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Speaker 1: Thanks, Mike. It was a very hard fought split over

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Speaker 1: the weekend in Saint Louis in Dallas to get the

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Speaker 1: overtime win Saturday, come up just short Sunday down in Texas.

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Speaker 1: Just take us through this weekend and your thoughts and

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Speaker 1: the performances.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought we played well, you know, I said

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Speaker 2: after the Saint Louis game, what a difference a half

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Speaker 2: a second makes, you know, turned a potential loss into

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Speaker 2: a victory. And then you know, from the other end

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Speaker 2: of it, thought we could have had better. I guess

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Speaker 2: if you could have, you would have should have kind

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Speaker 2: of thing. But you know, we played very well in

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Speaker 2: both of those games, and you know, that's the consistency

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Speaker 2: and the effort that we're looking for. So pleased with that.

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Speaker 1: In the Dallas game, at least from a press box

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Speaker 1: view for myself and Al, it seems like your team

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Speaker 1: did everything right except score that second goal in the game.

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Speaker 1: What did you make of what appeared to be a

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Speaker 1: probably the best defensive effort that we've seen the season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I thought both games on the weekend were

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Speaker 2: really good defensively. You know, I think we kept shot

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Speaker 2: totals and we kept shot attempts down and we did

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Speaker 2: a really good job of that offensively. You're not wrong.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know you're going to have you're going

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Speaker 2: to have nights I guess when you just can't solve.

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Speaker 2: You know, the other goaltender, I thought he played well.

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Speaker 2: I thought our goalies both played well in both of

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Speaker 2: the games, and so, you know, it was just one

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Speaker 2: of those things like we had enough opportunities to tie

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Speaker 2: the game. We certainly had enough opportunities to win the game.

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Speaker 2: It didn't work out. Sometimes those things are going to happen.

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Speaker 2: But my whole point to that is that if you

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Speaker 2: put yourself in that position every night, you'll come out

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Speaker 2: on the right end of the stick more often than

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Speaker 2: you won't. So you know, that's the message moving forward

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Speaker 2: for our hockey team.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the goalies both Matt Murray Philip Rubauer going

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Speaker 1: essentially on two and a half week's rest and thrust

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Speaker 1: into that position, probably unplanned with Joey Decor not making

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Speaker 1: the trip. What did you like about their game and

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Speaker 1: their ability to keep the Kraken not only winning one game,

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Speaker 1: but keeping them in a position to win the second

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, you know, I thought they both played well.

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Speaker 2: You know, you called it two and a half weeks rest.

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Speaker 2: We can call it two and a half weeks rest.

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Speaker 2: It's you know, they hadn't played for a long time.

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Speaker 2: They'd been working hard. Our goalie coach Collins Uliano's done

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Speaker 2: a great job with them to keep them ready. They've

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Speaker 2: done a great job and I said that before, to

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Speaker 2: keep themselves ready. So you know they they in both

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Speaker 2: games gave us a chance to win and they both

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Speaker 2: played well. So you know we need them to keep going.

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Speaker 1: Looking at Columbus, they're coming off of a very tough

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Speaker 1: loss last night in overtime in Edmonton. Despite their recent results,

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Speaker 1: still a very skilled, a very fast team. What can

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Speaker 1: the Kraken expect out of Columbus here tonight and how

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Speaker 1: can you mitigate what they bring and capitalize on the

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Speaker 1: fact that this will be there a second game in

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Speaker 1: a row.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, highly and I know I say

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Speaker 2: this probably every time, but really.

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Speaker 1: There are no bad teams in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: So there's no bad teams, and and you're actually seeing

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Speaker 2: it even more. I would probably argue this season, in particular,

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Speaker 2: at this juncture, there's more teams piled up than there

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Speaker 2: ever has been. It's just incredible. All the young teams

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Speaker 2: are getting better. And you know your Anaheims and and

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Speaker 2: and Columbus is no different. They are a highly skilled,

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Speaker 2: very fast team. They put pressure on you and they

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Speaker 2: have defensemen that can you know, join the play, move

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Speaker 2: up on the play, and make plays. Zach Wrenski is

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Speaker 2: one of the best in the business. And so you know,

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Speaker 2: for us, it's it's business as usual. You know, we

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Speaker 2: have to make sure that we defend, we take away

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Speaker 2: their speed and we can transition off of that and

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Speaker 2: use our and you know, yes, they did play last night,

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Speaker 2: so we have to make sure that we manage the park,

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Speaker 2: take care of the pocket, and play down in their

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Speaker 2: zone and force them to come two hundred feet