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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert speaks with Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken face the Washington Capitals (10/11) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Mike Benton, thank you very much. Lane, a 6-3 win
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  Speaker 1: in Motown the other night, a game in which you
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  Speaker 1: felt the team needed a better start at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day. You got the result that you wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Just take us back through those 60 minutes in Detroit
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  Speaker 1: and how you felt the Kraken played overall.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think they came out hard at us, which
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  Speaker 2: teams are going to do at times in their buildings, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Todd McClellan's team is a high-shock volume team. They delivered
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  Speaker 2: everything at the net. They went to the net. I
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  Speaker 2: thought You know, we did a pretty good job for
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  Speaker 2: the most part of limiting their seconds.
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  Speaker 3: But Ruby played well for us. And, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: then we kind of got our sights set, so to speak.
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  Speaker 2: And we started sniping. And, you know, they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: an answer for that. But we certainly took advantage of
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  Speaker 2: our opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: What was the turning point in that game for you
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  Speaker 1: after that first period? They get one early, but then
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  Speaker 1: ultimately you're able to score four in a row, the
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  Speaker 1: fourth line really coming alive in that game. Was there
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  Speaker 1: a moment?
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  Speaker 3: Was there a play?
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  Speaker 1: Did you get into them in the locker room at
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  Speaker 1: the intermission? Where do you feel that turning point was
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  Speaker 1: for Seattle?
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  Speaker 3: No, I didn't get into them in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: I think the leadership and the players did a good
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  Speaker 2: job of sort of recognizing that things could be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit better.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen us worse.
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  Speaker 2: Let's put it that way. It wasn't like a total disaster.
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  Speaker 2: We were battling. Sometimes when you're watching it live and
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  Speaker 2: you're looking up at the shot clock, your heart rate
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  Speaker 2: goes up a little bit. But re-watching it, it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: as bad as maybe it felt. That's converse to the
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  Speaker 2: Vegas game where re-watching it, it was worse than you thought.
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  Speaker 2: But no, I think that we just got our legs going.
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  Speaker 2: The bottom line is we started skating better and our
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  Speaker 2: team has to skate. If we don't skate, we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to have success. We're not built to not skate.
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  Speaker 2: We're built to skate. We're built for speed. We're not
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  Speaker 2: the biggest team. We're not the smallest team either, but
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, we have to skate,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought we started skating.
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  Speaker 1: We found out yesterday that Jacob Melanson is going to
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  Speaker 1: be out for an extended period of time after a
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  Speaker 1: scary situation last week in Calgary. Obviously, his health is
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  Speaker 1: most important. Have you been able to talk to him?
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  Speaker 1: How is he?
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  Speaker 3: How are his spirits?
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  Speaker 1: I know that the Kraken are working on a slow process,
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  Speaker 1: a slow recovery to get him back to playing hockey,
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  Speaker 1: but what can you share about his status, his prognosis,
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  Speaker 1: and how he's feeling overall?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's feeling pretty good now. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's optimistic, obviously. I've talked to him every step of
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  Speaker 2: the way here right from the time it happened to
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  Speaker 2: as late as yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: So he's just on the road to recovery. Get healthy,
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  Speaker 3: get better, and we'll go from there. We miss him.
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  Speaker 3: We look forward to getting him back in our lineup.
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  Speaker 3: Big member.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big piece of that fourth line. And in
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  Speaker 1: his absence, that fourth line, the last game in Detroit
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  Speaker 1: really stood out. Seven points between those three. What about
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  Speaker 1: them have you been able to see is the reason
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  Speaker 1: why they work so well together? Freddie Gaudreau finding the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Myers in his second game of the season putting
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  Speaker 1: home a three-point night. Just your thoughts on the fourth
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  Speaker 1: line and how crucial and how impactful they are for
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  Speaker 1: this team.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's, um, you know, it's a good option for
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  Speaker 2: me to have because with Benny and, uh, Freddie both
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  Speaker 2: being a ready and a lefty face off guy, um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we can put them out against the other
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  Speaker 2: team's top lines at any point in time.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have to, uh, worry about that.
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  Speaker 2: And actually we do prefer to start them in our
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  Speaker 2: D D zone against the other team's top lines at times.
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  Speaker 3: Winterton's got the speed on the, on the wing as well.
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  Speaker 2: So, um, You know, it's allowed us, you know, at
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  Speaker 2: the start when Sam Miscavige was out, Winterton was moved up.
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  Speaker 3: It's allowed us to put.
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  Speaker 2: Winterton back down and, you know, make that line a very,
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  Speaker 2: very responsible line with some speed. So, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: bottom line is they do things the right way and
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  Speaker 2: they compete. And when you do that, you have a
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  Speaker 2: tendency to have success.
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  Speaker 1: When you have multiple lines like you do that are
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  Speaker 1: capable of chipping in offensively, taking over a game, leading
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  Speaker 1: a game, how does that positively affect your game plan?
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  Speaker 1: Knowing that at any given time I can throw out
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  Speaker 1: any one of my lines and I'm probably going to
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  Speaker 1: have some minimally grade a scoring chances on that shift.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, you know, it's, it just varies.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we've started the season here with, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've scored six goals in three games.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Three games, we've had six goals in each game.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, I mean, we've just got to keep
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  Speaker 2: going and keep, you know, we've taken advantage of our opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: things like that. We've got to continue to go and
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  Speaker 2: continue to grind. It's not going to be six goals
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  Speaker 2: a game here the way the whole season goes, but
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  Speaker 2: certainly it's been nice. And I think, you know, from
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  Speaker 2: that standpoint, you know, what we've done is kind of,
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  Speaker 2: ham and egged it a little bit when our top
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  Speaker 2: lines haven't been going, you know, our third and fourth
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  Speaker 2: line have. So there's been a nice sort of balance
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  Speaker 2: there from that standpoint. You know, we're looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: getting all four lines going tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a goals four above four does sound pretty
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  Speaker 1: good throughout the rest of the season. Here tonight against
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  Speaker 1: a Capitals team that has a lot of size, how
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  Speaker 1: much will speed for you be a factor in this
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  Speaker 1: game for the Kraken?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're going to have to use our speed. I
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  Speaker 2: want us to challenge their defense. That's what I wanted
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  Speaker 2: of our hockey team tonight, I think. That's where we
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  Speaker 2: need to maybe gain an edge or an advantage from
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  Speaker 2: that standpoint. Speed is key.