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RAW: Kraken GM Jason Botterill NHL trade deadline news conference (3/6) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: What was your general take away from today.
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  Speaker 2: No, we're very excited, obviously, when you have an opportunity
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: to sign your captain for another two years, your leading scorer,
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: a player that exemplifies so much that the Seattle cracking
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: are about. You know, we are just extaductive of Jordan
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  Speaker 2: part of our organization for two more years.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's a great leader for our young players.
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  Speaker 2: I think even with the injury last year, he's taken
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: his focus on training to another level. And then you
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: look at his on ice production and continues to help
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  Speaker 2: us win and and has put.
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  Speaker 3: Us in a playoff position here right now.
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  Speaker 2: So excited from that, and then with the addition of
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  Speaker 2: Bobby McMahon, we wanted to look and try to add
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  Speaker 2: a piece to our group, someone who could play in
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  Speaker 2: our top nine. We look at Bobby as a player
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  Speaker 2: that brings speed to our lineup, gets pucks the net,
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  Speaker 2: gets the net, and I think can come compliment the
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: rest of our group very well. And we talked a
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: lot about making sure our chemistry with our group stayed
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  Speaker 2: the same, making sure that our young players still had
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to grow, and just the fact that you know,
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  Speaker 2: Bobby has a relationship with Lane from last year, I
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  Speaker 2: think we'll just make the transition that much easier to
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  Speaker 2: Seattle here.
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  Speaker 4: What was Lane able to tell you about him.
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  Speaker 2: From his experienced coach last year, Well, I think the
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  Speaker 2: little things that we touched on right, just his speed,
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  Speaker 2: his attacking style. You look at Bobby's history, He's worked
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  Speaker 2: at every level to get his opportunity to be a
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  Speaker 2: successful story at the National Hockey League, his ability to
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  Speaker 2: play up and down the lineup. We just felt it
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  Speaker 2: was something that would fit very well with our group.
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  Speaker 5: From a skill set standpoint, How is he unique or
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  Speaker 5: different than what you currently have on your ros.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think if you look at it, we're a
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  Speaker 2: team that needs to continue to work on getting pucks
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  Speaker 2: the net, increasing our shot totals. That's what Bobby does,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I think we're a team that wants
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  Speaker 2: to continue when we're playing well, when we're creating opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: we're utilizing our speed out there hard on the ford check.
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  Speaker 2: These are elements that I think he brings and helps
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  Speaker 2: our group.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see him as a top six forward.
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  Speaker 3: On your look?
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  Speaker 2: I think what we're doing that will be up to
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: Lane on where he puts them. Into the lineup from
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  Speaker 2: that standpoint, You've heard myself talk a lot about it,
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: you heard Lane talk a lot about it. That we
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  Speaker 2: certainly want to be a four line team. I think
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: sometimes even just look at the time on ice, you
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: don't know which way, what is our first line, what's
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  Speaker 2: your second, what's your third, what's your fourth? So we're
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  Speaker 2: just giving Lane more opportunities and to sort of set
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  Speaker 2: up the lineup.
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  Speaker 6: How did the market kind of shape up for And
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure you were having discussions about other players as well, right, yep,
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  Speaker 6: for some of the like really top top tier type
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  Speaker 6: of players that might have been available out there.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen reports that it was pretty high for some
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  Speaker 1: of the asks. What did you kind of come across
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  Speaker 1: or as much of you to share.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, there's always a lot of conversations going on.
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  Speaker 2: There's always you know, discussions on big trades and big,
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  Speaker 2: big acquisitions. Look, we certainly wanted to be involved with him.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted to be aggressive and trying to help out
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  Speaker 2: our team here at the today. It's something that I
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  Speaker 2: touched on before, wanting to find a balance of adding
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  Speaker 2: to our group but not blocking our young kids. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm not just talking about Berkeley. Kattner's right, but you
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: look at a player like Melanson or Winterton and what
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  Speaker 2: they've come up and given us a certain element to
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  Speaker 2: our group here, and we want to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: they continue to have ice time and continue to develop
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  Speaker 2: as you know, as players. So it was a sort
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  Speaker 2: of finding that unique balance here of you know, adding
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  Speaker 2: to the group but not blocking players from our group.
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  Speaker 3: And we're happy about it.
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  Speaker 2: But from the bigger picture things, there's always going to
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  Speaker 2: be a ton of discussion, whether things get done now.
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  Speaker 3: Or at the draft or later on the summer.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're at least initiating a lot of conversations
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  Speaker 2: that can could go on.
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  Speaker 3: Higher.
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  Speaker 2: Sing for your body, Well, look, I think he's playing
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  Speaker 2: extremely wanted right now. We I think, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: a developing player even at his age right now, like
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  Speaker 2: he's worked his way up from you know, obviously been
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  Speaker 2: free agent in college to the HL, at the American
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  Speaker 2: OCKE League, towns, the National Acte League. Yeah, he's a
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  Speaker 2: developing player. How high you can get, I think that's still.
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  Speaker 3: Up to him.
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  Speaker 2: And well that's what we're looking forward to interacting with
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  Speaker 2: him on a daily occurrence here. But no it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a real success story for how hard
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  Speaker 2: he's worked. And that's something that Lane just touched on,
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  Speaker 2: is just even maybe when the goals aren't going in
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  Speaker 2: or the office, is that going in.
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  Speaker 3: He has that work ethic, that real backup B game.
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  Speaker 7: Jason, you went into this week with four veterans on
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  Speaker 7: expiring contracts. One is now tied up, you have three others.
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  Speaker 7: What went into thinking, well, do we want to get
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  Speaker 7: assets back from them?
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  Speaker 1: Do we want to resign them?
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  Speaker 7: Do we just want to make sure that they're around
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  Speaker 7: for the playoff push?
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Look, it's a situation where we looked at it. We
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  Speaker 2: we've stayed in touch with our representatives throughout this process. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we could have maybe put some out in a trade
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  Speaker 2: market and get something, but this this team's in a
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  Speaker 2: plaoff position, you know, and in previous years we've we've
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  Speaker 2: made some difficult decisions and let some good players go
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  Speaker 2: because we weren't in a playoff situation and and got
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  Speaker 2: draft picks back and got draft assets back. You know,
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  Speaker 2: even this year we took out a NHL player to
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  Speaker 2: get draft picks back. We felt it was now time
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  Speaker 2: to utilize some of those picks and bringing a player
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  Speaker 2: like Bobby here into the mix. And we clearly understand
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a tough month here right you
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  Speaker 2: look at our schedule, it's going to be a challenging month.
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  Speaker 2: It's been the story of the National Hockey right the
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  Speaker 2: parody of the league. But we're ecstatic that we're in
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  Speaker 2: the mix. We're in a playoff spot right now, and
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  Speaker 2: we think this is a great experience for young players
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  Speaker 2: and that's why we wanted to keep this team together
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully add which we did in Bobby.
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  Speaker 7: And we tell us exactly the numbers in turn down
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  Speaker 7: to the penny that you're offering to the.
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  Speaker 3: Other three players without a doubt.
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  Speaker 2: Look, it's a situation where we're extact to have.
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  Speaker 3: Them part of our group here. We've talked to them.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's always a balance of folks in on
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  Speaker 2: the business side and folks seeing in hockey, and right now,
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  Speaker 2: like our main focus is to help this group and
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  Speaker 2: stay focused on hockey, and.
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  Speaker 3: We're just ecstatic about this group right now.
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  Speaker 4: I think I saw that it's a conditional second that
• 6:00
  Speaker 4: you're sending to Toronto as a part of what's what's
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  Speaker 4: the condition on.
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  Speaker 8: That with you.
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  Speaker 2: I think I believe the two picks that we have
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  Speaker 2: going through here again, I believe it's where we have
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  Speaker 2: Winnipeg and Columbus's pick.
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  Speaker 3: It's the lower of those two picks.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a hope that McMahon is with the team
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  Speaker 1: beyond the season?
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's we certainly have the space.
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  Speaker 2: It's I think right now what we've sort of talked
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  Speaker 2: to his representatives about is, let's just let's just focus
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  Speaker 2: on him get into Seattle here, just so everyone's no,
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  Speaker 2: he's probably won't be in the lineup tomorrow and for
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days just from an immigration standpoint, but
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  Speaker 2: we'll get him to Seattle, get him part of our mix,
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  Speaker 2: and just sort of see how he fits in. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a situation of seeing how he fits in
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  Speaker 2: with our group and making sure that he likes Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: he likes his role here, and then we'll see where
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  Speaker 2: it goes in the off season.
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  Speaker 9: Jase, when you talk about adding to the current group,
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  Speaker 9: but how much did you consider packaging current guys for
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  Speaker 9: maybe other deals or how much we're trying to balance,
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  Speaker 9: you know, those moving around those assets.
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  Speaker 2: Look, there's always a balance of trying to find different things.
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  Speaker 2: So being like I said to you before bringing veter in,
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: but still giving your young kids a lot of an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's what we're just really happy about
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  Speaker 2: in the second half here. How some of our players
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: have come up from Coachella Valley and been impact players
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  Speaker 2: for us. I think just overall, you look at it
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  Speaker 2: from about I don't know what the dad is exactly
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  Speaker 2: December twentieth, you know, this team has played very well,
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  Speaker 2: and to get through January with seventeen games, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a big part of our depth. And whether
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  Speaker 2: it's Ben Myers, whether it's Ryan Winterton, Jacob Malants and
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  Speaker 2: these guys who've been in Coachella Valley coming up, they've
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  Speaker 2: really added a mix to it. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: gotten out of the players we now look at. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's something why we didn't really go out and get
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  Speaker 2: more debt players in the in the trade market, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's you know, Oscar Molgard or Yannie Newman or
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  Speaker 2: Giagara Furkus or John Hayden. We feel we have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of forwards especially that can step in and play
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  Speaker 2: roles for us, you know, in the regular season and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: And we met, you know, a side from the death.
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  Speaker 9: What else have you seen from the room to you know,
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  Speaker 9: give you confidence for the you know, march and into
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  Speaker 9: the as you hope for the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I think we have good depth throughout
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  Speaker 2: our lineup, and this is a team that went through
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  Speaker 2: a tough stretch in December. Like the fact that they've
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  Speaker 2: been able to rebound from that and really take it.
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  Speaker 2: I like how we played at the end leading into
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  Speaker 2: Olympic group break. I thought, especially that homestand then going
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  Speaker 2: into Vegas, grabbing a victory there, grabbing a victory in
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  Speaker 2: La before the final break, that was excellent job of
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  Speaker 2: our team coming out of the break. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: still another level that we can get to. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've played solid defensively, but we do have
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  Speaker 2: to create more chances, create a little bit more offense,
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  Speaker 2: and you.
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  Speaker 3: Know that will be the goal starting tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned wanting to preserve the ability for young guys
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  Speaker 4: to have opportunity here, Yeah, adding another guy in the group,
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  Speaker 4: though somebody is going to get mushed down to the
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  Speaker 4: fourth line, somebody's going to have to get scratched kind
• 8:49
  Speaker 4: of how do you see that situation playing out and
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  Speaker 4: what kind of challenge is that going to be for
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  Speaker 4: Leane to have to build out a lineup every night
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  Speaker 4: and find a way to keep guys.
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  Speaker 3: Like Myers And.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a challenge, but I think it's challenged
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  Speaker 2: most coaches are going to take right And unfortunately there's
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: we have a lot of games here in March here.
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  Speaker 2: There are going to be intense games. I think you
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: got a little taste of it on Monday against Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: just the atmosphere in the building and the and the
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  Speaker 2: energy that was out on the ice, and look, injuries
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  Speaker 2: are going to happen and finding different mix And what
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  Speaker 2: I like right now with their players is I think
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  Speaker 2: Lane has different depending on the opponent, There's different players
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  Speaker 2: that he can put into the lineup that it's going
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  Speaker 2: to bring a little bit of a different element to
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  Speaker 2: our group.
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  Speaker 3: So those at the end of the day, those are.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna be Lane's decisions. And it's done a good job
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  Speaker 2: with it throughout the year. I'm sure you'll do it fine.
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  Speaker 7: Now what will it take for what do you need
• 9:37
  Speaker 7: to hear down in Coachella Valley for Yannie Newman to
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  Speaker 7: be back with this team and what are they working
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  Speaker 7: with him on down there to bring him back to
• 9:49
  Speaker 7: the NHL.
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: Well, look, any one of our young players, whether than
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: in the National Hockey League or in Coachella Valley, I
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: think you see it out here and practice and stuff.
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: They're constantly working there on their game. No matter what,
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  Speaker 2: whether you're the Nationalkling AMERICAANKI, You're still always working. It's
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: what I like about our culture right now off the ice,
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: in the weight room there, continuing to build their bodies
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: there on the ice, working with Justin Rye or Jess
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  Speaker 2: on just little aspects of their games.
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  Speaker 3: Someone like Yanni, to me, it's we know he can score, right,
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  Speaker 3: he's got the shot.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that he continues to work on just utilizing
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  Speaker 2: his size to his advantage, protecting pucks, gaining a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of an extra step, and then just continue to
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  Speaker 2: work on his defensive game. But look right now, like
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: we have no hesitation to call Yanni up and put
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  Speaker 2: him in our lineup from that standpoint, And like I said,
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  Speaker 2: have a player like Oscar Molguard has been Olympics playing
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  Speaker 2: at that level and I thought he looked very well
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  Speaker 2: good over in Italy too. Having those type of players
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  Speaker 2: at our disposal I think gives us a great depth
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  Speaker 2: without the organization.
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  Speaker 9: Did any differences this year's traded line from past one?
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  Speaker 4: Is just give the new CBA have any impact.
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  Speaker 2: Or with that kind of look, I I it's tough
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  Speaker 2: to say in general, right, like, uh, we weren't a
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: team that was right up against the cap from that perspective,
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  Speaker 2: so it didn't really impact us too much there.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was just more of like, look, there
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  Speaker 3: is so much parody.
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  Speaker 2: Even with the teams that are so called sellers, they're
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  Speaker 2: not that far off, you know, so and then you
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  Speaker 2: also look at it, there's not a lot of free agents.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of teams have already signed their flip free agents,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I'm sure that some of the discussions
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  Speaker 2: are with some teams like hey, okay, we get rid
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  Speaker 2: of these players, then who's going to be our team
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  Speaker 2: next year?
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  Speaker 3: So it's just a situation.
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  Speaker 2: I think some of that came into the mix on
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  Speaker 2: maybe why there wasn't as many trades.
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  Speaker 5: You're competing with a lot of teams for a couple
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  Speaker 5: of a couple of playoff spots here yep, for those
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  Speaker 5: teams that you saw that we were active and added,
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  Speaker 5: do you feel like in comparison, you did enough to
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  Speaker 5: improve your team during this period.
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: Look, I think we have a lot of faith in
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  Speaker 2: our group. We believe this is a team that can
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs and we're excited about that. Like I
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: said to you before, I think it's gonna be a challenge.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: I think our division is wide open. But the fact
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: that our young players are going to get the experience
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  Speaker 2: of hey, scoreboard watching, you know, understanding that, hey, there's
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  Speaker 2: the excitement, the nervousness of what's going on out there,
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  Speaker 2: but then trying to take care of their own business
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  Speaker 2: and continue to develop and just see how intense these
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: games are. You know, I think it's it's a great
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: experience for them all. We we still talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Matty Benner's experience his first year playing fourteen playoff games,
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  Speaker 2: it really helped him a lot a lot now just
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: being a part of the mix heere. For our younger players,
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: whether it's Riker, whether it's Berkeley, whether it's Shane, I
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: think is going to be a great experience. And but yeah,
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: we believe in our group here. We do think we
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: have an opportunity. We know it's going to be difficult,
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  Speaker 2: but it should be a lot of fun in the
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: next few weeks.
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  Speaker 6: There's you guys have stated that the goal is to
• 12:43
  Speaker 6: become a perennial playoff contender.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Yep, in the current that's the current goal. So assuming
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: that we reach that goal here, what is the next step?
• 12:52
  Speaker 6: Like, how how do you wor some of the steps
• 12:54
  Speaker 6: that if we take in a common true contender.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's try to get to the playoffs first for
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: the first one to make that step from the standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: but I think like, look, we're really happy with our
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: goaltending right now and our defensive play. I think there's
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: always an opportunity to continue to develop our forwards. It's
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  Speaker 2: why we were looking to add forward to our group here.
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  Speaker 2: It's why we've been so focused on development both in
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  Speaker 2: Coachella Valley and Seattle and developing our young forwards. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's the opportunity for us to really take the
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  Speaker 2: next step is just building that depth and building an
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  Speaker 2: offense that can contribute a little bit more.
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: For sure, what.
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  Speaker 8: Type of pushback, if any, did you get among players
• 13:31
  Speaker 8: with you know, movement clauses about whether they wanted to
• 13:35
  Speaker 8: come to Seattle, either the team or the city.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I'm not going to get into conversations of with
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: other teams and what we did and within that, all
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: I can say is like, I think you heard your
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: comments from Jordan Embery ecstatic about resigning in Seattle and
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: excited about being in Seattle. I think every time our
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: players play a big game in at Climate Pledgeria, there
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: there's an energy in the building that they are really
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: drawing on.
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  Speaker 3: The players were here in here two. They remember what
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: it was like in the playoff run.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: We want to get this group back there, not only
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: for our players, but also for our fans.
• 14:07
  Speaker 9: There were some chatter over you know, half a few
• 14:10
  Speaker 9: weeks with Shane Wright's name coming up in potential trade discussions.
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  Speaker 3: YEA, how close or far was that becoming a reality?
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: Well, I think you look the league right, everyone's looking
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: for centerman, a lot of young centermen. I think from
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: day one in this organization, Ron has talked a lot
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: about drafting center and developing centers works. We love having
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: Shane a part of our group. He is going to
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: be a big part of the reason why hopefully we
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: get in the playoffs here and then making this push
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: down the stretch here. Every day we enjoy working with
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: Shane did make him better, and all I can say
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: is we're we're very happy to have him a part
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: of our group.
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: You mentioned gold Ending a minute ago. What's Matt Murray's status.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: With you guys right now?
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, No, it's a situation where Matt obviously he's
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: been a little bit injured, a little bit longer than
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: anticipated and just you know, a lower body injury.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: These things always take a little bit longer. But we're,
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: you know, we're very hopeful that he can be an
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: option for us in the near future.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: His work ethic, his work ethic and practice and off
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: the ice has been you know, outstanding, and uh, you know,
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: he just gives us a little bit more death in
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: that position. And then it's why we signed him at
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: the start of the year. And now hopefully it's going
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: to be a situation where he's going to be able
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: to help us out here down this last little stretch.