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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this Morning, a presentation of the Cracking

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Speaker 1: Audio network. Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ

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Speaker 1: R FM. Here's nice about me from the first of

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Speaker 1: back to back.

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Speaker 2: Once again, Mike Betting with you for Cranking this morning

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Speaker 2: on a Monday, January fifth, Well, last time the Cracking

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Speaker 2: played back on Friday. Let's this slip. The highlights here

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Speaker 2: tell the story as far as how crazy and topsy

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Speaker 2: turvy this game got and ended in Vancouver.

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Speaker 3: Vancouver.

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Speaker 4: Back to the line, right, you're it just holds it

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Speaker 4: in and gives it away O'Connor. Two on oh shorthanded O'Connor,

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Speaker 4: sure what, Back to O'Connor, he missed it. Two on

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Speaker 4: oh shorthanded Canucks whift. Here come the Cracking back in

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Speaker 4: Burt the captain, turns it back over and Drew O'Connor

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Speaker 4: wants more, sends it up the left side and.

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Speaker 3: We'll give Chase. Oh, it's a good BacT check by

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Speaker 3: Shane right to break up that. Two on oh for.

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Speaker 4: Vancouver Seattle back to center from the red line. Three

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Speaker 4: on two in and for mccam every high slot bar circle.

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Speaker 4: Stevenson scores Chandler Stevenson a power play goal eleven oh

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Speaker 4: seven to go on the second cracking make a whole

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Speaker 4: lot of something out.

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Speaker 3: Of seemingly nothing. It's a two to nothing lead while

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Speaker 3: power play goal for Seattle. It starts back at the

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Speaker 3: cracking end of the ice. Obviously they get to lucky

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Speaker 3: on that two on Ozero in Vancouver to get going

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Speaker 3: the other way, McCann coming across the blue line makes

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Speaker 3: a nice drop pass to every Every waits for Chandler

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Speaker 3: Stevenson to get open on his off wing to the

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Speaker 3: left of Dempko, puts it on his stick, one timer,

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Speaker 3: two nothing, cracking.

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Speaker 4: Winterton with one eight to play the period back in front,

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Speaker 4: tap dog all this scar Ben Meers station right out

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Speaker 4: in front. Ryan Winterton threads the beetle and the Seattle

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Speaker 4: cracking back up by a pair.

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Speaker 2: Three to one.

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Speaker 3: Wait in the second right and winter did down the

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Speaker 3: right side. He's a right handed shot finds Ben Myers

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Speaker 3: going hard in that perfect timing on Myers to be

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Speaker 3: right on top of the blue paint as Winterton sent

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Speaker 3: the puck there in a just a redirect in past Demco.

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Speaker 3: That two goal leads back intact free one cord ross

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Speaker 3: right side puts all the brakes against done, pup top

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Speaker 3: gonick shot bought.

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Speaker 4: Off by the car right down, slip my hole and

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Speaker 4: the storm. Lenis Carlson signs a two year extension earlier

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Speaker 4: today gets his tenth of the season tonight, we're time

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Speaker 4: for three down that even theirs two goals last night,

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Speaker 4: snapping a nine game goals rout that game on his

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Speaker 4: stick left handed shot with the signal, picks up the puck,

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Speaker 4: booze raining down, Ben ears left circle four hand in

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Speaker 4: the back hand to the slot on what a move

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Speaker 4: starves bang bang, not even airs?

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Speaker 3: When's it in the shutout? Bob Matty Veneer's with a

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Speaker 3: huge move down that left side. He gets Demko to

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Speaker 3: fight hard to his left and he comes back to

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Speaker 3: his right and puts that one home crack and win

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Speaker 3: the shootout.

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Speaker 2: Beauty ever refits you al Konski on the call as

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Speaker 2: the crack and knocked off the Canucks four to three

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Speaker 2: in a shootout, and they have moved their run to

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Speaker 2: six zero and one in the last seven games and

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Speaker 2: looking to now make it three and o to begin

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Speaker 2: the calendar year of twenty twenty six. Right now nestled

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Speaker 2: into a playoff spot with two more games to go

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Speaker 2: until the finish line of the halfway point. We should

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Speaker 2: stay here for this regular season and the Crack and

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Speaker 2: their record coming in right now stands at eighteen fourteen

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Speaker 2: and seven point total led forty three. They have a

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Speaker 2: three point lead right now on the Calgary Flames, who

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Speaker 2: they host in this second matchup of the regular season

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Speaker 2: at eighteen nineteen and four with forty points on the campaign.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a big one coming up here for

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Speaker 2: captain Jordan Eberley due to play in career game number

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Speaker 2: one thousand and one hundred against the Flames. Also in

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Speaker 2: a tower he makes his home in the off season

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Speaker 2: while the Crack and also it looks like they're getting

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Speaker 2: healthier on the front end and also in net a

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Speaker 2: promising sign for them as they enter matchup two of

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Speaker 2: this regular season. All right, on the road, we go

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Speaker 2: Everroscott TV here for tonight. So I'll be in the

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Speaker 2: booth here with this guy al Koniski joining us. Now,

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Speaker 2: you guys settle in here with the hotel and the

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Speaker 2: gym and everything else is as usual.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it gets a little familiar after a while because

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Speaker 3: we often come back at the same hotels. Just remember

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Speaker 3: what floor of the gym is on, and where the

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Speaker 2: What's the most ideal workout for you? Because I think

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Speaker 2: for me, if I'm on the road, if they got

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Speaker 2: I'm in heaven.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I like I said, of free weights, ideally dumbbells

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Speaker 2: I can't outration the all the time, I know that

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Speaker 2: for sure. Two days off before getting here to this

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Speaker 2: back to back and we're not going to see this

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Speaker 2: kind of stretch again for literally another month right before

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Speaker 2: the Olympic break. So it's pretty much it feels like

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Speaker 2: all hands on deck here with the schedule rolling now

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Speaker 2: seventeen games this month and now nineteen and thirty five

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Speaker 2: before the Olympic break, it really kind of feels like that,

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Speaker 2: you know, injuries and bodies are healing now at the

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Speaker 2: right time.

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Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, I think that's just it, Mike, Like you've

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Speaker 3: been looking forward to this month, not necessarily because of

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Speaker 3: the schedule, but because of the guys that have been

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Speaker 3: Jayden Short specifically. You know, Murray is still coming back

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Speaker 3: from his injury, but it looks like, you know, if

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Speaker 3: all things hold for this the majority of this month

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Speaker 3: of January, we should have most of the team healthy.

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Speaker 2: I will get to Jaden Schwartz and Matt Murray in

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Speaker 2: a bit because practice told us something pretty revealing the

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Speaker 2: other day before the team got on the plane. And

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Speaker 2: I think it has really a lot to do with

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Speaker 2: how much this roster can hold up with the schedule

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Speaker 2: crunch that is coming their way. But I want to

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Speaker 2: get back here to the Vancouver win to end back

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Speaker 2: to back, and I think in a year where you

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Speaker 2: have to really maximize the lineup that you have, with

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Speaker 2: the injury bug going all across the entire league, the

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Speaker 2: schedule crunch going all across the entire league, it feels crazy.

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Speaker 2: But again, this feels like kind of like a year

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Speaker 2: of survival, and the Kraken are passing every test so

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Speaker 2: far and checking off nearly every box so far to

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Speaker 2: pass this test. Vancouver at times played better in spurts.

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Speaker 2: To me, the third period, you felt that charge was

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Speaker 2: certainly coming. Jordan Nevery told you and Everett as well

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Speaker 2: between periods of play, and I thought that overtime goal

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Speaker 2: that was wiped out for interference that could have been

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Speaker 2: incredibly deflating, and then you're just waiting for the other

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Speaker 2: shoe to drop. And then you get to Liam Ogrin

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Speaker 2: as well in the third round of the shootout and

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Speaker 2: the Krack can survive it. Joey Decord survived it. He

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Speaker 2: dropper at the end of the third round. It was

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Speaker 2: the right place at the right time. I think that

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Speaker 2: got this done. It get you two points and that

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Speaker 2: wasn't up to us to stay in that win, and

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Speaker 2: that's what it will take here to get plenty of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a couple things about that game, Mike. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's specifically kel Fler again his first as a Crack

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Speaker 3: and that was huge. Also, the first goal of the game,

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Speaker 3: the eighth time in a row, also awesome. Love to

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Speaker 3: see that Channel sevens with a power play goal again,

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Speaker 3: you're looking for more from the power play. They end

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Speaker 3: up one for two in that game. And then, of

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Speaker 3: course the fourth line. We can't talk about things not

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Speaker 3: much until we talk about the fourth line. Ben Myer's

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Speaker 3: getting that third goal of the game, but assists go

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Speaker 3: to the other two members of that line. They've been

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Speaker 3: playing fantastically lately. But big picture, it feels like the

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Speaker 3: Kraken have slid back into where they started this season,

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Speaker 3: which was the best start in franchise history, and they've

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Speaker 3: continued it, continued it from the three games before the

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Speaker 3: Christmas break now into January.

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Speaker 2: A sign and that told me things are going well

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Speaker 2: is when you go through a period like in the

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Speaker 2: zero and give credit, Shane right delivered an absolute monster

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Speaker 2: bad check, but then you come right back down and

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Speaker 2: bury one. But how many times have we seen teams

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Speaker 2: side of this, And yet it's the krack and who

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Speaker 2: were basically forcing the play, but yet to a positive

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Speaker 2: degree where they find opportunity and they strike. And at

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Speaker 2: that point that goal felt like a bad breaker.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I absolutely did, And you know, I give a

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Speaker 3: lot of credit to the guys. You know, giving up

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Speaker 3: two power play goals in the second period is as

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Speaker 3: good as that Vancouver win was. The second period continues

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Speaker 3: to be a little sloppy and area of an opportunity,

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Speaker 3: and you know, two power play goals for Vancouver in

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Speaker 3: that sloppiness. Secondly, and you know I mentioned Fleuria, mentioned

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Speaker 3: line goal by Myers. I got a top off with

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Speaker 3: that shootout, that Matty Beanir's goal, Like he talked about,

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Speaker 3: he was working on it in practice. This team knows

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Speaker 3: they need to get better in the shootout, The goaltenders

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Speaker 3: know they need to do better in the shootout, and

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Speaker 3: for them to get to that spot where Vancouver had

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Speaker 3: exhausted their three shooters zero for three, Seattle had exhausted

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Speaker 3: their first two to zero for two, and here comes

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Speaker 3: Matty Beanier's with a highlight reel move to win it.

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Speaker 3: Just a fantastic win.

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Speaker 2: We have seen Matty Beaneirs ascend in a game, re

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Speaker 2: scored a pair of goals and then does this which

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Speaker 2: tells you again and I said this going back a year,

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Speaker 2: two years, three years, the more that you see Matt

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Speaker 2: Ebaneers at the forefront of this team leadership wise, making

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Speaker 2: impact plays wise, this is where this team is going

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Speaker 2: to go. And we saw a direct result of that

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Speaker 2: once again against Nashville and then the top it off. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I know in the shootout those goals don't count, but

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Speaker 2: it ultimately won the game where you had to find

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Speaker 2: someone come through in the clutch. It's kind of like

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Speaker 2: what Lane Lambert said when you're standing over a three

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Speaker 2: foot putt trying to win the golf tournament. Maddy Beniers

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Speaker 2: had the chill factor in him, he had the dog

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Speaker 2: factor in him to finish off that shootout. Heading into

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Speaker 2: this game against Calgary meant a practice day before the

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Speaker 2: team got on the plane and seeing Jayden Schwartz out

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Speaker 2: there was again an incredibly relieving sign to see him

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Speaker 2: upgraded out of the non contact jersey and now into

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Speaker 2: a regular jersey, and Lean Lambert wouldn't commit after practice

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Speaker 2: Of course, I think a lot of this is going

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Speaker 2: to be held close to the fest as always has

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Speaker 2: been here with him, but yet to see him rotating

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Speaker 2: maybe out, who knows, because they were rotating him with

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's huge. I think it's an upgrade

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Speaker 2: With Jaden Schwartz. And there's also the Matt Murray factor

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Speaker 2: You're pretty much the season when you look at teams,

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Speaker 2: say percentage in Philim Groubauer is playing above about nearly

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that you know, this three goalie system

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Speaker 2: A big night here due for this evening is the

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Speaker 2: playing I think the finest hockey he's played, maybe in

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Speaker 2: Up against Calgary is second matchup of the season coming up,

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Speaker 2: See what I did there, because right now, Al, it's

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Speaker 3: Right yeah, it's nine degrees right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're looking forward to sun of your days of cracking.

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Speaker 2: They're trying to again turn up the heat on their

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Speaker 2: into this matchup, and they are a playoff team looking

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Speaker 1: Two of the season.

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Speaker 2: Hope you'll join us once again. Myself, Al will be

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Speaker 2: pitching moving down to the TV side. So hope that

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