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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: So far, so good! (9/20) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Jacob Melanson behind the goal, backhand in front, turn aside,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Ty Nelson scores!
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  Speaker 2: Ty Nelson in the high slot, follows up the play,
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  Speaker 2: steps into a twisted wrister, and with just four seconds
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  Speaker 2: to play in the first, the.
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  Speaker 3: Kraken double their lead, 2-0.
• 0:22
  Speaker 4: Ty Nelson jumped on a loose puck there, but that
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  Speaker 4: all started behind the net. Jacob Alonso forechecking hard, knocks
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  Speaker 4: his guy off the puck, gets the puck out to
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  Speaker 4: the front of the net, and it's a puck that's
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  Speaker 4: mishandled that goes right out to Ty Nelson.
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  Speaker 3: He finds a top corner, 2-0 Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: 2.35, the play of the period, crack it, get loose.
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  Speaker 3: In front, they score! Jake O'Brien! Bottom of the left
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  Speaker 3: wing circle.
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  Speaker 1: In tight with some heavy traffic and pressure on top
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  Speaker 1: of him. And the Kraken get the insurance goal back
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  Speaker 1: for two with 2.35 left in regulation.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Ben Myers with a good forecheck. Jake Melanson with
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  Speaker 4: a steal from behind the net. Finds O'Brien posted up
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  Speaker 4: just above the blue paint. Puts it right on his tape.
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  Speaker 4: He's got the fourth goal of the game for.
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  Speaker 3: Two, Kraken.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to Kraken This Morning, a presentation of the Kraken
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  Speaker 5: Audio Network and Sports Radio 93.3 KJR-FM. Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 3: Turn around for.
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  Speaker 6: Kraken This Morning as we get set for the Kraken
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  Speaker 6: and the Calgary Flames tonight.
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  Speaker 3: 5 p.m.
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  Speaker 6: Pacific Faceoff from Scotiabank Saddledome. Everett Fitzhugh, Al Koniski will
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  Speaker 6: be in Calgary. I will join you once again from
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  Speaker 6: Network Central as the Kraken. So far, so good. Now
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  Speaker 6: to a 1-0 record after they beat the Canucks last night, 4-2.
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  Speaker 6: Your final score with goals from Yanni Newman, Ty Nelson,
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  Speaker 6: Logan Morrison.
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  Speaker 3: And Jake O'Brien. As we said, Everett and I will
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  Speaker 3: be in the booth.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be back in studio, but for now, Everett and
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  Speaker 6: I are in the same place because of the magic
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  Speaker 6: of technology. We are technically doing this here after a
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  Speaker 6: wrap-up from... the preseason opener from Climate Pledge Arena. So,
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  Speaker 6: Everett joins me right now.
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  Speaker 1: You peeled back the curtain, man. You broke the fourth wall.
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  Speaker 1: We could have easily.
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  Speaker 6: If they could do this in the Wizard of Oz,
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  Speaker 6: we can do this as well in the land of broadcasting.
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  Speaker 6: So far, so good. 1-0 preseason record. And we don't
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  Speaker 6: make it so much, Everett, about the wins and losses here,
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  Speaker 6: but more or less how young players and fringe players, perhaps,
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  Speaker 6: are learning how to play the game and play it
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  Speaker 6: here at the Kraken Waste. So, overall, what are your
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  Speaker 6: thoughts after night one?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought the first preseason game last night, tonight,
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  Speaker 1: was what we expected, what we were looking for, at
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  Speaker 1: least from my money, what we were looking for out
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  Speaker 1: of this team. I think the players that scored, and
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  Speaker 1: Al and I talked about it, you had Yanni Newman scoring,
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  Speaker 1: you had Jake O'Brien getting a goal, you had Ty Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: Logan Morrison. I think for those players in particular, Yanni Newman,
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to see him take a step from last season.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he's looked really good in preseason. I thought
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  Speaker 1: that he's been battling a lot more. I know Lane's
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  Speaker 1: liked how he's looked so far in preseason and training camp.
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  Speaker 1: I think the likes of a Logan Morrison, a Jagger Furcus,
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  Speaker 1: a Ty Nelson, those are players that I think are
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  Speaker 1: on the fringe of last cuts in camp slash first
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  Speaker 1: call-ups out of Coachella this year. Maybe they find their
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  Speaker 1: way in the 20 games-ish depending on what happens. But
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  Speaker 1: we've been hearing so much about the rookie class, the
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  Speaker 1: development pipeline, the prospect pool.
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  Speaker 3: In the Kraken organization.
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  Speaker 1: You know, top seven, top ten prospect pool consistently in
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  Speaker 1: the history of this team. So now you're starting to
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  Speaker 1: see the young players develop. You're seeing a lot more
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  Speaker 1: young players performing and playing. You look at Winterton, Melanson,
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  Speaker 1: Fisker-Molgaard from Last year, Nikkei Coco, Victor Osman, all these
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  Speaker 1: guys have gotten little tastes of the NHL, and the
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  Speaker 1: kids are all right. So I thought night one was
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  Speaker 1: exactly what you wanted to see from them. I thought
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  Speaker 1: from a team perspective, they had a 3-0 lead. They
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  Speaker 1: gave up two. They were able to calm things down,
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  Speaker 1: put them away. Al and I alluded to it during
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  Speaker 1: the broadcast a bit. For me, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: go 4-0 in the preseason, or if you do go
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  Speaker 1: 4-0 in the preseason... what you need to do is
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  Speaker 1: you need to make them close. You don't want four
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  Speaker 1: blowout wins, right? I would love to win a game
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  Speaker 1: for nothing. And then I want to win a game 3-1.
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  Speaker 1: Then I want to have an overtime. But tonight, I
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  Speaker 1: think this is the Kraken were able to bend, not break.
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  Speaker 1: And ultimately, they got the win in a game that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter in the results. But It'll go a long
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  Speaker 1: way in establishing good habits for this team.
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  Speaker 6: When you look under the hood, I think the Kraken
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  Speaker 6: would be very satisfied if they can recreate the same
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  Speaker 6: kind of habits that they had from night number one
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  Speaker 6: here into night number two. First things first, shot attempts
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  Speaker 6: at five on five, 52 for the Kraken, 28 for
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  Speaker 6: the Canucks. And Oscar Fisker, mole guard, we'll see how
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  Speaker 6: long he hangs around here in the preseason and Perhaps
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  Speaker 6: if there are eight players 23 years of age or
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  Speaker 6: younger forward-wise on this roster, he could very much be
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  Speaker 6: in the mix here because of this one note that
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  Speaker 6: at least caught my attention.
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  Speaker 3: 15-6.
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  Speaker 6: That was the number for shot attempts at 5-on-5 when
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  Speaker 6: his line was on the ice.
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  Speaker 3: Him, Yanni Newman, and Freddie Gaudreau.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Oscar Fisker-Mulgaard is this year's Ryan Winterton,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Melanson. Those two guys last year, again, final cuts
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  Speaker 1: slash made the team out of camp, but you were
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  Speaker 1: wondering where they were going to fit in. I think
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  Speaker 1: Oscar Fisker-Mulgaard this year, after his cup of coffee last year,
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  Speaker 1: I asked him this morning at the press conference what
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  Speaker 1: he learned in the summer, what he took back in
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  Speaker 1: the offseason. I think he's that candidate this year to
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  Speaker 1: have that breakout training camp. I loved his game. You
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the shot attempts. He's a player that I know
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  Speaker 1: they are very, very high on. They love Oscar Fisker-Mullegaard,
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  Speaker 1: not only on the ice, but he is just a
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  Speaker 1: genuine gem of a human being.
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  Speaker 3: He is a sweetheart of a man.
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  Speaker 1: And it's so easy to root for him, but he's
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  Speaker 1: also good.
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  Speaker 3: And he works hard. He's good at what he does.
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  Speaker 1: So I see a very long leash, a very long runway,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of opportunity for him.
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  Speaker 6: It is not easy getting used to a new culture
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  Speaker 6: like he has, but doing it at that age, I
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  Speaker 6: mentioned just giving him credit and a compliment back when
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  Speaker 6: rookie camp began. I couldn't imagine doing this at his
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  Speaker 6: age as well. I was just trying to find my
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  Speaker 6: way in life, like when I was like 19, 20,
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  Speaker 6: 21 years of age, even back in California as well.
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  Speaker 6: He is a human being operating at a much, much, much,
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  Speaker 6: much higher level. But as far as on ice play,
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  Speaker 6: Certainly impressive.
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  Speaker 1: And that line was good tonight, too. I thought Freddie
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  Speaker 1: and Yanni, again, we talked a little bit about Yanni.
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  Speaker 1: I thought Freddie did really well.
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  Speaker 3: A player.
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  Speaker 1: In Gaudreau that is primarily, you know, a bottom six role.
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  Speaker 1: But we've seen him bumped up. We've seen him elevated up.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought tonight playing on that line with those two,
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  Speaker 1: he was the calming veteran presence. I think he did
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  Speaker 1: a really good job. of covering for the few mistakes
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  Speaker 1: that those two did make. I thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: relatively clean game for that line, but I really liked
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  Speaker 1: the game that Freddie played as well.
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  Speaker 6: Jacob Melanson, four hits, two assists. That's not too bad
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  Speaker 6: if you're getting that from time to time when he's
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  Speaker 6: in this lineup, assuming that he does make this team.
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  Speaker 6: But Logan Morrison as well, the game-winning goal, three hits
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  Speaker 6: as well. What are your takeaways from that?
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  Speaker 1: I thought Jacob Melanson, you know, he picked up where
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  Speaker 1: he left off. And I think this year he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to add another element to his game. We've seen the
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  Speaker 1: fourth line grind. We've seen the hits. We've seen the fights.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he wants to add a bit more
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  Speaker 1: smoothness to his game. He wants to add more offense
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  Speaker 1: to his game. I'm going to say it again. And
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  Speaker 1: I hope I don't get flamed. And I hope I don't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I would love for Jacob Melanson to ultimately be the
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  Speaker 1: Kraken version of Tom Wilson. Now, I understand you've got
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  Speaker 1: Tom Wilson who's got first-line talent but fourth-line grit. You know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Melanson is not going to get you 80 points,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe he can be a Yanni Gord type of player.
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  Speaker 1: He can be a 40-point guy consistently 30 points in
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  Speaker 1: this league, but he's also going to hit. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to work hard. He's going to grind. He can protect players.
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  Speaker 1: some guys. He'll stand up for some guys. So I
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  Speaker 1: think I would like to see Melanson this year maybe
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  Speaker 1: sniff 20 points. I want to see him add some
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  Speaker 1: more offense to his game. I love this game here tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And Logan Morrison, he is a guy who I think,
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  Speaker 1: I asked Derek Laxtal, head coach of the Firebirds earlier today,
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  Speaker 1: what do you need from Logan Morrison?
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  Speaker 3: He said the one thing about him, his offense is good.
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  Speaker 1: He can score but he's just got to work on
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  Speaker 1: the skating.
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  Speaker 3: He's got the foot speed, but it's just the ability.
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  Speaker 1: It's the technical side of the skating that he's got
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  Speaker 1: to work on. But they feel Logan Morrison might be
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  Speaker 1: right there. So big showings for them. I would expect
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  Speaker 1: one or both of them to go tomorrow in Calgary
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  Speaker 1: and then maybe even get another game coming up. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Morrison led the Coachella Valley Firebirds last year in scoring,
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  Speaker 1: so you know what you're going to get. Out of him,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Melanson, I think he wants a full NHL season, 60,
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  Speaker 1: 70-plus games under his belt this year as well, so
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  Speaker 1: I like them both.
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  Speaker 6: I think to your point as well on Jacob Melanson,
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  Speaker 6: it's not just the plays that he can make with force,
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  Speaker 6: but also some depth touch as well that he has,
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  Speaker 6: plus the brainpower to really analyze what he has and
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  Speaker 6: his options to create offense. It goes right back here,
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  Speaker 6: I think, to the Ty Nelson goal when the Kraken
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  Speaker 6: made this one 2-0 at the end of the first
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  Speaker 6: period of play. Melanson was right behind the net, then
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  Speaker 6: tucks it right off the pads of Nikita Toto, Pilo.
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  Speaker 6: That's great presence of mind that usually a top six
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  Speaker 6: guy has, but the intentional rebounds that create additional chances,
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  Speaker 6: that lined up Ty Nelson, which shows Melanson's starting to
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  Speaker 6: add extra elements.
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  Speaker 3: Here to his game.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and listen, I've said this since day one. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what league you play in. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if it's the Quebec Major Junior League that gets a
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  Speaker 1: lot of flack because of the style of hockey that
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  Speaker 1: you play. you don't score 50 goals on accident. You
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: don't get 100 points on accident, right? Jacob Melanson has
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  Speaker 1: some offense to his game. I think that he also
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  Speaker 1: embraces the physical side, which makes him a much more
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  Speaker 1: employable asset in the National Hockey League. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: very versatile in that point. But I think that Melanson, again,
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  Speaker 1: he's given the opportunity And, again, last year we saw
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  Speaker 1: Melanson primarily on a fourth-line role, right? What happens this
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  Speaker 1: year if he elevates himself to a third-line role?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yanni Gord started his career on the fourth line. He
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  Speaker 1: then bumps up to the third line. He is centering.
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  Speaker 1: He's winning face-offs. Obviously, Melanson's a winger. But he played
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  Speaker 1: himself into a permanent middle six role. Jacob Melanson is
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  Speaker 1: a player that I think can do that as well
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  Speaker 1: with all of the skills.
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  Speaker 3: But it just takes rounding out. He still has.
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  Speaker 1: a lot of raw ability and a lot of raw talent.
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  Speaker 1: He has rounded out enough. He has worked hard enough
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  Speaker 1: to be an everyday NHLer. But now he's got to
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  Speaker 1: chisel and round out some of those rougher edges to
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  Speaker 1: put him in that middle six area, and I think
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  Speaker 1: he's very well capable of doing that.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of our conversation revolved around the young players
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  Speaker 6: here for tonight, but a few veterans who got in there,
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  Speaker 6: and I think the headliner of this one, of course,
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  Speaker 6: Joey Decord shaking off some rust, was good enough, 14
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  Speaker 6: saves on, 14 shots through two periods. A couple of
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  Speaker 6: pucks that leaked off the pads, but really didn't look
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  Speaker 6: out of place at all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there was nothing too hard about tonight. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're going up against mostly Vancouver's AHLers. Atu Ratu was
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  Speaker 1: the only player the Canucks had with 100 or more
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  Speaker 1: games of NHL service, and I think there's two other
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  Speaker 1: guys in their lineup. Elias Pedersen at 98, and there's
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  Speaker 1: another guy in there. that had 95 games of service. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're going up against, you know, a very
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  Speaker 1: young lineup. But still, you have to make the saves.
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  Speaker 1: I thought Joey Decord, when challenged, it was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: vintage Joey Decord, if I can say vintage Joey Decord.
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  Speaker 6: Great save also in the second period.
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  Speaker 1: Great save in the second period. And Al even said it, right?
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  Speaker 1: You need Joey Decord. He needed that game. He needed
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  Speaker 1: to make the saves that he made. He made it
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  Speaker 1: look easy. He got his rhythm back. He got his
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  Speaker 1: flow back. Nothing of real danger. I think the only
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  Speaker 1: kind of, you know, moment that I clutched some pearls
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  Speaker 1: is when Atu Ratu cross-checked Lingren in the back over
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  Speaker 1: top of Decord. We know Decord had the injury last year,
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  Speaker 1: and he obviously, like Joey does, popped up no worse
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  Speaker 1: for wear. But it was a good, clean, no-frills game
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  Speaker 1: from Joey Decord, which in the preseason, you'll love to see.
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  Speaker 6: So the Kraken will face the flames for the first
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  Speaker 6: of two times in preseason.
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  Speaker 1: First of six meetings between now and the 30th of November.
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  Speaker 1: Like the Kraken will be done with their series. Six
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  Speaker 1: total games, two preseason, four regular season. They'll be done
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  Speaker 1: before Halloween, before we set the clocks back.
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  Speaker 6: I think we had this about three years ago with Colorado.
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  Speaker 6: I think we had about probably 83 meetings by the
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  Speaker 6: time we had Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what it felt like.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, Last year, the Saddle Dome was, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to say this real quick, like growing up as
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  Speaker 1: a hockey fan, just in general, right? I grew up
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit, Joe Louis Arena. It was a dump, but
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  Speaker 1: it was our dump. And I was very fortunate to
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  Speaker 1: live in a place where we got CBC. I got
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  Speaker 1: to grow up. I grew up watching Hockey Night in Canada.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: That's how I became an Edmonton Oilers fan as a kid. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Kraken fans. I'm all Kraken now. Edmonton really ticks me off.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: but you watch Hockey Night in Canada, and you get
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: to see, you know, I used to watch those games,
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  Speaker 1: Jerome McGinley in the Saddle Dome, watch those Flames teams,
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  Speaker 1: and that was always a building that I just loved watching.
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  Speaker 1: I would play NHL video games, and I love, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, and now having been in this role now
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: for five years, going on six years here, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to miss that building. I mean, the new building's going
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  Speaker 1: to be beautiful, it's going to be great, but we're
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: losing one of the last real gems here I think, again,
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  Speaker 1: it's a dump, but it's their dump.
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  Speaker 3: Can they put that catwalk in the hockey hole? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: my goodness. I would take the whole thing out. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: I know I just fully cut you off and mucked
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  Speaker 1: up your whole script here. But I just love that building.
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  Speaker 1: I love old Barnes. The fans have been great to us. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that new building is going to be good.
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  Speaker 1: But whenever you open up a new place, there is
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of sterility, you know, in there. new
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: buildings as as amazing and as great as as rogers
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  Speaker 1: is in edmonton it's still not rexall right as great
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  Speaker 1: as little caesars and as beautiful as little caesars is
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  Speaker 1: in detroit it still isn't the joe um so you're
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: gonna lose a little bit of that in calgary so
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  Speaker 1: i'm looking forward to going.
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  Speaker 6: Back back to what you're saying i had one chance
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  Speaker 6: to call a game at rexall place oh yeah whl
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  Speaker 6: days and you You can't duplicate this at Rogers, even
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  Speaker 6: as beautiful of a building as it is. You walk
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: into Rexall Place and go up in that booth, and
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  Speaker 6: you are just completely washed over with the emotions, thinking
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  Speaker 6: of this is where Gretzky was. This is where Messier was,
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: Paul Coffey, Grant Feer, Glenn Anderson. The same thing goes
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  Speaker 6: here for the Flames, Lanny McDonald, Theo Fleury. The list
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  Speaker 6: goes on and on. You cannot duplicate this. in a
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  Speaker 6: new building. So to be there, it was certainly a pleasure.
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  Speaker 6: And for you guys, it's going to be a fun one.
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  Speaker 6: But tomorrow night, the Flames are going to be coming
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  Speaker 6: in here with a battle on their hands.
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  Speaker 3: Shimon Nemitz, newcomer here from New Jersey.
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  Speaker 6: He and Zane Perak, the youngster, could be battling out
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  Speaker 6: here for tops as far as who's going to run
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: their power play. But for the Kraken, you mentioned potentially
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: another young group is going to be going up north here.
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: If we're betting people, Philip Grubauer, Victor Osman once again,
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: and then we'll see if they can get dialed in.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Very early as well. Yeah, this is the last show me, right?
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: This is the last tune-up.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: And for a lot of guys, today was their only
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: show me, their only tune-up, and tomorrow is going to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: be their only tune-up. And we're going to see some
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: cuts made, what's tomorrow, Sunday? Monday morning. I think it's
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: going to be the off day. So Tuesday, when we're
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: back at KCI for practice at 930 AM, That group's
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: going to be, I would venture to say, cut in half,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: at least in half from 50, what, 54, maybe down
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to like 30-ish.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're going to cut that group down quick.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Calgary, you know, they are a lot like Vancouver.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: A lot of people aren't giving them a lot of
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: credit going into the season. I think that they're going
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: to be young. They're inexperienced. Dustin Wolfe is good in goal,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: but they're trying to find their way. They have a
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: lot of good young prospects. I said it during the broadcast,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: and I don't know if I agree with it, but
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: they're putting Kraken and Vancouver and Calgary, they're putting the
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: three of us in the bottom three in the league.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I just don't know, especially from the Seattle standpoint, if
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I'm buying that. Calgary, it's going to be a rebuilding year,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: but I don't think they're going to be as bad
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: as people are projecting and expecting. And for whatever reason,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: the Kraken always have a battle on their hands, in
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Calgary especially.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: So I'm interested to see what that looks like.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: It looked like the Kraken last year got the back-to-back,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: game two back-to-back monkey off of their back.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Word of the day, back. So we'll see.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: But no, tomorrow I'm looking forward to another good performance
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: from the young guys, and then those first cuts are
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: going to be made right after the.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Game on Monday.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Guys are going to be going back to their junior teams,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: parts unknown, and.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: We'll see. But tomorrow's game, just as important as today, you.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Can't argue the back-to-back because I think that there will be,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: if there aren't 20 new players tomorrow, there will be 17.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: I think it will be mostly a brand-new team.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Potentially one last chance here for the youngsters to make
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: a big impression before it's cut down day as far
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: as how deep those cuts go. Have to wait and see,
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: but this is part of the potential big story. Lionsburg
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: in here for this Sunday matchup. Everett, you got a
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: plan to catch.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much. You can save me a sandwich.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Appreciate that. I'll bring you something back. I'm looking forward
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to it.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Everett now have the call in Calgary once again. We'll
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: be joining you for live coverage opening up 5 p.m.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Pacific. Take note on the AM dial.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Sports Radio 950 KJR AM. Everett Fitzhugh, Al Kaniski in
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: the catwalk, swinging away for the call. I'll join you
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: once again. back in Network Central. We certainly hope that
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: You can join us. Again, the Kraken out to a
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: 1-0 record, beating the Canucks 4-2. Taking on Calgary this evening.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Hope you can join us. Big thank you to Everett
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: Fence U. And for Kraken this morning, I'm Mike Benton.
• 20:04
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• 20:07
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