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PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert with Everett Fitzhugh before Kraken/Mammoth (4/2) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike Lane kracking getting a plethora of opportunities. They
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  Speaker 1: had their chances in Edmonton, could not break through against
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  Speaker 1: the Oilers. This morning, you said you weren't dissatisfied with
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  Speaker 1: the game overall outside of the result. Just take us
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  Speaker 1: back to that evening in Edmonton.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, let's be clear. There's games that I
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  Speaker 2: haven't liked at all that we haven't won, and there's
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  Speaker 2: games that we haven't won that I haven't minded at
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  Speaker 2: all either, And you know, we have to put everything
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  Speaker 2: into perspective. Of course, we need two points at this
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  Speaker 2: time of the year, but we're also looking to play well,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought we did in Edmonton. I thought we
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  Speaker 2: did everything we needed to do for the most part.
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  Speaker 2: You're never going to completely shut down ninety seven from
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  Speaker 2: getting some opportunities. But if the best he can get,
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately is an empty net goal, I think we did
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  Speaker 2: our job pretty well against him. You know, they had
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  Speaker 2: a goal they scored that was a going eight feet
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  Speaker 2: wide and went off of guys back. Unfortunate there, But
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  Speaker 2: you know, at the end of the day, for us,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've got to find a way to put
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  Speaker 2: the puck in the back of the net. You're not
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  Speaker 2: going to win any hockey game if you don't score, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: and we had our chances, but we've got to find
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  Speaker 2: ways to even upgrade those chances. And you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a net presence thing that we've been talking about all
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  Speaker 2: year long. And you got to go to the net,
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  Speaker 2: You got to pay the price, and you got to
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  Speaker 2: get in the goalie's ice, you know. So that's the
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  Speaker 2: that's the focus.
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  Speaker 1: On the road trip. We saw some different line combinations.
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  Speaker 1: Berkeley Catton went up top. We saw some guys moved
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  Speaker 1: up and down both sides of the lineup nineteen ten
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  Speaker 1: seven back together, they've kind of been, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: staple on that top line for the last five years.
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  Speaker 1: What have you liked about your groupings the last handful
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  Speaker 1: of games and where are you looking for for more
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  Speaker 1: from this group?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I think you know all, Like I said, I
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  Speaker 2: thought Berkeley played well, you know in a couple of
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  Speaker 2: those games that he played up there, certainly in Town,
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  Speaker 2: but I thought he was pretty good in Buffalo. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Jared coming off an injury. We're looking for at this
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  Speaker 2: point in time. You know, we're veteran guys, the guys
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  Speaker 2: that are will to score us the goals. We need
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  Speaker 2: some production from them. We're going to give them the
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  Speaker 2: best possibility to do that and we'll go from there.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that you know, the way Caton is playing,
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  Speaker 2: you know he can help out on the third line
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: I know the last stretch of games have not gone
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  Speaker 1: the way that you would like, But I mean, do
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  Speaker 1: you take any solace in the fact that you still
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  Speaker 1: are just three points out of the playoff spot. What's
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  Speaker 1: the mindset for you in the room going into these
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  Speaker 1: last nine games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean certainly, you know, we we went on
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  Speaker 2: aight oh and run ato and one run in January.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's there's plenty of games and plenty of
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  Speaker 2: points that you had, and so you know, it's just
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  Speaker 2: like I say, it's one shift at a time, one
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  Speaker 2: period at a time, one game at a time. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we were in a good position here. It's obviously not
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  Speaker 2: the position that we really want to be in because
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  Speaker 2: of where we you know, where we've done and what
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  Speaker 2: we've done since the break. But well, there's no time
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  Speaker 2: for that, no time for looking in the past. It's
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  Speaker 2: only about looking forward and moving forward. So we have
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity that's that's all there is to it. And
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  Speaker 2: if you can't get excited about this kind of an opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: then you know you're in the wrong business or you're
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  Speaker 2: in the wrong locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Utah has had has been a bit of a bird
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  Speaker 1: in the crack inside here this season. What can you
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  Speaker 1: expect out of their game here tonight and what are
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  Speaker 1: going to be some X factors for Seattles Gator.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to have to make sure that we
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  Speaker 2: manage the pucking against this team. I think this team,
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  Speaker 2: and I know I say this a lot in some
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  Speaker 2: of these talks we have, but I do think this
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  Speaker 2: team is one of the top two or three or
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  Speaker 2: four teams in the league at transitioning, and they've got
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  Speaker 2: an abundance of skill, certainly on their top two lines.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to have to make sure that we
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  Speaker 2: manage the puck in our brain when we when we
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  Speaker 2: turn the puck over to defend, has to be a
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  Speaker 2: quick twitch brain, and we're going to have to defend
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  Speaker 2: well against them and keep their chances to a minimum.
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  Speaker 2: Very fast hockey team, But from our standpoint, we've got
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  Speaker 2: to own box and we've got to take bucks in
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  Speaker 2: that and attack and I thought we did. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we had our chances in Edmonton, and we've had chances
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  Speaker 2: in Buffalo, and you know, we've played well offensively for
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  Speaker 2: the most part of the last few games. We've got
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  Speaker 2: to find a way to put in the back of
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  Speaker 2: the net, and we've got to get more net presence
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  Speaker 2: on their goaltender, who's very solid.