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Speaker 1: All right, Mike, thank you Lane. Last night crack and

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Speaker 1: falling in Winnipeg. They had a decent start in that game,

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Speaker 1: taking the lead. But as we saw a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago with that Tampa Bay Lightning game, it seems

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Speaker 1: like everything that could go wrong did go wrong for Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Some bad bounces, three power play goals against just you know,

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Speaker 1: wrap up that sixty minutes worth of the border for US.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you know, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: you make your own breaks, right, you know, some of

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Speaker 2: these bounces came.

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Speaker 3: They were unfortunate bounces for sure. Started the game.

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Speaker 2: Great, you know, played a really good first twenty minutes

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Speaker 2: in you know, in terms of five on five. But

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you know, you got

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Speaker 2: to look at it and say, we didn't get the bounces.

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Speaker 2: But you know, there's two or three things that happened

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Speaker 2: before you don't get the bounces that I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: potentially could have required a little bit more of a

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Speaker 2: commitment level from a couple of guys, And right now

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Speaker 2: it's just not good enough.

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Speaker 1: You've got six games left in the regular season. What

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Speaker 1: is the goal that you you're trying to accomplish with

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Speaker 1: these games moving.

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Speaker 2: Forward, well, where our goal is to win every hockey

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Speaker 2: game when we stay out on the ice, that's the

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Speaker 2: bottom line, you know, and you know, you've got to

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Speaker 2: have an ultimate compete level in order to do that.

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Speaker 2: We're playing against teams that are fighting for you know,

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Speaker 2: first place and you know, variation of different.

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Speaker 3: Things from that standpoint.

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Speaker 2: So we've got to be ready to go, you know,

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Speaker 2: continue to get better, you know, and improve. Our defensive

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Speaker 2: play hasn't been very good since a break in the

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Speaker 2: last twenty games. You know, that was our identity and

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Speaker 2: our staple. We've got to you know, we've got to

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Speaker 2: build onto that and get better at that and certainly

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Speaker 2: understand that that's uh, you know, that's the way we

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Speaker 2: won hockey games at the beginning of the year, and

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Speaker 2: this is that's the way we're losing hockey games right now.

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Speaker 1: You touched on that last night postgame talking about bringing

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Speaker 1: professionalism and that compete to these last hanfl of games.

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Speaker 1: How do you go about getting that message into the

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Speaker 1: locker room.

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Speaker 2: You deliver that message into the locker room, and you

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Speaker 2: know you have to rely on each and every player

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Speaker 2: to embrace that message. Then you know, you get into

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Speaker 2: a situation like this, and I haven't been in this

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Speaker 2: situation much at all in my coaching career, but you

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Speaker 2: find out a lot about your team in this situation

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Speaker 2: as well. You know, we have to make sure that

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Speaker 2: each individual is ready to play and they're ready to compete,

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Speaker 2: and you.

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Speaker 3: Find out about you find out about guys.

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Speaker 1: Phil Gerbauer did not finish the game last night. Can

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Speaker 1: you share an update.

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Speaker 2: On him, just that he's not dressing tonight, you know,

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Speaker 2: a lower body and we're not sure the time frame

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Speaker 2: on that.

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Speaker 1: Minnesota going into the playoffs currently right now with one

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Speaker 1: hundred points in the Central Division, I mean, they're probably

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Speaker 1: a stone throw away from second maybe, but it looks

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Speaker 1: like they're going to be locked them in that third place.

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Speaker 1: But against a team like the while to have won

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Speaker 1: three in a row, they have a lot of offensive

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Speaker 1: fire power, alot of skill on this team. What are

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Speaker 1: going to be some of the key factors for your

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Speaker 1: team tonight?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, you know, first of all, they have two

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Speaker 2: or three dynamic guys Hughes on the back end.

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Speaker 3: We've got to make sure that we contain him, you know,

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Speaker 3: Boldy up.

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Speaker 2: Front and Caprice Off upfront and got some talent there,

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Speaker 2: world class talent, So you know, we've got to make

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Speaker 2: sure that we're prepared for that. They're a big hockey team,

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Speaker 2: you know, will be challenged low in both ends. We've

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Speaker 2: got to be able to get the puck stop in

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Speaker 2: the defensive zone. I thought last night in Winnipeg that's

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Speaker 2: where it started to fall apart for us a little bit.

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Speaker 3: You know, some of their bigger forwards. We're controlling the puck.

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Speaker 2: Down low on our zone and we ended up spending

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Speaker 2: too much time in our zone.

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Speaker 3: So we have to make sure that we win battles

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Speaker 3: tonight in our zone and get the puck up.

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Speaker 1: We've talked a lot you and I have about the

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Speaker 1: starts to games, but it seems like the second period

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Speaker 1: has presented some problems with the crack and whether it

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Speaker 1: be long changes, whether it be that push, that inevitable

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Speaker 1: push from the other team. How big is the second

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Speaker 1: period going to be and what can you do to

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Speaker 1: help remedy and stem some of those issues that have

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Speaker 2: Well, there's certainly, you know, there's certainly a way to

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Speaker 2: analyze everything, and we'll certainly do that, you know, at

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Speaker 2: the end. But you know, our first periods have been

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Speaker 2: we're a minus whatever in the first period. Second periods

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Speaker 2: haven't been that battle though it looks like it has.

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Speaker 2: The issue is, you know, again, when you don't get

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Speaker 2: the puck stop in the defensive zone, when you do

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Speaker 2: get the puck out, you need a change, and it's

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Speaker 2: a long change, and you know, therefore, you know, at

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Speaker 2: times we're getting exposed with our changes trying to get

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Speaker 2: tired bodies off the ice.

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Speaker 3: But you know we can and.

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Speaker 2: Have to reverse that and you know, turn it the

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Speaker 2: other way, you know, in terms of bus controlling fox

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Speaker 2: and owning pucks and the offensive zone.

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Speaker 3: We've got to attack this team tonight. You know, that's

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Speaker 3: just the bottom line.

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Speaker 2: We've played them well this year at home, you know,

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Speaker 2: and we're looking forward to doing it again today