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

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

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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.

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Speaker 2: All right, the balls drop, the Rose Parade is probably

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Speaker 2: getting going while you're listening to this, and we are

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Speaker 2: ready for a brand new year of twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cracking this morning. On a Thursday, January one,

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Speaker 2: the Cracking take on the Nashville Predators, looking to carry

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Speaker 2: over what they had going to the end of December

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Speaker 2: and pick up right where they left off at four

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Speaker 2: zero and one in the last five games, which has

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Speaker 2: put them right back into the thick of this Western

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Speaker 2: Conference playoff race. This evening's game seven o'clock Pacific time

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Speaker 2: from Climate Pledge Arena Everett and Ali Korsav the Call.

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Speaker 2: I'll join you six point thirty airtime for your pregame

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Speaker 2: show served up by Frostbured cors Light Choose Chill back

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Speaker 2: by the cors Light landing in section twenty. Anders Hurst

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Speaker 2: will join me as well for talking Cracking up to

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Speaker 2: an hour after the final horns will again for your

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Speaker 2: post game comments. Get those into us and keep this

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Speaker 2: number in mind. Four nine four five one. The place

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Speaker 2: to text us with your thoughts on the KJR text

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Speaker 2: line again. That's four nine four five one. First matchup

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Speaker 2: of the year coming up against Nashville, and this one

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Speaker 2: is a big one. The Predators, who appeared to be

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Speaker 2: dead to rights back in November, have all of a

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Speaker 2: sudden roared right back into the playoff race. They beat

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Speaker 2: Vegas on New Year's Eve and now are one point

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Speaker 2: ahead of the Krack and winning five of their last six.

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Speaker 2: They have won seven of ten as well for an

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Speaker 2: eighteen seventeen and four record at forty points, one out

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Speaker 2: of the cut line in the West. So this game

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Speaker 2: certainly carries a ton of magnitude. We worked our way

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Speaker 2: around the Krack and dressing room after practice on New

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Speaker 2: Year's Eve, and we'll hear more from Krack and for

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Speaker 2: Ben Myers Ford Ellie Toven to name the course, the

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Speaker 2: NHL second start of the week for Burke Catton, who

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Speaker 2: will be wearing a different number on his back. More

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Speaker 2: on that and a bit plus more updates from krackenead

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Speaker 2: coach Lane Lambert at practice at krack In Community ice Plex.

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Speaker 2: The Krack in getting back after a day off following

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Speaker 2: a three to two shootout loss to the Vancouver Canucks.

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Speaker 2: Be yet four zero and one in the last five

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Speaker 2: game certainly tells a picture that's getting rosier here by

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Speaker 2: the day, with bodies also getting healthier. One player noticeably absent,

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Speaker 2: defenseman Adam Larson, Yet it's very minimal. Lane Lambert said

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Speaker 2: he was quote under the weather end quote and that

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Speaker 2: back on defense with Vince Dunn in practice the Kraken

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Speaker 2: after that, essentially getting most of their group back for

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Speaker 2: Brandon Montour and Jaden Schwartz still right now out nursing injuries,

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Speaker 2: but the crack and still showing three goalies back on

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Speaker 2: ice with Joey Decord, Philip Grubauer and Matt Murray. Well,

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Speaker 2: I miss all the injuries here. In this last month

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Speaker 2: we have seen the ascension of Ben Meyers, a big

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Speaker 2: part now of the fourth line, winning key faceoffs and

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Speaker 2: also delivering an abrasive game that has certainly fit with

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Speaker 2: running and then some. And we talked with Ben Myers

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Speaker 2: after practice, beginning with this most recent run, which began

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Speaker 2: right before the holiday break. Ben, first off with this

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Speaker 2: team's play last five games. What's working you think out

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we try when we're playing our best,

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Speaker 3: we're kind of attacking north right away. We're not you know,

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Speaker 2: When you think of the role that you and your

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Speaker 2: Part of this, you know, intrigue with the schedule before

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Speaker 2: the Olympic break is the amount of back to back

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Speaker 2: as that there have been issues on the second game

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Speaker 2: I think the question here is what's working out for

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Speaker 2: this team, whether it's physically or mentally in that second leg.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we we were just getting play into

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Speaker 3: our structure. I think that's, you know, the biggest thing

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Speaker 2: So the Krack and have a hard hitting identity with

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Speaker 2: Week and also capping off a tremendously successful month of

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Speaker 2: December as far as the offensive side, picking up fourteen

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Speaker 2: entire month of scoring is production certainly has been a

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Speaker 4: Right now, I think everybody's working hard, playing simple, kind

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Speaker 2: The production is coming here for you, and I think

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Speaker 2: there's certainly a lot that you're doing right right now.

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Speaker 2: But what difference has this last month I think made

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously there are two really good players. It's easy

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Speaker 2: I'by the finally, what does a hockey player do to

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Speaker 2: get ready for a game on New Year's Day? But

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I think right now I just.

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Speaker 2: Get the rest because preparation matters and habits.

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Speaker 5: Matter right on hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: While Berkeley Catton is still looking for his first career

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Speaker 2: Caton changing his number from seventy seven to twenty seven

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Speaker 2: via trade to Columbus shortly before the holiday break. But

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Speaker 2: it is Caton getting his familiar number twenty seven back,

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Speaker 2: a number reflective of his wildly productive spoken chiefs days

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Speaker 6: You chase Mason Marshman out of town so you could

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Speaker 7: No, No, I did not do that, but uh, you know,

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Speaker 5: I think, you know. It was obviously kind.

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Speaker 7: Of a conversation when he did get traded though that

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Speaker 7: Obviously I was kind of thinking next year maybe, but

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Speaker 7: I was kind of surprised, but you know, pretty awesome

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Speaker 5: Do you remember how you first wore that number?

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Speaker 7: Twenty seven? I wore like I was, like, I don't

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Speaker 7: even remember. It's just it was my mom's birthday. They

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Speaker 6: It's February seventh, not like the twenty seventh of something, right.

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Speaker 7: No, it's the twenty seventh of April.

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Speaker 5: Like that's why, yeah, yeah, right, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: How's your chemistry with with your linemates right now?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's it's good.

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Speaker 7: And then I was trying to get to fuck to

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Speaker 8: Happening in what ways do you feel like you can

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Speaker 10: Would you got to do a double take in practice

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Speaker 5: Uh bots chose to make that move.

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Speaker 9: Well, each and every one of them, uh, you know,

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Speaker 9: Just like everybody else, you know, your understanding of what

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Speaker 9: So we've got to do a real good job here

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Speaker 5: You know, that's just my opinion on.

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Speaker 9: It, and that's the way we like to have them

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Speaker 2: happy New Year. And for Kracken this morning, I'm Mike Benton.

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