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KRAKEN WEEKLY: Buy or sell? Hello, Leafs with Dave McCarthy (1/28) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Into the offensive zone. So sekis a.
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  Speaker 2: to Altarga's side stop.
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  Speaker 2: That's his second of the period. But now we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have a fight.
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  Speaker 6: It'll be too Ham along with Malon said, Balon said,
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  Speaker 6: quant Balon said, will counter Jacob Allotson as him pinned,
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  Speaker 6: trying to get him off balance.
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  Speaker 2: To Hayn to the top of the head.
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  Speaker 6: Through two strong rights down Malonson has him at arms
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  Speaker 6: lake a couple of rabbit puts in with the left hand.
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  Speaker 5: Now too, Ham takes taking down all right. Those highlight's
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  Speaker 5: courtesy of the Global Credit Union Cracking Audio Network. Things
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  Speaker 5: now are back on the winning tracks. Welcome to the
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  Speaker 5: January twenty eighth edition of Crack and Weekly. Mike Benton,
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  Speaker 5: ever it fits you, Alconisky. We're also going to have
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  Speaker 5: Dave McCarthy of Sirius XMNHL Network Radio join us a
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  Speaker 5: little bit later on how are things in Leafland? You
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  Speaker 5: may ask. They're up next and they have a head
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  Speaker 5: coach with a gash on his forehead at leading score
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  Speaker 5: who gave the bird of the camera. What else is
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  Speaker 5: going on right now that's interesting to talk about. Well,
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be the next opponent here for the
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  Speaker 5: Leaves and Dave McCarthy are going to be joining us
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  Speaker 5: here in just a bit. But again, want to encourage
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  Speaker 5: you to get your questions into us once again. Benton Underscore,
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  Speaker 5: Mike my ex handle and Twitter as well. Everet's at
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  Speaker 5: the Voice fits Alconisky at Alconisky Plus also hime in
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  Speaker 5: for our poll question of the week. We are past
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  Speaker 5: the sixty percent mark now of the regular season and
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  Speaker 5: the Crack and are still in this fights within.
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  Speaker 1: The deep of it.
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  Speaker 5: So who's going to be the biggest challenge right now
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  Speaker 5: out of the Pacific Division to clinch a wildcard spot?
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  Speaker 5: Will it be the Anaheim Ducks, Will it be the
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  Speaker 5: San Jose Sharks, Will it be the Los Angeles Kings?
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  Speaker 5: You tell us vote right now at the Crack and
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  Speaker 5: Audio Network x account at Cracking audio Net. All right,
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  Speaker 5: without further ado, let's bring the guys in here for
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  Speaker 5: this as we once again march right toward the finish line.
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  Speaker 5: What it feels like of a month I just would
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  Speaker 5: never end as far as games, But here we are,
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  Speaker 5: one game left at home, two games left overall, and
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  Speaker 5: then the seventeen gay Marathon of January is done, and
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  Speaker 5: the crack and are making it right now. Before I
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  Speaker 5: get to my opening thoughts, fellas sleep, coffee, tea, anything
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  Speaker 5: else has been getting you through here.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be in winning hockey.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, looking at five goals scored by the Kracking last night.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was hard for me to go to bed
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  Speaker 5: after last night. That was fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's always fun when you're winning. It's always fun when
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  Speaker 2: you're scoring goals.
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  Speaker 6: And this team has now won three of its last
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  Speaker 6: four games, scoring what thirteen goals in that time, So
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  Speaker 6: I mean, listen, it's been coming in waves. And the
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  Speaker 6: wave that they're on right now, winners of three of four,
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  Speaker 6: that is the wave that you're hoping to ride into
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  Speaker 6: the break. And we've talked about this before, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I think if Seattle can get minimally three hopefully four
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  Speaker 6: wins in their next four games.
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  Speaker 2: That's gonna be. That's gonna be great going into the break.
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  Speaker 6: But then you're like, well, dart it now, I gotta
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  Speaker 6: stop playing because we're playing so well.
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  Speaker 2: Now the break's gonna hit.
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  Speaker 6: But hey, if they can go into this break no
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  Speaker 6: more than two points back, preferably you're in a playoff
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  Speaker 6: spot obviously, but if you can be within a game
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  Speaker 6: of the playoffs, I mean, that is I think, really
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  Speaker 6: really strong to finish out the I guess we'll call
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  Speaker 6: it the unofficial first half.
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  Speaker 2: For the season.
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  Speaker 5: That's going to be a good appetizer here for our thoughts,
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  Speaker 5: and I want to kind of tee this up for
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  Speaker 5: all of you officially on this because a Crack and
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  Speaker 5: are coming out of a period where they have three
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  Speaker 5: wins last four games. Now I want to get to
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  Speaker 5: your thoughts as well, So I'll kind of tee this
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  Speaker 5: up here for all of us, and the way that
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  Speaker 5: I want to frame this here, the Crack and our
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  Speaker 5: series team right now with what appears to be serious
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  Speaker 5: playoff aspirations. The Matty beniirs line is cooking right now,
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  Speaker 5: and he looks like a different player and a next
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  Speaker 5: level player from this last month, even this last week,
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  Speaker 5: goaltending has gotten back on the tracks with Joey to
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  Speaker 5: Cord and Philip Grubauer Special team side. Your power play
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  Speaker 5: is cooking right now since December and Lane lambert structure.
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  Speaker 5: Has this team really set up well for the long haul?
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  Speaker 5: I think at this point this is definitely sustainable. I
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  Speaker 5: mean we're passing now the fifty game mark of an
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  Speaker 5: eighty two game regular season schedule. All the talk is
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  Speaker 5: this sustainable is out the window as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 5: Now they have an important decision for the future of
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  Speaker 5: this franchise. Do you buy or do you sell? Buying
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  Speaker 5: means one thing, the playoffs now, and that's not a
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  Speaker 5: bad thing necessarily. I mean selling, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 5: means one thing too many. The playoffs are a nice thing,
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  Speaker 5: but it's not sustainable. And if you're getting more long
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  Speaker 5: term fulfillment as well, because you're building a young and
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  Speaker 5: hungry roster, that's going to pay off even bigger dividends
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  Speaker 5: here down the road for what they want to have
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  Speaker 5: eventually as a contender to get into a true contender window.
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  Speaker 5: Shane Wright and Jaden Schwartz's names are reportedly on the
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  Speaker 5: Athletic Trade Board writes his name as high as number five,
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  Speaker 5: and we can hem and haw about how we got here,
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  Speaker 5: especially with him, But overall, the Crack And need a
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  Speaker 5: big splash trade target here to take that next step
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  Speaker 5: if they want to go far this season with a
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  Speaker 5: roster that is rich with contracts up for UFA status.
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  Speaker 5: They've always lacked the forward here for the top line,
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  Speaker 5: someone I mean, who can consistently produce point per game
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  Speaker 5: in that superstar tier, mind you, and you could do
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  Speaker 5: wonders safe for taking pressure off Matty Baniers if you
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  Speaker 5: get a center or get a winger to play with
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  Speaker 5: Beniers or you know someone else, like say in Channel
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  Speaker 5: Stevenson's case, similar production to what he got out of
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  Speaker 5: Mark Stone in Vegas. But we're past the point here
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  Speaker 5: thinking that this team isn't sustainable or if they are,
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  Speaker 5: because they are right now. They have goaltending, they have structure,
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  Speaker 5: and they have a full body of proof that you
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  Speaker 5: can win like this and by this time of the
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  Speaker 5: year you go up and down the standings. Right now
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  Speaker 5: you are who you are, and the Crack And are
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  Speaker 5: on the verge of exciting times either way. But a
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  Speaker 5: decision's got to be made after we saw some really,
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  Speaker 5: really exciting hockey from this last week. Those are my
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  Speaker 5: opening thoughts. Guys, take it away, I'll tie it off.
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  Speaker 3: You're here for you, Yeah, Mike, A lot there to absorb.
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  Speaker 7: I think that you're right. I think that the.
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  Speaker 3: Question about is this sustainable has been answered. I think
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  Speaker 3: that you're most of the way through this month. I
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  Speaker 3: think you're heading into an Olympic break where you know
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  Speaker 3: naggy injuries are going to you're going to recover from.
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  Speaker 3: I think that the Lane train is chugging and the
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  Speaker 3: Laniacs are feeling so get your T shirt, get your hat,
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  Speaker 3: get on the train. There's not much room left. I
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  Speaker 3: think people are believers starting in the locker room.
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  Speaker 7: This team believes in this system.
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  Speaker 3: This team believes in this structure, and Lane does a
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  Speaker 3: pretty good job of holding the guys accountable when it
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  Speaker 3: breaks down, regardless of who it is. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's part of it as well. So, yeah, you know
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  Speaker 3: you are you sellers or buyers. I think that you
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  Speaker 3: are staying near the phone. I don't know that you're
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  Speaker 3: dialing for dollars. I don't know call It's like when
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  Speaker 3: you go to buy a car, as soon as you
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  Speaker 3: walk onto the lot, you're at a disadvantage because the
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  Speaker 3: salesperson knows you're there to buy a car. You want
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  Speaker 3: the salesperson calling you, And in this case, I think
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  Speaker 3: that Jason Botterol is taking calls from other teams saying
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  Speaker 3: what are you interested in? And if Shane Wright is
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  Speaker 3: part of that conversation, what do you willing to give
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  Speaker 3: up for Shane? Right, that's the best place.
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  Speaker 7: You can be in.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't I don't believe that any player, including
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  Speaker 3: Shane Wright, is being shopped around to thirty one other teams. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I like Shane's.
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  Speaker 6: Comments he made last week about you know, no offense
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  Speaker 6: to you guys in the media, but you can't really
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  Speaker 6: trust what you guys in the media uh say.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, man, absolutely, I love that from them.
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  Speaker 6: But I you know, I'm with you, Al and Mike.
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  Speaker 6: I want to go back to, you know, to your
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  Speaker 6: thoughts on the playoffs and you know.
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  Speaker 2: What this team needs.
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  Speaker 6: And as the one here that is employed by the team,
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna put my my business hat on. Hopefully I'm
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  Speaker 6: allowed to do this for a second. I think that
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  Speaker 6: right now you have to make the playoffs and I
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  Speaker 6: and I've been reading a lot of comments around you know,
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  Speaker 6: social media and all that, saying that, you know, what's
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  Speaker 6: the point of doing all of this if you're you're
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  Speaker 6: just gonna get swept in the first round, You're just
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  Speaker 6: gonna Number one, no one knows what's gonna happen. We
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  Speaker 6: were supposed to get swept by Colorado.
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  Speaker 5: Excuse me, remember Colorado and three? All that garbage talk.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, abs in three a few years ago, right, and
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  Speaker 6: then you're looking at Dallas, You're Jordan. Every stick is
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  Speaker 6: what six inches higher off the ground with nine seconds
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  Speaker 6: left in the third period, We're still playing hockey in overtime.
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  Speaker 5: So I think we're going to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but but I think that this team, this team
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  Speaker 6: has to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: And I think for a variety of reasons.
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  Speaker 6: Number one, you need to show that growth and show
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  Speaker 6: that improvement to your fan.
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  Speaker 2: Base, to you know, the organization. I think as a whole.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, hockey is a big you know, control what you
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  Speaker 6: can control. We don't worry about the outside noise. Well,
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  Speaker 6: the outside noise is that by the time you get
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  Speaker 6: back from this three week Olympic break, there very well
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  Speaker 6: could be another Super Bowl championship in this city and
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  Speaker 6: their baseball team that was what five outs away from
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  Speaker 6: the World Series for the first time is going to be, right,
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  Speaker 6: smack dab in the middle of spring training. So you've
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  Speaker 6: got two teams across town who are putting the pressure
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  Speaker 6: on you in the community for those fan dollars. Right,
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  Speaker 6: So you need to make the playoffs from that perspective,
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  Speaker 6: But I think also more important, you need to show
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  Speaker 6: that the players and the roster that you've built are
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  Speaker 6: capable of getting it done.
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  Speaker 2: I firmly believe that the.
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  Speaker 6: Roster as constructed is capable of being a playoff team.
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  Speaker 2: And again, just get in The.
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  Speaker 6: Kraken were not supposed to beat Colorado three years ago, right,
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  Speaker 6: The Kracking were not supposed to go to Game seven
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  Speaker 6: against Dallas, Right, that's what we heard Abs in three,
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  Speaker 6: Dallas in three, right, never mind game four. So that's
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  Speaker 6: why this team has to make the playoffs. And I
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  Speaker 6: think whatever that means at the deadline, you need to
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  Speaker 6: take that approach.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not gonna sit here and say you want to
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  Speaker 6: sell off all of your assets and put yourself in
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  Speaker 6: a disadvantage next year five years from now, But if
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  Speaker 6: there are guys on this roster that you feel that
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  Speaker 6: you can upgrade on right now, ideally you're gonna get
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  Speaker 6: a guy with some term or an RFA that you
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  Speaker 6: can resign, and I'm willing to give up a little
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  Speaker 6: bit more if I can get a top three, top
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  Speaker 6: six skilled winger and sign them to a long term extension,
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  Speaker 6: I'm willing to give up a little bit more for
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  Speaker 6: that person. But this team for a variety of reasons
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  Speaker 6: right now, at coming out of game fifty three tomorrow
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  Speaker 6: against Toronto, this team has to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: Since our last radio show, the Crack and have played
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  Speaker 5: four games, three and one win over the Islanders, loss
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  Speaker 5: against the Ducks, which I mean a lot of us
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  Speaker 5: said it was a clunker. Win against New Jersey on
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  Speaker 5: Championships Sunday, and then the win over the Capitols as
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  Speaker 5: well last night. Before we get to more here, I
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  Speaker 5: want to kind of round this out as far as
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  Speaker 5: the theme from what you guys took away from these
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  Speaker 5: last four games, and for me, the theme is five
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  Speaker 5: on five, the train is rolling. I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 5: many of us appointed this out here are found out,
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  Speaker 5: but a little did you know, friends, the crack and
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  Speaker 5: have gotten nearly one hundred and eighty minutes without giving
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  Speaker 5: up a five on five goal. Last one they gave
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  Speaker 5: up was at one oh two of period one in
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  Speaker 5: that four to two loss to the Anaheim Ducks. Since
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  Speaker 5: the Pittsburgh game January nineteenth, when they lost that one
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  Speaker 5: six to three. Since that game, drum roll for this,
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  Speaker 5: they have allowed a whopping one one five on five
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  Speaker 5: goal in a span of two hundred and forty three
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  Speaker 5: minutes and twelve seconds. Friends, you tell me if this
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  Speaker 5: is sustainable. I think the answer is a resounding yes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think that's what part of the structure that
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  Speaker 3: Lane has created. When you set an idea for a
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  Speaker 3: team that we are going to be hard to play against,
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  Speaker 3: it's not hard to play against when we're on the
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  Speaker 3: power player, on the penalty kill. It's even strength, and
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  Speaker 3: the majority of the game is played that way. You
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't have thought by the first period in the last game,
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  Speaker 3: but the majority of the game has played even strength.
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  Speaker 3: So the structure is based around that. And to your point, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: that train, that Lane train is rolling and everybody seems
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  Speaker 3: to be on board. So yeah, even strength is where
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  Speaker 3: you win hockey games. Power plays and penalty kills are
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  Speaker 3: where you add cherries on top.
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  Speaker 8: Gregan have got twelve wins since the twentieth of December,
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  Speaker 8: that is when they started that eight eight zero to
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  Speaker 8: two run against the San Jose Sharks.
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  Speaker 6: In those twelve wins, they've allowed two or fewer goals in.
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  Speaker 2: Two for six. Let's see seven, eight, nine, ten.
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  Speaker 6: Eleven of those eleven of those wins they've allowed two
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  Speaker 6: or fewer goals in that time. So the last three
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  Speaker 6: or four games for me, this last four game stretch
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  Speaker 6: three one to zero for Seattle, they're getting back to
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  Speaker 6: the defensive structure. They're finding ways to score goals. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: they've got five, four and four in those in those
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  Speaker 6: three wins. And honestly, it's kind of funny. I was
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  Speaker 6: listening to excuse me, a couple of comments of La
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  Speaker 6: Tolvan and a few other players after an Anaheim win
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  Speaker 6: and then going into these subsequent games against Washington Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: And the resounding.
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  Speaker 6: Thought in attitude amongst these guys, especially Ellie Tolven, has
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  Speaker 6: been like, yeah, well sucked, We're gonna move on, you
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  Speaker 6: know what I mean. It was kind of like an oops,
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  Speaker 6: didn't mean to do that. So I think they realize
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  Speaker 6: where they went wrong in that Anaheim game, and they've
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  Speaker 6: come back to remedy that situation. But I mean, we've
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  Speaker 6: seen this year a lot the Krakend, they've been up
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  Speaker 6: and they've been down, and it's been kind of a
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  Speaker 6: roller coaster of this of a season. I think right
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  Speaker 6: now the roller coaster is trending up with four big
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  Speaker 6: games coming up in the next you know, say, eight day,
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  Speaker 6: seven days, six days, whatever it is. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I think this is the kind of hockey. Like I
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  Speaker 6: said before, this is the kind of hockey that they're
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  Speaker 6: gonna have to play. Mike, you said, is sustainable. I
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  Speaker 6: think fifty two games into the season, we're now seeing
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  Speaker 6: that this type of hockey is sustainable. But what for
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  Speaker 6: me is going to have to win out is for
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  Speaker 6: the rest of the year. And this is a lot
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  Speaker 6: of pressure. We've talked about the pressure that's been put
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  Speaker 6: on goaltending and the pressure that's been put on a
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  Speaker 6: lot of this team to have to play almost a
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  Speaker 6: perfect game a lot of times. There can be no
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  Speaker 6: more four or five game slides. There can be no
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  Speaker 6: more three and one stretches, one four and one stretches, right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you need to.
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  Speaker 6: Win minimally two of every three, three of every five
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  Speaker 6: moving forward to keep yourselves in the playoff race. What
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  Speaker 6: did I say coming into the season, right, We're a
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  Speaker 6: game fifty three now coming up tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Game sixty, game sixty five.
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  Speaker 6: That has to matter. Game seventy has to matter. And
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  Speaker 6: if you're going one four and OHO over a five
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  Speaker 6: game stretch, or if you're going you know whatever, that
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  Speaker 6: that lopsided number can be. With the way that the
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  Speaker 6: NHL transforms after an Olympic slash, All Star Break, and
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  Speaker 6: definitely the trade deadline, this goes from a four to
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  Speaker 6: three league to a.
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  Speaker 2: Three to two league almost overnight. And Seattle already.
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  Speaker 6: Is a three to two team, you know, throughout the
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  Speaker 6: course of the season.
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  Speaker 2: So there's gonna.
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  Speaker 5: Spencer Carberry basically said so yesterday in his pregame meet Mediavailability.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent he did that.
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  Speaker 6: He said that, And I think too for Seattle, like
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  Speaker 6: you're already a three to two team, You're gonna have
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  Speaker 6: a lot more three point games coming up. A lot
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  Speaker 6: of teams now over these final thirty games, they're pushing
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: for overtime. They don't care. I don't need two points. Minimally,
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: I need one and then we'll settle it there. So
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: the krack And are gonna have to really start to
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: pull out everything they have in these final thirty games,
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: which after the break are gonna fly by. We're gonna
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: come back on February twenty whatever, twenty fourth, and then
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: we're gonna blink and it's gonna be April sixteenth in Colorado.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: With an opportunity to go to the playoffs.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he's not gonna be pushing for overtime
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: or those three teams the krack and are playing on
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: the road next week, vic La and Anaheim. You know,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: all four including Seattle are looking for regulation wins for reasons.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: And you know what to those three games coming up,
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: I mean Vegas, I think if if you were to
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: let one slip away, that's probably the one that I'm
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: not going to be the most upset about, considering that
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: they're a lot farther ahead of you in the standings.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Excuse me, but I think, Anah, I'm in La, you
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: gotta win them both, and those are must win games
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: We're gonna get to a little bit more here and
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: I do want to get to one more topic before
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: we go ahead and go to break and get Dave
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: McCarthy here, And I want to go back to what
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: was hat trick gate last night, and seventeen thousand souls
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: were out of their seats and a good chunk of
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: them said let the hats fly. After Jared mccannon and
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Fantically Bury to break away for a hat trick and
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: then record scratch Matt Eveniers double minor high sticking penalty,
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: which was about nearly a minute right behind the play.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: They went a review. They went and reviewed unreal but
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: within the rules as well. They reviewed it and unfortunately
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: goal taken away and here's been here's and his reaction
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: after the game.
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: I know I was crappy, but yeah, just crappy.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Didn't mean to hit him.
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: Happened like two minutes before the goal even happened, So
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: I didn't even didn't know what they were looking at.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: And then they.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Told me so Jared mccannon, Good Sports to the media
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: say I'm not gonna hold it the kNs and it's
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: just one of those unfortunate things. But I mean, it's
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: it's it was, guys. I'll be honest. I've been working
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: in this game since or for about twenty years now.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: I can maybe count on one hand and maybe two
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: fingers tops of how many times I've seen a goal
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: taken away in that nature and then for a hat trick,
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: I would say basically never. But I thought ESPN rules
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: analyst Dave Jackson, the former referee, did such a great
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: job of laying all this out on Twitter last night.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Unfortunately after we got off the air, but al you
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: and I kind of helped explain this a little bit,
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: and also Lane Lambert gave a pretty clear indication that
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: it was within the rules, and you know, unfortunate things
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: are unfortunate things. But Dave Jackson basically summarizing this saying,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: the referee didn't see it. The linesman can only stop
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: play when he's sure there's an injury to the face,
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: and in this case is justin sort of player was
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: on the far side, away from the bench, so by
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: the time that he got to the bench and the
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: linesman could confirm the injury, McCann already scored the goal,
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: so he had the linesman had to basically go ahead
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: and tell the referee so you don't risk up the
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: clock as well. On penalties that was also another big question.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: So I mean, unfortunately, it would have been such a
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: great night to tie things up in and eventually did,
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: and you kind of feel for Jair McCann in that case.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: But one of those rare plays, I think that that
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: that you see in this game sometimes where unfortunately it
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: can reverse chorus from cracking history. But I think in
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: the overall scope of this, and I said so last
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: night on the air, when that goal was taken away
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: and it could have made it for nothing, and the
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Capitals come right back with a double mind or power
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: play and a guy that we didn't hear a peep
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: from just again, right place, right time, Johnny on the spot,
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: the all time leading goals scorer Alex Ovechkin then gets one.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Then you're thinking, oh no, what if they get another one?
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: It would be a cruel way to endure a plot twist,
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: and we'll see where this game goes. But the most
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: important thing I thought, the cracking came right back foot
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: to gas and put that game to bed not too
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: long after that.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I gotta I gotta have some words with referee
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: George Sandals, so.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Him and I we're gonna.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Where's my name? Drop bell and I can't find it yet.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: I'll find it. Word bowling green.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: I don't see it. That's all you needed to say.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: Don't don't it. I don't see it.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: No, I listen, I'm with you. I go back, I
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: go back to the call, and I'm and I'm confused.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I love I love Al's So does that mean the
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: goal comes off the board? Like you know at the
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day. Was it the right call?
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Do I have to like it?
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: No one? No one did. Personally it was an emotional
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: hat trick.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, personally for me.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: There there's two. There's there's three things that's that that
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: I'm going to take away from that goal. Number one,
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: I mess I wasted a pretty good hat trick call.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: I was pretty proud of my goal call on that one.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: It was selfishly number one. Number two. Five hundred people
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: tossed their hats and now you know, all for not
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: and and I feel bad for those folks who pitched
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: their hats on the ice and uh and weren't able
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: to get them back.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: But hey, you were part of of of a weird,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: weird moment in hockey.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: So listen, it was for the cost and number three
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: and what but actually could have been Alex Ovechkin's final
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: game in Seattle.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I got an ave goal call on the highlight reel.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: So.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, fish no, a little bit of up, a
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: lot of bit of down.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: But selfishly for those reasons, I'm going to make this
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: about me and be like, let's it ended up?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I can I add a fourth that didn't happen that
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: I was really hoping it was going to happen, And
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: that was McCanns still getting the hat trick call and
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: looking to see what five hundred people that didn't have
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: hats anymore through on the ice like shoes?
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: What was coming off next?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: It's a shoe trick.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Do you imagine the first ever shoe trick in the
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: in the whole and the whole ice is littered.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny too, So I looked.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: I was.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: When he scored the goal.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: Someone get Brooks on that thing, by the way, you're right, yeah.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: That is a perfect Brooks running shoes partnership. There idea.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: When he scored the.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Goal and all the hats were being flung on under
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: the ice, I actually took a second to look around
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: the rink and I was I was watching to see
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: if anybody was gonna go uh to the Team store,
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: if anyone was leaving their seats to.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Go to the store.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: So while they're cleaning up all the hats, and even
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: during the penalty explanation, I was watching around, and then
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: I saw a handful of people start to get up
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: and walk up the aisle.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: So I'm curious if they were going to the Team store, because.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: Al I was hoping he was going to actually get
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: it again. And then I'm like, well, I mean, CPA.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: And then the Kraken just made a bunch of money
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: because they tossed their hats on the ice. People went
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: to go get a new hat and then toss are
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: you going to toss the new one?
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, geez, we're running out of inventory down there.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: So again, that was a human experiment, a human social
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: experiment that I was very much looking forward to watching.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: All right, then this one in the bed and a
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: moment that we won't forget it. Hey, maybe that hat
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: trick is coming here for Jared McCann. He is lighting
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: the score sheet up that much here at this point
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: and as of right now, virtually on for a forty
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: goal season type of pace. We're gonna take a break,
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Dave McCarthy right after this here on Cracking Weekly on
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: ninety three three KJRFM. Well, where there is Yen, there
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: must be yang, right. We're talking about the schedule here,
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Mike Benton again with you back here for Cracking Weekly,
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: with seventeen games here for the month of January. The
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: Firebirds going through a break where they haven't played since
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: last Friday, but they're gonna get right back to action
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: coming up tonight without take on the Colorado Eagles, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: the Firebirds right now still very much in contention as
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: this season continues to get closer and closer to crunch time.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: They are heading into Game forty with a record of
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: twenty two to twelve and five forty nine points, putting
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: them forth right now in the Pacific Division. Keep in mind,
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: top seven in that division will make the Calder Cup playoffs.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Right now, Jagger Fergus leaves the Firebirds with thirty eight
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: points in thirty nine. James Tyson Jugnat, keep your eye
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: on him. Evan Pivnik gave us a great conversation on
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: last week's show about his game defensively on the back end.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Twenty nine points in thirty nine games, and he is
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: a rookie defenseman doing all of this. Oscar Fisco Mulgard
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: also keep your eye on him twenty one points in
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: thirty five games. Just some great talent right now that
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: is brewing in the pipeline here for the Kraken in
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Coach Shell La Valley again, they're back in action tonight
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: taking on the Colorado Eagles. What don't we make out
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: of potential names available here? As trade deadline time gets
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: closer and closer. Well, one instance, the New York Rangers
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: may have seen the last of our Timmy panerin reports
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: coming out earlier this afternoon. The Rangers are sitting him
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: out for roster management purposes. So could there be dominoes
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: falling pretty soon in the trade market. The Crack and
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: of course reportedly are out there looking for potential upgrades
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: on their side that will take us now to the
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Beacon Plumbing hotline and joining us now on Crack and Weekly.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Dave McCarthy of NHL Network radio host of the Sunday Brunch.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Also you can see is handiwork via NHL dot com. Dave, Hi,
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: how are you? And I had to ask you first
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: off with this crazy season that we are going through
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: a lot of teams kind of taking the ups and
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: downs and flipping roles here over the last few years.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: So I think just from the least perspective of things,
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: you know from the team that you see out there routinely,
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: I mean, what's the empty narrative and what is reality
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: here with the Leaves right now in the post Mitch
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Marner era.
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a disappointment this season, to be sure, because
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: this was a group Mike that in September was talking
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: about contending for the Stanley Cup and they're in a
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: position right now where they're nowhere near the playoffs, let
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: alone contending for the Cup eight points out, you know,
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: potentially as they come into action on Thursdays. So this
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: is not a year where they went into the year thinking, yeah,
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: you know what, it might not.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Be our year, it might retool a year.
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: No, this was a year they intended to contend and
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: it's not happening. So it's at the point now where
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: I think the Leaves have to really have a serious
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: discussion about where this season is going. Given that they're
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: eight points out. Is this season still salvageable? I don't
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: think that it is, And If that's the decision that
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: you come to, then you need to have some difficult
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: discussions about what you're going to do with certain guys
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: on the roster, impending free agents, Guys like a Bobby
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: McMahon who is a free agent at the end of
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: the year.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Guys like a Scott Lawton who is a free agent
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: at the end of the year.
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: Guys like a Troy Stetcher who have come in and
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: played pretty well. Simon ben Wall has got a year
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: left at just over a million bucks. Oliver Ekman Larson
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: is two years left. He's a guy that probably you
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: could never sell higher on then you could right now
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: because I think he would have some interest around the
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: league given how he has played this year.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: You know, you look at Morgan Riley, does a change
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: need to occur there?
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: I think you have to look if you're the Leafs
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: right now and say, is it time to start trying
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: to accumulate future assets. For some of the players on
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: the team right now that either will not be resigned
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: in the off season, it makes sense to sell based
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: on their value right now, or guys that might just
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: have to be in a position.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Where it's time for a change.
• 29:39
  Speaker 9: I do think they still have a good skeleton in place.
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: I don't think it has to be an absolute tear down,
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: but I do think they need to make some savvy
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: moves to try to recoup some assets and put into
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: what is essentially a bear coveroard so that they can
• 29:57
  Speaker 9: try in the off season to utilize some of those
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: future assets that they would accumulate to translate back into
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: players that will help them as soon as next year.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I think it's so fascinating because, I mean the
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: attention that they grab in that market. I mean it's
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: kind of like a byproduct year of a team that
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: has covered so much, akin of the Dallas Cowboys, a
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: kind of the New York Yankees. I mean, everything is
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: under a microscope. And so I think just kind of
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: getting past the whole Craig Beruby, Jim Mishap, William Nielander
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: and his camera Mishap and then Austin Matthews, the conversation
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: of Willie talk or not talk here to the media
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: game after game, I think we kind of understand a
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: bit further of where this could be headed and maybe
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: not so much a full blown tear down, because you
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: got Austin Matthews and his contract, William Nilander and his contract.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: Matthew Knights was just signed to a brand spanking new deal.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: But how closer do you think that we might be
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: seen to I wouldn't say doubling down, but a summer
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: where they're they're they're trying to volley themselves right back
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: into contention status again.
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: Well, without question, if Austin Matthews is in the is
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: on the roster, if William Mielander is on the roster,
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: you you have to.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Try to contend. Otherwise what are you doing right now?
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: I mean, Matthews has got two years left after this year,
• 31:17
  Speaker 9: so what do you want to do waste next year
• 31:20
  Speaker 9: and then go into the final year of his deal
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: as an impending unrestricted free agent. No, you got to
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: try to contend. So that's that's what they will try
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: to do.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: The attention, I just really don't buy that as something
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: that is an element of adversity for this team. You know,
• 31:43
  Speaker 9: when they were playing good for most of the last
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: nine years and it was never really in doubt that
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: they were going to make the playoffs, there really weren't
• 31:54
  Speaker 9: many little side issues that turned into big circuses winning tears.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: A lot of that.
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: But what what's happened now is that a lot of
• 32:06
  Speaker 9: these little side issues that crop up like you just referred,
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: remind me a lot of where this team was at
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: prior to twenty fourteen, when Brandon Shanahan came on board,
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: where it was salute gate and it was.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: You know this, you know or you.
• 32:22
  Speaker 9: Know that guy, whatever it might have been, But it
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: always seemed like there was something, you know, Nasen Cadri saying,
• 32:29
  Speaker 9: oh yeah, Jeffrey Loopels, right, and then you know, Jeffrey
• 32:31
  Speaker 9: Loopel's ever.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Seend from me. Whatever it was that seemed to go away.
• 32:36
  Speaker 9: Over the last ten years, but it's back, and now
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: it's a case where, you know, seemingly on a daily basis,
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: something else is becoming the main topic on Twitter, where
• 32:48
  Speaker 9: everybody runs.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Wild with it.
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: So, look, they have not had a good year at all.
• 32:53
  Speaker 9: It has not gone the way they wanted it to go. Nobody,
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: quite frankly, has played particularly well. It's a very short
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: list of guys who have played two expectations, let alone
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: exceeded expectations. But in saying that you've got Matthews, you've
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: got Nilander, you got Nice, you've got John Tavares, you've got,
• 33:14
  Speaker 9: you know, Jake McCabe. We'll see what the future holds
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: for Chris Tanev and his availability. You've got three goalies
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: that you theoretically like in Wall and Stollers and Dennis
• 33:26
  Speaker 9: Hill to be probably have to make a move on
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: one of them because Dennis Hill to be more clear
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: waivers next year. So you've got some pieces of value
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: that you can move, But you also have a spine
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: of a team that if you have a good off season,
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: you can build around, I think, and put them back
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: in a position where they're capable of contending at least
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: for a playoff spot.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: Least they are going to be home or on the road.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: Bigger pardon for now six in a row won't see
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: home until after the Olympic break. This game coming up
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: here for tomorrow, game one of their trip can Flames Oilers,
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: and then the Olympic break and they picked right things
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: back up with Tampa Bay and with Florida. Is Dave
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: McCarthy joining us right now on Cracking Weekly. Let's talk
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Cracking here for a minute. Dave, I think it's reasonable
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: to say, I mean, four months ago, you know you're
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: you're looking into reasons that this team can maybe enjoy
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: a one month sugar rush and then kind of come
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: right back down to reality. But now we're two thirds
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: of the way through the season and they're still tied
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: for a final wildcard spot in the Western Conference. Where's
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: your read on where they're at? And even to that point,
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: buying versus selling with the trade deadline getting closer and closer.
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Look, I liked what I saw of the Crack
• 34:41
  Speaker 9: and when they came into town early in the season,
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: I thought they had good structure. I thought they were
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: a team that worked relentlessly. They were good on their details.
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: They hounded pucks, and if you have a team that's
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: willing to do that, that's hard to do every every day.
• 34:59
  Speaker 9: But if you have a team that's willing to do that,
• 35:02
  Speaker 9: I think that can account for an absence of elite talent,
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: which I also think the Crack can suffer from. And
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: they've got some good players on the team, but they're
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: not a team that has a lot of, you know,
• 35:19
  Speaker 9: guys capable of breaking games open every time they go
• 35:22
  Speaker 9: on the ice. They need to play a strong team
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: game keep the puck out of their net, which they've
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: done really well. They're in the top ten and goals
• 35:30
  Speaker 9: against the fewest goals allowed. And when you can do that,
• 35:34
  Speaker 9: you keep you play a lot of low scoring games
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: and then you have a chance for a bounce to
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: go your way or or somebody to make a play
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: and get you on the right side of the ledger
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: and you win a close scoring game. And I think
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: I think that's what's happened with Seattle this year. You know,
• 35:51
  Speaker 9: have they have they blown the doors off offensively?
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: No, absolutely not.
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: But but they've been able to piece it together by
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: committee by keeping themselves in games, keeping the.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Score low, so that you know, a.
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: Guy like a Jordan Eberle or a Jared McCann or
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: an Ellie Toldenan or whoever it is Jaden Schwartz, when
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: he's available, can chip in and and and put themselves
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: in a position to.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Win the game.
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: So I've been impressed. Do I think they're a Stanley
• 36:23
  Speaker 9: Cup contender? Absolutely not. If they if they sneak into
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: the playoffs, you know, I don't know. I hate to
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: quote Darryl sutt Well, I don't hate to quote Daryl Sutter.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: The famous quote from four years ago.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: You know where I'm going.
• 36:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah, And I think it was I think it was
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: Colorado that here too, it might be a waste of
• 36:41
  Speaker 9: eight days because I let's be honest here, I know
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: I'm on in Seattle, but I don't see the crack
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: in as much of a hurdle for this this Avalanche team,
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: which is a serious, serious group this year. But in
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: saying that, it means something to make the playoffs in Seattle,
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: right like, you're still trying to establish the team.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Done really good job on that front.
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: But but it helps when the team is competitive and
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: has the feel of competitiveness, especially when you're trying to
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: establish a team a new market in the first five
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: years or so. So you know, you look at what
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: they have on their roster right now. A Jaden Schwartz,
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: a Jordan Eberley, an Ellie tolven and are unrestricted free
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: agents at the end of the year. Jamie alexiak as well.
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: I mean real those guys would have some value. I
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: can tell you that there would be contending teams that
• 37:33
  Speaker 9: would love to add an Alexiac, would love to add
• 37:37
  Speaker 9: a guy like a Jordan Eberley as as a depth piece.
• 37:41
  Speaker 9: But you know, do you do you sacrifice those guys
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: at the at the expense of this season, or do
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: you try to hold on to them and maybe squeeze in.
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: I mean, the probably the prudent play would be to
• 37:56
  Speaker 9: try to extract some value from some of those guys.
• 38:00
  Speaker 9: But I also understand the importance of making the playoffs
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: and being a competitive team in a newer marketplace. So
• 38:10
  Speaker 9: that's it's a tough it's a tough position that they
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: find themselves in right now in Seattle. To be sure,
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: you know, the good news is is that there's still
• 38:21
  Speaker 9: a few more games left here before we get to
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: the Olympic break, and given where we're at at that point,
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: then you know, the answer might become a little bit
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: more clear when you're tied for a playoff spot.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: As they are right now.
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: That's that's a tough look in the market to come
• 38:38
  Speaker 9: out and say, hey, we're we're selling on this guy
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: removing that guy. But if you're four or five points
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: out a week prior to the deadline, then I think
• 38:49
  Speaker 9: it's an easier sell where you've got smart fans in Seattle,
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: and I think if you come out with a well
• 38:56
  Speaker 9: articulated message and say, look, we're four or five points out,
• 39:00
  Speaker 9: maybe we squeeze in the odds are against us, we
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: end up against Colorado, it could be four and out.
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: That's not what we want to be. What we want
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: to be as a team that contends for the Cup,
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: and in doing so, we got to make a tough decision.
• 39:13
  Speaker 9: Now that'll would buy that, But if there are four
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: or five points out, it becomes a little bit easier
• 39:18
  Speaker 9: to sell that message than if you're sitting tied for
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: a playoff spot, where I think a lot of people
• 39:24
  Speaker 9: would say, well, why are you selling off right there, Dave?
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: What's your read into the Shane right situation?
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I think Shane is a guy that.
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: Look, he came into his draft eligibility as a really
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: highly touted draft pick.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: His development, maybe more so than any.
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: Prospect in National Hockey League history, of the pedigree that
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: he had as a sixteen seventeen year old, was stunted
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: as a result of the pandemic, Like he lost a
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: year and a half of really important formative developmental years
• 40:08
  Speaker 9: as a young player prior to his draft. That that
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: hurt him a little bit. And so you know, I
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: think you know now it comes in, you got Maddy Beaniers.
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: He went out and they signed Chandler Stevenson, So where
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: where is the role for him? Is he going to
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: play higher up in the lineup? Well, probably not when
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: you got those two guys in those spots. Look, you know,
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: Matty Beniers hasn't blown the doors off either offensively the
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: way Seattle had hoped. I look at Matty Beaniers as
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: a really quality two center. I look at Chandler Stevenson
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: as a really quality two center, and I probably look
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: at Shane Wright if he got a little bit more
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: a few more minutes, as a quality two center at
• 41:00
  Speaker 9: some point in this league. So what I'm saying there
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: is that you've got three guys for one role.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: You don't have a number one.
• 41:08
  Speaker 9: Center, and then you've got a guy who's playing lower
• 41:11
  Speaker 9: in the lineup than he probably wants to and thus
• 41:14
  Speaker 9: isn't as thrilled as he is with the position that
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: he is in Shane right. So I think that's where
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: they're at right now, and I think that's why they're
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: having the trouble scoring as often as they would like,
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: which would put them in a better position.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Is because.
• 41:32
  Speaker 9: Personnel wise, they're not slotted properly like I think you need.
• 41:36
  Speaker 9: You need one of those three guys that I just
• 41:38
  Speaker 9: mentioned you need a guy who is better than those
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: guys to be your number one center, and then if
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: that's the case, then everybody slots in a little bit better,
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: the lineup is better, and it just works a little
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: bit better.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: So I think they've got I think they've got a
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: lot of guys to play the same role. And yet
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Shane Wright, at.
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: The position he's at in his career, his age, I
• 42:06
  Speaker 9: still think he would hold some value to go to
• 42:09
  Speaker 9: a team that might have some more opportunity for him
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: to play higher in the lineup. I think teams would
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: would be interested in acquiring him. I think you could
• 42:19
  Speaker 9: get something back for him, and then you know, you
• 42:22
  Speaker 9: put a guy in a better position to succeed, and
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: then you can go out and try to use maybe
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: some of the futures or the recoup that you get
• 42:30
  Speaker 9: from Shane Wright to to try to find a center
• 42:35
  Speaker 9: who is better than Matt even here is not easy
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: to do, but I think that's the issue because if
• 42:41
  Speaker 9: if Maddie's your number one center and Chandler's your number two,
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: I don't think that's going to win you much. I
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: think either one of those guys is great as a
• 42:50
  Speaker 9: two center. But you need someone better than both of
• 42:53
  Speaker 9: those guys to be in the one center rule.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: We've heard names like Robert Thomas, Jordan Cayrou, Jason Robertson,
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: Alexi Lafrenier, Nozam Kadri, et cetera thrown out there reportedly
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: as the trade deadline gets closer and closer, anyone out
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: of that mix or anybody else you think is likely
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: at Dave to get moved in the kind of prices
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: that they would command.
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: Well, Jason Robertson, I know I spoke to Jim Nill
• 43:18
  Speaker 9: toward the end of the offseason last year and he
• 43:20
  Speaker 9: said at that time it's every intention of ours to
• 43:23
  Speaker 9: get him signed. I think they would like to get
• 43:26
  Speaker 9: him signed. The question is it takes two to make
• 43:29
  Speaker 9: a deal. And does Jason Robertson see himself as a
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: Dallas star long term or does he see himself in
• 43:37
  Speaker 9: a different position. So that'll be an interesting one to watch.
• 43:41
  Speaker 9: You know, I'm not sure that Calgary wants to move
• 43:46
  Speaker 9: on on Nozmkadri.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I know they are.
• 43:49
  Speaker 9: They've slipped back down the standings. The season is probably
• 43:53
  Speaker 9: over for Calgary, let's be honest, But I think Calgary
• 43:58
  Speaker 9: is a team that wants to be good sooner rather
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: than later. And I still think they see Nazem Kadri
• 44:06
  Speaker 9: as a guy who is productive and has enough of
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: a veteran pedigree that you want to keep him around,
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: just simply because when you turn the team over entirely
• 44:18
  Speaker 9: to youngsters, it generally is not a good recipe for success.
• 44:22
  Speaker 9: So I'm not necessarily convinced that he gets moved. And
• 44:31
  Speaker 9: and so you know that that's that's one guy. Who
• 44:36
  Speaker 9: are some of the other guys that you mentioned there,
• 44:38
  Speaker 9: Micro Robert Thomas and Jordan Cairo. Yeah, I could see
• 44:44
  Speaker 9: one of those guys getting moved, just because there has
• 44:48
  Speaker 9: been a lot of smoke around both of them in
• 44:51
  Speaker 9: Saint Louis, especially Jordan Cairo for a little while now.
• 44:55
  Speaker 9: And and I think very similar to what I talked
• 44:58
  Speaker 9: about with Seattle. You look at where they're at with
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: those two guys in Saint Louis. You know, I'm I'm
• 45:08
  Speaker 9: not convinced that if they are going to be your
• 45:12
  Speaker 9: two premier players, that's going to be able to get
• 45:16
  Speaker 9: you to where you want to go. So I could
• 45:19
  Speaker 9: see one of those guys getting moved. I look at
• 45:22
  Speaker 9: Saint Louis right now, and I just see a lot
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: of middle six forwards. You know, some good players, but
• 45:28
  Speaker 9: nobody that really excites me all that much. Guys that
• 45:31
  Speaker 9: are probably playing too high in the lineup, like Jimmy Snugaru,
• 45:35
  Speaker 9: like Jonathan Bergrean right now, they're not first line players,
• 45:38
  Speaker 9: let's be honest here. And and so you know, that's
• 45:43
  Speaker 9: where I think you could see change, because there'd be
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: value there for a Thomas Rakaira if you're slot in
• 45:51
  Speaker 9: on a contending team in the right position, they could
• 45:53
  Speaker 9: absolutely help a team. But on their own, I just
• 45:55
  Speaker 9: don't think there's enough there in Saint Louis to get
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: to where they want to be. And this is kind
• 46:00
  Speaker 9: of yet another year where Saint Louis is, you know,
• 46:03
  Speaker 9: in that mushy, mushy middle, and in this case not
• 46:06
  Speaker 9: even really the middle, toward the bottom of the league.
• 46:08
  Speaker 9: So I think I think a change probably needs to
• 46:11
  Speaker 9: happen in Saint Louis, otherwise you come back again with
• 46:14
  Speaker 9: the same group. I just don't really see much of
• 46:17
  Speaker 9: an opportunity to improve all that much, especially in a
• 46:21
  Speaker 9: division that includes Colorado and that includes Minnesota, who I
• 46:25
  Speaker 9: think is going to continue to be good for a
• 46:26
  Speaker 9: lot of time.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: In Dallas, who is going to continue to be good?
• 46:30
  Speaker 9: And Utah, who has I think turned a corner at
• 46:34
  Speaker 9: this point.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're Saint Louis, you got to look
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: and say, like, who are who are we? Who are
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: we going to beat next year?
• 46:41
  Speaker 9: At this point, I think they have to look at
• 46:44
  Speaker 9: where they're at and say, man, our roster just probably
• 46:47
  Speaker 9: isn't quite strong enough.
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: NHL trade freeze again happening starting February fourth through the
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: twenty second and then the trade deadline coming up in March,
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: which will be on the six at New Pacific time.
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: Only Dave. With everything just bunched up right now on
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: the Western Conference, the Kraken entering to day Tide for
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: the final wildcard spot in the West with the Sharks
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: the Kings. Then you have Anaheim looming only two points
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: ahead right now third place in their division. Whether it's King,
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: Sharks or Ducks. Out of that group, who's the biggest
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: threat you think for a wildcard spot to the crack
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: inside of things, Oh, I'd.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Say the Sharks.
• 47:25
  Speaker 9: I think they have been really impressive this year and
• 47:30
  Speaker 9: they're led by a dynamic, dynamic player in Macklan Celebrini.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: You know, I think what we've seen out.
• 47:37
  Speaker 9: To him this year, he has been I think way
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: better than a lot of people anticipated quite this quickly.
• 47:45
  Speaker 9: But it's not it's not just Macklan Celebrini that's that's rolling.
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: Will Smith, when he's been healthy, has been really good.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: They they're getting good goal attending, and I think there's
• 47:59
  Speaker 9: a good feeling with their group right now where they
• 48:03
  Speaker 9: believe in themselves and and they've got something where I
• 48:06
  Speaker 9: think they can see the finish line and they're only
• 48:11
  Speaker 9: continuing to get better here down the stretch. I look
• 48:15
  Speaker 9: at the Los Angeles Kings.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: I'm they've been.
• 48:23
  Speaker 9: I guess they've been an enigmatic team in this sense,
• 48:27
  Speaker 9: which is to say they've they've kept the puck out
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: of their net. But again, kind of much like Seattle,
• 48:31
  Speaker 9: they really struggle to score. And you know, I think
• 48:36
  Speaker 9: there's a bit more dynamic talent with Anaheim that I
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: see them maybe edging where the Kings are going to be.
• 48:45
  Speaker 9: I question whether the Kings are going to be able
• 48:47
  Speaker 9: to score enough here down the stretch. So I think,
• 48:51
  Speaker 9: you know, I could see San Jose catching Anaheim. To
• 48:55
  Speaker 9: be honest with you, and I think if you're Seattle,
• 48:58
  Speaker 9: you got to look at trying to trying to be
• 49:00
  Speaker 9: better than the Kings and the Ducks. I think there's
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: a chance for him to do that. Remember Leo Carlson's
• 49:05
  Speaker 9: out quite some time in Anaheim. Now that's a huge
• 49:08
  Speaker 9: loss for that lineup, so there's some vulnerability there. I
• 49:12
  Speaker 9: think you look at Anaheim and LA if you're Seattle
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: and say, those are the teams that we got to beat,
• 49:19
  Speaker 9: and it's really a simple task. That's all they got
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: to do is just you know, they're essentially in the
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: same spot right now. They got a game in hand
• 49:27
  Speaker 9: on Anaheim and they're two points back, so you know
• 49:29
  Speaker 9: they win that they're tied right there, essentially the same spot.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: You got call it thirty games.
• 49:36
  Speaker 9: Let's just be better than Anaheim and LA over the
• 49:38
  Speaker 9: next thirty games we're in the playoffs.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I think it's as simple as that.
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be a lot of fun to keep an
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: eye on this, and that means again next week, the
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: cracking at the Ducks next Tuesday, at the King's next Wednesday,
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: that is going to be a collision. Dave, appreciate you,
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: Thank you again for doing this. Tell the folks here
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: where we can find you on the Twitter and next
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: machine and also on the radio side.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah at Dave A.
• 50:00
  Speaker 9: McCarthy on Twitter and Instagram, and we've got Sunday Brunch
• 50:04
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• 50:08
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• 50:12
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• 50:15
  Speaker 5: Always a great appointment listening, Dave, thanks so much, appreciate
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: you man. Thanks Mike, that's davidccarthy joining us Dave again,
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: big thanks once more after this look at our poll
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: question mail bags segment and also our three Stars ever
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: now back with me and you in just a bit
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: on ninety three three KJRFM. All right, it's a close one,
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: but as of right now, forty six percent of you
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: say the Anaheim Ducks will be positioned to be the
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: biggest challenge within the division for the crack and to
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: clinch a wildcard spot. Forty six percent of you say
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: the Anaheim Ducks. The boll continues right now. Vote for
• 50:52
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• 50:56
  Speaker 5: net s bring the guys back in first topic. Thank
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: you to Dave McCarthy for joining us up being set
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: up tomorrow and Ian where the Leaves stand right now
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: in this mix and doesn't matter what year it is.
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: There's plenty of talk about the Leaves and what they're
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: doing and where they're going as well. But I'm going
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: to get back here to our poll question, fellas, who's
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: position to be the biggest challenge in the division for
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: the crack in the clinch a wildcard spot? Is it Sharks,
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: Kings or Ducks all? First off, begin with my initial
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: thoughts on this. I'm gonna go with the Kings because
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: they had defensive structure under Jim Hiller, and they play
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: a similar type of game that you have to sustain
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: yourself in a heavy schedule, especially coming out of the
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: Olympic break. They've got leadership again still with Drew Dowdy
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: and I Jacob Patar, and they're still a little bit
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: of shine from their two Stanley cuffs that they won.
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: Where As effectively for the most part, San Hosea's at
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: the reset button on their roster and Anaheim yet you
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: got guys like Chris Kreider in there who have won
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: a lot, but effectively it's a reset once again for them,
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: And then I get to the goaltending picture of this,
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: because Anton Forrestburg was great last night against the Red Wings,
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: who didn't get a goal against him or the Kings
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: until late in period three. And as of right now,
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: the Kings are neck and neck right now with the
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: Kraken As far as the upper echelon teams in say
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: percentage San Jose and Anaheim, you gotta go way further
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: down the list. So the heavier this schedule gets, the
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: more it favors the grinding style we've talked about this,
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: which I think again leads me to me to say
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: the Kings are the biggest hazard right now to get
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: over for a wildcard spot. I would love to see
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: where the Ducks go because of the whole goaltending thing.
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: And yet you have your young superstar players. They are
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: also missing Leo Carlson, I'll admit that here. But the
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: more that you have to play in trade chances back
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: and forth, and me, where is that going to lead
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: you when the schedule gets heavy, especially coming out of
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: the Olympic break as well. But I just I just
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: really see, you know, how the Kings are picking up
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: points that right there is going to be the biggest
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: challenge here for the Kracking to get a wildcard spot.
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: I think Anaheim they've been up after they were pretty down.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: For a while. I don't.
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: I still don't know if I trust their goaltending fully,
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: that's just me.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: San Jose, same thing. They have all the skill in
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: the world.
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: I don't think they realize that they're not supposed to
• 53:20
  Speaker 6: be doing this this year, so I think that's also
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: pretty scary.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: The krackn have.
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: Won two of their three games against them, and I
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: also think too, because the Krakens still have two maybe
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: three games, I think they got three games against the
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: Kings still this season, you have an opportunity to pick
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: up six points, whereas with San Jose you're done with
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: that season series. So I think minimally the La Kings,
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: you control your own destiny a little bit. So that's
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: why I think that might be a little bit more
• 53:55
  Speaker 6: challenging to overcome for Seattle. But the Kraken and Kings history,
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: that has been a really close series. No team has
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: gotten the upper hand, and now four and a half
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: seasons of this rivalry, so I think it's gonna.
• 54:11
  Speaker 7: Come down to one.
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: But also too, I'm not ready to rule out the
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: crack and getting into the top three. Because right now
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: you've got Anaheim at fifty nine, San Jose, LA, and
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: Seattle at.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Fifty seven, and then Calgary at forty eight.
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: So it's gonna be one of us four, it's gonna
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: be one of the three California teams, and Seattle for
• 54:31
  Speaker 6: either the third in the division and then that probably
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: second wildcard spot. So two of the four teams are
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: gonna make the playoffs. And you've got three games left
• 54:42
  Speaker 6: against LA and two left against Anaheim. Yeah, well, I
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: guess one left against Anaheim.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: If I'm gonna go in division, then I'm gonna I'm
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna focus on Anaheim as well. I think
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: that lukash Dostaal has been He's shown us enough that
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: he could lead this team into the playoff with the
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: way he plays. Obviously, the youth on that team go
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: to Carlson Seneca like San Jose's got the youth as well.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: I just think they might be one more year away.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: From tearing it up.
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: Next season, San Jose could be crazy good.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: I can see next year San Jose being a top
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: three like.
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: That, We're not talking about wildcard for San Jose, we're
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: talking about the two seed in the division. I think
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: they're gonna skip that wildcard step next year.
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: They are well set up in the long term, aren't they.
• 55:32
  Speaker 5: Let's get to our mailbag segment here once again. You
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: can find me at ex Benton Underscore, Mike Everett's at
• 55:37
  Speaker 5: the Voice fits al is at al KINISKI. Question from Pierre,
• 55:41
  Speaker 5: is there any concern within Krack and management that sending
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: Philip Grubauer to the Olympics could result in a situation
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: similar to Dominic Kashik and the Ottawa Senators back in
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: the day. That from Pierre, I think what he's referencing
• 55:54
  Speaker 5: is back in five six when Ottawa was a rising
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: contender and eventually a year later we'd get to the
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: Cup against the Anaheim Ducks. The hashit got hurt in
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: the Olympics and that kind of derailed their long term
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: plans as far as contending for a Cup that season,
• 56:09
  Speaker 5: leaving out of the fans to basically consider what if.
• 56:13
  Speaker 5: I can't say for sure. I know if there is
• 56:15
  Speaker 5: concern within Krack and management. They've been pretty quiet here
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: about this my opinion from what I've heard at least,
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: but I think with Philip Grubauer, what you want to
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: do is support your goaltender who wants to go play.
• 56:25
  Speaker 5: At the same time, I think across the league there
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: is obvious concern with health, with injuries and what that
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: could do once you come back from the Olympic break,
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: and that intensifies depending upon the amount of players that
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: you send here to the Olympics. But I think it
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: also goes back here to the point part of the
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: reason why they're carrying three goaltenders, not just here for
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: the injury part of this, but also for the internal competition.
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: We haven't seen Matt Murray here for a while. He's
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: going to get a break. Joey Decord, we saw a
• 56:53
  Speaker 5: great game from him last time out. He is going
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: to also get a break here. So how far Grubauer go,
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: Who knows? I mean, the obvious contenders here are Team USA, Canada,
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: You've got Sweden up there, You've got Finland as well.
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: But I think in this case, what you want to
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: do is monitor this situation as close as possible, and
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: then I think you go back to what you have
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: been doing here, which has been the platoon system for
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: this last month. Because we've seen that this has been
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: sustainable with Grubauer being locked in and the Cord recently
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: finding his game once again after a bit of a
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: slide coming out of the holiday break.
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Phil's going to be fine. I mean,
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: and you're right, Mike L Kraken. Have got three on
• 57:38
  Speaker 6: the roster, you include Fisker, Molegard, You've got four in
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: the system. Vegas has got nine, right, Colorado's got eight,
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: you know what I mean. There's a lot of teams
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: that are worried about injury to.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Their star players.
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: I think at the end of the day, this I mean,
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: you never say never, but this will probably be Grubauer's
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: last Olympics. He's thirty five years old, so you know
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: this is more than like this his last opportunity to
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: represent his country on the global stage. He's excited, he's
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: fired up, as he should be. It's a huge honor.
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: I think Grubauer understands the responsibility that he has to
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: Seattle and to this organization. But I also understand and
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: and and know that Grubauer wants to represent and where
• 58:28
  Speaker 6: his country and where his country's colors. So I think
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: he'll be fine. These guys are pros. These guys have
• 58:33
  Speaker 6: been doing this for a long time. Grubauer's played World championships,
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: he's played World juniors, He's done this, that and the third.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: He he will be fine. I'm not worried about him.
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: I'm no more worried about Grubauer than I am about
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: Tolbnen and Gobologato and oscar Fish and Mulguard, because hey,
• 58:50
  Speaker 6: any one of those guys also could find themselves, you know,
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: dealing with something, you know, knocking on the wood.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: You hope not, but you know, the Olympics are weird.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Someone's gonna hurt.
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: Hopefully it's not your guy, but I promise you over
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: this next month, someone's gonna get hurt, and it's gonna
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: send ripples throughout the league.
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there will be injuries during the Olympics. You just
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: hope it's not your guys. And I think that as
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: a player, you have a you know, a not on
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: paper agreement with management to say, if I play seventy
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: percent of the season and I give you everything I've
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: got and I've earned the right to play for my country,
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: you got to support that for me. And I think
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: that that's the case.
• 59:35
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, there's a risk of injury, but you know, in
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: the case of Grubauer, he's been playing lights out this season.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: You got totally in with thirty points, Cocko pushing twenty points.
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: That these guys have contributed to the success of this
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: team this year individually, You've got to reward that by
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: saying I support you. Going to play for your country.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: And don't think for a second, these guys are.
• 59:57
  Speaker 6: Going to mail it in, right like the NHL player
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 6: have been begging for Best on Best, Yeah, fifteen years, right,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 6: Like it's been a long time coming since we've had
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: best on Best. This will be the first time that
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: we're gonna see in this arena McDavid with McKinnon, with
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: Crosby against the Kachucks. And say what you want about
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 6: the Four Nations, I get it, But this is an
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 6: official global tournament, right So this is not going to
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: be an All Star game. This is not going to
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: be an All Star tournament de beauty league from summertime
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: in Minnesota. This is going to be arguably some of
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: the best hockey that we have ever seen in the
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: last decade, and I'm excited for it.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see how it compares to the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: Four Nations tournament because you've got to see a repeat
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: of that intensity.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 7: I don't know that you'll see that, but I still.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: Agree that that to your point fits. The players are
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: going to win. They want to win gold. They're gonna
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: do whatever it takes, despite you know what Phil Grubauer
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: said last night in the postgame playing on short ice?
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: Is a building done yet? Also? Is the building done yet?
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, I listen how much time you got
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: my I've got thoughts and opinions, But I'm I'm gonna
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna let that one go for now.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: You're gonna be a lot of talk about goals that
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: go in because of angles that are different in that building.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 6: Well, and I don't know if this is I don't
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 6: know if this is still the case. But I was
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 6: reading about a month ago that they were talking about
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 6: the construction of the arena, and I think they said
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 6: the first women's game of the Olympic Tournament is February fifth.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: Something like that.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 6: They weren't going to be able to get on the
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 6: ice until February third. So I mean, again, I don't
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 6: know if that at that timeline has changed. I read this,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: like I said a few weeks back, but they're talking
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 6: about forty eight hours before the first game is when
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 6: these teams are going to be a get on the ass. Now,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 6: they did have the the Italian League little tune up ice,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 6: tune up games or whatever a couple of weeks ago there.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 6: You know, go look up Chris Johnson on Twitter. He
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: has a lot of really cool pictures from that. And
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: you know a few of the hockey media pundits went
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 6: over there to inspect and report on that. So there
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: were some issues with the ice. You're hoping those are
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: going to be fixed in the next week and a half.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 6: But man, if you're talking about February fifth, your first game,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 6: and then these teams are not even gonna skate until
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: February second or third, my goodness.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: I love one reaction I saw earlier online where it
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 5: suggested that the rink in Milan is finally complete and
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: instead of installing a jumbo tron, they opted for an
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: iPad Olympics and about a couple of weeks here, all right,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 5: let's get to our three stars before we get out
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: of here, and I'll begin, and I think this is
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 5: where you have a good problem to have, because you've
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: got players who are playing so well up and down
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 5: the board all across the board here. It was just
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: way too tough to narrow it down. And maybe I
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: think that it doesn't some justice, but I think, you know,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 5: credit certainly is due for those who couldn't get into this.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: And I'll first off begin First off, my third star
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 5: with Ryan Lindgren, who had ten blocked shots over this
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 5: last week, led the Kraken in those three of four wins,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: or those three wins in four games that they had
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 5: lit up Andre Pallott on Sunday, could have been a
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: penalty for inner interference maybe, but I thought it was
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: a bit of a chain reaction after the Dougie Hamilton
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: goal that helped turn the tide a little bit. Plays
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 5: like that have been few and far between on this
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 5: team previously. This is what the Ryan Lindgren factor does
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 5: for you. He's kind of a throwback and it's fun
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 5: to watch. He's gritty, he's nasty, he's abrasive. He plays
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 5: great stay at home defense. But and he can chip
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: in offensively, just like last night when Jared McCann got
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 5: his second goal to make it to nothing, he gets
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 5: a shot right through a screen. He can find way.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: He's here to contribute, but again he also had a
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 5: big hit last and against the Capitols. Is a physical
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: eBrace of play and his key decision making that are
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 5: making a big impact right now. And I think for
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: his ability to sell out put his body on the line.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 5: Those again, those ten block shots to me mean a lot.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: That to me, Garner's third star status here for Ryan Lindren.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: My second star is Jared McCann without question, offense seven
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: points to lead this entire team. A big reason why
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 5: that there right now back in this race because they
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 5: got to get their top line going. But it's pretty
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 5: clear that he's finding something now with Bunye Beniers and
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: Jordan Eberley, and he's on pace now to hit basically
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 5: a forty goal pace. He won't get there, of course
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: because of the injuries here, but for what he is doing,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: I mean, my goodness, he's already up to fourteen goals
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 5: now on the season through just twenty eight games, twenty
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 5: six points as well in that span. Those fourteen goals
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: already are second on the entire team. And he's played
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 5: twenty eight game versus Jordan Neverli who's got nineteen in fifties,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: so it's pretty apparent. I mean Jared McCann could have
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: been a backbreaker for this team, but they get him
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 5: right back into the mix and he's paying off in
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: dividends right now. Jared McCann's my second start. My first
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: start is Matty Beaneer's because he's making that top line
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 5: go and where this line goes, this team will follow.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: The play under the hood, I think has been fantastic.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: The backhand goal that he delivered against New Jersey, my goodness,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 5: hang it in the museum like a wall of art,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 5: and it's apparent that the work he's putting in here
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: with the krakend their skills coaches as well. He mentioned
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 5: Chris Taylor also a big part of this. We're seeing
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: a new level and a new dimension here to Matty Beaniers' game,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: and I think it's going to be very, very exciting
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: here based on his competitive nature to see what kind
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 5: of results that he can help deliver after he gets
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 5: a well deserved two week break, comes back fresh, and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 5: maybe he doesn't make Team USA this year, but perhaps
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 5: it's one of those blessing in the sky that give
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 5: the Kraken a fresh Veneer's here for what's going to
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: be a very very busy March. He's had now eight
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 5: goals in this last month, most for him in one
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 5: month for his career. Matty Benier's absolutely fantastic last four
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 5: games as well. He's my first star of the week.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mikey, I'm going to give two of the same
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: different orders and one different One. Third star for me
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: was Matty Benier's three goals to assist five points over
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: his last five games. He's looking as good as I've
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: ever seen him.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: I wasn't part of the organization for the playoff here,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: but it sounds like he's on pace for a similar
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: kind of year if he continues out.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 7: But certainly over the last week he's been good enough
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 7: for my third star.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: Second star. I originally wrote down goaltending. I was going
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: to give it to the duo, but when I started
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: looking at the stats over the last three games decord
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: eight eight to zero, say percentage one two and over
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: his last three three point three goals against average, I
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: thought that's not good enough for me. Joey needs to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: be better. So my second star is going to Grubauer
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: this week nine three six, save percentage two to two
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: and zero over over his last five one six to
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: six goals against average. He's playing lights out right now.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: Even in the last three. He played in two of
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: those last three. The game he lost, you know, he
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: kept it to three or three or less. The Cracker
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: just couldn't put pucks.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 7: In the net.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: I think it was that that Anaheim game. So he's
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: my He's my second star and the first start. Jared McCann.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: It's got to be Jared mccannon for me. Over his
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: last five four to three, seven points plus three, even
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: since he came back from his injury, eighteen points in
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: seventeen games.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 7: He's got the highest.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: Shooting percentage on the team right now at twenty point three,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: and as we saw last night, it would have been
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: a little higher had that goal not to not been
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: called off. So Jared McCann is my number one star
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: for this past week.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we're kind of all on the same
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 6: page here. I'm gonna go Jordan Ebi is my third star.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 6: Points in three straight, continuing to show that age ain't
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 6: nothing but a number, and I mean he he is
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 6: really having a great season. And I think this the
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 6: leading by example, goalsen back to back games, assists in
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 6: three straight games, and he's doing this, you know, around
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 6: seventeen minutes and a half minutes the night.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: He had fifteen oh seven last night, which was a
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: low for his last five games.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 6: So, you know, I think his economy on the ice
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 6: has been has been really good in recent games. Number two,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go Maddy Beniers again. Four game point streak,
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  Speaker 6: goals in back to back in three of those four games,
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  Speaker 6: and I think also to just I love that his
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  Speaker 6: willingness and his ability to continue to grow his game,
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  Speaker 6: whether that's defensively, whether that's offensively.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he had the four minute double minor.
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  Speaker 6: For high sticking the other night, and I think, you know,
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  Speaker 6: some physicality shown as well. I think he's doing a
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  Speaker 6: really good job of showing us that complete player. And
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  Speaker 6: you're right, Bal, he's going back to what we saw
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  Speaker 6: a couple of years ago and that rookie year of
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  Speaker 6: his and then number one Jared McCann. Now, aside from
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  Speaker 6: the four point night last night, he adds you know,
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  Speaker 6: four goals his last four games, three assists in that
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  Speaker 6: time as well, a plus rating in three of his
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  Speaker 6: last four games, and continuing to find ways to get
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  Speaker 6: shots off once again, like everly, he had fourteen minutes.
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  Speaker 6: Last night he had sixteen against Anaheim with the goal.
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  Speaker 6: He had fifteen and a half against the Islanders, a
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  Speaker 6: goal in assist. You know, his high watermark seventeen to
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  Speaker 6: twenty five against the Devils, held off the score sheets.
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  Speaker 6: So maybe you should play him fifteen or fewer minutes.
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  Speaker 6: Put the urgency in Jared McCann and he'll get some
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  Speaker 6: more points. So those are my three stars of the night.
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  Speaker 3: Can I guess give one honorable mention though? Breaker Evans
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  Speaker 3: goals in back to back games, playing very physical right now,
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  Speaker 3: just looking at his last five plus seven on the
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  Speaker 3: plus minus chart over his last I'm playing some very
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  Speaker 3: solid hockey right now.
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  Speaker 7: Honorable mention the record.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, showing that he's also benefiting playing here with Ryan
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  Speaker 5: len grin Andy, I got to throw him in there.
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  Speaker 5: I had honorable mentions also for Philip Grubauer. You guys
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  Speaker 5: mentioned him, Jordan Eberley, you guys mentioned him, and even
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  Speaker 5: Berkeley Catton for again his play, his game and then
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 5: just going right at the front of the net and
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  Speaker 5: finding a goal that was effectively the dagger against New
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  Speaker 5: Jersey back on Sunday.
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  Speaker 6: And you know what we talked. We talked to Berkeley
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  Speaker 6: about that before the Washington game last night. I went
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  Speaker 6: up to him in morning skate and Al brought up
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  Speaker 6: this comment in the broadcast. He said, twenty games ago,
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  Speaker 6: you know he's not making that play. He's going behind
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  Speaker 6: the net. He's trying to reset, look for his options
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  Speaker 6: and go from there. So I brought that up with
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 6: Berkeley Katton and he bang on. He's agreed with what
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  Speaker 6: that assessment. He goes, scoring in itself is a skill
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  Speaker 6: and I'm finding, you know, my confidence is growing. I'm
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  Speaker 6: getting a lot better there. But you're absolutely right, five
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  Speaker 6: ten games ago, I'm not doing that, but I because
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 6: I've scored some more goals. And I'm paraphrasing here a
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  Speaker 6: little bit to clean it up a bit. But you
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  Speaker 6: know now that I'm scoring more, that I'm finding my
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  Speaker 6: offensive stride. You know, you're seeing that confidence in me
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  Speaker 6: growing a bit more so to hear him say that,
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  Speaker 6: and he was very honest and very matter of fact,
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  Speaker 6: and it wasn't you know.
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  Speaker 2: The typical Chippucks in Chippucks.
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  Speaker 6: Out hockey response. It was a really good one to one.
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  Speaker 6: It was almost like he was talking to his buddy,
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  Speaker 6: you're talking to his parents. You know it was a
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  Speaker 6: really cool inside.
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  Speaker 5: Look all right, that's all the time we have here
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  Speaker 5: once again, one more home game to go till the Olympic,
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  Speaker 5: breaking them three on the road Vegas, Anaheim, the Kings
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  Speaker 5: as well. We're all gonna be out there by the
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  Speaker 5: end of it. Looking forward to having you seven o'clock
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  Speaker 5: game at Vegas this Saturday, live watch party going down
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  Speaker 5: that one plus all the rest. Additionally home for tomorrow
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  Speaker 5: night against the Leafs. Also the Anaheim game next Tuesday,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 5: and the Kings game on the road as well next Wednesday,
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• 1:12:04
  Speaker 5: the Leafs game tomorrow night and the Anaheim game next Tuesday.
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