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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Morrison called up, and reaction to fire with Ian Furness (3/28) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Kracking this Morning, a presentation of the Kraken
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  Speaker 1: Audio Network, Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 2: Reckon and Sabers meeting up here for this Saturday, March
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighth. Mike betting with you for Cracking this morning
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  Speaker 2: and the Crack and aiming for a split in the
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  Speaker 2: series after getting through one of their toughest challenges of
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  Speaker 2: the entire season and overtime road win against the Tampa
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  Speaker 2: Bay Lightning. We'll talk with Ian for Nest coming up
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  Speaker 2: in just a bit of course, TV host on the
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  Speaker 2: KRACK and Hockey Network also heard one to three week
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  Speaker 2: days on these airwaves on ninety three to three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 2: Also with highlights as well from the win over Tampa
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  Speaker 2: Bay where Brandon Montour picked up a multi goal effort
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  Speaker 2: and the Crack and also finding out a little more
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  Speaker 2: about themselves in the grit and fire category. Well, the
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  Speaker 2: Crack and headed into Tampa Bay honestly with matters looking
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  Speaker 2: bleak on this road trip, heading into Game four or
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  Speaker 2: standing five points out of the playoff picture and trying
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  Speaker 2: to get out of an O two and one hole
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  Speaker 2: where not just for the fact they had yet to
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  Speaker 2: win a game on the trip. Not just for the
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  Speaker 2: fact they had yet to earn a lead on the trip.
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  Speaker 2: Matter of fact, they hadn't won a game or even
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  Speaker 2: earned a lead since March fifteenth. Then home against the
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  Speaker 2: Florida Panthers, Brando Montour had different ideas in period one
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  Speaker 2: against Tampa Bay on Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Fisker bulguard, we'll take it back in the cracking zone.
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  Speaker 3: Hands it off to Freddy Gaudreaux. Here comes Seattle Goodreau
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  Speaker 3: backhanded front.
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  Speaker 4: Scaless what a.
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  Speaker 5: Move Brandon Montor Katrol finding Montor as he cuts on
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  Speaker 5: the right, circle around traffic in front at the hash
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  Speaker 5: marks and the Seattle Kraken go up one nothing, four
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  Speaker 5: forty two left here the first well Tapa gets caught
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  Speaker 5: in a terrible change. Here Seattle takes advantage on the
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  Speaker 5: rush of the neutral zone and as you say, coadroll
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  Speaker 5: with a perfect past on the tape to Montor goes
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  Speaker 5: forehead backhand blocker side one nothing, cracking.
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  Speaker 3: Goes around little Burg Stevenson hands.
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  Speaker 6: It off behind him.
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  Speaker 2: Coppo Cocko scares.
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  Speaker 5: Cop Bo Cocko puts the Kraken back on top.
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  Speaker 2: One forty eight to play in the first trails up
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  Speaker 2: to play.
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  Speaker 5: Stevenson kept the puck alive left circle. He found Copbo
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  Speaker 5: Cocko on the slot. Two on Seattle.
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  Speaker 7: Well Lilaburg on defense for the lighting. Just let Stevenson
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  Speaker 7: blow by him down that left side. Stevenson on his
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  Speaker 7: on wing puts a great feed on the Coupo Coco,
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  Speaker 7: who was just slithering down the slot. He beats Vasklovsky
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  Speaker 7: gloves side the cracking of the lead back two to one.
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  Speaker 3: Hell of three on two Lightning rush and we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have a bite. Berkeley Catton getting into it with JJ.
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  Speaker 5: Moser and Catton takes him down. Oh my goodness. Berkeley
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  Speaker 5: Catton against J. J. Moser inside the lightning blue line
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  Speaker 5: after a hit on the captain toured it everly.
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  Speaker 3: Get it at you, big fella. Stevenson once again Larsen
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  Speaker 3: in the high spot.
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  Speaker 4: Hey shot knocked down off the head.
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  Speaker 2: Bards mcmaan scores.
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  Speaker 5: Bobby McMahon from below the goal line, picks up a
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  Speaker 5: loose puck, curls it in front right by andre Vassilevski
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  Speaker 5: and the Seattle cracking a head by a pair three
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  Speaker 5: one sixteen twenty five to play in the second or
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  Speaker 5: the cracking.
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  Speaker 7: Storming in the front of the net again on this one,
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  Speaker 7: a shot from the point. I believe it was Lars
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  Speaker 7: who gets the puck on net, big rebound as McCann's
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  Speaker 7: floating to the left of the goal. He finds that rebound.
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  Speaker 7: He's got his twenty fifth of the year. It's a
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  Speaker 7: three one.
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  Speaker 3: Crashing Radish to Perry, sends it far corner Tampa in front.
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  Speaker 2: Perry under the coff bar. He scores.
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  Speaker 3: Three seconds left on the lightning power playing Corey Perry
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  Speaker 3: with his fourteenth three three were tied Lightning keep possession
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  Speaker 3: sixteen minutes to play.
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  Speaker 4: Here in the period, long shot far side by Hagel
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  Speaker 4: and Grubauer comes out to make the save and he
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  Speaker 4: holds a motto cupson in his own Monteur left circle
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  Speaker 4: delays suits stoos Brandon Montour the hero in Tampa. It's
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  Speaker 4: a four to three krack and win in overtime.
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  Speaker 7: A great offensive pressure there by the cracking download to
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  Speaker 7: turn that puck over. Montour gets the puck to the
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  Speaker 7: right of Vassilevsky. He's on his off wing. He attacks
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  Speaker 7: the net, which is exactly what he needed to do.
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  Speaker 7: There he finds the five hole. He's got the overtime winner.
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  Speaker 2: Bring on the Philo Kigs boom. Just like that, it
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  Speaker 2: was finished. Brandon montur capping office first multi goal games
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  Speaker 2: since October, the Kracking getting another goal yet from Bobby
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  Speaker 2: McMahon and Berkeley Canton, highlighted in the evening with a
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  Speaker 2: fight against JJ Moser leading up to McCann's goal, all
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  Speaker 2: part of a wild, entertaining and thrilling four to three
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  Speaker 2: overtime win over the Tampa Bay Lightning, just a second
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  Speaker 2: in Kracking history all time in Tampa Bay and over
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay period. During the off day on Friday, the
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  Speaker 2: Crack and then making a roster move an emergency recall
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  Speaker 2: bring it up for Logan Morrison from the AHL's Coachella
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  Speaker 2: Valley Firebirds and certainly lighting it up with fifty six
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  Speaker 2: points in sixty one games, good enough for the Firebirds
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  Speaker 2: lead and ranking among the top American Hockey League scores.
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  Speaker 2: Who's going to be sitting out next matter? A question
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  Speaker 2: that before the face off coming up in Buffalo at
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  Speaker 2: two thirty pm Pacific time, But we caught up here
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  Speaker 2: with an ideal guy to discuss the move and more
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  Speaker 2: implications coming out of the win over Tampa Bay, game
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  Speaker 2: five of six on the trip. Coming up, we have
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  Speaker 2: afternoon hockey also, at least for those working on the
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  Speaker 2: West coast here or the broadcast, I'm one of them.
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  Speaker 2: The other as well for the TV end of this
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  Speaker 2: joins me right now, Ian Farness, the mayor of Maple Valley.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be at the set by the way two pm
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  Speaker 2: for the Crack and Hockey Network. Also heard, of course
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  Speaker 2: one to three week days on ninty three to three KJRFM. Hey, Mayor,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of we had a pretty busy, had fun week,
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  Speaker 2: didn't we around these parts?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Crazy week, man, We got lots going on.
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  Speaker 8: And you know, for those listening here, probably the top
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  Speaker 8: of the list would be the winning camp Goodness.
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  Speaker 2: I can't help but think as far as getting into
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  Speaker 2: immediate reaction from at least I think the magnitude of this,
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  Speaker 2: the necessity of it, and what they had to do
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  Speaker 2: which was so absent compared to maybe I would say
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  Speaker 2: going back to the win against the Panthers when they
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  Speaker 2: were at home over ten days ago. But to finish
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  Speaker 2: this thing off, this was maybe I think the scariest
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  Speaker 2: game for me on the trip, all things considered. The
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  Speaker 2: damage Tampa Bay did to them, and that did also
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  Speaker 2: at will, and they find a way to get the
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  Speaker 2: overtime when to back to get back to within three
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  Speaker 2: points of the wildcard spot by the time that they
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  Speaker 2: hit by the time that that that they hit bedtime
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  Speaker 2: coming off the plane, what's your immediate reaction, Yeah, I would.
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  Speaker 6: Say the same.
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  Speaker 8: You look at a schedule and sometimes you just say
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  Speaker 8: it was probably a scheduled lot and you know without
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  Speaker 8: I mean, listen, let's be honest, like that's what this
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  Speaker 8: looked like like with what happened in Seattle. How easy
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  Speaker 8: as you mentioned it was, and others mentioned it was
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  Speaker 8: for Tampa and against Seattle at the Plage area, there's
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  Speaker 8: no reason, there's no reasonable the expectation going in that
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  Speaker 8: game except for one thing. We brought this up on
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  Speaker 8: the TV side. Maybe you did as well on radio.
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  Speaker 8: The way Seattle played against a team that in some ways,
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  Speaker 8: in not some ways, it is probably at that same
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  Speaker 8: level that's Carolina, and got the win home against Carolina
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  Speaker 8: two to one. We've seen this team gay at wins
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  Speaker 8: that are he wins. We see them oftentimes play up
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  Speaker 8: and play down to the competition. So you know, we
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  Speaker 8: discussed that a little bit, but end of the day
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  Speaker 8: like this was. Yeah, if you look at the six
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  Speaker 8: games away from home, this was number one in terms
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  Speaker 8: of difficulty and they got to win and that's huge.
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  Speaker 8: And it's also sometimes mind boggling, like what team is
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  Speaker 8: going to show up for Lane Lambert every night? Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: but obviously on Thursday that that team that showed up
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  Speaker 8: was was pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 2: What lit the fuse for me? Wasn't the Brandon Montour
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  Speaker 2: goal to make it one nothing. It certainly helps, and
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  Speaker 2: the Kraken have to basically be in position to not
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  Speaker 2: chase at this time of year. But I think it was,
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  Speaker 2: of course, maybe what I saw, maybe what you saw
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  Speaker 2: the Berkeley cat and fight with JJ Moser. First off,
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  Speaker 2: hilarious that he picked a different guy than Emil Lilleberg
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  Speaker 2: because he was the guy that hit Jordan Everley up high.
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  Speaker 2: And yet I go back here to maybe where this
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  Speaker 2: is all kind of begetting for my train of thought.
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  Speaker 2: In December, the Kraken call up Jacob Alanson, who is
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  Speaker 2: running a muck with a controlled environment, if I can
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  Speaker 2: put it that way. But now you get a projected
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  Speaker 2: top line guy for the future stepping in for something
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  Speaker 2: he isn't paid to do, and he did this. So
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  Speaker 2: I think to me, the Seattle kraken Ian at their
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  Speaker 2: best have always been built on skill, cerebral attentiveness, and
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  Speaker 2: unshakeable composure. But now we're seeing an infiltration of a
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  Speaker 2: brand this team hasn't had much of, but is needing
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  Speaker 2: in the worst kind of way. And that's fire. You
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  Speaker 2: hit my captain, you pay the piper. This was Berkeley
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  Speaker 2: Catton sending a massive message and I think earned a
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  Speaker 2: million points in the book of Lane Lambert and ultimately
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  Speaker 2: to me, without this, it's the butter with no steak,
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  Speaker 2: sauce with no passe to or addressing, with no salad.
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  Speaker 2: The floor is yours.
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  Speaker 5: Ean.
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  Speaker 2: For your reaction to that fight, well.
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  Speaker 8: It's I'm sure that what it did for him in
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  Speaker 8: the room raised his level of uh you know, in
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  Speaker 8: terms of how he's viewed, you know, to a high level.
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  Speaker 8: Uh yeah, picking the wrong guy, although you know, I
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  Speaker 8: mean was not like Berkeley's used to doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I think we all saw it was his first
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  Speaker 2: NHL fight, right, It's it's.
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  Speaker 8: Not like it's not like it's you know, the Tom
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  Speaker 8: Wilson in you know, chasing after brand and Tanna in
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  Speaker 8: Utah on Thursday and anything like that. Like Berkeley, Berkeley
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  Speaker 8: didn't need The thing is beautiful about that is this,
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  Speaker 8: he didn't need to know who it was. He just
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  Speaker 8: looked for retribution and he looked to stand up first
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  Speaker 8: captain as a twenty year old, you know, freshly turned
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  Speaker 8: twenty years old rookie. Thats probably I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 8: he ever did that in Spokane. Sure, if he did,
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  Speaker 8: then there was probably all out war in the Western League.
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  Speaker 8: It's given someone Toney Burk the cat, so he understood.
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  Speaker 8: And I think more importantly, Matt what we see. Matty
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  Speaker 8: Vineers did that a couple of weeks ago, and now
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  Speaker 8: we see that here with with Berkeley Cat. For those
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  Speaker 8: who don't think that the coaching change made a difference
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  Speaker 8: or was needed or for whatever reason, I've heard this
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  Speaker 8: from people that lane. You know, I don't know what's
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  Speaker 8: going on. The culture is changed. It is different.
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  Speaker 6: If I had a dollar for every.
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  Speaker 8: Time Eddie Old Chuck last year said where's the response, Johnny,
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  Speaker 8: there's gotta be a response after that play. You've got
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  Speaker 8: to respond to that. You know, if I had a dollar,
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  Speaker 8: I'd be retired that in anytime he says, that's nicing,
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  Speaker 8: but I digress.
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  Speaker 6: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 8: That's what it is. And that didn't happen last year.
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  Speaker 8: It probably didn't happen the years before that. And it
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  Speaker 8: doesn't have to be a heavyweight. They don't have one anyway.
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  Speaker 6: So it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 8: But it doesn't have to be a heavyweight. It doesn't
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  Speaker 8: have to be a guy that even wins the just
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  Speaker 8: show up, just stand up.
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  Speaker 6: For your teammates. Show up and stand up for your teammates.
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  Speaker 8: And Lane said that, I'm trying to go back, what
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  Speaker 8: was the what was the scuffle in pre season? It
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  Speaker 8: happened in preseason with somebody, and uh was it Coppo.
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  Speaker 8: I'm trying to remember who it was. There's a preseason
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  Speaker 8: instant and Lane said, I love it. That's what I
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  Speaker 8: want to see. Like that, that's that stand up your teammates,
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  Speaker 8: create that culture.
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  Speaker 6: And that's what we did.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, listen, if you want to go to the
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  Speaker 8: fight card, players that have more fights this year than
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  Speaker 8: a couple of year, defensemen putting a heavyweight would be
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  Speaker 8: that even Ears Berkeley, Catton, Freddy Gadro Right, So I
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  Speaker 8: just thought it was awesome. I don't know if that
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  Speaker 8: was the turning point in the game.
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  Speaker 6: But I think it.
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  Speaker 8: Was certainly a point in the game where the bench
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  Speaker 8: recognized it and the bench respected it. And that's huge,
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  Speaker 8: and I just I love Berkeley.
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  Speaker 6: I think I.
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  Speaker 8: Think this kid's gonna be really special. I think people
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  Speaker 8: that there want to say, well, why is he not
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  Speaker 8: putting up the huge numbers like you know some other
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  Speaker 8: young guys are. His nice time hasn't been the same.
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  Speaker 8: He's not on the power Play one, U barely on
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  Speaker 8: power Play two.
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  Speaker 6: You watch his.
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  Speaker 8: Skill, his vision. I think sometimes he plays above some
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  Speaker 8: guys on this team. He's going to be really good.
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  Speaker 8: And then that just that solidifies who of what he
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  Speaker 8: is character wised.
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  Speaker 2: Well that there's a big reason why he's playing on
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  Speaker 2: the top line. And that's for one of the many
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  Speaker 2: reasons why, of course I see Infnest joins us right
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  Speaker 2: now on Cracking this morning. I mean, Lane Lambert said
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  Speaker 2: it here on these airwaves, telling you know, our friend
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  Speaker 2: the soft one, Dave Softy mall or that as long
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  Speaker 2: as he keeps doing what he is doing, he's got
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  Speaker 2: a long, long leash here to play on that top line.
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  Speaker 2: And then we get to that fight with JJ Moser,
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  Speaker 2: So I think certainly a lot of street cred that
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  Speaker 2: Berkeley Catton certainly earned from that. But now we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: see also a young guy potentially back in the mix.
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  Speaker 2: Here Logan Morrison emergency call up the other day. He's
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  Speaker 2: taking the next step right now as one of the
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  Speaker 2: top scorers in the American Hockey League fifty six points
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  Speaker 2: in sixty one games. And ian to me, folks may
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  Speaker 2: be asking, why isn't this Jagger Fercus. Well, to me,
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  Speaker 2: it's down to two things. One, Morrison's been here before
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  Speaker 2: and we're in crunch time. Two, it's a matter of
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  Speaker 2: a difference between two inches and sixteen pounds. Morrison clears
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  Speaker 2: Fercus in both categories, and the last thing you want
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  Speaker 2: to do is put Fercus in there and get him
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  Speaker 2: roughed up beyond repair. He hasn't played a real NHL
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  Speaker 2: game yet, Morrison has, so I'll be careful speculating maybe
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  Speaker 2: who might be out because of this being an emergency
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  Speaker 2: call up. But for Morrison, to you, what's the expectation, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 6: Think it's high.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's just, you know, he's a warm body.
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  Speaker 8: Depends on what I want to do, assuming that they
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  Speaker 8: brought him up because there's a forward injured, and they
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  Speaker 8: went eleven and seven as it is, then then you know,
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  Speaker 8: we'll see what you know, he'll slant in as good
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  Speaker 8: as I time.
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  Speaker 5: I thought.
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  Speaker 8: I thought maybe more interesting than his call up was
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  Speaker 8: Oscar Fisker Moulguard and the comments play made before the
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  Speaker 8: game on Thursday, when he said, you know, it's kind
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  Speaker 8: of a few sive of his praise. He said, look,
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  Speaker 8: you know he came up here briefly before he played
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  Speaker 8: six minutes. He's gonna play a lot more than six minutes.
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  Speaker 8: I think he played what twelve minutes on Thursday, Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: and got a got an assist and never looked out
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  Speaker 8: of place.
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  Speaker 2: That's two and four games now for him, by the way.
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  Speaker 8: Right, and I I listen again, they don't have it
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  Speaker 8: doesn't appear that they have an aircraft carrier in the system,
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  Speaker 8: and you know, a fifty goal guy and all that.
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  Speaker 8: But I think one of the things I'm really encouraged
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  Speaker 8: about is we just spent time talking about Berkeley. What
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  Speaker 8: you know, Matty Veneers is still a really young player.
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  Speaker 8: Oscar Fisker Mullguard. If Morris is ready to take the
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  Speaker 8: next step you know, there's some you's on this team
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  Speaker 8: that's excited. A couple of cockles on an old player,
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  Speaker 8: and look at we just got to find a way.
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  Speaker 8: They got to find a way every year to put
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  Speaker 8: an international tournament for him. Ideally, maybe you have him
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  Speaker 8: play in August and just tell.
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  Speaker 6: Him it's like an Olympics or nation trying to trick.
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  Speaker 8: Him because he comes back out of those things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And the install and Olympics simulator over a case. You
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  Speaker 2: bring him in like a month earlier.
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  Speaker 8: Just do that. They listen, Goblin, this is next to
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  Speaker 8: the Olympics. I know it doesn't feel that way. He's
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  Speaker 8: he's you know, I think there's a lot of reason
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  Speaker 8: to be excited. I mean, I mean, look at your
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: Jacob Bryant, Laster's first round pick, and and there's a
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  Speaker 8: lot of people that feel that his natural skill level
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  Speaker 8: is higher than Berkeley's.
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  Speaker 6: So like they're going in the right direction.
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  Speaker 8: We want it to happen now, and I get all that.
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  Speaker 8: You know, there's the Shane Wright dilemma, like what's wrong,
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  Speaker 8: what will be wrong?
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  Speaker 6: What's always?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, it's if he ever gonna slip the switch
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  Speaker 8: and turn a corner. But but you know, I think
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  Speaker 8: there's so many other young players that we can If
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  Speaker 8: you're a cracking fan, you can be excited about. And yeah,
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: we'll see what Morrison brings. I wouldn't expect a lot.
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: I mean, you're going in if he plays in Buffalo.
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I mean that's just that's that's the hardest
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: thing about this league, right, A great game, you get
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: a win against Hampa, build off, that gets some cop
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: Oh Buffalo, but that's cool.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: The good thing is they're playing the back half of
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: a back to back, so you know that maybe just
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: maybe that can help you. The earlier face off which
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: doesn't help them, But I just it's at the challenge
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: big time.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: We'll see what Morrison is. I'm excited.
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: I mean, I'm excited to see him, but I don't
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't have my expectations. The question is who's coming out,
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: you know, because as we as we're talking right now,
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: we don't know. And you know, there's some guys that
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: didn't play. It looks like I just looked at the
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: ship chart. It didn't look like Myers played the final
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: ten minutes or so on Thursday. I don't everly got
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: dinged up but he did come back, so who knows
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: what his situation is. There's always the worry and not worry,
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: but there's always thought that someone's significant other could be
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: having a baby at anytime, so that could be on
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: the dog and so who knows what the circumstances are.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: Maybe it's all status quo and he's just there in case.
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: So we'll see.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Logan Morrison if he plays, we'll be in his fifth
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: career NHL game. And the word from the end side
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: of Coachelle Valley, he's been very, very good and matter
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: of time before he was certainly called up here all right,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: finally against Buffalo Ian you basically kind of hinted here
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: as far as with the crack and are facing on
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: the sabers side, is there ending here for a split
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: in this series? Buffalo, for the heater they have been on,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: have now lost three in a row in regulation or overtime.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: They have given up fifteen goals in the last three games.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: They have also scored nineteen goals last five games, despite
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: a five to two lost to Detroit last night. Helps
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: when you have guys like Rasmus Dallen, Tayse Thompson, etc.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: And by the way, on that back then twelve points
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: last ten games to me eat in the same recipe
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: follows stable first period, get a lead, take it from there.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: What about you?
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think well, and you need to need great goaltending.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: Uh and you know, we didn't even talk about what
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: Groovy did in Tampa. He was phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal, and
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: they're gonna need all I'll assume it's gonna be Joey,
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: but who knows, maybe it is maybe.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: To go back to Phil. I don't know they go back.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: I kind of think they'll go.
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: Back to Joey. But you'll need great goaltending. You'll need
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: to lead goltending. You'll need a guy. You'll need a
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: guy that that's gonna have to make some saves that
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: are not expected. It's as simple as that. Like he's
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: gonna have to be in the in the plus plus
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: category there probably against that particular team.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: So you know, we'll see what we'll see what that brings.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Stay out of penalty box.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: I mean, there's no you don't want to watch if
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: Case Thompson set up the letter rip is not a
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: fun know. Uh So I don't think you want to
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: do that. But you know, Mike if they bring the
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: same game they brought from uh from Campa into Buffalo,
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: then we'll have a good game, you know, and then
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: you'll ask you we'll probably keep asking the questions of
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: where was that for the Nashville game?
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: Where was that for the Florida game?
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: But you've got three points on the.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: Trip right now.
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: I think all along we said you need to get sick,
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: right kind of That's that was kind of our thought
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: all along. If you can get six, you're kind of
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: gonna you'll you'll you'll be in an okay situation. Not ideal,
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: but you'll be okay. You've got three.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Gosh, if you.
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: Can get if you can find a way to get
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: even two more, you know, between Buffalo and Edmonton, maybe three, Uh,
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: you're gonna feel okay coming back, Like I I five
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: would be not again, not ideal, But I mean this
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: is about stacking points. That's all it is right now. Uh,
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: And so you got to keep doing that and find
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: a way to do that. But I I've got confidence
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: that this team is going to be the same team
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: we saw in Yampa. I think Lane, Chris Aaron Jet
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: I think they just do a great job and I
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: think they've done a great job. You know, they're getting
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: the message through changing a culture, getting guys to buy in,
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: getting guys to believe in all those things. When you
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: have this incredibly eclectic mix of a lot of veterans
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: and a lot of young guys, Like it's kind of
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: a fifty to fifty, don't you get that kind of
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: a fifty to fifty splint, Like you've got these dudes
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: that are that are like it's it's I bring that
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: up for this reason.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Like so then you.
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: See like the average age or a team ranks all that.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: But then so they say, well, like they've got like
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: three guys that are thirty eight years old, and they
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: got a bunch.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Of the guys.
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: No, this team's got like either really young or really
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: old players, And so you're trying to change the ways
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: of some older guys. And I think they've done a
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: good job as a staff doing that.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Second and final matchup coming up here, Great stuff, mayor
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: thank you, fun week, great week we've had around these
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: uh these sports parts. The football team got their best
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: receiver back, WHL playoffs, Underway baseball teams back, basketball news
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: picking up, and if I can just tie this here together,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the hockey team in the playoff mix? Can they make
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: this a supersonic turnaround? See what I did there? Thanks
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: so much, Bud, Well done, sir, talk to good all right.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: That's Ian for Nest joining us here by carphone. For
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: the Kraken and the Tampa Bay lining once again. Ian's
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: on the desk at two pm Pacific. I will be
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: as well back right in front of the headset here
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: on our desk beginning at two pm as well for
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: the Kraken and the Buffalo Sabers matchup two coming up.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: As we said, it does not get much easier, but
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the Sabers still very much in the thick of a
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: heated playoff race for first place in the Atlantic Division
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: with Tampa Bay. The Sabers undergoing a GM change Adams
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Kevin Adams in his yarmo Kekkalinen. The Sabers have responded,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: their offense now exploding for the sixth best ranking after
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Thursday night three point four goals per game. The Kraken
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: last the Sabers December fourteen. Buffalo got the best of
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: them in a three to one decision. Adams have certainly
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: evolved now with the crack and needing the stack wins
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: and as many of them as they can. With eleven
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: games left standing three points back of the final wildcard
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: spot in the Western Conference. Looking forward to discussing more
• 23:18
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• 23:21
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• 23:30
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• 23:33
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• 23:36
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• 23:39
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