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Speaker 1: Welcome to Kraken this morning a presentation of the Kraken

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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. All right, warm greetings.

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Speaker 2: This trade deadline week, it's here we'll see where the

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Speaker 2: Seattle Kraken go. Plenty of possibilities, but the most important

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Speaker 2: matter at hand. Tonight a pretty important game against a

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Speaker 2: very tough out the crack and taken on the Carolina

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Speaker 2: Hurricanes at seven o'clock Pacific time. We're on air six

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Speaker 2: point thirty for your pregame show, served up by Frostbrewed

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Speaker 2: landing and Section twenty postgame coming your way by the

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Speaker 2: way up to an hour after the final horn. Right

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Speaker 2: across the street from find the Pledgerina at Tom's watch Bar.

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Speaker 2: We hope that you can join us here. A course

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Speaker 2: across the Global Credit Union Kraken Audio Network. Coming up,

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Speaker 2: we'll hear from Corey la Violette, who covers the Carolina

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Speaker 2: Hurricanes via the North State Journal and The Athletic. We'll

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Speaker 2: learn more about the opponent coming up, here for tonight,

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Speaker 2: opening a four game road trip on their side and

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Speaker 2: looking as tough as ever right now in a bit

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Speaker 2: for the top spot in the entire Eastern Conference. That

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Speaker 2: plus our highlights in just a bit and more reaction

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Speaker 2: after Saturday Night or the Kraken knocked off the Vancouver

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Speaker 2: Caducks in convincing fashion as well got a big night

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Speaker 2: from their top line, also with a hat trick that

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden wasn't just moments after it happened.

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Speaker 2: All this coming up here Corey Lavolette. Additionally, with more

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Speaker 2: on the Hurricanes, a team the Kraken are taking aim

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Speaker 2: at here for a one to one split in this

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Speaker 2: head to head series after the Kraken fell three two

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Speaker 2: in Carolina back in January. Well, Saturday Night maybe wasn't

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Speaker 2: an opponent that you could maybe size up as the

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Speaker 2: biggest game of the year, but as far as circumstances,

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Speaker 2: it felt like the biggest game of the year. Players

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Speaker 2: were certainly saying, coaches were certainly saying it was a

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Speaker 2: big one as well. With a Kracking trying to rebound

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Speaker 2: from back to back losses in Dallas and Saint Louis

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Speaker 2: by a combined total of ninety two and the playoff

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Speaker 2: race as tight as ever in the Western Conference. Here's

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Speaker 2: how the Kraken responded against the Canucks, opening a six

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Speaker 2: game homestand with the calls from Everger Fitzhugh and al Kiniski.

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Speaker 2: Here's a two on one Shane right and captain right across.

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Speaker 3: Captain shot twent' blocker save by Kevin Langan and he

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Speaker 4: Shot last, it's done in game six hundred opens up

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Speaker 3: Jade Schwartz and for Seattle on the right side sends

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Speaker 3: it across. Lars fires that one knocked down at front

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Speaker 4: Here's Elias Patterson.

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Speaker 3: Right shot blocked by everyone, the captain scrung three whatever

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Speaker 3: Carram springs it on a breakaway forehand backhand.

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Speaker 5: Three one Seattle well. Jordan Nibley attacking the shot up

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Speaker 5: with the point at the at the cracking of the ice,

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Speaker 1: Back, then every in off the ivory three one crack.

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Speaker 3: They'll get it back glass circle back in front, tipt

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Speaker 3: On goal injoing the corner comes over with a massive

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Speaker 4: They know what's at stake now m can hands it

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Speaker 3: Every with an empty net. Pras short and everly un

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Speaker 1: But you know, the fans, we're hoping for this goal

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Speaker 5: He could have fired it, you know, he could have

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Speaker 1: But he found the captain streaking through the middle, gave

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Speaker 2: Five to one was your final score, with the Kraken

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Speaker 2: week before trade deadline time coming up on Friday at

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Speaker 2: noon Pacific. Before we get to Corey Lavalette, here's more

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Speaker 2: reaction for the dressing room with defenseman Vince Dunn, who

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Speaker 2: scored a goal in his six hundredth career NHL game.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought we played pretty good in the first period,

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Speaker 7: Like it's not always gonna be perfect, but I thought

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Speaker 7: So that's the way you gotta win games, is when

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Speaker 7: we did a pretty good job of getting too quick.

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Speaker 2: Scape You guys had Cushion in his second period. What

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's been fantastic to play with ever since I've

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Speaker 7: it's very inspirational to play with. And I think he's

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Speaker 5: If a has to summarize six hundred games or six

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Speaker 7: One word be? Uh could go a lot of different ways.

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Speaker 7: You know, everything doesn't really go your way sometimes and

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Speaker 7: So it's been a lot of fun these past six

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Speaker 7: yeah we'll go to six to so one the next game.

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Speaker 5: It's after the the rough start on the road trip

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we're pretty comfortable at home this year,

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Speaker 7: get a Saturday night game in our building, it's always

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Speaker 7: really good job of pushing it to them and getting

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Speaker 7: we're just kind of able to forget the bad things

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Speaker 2: So it's a lot of fun, all right. That brings

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Speaker 2: us here to a look at the second and final

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Speaker 2: matchup of the season, and by the looks of things,

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Speaker 2: again taking on the Carolina Hurricanes. And joining us here

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Speaker 2: from the Hurricanes beat is Corey Lavalette of the North

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Speaker 2: Star Journal. Also from the Athletic As well, Corey, great

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Speaker 2: to have you. It's too bad that you're not on

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Speaker 2: list if you want it the West Coast eventually?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I've I've been out to Seattle once before.

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Speaker 6: I really loved it, thought it was just really beautiful.

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Speaker 6: She's got a high school friend who graduated high school

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Speaker 2: I've got two boys here who are still in grade

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Speaker 2: out there one of these days if you can, certainly

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Speaker 2: ask me. But the hurricanes in Tampa Bay right now, Corey,

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Speaker 2: it seems like, man, right now, they are the class

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Speaker 2: the state of the Hurricanes after they beat Detroit five

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Speaker 2: to two heading into this trip for them?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, coming out of

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Speaker 6: But they're finding ways to win, right and that's what

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Speaker 6: good teams do. I mean, twelve games in a row

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Speaker 6: now with at least a point ten and two. You know,

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Speaker 6: Jacob Slave and being back has just been huge for them.

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Speaker 6: They haven't lost the game this season in regulation when

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Speaker 6: Jacob Slaven has played, and that's that's an insane statistic

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Speaker 6: to think about. So him being back really stabilizes the defense,

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Speaker 6: has kind of slotted everything in. And then the goaltending obviously,

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Speaker 6: And then Frederick Anderson last night might have been their

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Speaker 2: It still seems like yesterday to me that Taylor Hall

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he's a great fit with those two

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Speaker 2: We'll see how long it takes here for the tooth

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Speaker 2: hear once again on cracking this morning. Seth Jarvis will

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there is another level. I think he

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think that the crack and our

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Speaker 2: And it'd be a fun one here to keep an

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Speaker 2: Corey, Thank you very much. That's Corey lava Lette. Check

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Speaker 2: at Twitter and x at Corey Lavallette again, Carolina entering

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Speaker 2: a four game road trip, the Kraken entering game two

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Speaker 2: the line here with plenty of games coming up here

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Speaker 2: for this exciting stretch drive for the Kraken trying to

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Speaker 2: make their big push here for the second trip into

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Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Matchup number two of two is

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Speaker 2: gonna be a fun one. Hope you can join us

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Speaker 2: once again on air six point thirty face off little

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Speaker 2: past seven o'clock from climbing Pledge Arena ever written out

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Speaker 2: in the booth, I'll join you once again back by

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Speaker 2: the Corps light landing in section twenty postgame across the

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Speaker 2: street at Tom's Watch Bar. Big thank him again to

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Speaker 2: Corey Lavalette joining us Eperkracken this morning. I'm Mike Benton,

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Speaker 2: enjoyed the game.

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