Latest / Seattle Kraken Audio Network / KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Finally home (10/20)

Transcript

KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Finally home (10/20) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: When we play our game, we can be a really
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: good team.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Welcome to Kraken This Morning, a presentation of the Kraken
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Audio Network and Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Here's Mike Benton.
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: A direct answer from head coach Lane Lambert after practice
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: on Monday on the state of the team. Coming off
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: a five-game road trip and heading into a four-game homestand.
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: Starting tonight. Welcome to Kraken this morning on a Tuesday,
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: October 20th. The Kraken take on the Detroit Red Wings
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: in the second and final matchup. We've already gotten there,
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: funny enough. And face-off is coming your way at 6.40
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: from Climate Pledge Arena. We're on air 6 p.m. Pre-game
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: show served up by Frost Brewed Coors Light.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: Choose chill.
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: Everett Fitzhugh, Al Kaniski in the booth. I'll join you
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: once again right back by the Coors Light landing in
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: Section 20. one-hour postgame show after the final horn, which
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: also includes Talking Kraken. I will be joined by Al
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: Koniski for your questions, and we'll certainly have answers. The
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: Kraken trying to get back on the winning track after
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: taking one on the chin back on Saturday in an
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: 8-3 loss to the Florida Panthers. So we'll hear from
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: Mackie Samaskevich, plus more of head coach Lane Lambert and
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: his reaction after the road trip and a Monday practice
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: where the Kraken made a switch Within their top six,
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: you'll hear why. Plus Sam Miskevich and his game with
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: new line mates. All that coming up in just a bit. Well,
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: the Kraken knew the end of a five-game road trip
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: would mean more than just having to dig deep. They
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: would have to do so against one of the powers
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: of the Eastern Conference in the Florida Panthers, who won
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2024-2024.
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: And 20-25.
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: They also loaded up on their top line with newcomer
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: Brady Kachuk playing with Matthew and their centerman Sam Bennett
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: who wasted little time getting going in period one where
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: the Kraken knew they had a big challenge in a
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: rough and physical Panthers team.
• 2:01
  Speaker 4: Brady Kachuk back in over the near blue line as
• 2:04
  Speaker 4: he and Sam Bennett will battle for the puck. Now
• 2:06
  Speaker 4: Matthew Kachuk gets in. It's batted in out of midair
• 2:09
  Speaker 4: and they score. The captain off a tip from Shane Wright.
• 2:12
  Speaker 4: Katton in front, Shane Wright tips it in, and they score!
• 2:17
  Speaker 4: What a play, Berkeley Katton on the right side, threw
• 2:21
  Speaker 4: it toward the net, Shane Wright didn't stop going hard
• 2:25
  Speaker 4: to the goal, redirects it in, and the Florida Panthers
• 2:28
  Speaker 4: are now tied 1-1. Kraken have evened the game up.
• 2:31
  Speaker 5: We've talked a lot about this line and the offense
• 2:33
  Speaker 5: that they can generate, and it's Ryan Winterton down the
• 2:36
  Speaker 5: left side that gets that puck over to Berkeley Katton.
• 2:38
  Speaker 5: And then Berkley Cat with a beautiful backhand pass to
• 2:42
  Speaker 5: the middle of the ice that Shane Wright just redirects
• 2:45
  Speaker 5: on net. He finds the top shelf glove side on Markstrom.
• 2:49
  Speaker 5: This game's tied at one.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: Heller.
• 2:51
  Speaker 4: Tamekula behind the goal.
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: Wrap around.
• 2:53
  Speaker 4: Try on the back side. And Carter Verhage gets the
• 2:58
  Speaker 4: hat trick. Last bit of the play here in the second.
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: Crack it.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: Keep it alive.
• 3:01
  Speaker 4: Freddy Gaudreau on the back door.
• 3:03
  Speaker 6: Scores!
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: What a move by Freddy Gaudreau. from the right circle,
• 3:10
  Speaker 4: walked in toward the net, he head faked like he
• 3:13
  Speaker 4: was gonna dish it over to Myers, but instead slides
• 3:16
  Speaker 4: it five hole. The fourth line strikes again, and the
• 3:20
  Speaker 4: Kraken back to within four. It's a 6-2 Panther lead.
• 3:24
  Speaker 5: Well, it's Winterton that keeps the puck in the offensive zone,
• 3:27
  Speaker 5: chops it back to Adam Larson, who gets it down
• 3:29
  Speaker 5: to Freddy Gaudreau, and you're right, he has Myers that
• 3:32
  Speaker 5: he sells that pass to, gets Larson to bite on it,
• 3:35
  Speaker 5: and slides it just past his right pad.
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: 6-2, Florida.
• 3:39
  Speaker 4: Back to Matthew for the line now for Kulikov. Here's Balinskis,
• 3:42
  Speaker 4: now shot from Bennett!
• 3:44
  Speaker 3: Scores!
• 3:47
  Speaker 4: Two hat-tricks in the game for Florida. Sam Bennett gets
• 3:51
  Speaker 4: his third. 8-3, Panthers.
• 3:54
  Speaker 3: That was the story as two late first period goals
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: helped the Panthers eventually pull away and eventually beat the
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: Kraken 8-3 on not one, but two hat tricks. Carter
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: Verhage is coming of the natural variety and making NHL
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: history in the process. The Panthers becoming the first in
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: NHL history to author natural hat tricks in three consecutive games.
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: Brady Kachuk had the first two, Carter Verhage first. had
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: the contest against the Kraken. And while Bennett completed his
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: hat trick, that helped the Panthers become the first team
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: in over a century to get four or more hat
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: tricks before their 10th game of the season. Plenty to
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: clean up on the Kraken side from that game, but
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: plenty to take away from a road trip where they
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: got 7 of 10 points. But nonetheless, Lane Lambert shifting
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: the attention after practice on Monday to where the Kraken
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: have to look for more In their top six, offensively
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: versus defensively?
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: I think you could probably call it a little bit
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: of both. You know, we had some really good contributions
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: from them on the power play. You know, five on five,
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: we had great contributions from our so-called third and fourth lines.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: You know, and I just think that we'll see. You know,
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: for me, there just wasn't, there doesn't seem to be
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: something clicking there. And so, you know, make a little
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: adjustment and see where we go.
• 5:17
  Speaker 4: Waiting to that point, when you make a change like that,
• 5:19
  Speaker 4: do you talk to the players about it or do you.
• 5:21
  Speaker 7: Just say we're going to try this?
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.
• 5:25
  Speaker 4: On the flip of the other two lines that aren't clicking.
• 5:28
  Speaker 5: How does that feel as.
• 5:29
  Speaker 7: A coach when you did get the chemistry right and
• 5:31
  Speaker 7: you're finding the.
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: Complementary pieces that do work together?
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, those guys are, you know, those guys
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: did a real good job for us. And I'm not
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: saying the top lines didn't either. You know, we had
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: some contributions from everybody. It's just, you know, five on five.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: You know, we just flipped one player on each line.
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: So it's not this big sweeping, oh my goodness. You know,
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: we'll see where we go from there. But certainly... The guys,
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: like I say, the Caton line, the Freddie Goudreau line,
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: they played real well for us and good for them.
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: It was a successful road trip when you look at
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: their record. The last game leaves you with a bad
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: taste in your mouth for sure, but there's a lot
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: of positives to it.
• 6:21
  Speaker 4: We have to.
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: Move past the last game, learn from it, And, you know,
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: my biggest takeaway from that last game was, you know,
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: I think there was probably 11 and a half minutes
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: left on the clock in the first period. And the
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: next shot Florida got on goal was the Verhege goal
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: with two minutes and three seconds left. So, you know,
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: and that came from some mistakes that we made on
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: cut and dry, clean situations. And they were face-offs. So,
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: It's just a good reminder for us that you have
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: to be detailed and if you're not, it can slip fast.
• 7:08
  Speaker 7: What's your read on what kind of changes that they're
• 7:11
  Speaker 7: creating and producing as.
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: Of right now? My read is that they're producing a
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: lot of opportunities. I think the three of them together
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: are doing a really good job. I think Shane's using
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: his speed. I think Berkeley is, in my mind anyways,
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: he's clearly in the right spot on the ice. And
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: that's through the middle with the puck. And, you know,
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: and then Kapo is working down low. He's made some
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: nice plays to those guys, you know. Or Shane probably
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: could have had two or three goals in Tampa. So,
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: you know, I think they're just, you know, they're confident.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: They're using their speed. And, you know, they're playing really,
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, against... any line. They played
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: Point's line, they played Kucherov's line, so they're gaining some
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: confidence that way.
• 8:02
  Speaker 7: I think in that sense, you mentioned at the end
• 8:04
  Speaker 7: of the trip that you want to keep the lines
• 8:06
  Speaker 7: balanced with ice time. At this point in time, how
• 8:08
  Speaker 7: much does.
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: That put them in a position to.
• 8:11
  Speaker 7: Get more ice time as far as the matches that
• 8:13
  Speaker 7: they see and more ice time that they get?
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it can be, but again, I think the balance
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: has been pretty good for the most part. The reason
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: maybe And Chandler Stevenson is at 17 minutes on average
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: just because of penalty killing. He plays both that and
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: the power play. So if you look at their five-on-five minutes,
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: it's pretty balanced. But as we go forward here, they
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: keep playing like that. They'll garner more ice time for sure.
• 8:38
  Speaker 6: When you have a game like that where Ruby had
• 8:40
  Speaker 6: played two in a row, Joey comes in, obviously Buck's
• 8:43
  Speaker 6: going in.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 8:45
  Speaker 6: How do you balance making a change versus protecting his
• 8:48
  Speaker 6: confidence versus all those different things to decide when it's
• 8:52
  Speaker 6: right to make a change?
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great question. Stand behind the bench some
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: night and make that decision. Groobie had played two games.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: There was no point in putting him in. The last
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: thing you want to do is have him come off
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: the bench tired, risk injury. Joey Decord is a battler.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: And I had no doubt in my mind that he
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: was going to continue to battle through whatever it is
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: we were throwing at him. And, you know, he just
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: went about his business and battled and battled and full
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: respect for him. I think that there's no question that,
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: you know, he understands why. And, you know, and that's
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: part of why he's a good teammate. You have to
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: be selfless as a teammate. And I think Joey's selfless.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: maybe a more selfish goalie would be looking over at
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: the bench, but he never looked at the bench once.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: A real good moment for our hockey team and our culture.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: I think he's playing with confidence. As we go along
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: here and as our young players get more and more
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: experience and more and more game experience and more and
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: more month by month experience, they get a little bit better.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: You know, and are they ever going to have a
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: bad stretch? Probably. But certainly I think that, you know,
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: they're doing a pretty good job of gaining confidence, and
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: I think that's what he's doing. And that line is
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: dialed in. I think, you know, Freddie's playing great. Freddie is,
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: you know, his face-offs have gone way up. We don't
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: talk about Freddie Boudreaux a lot. He leads our team
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: in goals. You know, I don't know what more you
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: want to say about that. You know, he's playing great hockey.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: And he's given us everything he's got. And it shows,
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: you know, he's leading that line. He's leading those young guys,
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: Myers and Winterton.
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: Lane, over this trip, were there things.
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: About your team game that you saw strengthen or maybe
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: get more baked in?
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: My problem on our trip, even though the record was
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: what it was, I thought there were some inconsistencies. And
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: that's one thing we talked about right from day one.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: We've got to be more consistent.
• 11:17
  Speaker 8: So.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: I think there was some really good moments about certain
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: areas of our game, whether it be some of the
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: changes we've made in our D zone or some of
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: the neutral zone changes we've made. I think offensively, I
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: really like what's happened with our offensive play and our
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: plays off the rush and some of the concepts that
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: we have there we're creating in my mind a little
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: bit more than we were in the past. So there's
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: certainly a lot of areas that I was like, okay,
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: This is good. And then all of a sudden, you know, wham,
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: where is it? So, you know, it's an everyday game.
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you've won three in a row,
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: lost three in a row, if you're up in the
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: game 5-2, if you're down in the game 5-2, you've
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: got to play the game the same way. A really
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: good example of that is Florida's beating us 8-3, and,
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: you know, they're in the offensive zone, and they win
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: races off the ball to the net. and go right
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: to the net. Doesn't matter what the score is, the
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: game doesn't change. So, you know, I think it's a
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: good learning experience for our hockey team. Sometimes you've got
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: to take one in the mouth to get some, you know,
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: to get some understanding of what exactly it takes.
• 12:32
  Speaker 6: You pointed a few times on the road trip towards skating, like,
• 12:36
  Speaker 6: you know, we're skating or we're not skating. And what
• 12:40
  Speaker 6: do you think, like, why does the team stop skating?
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Good question. You know, Sometimes a little bit of mental
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: fatigue comes in. I think when your brain isn't working right,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: it transfers down into the old legs. And therefore, you know,
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: we're not moving our feet as much because our thought
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: process is a little bit slow. Does that have to
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: do with being on the road for 11 days? I
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: don't know. But, you know, I think it's more mental
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: than it is anything else for me.
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: At practice on Monday, no surprises as far as the
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: amount of players the Kraken rolled out with Brandon Montour
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: still out of action and Lane Lambert keeping his status
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: at day-to-day with a timetable uncertain for his return. On
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: top of that, the Kraken making a subtle shift in
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: their top six. Jordan Eberle moving to Matty Beneers' line
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: with Jared McCann. Mackie Samaskevich switching with him and trying
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: things out now with Chandler Stevenson as his center and
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: Bobby McMahon on the opposite wing. After practice Monday, we
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: cut up with Samaskevich and his thoughts heading into the
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: four-game homestand.
• 13:48
  Speaker 7: Mackie, first off, welcome back home. And I think heading
• 13:50
  Speaker 7: into a homestand like this, you come off the road
• 13:52
  Speaker 7: from getting seven points out of 10, despite what happened
• 13:55
  Speaker 7: on Saturday. What do you think that this team learned
• 13:57
  Speaker 7: more about each other heading into this homestand?
• 14:00
  Speaker 8: I think that we learned that we're a good team.
• 14:02
  Speaker 8: I mean, we were coming off That last one at home,
• 14:06
  Speaker 8: you know, we definitely learned a lot in that game.
• 14:08
  Speaker 8: And then we came into this road trip wanting to,
• 14:10
  Speaker 8: you know, have a good one. And we learned, you know,
• 14:14
  Speaker 8: we could play with these teams, and that's a good feeling.
• 14:17
  Speaker 8: And obviously it didn't end the way that we wanted to. But,
• 14:21
  Speaker 8: you know, I think even when you lose like that,
• 14:24
  Speaker 8: you learn, I think, way more than if you win,
• 14:26
  Speaker 8: you know, by that much. So I think down the
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: line it would be super helpful.
• 14:31
  Speaker 7: You've been a part of that dressing room on the
• 14:33
  Speaker 7: other side of course. You know what those guys are
• 14:35
  Speaker 7: all about. What do you think that was a big
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: source of a reminder as far as what it takes
• 14:40
  Speaker 7: to compete no matter what the score is?
• 14:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is they play with
• 14:47
  Speaker 8: their structure and they stick to it. I think in
• 14:50
  Speaker 8: that game we got down early and then maybe tried
• 14:53
  Speaker 8: to do too much and maybe got off script a
• 14:56
  Speaker 8: little bit more, but they're so good at sticking to
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: their structure. They know it works, and I think we
• 15:03
  Speaker 8: can take that for our group for sure.
• 15:05
  Speaker 7: It's often said the hockey world is a small world,
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: so what did it mean to have a little bit
• 15:08
  Speaker 7: of a warm reception for you, seeing that on the
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: video board?
• 15:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it was nice. Good feeling. Nice to see old friends,
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: and even the day before, just going out to dinner
• 15:20
  Speaker 8: with the guys you played with was nice, and um
• 15:23
  Speaker 8: a lot of great memories um people that are great
• 15:26
  Speaker 8: um definitely was a good.
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: Feeling small sample size but we did see an adjustment
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: in how the lines were rolled out recently in practice
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: what do you take away immediately from what you have
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: with bobby mcmahon chandler stevenson also playing together.
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah i loved it today um i thought we had
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: a great day um me and bobby can really shoot
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: the puck and chandler can really find us so i'm
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: excited about it um you know, I think we've gelled
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: really well today, so I'm excited to see how it goes.
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: You see Detroit already once here on this early on
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: in the schedule. You get them once again here in
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: this month, so there's some instant, maybe some familiarity right there,
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: but what do you take away from seeing them for
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: the first time that you want to get after here?
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think, you know, I think we got off
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: to a slow start last time. It ended up going
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: our way, but I think getting off to a better
• 16:11
  Speaker 8: start is going to be helpful, and like you said,
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: you know, it's still familiar, and we know how they
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: play and what they're good at, but I think it's
• 16:20
  Speaker 8: about what we're going to impose on them.
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: Often it's said that good start is tied to structure,
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: but when it comes to playing in a place like this,
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: a good start means also crowd volume. How much does
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: that make a big impact?
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: It makes a big impact for sure. We felt that
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: the first two games at home, it definitely helped a lot.
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: So I think in terms of getting off to a
• 16:43
  Speaker 8: good start, the fans will be ready to get off
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: to a good start, so we've got to I'll be
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: ready to.
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: Appreciate this, Mackie.
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: So with that move, the Kraken hoping it ignites production
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: out of their top six as Mackie Samaskevich returns home
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: looking to break out of a four-game goal-scoring drought. His
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: last goal came against, you guessed it, the Red Wings.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: That was back on October 9th when the Kraken beat
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: them 6-3 and the Kraken looking to run the table
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: in the two-game head-to-head series. That win 11 days ago
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: snapped a five-game winless skid in the series. The Kraken
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: all-time stand 5-3-3 against Detroit, aiming for their first season
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: series win since the 2022-23 season. Detroit's gotten back on
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: the winning track recently. They beat San Jose and Philadelphia back-to-back.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: They open a four-game road trip after beating San Jose
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: in a thriller last Saturday, 4-3 in a shootout, with
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Alex Dabrinkit rallying the Red Wings with a game-tying goal
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: with 1.33 left in regulation. The Kraken, meanwhile, trying to
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: keep him at bay from milestone watch. He needs one
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: goal to reach. 300 in his NHL career. He owns
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: 11 points in 12 games head-to-head and an eight-game point
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: streak in the matchup heading into tonight. The Kraken, meanwhile,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: enter an inviting but challenging part of their schedule. Six
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: of their next seven games will be on home ice,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: but except for two games, Against the Flames, who have
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: lost their first six of eight, they will face teams
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: such as the Red Wings, Utah, Minnesota, Toronto, and the
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: New York Rangers. Five of those games will be against teams,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: as of right now, with a record over 500. We'll
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: cover it all as far as storylines opening up at
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: 6 p.m. for the 640 Face-Off between the Kraken and
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: the Red Wings at Climate Pledge Arena. Hope you can
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: certainly join us. Everett now in the booth on the call.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: I'll join you again back by the Coors Light landing
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: in Section 20. Al Koniski joins me for Talking Kraken
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: during postgame coverage leading up to an hour after. the
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: final horn, and we certainly hope that you can join us.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Big thank you again to Mackie Samaskevich and the comments
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: from Lane Lambert. And for Kraken this morning, I'm Mike Benton.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Enjoy the game.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: You're home for the Kraken. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.