games left, what do you think is the
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: biggest game of the year. Big things Once again to
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: Alison Luke Ann for joining us once again the Cracking
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: back in action tomorrow night. She'll be on the TV
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: desk also PWHL Torrent hosting New York again on Saturday,
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: Mike and Now with you as well. Everett fits you
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: off here for the week back with us two here
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: for this next week. So before we get to our
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: mailbag segment, I can't help but think that Tomorrow night
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: is the biggest game just because of the circumstances. L
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: If you basically used up all the equity that you
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: can from this last six game road trip, I mean
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: you're looking at Winnipeg and going in there with how
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: noisy it can be. You're looking at maybe the Kings
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: and how close they can be. But I mean, first
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: things first, I mean Utah is a legitimate playoff team.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: They're gonna make it. They're a tough out. This is
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: your biggest game of the year, coming back home op
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: that six game trip.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this Utah team has proven that they've got the
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: legs to go into this playoff run, and I wouldn't
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: be surprised for them to hold on to one of
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: these two remaining wild card spots. Obviously, they've got the
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: backing of Ashley and Ryan Smith and what they've done
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: out there in Utah and continued to do so.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: They're definitely a team that's streaking right now.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: Having said that, they are coming into Seattle, it's home
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: iice advantage for the Kraken, and they're going to have
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: to find a way to take advantage of that.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: They've got to get a great start.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: They've got to go out and win that first period,
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: and even if they don't, they've got to come back
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: with a strong push in the second. You know, you
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: can't see a two goal lead in the first period
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: turn into a two to two tie after the opposing
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: team pushes in the second period, which they always do.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: We see it every single game. We saw the krack
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: and do it last game. So ideally, you win that
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: first period, you hold off that push in the second,
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: and you bring home our regulation win in that game
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: against Utah Thursday.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: Also, what you're hoping at here is that the Kings
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: can find a way to slip against what is right
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: now the easiest strength of schedule in the NHL. Right now,
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: they have nine games left. They still have two against
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: the Canucks, they have one against the Flames, they have
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: one against the Blues, they have one against the Leafs,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: one of course against the Kraken, but also two against
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: the Nashville Predators. Those are looming large on their side. Nashville, meanwhile,
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: has got to deal with Minnesota for at least one
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: more time. And plus also not just the Kings, but
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: also San Jose twice Utah also won. So you've got
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: to make as much hey, as I said earlier in
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: this show, proverbally, almost each and every game right now
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: when nine games left and l I like your theory
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: of if you can bank fourteen points out of eighteen,
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: put foot to Gas. That's going to really put you
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: in great position here to grab that second wildcard spot
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: because it has been so volatile as far as positioning
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: in this Ustern Conference for virtually the entire season. All right,
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: under our mail bag segment, we go once again hit
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: us up at Betton Underscore mic from my account. Go
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: ahead and follow the crack and Audio network at Cracking
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Audio at al Kiniski's also at al Kaniski. Question from Rob,
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: I would love to know why when we should be,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: you know, battling to get into playoff contention, it seems
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: as if maybe there's some disinterest or even the slightest
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: bit of hunger to fight. Is this, you know, a
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: talent issue somewhere else? I'm convinced that coaching is not
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: our problem. Not from Rob on Twitter and next, the
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: way I can summarize this is that Lane Lambert has
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: done everything he can to lead the horse to water
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: right now in nine games left in this regular season.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: The structure proved that you can win games three to
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: two and two to one. This is how this roster
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: is built. Right now, I'm convinced again a little bit
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: less that it's one hundred percent of a passion issue.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: And granted some questions in some the have certainly been
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: valid here, but again, I think this is more of
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: just meeting the moment where Lane Lambert said this himself.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: You can't play with a timid space against teams like Colorado,
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: against teams like Tampa Bay.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: We heard this over and over and over, and.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: I think the methodology of gripping your stick a little
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: bit too tight. As they say in this business, with
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: tension comes hesitation, and with the extra second of hesitation,
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: you're burned, especially at this time of year, because players
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: are faster, systems execute faster, and they're much more dialed
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: in where you're starting to see the teams who give
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: the extra inch find their way to the top.
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that we saw some of that
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: in the game in Edmonton, where in that first period
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: Edmonton was not giving Seattle any time in space to
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: get anything done. And when you do that, you make
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: bad decisions with the puck. When you do that, it's
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: tough to get team speed going because they're on you
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: right away. I think that's exactly the with a crack
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: you need to play going forward these last nine games,
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: and certainly against teams like Vegas like Colorado where you know,
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: including Utah, where they've got a lot of talent. They
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: can get you into that track me kind of game
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: if you let them. You don't let them by playing
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: them type, playing them physical and forcing them to make
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: bad decisions.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: Once again, find us a crack and audio network. The
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: handle is Cracking audio Net. We had a lot of
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: reaction as far as what the grade was here from
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: this last road trip, and it wasn't very complementary. I
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: don't think one three and two deserves anything a little
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: bit higher than that. But I think there's once again
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: a common expectation here is that at this time of year,
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: when you have been talking about being in the playoff mix,
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: when you have been talking about making the playoffs, there's
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: more attention, and with the attention comes a greater demand
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: to elevate your game. And so this is where I
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: would think that you know, the root of this was,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: you know, disappointment. I get this one here from the
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: handle blended Unicorn at Twitter and X. You're gonna be
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: a bit more generous here than others and say it
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: was a see the problem was and the Kraken played terrible.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: It's that other teams elevate their games at this time
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: of year, and the Kraken did not as a result.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that that's fair. I think that's you know,
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: two things can be true. I think that the other
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: team can elevate their game.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: But that's that's.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: What you're going into every team trying to do, trying
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: to outplay the guy across from you, the team across
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: from you, and you know, it's it's a battle of
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: wills every single shift, every single play. So yeah, if
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: you're able to elevate, that your your your game. And
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: when when when you talk about elevating, that's the defensive
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: side of the pack, that's that's that's your goaltender and net.
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: That's winning fifty to fifty puck battles, that's.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: Playing more physical than when you start to put all
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: those all those things together, that's what elevating your game means.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: Hey, Kevin at Twitter and x set, he just gave
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: him a D because they had at least three chances
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  Speaker 3: to get at least six or seven points lost of Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: Last of Columbus US lost to Florida. He didn't expect
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  Speaker 3: to win over Tampa Bay. The Kracking did get that though,
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  Speaker 3: But the krakend last night with too many turnovers and
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  Speaker 3: too many giveaways, and they had to play flawless, as
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  Speaker 3: he says, to be competitive.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's just it, you know, a giveaway from
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  Speaker 4: Adam Larson, a rare giveaway as well, But it's not
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  Speaker 4: necessarily that that particular play, it wasn't Adam Larson giving
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  Speaker 4: the puck away. It was Edmonton attacking the pucks so
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  Speaker 4: quickly that caused them to I think that that was
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  Speaker 4: that was the Casperry goal. It caused them to get
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  Speaker 4: that opportunity. So you know a lot of people would
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: blame Adam Larson for that. That's that's a pass that
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  Speaker 4: she probably makes nine times out of ten the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the season and doesn't doesn't get it picked off.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, I'd like to see him make a better.
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  Speaker 4: Better decision there as we get closer to the playoffs
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  Speaker 4: and closer to the end of the season, because I think
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs that pass gets picked off a little
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  Speaker 4: more free than it does in the first ten games
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  Speaker 4: of the season.
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  Speaker 3: All right, With that further ado, time now to get
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  Speaker 3: to our three stars here in this one. I'll go first,
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  Speaker 3: my third star of the Week is Philip Grubauer for
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  Speaker 3: a couple of reasons. Number one, last night four hundredth
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  Speaker 3: NHL game, and I think a big testimony to what
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  Speaker 3: I think turning the page represents after what was the
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  Speaker 3: season that just went completely off the tracks last year,
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  Speaker 3: and many of us had questions about the long term
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: viability for him in it. But to give him credit,
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: getting to work with Colin Zulianello and Coachella Valley, I
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  Speaker 3: think flipped the switch and you saw how much a
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: summer of reset, a new coach, a new system, a
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: new plan made a big difference here for him. And
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  Speaker 3: I said this right back about middle of the season.
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  Speaker 3: He's your mid season MVP. The numbers that have taken
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: a dip a little bit but grew Bauer very strong
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  Speaker 3: in net. Last night certainly was not on him. The
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  Speaker 3: Buffalo game was not on him. The cracking needed a
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: little bit more offense, and I think except for maybe
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: the two on one goal, I mean you can't ask
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  Speaker 3: for a much better effort out of Philip Grubauer like
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  Speaker 3: in last night's game. And for his performance and getting
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  Speaker 3: the game four hundred, he is my third star of
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  Speaker 3: the week. My second star goes to Brandon Montour. Two
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  Speaker 3: goals since we last had this radio show, both coming
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  Speaker 3: in the same game, both coming really couldn't have come
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  Speaker 3: at a better time, and against Tampa Bay where he
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  Speaker 3: finished off the lightning and in a place where he
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  Speaker 3: drew lightning rod type of attention. You and Everett mentioned
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  Speaker 3: this al of course, his history in Florida. Other players
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: were very aware of his history. I talked with Berkeley Catton.
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  Speaker 3: Montour was engaged, he was locked in, he was chirping,
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  Speaker 3: He knew about how high the stakes were for that game.
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  Speaker 2: He was dialed in.
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  Speaker 3: I think to me it also sets an example just
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  Speaker 3: not just you know, not not just with the overtime
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  Speaker 3: winner that he's scored here, but this again is the
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  Speaker 3: kind of brand the Kraken are looking for. In crunch time.
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  Speaker 3: He is keeping the room loose, that's part of his job,
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  Speaker 3: and then he finds a way to emotionally rise to
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  Speaker 3: the moment within control. You saw that two goal effort happen.
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  Speaker 3: Brandon Montour is my second start, without question, first star
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Bobby McMahon. It seems like it is lather Rein's repeat
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  Speaker 3: since the trade deadline. But again, as Allison said, I
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: mean her take on this. It might be the trade
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: deadline pickup of the year right now, and it's hard
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  Speaker 3: to argue with that six game road trip, three goals
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  Speaker 3: to assist five points as well, last three games since
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  Speaker 3: this radio show four points tied with Coppocaco two goals
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  Speaker 3: in those three games. The Buffalo game that he's scored
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: to make it to nothing. My goodness, that burned down
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  Speaker 3: the highlight reel. My goodness. I can't wait to see
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  Speaker 3: more of this here in Seattle. He may get the
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  Speaker 3: bag he deserves to hear at this point. Bobby McMahon
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  Speaker 3: take a bow, A big reason why the Kraken are
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  Speaker 3: still in this fight.
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  Speaker 2: He's my first start.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, two of the same for me. I'll start with
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: Grubauers third star two too and one. Over his last
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  Speaker 4: five save percentage of the percentages that were all north
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  Speaker 4: of nine hundred except for one that Tampa Bay lost,
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  Speaker 4: the first Tampa Bay game. He's averaged two point eight
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  Speaker 4: goals against over the last five, but again losing that
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  Speaker 4: game five to one. The first one against Tampa has
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  Speaker 4: a big impact on that. I like how he was
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  Speaker 4: able to come back and play that the lightning game
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  Speaker 4: in Tampa Bay and get the win. I love when
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  Speaker 4: a goaltender gets that opportunity and obviously has success doing that.
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  Speaker 4: But for all those reasons, he's my third star. My
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: second star goes to Kapocaco. Two goals and four assists
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  Speaker 4: and his last five. Like we talked about with Alison,
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  Speaker 4: he's been lights out since the Olympic break, coming back
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  Speaker 4: after playing for his country. He's found a way to
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: elevate his game, which in past conversations I've said, that's
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: the best you can hope for, other than maybe winning
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  Speaker 4: the medal.
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  Speaker 5: Coming back to the Olympics is.
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  Speaker 4: Elevating your game, and both he and Grubauer have both
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  Speaker 4: done that. So he's my second star. And then I
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  Speaker 4: agree Bobby McMahon. This guy, he's he's taken over the
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  Speaker 4: leader in the clubhouse for power wingers.
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  Speaker 5: In this team.
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  Speaker 4: I put a guy like Ellie Tolvenan in there as well,
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: but McMahon's a little bit faster than Ellie tolven and
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  Speaker 4: he plays just as physical. He has just is elite,
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: an elite of a shot, loves going to the front
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  Speaker 4: of the net. There's a lot more excitement that I
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: look forward to seeing in this game, and I hope
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  Speaker 4: the Cracken are able to keep him for the for
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  Speaker 4: the for future years. But boy, mccacmahon, he's my first star.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: He's been phenomenal. Here can the Cracking get more of that?
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: Beginning Tomorrow night against the Utah Mammoth. We'll talk more
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: about it at six point thirty on air post game
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: coverage by the way, at Tom's Watchbar. Same deal for
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: Saturday Kraken and the Blackhawks. We'll talk with you then,
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  Speaker 3: Everett now on the call.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be with you.
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: Once again pregame, intermission and postgame as well. All right,
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  Speaker 3: all the time we got right here. Big thanks also
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: to Alison Lucan for joining us and for al I
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Mike here for Cracking Weekly.
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  Speaker 2: See Yeah,