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Speaker 1: we're ready to get to head coach Lane Lambert and

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Speaker 1: his comments after a Tuesday practice the crack in handling this.

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Speaker 1: We have plenty of off days in between after a

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Speaker 1: GM Jason Botterrel. This is gonna be a fun one.

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Speaker 1: You won't want to miss this case we get deeper

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Speaker 1: of the season, how structure is their aid. Getting deeper

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Speaker 1: into the season, more trade market talk potentially, more Berkeley

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Speaker 1: as far as the end result, the Kraken dropping a

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Speaker 1: three to two loss to Dallas this last Wednesday, one

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Speaker 1: Stewart Skinner a twenty six save shutout well the Krack

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Speaker 1: Crack in Community ice Plex, additionally with a pretty creative

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Speaker 1: Mason Marchmen and Brandon Montour, who have not been seen

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Speaker 1: while Mason Marchmen after Monday was held out due to

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Speaker 1: Well, and so small air games going on at the Friends.

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Speaker 1: You keep talking about offense, but to have more offensive offensively,

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Speaker 4: You ever put a defender out shootout?

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Speaker 5: So you know, I just see I just see him

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Speaker 4: Talked to Hims about some conversations he's had with Berkeley,

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Speaker 4: just about keeping that confidence.

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Speaker 2: Does he's seeing confidence in this game?

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Speaker 4: Do you have intentional conversations with Berkeley or do you

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Speaker 2: Come and continue to grow?

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Speaker 5: I talked to Berkeley, you know, and again, like a

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Speaker 3: For him Lang, what.

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Speaker 7: Is a stretch a practice at time? Off to these

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, you know what, that's a great point by you.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate that because we talked about that as a team,

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Speaker 1: There, Plaine is Yanni has been in and out of

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Speaker 3: Where is this game at right now? And what are

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Speaker 5: On a game by game base, Yeah, you know Yanni.

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Speaker 5: He one thing about Yanni, he wants the puck as well,

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Speaker 5: Where does he fit in terms of where does that

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Speaker 3: Stay ready, we stay ready for some cracking karaoke.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you find the right place on the road

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Speaker 4: Hey, there's an auction item right there, cracking road trip.

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Speaker 1: If anybody, if anybody is listening here and either knows

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Speaker 1: It kills the whole purpose of it, right, it's for entertainment.

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Speaker 3: But I was like, I gotta want to, I gotta

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Speaker 1: We're just gonna end the show now, aren't we. Let's

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Speaker 1: If anybody, I mean, I think I think we should

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Speaker 1: Now I did steak. I did mac and cheese. We

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Speaker 7: in that Dallas game. And you're right that the Edmonton

439
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Speaker 7: game chopped that one up. With the six to one

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Speaker 7: loss to San Jose, a stinker of a game. You

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Speaker 7: put that one away and you go back to work

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Speaker 7: again against Edmonton this week.

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Speaker 1: Because I go back here to the five on five goals,

444
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Speaker 1: which again the Kraken have been so good at with

445
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Speaker 1: maintaining and regulating as well. Thirty six they have allowed

446
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Speaker 1: all season long, and guests who they are tied with

447
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Speaker 1: for best in the league. That would be the ten

448
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Speaker 1: ton Wagon in the Colorado Avalanche. They got superstar power,

449
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Speaker 1: but they also know how to defend, which leads us

450
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Speaker 1: now onto the penalty kill. It is last in the

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Speaker 1: NHL as of Tuesday, December second. Guys, what do we

452
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Speaker 1: make out of it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I mean this has been a strong part to this

455
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Speaker 7: team in past seasons. You know, you even saw us

456
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Speaker 7: offense get generated out of it sometimes with breakaway opportunities.

457
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Speaker 7: And for some reason over the last you know, a

458
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Speaker 7: half dozen games, maybe ten games, it's fallen flat a

459
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Speaker 7: little bit and gone backwards a little bit.

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Speaker 3: It's tough to.

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Speaker 7: Put your finger on one thing. If I was to guess,

462
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Speaker 7: or if I was to guess, if I was to

463
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Speaker 7: coach the penalty kill up, I would say attacking the

464
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Speaker 7: offense in the cracking end of the ice a little

465
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Speaker 7: quicker is what I see, and I know you see

466
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Speaker 7: it too.

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Speaker 2: Up top.

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Speaker 7: There is what I see when we play teams that

469
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Speaker 7: are very good on the penalty kill, Like those bump

470
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Speaker 7: passes as they're happening, there's a stick in the lane, yeah, right,

471
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Speaker 7: that puck that gets moved back to the point. You

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Speaker 7: know he wants to go demand demand, So the guy

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Speaker 7: on the far side is attacking that demen as the

474
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Speaker 7: puck's getting there.

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Speaker 2: Attacking those puck.

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Speaker 7: Carriers before they're getting the puck or as they're getting

477
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Speaker 7: the puck gives them no time to make a decision.

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Speaker 7: I think that that's that in blocking shots are the

479
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Speaker 7: two biggest things you can affect when you're improving your

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Speaker 7: penalty kill.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so too.

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Speaker 4: And I think what, at least in the the Oiler

483
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Speaker 4: game that stood out to me was just the quickness

484
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Speaker 4: in which Edmonton moves the puck around.

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Speaker 3: I think that is what speed on both the.

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Speaker 4: Power play and the PK in the last handful of games,

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Speaker 4: I think is really what stood out to me. On

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Speaker 4: the power play side of it, Crackinger, oh, for the

489
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Speaker 4: last fourteen on the.

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Speaker 3: Power play three for twenty nine of their last ten games.

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Speaker 4: You're you're not getting the puck around fast enough, You're

492
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Speaker 4: not zipping it, You're you're not catching clean passes, you're

493
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Speaker 4: not getting in the one timer position, You're having to

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Speaker 4: catch passes in your feet and all of that. And

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Speaker 4: as all of us know watching this game, I mean,

496
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Speaker 4: this is a game of milliseconds, not seconds. Milliseconds, right,

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Speaker 4: And I think on the other side of that, the

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Speaker 4: kracking on the PK side, and again from from a

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Speaker 4: press box two hundred foot view in the sky, it's

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Speaker 4: a lot easier for us to see because the game

501
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Speaker 4: slows down.

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Speaker 3: It's it's I think.

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Speaker 4: We're being there, the Crackinger being beaten by other team

504
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 4: speeds their ability to zip the puck around. The crackt

505
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 4: have been finding themselves turned down turned around quite a bit.

506
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Speaker 4: It's not necessarily that they're out of position, it just

507
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 4: takes them a fraction of a second too long to

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Speaker 4: get into position to be able to disrupt a lot

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Speaker 4: of what other teams want to do.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 7: Let's remember too, the last four games they've faced the first, second,

512
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Speaker 7: and third best power plays in the league. So if

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Speaker 7: there was a four game chunk on the on the

514
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Speaker 7: schedule where you say, hey, crack and penalty kill might

515
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Speaker 7: slide backwards, I would say probably the a four game

516
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Speaker 7: schedule where they're going to face the first, second, and

517
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Speaker 7: third best power plays in the league, it's likely to happen.

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Speaker 7: So now the next question is is can they get

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Speaker 7: back going the other way over this next stretch between

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Speaker 7: now and Christmas.

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Speaker 4: And against against the Islanders two four, six, eight nine,

522
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Speaker 4: the Krakens snapped a nine game power play or I guess,

523
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Speaker 4: a nine game PK drought where they allowed a power

524
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Speaker 4: play in at least nine straight games they were zero

525
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Speaker 4: for zero or.

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Speaker 3: They were two for two.

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Speaker 4: Rather against the Islanders they were one for one. Against

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Speaker 4: the Dallas Stars. But now they were zero for two

529
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Speaker 4: against Edmonton. So after back to back games of not

530
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Speaker 4: allowing a power play goal, you allowed too. So you

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Speaker 4: now have allowed eleven power play goals in your last

532
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Speaker 4: what is this twelve thirteen fourteen games, So that I

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Speaker 4: thought's not good.

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Speaker 1: I want to touch on something that happened late in

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Speaker 1: the Edmonton game, and it first basically is a whole

536
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Speaker 1: recap of what was a very very snarly game that

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Speaker 1: was building up over and over time, and eventually Freddie

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Speaker 1: Gudreaux Connor Clattenberg dropped the mits. That was a pretty

539
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Speaker 1: short lived fight, and you give Clattenberg a pretty big edge,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think admittedly so. And then Kartier had

541
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Speaker 1: a pretty good tilt as well. Not too long after

542
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Speaker 1: that a lanted some pretty impressive punches. But all of

543
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Speaker 1: this had seemed began to boil on the Mason Marchmint

544
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Speaker 1: hit on Darnell Nurse, Adam Henrik, it seemed as if

545
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Speaker 1: tried to go after him. There was no no, no

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Speaker 1: fight happening after that. Then Leon dry Settle goes after

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Speaker 1: march Mint second period and put a little bit too

548
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Speaker 1: much I was, I should say a little bit too

549
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: many exclamation points on the hit and then got nailed

550
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Speaker 1: for elbowing. But this is where I think when you

551
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Speaker 1: have a game and it kind of like leaves me

552
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Speaker 1: here in a bit of a throwback from ten to

553
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, when a score like that is lopsided,

554
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Speaker 1: that's when scores on the ice tend to get settled.

555
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Speaker 1: We had two fights happen out of that. So would

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Speaker 1: it be surprising or not surprising to see more of

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Speaker 1: this carry over into Thursday.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I mean, I definitely think that

559
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Speaker 3: the Nurse Marchment history is not done.

560
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Speaker 4: But you know, Alan I, I made a couple of

561
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Speaker 4: comments on the broadcast, and I need, I need to

562
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Speaker 4: phrase this very very carefully because I understand that that has.

563
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Speaker 3: A place within the game.

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Speaker 4: Right You're you're trying to settle scores, You're trying to

565
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 4: to get your team riled up back into what I

566
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 4: get it, emotions.

567
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 3: Are high in the third period. I would have much

568
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Speaker 3: rather have seen that go after you were down three.

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Speaker 4: Nothing in the second, or or after you know, midway

570
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Speaker 4: through two you wanna you want to start to mix

571
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,719
Speaker 4: it up and get in there. Great, right, But in

572
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 4: the third period. I think it's already too late. I

573
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Speaker 4: know that you're playing the same team the next night, lady,

574
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Speaker 4: the next night, the next game, so you know you're

575
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Speaker 4: trying that to settle or put an estimation point on

576
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Speaker 4: that there maybe prevent some things happening there. But I

577
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Speaker 4: also look at the fact that you know what, Marshman

578
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 4: and Darnield nurse Nurse didn't like to hit all right,

579
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 4: Credit Marchmant for not taking the bait, you know, and

580
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 4: at the end of it he ended up getting drawing

581
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 4: a penalty on dry sidle and and all of that. Right,

582
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Speaker 4: I give Marchman all the credit in the world for

583
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Speaker 4: doing that. But on the other side of it, listen,

584
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Speaker 4: if the guy doesn't want to go, he doesn't want

585
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Speaker 4: to go, say what you want, call him what you want.

586
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Speaker 3: But after a while, what are we doing here? Like

587
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 3: you're following this guy around.

588
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: It was clear that Marchmint was in Edmonton's head all

589
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Speaker 1: day long.

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00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 4: Yes, and again good on good on two seven. But

591
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Speaker 4: at the end of the day, move on, right, you

592
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 4: want to get your pound the flesh. You want to

593
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 4: grab him and you know, give him a big hit

594
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 4: against the wall, give him a couple slashes after the whistle. Great, fine, whatever,

595
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 4: but this was it was getting comical to a point

596
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 4: where Nurse and march Mint were still slapping sticks off,

597
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 4: face offs, and I'm like, buddy, both of you like,

598
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 4: go to your corner, go to your corner.

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Speaker 3: We'll like again, I get it.

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00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 2: This has a.

601
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 3: Place, but it's for nothing, right, what are we doing here?

602
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 3: Let's just go home? It's you know what I mean.

603
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 3: I got it's two o'clock, three o'clock.

604
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 4: When it's on a Saturday, I get a rare Saturday

605
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 4: night off with my son, like I want to go home.

606
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 3: What are we doing here?

607
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: I got my Christmas lights on up that night? And

608
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: this man pushed it back further.

609
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 2: I was, I was.

610
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 4: I love the response from Carts and Freddie. We'll talk

611
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 4: about that later. I love the response by them. I

612
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 4: love the fight in the krake. But at a certain point,

613
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 4: I'm just looking at this and I'm like, guys, you've

614
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 4: made your point. Can we can we move on here?

615
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 4: I'll see you Thursday, right, pick it up from there.

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Speaker 7: I wonder how much the Thursday game played into that,

617
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Speaker 7: because when I think about playoff series, game one of

618
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 7: a series, like you could be losing it for nothing.

619
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Speaker 7: It's not like it's going to be late in the

620
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Speaker 7: third period and go, well, we'll just pack it in

621
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Speaker 7: and let them run all over us the rest of

622
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Speaker 7: this game. Like you know, you're seeing them again for

623
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Speaker 7: game two, Game three, game four, and you want to say,

624
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 7: we're not going to allow you to walk all over

625
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 7: us in our own building. We're gonna stand up for

626
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 7: each other. We didn't like what you So that's going

627
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 7: to carry through until the end of the third period,

628
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Speaker 7: regardless of what the score is.

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Speaker 3: I agree, I want.

630
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Speaker 7: To see more of it in the first period and

631
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 7: less of it in the third period. I don't necessarily

632
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 7: want it to go away in the third period. So

633
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 7: I think two things can be true. But especially when

634
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 7: you're going to see that team a few days later

635
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 7: back in their barn, I think you want to you

636
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 7: want to make sure that that message is clearly sent

637
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 7: and let's not forget.

638
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 4: Let's not forget either, Like March Ben and Nurse, this

639
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 4: wasn't something that happened on Saturday.

640
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: This goes back back last season, goes back last season

641
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: Dallas Edmonton playoff series, when Nurse and Rantnam got into it.

642
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 3: Marchmant went in and tried to do what he could.

643
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 4: So you know, obviously march Ben's on this team in

644
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 4: Seattle now, but there's friends all over the league, and

645
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 4: you try to take my buddy, you try and take

646
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 4: my buddy's head off.

647
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Speaker 3: I haven't forgotten, you know what I mean. Like, listen

648
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 3: the Tannev brothers. Okay, someone goes after Chris Tannev like

649
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 3: Brandon's my brother.

650
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna not take that, you

651
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 4: know what I mean.

652
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 3: So again, I'm not saying that that march Mitt was

653
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 3: sticking up for Rantonan.

654
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 2: But listen, they.

655
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Speaker 4: Had a big of a beef back in the playoffs

656
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 4: last year, so who knows where this came from. Again,

657
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 4: I liked march Bett's ability to get under their skin. Unfortunately,

658
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 4: Edmondson got the last laugh with the four nothing win,

659
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 4: but it was getting, in my humble opinion, it was

660
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 4: getting a bit silly as we got into the last

661
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 4: five minutes of the third period and they're still stick

662
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 4: whack at each other, Like, guys, it's over, it's already

663
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 4: four nothing.

664
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 3: Save it for Thursday. I want to go home.

665
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: This is also where the officials, I think, need to

666
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: be given a little a little bit more credit here

667
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: because we tend to ignore them when things are going well,

668
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: and only when there's a blown call that's when they

669
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: come into the spotlight here. But Tom Shabluski, Rady Hamilton

670
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: as well, Nurse and Marchman got ten minute misconducts at

671
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: seventeen oh one of period three. That's an officials message

672
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: they're keeping a leash on this game or else Pandora's

673
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: box is opening. And now you're getting concerned potential injuries.

674
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: Say if an absolute gong show breaks out.

675
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 7: Well, I'll think for a second, the don't think for

676
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 7: a second that the referees don't know about that history

677
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 7: as well. So it's not just hey, it's late in

678
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 7: the game, what this game's over, let's put these guys

679
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 7: to send these guys to the shower. It's we know

680
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 7: the history of these players, and the game is out

681
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 7: of reach, and the ten minute misconduct sends them to

682
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 7: the shower, So let's just do that. So you know,

683
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 7: referees would never necessarily admit to that, but we see

684
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 7: it all the time.

685
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 3: And I think last thing for me on this topic

686
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 3: is that I.

687
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 4: Wouldn't it wouldn't surprise me to see things carry over

688
00:32:53,560 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 4: to Thursday. However, because Minnesota and Edmonton play tonight for

689
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 4: the Oilers, there's going to be a game in between.

690
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 3: There's gonna be.

691
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 4: A buffer in between, so maybe there's going to be

692
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 4: something else for Edmonton to be upset at.

693
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 3: So maybe we move on.

694
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 4: But I know, I know, but like, if you're not

695
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 4: gonna give me a line brawl off the opening face off,

696
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 4: let's move on.

697
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: You still believe hockey players have long memories out.

698
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 7: They have very long memories that can carry these overseason

699
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 7: to season.

700
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 3: I listen, it's funny you say that. I remember.

701
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 4: I've asked you questions before, like, hey, who's the one

702
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 4: guy that you.

703
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 3: Still can't stand?

704
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 4: And you were like, oh, back in nineteen ninety and

705
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 4: that's the bridge No, the goal song.

706
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 3: From mc can Loops Blazers business.

707
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: We'll be driving around that they still play that thing,

708
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: they still play that thing.

709
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 3: I'll reach over and changed the channel. I hate that song.

710
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 3: I've talked to JT. Brown a couple of times and

711
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 3: I I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say.

712
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 4: Who he's but there are a couple of players still

713
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 4: in the league that he's like, man if I was

714
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 4: still playing, don't let me catch in the train tracks.

715
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 1: That's also how you begin to hate certain goal songs,

716
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: is that when it happens over and over and over

717
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: out Like I remember one of the one of the

718
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 1: coaches that Everett nice Share, Louis mass he's now coaching

719
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: in AHL San Jose, but he told me a long

720
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: time ago when he played in the us HL, there

721
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 1: was one team that had celebrate by Cooling the Gang

722
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,479
Speaker 1: as their goal song, and they scored about probably eleven

723
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,919
Speaker 1: or twelve times against them every I like that one

724
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: night cell year that every like twelve times he about

725
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: wanted to go upstairs, take a stick and absolutely pumble

726
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,720
Speaker 1: the sound equipment system by the end of the game.

727
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 3: Yep. Not interesting.

728
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: At practice, we saw the crack ind do a little

729
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: bit of shuffling here. Not so much line rushes for

730
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: earlier today on Tuesday, but noticeable given the fact that

731
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: Mason Marchmant didn't skate today or yesterday. Brandon Montour hasn't

732
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: skated last two days. But Laine Lambert, he said, expects

733
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: him to play Thursday against Edmonton. So you take the

734
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: defensive Paris for what it's worth, and there was some

735
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: juggling going on here, But going back to Monday, it

736
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: looks as if Jared mccannon's back with Matty Veneers and

737
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: Jordan Eberley, Yonnie Newman maybe getting good a chance with

738
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: Shane Wright and Coppocaco Berkeley, Catton, Chandler Stevenson, Elie Tolbenen

739
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: together Ty Carcier, Freddie Gadreaux, Ryan Winterton. So depending upon

740
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 1: where Marshman slots in, if he does play or not Thursday,

741
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: it leads me here to Jaden Schwartz. How much have

742
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,280
Speaker 1: the Kraken missed him last game? Plus?

743
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean he's one of these guys where you know,

744
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 7: on the surface, outwardly you go, well, this is a

745
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 7: player that's getting older, and you know you don't expect

746
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 7: as much as anymore now.

747
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 3: I think Jayden Schwartz is the.

748
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 7: Kind of guy that you know, prepares for every game,

749
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 7: probably more than he did ten years ago. It takes

750
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 7: him a little bit longer to get his body ready,

751
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 7: it takes them a little bit longer to recover, but

752
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 7: he's doing everything possible to play at the top of

753
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 7: his game right now, and it was it was unfortunate

754
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 7: to see him go out because he affects the offense,

755
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 7: he affects the defense. He'll affect the power play, the

756
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 7: penalty kills sometimes. But you know what he brings is

757
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,720
Speaker 7: is not just offense from the standpoint of Jared McCann's

758
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 7: got a great shot.

759
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 3: You know. He brings the offense.

760
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 7: From deflections, from rebounds, from getting the puck to the net,

761
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 7: from battling in front of the net for chaos reasons,

762
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 7: not necessarily even touch the puck on a goal, but

763
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 7: just for chaos reasons. And then you throw in his

764
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 7: defensive game as well, like he's all over the ice

765
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 7: and impacting the play all over. It's both ends miss

766
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 7: him for sure.

767
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a there's a calmness that I think Jaden

768
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 4: Schwartz brings to a game, not only on the ice,

769
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 4: but off the ice as well. You know, he'll come

770
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 4: off of a morning skate or a practice or on

771
00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 4: the plane.

772
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 3: What's up shortz? He yo, boys, you know what I mean?

773
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 4: Likes You know, he has this calmness about him, very much,

774
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 4: a leading by example way about him. You know, we

775
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 4: talked so much about the guys on this roster is

776
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 4: willing to block a puck and score off their face.

777
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 4: He's one of the guys that'll do it. But we'll

778
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 4: jump right back into the shift and keep on going right.

779
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 4: So you miss that, you miss them at both ends

780
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,439
Speaker 4: of the ice. I think the lineups that we saw

781
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 4: again at least today in practice with the absence of

782
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 4: Marchmen will see what if anything happens Thursday and Edmonton.

783
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 3: But I like this lineup.

784
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 4: It goes back to a little bit of what made

785
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 4: this team successful.

786
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 3: I like that fourth line.

787
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 4: That is a greasy, grindy fourth line that can get

788
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 4: some offense for you. I like putting nineteen ten and

789
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 4: seven back together. You saw some you saw some success

790
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 4: with them last year. I was a little surprised eyes

791
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 4: in a good way to see them together last game

792
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 4: against the Oilers, and then the Newman line is very

793
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 4: interesting for me.

794
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 3: I like. I like him there. You know, I've been

795
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 3: waiting to see a little.

796
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 4: Bit more from him in a few other areas. And

797
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 4: I know that you know he's known for that shot.

798
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 4: When he can get that shot off, you know more

799
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 4: often than not he's going to be put in a

800
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 4: great a chance to score.

801
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 3: But I like.

802
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 4: Where he's at with that with that grouping to maybe

803
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 4: give him a little bit more responsibility, put him up

804
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 4: in the lineup a little bit more, and open his

805
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 4: game up a bit more. So I like it, you know,

806
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 4: from what we saw in practice today, I don't see

807
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 4: this as an overreaction. I don't see this as lane,

808
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 4: you know, trying to hit any kind of panic button

809
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 4: or trying to make this work or force the square

810
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,959
Speaker 4: peg into a round hole. This is a very comfortable

811
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 4: lineup to me. And again we'll see if Mason Marshman

812
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 4: is back in or who comes out where he slots in.

813
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 3: But at least from what I.

814
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 4: Saw in the forty five minute session today, it was

815
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 4: a very promising forward group for the cracking.

816
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: I'll tee this up for you in that lane. Lambert.

817
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: Just to kind of go back to what he was

818
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: saying earlier here to the media and on our show

819
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,720
Speaker 1: a few moments ago, is that he still sees Yanni

820
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: Newman as a top six forward. It's just that he

821
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 1: has to earn more chances here and the opportunities will

822
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: certainly come. So maybe something is unlocked there once again

823
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 1: putting Shane Wright right back in the middle. And from

824
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: what you know and what I know talking with Coppocaco.

825
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: He is right now aching to get back on the

826
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: score sheet, and you figure you just get one or two,

827
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: maybe that gets them going into fifth gear.

828
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

829
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 7: I mean you got a couple of guys and you

830
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,919
Speaker 7: just named them in Coaco and Newman that are both

831
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 7: trying to score more. I think they do it in

832
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 7: different ways. But Lane Lambert also said that that Newman's

833
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 7: the kind of guy who wuntched the puck. And you know,

834
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 7: I'll say, from one hundred and fifty feet up, I

835
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 7: don't see it as much because oftentimes you can see

836
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 7: guys yelling for the puck, but it could be in

837
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 7: different ways that he wants that puck. And I think

838
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 7: that he has to want the puck not just from

839
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 7: the standpoint of let me hang out at the top

840
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 7: of the blue of at the top of the circles

841
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 7: waiting for a one time, or he has to want

842
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 7: the puck from the standpoint of I'm going to be

843
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,399
Speaker 7: first into the corner on the fore check. I'm gonna

844
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 7: throw a big body check. I'm going to come up

845
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 7: with that fifty to fifty puck. I'm gonna feed it

846
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 7: back to the point. Then I'm going to battle to

847
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 7: get to the front of the net. I want it

848
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 7: back on my stick. On a deflection, I'm going to

849
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 7: find the rebound and I'm going.

850
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 3: To bury it. He has to want the puck that

851
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 3: way as well. And I think this also too.

852
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 4: You look at the absence of Jaden Schwartz, this could

853
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 4: be an opportunity for a guy like Yannie Newman to

854
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 4: use his size to develop more of a Jaden Schwartz.

855
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 3: Type of game to his game.

856
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 4: Now, Coppocco or sorry, Yannie Newman can go to the

857
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 4: front of the net. Now Yannie Newman can be first

858
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 4: in the corners, right. I think we talk so much

859
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 4: about whenever a guy gets taken out of the lineup,

860
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 4: whether it's injury by choice or or not by choice,

861
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 4: every coach will tell you, well, this is an opportunity

862
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 4: for player X to step up and do more. And

863
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 4: I think this is a perfect opportunity for another winger,

864
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 4: in this case, it's Yanni Newman to maybe add another

865
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 4: layer to his game and you know, going to a

866
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 4: dirty area, going to a corner, going in front of

867
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 4: the net, and developing that part of his game even more.

868
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to Jason Botterral here in just a

869
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: little bit, and I had a great, great thing that

870
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,320
Speaker 1: came to my head. I wanted to address off the

871
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: top with how much structure plays into this team's advantages.

872
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: We get deeper and deeper into the season, we're playing

873
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: in a condensed schedule type of year because of the

874
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: Olympic break, and it doesn't matter whether it's here, whether

875
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: it's Vancouver, whether it's in Dallas, whether it's in Florida, Ottawa, Toronto,

876
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,879
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter what team. They're really going through

877
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: one right now as far as the injury bug. And

878
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: then once you get past the Olympic break, who knows

879
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: who's going to survive that crush in Olympic competition, and

880
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: then you have to jump right back into play late

881
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: February or the condemned schedules back, and then you have

882
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: the crush of the playoff race. Just think of one team,

883
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 1: the Kraken have in their division, and they've got top

884
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: end players in high demand all across the globe, the

885
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: Vegas Golden Knights, and they're on the struggle bus right now.

886
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: They could easily pull this back together. Because some teams,

887
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: some executives, some prognosticators see them as an aircraft carrier

888
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: type of team like Edmonton or all they gotta do

889
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: is just flip the switch. But this leads me into

890
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: this and how much it really plays into the crack

891
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: and hands based on their system, based on their structure

892
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: to be able to level the playing field against teams

893
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: going through the injury bug. I mean, surprising maybe, but guys,

894
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: how surprised are we to see this amount of injuries

895
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: a season.

896
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 4: I'm surprised with the amount of long term injuries right.

897
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 4: I feel like every single there's not been a single

898
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 4: day to day that I've seen. Everything's been week to week,

899
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 4: four to.

900
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 2: Six, six to eight.

901
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 4: Guys are missing months off off the hop here. That's

902
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 4: been surprising to me.

903
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 3: I think with condensed schedule as we've seen.

904
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 4: So far, that the number of injuries hasn't surprised me.

905
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 4: But I'll tell you this right now, every time we

906
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 4: go through this, every time there is an international competition,

907
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 4: every time there was an Olympic break, someone inevitably always

908
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 4: gets hurt.

909
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,439
Speaker 3: Right, someone will get hurt.

910
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 2: You hope that it's not for long term.

911
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 4: You hope that it's not one of the stars of

912
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 4: your league that will fill visiting Barnes. But at the

913
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,720
Speaker 4: end of the day, we're gonna have somebody from Canada,

914
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 4: the US, Sweden, or Finland, the big ones right that

915
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 4: that supply ninety percent of their teams to the NHL.

916
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 3: Someone's gonna get hurt. And I think at the end

917
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 3: of the day.

918
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 4: The Cup winner this year, the playoff behemoth this year

919
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 4: might not be your stereotypical oiler Golden Knight. I mean,

920
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 4: it might be Colorado for all we know, but it

921
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 4: wouldn't see it might. It would not surprise me one

922
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 4: bit to see the second wild card that snuck in

923
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 4: on the season's last day, but they've just been the

924
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 4: healthier team.

925
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 3: Would not surprise me at all to.

926
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 4: See them get to June and get to the final,

927
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:44,240
Speaker 4: right because I think this year, I mean, talent always

928
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 4: wins out. Obviously, the best team always wins, but I

929
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 4: think this year there's going to have to be some

930
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 4: combination of the best team but also the healthiest team

931
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 4: that's going to ultimately have success. And I think the

932
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 4: Olympic break the team and listen, we all want our

933
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 4: teams to be represented. I want to cheer on my

934
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 4: players internationally right now, depending on who you talk to,

935
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 4: it looks like Brandon Montour is the only crack in

936
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 4: North America state side for Team Canada that's going to

937
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:22,359
Speaker 4: have a realistic shot to make the roster. I think Coppocaco,

938
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:28,280
Speaker 4: Ellie Tolvenin are on Finland's radar. Coppocaco, Ellie Tolbnin, Brandon Montour.

939
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 4: I know that there's been some decord talk for Team

940
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 4: USA and their third goalie spot, but you know, it's

941
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 4: kind of a from a fan perspective, I want to

942
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 4: see the cracking represent it. But at the end of

943
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 4: the day, if you only have to worry about sending

944
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 4: two or three guys to the Olympics and you have

945
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,839
Speaker 4: everyone healthy coming back, at the end of the day,

946
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 4: if it means a playoff run, if it means a

947
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 4: banner in your building, I'll take that.

948
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 7: You know, you said the talent always wins out, and

949
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 7: I agree with that, but I think that to your

950
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 7: point about the health of the team, it's the talent

951
00:45:59,040 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 7: that you can put on the.

952
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 3: Eye that wins out.

953
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 7: And we're seeing it all over the league this year,

954
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 7: Like look at Buffalo Winnipeg five to one. Why Connor

955
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 7: hell Buck's out, You know, like a key piece to

956
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 7: that team's success is out long term. And you know,

957
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 7: you don't hope for injury for anybody, But you think

958
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 7: about these teams that are wagons that are top of

959
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 7: the top of the league right now. You think, well,

960
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 7: they've got a superstar, or they've got a great goaltender,

961
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 7: or they've got you know, a superstar defenseman. If that

962
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,839
Speaker 7: person got injured, what would happen? You know what if

963
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 7: it was for a couple of months, what would happen

964
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 7: with that team? Would they still be a Cup contender?

965
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 7: And I think that's an indicator of the parody of

966
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 7: the league right now, is you're you're one superstar injury

967
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 7: away from dropping from first to fifth in a few weeks.

968
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 4: The Cracking right now are three point shy of being

969
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 4: in first place and two points out of a playoff spot.

970
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 3: Let me pull up the things.

971
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, so the Cracking right now have got the second

972
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 4: log guard. Right now, Seattle is five points back of

973
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 4: first and they are one.

974
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 3: Point up on Edmonton to being out of the playoffs.

975
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 4: Right So listen, it's so tight it is razor thin

976
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 4: this year in a lot of these divisions.

977
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: How far have they come? How's a trademarket? Looking what

978
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: about Berkeley Canton's progress and much more well. Earlier today

979
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: at crank In Community ice Plex ever at al myself

980
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: all caught up with Crack and general manager Jason Botterrell.

981
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: All right, without further ado, A big pleasure to be

982
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 1: joined now by Crack and GM Jason Bottrell past the

983
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: quarter checkpoint here of the season. Jason, thank you very

984
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: much here for doing this. And I first want to

985
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: just kind of, you know, edge our way in just

986
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: by saying that we're in a pretty you know, massive break,

987
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: it feels like right now for the schedules. Some guys

988
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,320
Speaker 1: went off and did their own thing for Thanksgiving, but

989
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: how was your break for a few days as well?

990
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 6: It was great to had a lot of family members

991
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 6: out here and no catching at PWHL game. Obviously having

992
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 6: two home games was a lot of excitement, so it

993
00:47:59,000 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 6: was a great week overall.

994
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:01,720
Speaker 1: I just enjoyed the PWHL opener.

995
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 6: Well to me, I have two daughters who both play

996
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 6: the game, so they love being out there and just

997
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 6: the energy of it. We went to a game in

998
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 6: Detroit last year they had about fourteen thousand, so to

999
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:15,280
Speaker 6: have sixteen thousand, you just see the passion the skill

1000
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 6: level that's out there, and enthusiasm the crowd. It was

1001
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 6: a great experience.

1002
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: It was a memorable day for this city, this landscape,

1003
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: this game as well to another off to a great

1004
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: start here. Let's kind of get into this here and

1005
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: let's talk Lane Lambert. First off, what have you learned

1006
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: about him that maybe people didn't know about him around here,

1007
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:34,439
Speaker 1: say maybe about five months ago.

1008
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 6: Well, I think overall, Lanes delivered what was sort of

1009
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 6: expected from him. He's brought intensity to our group. He's

1010
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 6: brought a work ethic. I think our team has a

1011
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 6: clear identity that there's going to be a battle, We're

1012
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 6: going to be strong defensively as a team and go

1013
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,359
Speaker 6: from there. I think just what I really enjoyed working

1014
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,720
Speaker 6: with him on is the development of our younger players.

1015
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 3: There is an.

1016
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 6: Intensity during the games with Lane, but in the off days,

1017
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 6: it's what are the folks on what do we have

1018
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,399
Speaker 6: to continue to help these younger players make the next

1019
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 6: step in their careers. And to have that engagement with

1020
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 6: myself with the players has certainly been enjoyable and I

1021
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:12,720
Speaker 6: think it's going to help out our organization moving forward.

1022
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: I love hearing from Lane Lambert that there's always more

1023
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,320
Speaker 1: than one way to win, and this team's got the

1024
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: defensive part down pat Many people are asking it gives

1025
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: this team an edge, But as we get deeper into

1026
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: the season, maybe how much And kind of what we're

1027
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,240
Speaker 1: getting at here is, as we get deeper into the season,

1028
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: where do you get the sense about the type of

1029
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: game this team has to play when teams are other

1030
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: teams are getting settled into their game, and now that

1031
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: stacks up against the rest of the NHL.

1032
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 6: Well, I think the fact that we've our players, our

1033
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 6: coaching staff has set up a defensive system, I think

1034
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:47,800
Speaker 6: just allows us to get more confidence in it. It

1035
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 6: allows us to certainly be a part of games, gives

1036
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 6: us an opportunity to win games every night. I think

1037
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 6: we've talked about it from the get go. We're going

1038
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 6: to have to be a group of a collaboration. From

1039
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,399
Speaker 6: a Ford perspective, I just think back to the game

1040
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 6: against Chicago a week or two ago. Like you know,

1041
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 6: you have different players stepping up in different roles or

1042
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 6: defensemen have contributed in key situations. Having a young player

1043
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 6: and that game, a guy like Oscar molgarg be a

1044
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 6: part of getting the first goal, sort of going there,

1045
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 6: We're going to have to have different people sort of

1046
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 6: step up, you know. But what I like about our

1047
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 6: group is I think we have We've had success with

1048
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 6: our defensive system. We know how to play that system.

1049
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,280
Speaker 6: Now it's hey, how are we working on other elements

1050
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 6: of our game? How are we working on our special

1051
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 6: teams a little bit more? How are we working on

1052
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 6: from an offensive standpoint? But it always goes back to

1053
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 6: that defensive structure, and I think our I appreciate that

1054
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 6: our players have understand how we have to win games

1055
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 6: and continue to work with our coaching staff on that.

1056
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 7: Jason, this team looks mostly similar from last season, but

1057
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 7: is playing very different and having a lot of success

1058
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 7: doing it. What piece of the puzzle, if you will,

1059
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:55,800
Speaker 7: are you out there looking for that might push this

1060
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 7: team to that next level?

1061
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 6: Well, I think internally you're you're always looking just more

1062
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 6: from our younger players and continue their development. From that standpoint,

1063
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 6: I think we've always looked at like we feel very

1064
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 6: comfortable with our goal tolling right now. I think our

1065
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 6: defense court were you know, earlier in the year with

1066
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 6: Josh Mhura and Fleurian they did an excellent job and

1067
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 6: then once Alexiak's come back that's sick has been very stable.

1068
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,840
Speaker 6: From that standpoint, I think we're we're just always continue

1069
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 6: to look at different mixes.

1070
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:23,839
Speaker 3: From our forward group.

1071
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 6: You know, we've run into injuries. The rest of the

1072
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 6: leagues run into injuries and stuff too. We've talked so

1073
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 6: much about it, just not only in Seattle here but

1074
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 6: down in Coachilla Valley, the importance of continuing to develop

1075
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 6: our forwards because we're going to need them over you know,

1076
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 6: the next two months here especially, you look at it,

1077
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,399
Speaker 6: I think starting Thursday, we play eleven games in twenty nights.

1078
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 6: You get into January seventeen games, and then that month

1079
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 6: more injuries are going to a rise. So it's going

1080
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 6: to be important that we have the depth from that

1081
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 6: ability there. So continue just to make a different adjustments.

1082
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 6: I think to our forward group is something that we

1083
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 6: continue to look at.

1084
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 4: Six months for you now, coming up on six months

1085
00:51:58,239 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 4: for you now on the job in the GM chair,

1086
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 4: what have you learned about not only yourself in your

1087
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,240
Speaker 4: second stint as GM, but also how has the league

1088
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 4: changed since you were in Buffalo pulling the strings there.

1089
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 6: Well, I think it's the job has been an easier transition,

1090
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 6: just because I was so familiar with the organization. I

1091
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 6: knew the players in the organization, the staff members continue

1092
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 6: to work very closely with Ron on all matters here

1093
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 6: and stuff. So it just made that transition that much easier.

1094
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 6: I think you just look at the league. You know,

1095
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 6: you continue to see a year ago. You look at

1096
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 6: the twenty twenty six free agent market, it's gonna be

1097
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 6: a great year, right, and then everyone gets signed up

1098
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 6: and you see just the parody within the league, but

1099
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 6: the importance of the canue development of your younger players.

1100
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 6: You look at the some of the teams in the

1101
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 6: West that sort of taking a step this year, it's

1102
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 6: the young players that they continue to develop, and you know,

1103
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 6: from my perspective, I think it's exciting. I think you

1104
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 6: look at you know, maybe at the start of November,

1105
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 6: there was a couple of teams that you sort of think, oh,

1106
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 6: you know, they're off to tough start.

1107
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 3: Where are they going to be at?

1108
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,280
Speaker 6: Then they have a great November, a team like Minnesota

1109
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 6: that we're going to see next week, and you're like, wow,

1110
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 6: they're right back in the mix here now, in the

1111
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 6: battle there and stuff. So I think there's ebb and

1112
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 6: flows throughout the league. But it's it's a very competitive

1113
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 6: league right now, and I think pretty much every night,

1114
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 6: you know, fans are have a belief that their team

1115
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 6: can win. So it's it's fun from a fan perspective,

1116
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 6: very stressful from a coaching and management perspective.

1117
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 4: And from I guess a smaller organizational that you have

1118
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:31,479
Speaker 4: been here since since the beginning and seeing this team

1119
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 4: go from inauguration to now, what have you learned and

1120
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 4: what have you seen from this organization? What are some

1121
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 4: of the big differences that you've seen from day one

1122
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,760
Speaker 4: to now, you know, almost midway through year five already.

1123
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 3: Yep.

1124
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 6: Well, I think we've continued to work on from a

1125
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 6: standpoint of having our veteran players lead the charge. But

1126
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 6: now you're you're seeing all these players that we've talked.

1127
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 3: About right like heys are coming, kids are here.

1128
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 6: You know, just you look at a player like you know,

1129
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 6: Ryan Winterton from our first draft now joining Maddy Beinier's

1130
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 6: and Ryker Evans. It's in it's a difficult part in hockey,

1131
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,280
Speaker 6: right It's it's what's so different compared to the NFL.

1132
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 6: It takes such a long time drafting eighteen year olds

1133
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:12,719
Speaker 6: to eventually get there. The fact that now we're not

1134
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 6: just talking about, you know, sort of fictitious scenarios and

1135
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 6: what Ryan Winterton could be at the national hockeygu level.

1136
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 6: We're actually seeing that and that gets us excited, right.

1137
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 4: Uh.

1138
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 6: You know, a guy like Oscar Moguard, we talked about

1139
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 6: him a couple of minutes ago, like most of our

1140
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 6: fans would probably be like, who is this guy? You know,

1141
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 6: a Danish kid playing over in Sweden, right and now

1142
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:32,800
Speaker 6: you know, you see preseason games, you see him in

1143
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 6: the National Hockey League games. That that gets us excited

1144
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 6: from that standpoint. But I think what we've just continued

1145
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 6: to try to find that balance as an organization on

1146
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 6: you know, we still have some players from that inaugural year.

1147
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 6: They have the history of winning Cups in different organizations

1148
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 6: and then having I think we're seeing the importance of

1149
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,800
Speaker 6: having a strong American Hockey League team that has you know,

1150
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 6: played playoff success. Like you know, whether it's Shane Wright,

1151
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 6: whether it's Ryker Evans, whether it's Joey to these players

1152
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 6: got a lot of confidence being on those playoff runs

1153
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 6: down there, and now they get up I think it

1154
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 6: just gives them, I think, more confidence when they're in

1155
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:10,919
Speaker 6: big games here at the national hockeygu level.

1156
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: Jason Bottrell joining us here on Cracking Weekly. Jason, you

1157
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: weigh a pretty delicate balance in between trying to remain

1158
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: competitive but also usher the younger kids, the younger players

1159
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: here into the mix. So as we get deeper into

1160
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: the season and this team is still as well in

1161
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: the mix. How real do you think it is to

1162
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: be active in the trade market for upgrades this year

1163
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: versus waiting it out and going for even more next

1164
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 1: offseason when you have the cap going up in other

1165
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: factors to play as well.

1166
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 6: No, and the one thing I just I would push

1167
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 6: back a little bit on. I believe our development helps

1168
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 6: us win hockey games, and I think it's it's always

1169
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 6: a fine balance of way. When does a player need

1170
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 6: to be in the American Hockey League work and when

1171
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 6: they come up National Hockey League. I think you see

1172
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,240
Speaker 6: a lot of our players, especially a guy like Ryan Winterton,

1173
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 6: playing different roles penalty kill and anything like there you

1174
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 6: still want to continue to develop his offensive game, and

1175
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 6: that's what I give our staff a lot of credit

1176
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 6: behind the scenes, things that maybe our fans don't see

1177
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:07,280
Speaker 6: on game, but on off days, just our staff working

1178
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,240
Speaker 6: with Ryan on his puck skills, working on his offensive

1179
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 6: game in and around the net, but also through video too.

1180
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 6: So I like that our staff continues to, Hey, how

1181
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 6: can Ryan help our team right now in the nationalc League?

1182
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 6: How do we continue to work with Ryan so he

1183
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 6: helps us down the road from there. But look, it's

1184
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 6: a scenario that we're continuing to look at, you know,

1185
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,439
Speaker 6: in the trade market, on things that we can add

1186
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 6: to our group and add different mixes to our group.

1187
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 6: We have over the years certainly accumulated draft picks that

1188
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 6: we hey, we're certainly open to taking draft picks, but

1189
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 6: also utilize them in different trades from the area. So

1190
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 6: it's something that we continue to look at. But the

1191
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 6: one thing I continue to push back and the one

1192
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 6: thing I love that our coach staff is believed in

1193
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:48,719
Speaker 6: is like, hey, we develop these kids. That helps us

1194
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 6: win a lot of hockey games, hopefully even this year.

1195
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 1: Here's a guy growing right now before our area as

1196
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: his name is Berkeley Catton. Yep, what benchmarks has he

1197
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: hit that's made a big impression with you the rest

1198
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: of this staff, And what do you think that as

1199
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 1: an organization he had to look through before deciding if

1200
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 1: the World Juniors for him is say, maybe a right

1201
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: fit for him.

1202
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 6: Well, look, uh, you know, Raw and myself, we're proud Canadians.

1203
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 6: He always, you know, want to help out your country

1204
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 6: in those scenarios and stuff for sure too. Second of all,

1205
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 6: and let's be honest with the Americans, I believe haven't

1206
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 6: went back to back, So it's just a little challenging.

1207
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 6: A few a few people on my staff have brought

1208
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 6: that up to you a few different times. But in

1209
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 6: all reality, like from every week, we continue to look

1210
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 6: at what's best for for Berkeley's development, you know, it's

1211
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 6: when we uh and and what I've loved about Berkeley

1212
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 6: is he's bought into this whole process, right, you know,

1213
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 6: it's been disgusted a little bit before. But like he

1214
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 6: worked so carefully with our player development staff last year

1215
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 6: when he was having huge numbers in Spokane and on

1216
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 6: the run and that had to be the main focus

1217
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 6: was to help that team win. But behind the scenes

1218
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 6: again and off days, he was focusing so much on

1219
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 6: what are the things I got to do with the puck,

1220
00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 6: what I got to do to utilize my speed more

1221
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 6: in different areas to be ready for the Ational Hockey League,

1222
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 6: and then at the start of the year we add

1223
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 6: him to our team. We don't play him right off

1224
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 6: the bat. He's learning from no scenarios. And you know,

1225
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 6: I just remember a scenario being up in Montreal. I

1226
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 6: believe it was game three or so in the season,

1227
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 6: and Ron Francis is talking to him and between the intermissions,

1228
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 6: and you just see the hockey sense.

1229
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 3: Between those two individuals, right.

1230
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 6: You know, Ron's talking about different things on the ice

1231
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 6: and Berkeley's already seen that type of thing and seeing

1232
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 6: from there that standpoint, and what I've really loved with

1233
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 6: his game is he's taking all this knowledge from our staff.

1234
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 6: He's taking he makes a mistake on the ice, he's

1235
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 6: certainly not perfect, he's not making the mistake the second time.

1236
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 6: Maybe the goals haven't come, but it's not because of

1237
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 6: opportunities he's in around them in that he's going into

1238
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 6: different areas there, he's creating opportunities. I think you're seeing

1239
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 6: him utilize the speed even more, you know, every night

1240
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 6: out there and stuff. So that gets us excited of

1241
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 6: where his games continue to develop. I love that our

1242
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 6: staff is continuing to utilize them both at center and wing,

1243
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 6: just to try to free him up from an offensive

1244
00:58:57,880 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 6: standpoint a little bit because we see the hockey, since

1245
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 6: see the plays and then does he win? Everyone want

1246
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 6: a battle? No, but there's no fear in his game.

1247
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 6: That's probably the one thing that I've been really impressed

1248
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 6: for Technically a smaller player, he's gone into the battles,

1249
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 6: he's attacked, he's been aggressive all over the ice, and

1250
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 6: so No, it's been a pleasure working with him, and hey,

1251
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 6: he's been a big part of our group, especially over

1252
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 6: the last couple of games.

1253
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 7: Jason, the three goalie experiment maybe not the elephant in

1254
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 7: the room, but the small elephant in the room seems

1255
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 7: to be a genius move at this point, based on

1256
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 7: Matt Murray being injured. Right now, You've you've got three

1257
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,080
Speaker 7: goaltenders that have hovered above the nine hundred level and

1258
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:35,439
Speaker 7: save percentage. Do you see this something that the krack

1259
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 7: and want to keep in place for the for the

1260
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 7: whole season? Is this a temporary thing?

1261
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 3: Your thoughts?

1262
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 6: Well, I think it's serimilar to what we just talked

1263
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 6: about Berkeley. Right You're you're evaluating week by week, and

1264
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 6: you know at if there was a situation where we

1265
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 6: might have gotten into injury situation and for defense, we

1266
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 6: might have to make a different move. But I believe

1267
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:57,479
Speaker 6: our goaltending has given us great opportunities to win games

1268
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 6: this year. I don't want to take anything from Joey,

1269
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 6: but I think it's easier for Joey being in a

1270
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 6: rhythm as a number one goalie. I give a lot

1271
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 6: of credit to both Gruby and Matt Murray after staying ready,

1272
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 6: and it's it's something that I want to go with to.

1273
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 6: I understood how many games than the condensed schedule, but

1274
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 6: I'm also sitting not sitting here and saying that it's

1275
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 6: an easy process for those guys and the fact that

1276
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 6: they stayed ready in practice, they stayed sharp with our

1277
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 6: with Colin Zulian or our goalie coach, that he stayed

1278
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 6: dialed in with him on what these guys needed. I

1279
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 6: whenever they stepped in, they did a great job with it,

1280
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 6: and I think they they earned a lot of respect

1281
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 6: for staying ready. From that standpoint, you know, I was

1282
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 6: glad that, you know, especially with Matt, we didn't give

1283
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 6: him much run support whenever he got in there right way.

1284
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 6: But again he stayed even keel with it. And I

1285
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,720
Speaker 6: think both those guys and both Gruby and Matt, they're

1286
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 6: sort of focus on their own games, focus on stay

1287
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 6: even keeled and not getting frustrated with the situation really

1288
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 6: benefited them and it certainly has benefiting our team.

1289
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 7: Now, did did the condensed schedule factor into that decision

1290
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 7: to have three goaltenders?

1291
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:02,919
Speaker 3: One hundred percent?

1292
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 6: Right, one hundred percent from a standpoint of you know,

1293
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 6: you just knowing that you're going to have to utilize

1294
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 6: your goalies, there's always the risk of injury. Unfortunately Matt

1295
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 6: I was playing so well. It's disappointing from that by hey,

1296
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 6: we're hoping to get them back whenever we can here.

1297
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 6: And then the second part is just you know, the

1298
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 6: development of our you own goalies too. I think there's

1299
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 6: a time and place where the American Hockey They can

1300
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 6: really help out goalies. I think having two sort of

1301
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 6: veterans in Grooby and Matt, like the American Hockey League

1302
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:35,919
Speaker 6: isn't really needed for their their development, but it's needed

1303
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 6: for Coco's development and for Oustmin's development. And uh, those two,

1304
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 6: we wanted to make sure that we weren't taking games

1305
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 6: away from them at the American hockey level, and like

1306
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 6: I said, it's it's easy for a manager to talk

1307
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 6: all of out the stuff to have a coach and

1308
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 6: players actually buy into it and make it successful. That's

1309
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 6: where they've done a great job this year.

1310
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 4: Speaking of those two, we've seen Austman, We've seen Coco

1311
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 4: last year, We've seen a lot of the draft picks

1312
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:02,880
Speaker 4: and the prospects come up.

1313
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 3: Who's next?

1314
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 4: Who are you looking at down in Coachella Valley to

1315
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 4: be that next first call up for them?

1316
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 6: Well, I would say at the Ford group, what we're

1317
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 6: so excited about the group down there is we feel

1318
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 6: we have a huge mix, right. It's not just one player,

1319
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 6: It's not just this specific type of player. We have

1320
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 6: a lot of players who are putting themselves in situations

1321
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:24,720
Speaker 6: now where they're in a call up discussions, and it

1322
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 6: started depending what we need you have. You've seen Oscar

1323
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 6: Mogard already just from a two way PK element. You know,

1324
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 6: Fercus has taken a huge step from an offensive standpoint.

1325
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 6: Him and Morrison have a lot of chemistry together and

1326
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:40,920
Speaker 6: like their go to players down there right now from

1327
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 6: us from an offensive perspective, Jacob Mollanson brings a physicality

1328
01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 6: with a veteran player like John Hayden, it's great to

1329
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 6: see that, you know, instead of just rely on on

1330
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 6: our veterans Ben Myers, John Hayden, Mitchell Stevens, these guys

1331
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:54,920
Speaker 6: who we know can certainly do it. It's great that

1332
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 6: our younger kids, their first year and second year players

1333
01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 6: have now pushed themselves into that role and stuff. The

1334
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 6: little disappointed with ed Shala that he was injured at

1335
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 6: the start of the year. Now he's come back into mix.

1336
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 6: That's great to see. So at a Ford perspective, we

1337
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 6: feel it's almost more of a like, Okay, what do

1338
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:10,920
Speaker 6: we need from that role?

1339
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 3: Is there?

1340
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 6: What type of you know, player do we need at

1341
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 6: the National Hockey League to be that call up on

1342
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 6: the back end? Octa Vanon was injured for a little bit,

1343
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 6: Nelson was injured for a little bit. But those two

1344
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 6: guys on the right side have certainly helped us out

1345
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 6: a lot. And then we got some a lot of

1346
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 6: young players. You look at our do you look at

1347
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 6: our defense card down there right now? As a rookie effort,

1348
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 6: We think Ty Nelson as a second year player is

1349
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 6: a wily veteran right, But I give them credit. I

1350
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 6: give our coaching staff and Coachella Valley a lot of credit.

1351
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 6: They continue to work with these players, don't get fresh

1352
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 6: at they make mistakes. But you also see in every

1353
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 6: game you see a little moment like oh, that's that's

1354
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 6: what the crack and seeing them right like oh, I

1355
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 6: see the physicality and Hammel, Oh, I see jug Nath

1356
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 6: making that play price on the PK. Excellent job. Like

1357
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 6: you see in each game. The's got these young defensemen

1358
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 6: making the right plays and uh, to me, they've done

1359
01:03:57,480 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 6: a great job down there and we're very happy with him.

1360
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:00,800
Speaker 7: Tilt by ham that was.

1361
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 3: Great one too. I love that. I got one more

1362
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 3: for you.

1363
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 4: And from from a league perspective, next year we're going

1364
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:10,000
Speaker 4: to eighty four games of the regular season. Obviously you've

1365
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 4: got NHL players going into the Olympics. Are we going

1366
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 4: to have another World Cup? Just from a league perspective,

1367
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 4: what are what are the big topics being discussed in

1368
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:21,280
Speaker 4: your meetings and you see your thoughts on where this

1369
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:24,520
Speaker 4: league is going in terms of growth and development not

1370
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 4: only in the on the ice, but in the community

1371
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 4: in the public as well.

1372
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 3: Well.

1373
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 6: I think what you're seeing is just I think you've

1374
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:34,000
Speaker 6: seen a lot of young players come into the league

1375
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 6: and then but then you still have these veteran players.

1376
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 6: You know, whether it's the chase last year with Ovi,

1377
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 6: obviously Crosby I think right now is third in NHL scoring.

1378
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 6: It's amazing these superstar veteran players continue to do right.

1379
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 6: So you had this amazing balance of veterans, you know,

1380
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 6: whether it's because of the Olympics a year just being

1381
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:53,440
Speaker 6: focused on that, versus these young kids coming into the

1382
01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 6: league and just you know, there's no sort of growth

1383
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 6: they're they're coming in right away and make an impact.

1384
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 6: And to me, that gets that's exciting for so many

1385
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:03,480
Speaker 6: different fan bases. We talked touch on it earlier, the

1386
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 6: parody in the league. You look at, yeah, we've been

1387
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 6: happy with our record, we've been happy how our team's played,

1388
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 6: but it's still a situation where you're a couple points

1389
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 6: out of the playoffs and you're a couple of points

1390
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:16,920
Speaker 6: of being in first place. It's it's amazing that balance,

1391
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 6: but I think that's great for all our fan bases.

1392
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 6: I think it's great that you know you're not a

1393
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 6: month in the season and you're already looking at next

1394
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:25,880
Speaker 6: year's draft. It's okay, what are the pieces we have

1395
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 6: to add? What are we making adjustments to get back

1396
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 6: in the playoff race? So I think all these things

1397
01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 6: lead into just it's the rival we talked about a

1398
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 6: little bit earlier in Canada US right the Four Nations

1399
01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 6: last year was a huge hit.

1400
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 3: You know.

1401
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:40,120
Speaker 6: I believe the Olympics is going to be a home

1402
01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:43,160
Speaker 6: run too from that perspective, and it's an exciting time

1403
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 6: just to be a part of our sport.

1404
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 3: Right now. Are the Kraken going overseas? When are we

1405
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 3: gonna go to Sweden or Finland? I can't wait for

1406
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 3: that that global series trip.

1407
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 8: One of these questions that the fans want, Yeah, is

1408
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:59,720
Speaker 8: there a little personal you know in the Yeah, I

1409
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:01,520
Speaker 8: love seeat or they'll get me wrong, but you know,

1410
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:02,920
Speaker 8: all my other broadcaster.

1411
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 3: To tell the story.

1412
01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:09,080
Speaker 1: Wrapping things up, Jason, you said that you're happy with

1413
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: the progress made. What's the biggest key for this team

1414
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 1: to sustain success this season?

1415
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 6: I think it's continuing what we've talked about. It's no

1416
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 6: secret it's it's continuing our game from an offensive standpoint,

1417
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 6: and it's not I think sometimes people think well, you

1418
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:23,840
Speaker 6: got to score more, you got to take more risks. No,

1419
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 6: it's it's playing our system. It's it's continuing to Hey,

1420
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:28,439
Speaker 6: maybe end plays a little bit quicker in our D zone,

1421
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:30,680
Speaker 6: so we get other ds on our an area where

1422
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 6: I think we focus on a little bit more as

1423
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 6: our fore check, like you know that, I think there's

1424
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 6: more opportunities there to you know, have a little bit

1425
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,320
Speaker 6: more sustained offensive zone time there. I think if you

1426
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:43,720
Speaker 6: do look at the numbers overall, we're okay from an

1427
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 6: offensive zone time standpoint, but we have to just get

1428
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 6: that high danger area right in front of the net.

1429
01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:50,680
Speaker 6: We get a little bit more traffic there. That's certainly

1430
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 6: where we miss a player like Jays Schwartz. He's no

1431
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 6: matter what his stature is, he's there battling in those spots.

1432
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 6: It's where we're excited to have Coco back in our lineup,

1433
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:01,200
Speaker 6: just to give a bit more of a NetFront presence

1434
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 6: there and stuff too. We've done a great job in

1435
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 6: sort of protecting that area in the A D zone.

1436
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 6: It's where we have to attack a little bit more.

1437
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 6: And then I think the coaches will certainly agree with you.

1438
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 6: Like our special teams have to improve. You know, we

1439
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 6: feel we have good plead players in those roles, but

1440
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 6: we've battled so hard at five and five at even strength.

1441
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 6: We have to make sure that special teams continue to be,

1442
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 6: you know, an element that helps us win hockey games.

1443
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:27,040
Speaker 1: I will share this with you. I have lost Kenna.

1444
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: How many fans have said, I'm having so much fun

1445
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:31,760
Speaker 1: watching this team win. A big pledge to you and

1446
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: the staff, and thank you for your time. Jason, thank you,

1447
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 1: thank you very much.

1448
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 3: I have a great day. Guys.

1449
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 1: My goodness, what a conversation we had with Jason botterrel

1450
01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 1: earlier today. We're going to look forward to getting with

1451
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 1: them once again as the season progresses, and who knows

1452
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:45,640
Speaker 1: as far as where this calendar, where this roster turns,

1453
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 1: as we get closer and closer here to trade deadline time,

1454
01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 1: the Olympic break, you name it here. But big thanks

1455
01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:53,440
Speaker 1: once again to the Crack and GM for joining us

1456
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:55,640
Speaker 1: here on Cracking weekly. All right, look at ahead here

1457
01:07:55,720 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 1: to Edmonton and Detroit, very very small packed schedule once again,

1458
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:05,080
Speaker 1: the Cracket on the road Thursday night and then back

1459
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 1: home again for a big lump of home games this month,

1460
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 1: opening up with the Red wings. So we're just gonna

1461
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: get right into it here with our three stars and

1462
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: final thoughts in this one. My third star, guys, I'm

1463
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,639
Speaker 1: gonna go with Berkeley Catton again. He is still searching

1464
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:22,240
Speaker 1: for his first career NHL goal, but he continues to

1465
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:25,360
Speaker 1: stack games where he is looking more and more like

1466
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:29,200
Speaker 1: an nhller. From minute one to minute sixty, I thought

1467
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:31,560
Speaker 1: he had a great chance off the rush in the

1468
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:34,799
Speaker 1: second period, n I thing his way through the oiler defense,

1469
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 1: nearly parked one seven hold on Stewards Skinner and then

1470
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 1: the breakaway, which I thought, and I was down there

1471
01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 1: right behind the net by my set, I thought that

1472
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:47,000
Speaker 1: was coming, and you tip your hat, you give credit

1473
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 1: where credit is due, and Skinner made an impressive save.

1474
01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 1: But the more and more Catton controls the puck with

1475
01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 1: purpose and with confidence like that, it's going to happen

1476
01:08:57,040 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: for that first goal, and I believe the numbers all

1477
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:03,760
Speaker 1: so will be coming very brief. Ty Cartier my second star,

1478
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 1: and what was unfortunately an offensive starved week here for

1479
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 1: the crack. But again something told me where when you're

1480
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:13,240
Speaker 1: down in a four to nothing game and things started

1481
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 1: to get ugly, who was going to be the first

1482
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 1: to answer the bell. This was maybe a big question

1483
01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 1: mark first, you know, year, two years, maybe three years

1484
01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:25,760
Speaker 1: as well. And after the goodrou Clattenberg fight, it's then

1485
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 1: Ragoula and Cartier and Cardha looked very impressive trading punches

1486
01:09:32,040 --> 01:09:34,799
Speaker 1: when certainly the bell rang and his number was certainly

1487
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 1: called in that instance. My first star now is Jared McCann.

1488
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 1: We're still looking for that first goal back. But I

1489
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,880
Speaker 1: think about the first period where he got a stick

1490
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: right into the choppers and joked with the media, joke

1491
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:49,679
Speaker 1: with me as well a day later where he felt

1492
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:53,400
Speaker 1: like that he nearly swallowed his tooth and came right

1493
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 1: back out two minutes later, not just once, but twice,

1494
01:09:57,280 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 1: almost scored, still had an assist as well to show

1495
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:03,800
Speaker 1: for his effort in that Dallas game. And I think

1496
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 1: his game is trending in the right direction and you

1497
01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:09,720
Speaker 1: can see, I mean, the rust coming out pretty quick here.

1498
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 1: I think Jerry McCann's in a very very good spot

1499
01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:14,519
Speaker 1: to get for his effort and then for a little

1500
01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: act of courage on top of that. He's my first

1501
01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:17,120
Speaker 1: start here for the week.

1502
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:23,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like, go ahead, good after no, I'm with you, Mike.

1503
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 3: I was This was a tough one. This was a

1504
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:28,360
Speaker 3: tough week for me because of the lack of offense.

1505
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:29,960
Speaker 3: But I think I'm gonna go.

1506
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go McCann three for a lot of those

1507
01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 4: same reasons you're waiting to get him back. He had

1508
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:39,639
Speaker 4: a couple of good shots, the almost swallowing his tooth.

1509
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 4: I mean, listen that you're on my three stars list.

1510
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 4: It takes a couple of games to knock off the rust.

1511
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 4: So I would expect with games coming pretty hot and

1512
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 4: heavy here over the next week, I think McCann's by

1513
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:54,240
Speaker 4: the time we record this, maybe in a couple of weeks.

1514
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:58,599
Speaker 3: The next not this coming Monday, but the next Monday edition.

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01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:00,599
Speaker 4: I could see McCann with three or four more goals

1516
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 4: over the next four five six games. I think number

1517
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 4: two for me Berkeley Kadden again the same reason that

1518
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 4: you mentioned. I mean, I'm waiting he should have three

1519
01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:15,519
Speaker 4: or four. Every single game you're seeing something from him

1520
01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:18,439
Speaker 4: that's like, yep, you you are at NHLO.

1521
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:20,639
Speaker 3: You have earned your spot. You deserve to be here.

1522
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:24,960
Speaker 4: He keeps doing things that show off the skill and

1523
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 4: the type of player that he's going to be. He

1524
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 4: still sometimes will make that nineteen year old mistake.

1525
01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 3: I'm fine with it. You're eighteen games, twenty games in

1526
01:11:34,080 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 3: your NHL career. You're gonna make these mistakes. But he's

1527
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:38,920
Speaker 3: learning from them, you know, Jason.

1528
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,439
Speaker 4: I love what he said about him and Ron having

1529
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 4: those moments in the locker room in between periods and you.

1530
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:47,320
Speaker 3: Could see the hockey ike starting to swirl. Love that

1531
01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 3: my number one, even though it got on my last nerve.

1532
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go the give a bleap meter, the team

1533
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 4: toughness from Ty, from Freddie, and I'll put Marchie in

1534
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:03,439
Speaker 4: there for playing the brad mar shan rat annoying role

1535
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:07,720
Speaker 4: getting under Edmonton's skin. Give me all three of them

1536
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:12,880
Speaker 4: for the collective first star, grit sandpaper, give a blank

1537
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 4: meter award, whatever you want.

1538
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 3: Let's go home now. Okay, we're done, and as Al said,

1539
01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 3: not a chance off the hop we're gonna get back

1540
01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:26,040
Speaker 3: into it. But for an offensive starved week, those three

1541
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 3: get my star. Yeah for me. Berkeley Catton's in my

1542
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:32,439
Speaker 3: mix as well. He was my third star this week.

1543
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 7: I thought he played his best two games this season

1544
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:38,640
Speaker 7: against Dallas and Edmonton, and he did not score, but

1545
01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 7: he came close. He had a breakaway. He had a

1546
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:43,320
Speaker 7: great one timer, which we hadn't seen him do yet.

1547
01:12:44,479 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 7: I have a theory on it, and I was waiting

1548
01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:48,680
Speaker 7: for him to score. But I'll share my theory now

1549
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:50,920
Speaker 7: we can talk about it more, maybe on the broadcast

1550
01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:55,360
Speaker 7: on Thursday. My theory is is Brookeby Catton's game just

1551
01:12:55,520 --> 01:12:59,000
Speaker 7: got elevated, not because of anything he did on the ice,

1552
01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:02,479
Speaker 7: because what's happened off the ice. He's moved in with

1553
01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:06,640
Speaker 7: Chandler Stevenson. Yeah, and I think that being around a

1554
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:09,760
Speaker 7: guy like Chandler Stevenson off the ice is going to

1555
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 7: help his game on the ice.

1556
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:12,799
Speaker 3: I think we're starting to see it already.

1557
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 7: So that's my That's my demarcation line for Berkeley Catton

1558
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:22,040
Speaker 7: this season is the Monday before Thanksgiving, before that Dallas game.

1559
01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:24,600
Speaker 7: I believe that's when he moved in with with with

1560
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 7: Channer Stevenson and his family. I think that's when things

1561
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:29,680
Speaker 7: started to change for Berkeley Catton. So we'll see how

1562
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:32,639
Speaker 7: that progresses here. Like just like the McCann comment, over

1563
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 7: the next couple of a couple of weeks, my second

1564
01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:39,760
Speaker 7: star shots on goal the Dallas game, the Crack had

1565
01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 7: twenty eight. It was twenty eight to twenty one. Even

1566
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:44,400
Speaker 7: though they lost the game, they outshot the Dallas Stars.

1567
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:46,519
Speaker 7: They out shot on nine to two in the third period,

1568
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 7: So a big, a big change there. And then as

1569
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 7: far as Edmonton goes, it was twenty four shots on goal,

1570
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:54,920
Speaker 7: but they matched Edmonton shot for shot, period for period,

1571
01:13:55,960 --> 01:13:58,840
Speaker 7: you know, almost identical. I think by you know, within one.

1572
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 7: So shot on goals seem to be a bigger priority lately,

1573
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:03,800
Speaker 7: and I think it's starting to show in those in

1574
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:06,800
Speaker 7: those tight games. And then my number one Stars Ben's done.

1575
01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:09,760
Speaker 7: You know, he had that goal, two shots on goal,

1576
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:11,519
Speaker 7: and then a couple of a few block shots in

1577
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:16,640
Speaker 7: the Dallas game. But you know, he's a he's a reliable,

1578
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:19,720
Speaker 7: dependable defense been gaming and game out, and I'll like

1579
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:21,880
Speaker 7: give him at give him a few props when he

1580
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 7: starts to put pucks in that as well.

1581
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:26,040
Speaker 1: All Right, we got to bounce here cracking again facing

1582
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:29,120
Speaker 1: Edmonton Thursday ninth. That's gonna be a fun one. Hope

1583
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 1: you can join us six pm Pacific time face off

1584
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:35,000
Speaker 1: from Rogers Place, Everett Now on the call there. I'll

1585
01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:38,040
Speaker 1: be at Network Central five thirty airtime on your pregame

1586
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,880
Speaker 1: show is served up by Frostbrewed Corps Light Choose Chill.

1587
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:45,000
Speaker 1: Cracking back at home. Saturday, Detroit Red Wings are in town,

1588
01:14:45,120 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 1: three game homestand opening up seven o'clock Pacific. Is your

1589
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 1: face off six thirty airtime. Postgame, By the way, we

1590
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:55,360
Speaker 1: will be at Tom's Watchbar. Come across the street and

1591
01:14:55,479 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 1: hang out with all and myself right smack after the game.

1592
01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:02,400
Speaker 1: Big thank you once again to Jason Botterol for joining

1593
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 1: us forever and now I might see you.

1594
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