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

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Speaker 1: and audio network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three

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Speaker 2: All right, Cracking taking on the Utah man that today

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Speaker 2: to end a five game trip. Mike Benton with you

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Speaker 2: for Cracking this morning on a Saturday, January seventeenth, The

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Speaker 2: Cracking here for today, trying to end this road trip

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Speaker 2: with the win after going winless in back to back games.

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Speaker 2: They'll take on the Mammoth at two pm Pacific later

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Speaker 2: on today at Delta Center, and we have all the

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Speaker 2: action coming your way, opening up at one thirty on

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Speaker 2: the Global Credit Union Cracking Audio Network everetten. Now for

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Speaker 2: the booth, I'll join you once again from Network Central.

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Speaker 2: We will have more coming up in just a bit

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Speaker 2: with head coach Lane Lambert and his reaction after the

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Speaker 2: Crack and fell forth to to the Boston Bruins at

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Speaker 2: TD Garden on Thursday night and the Crack and aiming

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Speaker 2: for payback here in this next matchup over Utah, and

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Speaker 2: we'll cover more as far as topics of present day

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Speaker 2: with anders Hurst. You can hear him routinely on ninety

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Speaker 2: three to three kJ are also stepping into the host

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Speaker 2: chair along for the ride for sporadic games this season,

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Speaker 2: also part of our post game coverage from time to

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Speaker 2: time for home games at Tom's Watchbar, Andrew Seers will

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Speaker 2: be along with us here in just a Bitch Well.

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Speaker 2: The Kraken heading into the only matchup of the season

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Speaker 2: in Boston looking to run the table, but then again

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Speaker 2: fell on hard times early in period one, just like

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Speaker 2: in the previous couple of games, falling behind early, and

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Speaker 2: this time it was out of a two nothing hole

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Speaker 2: where they finally made headway on the power play.

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Speaker 3: Taylor Steven said Tip Cinema cad shot his scores five

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Speaker 3: seconds into the power play, just like last night Jared

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Speaker 3: mccadn scoring five seconds into the power play. The cracket

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Speaker 3: tolman it dear circle up top bod tour one time

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Speaker 3: drives it Why Tolman it puts it back?

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Speaker 2: Hey scoress.

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Speaker 4: Ellie tovenant on the power plane goes up under the

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Speaker 4: costbar on swaymen had the cracket pulled back to it

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Speaker 4: in won three two, seven thirty three.

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Speaker 2: Left in the second well.

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Speaker 5: The Crack can get three shots on that power play

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Speaker 5: and it's the one at the end from Brandon Montour

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Speaker 5: from the point that women has difficulty controlling the rebound on.

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Speaker 5: It's Tolvenan who finds it, smashes it home. It's three

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Speaker 2: Mail stat to Mintion it up top.

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Speaker 3: Low Rye fires and a massive glove save for Joey

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Speaker 3: Decord through heavy traffic.

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Speaker 2: Seven seconds to go on Montour's penalty hit.

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Speaker 6: Ryan Lindran or Ryan Winterton rather took from behind by Steves.

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Speaker 6: Winterton wants a piece of Steves bother gonna go. Steves

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Speaker 6: drops to gouve Winterton trying to rag on them. You'll

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Speaker 6: of the head, a big right hand went.

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Speaker 2: He'll drag each other down.

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Speaker 3: Wlinter Ted takes under the ground and we'll ahead on

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Speaker 6: Charlie McAvoy sends it up the ice.

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Speaker 2: He suits.

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Speaker 3: He scores empty net goal on the power play for

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Speaker 3: David Pastradach. That's his third goal of the season against Seattle.

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Speaker 2: He'll ice a four to two win for Boston. So

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Speaker 2: despite the two nothing deficit, the crack And finding a

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Speaker 2: as the finish and the krack And falling four to

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Speaker 2: TD guarding the two teams splitting the season series one

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Speaker 2: and Ellie Tolbnen and the Bruins offense coming Curtesy, Maroth,

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Speaker 2: Houstin Dianov, Victor Arbinson, Markastlik and empty net goal by

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Speaker 2: David Postronach. So the krack And trying to get out

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Speaker 2: in the Pacific Division. Entering game forty seven of the

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Speaker 2: Cracking team looking to end to run of five straight

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Speaker 2: games giving up the first goal of the game. But

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Speaker 2: good start versus a slow start? Well at Coach Lane,

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Speaker 7: The team at the time on the first period that

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Speaker 7: we made two mistakes and they capitalize on them both.

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Speaker 7: But I thought, I thought we started the game fine.

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Speaker 7: Two mistakes during the back of the net. It wasn't

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Speaker 7: like you know, I've said we've had slow starts in

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Speaker 7: Don't let the score fool you into thinking we started slow.

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Speaker 8: Think I was just going to say the rest of

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Speaker 8: the first period proved that. I mean, they were the

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Speaker 7: Chants before the game. Before the goals were scored, we

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Speaker 7: that's a slow start. Actually we made two mistakes. I

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Speaker 7: thought there was a couple of goals that I think

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Speaker 7: difference in the game. Bring him on to our getting back.

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Speaker 5: What'd you think of his game?

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Speaker 7: I thought he was great. I thought he was skating,

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Speaker 7: He had a couple of glorious opportunities. Unfortunately, apparently the

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Speaker 7: sticks break too easily these days. You know, he was physical.

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Speaker 7: I thought he was really good.

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Speaker 8: You had a power play, two power players scores tonight,

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Speaker 7: They were? They were really good in the power play

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Speaker 7: as well, And I'll tell you that. You know, there

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Speaker 7: But you know, you look for your power play to

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Speaker 7: make a difference at big moments. Uh, and they're not

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Speaker 7: Yeah, good for him. Uh, you know, I mean that's uh,

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Speaker 7: You know, there's uh, there's emotion involved in it was

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Speaker 2: That's your reaction from Cracking head coach Lane Lambert after

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Speaker 2: the Crack and fell Ford to the Boston Bruins and

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Speaker 2: not the first time on Cracking this morning. That's the

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Speaker 2: world famous anders Hurst. You can course hear him one

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Speaker 2: to three week days on the Ian Ferness Show on

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Speaker 2: with us in the host chair on the Global Credit

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Speaker 2: Union Crack and Audio Network, and he was nominal once

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Speaker 2: again against the Rangers and the Devils as well. Anders Hello,

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Speaker 2: after about two days off the Krack, can now get

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Speaker 2: a Mattine game, or whether it's just say one day

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Speaker 2: off the Crack and get a Mattine game against the

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Speaker 2: Utah manmoth. So ain't no rest for the wicked? Is

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Speaker 2: that right?

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Speaker 8: Yeah? I mean I don't know about world famous, but

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Speaker 2: No, Yeah, it's it's road trip.

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Speaker 8: I think pretty good so far. I would take the

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Speaker 8: results at this point a little tough one against Boston,

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Speaker 2: Now from the loss the Kraken had at Boston, you know,

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Speaker 2: slow start, and let'sten, let's let's let's make no mistake,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you fall behind too. Nothing is not exactly

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Speaker 2: it wasn't really so much a low start in his eyes,

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Speaker 2: because the krack and kept tilting ice right back toward

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's now the fifth game in a row

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Speaker 8: that the opposing team has scored first in against the Kraken,

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Speaker 8: and of course the previous two before the New Jersey game,

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Speaker 8: come back and overcome these quote unquote slow starts. But

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Speaker 8: just because maybe you give up the first goal does

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Speaker 8: not mean necessarily that you're playing bad hockey. It's just

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Speaker 2: Gole right away. What do we make out of Brandon

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Speaker 8: I saw everything that I needed to see tonight. He

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Speaker 8: When they slashed him in the hand. It looked like

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Speaker 8: So it definitely was a good sign. He was doing

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Speaker 2: Back twenty five minutes and three seconds of ice time

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Speaker 2: All right, time to get back after it. Cracking and

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Speaker 2: Anders appreciate you, Thanks Bud.

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Speaker 2: Mike appreciate it all right. Andrews, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Match up two coming up, and it'll be strained for

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