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

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

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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.

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Speaker 2: Can one day off serves the ultimate Pala cleanser where

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Speaker 2: the Kraken certainly could use it.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Cracking this.

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Speaker 2: Morning on a Saturday, December sixth It is the second

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Speaker 2: of two matchups coming for the Kraken and the Detroit

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Speaker 2: Red Wings based office.

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Speaker 3: Coming your waist seven o'clock Pacific time from Climate Pledge Arena.

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Speaker 2: We're on air six thirty as usual for your pregame show,

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Speaker 2: served up by frostbrewed cors Light, Shoose chill ever it

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Speaker 2: fits you. Al Koniski of course on the call, I'll

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Speaker 2: join you once again back by the Corse Light landing

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Speaker 2: in section twenty. Postgame, we are across the street at

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Speaker 2: Tom's Watchbar. Come on and hang out with us once

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Speaker 2: again after the game and you can catch us as

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Speaker 2: usual all across the Global Credit Union crake In Audio Network.

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Speaker 3: Day off from practice on Friday.

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Speaker 2: So oh, we got a little bit more to recap

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Speaker 2: here as far as the Kraken and what they're trying

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Speaker 2: to recover from where we'll hear from head coach Lane

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Speaker 2: Lambert plus four Jared McCann after the Kraken fell to

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Speaker 2: the Edmonton Oilers nine to four at Rogers Place on Thursday,

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Speaker 2: setting a new mark for most goals given up by

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Speaker 2: the Kraken in one game, most power play goals also

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Speaker 2: given up in one game. That's four Lane Lambert Jared

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Speaker 2: McCann coming up in just a bit before that we

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Speaker 2: recap in this context, it's certainly a Knight the Kraken

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Speaker 2: had never seen before. They were facing an Edmonton team

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Speaker 2: playing as close to full strength as it gets, looking

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Speaker 2: for a shot of confidence, and the Kraken fighting an

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Speaker 2: uphill battle early on, found themselves down three to nothing

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Speaker 2: at one point in period one on goals from Conor McDavid,

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Speaker 2: Vasili Podkolzen and Leon Dreis Tidle, though the Kraken would

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Speaker 2: fight their way back into it. First off, it was

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Speaker 2: Ellie Tulvenen chipping in with a power play goal at

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Speaker 2: sixteen oh seven. After that, a new Kraken center was

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Speaker 4: Here comes Seattle into the offensive zone of the high slot.

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Speaker 3: As Winterton forced.

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Speaker 4: Off the puck now turned over in front back ahead scos,

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Speaker 4: Freddy Gadreau forces the turnover undresses Calvin pickered out in front,

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Speaker 4: and the Seattle Crackhead pulled back to within one twenty

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Speaker 4: seven seconds to play in the first three to two

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Speaker 5: Freddy Gudreau showing why it's so important to go on

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Speaker 5: the attack on the on the fore check, and it

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Speaker 5: was Leon Dreichs title in the hash marks right in

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Speaker 5: front of his own goal that gave up that puck

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Speaker 5: to Freddy gadrou and it was a nice toe drag

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Speaker 5: move that he got skinnered to bite on, came back

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Speaker 5: against the grain, buried it in three quarters when opening.

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Speaker 2: At Freddie Gadreau picking up his first goal in a

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Speaker 2: coming in nineteen thirty three unassisted. The Cracking right back

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Speaker 2: into the game down by one and nearly tied it.

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Speaker 3: Before the first period.

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Speaker 2: Horn on a shot that leaked threw goaltender Calvin Pickard,

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Speaker 2: The second period, though, was where this one got away

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Speaker 2: the first six minutes, plus Matt Savoy shorthanded McDavid's second

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Speaker 2: on the power play. Zach Hyman as well at a

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Speaker 2: fifty three, all the while a rough night ending for

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Speaker 2: Joey to Cord five goals and fourteen shots, replaced by

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Speaker 2: academic at that point and the Kraken left searching for

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Speaker 2: answers after giving up their most amount of goals in

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Speaker 2: after the game, it's hard.

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Speaker 6: To remember because well, the goals that went in, but

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Speaker 6: I think we just got a lost look at the puck.

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Speaker 7: You guys got some goals on the board, but I

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Speaker 7: mean defensively, it was very atypical game where what did

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Speaker 6: This feels like we go one way or the other, right,

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Speaker 6: like we're either really dialed in defensively not scoring goals

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Speaker 6: or you know, we're giving up so six seven goals

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Speaker 6: and then you know getting guard our own as well. Right,

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Speaker 6: So it's it's frustrating. You know, we gotta we've gotta

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Speaker 6: dial it in here. We've got to you know, be

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Speaker 6: better leaders for our team. And you know, I think

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Speaker 6: it starts with you know me, Maddie and and and absence.

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Speaker 7: Sorry, this is a team that it can kind of

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Speaker 5: Settle playing there there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, obviously they're very skilled players and you know

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Speaker 6: they've they've done it for a long time. They're they're

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Speaker 6: they're hard to contain, but you know, we gotta find

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Speaker 2: You could perhaps to text some frustration from cracking head

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Speaker 2: coach Lane Lambert after Edmonton won four of five on

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Speaker 2: the power play despite the krack in putting up sixty

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Speaker 3: Here's Lambert after the game.

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Speaker 7: Lane, we haven't seen you give up this many goals

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Speaker 7: for what? What? What was the problem with the systems tonight?

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Speaker 7: Because obviously something wasn't working. Power play, uh scored four.

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Speaker 7: mistakes and I didn't think our goaltending was great tonight.

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Speaker 7: So if you add it all up, it equals nine.

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Speaker 2: What do you say to the team after a game

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Speaker 7: Nothing?

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Speaker 6: When this was obviously an uncharacteristic effort defensively, are there

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Speaker 7: There was in the first period. We're a little slow

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Speaker 7: irony of the whole situation is, I thought that was

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Speaker 7: that was one of our best offensive zone games of

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Speaker 7: the net. We had plenty of opportunities to score. You know,

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Speaker 7: we did some good things, which is you know, like

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Speaker 7: I say, the irony of the whole thing is we

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Speaker 7: we did some good things. We we had some positive situations.

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Speaker 7: So we have to, uh, you know, we have to

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Speaker 7: build on that, and we have to you know, we

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Speaker 7: can't give up nine goals. I mean, it's just can't

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Speaker 7: give up four power play goals, even though it's you know,

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Speaker 2: As you mentioned, you were getting back into and early

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Speaker 7: A goal at the shorthanded. What has to happen on that,

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Speaker 7: on that on that sequence, I mean, on that sequence

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Speaker 7: really quick. Yeah, oh, you got to win the face off.

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Speaker 7: We have an extra man. If you don't win the

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Speaker 7: let the guy get behind us. I mean, that's just

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Speaker 7: just playing. It's it's it's plain and simple. There's some

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Speaker 2: So instead of forcing in a practice between games, the

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Speaker 2: Kraken electing to rest and wipe the sleigh clean because

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Speaker 2: they're in a stretch right now, playing eleven games in

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Speaker 2: a tour twenty day stretch, though they will have the

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Speaker 2: comforts of home at their disposal. Leading us here to

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Speaker 2: tonight's matchup. It's against Detroit, where the Kraken are aiming

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Speaker 2: for a split in the head to head series, plus

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Speaker 2: also opening a three game homestand in Climbate Pledge Arena

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Speaker 2: where they have been successful for much of the beginning

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Speaker 2: of this season at six three and three, and they

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Speaker 2: have handled the Red Wings pretty well on home ice

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Speaker 2: in their young franchise history, with a two to zero

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Speaker 2: and two Mark Lane Lambert going with Jared McCann, Matty

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Speaker 2: Veneers Jordan Eberley as this new top line with Mason

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Speaker 3: Undisclosed reasons.

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Speaker 2: He is day to day according to the last report

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Speaker 2: from Lane Lambert, but should he elect to keep this

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Speaker 2: trio together, they could make a major impact. Everley is

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Speaker 2: with twenty seven points in thirty two games. McCann is

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Speaker 2: second with thirteen points in his career against the Red Wings. Veneers,

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Speaker 2: though with less experiences, has been incredibly productive against the

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Speaker 2: Red Wings in his career with nine points in seven

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Speaker 2: remains one point away from three hundred in his NHL career.

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Speaker 2: One more goal or one assist gets him there. This

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Speaker 2: could be a matchup pretty ripe for the situation. He

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Speaker 2: owns six assists in his last six games against the

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Speaker 2: Red Wings. The Red Wings owned just one win of

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Speaker 2: their previous six games and lost a heartbreaker last time

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Speaker 2: out six to five to Columbus in a shootout, with

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Speaker 2: the Blue Jackets scoring two goals in period three, including

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Speaker 2: a game tying goal from Adam Van Tilly with one

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Speaker 2: thirty one remaining in regulation, but Dylan Larkin, he's their

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Speaker 2: main point getter in this series, and he's been hot,

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Speaker 2: owning points in six consecutive games. He's been their main

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Speaker 2: go to guy head ahead in the series, leading Detroit

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Speaker 2: with thirteen points in nine career games against the Crack,

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Speaker 2: and he's right now also tie for the team lead

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Speaker 2: in scoring thirty one points with Lucas Raymond, who was

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Speaker 2: arguably just as hot with points in seven consecutive games.

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Speaker 2: He's got nine points as well in that span. So

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Speaker 2: Detroit should certainly be a challenge, and the Kraken would

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Speaker 2: love to stop them in their tracks to get back

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Speaker 2: on the winning path for the first time in five games.

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Speaker 2: We have all the action coming your way seven o'clock

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Speaker 2: this evening. Airtime is six point thirty from Climate Pledge

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Speaker 2: Arena postgame at Tom's watch bar up to an hour

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Speaker 2: after the final horn. We certainly hope that you can

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Speaker 2: join us for kracking this morning. I'm Mike Benton, and

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Speaker 2: enjoy the game.

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