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Speaker 1: Welcome to Kraken This morning a presentation of the Kraken

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Speaker 1: Audio Network, Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.

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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.

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Speaker 2: Tom's Watchbar is your official watch party headquarters for tonight's

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Speaker 2: one off. As far as a road trip is concerned,

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Speaker 2: when the Kraken take on the Utah Mammoth. Opening up

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Speaker 2: at six pm Pacific, We're on air five thirty of

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Speaker 2: Audio Network. With the Kraken looking for their first ever

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Speaker 2: win at Delta Center and aiming for back to back

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Speaker 2: wins for the first time since November, we will talk

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Speaker 2: with Mike Fulda radio play by play voice of the

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Speaker 2: Mammoth coming up in just a bit. Additionally, here from

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Speaker 2: Vince Dunn. After the Kraken put together an inspiring comeback

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Speaker 2: late in period three, eventually finishing off the Los Angeles

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Speaker 3: For a three to two victory two nine.

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Speaker 2: It's a go and Done certainly had a lot to

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Speaker 2: do with this, so it kept the Kraken on pace

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Speaker 2: with plenty of teams right now still in the middle

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Speaker 2: of the pack of the Western Conference, their record twelve

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Speaker 2: ten and six for thirty points, three back of the

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Speaker 2: cut line in the Western Conference. In this evening's game,

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Speaker 2: a Mammoth won in more ways than one. With three

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Speaker 2: teams ahead of the Kraken right now for a playoff spot,

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Speaker 2: Utah is one of them, standing one point ahead of

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Speaker 2: the Kraken heading into game twenty nine on the Kraken

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Speaker 2: side and game thirty three already on the Utah side.

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Speaker 2: The Mammoth have lost three in a row, but the

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Speaker 2: Kracking getting back on the winning path two nights ago

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Speaker 2: when they found a way in the last minute of regulation,

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Speaker 2: pulling goaltender Joey to cord and embarking on a lay

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Speaker 4: Off the draw Cope Paitar wins at Edmondson around the boards, done,

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Speaker 5: Here's Tobaden to the face off dot sinery.

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Speaker 4: Passaires he directs the shot home on the power play.

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Speaker 4: The Seattle pecking tie the Tame two to two, two.

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Speaker 5: Seattle loses not draw at the offensive end of the ice,

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Speaker 5: It sells the shot, lets it go. It's a deflection

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Speaker 5: by Matty Vaniers that ties this game up in two.

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Speaker 4: Every it's a tolven and across done stems fence gets

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Speaker 5: A great setup by Jordan Eberley who feeds the puck

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Speaker 5: over to Toby and Toban waits for Fvitz time to

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Speaker 5: and win.

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Speaker 3: Three to two. Bring on the five kicks.

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Speaker 2: So that riveting plot twist gave the Kraken a victory

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Speaker 2: in their first matchup of the season over the Kings,

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Speaker 2: eradicating an oz five and one skid in the last

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Speaker 2: six games and Done putting up three points in the contest,

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Speaker 2: becoming the fourth fastest active defenseman to post two hundred

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Speaker 2: points with an NHL franchise. He also follows Jared McCann

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Speaker 2: as a second player in Cracking history to reach two

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Speaker 2: hundred points with the franchise as well, now putting Done

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Speaker 3: They can use a little bit more of it.

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Speaker 2: May be here for this evening as we await the

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Speaker 2: status of Jared McCann, who left the game lighton period three,

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Speaker 2: which by the way, led to the Kraken power play.

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Speaker 2: As he was tangled up with goaltender Anton Forrestburg, McCann's

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Speaker 2: for one of their top scores. Nonetheless, it was a

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Speaker 2: And Done talked more about it after the game with

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Speaker 6: I think it was a pretty satisfying game, honestly, Like

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Speaker 6: I know, the five on five offense was close in there.

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Speaker 6: We had our chances, and I didn't really see like

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Speaker 6: I thought that the guys stay pretty disciplined and really

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Speaker 6: And I thought, Ray, when we bound bounce right back,

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Speaker 6: to to just stick with it all the way to

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Speaker 6: the end. I think with wins and losses, the way

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Speaker 6: we've had the games for us, it's it's always like

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Speaker 6: to just stick with it right to the end. What

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Speaker 6: are you guys dofferently on that power play?

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Speaker 3: It's the third time you score in four games.

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Speaker 6: I love our attack right now. I think we're just

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Speaker 6: throwing everything at the net. It's it's disappointing when it

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Speaker 6: And same thing at the very end. It's not anything

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Speaker 3: How you manage to keep on that well, I think

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Speaker 6: I'm just anticipating that. And I got fortunate it kind

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Speaker 3: All the work for me.

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Speaker 6: Just got to pass it around and you know, let

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Speaker 3: You were for TV.

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Speaker 5: You censor your comments or did you speak just the

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Speaker 5: way you always speak?

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Speaker 6: I think, uh, it's always kind of in the back

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Speaker 6: friendly match there. I think, you know, the reps that

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Speaker 6: fun team to kind of chat with and bicker with,

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Speaker 6: good to kind of get that kind of attention out

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Speaker 3: Yeah, tough to see Jared get hurt on the play

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been chaos.

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Speaker 3: I haven't even stepped out of the room.

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Speaker 6: Really. I got my brother over there, so you know,

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Speaker 6: it's just a lot right now. I don't really know

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Speaker 6: a really, really good game. I was telling them all game.

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Speaker 6: I mean he made some elite plays. He was feeling

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Speaker 6: good with the puck in Obviously, shooting the puck is

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Speaker 2: First matchup coming up and all a part of the

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Speaker 2: dad's trip. This should sound familiar because the last team,

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Speaker 2: the Utah Man the Face also had a parents' trip

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Speaker 2: So what do you know, right back into Utah for

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Speaker 2: the second round of this, I guess anyway. Mike Foulton

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Speaker 2: joining us here radio played by a play voice for

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Speaker 2: the Utah Mammoth ninety seven to five FM twelve ADAMKSL

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Speaker 2: Sports Owners where you can hear him Mike.

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Speaker 3: Great to hear from you.

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to having you back out in these parts

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Speaker 2: here sooner than later. But before I get into the

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Speaker 2: meat of this first off, well done with the Mammoth nickname,

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Speaker 2: the logo pops, the jersey's pop. The name sticks like glue.

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Speaker 2: But what's been the overall reception once this took over,

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Speaker 2: replacing effectively what was Utah Hockey Club.

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Speaker 7: I think people are pretty fired up about it, and

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Speaker 7: it was a unique process because it was opened up

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Speaker 7: We have what we want. Let's never do that again,

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Speaker 7: because there's a lot that had to that had to

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Speaker 7: looks great in Mountain Blue, and it's been fun to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly.

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Speaker 2: I mean I can say, you know, just from the

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Speaker 2: doing a pretty good job. Shout out there to the

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Speaker 2: those colors just certainly pop. But great to have you

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Speaker 2: and a strong start that was eight and two just

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Speaker 2: seemed like a dream. And the team recently hitting the skids,

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Speaker 2: and I think we all know that by now it's

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Speaker 2: a condensed schedule, injuries will happen, and this is the

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Speaker 2: way that the NHL rolls in twenty twenty five and

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Speaker 2: twenty six. So you're still hanging around with the picture

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Speaker 2: right now. You're doing something, all right, But I mean,

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Speaker 2: I think you could point to a crunch in the schedule,

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Speaker 2: which I think caught them pretty good. But how do

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think first of all, even despite the last

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Speaker 7: November where the Mammoths have played really well. It came

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Speaker 7: out with great intensity, They've shown a willingness to go

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Speaker 7: to the dirty areas of the ice and all those cliches,

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Speaker 7: and yet they can't find a way to come out

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Speaker 7: on top like they were back in October. The Mamoth

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Speaker 7: are seven games below five hundred since that eight and

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Speaker 7: A big part of that was just the team wasn't

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Speaker 2: Mike All of a sudden, Andre Tourney is the league's

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Speaker 2: He Finally, Delta Center's undergone a renovation, and what I

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Speaker 2: All right on bottoms up? Why not Mike Folta joining

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Speaker 3: Gonna be a fun one here this evening.

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Speaker 2: the area at Tom's Watch Bar right across from Climb

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

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Speaker 3: Enjoy the game. You're home for the Kraken.

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