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Speaker 1: Crack an avalanche coming up here and back now with

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Speaker 1: cracket head coach Lane Lambert and Lane. It seems like

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Speaker 1: that it's that time of year right now where more

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Speaker 1: meds are on the menu here to essentially combat illness.

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Speaker 1: So how valuable first off, can your support staff be

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Speaker 1: to get as many guys back on the right path,

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Speaker 1: whether it's be a hands on approach or just their

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Speaker 1: intel as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, obviously, like you said, there's there's illness,

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Speaker 2: but I think it. You know, there's illness going throughout

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Speaker 2: the league, right and you know, you see on a

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Speaker 2: nightly basis, you know two or three guys from each

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Speaker 2: team that are you know, out maybe because of illness.

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Speaker 2: But what you don't see is you know, the other

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Speaker 2: six or eight guys that we had the other night

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Speaker 2: that we're playing and we're sick. You know. So that

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Speaker 2: support staff is huge for us in terms of trying

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Speaker 2: to get these guys healthy as much as possible, do

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Speaker 2: the right things and combat it, you know, sort of

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Speaker 2: be a little bit more proactive than reactive. But certainly

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Speaker 2: this is the time of year for this kind of

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Speaker 2: thing right now.

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Speaker 1: We often hear more and more of these days that

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Speaker 1: is a weapon, and there's five games here to play

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Speaker 1: in this next week before the holidays. So to you,

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Speaker 1: how much has this game changed over the years, what

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Speaker 1: is approached to rest time and rest days as well.

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Speaker 2: I think it's changed a lot, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 2: which is really kind of strange, because you know, back

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Speaker 2: in the old days when I was playing, we used

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Speaker 2: to fly commercial, so it would stay overnight after the game,

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Speaker 2: get up, go to the airport, go through security, all

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Speaker 2: that stuff. Now we just jump on a plane and

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Speaker 2: we're gone, you know, And so they feel like we

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Speaker 2: even practiced a little bit more back then. But the

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Speaker 2: schedule right now, the travel, you know how demanding it

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Speaker 2: is on the players and each individual game itself. You

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Speaker 2: have to put everything you have into that. And it's

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Speaker 2: one thing that you know, I want fans to understand

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Speaker 2: is that, you know, they're giving everything they have and

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Speaker 2: at the end of the game, they're spent, and so

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Speaker 2: the rest ratio is super important. You know, we practiced yesterday,

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Speaker 2: which was our in between day. You know, who knows

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Speaker 2: what we're going to do tomorrow, and you know, and

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Speaker 2: in San Jose and then again in Anaheim because we

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Speaker 2: play so many games that if you don't have energy

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Speaker 2: for the game, you'd decrease your chances of winning right

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Speaker 2: off the hawk.

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Speaker 1: If we can go back to the penalty kill. On Sunday,

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Speaker 1: they get two or two against Buffalo, which in theory

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Speaker 1: is good of course for no goals allowed. But what

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Speaker 1: are you noticing about how the fores and defensemen are

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Speaker 1: reacting to what's been thrown at them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're doing good. We changed it clearly needed to,

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Speaker 2: you know, and it was to the point where, you know,

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Speaker 2: you hate to change something on an in between day

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Speaker 2: and make it a real significant change. But we just

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Speaker 2: weren't able to grasp the concepts that we wanted to

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Speaker 2: go with, and so we've had to make some adjustments

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Speaker 2: to that. I think those adjustments have put more onus

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Speaker 2: on our defense and less onus on our forwards. And

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Speaker 2: so what we've done is we've tried to take our

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Speaker 2: veteran defensemen and make them have more of the reads

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Speaker 2: than our young forwards, some guys that haven't even killed

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Speaker 2: in this league before, or killed very minimally in this league,

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Speaker 2: and we're continuing to make mistakes, and so we've had

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Speaker 2: to make that adjustment.

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Speaker 1: You must to say Colorado is rolling right now. And

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Speaker 1: we talk with Brandon Monteur the other day about Nathan

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Speaker 1: McKinnon saying that he'll get his chances, but close attention

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Speaker 1: matters when it comes to defensive covers. So what's the

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Speaker 1: mindset you want the guys going out with here for tonight?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Well, I mean, we obviously have to be aware

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Speaker 2: of these guys. They're dynamic. You know they will get chances.

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Speaker 2: We have to give them this few chances as possible.

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Speaker 2: Our mindset is pay close attention to those guys, don't

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Speaker 2: give them too much time and space than in saying

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Speaker 2: that that doesn't mean you're backing up. We've got to play.

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Speaker 2: We've got to play north, we've got to play on

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Speaker 2: the attack, and you know we don't want to be

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Speaker 2: on our heels. So this is clearly the best hockey

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Speaker 2: team in the league by a mile by right now.

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Speaker 2: You know, McKinnon's already plus forty usually, you know, plus

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Speaker 2: forty wins the plus minus over an eighty two game schedule.

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Speaker 2: It's mind bloodling to me what this team has done

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Speaker 2: so far with two regulation losses. It's going to be

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Speaker 2: a great challenge for us, and we're looking forward to

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Speaker 2: it