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Speaker 1: Welcome to Kracking this morning, a presentation of the Kracking

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

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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.

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Speaker 2: More games left until the holiday break. We welcome you

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Speaker 2: to Cracking this morning on a Thursday, December eighteenth, for

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Speaker 2: the first matchup of the season between the Seattle Kraken

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Speaker 2: and the Calgary Flames, where from the outside of Scotiabanks

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Speaker 2: Saddle Dome, frigid temperatures are hitting the area and we'll

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Speaker 2: talk more about it, plus the matchup in behind Calgary

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Speaker 2: with Pat Steinberg, radio host for Sportsnet ninety sixty the fan,

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Speaker 2: a familiar face in net for Calgary has steered them

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Speaker 2: right back into this mix where the Crackner trying to

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Speaker 2: hold out the Flames, who are both in a three

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Speaker 2: way tie with Nashville at thirty points a piece. The

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Speaker 2: Crackinger trying to snap out of three straight losses and

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Speaker 2: a run of just one win in their previous nine games.

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Speaker 2: Head coach Lane Lambert will hear more from him after

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Speaker 2: he met with the media at practice Wednesday at Kraken

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Speaker 2: Community ice Plex, in the wake of a game the

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Speaker 2: night prior where the Kraken gave the Colorado Avalanche, the

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Speaker 2: top team in the NHL record wise, a pretty good

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Speaker 2: run heading into period two with the games till very

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Speaker 2: much up for grabs. And here's how is senda with

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Speaker 2: the Kraken looking to stage a rally.

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Speaker 3: Now cockocco a three on two back in for Seattle

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Speaker 3: Cocko Cock go to the air side, knocked out. Shane

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Speaker 3: Wright fires, knocked away by black Book. Rebound it's in

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Speaker 3: bae go Shane right right in front the first shot

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Speaker 3: off the post. Shane right fools up the rebound. We're

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Speaker 3: tied one one, sixteen fifty seven to play in a second.

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Speaker 4: But great off the rush scoring opportunity for Seattle list

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Speaker 4: they came so offensive zone entry if Shane Wright gets

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Speaker 4: the puck on det with Johnny Newman going hard than that.

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Speaker 4: Johnny Newman shovels the puck towards the blue paint, but

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Speaker 4: it's right, then finds it. It gets it past Blackwood.

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Speaker 4: This game's tied at one.

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Speaker 5: Now the back in her back again.

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Speaker 3: Maddy biers center, pass in frog, want to save the

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Speaker 3: rebound the captain star Mackauzie Blackwood hey highlight reel save

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Speaker 3: in the high slot. But that's the captain torn it

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Speaker 3: Everly following.

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Speaker 4: Up the play Seattle with a toe on late in

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Speaker 4: the second well, it was Mandy Beers down the left

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Speaker 4: side who was looking for a pass. He found out

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Speaker 4: of Lars on the far side. Larson with a great

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Speaker 4: shot on gold and she said. Blackwood with what was

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Speaker 4: gonna be a game saving save makes it, leaves that

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Speaker 4: rebound for the Everly who's crashing the net.

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Speaker 5: He puts it in two one, cracking hell. He told

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Speaker 5: it in the Stevenson far circle. Stevenson looks in the middle.

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Speaker 1: Shot stop.

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Speaker 3: Stevie Wonder through traffic from the right side and by

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Speaker 3: Blackwood the.

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Speaker 4: Seattle Kracken on the power play regain.

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Speaker 5: The lead three two, Well, this all starts with a

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Speaker 4: They get set upon that half off fit's done. Down

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Speaker 4: to Stevenson, down to twelve Telveda, down to Stevenson. Stevenson

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Speaker 4: puts it on, then Bason marshmanson front for a screen.

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Speaker 4: I think this one goes straight in three two.

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Speaker 6: Cracks mccarr left side, McKinnon, back to mccarr, McKinnon again,

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Speaker 6: one timer turned away, the rebound in front.

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Speaker 5: And Nelson scores.

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Speaker 6: Philip Grubauer came to his right to make the save

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Speaker 6: a little slow getting back to us left and brought Nelson,

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Speaker 7: The Avalanche their first power play goal of the day.

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Speaker 5: And they regained the lead.

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Speaker 7: It's now a four to three.

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Speaker 2: Colorado advanced those calls from everet fits you and Al

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Speaker 2: Kaniski as Nathan McKinnon in the third period alone, putting

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Speaker 5: What he does best goals scoring. With the Kraken.

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Speaker 2: Oh so close to an upset of the Avalanche, but

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Speaker 2: Colorado skating away. Five to three is your final score,

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Speaker 2: with the Kraken slipping to one eight and one in

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Speaker 2: the last ten games, noticeably with recently the absence of

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Speaker 2: both Jaden Schwartz and Jared mccamm well, the Kraken coming

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Speaker 2: right back to work Wednesday at Kraken Community Ice. Plug

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Speaker 2: still looking for answers as far as question marks on

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Speaker 2: the injury side. The latest to that corner Brandon Montour,

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Speaker 2: who left period three after a scrum with Colorado's bram

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Speaker 2: behind the Kraken getting right back to work, looking for

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Speaker 2: the next level offensively and much more. Right here with

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Speaker 2: krackenhead coach Lane Lambert meeting with the media after practic.

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Speaker 8: We just continue to work on some some offensive concepts

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Speaker 8: and you know, I think from that standpoint, we're growing

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Speaker 8: but certainly our opportunities are there. We created a ton

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Speaker 8: of opportunities last night, and you know, we have to

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Speaker 8: continue to do so lighthearted. You know, you have to

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Speaker 8: move forward. You know, there's there's no other way around it.

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Speaker 8: What's happened has happened. What's done is done, and you've

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Speaker 8: got to move forward and look forward to the next game,

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Speaker 8: which is you know, Calgary tomorrow, and we've got four

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Speaker 8: divisional games coming up here before Christmas, so big, big

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Speaker 8: stretch of games here on this road trip for us.

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Speaker 9: I know it's on apples apples comparison, but your first

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Speaker 9: season on Long Island, the team went through a one

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Speaker 9: seven three stretch before the All Star break and then

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Speaker 9: half roine like nineteen nine, And what can you know

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Speaker 9: what you remember by.

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Speaker 8: The time, and what can you I'm alm that's a

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Speaker 8: great question. I think, Uh, you know, the the the

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Speaker 8: similarities are there doing a lot of good things and

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Speaker 8: just you know, instead of maybe finding ways to win,

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Speaker 8: I had some heartbreaking losses like we're having now. Uh,

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Speaker 8: stick with the plans, stick with the process, believe in

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Speaker 8: it and eventually, you know, it has a tendency to

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 8: Again, the bottom line is we're not winning, so we

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Speaker 8: can you know, look at it in any different way

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Speaker 8: we want. We've played well enough to win. Now we

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Speaker 8: have to get over the hump and win. And there's

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Speaker 8: moments in games that are costing us and we have

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Speaker 8: to understand you know, what those moments are, and a

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Speaker 8: lot of them are focused in battle.

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Speaker 9: And how do you, I guess, go about trying to

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Speaker 8: Well, we just you know, you have to continue to

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Speaker 8: to learn, learn through video. You hold them accountable. You know,

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Speaker 8: some players play, some players don't play. You switch the lineup.

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Speaker 8: You have to have guys understand that every second on

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Speaker 8: some similarities between you know what you said when you

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Speaker 9: No, what is Brandon Author's status.

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Speaker 8: He's being evaluated later today. As of right now, I

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Speaker 8: don't expect him to probably play in Calgary, but we'll

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Speaker 8: you know, I would expect him to potentially join the

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Speaker 7: How much of a.

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Speaker 10: Challenge is it to kind of keep with that accountability

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Speaker 10: on a player and a player basis when you have

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Speaker 10: the injuries that you've had, you can't force your hands.

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Speaker 8: One.

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Speaker 10: Guys haven't always been feeling great. You know, there's been

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Speaker 10: a day sickness, going through everything. Like what's the challenge

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Speaker 10: you like as a coach when you know maybe some

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Speaker 10: then like, okay, who's who's healthy here?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a great question. Uh, it's a challenge. But

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Speaker 8: it's about you know, trying to find a way to

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Speaker 8: which I did the other night. You know, it's like

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Speaker 8: where we're learning on the fly a little bit here.

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Speaker 8: You know, we're I believe we're playing actually better right

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Speaker 8: irony of the whole thing. But we have to understand that.

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Speaker 8: You know, that form of accountability has to happen. And

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Speaker 8: there's no question it does become a challenge when you

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Speaker 10: How do you handle the message to the team like that,

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Speaker 8: Last Yeah, well it's tough, you know, and the guys

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Speaker 1: I like, yeah, he did have played a pretty big

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Speaker 9: What it is from your dad, I'm I'm just.

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Speaker 8: Playing for you right now. Yeah, I thought he played

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Speaker 8: better last night, much better. I thought he was more

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Speaker 2: On the other side of his mind, with Coppo Cogo,

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Speaker 2: it's but you know, mentioned injuries, has been tough with them.

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Speaker 8: What have you seen out of his game?

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Speaker 10: And maybe what he's trying to do right now is

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Speaker 10: that line seemed to play pretty well last night.

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Speaker 8: They've actually played well when they've played together, the three

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Speaker 8: I think Coppo was getting his speed up. You know,

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Speaker 8: since training camp when he got you know, slashed and

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Speaker 8: He's you know, owning Pox, holding onto Pox, making more

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Speaker 8: came back, and not an easy thing to do when

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Speaker 8: you miss training camp last ten games.

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Speaker 9: Is there a through line in your eyes, like, are

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Speaker 9: there like two or three things that you think are

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Speaker 3: Your team controuble right now?

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Speaker 8: There's a couple of things that I could certainly pinpoint

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Speaker 8: a couple of areas that you know, and we're we're

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Speaker 8: I believe, you know, they're the They're the difference between

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Speaker 5: All right, for a look on the Flame side.

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Speaker 2: Pat Steinberg, our friend of course the podcast, joining us

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Speaker 2: Sports at nine to sixty The Thin Pat, thank you

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Speaker 2: again for doing this and winter weather is never an

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Speaker 2: Safety matter, isn't good to hear that boat teams getting

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Speaker 2: pat First off, I want to kind of look at

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Speaker 7: all year for the Flames and so it's kind of

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Speaker 7: it's a tough spot for them, but those would be

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Speaker 2: To, Yeah, no surprise to see Dustin will play in

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Speaker 7: So you know there'd be some would say, well, the

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Speaker 7: magnitude is that they got to stay in thirty first

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Speaker 7: into the mix, and so they have played a lot

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Speaker 7: of road games. Their October was an absolute gauntlet when

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Speaker 7: it came to opposition road games and scheduled loss teams,

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Speaker 7: just with how the games were coming at them in

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Speaker 7: tough spots three and four, five and eight. Just it

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Speaker 7: was a horrible October and it showed partially in the

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Speaker 7: in the record where they went two eight and two

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Speaker 7: in October, then started November with a regulation loss as well.

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Speaker 7: So I mean, this is an opportunity for them to

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Speaker 7: they do have a pretty solid contingent here of home games.

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Speaker 7: It has been a extremely road heavy schedule. They played

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Speaker 7: so as they move towards the first half of the

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Speaker 7: they have been pretty solid on home ice. So they

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Speaker 7: and honestly, where they are four games below five hundred

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Speaker 7: is probably where they should be by the body of

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Speaker 7: work that they've shown us through thirty four games. But

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Speaker 7: they do have an opportunity to maybe evolve their season

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Speaker 7: here in this stretch. We'll see if they can do it.

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Speaker 7: The problem is, I do think that we are going

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Speaker 7: to see a couple of trades that are going to

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Speaker 7: send some pretty important players out the door. Rasmus Anderson,

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Speaker 7: I think is going to be dealt and you take

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Speaker 7: him away from this team, and it's going to make

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Speaker 7: him more on the ice significantly. And you know, if

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Speaker 7: Blake Coleman gets dealt, the same is true with the

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Speaker 7: type of season he's having and the type of contributor

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Speaker 7: he always is. So it's gonna be a fascinating next

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Speaker 7: I don't know, say fifteen to twenty games around this

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Speaker 7: team moving towards the Olympic break, Like which direction do

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Speaker 7: they lean into? I think we got a pretty good idea,

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Speaker 7: but it's still going to be really interesting.

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Speaker 2: Trade freeze kicks in by this weekend then for seven

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Speaker 2: days after that's it. You'll just kind of feel like

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Speaker 2: after we get past New Year's the Olympic break will

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Speaker 2: be sneaking right up on us and bringing down our

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Speaker 2: next pat appreciate this first match over the season coming up.

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Speaker 2: Thanks again for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Man, appreciate it, Mike, see you man all right.

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Speaker 2: Big thank you to past Einberg for joining us as

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Speaker 2: the Crack and we'll face the Flames three times and

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Speaker 2: this regular season the Krack and caring and all time

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Speaker 2: record for to one and two at the Saddle Dome.

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Speaker 2: They'll come back to Calgary next month for one more

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Speaker 2: matchup on the fifth of Janey. With montour status in doubt,

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Speaker 2: you can expect a little bit more as far as

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Speaker 2: offensive flow going right through the likes of Vince Dunn,

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Speaker 2: Jordan Eberly and Chandler Stevenson. Everly, of course, the first

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Speaker 2: Crack and ford En player to hit double digits and

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Speaker 2: goals scoring, He's made his offseason home in Calgary an

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Speaker 2: extra special layer. The numbers certainly back that up. He

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Speaker 2: loves facing Calgary with a near point per game production

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Speaker 2: at a forty two point fifty game clip for his

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Speaker 2: career head to head Chandler Stevenson's got points in six

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Speaker 2: consecutive games done. Meanwhile, who logs a ton of ice

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Speaker 2: time at the back end, is one point off the

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Speaker 2: Kraken scoring lead with nineteen points so far on the season,

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Speaker 2: owning twelve points in twenty one games against the Flames

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Speaker 2: for his career. Lake Coleman, meanwhile, carries goals and back

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Speaker 2: to back games for Calgary, and as far as the

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Speaker 2: go two players on the Flames, no one's been more

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Speaker 2: of a handful than Nosam Kadri with seventeen points in

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Speaker 2: just fourteen games against the Kraken that leads all Flames

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Speaker 2: lifetime in the head to head series. Looking forward to

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Speaker 2: having you face off once again, six pm Pacific from

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Speaker 2: Scotia Banks Saddle Dome airtime, five point thirty pregame shows

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Speaker 2: served up by Frostprewed cors Light Choose Chill ever written

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Speaker 2: now in the booth and Calgary, I'll join you back

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Speaker 2: in Network Central, and we certainly hope that you can

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Speaker 2: join us. Big thank you to Paste Einberg for being

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Speaker 2: with us and for Kraken this morning, I'm Mike Benton.

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Speaker 5: Enjoyed the game and have a happy Thursday.

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