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Speaker 2: This is Jared mccannon. Ya, this is Ryan Lindren.

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Speaker 1: This is Maddi Banier's.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Cracking Weekly with Mike Betton. Busy week

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Speaker 3: ahead and we jump into it this evening. Welcome to

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Speaker 3: Cracking Weekly again, a presentation of the Crack and Audio

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Speaker 3: Network again hurt on the iHeartRadio apps. Sign up for

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Speaker 3: Time is ticking away Cracking Blackhawks this evening for game

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Speaker 3: four of the five game homestand San Jose follows on Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: and then Cracking back on the road for a couple

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Speaker 3: of games in short order, back to back in Saint

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Speaker 3: Louis and Dallas. We're gonna talk about it and much

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Speaker 3: more and just a bit myself ever fits you. Al

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Speaker 3: Koniski will also be joined by defenseman Brandon Bontour. Of course,

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Speaker 3: he had a very emotional return. This game offensively is

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Speaker 3: picking up right where it left off, and we'll catsh

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Speaker 3: up for the guy they call Monty in the Crack

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Speaker 3: and dressing room one on one here in just a

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Speaker 3: bits before we get into the conversation. Here's how things

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Speaker 3: unfolded from this previous week. In a very light week,

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Speaker 3: Kraken engaged in a heated comeback against the Montreal Canadians

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Speaker 3: and then going right down to the wire in a

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Speaker 1: Near signs. His suit teas down low bump pass, Slavkovski scores.

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Speaker 4: Tic tac goal well the Montreal Canadians, and Slovkowski's got

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Speaker 4: his second point of the night, power play goal two

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Speaker 5: Excuse me Montreal on tour.

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Speaker 4: To the near sign, but on back in boltop now

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Speaker 4: down his belly kept the left leg there to keep

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Speaker 4: Pinballs off some skates in by to the cord and

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Speaker 4: the Montreal Canadians their second power play goal, have a

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Speaker 1: It back right side up top Montour shot ten start.

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Speaker 4: Randon Montour from the line, redirected into the net and

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Speaker 1: They cut their deficit to two. Well, good puck movement

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Speaker 6: It starts with catting back to the Montour he puts

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Speaker 4: Here comes only Tolen it right in on goal. That

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Speaker 1: It's off grade two. Canadians lead here in the third, but.

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Speaker 6: You can feel that pump pot Boilian partners the crack

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Speaker 4: Now crack it regained possession done drifting center point.

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Speaker 1: Across Montor stop.

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Speaker 1: One forty three left in the third for Montreal.

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Speaker 6: I don't know why, but Montreal gives the Seattle excellent

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Speaker 1: Bomb on net.

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Speaker 5: This game's tighty three.

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Speaker 4: shoots knock down loose puck on that doorstep. Monteur blocks

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Speaker 1: It's in a score. Cole Cawfield does it again to Seattle,

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Speaker 4: Another overtime winner. He just shams it in passed accord

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Speaker 4: and forty four seconds in new overtime. The Canadians here

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Speaker 1: Around try big, same like Toby.

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Speaker 4: The card coming from his left to his right, hits

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Speaker 4: Stevenson fires stood.

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Speaker 4: Stevenson on the power plane has tied the game for Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank Heaven.

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Speaker 4: Seventy eleven left in the first period, We're tied at one.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic puck Booman on this cracking power play.

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Speaker 1: On the Rangers back game, Cooley left side shot.

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Speaker 4: the National Hockey League and the Rangers rega in the lead.

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Speaker 4: Two one's Steven's in right Wing, fresh off the bench,

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Speaker 1: To two thirteen oh one left at period number two.

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Speaker 6: Well, Seattle is doing an excellent job doing a line

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Speaker 4: Back to back overtime win for the Rangers, back to

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Speaker 3: Two highlights our courtesy of our rock stars in the booth.

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Speaker 3: Everga fits you, al Kiniski in a pretty light week,

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Speaker 3: first game back for Ryan Lingrin and Compocaco on the

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Speaker 3: hold in the Pacific Division. Rangers out of the picture now,

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Speaker 3: Montreal's out of the picture now, San Jose, Chicago, Dallas,

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Speaker 3: Let's get into it right now. Ever it fits you,

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Speaker 3: Al Koniski, right back where we started from on Cracking Weekly, Fellas,

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Speaker 3: how's your Sunday going, and Al, you've got jokes for

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Speaker 3: days that got us going before we got on the air.

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Speaker 2: As the kids would say.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Mikey, the only dad jokes on the air, But

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Speaker 5: I saved my best for you guys.

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Speaker 3: That's where I get my dad jokes from, just like

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Speaker 3: Everett as well, from the Everett I should say. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: coach Mike Sullivan, and they you've been Juggernauts on the

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Speaker 4: You know, Mike, I feel like it's a double ed sword,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think too. You know, Alan and I

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Speaker 3: That Winnipeg game was the largest margin of victory so far.

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Speaker 3: You know throughout the entire season. You'll win some, you

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't think it's a personnel issue at this point,

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Speaker 3: And see I think also, yeah, go ahead, Everett.

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Speaker 3: So even Leila has said overall they have to shoot

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, So if the Cracking power Play is listening,

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Speaker 4: Past you need the shoe first mentality. Lane has said it.

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Speaker 4: The fact that we've seen a lot of power plays

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Speaker 3: in the NHL. After the game on Saturday against the

438
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Speaker 3: New York Rangers. By the way, Vince Dunn, Chandler Stevenson

439
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Speaker 3: lead the crack and with three power play points heading

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Speaker 3: into this next week. All right, big piece of this

441
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Speaker 3: power play and also a big welcome edition. We said,

442
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Speaker 3: of course it had to be at the right time.

443
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Speaker 3: But he's back after an emotional return. Here's our conversation

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Speaker 3: with defenseman Brandon Montur. To see the hockey world to

445
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Speaker 3: gather around you, to see your teammates also surround you.

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Speaker 3: How much has that meant to you?

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Speaker 2: It's been a lot.

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Speaker 7: I think it's just how challenging and how difficult it's

449
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Speaker 7: been for myself and my family the last little bit.

450
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Speaker 7: You know, it's something that it's tough to process and

451
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Speaker 7: doesn't feel real and probably will never feel real or again,

452
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Speaker 7: very difficult time. But you know, the team, even players

453
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Speaker 7: around the league and noticed obviously mid games even still

454
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Speaker 7: even though it's been a couple of weeks or a

455
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Speaker 7: week now, but every team that we play, there's been

456
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Speaker 7: a number of players during the games, intermiss or warm ups, messages,

457
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Speaker 7: just coming through random numbers, getting my number and contact

458
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Speaker 7: and appreciating out. And I think, you know, it's as

459
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Speaker 7: many people are you know, in this organization or in

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Speaker 7: this league.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a small community and.

462
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Speaker 7: Everybody you know cares, you know, for each other, and

463
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Speaker 7: I've I've felt that in the last little bit here

464
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Speaker 7: and again it's keeping my mind off other things, being

465
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Speaker 7: back and playing and you know, being around the guys,

466
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Speaker 7: so that that also helps as well.

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Speaker 8: What are you reminded of as far as how much

468
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Speaker 8: you've missed being around these guys and how much they've

469
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Speaker 8: they've meant to you as well.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and again it's it's early on and you know,

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Speaker 7: I've I've missed a lot, you know, missed training, can't

472
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Speaker 7: miss preseason. I've practiced you know, only a hand not

473
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Speaker 7: even a handful of times. So that and then you know,

474
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Speaker 7: missing stepping away for.

475
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Speaker 2: A week or so. You know, I missed a lot.

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Speaker 7: But guys have been you know, rallying, you know, behind

477
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Speaker 7: each other, you know, like our start. But again, you

478
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Speaker 7: know this is you know, this is our LIVELIHO. This

479
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Speaker 7: is what you know we do, this is what we

480
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Speaker 7: love and everything outside of the game, you know, helps

481
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Speaker 7: coming back and you know, being part of that.

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Speaker 8: Again, people were talking about a lot of question marks

483
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Speaker 8: as far as what this team could do early on,

484
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Speaker 8: and there were a lot of tough opponents here on

485
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Speaker 8: the schedule. But what's your reads so far through eleven

486
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Speaker 8: games and how much guys have been really dialed in

487
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Speaker 8: here with what Lane Lambert has been trying to preacher

488
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Speaker 8: from the from the get going.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're still working on it.

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Speaker 7: We're still trying to find, you know, the best solutions

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Speaker 7: for us to be you know, a really good hockey team.

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Speaker 7: But I think you know, like you said, we've had

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Speaker 7: some challenging opponents. We're playing hard, harder to play against.

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Speaker 7: We're playing you know, competitive teams that you know, we're

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Speaker 7: tight games. I think we've you know, had points in

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Speaker 7: eight nine of you know, the eleven, so those games

497
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Speaker 7: would go either way. Obviously we'd like to get that

498
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Speaker 7: extra one. But you know, I think where competence is

499
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Speaker 7: still going, it's still improving. We still have a lot

500
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Speaker 7: of work to do, but we're in every game and

501
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Speaker 7: that's all you can ask for. And now just kind

502
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Speaker 7: of you know, finding the those you know, other positive

503
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Speaker 7: like I said, solutions or ways to to keep.

504
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Speaker 2: Getting better, and you know we're gonna do that.

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Speaker 8: A good chunk of these games have gone down to

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Speaker 8: the one goal variety, even into sudden depth overtime as well.

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Speaker 8: I mean you've been through this time and time again

508
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Speaker 8: into deep playoff runs. What value is out there to

509
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Speaker 8: experience a lot of these games as far as the

510
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Speaker 8: pathway here for the future.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it could get stressful, but I think

512
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Speaker 7: you just got to kind of learn to keep playing

513
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Speaker 7: your game, playing to your kind of identity, playing the

514
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Speaker 7: right way you know your team plays, and staying loose.

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Speaker 7: I think you know, again I've played in number long

516
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Speaker 7: playoff series over times.

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Speaker 2: You got to play loose.

518
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Speaker 7: You can't be you know, thinking about you know, making

519
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Speaker 7: a mistake or being scared to make mistakes.

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Speaker 2: You just kind of kind of.

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Speaker 7: Play free, to play loose and kind of could let

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Speaker 7: the confidence come out and try to be that player,

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Speaker 7: be that you know, line to make that next great play.

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Speaker 8: Eight points in your first seven games for the season, offensively,

525
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Speaker 8: not too shabby.

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Speaker 2: What's working so far?

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Speaker 7: You know, just playing simple, just trying to create as

528
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Speaker 7: much as I can. I think we're trying to as

529
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Speaker 7: a group, learn to create more offense. You know, I

530
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Speaker 7: think we struggled to do that, but you get out

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Speaker 7: there trying to make a difference, and you know, hope

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Speaker 7: we can keep that going.

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Speaker 8: We heard a great thing from Lane Lamber the other

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Speaker 8: night about as far as spending time in the defensive

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Speaker 8: zone and how much that can maybe even translate to

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Speaker 8: what you guys want to do offensively, And a conversation

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Speaker 8: I had with Shane Wright kind of ties into this

538
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Speaker 8: as well, where some teams are okay with allowing shots

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Speaker 8: from the outside and just making sure that the middle

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Speaker 8: of the ice is clean. But there's other cases here

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Speaker 8: and this team is one of them where the more

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Speaker 8: time spent takes away from time getting a bys. So

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Speaker 8: what's the biggest difference here as far as what this

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Speaker 8: team wants to do would turn this around and making

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Speaker 8: sure that they're spending more time with the puck and

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Speaker 8: getting a buys as well.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's one of those things where you

548
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 7: got to trust your systems, and we're doing that, but

549
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Speaker 7: kind of being aggressive in a sense of just attacking

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Speaker 7: the opponent and the ozone, not letting them have much space.

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Speaker 7: And again the puck back is quickly we can instead

552
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Speaker 7: of watching and let them roam around. And again, you

553
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Speaker 7: want to stay tight and you want to avoid close

554
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Speaker 7: or grade a you know, shots you'd rather you know,

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Speaker 7: let one out from I guess that you know, deep

556
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Speaker 7: or far away, but kind of get into the puck quick.

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Speaker 7: You obviously don't want to play in the D zone

558
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Speaker 7: and you'd rather play possession and carry that puck and

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Speaker 7: create plays and get out of your D zone quick.

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Speaker 2: But the more aggressive, the more energy, the more.

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Speaker 7: Competitiveness we got in the D zone, the quicker we

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Speaker 7: can get that fucking go offense.

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Speaker 2: So we're working on it. But I like we're our

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Speaker 2: defenses right now.

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Speaker 8: It seems as if that every team, of course, is

566
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Speaker 8: different in how you approach them, of course in this league.

567
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Speaker 8: But if there's one thing to you maybe take away

568
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Speaker 8: from facing a team like the Rangers who have been

569
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Speaker 8: so good at just pounding the net over and over

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Speaker 8: and over, and maybe use that as a blueprint for

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Speaker 8: a moving ahead, what is it?

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Speaker 4: Again?

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Speaker 7: It's every team's different. But again, that team's been together

574
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Speaker 7: for a long time. They got a bunch of talent,

575
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Speaker 7: you know, as you can see yesterday, they you know,

576
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 7: they moved quick. They compliment each other well, they know

577
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Speaker 7: where each.

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Speaker 2: Other are going to be.

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Speaker 7: But again that's that's one that you got to be

580
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Speaker 7: in their face. You got to be aggressive with their

581
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Speaker 7: big guys. And yeah, again, the harder you play against them, you.

582
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Speaker 8: Know, you can just.

583
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Speaker 7: Kind of control that. And I thought we did a

584
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Speaker 7: good job. They got chances, as you know, good players

585
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Speaker 7: teams do, but so we maintained it. It was a

586
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 7: good game, low event, but again we got to keep

587
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Speaker 7: continuing to grow off that.

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Speaker 8: The guy that's been playing by your side, Ryan lind Grin.

589
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Speaker 8: He spent a ton of time with Adam Fox back

590
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Speaker 8: with the New York Rangers previously. How has he helped

591
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Speaker 8: make you better?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been good. It's still early on, but I

593
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Speaker 2: think we compment each other. Well. We're both competitive in

594
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Speaker 2: the D zone, play aggressive.

595
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Speaker 7: He plays physical, I play physical. We talk out there,

596
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Speaker 7: but a veteran guy that moves the puck well, is smart,

597
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 7: makes the right play every time and kind of lets

598
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Speaker 7: me do my thing, you know after that.

599
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Speaker 2: But it's still work in progress.

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Speaker 7: I like how we started, but you know, the more

601
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Speaker 7: times you know, I play them, And again, Adam is also,

602
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Speaker 7: you know, a really good player, and you know, I

603
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Speaker 7: guess offensively similar in a sense he likes to get

604
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Speaker 7: up and down the ice, but obviously a lot of

605
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Speaker 7: differences as well.

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Speaker 2: But I think Ryan, you know, a really good player,

607
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Speaker 2: easy to play with. So it's you know, just gonna

608
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 2: keep getting better.

609
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Speaker 8: Finally, it's one thing for us to say and for

610
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Speaker 8: me to marvel at how just crisp and how intense

611
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Speaker 8: the new black Alter new jerseys looked last night and

612
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Speaker 8: warm ups and getting on the ice. But to a player,

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Speaker 8: what did you guys see and what did you guys

614
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Speaker 8: like about them?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I think I mean again, the I guess when it's

617
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Speaker 7: dark and you know, we don't really notice that much.

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Speaker 7: You know, the game is a game, you know, playing

619
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Speaker 7: with the lights on, so that's a little different. It

620
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Speaker 7: might be different for our fans, but I think guys

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Speaker 7: liked it. It's different, you know it pops uh, you

622
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Speaker 7: know it's it's also you know, gonna feel better, look

623
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Speaker 7: better when we start to you know, winning a lot

624
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Speaker 7: more games in those jerseys.

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Speaker 8: Got more than coming out here, especially this week here.

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Speaker 8: Brandon appreciate this. Thank you, thank you, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's crack of defense been Brandon Montor big thanks

628
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Speaker 3: for a few moments of his time. When the Krakend

629
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Speaker 3: went to an optional practice and an optional skates on Sunday,

630
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Speaker 3: I'll just be up front here with this offensively eight

631
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Speaker 3: points through seven games. How big has Brandon Montor made

632
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Speaker 3: an impact this season so far?

633
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Speaker 5: Yeah? Four points since returning from something that I hope

634
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Speaker 5: neither of you have to deal with in your life. Like,

635
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Speaker 5: it's amazing what he's been able to pull together coming

636
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 5: back from that. And you know, I think any single

637
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Speaker 5: guy in that locker room, had he provided no offense

638
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 5: over his first two games back, would say, yeah, I

639
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 5: get it, but we're glad to have him back, and

640
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 5: the fact that he's come back with such fury on

641
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Speaker 5: his offense is exciting for what he might be able

642
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Speaker 5: to bring for the rest of the season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, I think again, the the the personal

644
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 4: distress and trauma aside that he's had to deal with,

645
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Speaker 4: You're really seeing Montur at his most comfortable on the ice.

646
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Speaker 4: You know, last season we saw the type of player

647
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Speaker 4: that we expected and that we were hoping to get.

648
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Speaker 4: But I think now this year, you know, he's more

649
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Speaker 4: settled in, he's got a year in Seattle on the belt.

650
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Speaker 4: I think he really enjoys like a lot of the

651
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Speaker 4: d men I've talked to you in the locker room,

652
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Speaker 4: he enjoys the system that's being played and that commitment

653
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Speaker 4: that Lane Lambert wants. And he is a guy that

654
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Speaker 4: we talk so much about, so many winners and so

655
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Speaker 4: many cups in this locker room. He's got a cup,

656
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Speaker 4: he's got back to back final appearances. He's played on

657
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 4: some of the best teams in the NHL. He knows

658
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 4: what it takes to win in this game. And now

659
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 4: you're starting to see a lot of that come out

660
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 4: just him talking to two younger players in d Man

661
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 4: at practice to the communication that he has, he keeps

662
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 4: things loose and lights on the bench. I've never seen

663
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 4: this man without a smile. Even again, you come back

664
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 4: from from your your brother passing in a very track

665
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,719
Speaker 4: way that first practice, he's he's got a big smile

666
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 4: on his face and and it's like he never left.

667
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 4: So you're really seeing what he can bring. I mean,

668
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 4: he he is. He is a letterman without a letter

669
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 4: and he is a wonderful leader on and off the

670
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 4: eyes for this group.

671
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you heard him say that in that interview too,

672
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 5: that this isn't something that you can just you know,

673
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 5: wipe clean and forget about. He's never forget about it, obviously.

674
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 5: It's it's it's it's marked his life. Yeah, that will

675
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 5: never change. But I think what was also cool to

676
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 5: hear him say is much like we saw in the

677
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 5: Edmonton Edmonton game with pod goals and talking to him,

678
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 5: players continue to come up with up to him during

679
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 5: the media timeouts and say something to him, and you

680
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 5: know it'll probably happen all season long because you realize

681
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 5: that these kinds of things unfortunately impact a lot of people.

682
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 5: And when you recognize somebody else that's going through the

683
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 5: same stuff that you've gone through or you've had to

684
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 5: deal with, you know you want you want to give

685
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 5: him a pound in the back, like that's that's that's

686
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 5: the sportsmanship of the game. That's where that that's where

687
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 5: life is bigger than the game. It was really cool

688
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 5: to hear him talk about that.

689
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 3: It goes to show how much the hockey world is

690
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 3: a small world and how much Brandon Montor is a

691
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 3: big part of everyone. When you're seeing this over and

692
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,720
Speaker 3: over and over with players going out of their way

693
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 3: to come and comfort him, to say hello to him

694
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 3: and say basically, we are with you every step of

695
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 3: the way. I also thought, and I couldn't help but

696
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,919
Speaker 3: think after the Montreal game, despite the circumstances. It's one

697
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 3: thing when you're a defenseman that has a skill he

698
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 3: possesses to help drive a comeback like that. It's another

699
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 3: when he has equalities effort that you mentioned that are

700
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 3: of the human variety, and three qualities that I really

701
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 3: admire in people like yourself, al and others as well, authenticity, warmth,

702
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 3: and energy. Montor checks off all three boxes. It's one

703
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 3: thing to say that he is helping drive this team offensively.

704
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 3: It's also another when you help ignite a come back

705
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 3: with the player that he is, to say that he

706
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 3: is the heart and soul of this team. He is

707
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 3: helping transform this team right now. And it's crazy because

708
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 3: about a month ago we were thinking eighteen goals last

709
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 3: season for Montour. They're playing in a wide open system,

710
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 3: but how much is that going to change now with

711
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 3: more structure in place, more restrictions. Lane Lambert told us

712
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 3: that he is still open to be the player that

713
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 3: he can be and carry the puck, but also do

714
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 3: it with the reado and react type of mentality, no

715
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,439
Speaker 3: one to go, no one to hold back. And it's

716
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 3: crazy because his numbers right now are on pace to

717
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 3: be even better than last season. He looks like he's

718
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 3: gone to a whole new level.

719
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, obviously his sample size is a

720
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 5: little smaller having missed some games. But I can't think

721
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 5: of the time either, you know, well, in any of

722
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 5: the games we've seen him play in so far where

723
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 5: him jumping into the playoffense has hurt the krack and

724
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 5: going the other way, he's often one of the first

725
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 5: guys back, if not the first guy back. Like he

726
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 5: gets in, he gets out. So that's the way he

727
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 5: plays his game as well. And I don't know how

728
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 5: much of that is Lane Lambert in his ear or

729
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 5: how much that's just Brandon Montour's game.

730
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 3: We turn our attention now to the Kraken in their

731
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,240
Speaker 3: own zone. And this was a conversation last couple of games,

732
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 3: because Lane Lambert has set over and over that he

733
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 3: would like to spend less time in their own zone

734
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 3: because it has to do with their own play. So

735
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 3: I want to kind of approach it as this, what

736
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 3: will the Kraken look like, maybe say four to five

737
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 3: months from now, once they get matters really dialed in.

738
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 3: But I think for me it's pretty important here to consider.

739
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 3: There's almost kind of like two schools of thought. I'm

740
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 3: using this as an example because defensively, there are teams

741
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 3: that will be okay with sitting back and when other

742
00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 3: teams fire pucks from the outside, it doesn't matter as

743
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 3: long as you keep the middle of the ice spick

744
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 3: and span and clean no one in there. There are

745
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 3: other teams that say any d zone time is bad.

746
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 3: The zone time now within that spectrum. I had a

747
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 3: good talk with Shane right about this, and he said,

748
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 3: we're not the kind of team that's just gonna sit

749
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 3: back and let you shoot from the outside, because ultimately

750
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 3: we're not a team that is trying to play in

751
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 3: the defensive zone. We want to get out of there.

752
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 3: But the less time that you spend in your defensive

753
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 3: zone gives you more time to use the energy that

754
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 3: you still have on every shift to get up ice

755
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 3: and attack. And that's the endgame here for the system.

756
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, how many times have we seen teams have to defend,

757
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 5: whether it's the kracking or the kracking on the attack

758
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 5: and another team's in where they had to defend for

759
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 5: forty five seconds and then they change and the cracking

760
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 5: get a fresh set out there as well, but they

761
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 5: can't come down on the attack because the are exhausted,

762
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 5: they have to get off the ice. So that's the

763
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 5: point he's making is that the more on offense you

764
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 5: can be, the less energy they're going to have to

765
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 5: come down and attack you in your own end. So

766
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 5: I like that mentality. The one thing I would say

767
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 5: about shots to the outside is one little asterisk on

768
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 5: that statement, which is, we know Leon Dreiso is going

769
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 5: to a shot from the outside. We know that overtime goal

770
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 5: was a shot from the outside. You got to take

771
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 5: away those cross ice passes. That's the big thing there.

772
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 5: I'm okay with shots from the outside, but they can't

773
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 5: be one timers after scene passes.

774
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna you took the words right out

775
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 4: of my mouth. And I'll even add another one there

776
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 4: as well. For Seattle, I think, you know, you talk

777
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 4: about the fatigue at the end of a shift. There

778
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 4: have been a few zone exits that the kracking have

779
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 4: either not been as sharp on you know, that have

780
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 4: blown up a little bit. And I think it's that

781
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 4: first pass, right, It's that first pass trying to get

782
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 4: out of the zone, you know, And it happens to everyone.

783
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 4: It's not a Seattle issue, but you'll see as fumble passes,

784
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 4: bibble passes, missing passes. How many times have we seen

785
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 4: guys have to reach for a pucket, goes down for

786
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 4: rising and now you're back in your zone. So I

787
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 4: think you know to get that puck back in in

788
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 4: Leay Lambert has said it since his since his his

789
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 4: introducty press conference. You know, if you you want to

790
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 4: be on offense, you got to get the puck and

791
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 4: it starts in your zone. But you need to make

792
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,879
Speaker 4: that good first pass, that good first sharp pass out

793
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 4: of your zone. I think sometimes you see the guys

794
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 4: maybe sitting on it a little bit too long. Again,

795
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 4: they're looking up ice a little bit too long, and

796
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 4: we're talking about fractions of a second, blinks of an

797
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 4: eye here. But these are multi million dollar NHL athletes

798
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 4: who are the best at what they do. So you know,

799
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 4: one Mississippi that that that's an hour uh to these guys.

800
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 4: So you need to get the puck up and out,

801
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 4: I think as quick as you can. And I think

802
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 4: that's maybe an area where the Kraken can can work

803
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 4: on a little bit more, that good quick, sharp first pass.

804
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 3: The attention to Coppocaco in his first game back after

805
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 3: being out since preseason. It was a long awaited return.

806
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 3: And you know, do we not call this here on

807
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 3: this show from this last week. Wouldn't it be spicy

808
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 3: if Coppocaco's season debut came against the New York Rangers

809
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 3: and it happened the storyline we all got out.

810
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 4: I think when they said four to six weeks, I

811
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 4: think we all pulled out the schedule and we were

812
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 4: looking down like, yeah, I think eleven one, that's gonna

813
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 4: be the target.

814
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 3: Fourteen minutes in sixteen seconds of ice time, didn't have

815
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,959
Speaker 3: anything as far as points in the game, also had

816
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,839
Speaker 3: three shot attempts, one shot on net, one hit, one

817
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 3: giveaway as well. And he's playing on that line with

818
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 3: Mason Marchmint and Shane right where you've got two towering

819
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 3: figures flanking Shane right on that line. So how do

820
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 3: we measure Coppocacco after one game versus the expectations and

821
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 3: how long and believe they give this line a run

822
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,240
Speaker 3: before a familiar equation comes into play, and that's Coppo

823
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 3: Coco playing with the guy that he's played with for

824
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 3: a long time, and Matty Benier's with a two last

825
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 3: year of points looked inseparable.

826
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, Mike, I think the answer to that

827
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 5: is you don't. You don't measure him. One game's not enough,

828
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 5: He's he's been out of the lineup long enough where

829
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 5: you've got to give him, you know, at least a

830
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 5: handful of games, two or three games to really start

831
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 5: to assess where he's at, and two or three games

832
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 5: to assess what impact he's having on that line with

833
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 5: marchmen and right, I think that, you know, we'd like

834
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 5: to see more out of that line, specifically as a whole.

835
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 5: So I think putting him on that line is the

836
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 5: right move, but I think it's too early to really

837
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 5: measure and say was it the right move. How's Coco looking?

838
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 5: I think he looked fine for his first game, but

839
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,280
Speaker 5: as you said, didn't didn't get on the score sheet,

840
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 5: but didn't really hurt the team either.

841
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 4: I asked him in practice on Sunday after he I said,

842
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 4: how are feeling? He goes, it was a long off.

843
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 4: It was a long time off, and you know, we

844
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 4: talked so much across all sports, and for some reason,

845
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 4: football comes to mind. When you're like, you want to

846
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 4: get out there and hit someone else. You want to

847
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 4: go out there and play against someone else. You can

848
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 4: simulate game speed all you want to in practice, but

849
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 4: until you get out out there, regardless of the injury,

850
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 4: if it's an upper body or a lower body, or

851
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 4: a mid body or a back body, or whatever body

852
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,720
Speaker 4: they want to call it, it doesn't matter. I feel

853
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 4: like you're right, he needs a couple of games to

854
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 4: get in there. I thought he looked fine. You know,

855
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 4: conditioning also, right. I mean he's been out since preseason. Now,

856
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,439
Speaker 4: obviously Compocco is in the best shape of his life.

857
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 4: But still you're not used to to game speed and

858
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 4: to be thrown in there. You know, your first game

859
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 4: of the season against the team that's in their twelfth right,

860
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a little bit. Uh, you're gonna be

861
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 4: a little bit rusty. But I thought he was fine.

862
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,280
Speaker 4: I give him five five games. You know, let's reevaluate

863
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 4: when Seattle gets back from Dallas next week and we'll

864
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 4: see where he is. But I had no issues with

865
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 4: his game. I thought he was still the the Coppocco

866
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 4: going to the dirty areas. He had a couple of

867
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 4: good plays. You saw flashes of of of who he is,

868
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 4: and I think he'll be I think he'll be fine.

869
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that. You know, conditioning might be something

870
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 5: that has to come back, but what doesn't have to

871
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 5: come back is how he plays his games. You're right

872
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 5: fits behind the net in the offensive zone. I saw

873
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 5: him use his body to protect the puck to get

874
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 5: the fuck in front. And again that that doesn't take

875
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 5: conditioning to do. That's just the way he plays the game.

876
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 5: And you saw that, You're like, yep, that's the Coppo Cocco.

877
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 4: I know.

878
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 5: I like that. So I think we're going to see

879
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 5: more of that over these next four or five games.

880
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 4: Let's talk about it next Monday after Dallas and see

881
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 4: where he's at.

882
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 3: Perfect segue here, because the Krakend have gone now officially

883
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 3: through this first Scotland that we've been talking about for

884
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 3: so long, and they come out of this here with

885
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 3: a pretty admirable record of five two and four, and

886
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:10,959
Speaker 3: now you get a little bit more of a breather

887
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,280
Speaker 3: as far as the crack and are facing on paper

888
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 3: versus what they've had in the previous eleven games. Chicago

889
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:22,919
Speaker 3: coming up tonight, San Jose coming up on Wednesday, back

890
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 3: to back at Saint Louis and Dallas. Of course, it's

891
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 3: a hard league to win in. There are hazards involved.

892
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 3: So you have eight points on the table. How do

893
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 3: you measure success with the kind of points that you

894
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 3: want to swipe off here for this week?

895
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 4: Well, I mean the Kracking have got points in nine

896
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 4: of eleven this year. I mean you need points in

897
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 4: three or four, you know. I think we pointed to

898
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 4: this stretch of games Montreal, Chicago, San Jose, Saint Louis, Dallas,

899
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 4: Columbus Winnipeg San Jose. Again, we pointed to that skeet

900
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 4: that stretch of November through Thanksgiving as pretty manageable, not easy.

901
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 4: There are no easy games in this league, but some

902
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 4: manageable games. So I think this week, you know, if

903
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 4: you get if you can, you know, eight points, you

904
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 4: can take six of eight points. Points in three or

905
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:23,240
Speaker 4: four games, two points. And in the games against the West,

906
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 4: you'd love to go in the Saint Louis, a team

907
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 4: that you're probably going to be in the wild card

908
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 4: race with, you'd love to get two points from them.

909
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 4: Early Dallas you got them twice in the span of

910
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 4: six seven days. You'd love to get two points there.

911
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 4: I'm curious what the goaltending situation is going to be

912
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 4: coming in as back as well. But yeah, I think

913
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 4: I think if you can get six of eight points,

914
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 4: five of eight points in three of four, you're that

915
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 4: that's that should be the goal.

916
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 5: When you're looking at Chicago and San Jose in the

917
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 5: standings and you're seeing them below Seattle, that's not how

918
00:45:57,880 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 5: you prepare for these two teams. You prepare for these

919
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 5: two teams the same way you would prepare if you

920
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 5: were coming back and playing Montreal two more times. Both

921
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 5: these teams are young. Both these teams have lots of

922
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 5: offensive talent, and if you sleep on them, they will

923
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 5: staple you to the wall offensively. So you've got to

924
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 5: prepare like you're getting another two shots at Montreal and

925
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 5: think that this young, fast team is coming to my

926
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 5: building and I've got to drop a game plan to

927
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 5: play with that kind of youth, that kind of talent.

928
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 4: Connor Madard, he's looking good. I mean, he's found it

929
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 4: the last handful of games. Andre Berkowski, he's found it.

930
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 4: This is not an easy team.

931
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 5: Then, don't think for a second. B guy like Burkowski

932
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 5: doesn't want to come in a light up climate. Pledgeria

933
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:42,439
Speaker 5: money on the board.

934
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 3: Do that well, and about your point per game. Frank

935
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 3: Nazar as well. A big piece of their future Badard,

936
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 3: who is looking like that he's he's defined the whole

937
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 3: sophomore slump turning into your three storylines and expectations here

938
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 3: and then San Jose. They put a scare into teams

939
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 3: like New Jersey and Colorado with a young team that

940
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 3: they had. They're still maybe miles away from contention, but

941
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 3: still very very formidable based on Maplan Celebrini, will Smith,

942
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 3: William Ecklund, et cetera. By the way, that San Jose

943
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 3: game second time, the Kraken will be wearing their alternate

944
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 3: jersey guys. To me very quick, that looked intense. It

945
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 3: looked tough. I love the look from Saturday your thoughts

946
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 3: on it clean?

947
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 4: It looked very very clean. I thought that, you know,

948
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 4: the presentation, everything that went into it was great. I

949
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 4: loved watching the guys walk through the tunnel. You know

950
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 4: the video they showed in the back and you're glowing

951
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 4: in the dark coming out into the ring. You know,

952
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 4: kudos to the game press team for all that. The

953
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 4: video looked cool. I think everything that you were looking

954
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 4: for from this jersey, I thought, I felt like you

955
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 4: got it in that game against the Rangers.

956
00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 5: There's just something about black jerseys that you know, the scene,

957
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 5: they're they're evil, they're they're they're you know, intimidating, and uh,

958
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 5: I know as a player, you always enjoy getting that

959
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 5: black jersey on because it just feels like you're a

960
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 5: little bigger, you're a little stronger, a little tougher for

961
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 5: that game. So yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing him again.

962
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,760
Speaker 1: Done drifting center, playing across bontop.

963
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 4: Right side and pro tit miller Stone by towing a card.

964
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,359
Speaker 3: About time to wrap this up here, and we'll jump

965
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 3: into it with our usual three stars and I'll go

966
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 3: ahead and take the lead and begin things here. To

967
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 3: wrap up the show for this week, I'm gonna go

968
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 3: with my third star is Ryan Lindgren. In a week

969
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 3: that had a lot of low event hockey. Listen, Lynn's

970
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,879
Speaker 3: not gonna light the score sheet up. That's not his game,

971
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 3: that's not his m O. It's solid ASSAULI stay at

972
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 3: home presence here for a game that he usually plays,

973
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 3: the game against New York Rangers. That was a big,

974
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 3: big for him, a big inspiring game. And Alice, you said,

975
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 3: it's the money on the board type of game nineteen

976
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 3: fifty four time on ice was plus one. Also guess

977
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 3: what one blog shot. We heard also compliments from Brandon

978
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 3: Montour about his game as well, but I thought a

979
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 3: pretty quite a good, you know, low event quiet two

980
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 3: games from him where he's not making many mistakes, but

981
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 3: he's finding ways to keep your team as well in

982
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 3: the mix. Star two for me was Joey Decord and

983
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,720
Speaker 3: granted the start of the game against the Rangers maybe

984
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 3: not the best, but as you guys talked about and

985
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 3: we brought it up again on postgame, it seemed as

986
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 3: if the longer this game went on with a tight

987
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,879
Speaker 3: type of feel, the better he got. And I even

988
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 3: go back and think despite a first period where he

989
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 3: was just trying to get out of the woods with

990
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 3: just two goals on the board, he made a pretty

991
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:57,879
Speaker 3: impressive save against the Rangers on that first penalty kill

992
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 3: to keep the Kraken in the enjoy the court, eventually

993
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 3: turning in for that game seven or bigger pardon I

994
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,760
Speaker 3: should say against the Rangers twenty four saves on twenty

995
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 3: seven shots, and without question for me, first star Brandon Montour,

996
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 3: he may get brought up again with you two guys

997
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 3: here but inspiring hockey based on just the unfortunate circumstances

998
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 3: from losing his brother Cameron, and he has looked better

999
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 3: and better each and every game. He helped well the

1000
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 3: cracking back in the Montreal game and delivered a very

1001
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 3: very high impact goal to tie things up in period two,

1002
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 3: freshot the bench with that trademark blast he's got from

1003
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 3: the right circle. Montour's my first star.

1004
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, al Or Mike, you and I on

1005
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 4: the same page. It was Lingering for me stood out again,

1006
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 4: not factoring on the score sheet, but a lot of

1007
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 4: little things that he's done this season and this week,

1008
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 4: given the games the Krack and were in, given the

1009
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 4: situations that they were in. You know, Lingering for me

1010
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 4: is my third star. Joey Decord number two for the

1011
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 4: same reasons that you said. I also feel like the

1012
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 4: bounce back for Decord in those games were just as

1013
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 4: big as as the overall performance. Right, Maybe not the

1014
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 4: best start to the Rangers game. Couple of goals he

1015
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 4: wants back the Montreal game again, probably wanted a goal

1016
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 4: or goal back in that game. But I think for

1017
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 4: him to continue to stay in the fight, to dig

1018
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 4: in and to drag the Krack in two overtime, getting

1019
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 4: points in both those games. I got Joey number two,

1020
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,839
Speaker 4: and ditto Brandon on tour, I mean number one star.

1021
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 4: I think, not only offensively for what he brought, but

1022
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 4: also the leadership that we talked so much about over

1023
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 4: this last hour and then the new all of that

1024
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 4: with a very heavy personal tragedy, you know, weighing on you.

1025
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 2: I mean, he.

1026
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 4: He's my first, second and third star, and then I'm

1027
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 4: gonna bump the other two down to four and five.

1028
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 4: But no, those are my those are my three lingering

1029
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 4: as well as Decord and Montor.

1030
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start with Joey Decord as my third. But

1031
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 5: I'm gonna put in brackets after the word to Cord

1032
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,359
Speaker 5: because I know we have to pick individual people. I'm

1033
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 5: gonna put defense because I don't think you have great

1034
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 5: goaltenders in this league without great defense. And we saw

1035
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 5: this week Vince Dunn blocking a shot right at the

1036
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 5: end of the game, and you know, Jamie Alexiak creatively

1037
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 5: falling on a puck in a creasey that was probably

1038
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 5: going to be shoved in the back of the net

1039
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 5: had he not fallen on it properly, and We tried.

1040
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 5: We tried to get him to explain that between periods,

1041
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 5: but he wasn't going there.

1042
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 3: I love this intermission interview where it's just like do more,

1043
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 3: say less, do more say less.

1044
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,840
Speaker 5: Let's just say his forearm landed right on top of

1045
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,840
Speaker 5: the puck, sweeping in the correct direction out towards the

1046
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,760
Speaker 5: slot as he should. So yeah, Joey Decord is slash

1047
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 5: defense My third star. Second star goes to Channer Stevens,

1048
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 5: and I think that, you know, for a team struggling

1049
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 5: in the dot right now, he continues to be consistently

1050
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 5: the best face off man and we've seen that in

1051
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 5: the games this week where he's getting put out in

1052
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 5: key situations for key face offs and then obviously first

1053
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 5: our band Monteur see above everything you guys said, I

1054
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 5: think that he just had a fantastic week and you know,

1055
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 5: set the bar pretty high for himself. So I'm looking

1056
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 5: forward to seeing what sixty two brings this week.

1057
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 3: Again that I'll wrap it up here for this because

1058
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 3: we've got about probably a good hour. We got to

1059
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 3: find a way to get some sleep, and I know

1060
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 3: after the other nights based on the outside the glass

1061
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 3: and outside the game, circumstances with baseball. I didn't get

1062
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 3: much sleep after Saturday. I got home, pop the DVR on.

1063
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 3: I'm going to sleep pretty well here for the saving.

1064
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:47,720
Speaker 3: That's the only time I try to bring up baseball

1065
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 3: in this conversation.

1066
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, you're not. We're not letting you off

1067
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 4: the hook.

1068
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 3: I came so close, though, I came so close.

1069
00:53:55,440 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, Mike. First of all, congratulations, thank you.

1070
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 4: I know it's been you know, longtime suffering Dodgers have not.

1071
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 2: Won Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

1072
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:14,360
Speaker 4: Well yet they have not won a World Series since

1073
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 4: the last time they won the World Series. No, I listen,

1074
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 4: we gave you so much crap and and you you

1075
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 4: take it all in stride. I'm happy that you another

1076
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 4: year re upped on the wagon. Uh were you know?

1077
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 4: Are we gonna repeat? First repeat since those damn Yankees

1078
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 4: in the late nineties? Are we doing it?

1079
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 3: I feel pretty good based on the odds. But again,

1080
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 3: never tell me the odds. Hey, and I just say,

1081
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:43,239
Speaker 3: at least you know what I swear. And I said

1082
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 3: this again last night. I back it up. I am

1083
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,760
Speaker 3: glad we had a game because I guarantee you maybe

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00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 3: at the end of the ninth or at the end

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00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 3: of the tenth, I would have likely passed out. It

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00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 3: was nice to know what happened to You can go

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00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:55,720
Speaker 3: back and watch on DVR later.

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00:54:56,560 --> 00:55:01,479
Speaker 4: Two years ago, Lions Niners in the inn FC Championship game.

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00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:07,840
Speaker 4: We were playing Columbus and the Kraken Jackets game started.

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00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 4: I remember the fourth quarter. I remember that the Lions

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00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 4: were well on their way to you know, wedding down

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00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 4: their leg and they did it. So I was right

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00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 4: there with you. But I will say Bleacher Report way

1094
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 4: way way too early twenty six, twenty twenty six prediction

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00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:31,439
Speaker 4: Dodgers Mariners.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy this one.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, I got my soft spot for

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00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:35,280
Speaker 3: the MS as well, because hey, I went to games

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00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 3: with my dad and my grandfather at the Kingdome in

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00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 3: the eighties. So indeed, if we get Dodgers Mariners, say,

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00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 3: I'm going to just play the neutral parent.

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Speaker 4: I just help both teams have fun. What are you men?

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00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:51,240
Speaker 4: You know, listen for you it's hard. Three World Series

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00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:54,800
Speaker 4: championships in six years, that's hard, you know. On the

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00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 4: suffering fan base deserves it more, and it suffered more

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00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 4: over the last fifteen years than the Dodgers. I mean,

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00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:02,760
Speaker 4: you have at least.

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00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 3: Taught me to like dial back on the word torture. Okay,

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00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 3: you at least taught me to dial it back just

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00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 3: a little bit. But you know, I do remember. I

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00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 3: do remember growing up and getting punked by friends who

1112
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 3: were Giants fans.

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00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,360
Speaker 4: Choke choke, choke choke.

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Speaker 3: I told my kids, enjoy this window right now, because

1115
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 3: I sure as heck am enjoying this window. The Astros scandal,

1116
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 3: the ownership to Bocles, seeing my piazza get traded, no regrets,

1117
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 3: and I will say even to this point because I

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00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 3: try to look for the good and everything fits for

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00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 3: your sake. I hope one day it is a lion's

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00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 3: getting to enjoy this wedding because there is no feeling

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00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,800
Speaker 3: like it period. Same goes from me with the Mariners

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00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 3: and this magical postseason runt.

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Speaker 4: I can't wait.

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Speaker 2: I feel like.

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Speaker 5: All this baseball talk going, but I got sixteen pounds

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00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:50,959
Speaker 5: of pulled pork.

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00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 3: I don't want to I don't want to distract out

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00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 3: from going back here to the kitchen to uh oh,

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Speaker 3: by the way, the last time we got some pulled pork,

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00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 3: it was marvelous. Friends, Please ask al Kiniski about his

1131
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:01,280
Speaker 3: part cute exploit.

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Speaker 2: Oh phenomenal.

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00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:04,959
Speaker 3: All right, we got a run here big. Thanks again

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00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 3: to Brandon Montur for hanging out with us as well.

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Speaker 3: Cracking Coming up, facing Chicago, San Jose, Saint Louis, Dallas,

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00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,359
Speaker 3: next four games. It's tonight's game again. By the way,

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Speaker 3: seven o'clock puck drop on air six thirty. Post game,

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Speaker 3: we are at Tom's watchbar once again. Talk to you soon.

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Speaker 2: Ninety three three.

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Speaker 3: KJRFM at the Global Credit Union Cracking Audio Network. Foreveret now,

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Speaker 3: I Mike see you.

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Speaker 5: You're home for the Kraken Sports Radio ninety three point

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