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Speaker 2: Got a good one for you coming up this evening,

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Speaker 2: is Cracking this morning on a Tuesday, January sixth Mike

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Speaker 2: Benton with you, and we'll have Jeff Baker joining us

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Speaker 2: here in just a bit, VP of editorial for the

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Speaker 2: Seattle Cracking, and again you can also find this work

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Speaker 2: Jeff is going to be with us here in just

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Speaker 2: a bit too discuss the thrilling end of last night,

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Speaker 2: the impact of Philip Grubauer, and how the Crack and

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Speaker 2: proceed on right now with their fourth line goaltending, and

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Speaker 2: also a quick preview of this game coming up against

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Speaker 2: some Ruins with Jeff Baker joining us here in just

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Speaker 2: a bitch well the Krack and now seven to zero

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Speaker 2: to one in the last eight games. That has solidified

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Speaker 2: them not just as a playoff team heading into game

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Speaker 2: forty one of eighty two, but also into the conversation

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Speaker 2: for first place in the Pacific Division. They come in

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Speaker 2: one point back up both Vegas and Edmonton tied for

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Speaker 2: first right now, of course, it is still very much

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Speaker 2: bunched up the Kraken and a tie with the Kings

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Speaker 2: Anaheim Ducks as well. The Kraken owned the tie breaker,

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Speaker 2: but also we'll mean two points back beneath the cut

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Speaker 2: line are San Jose and the Utah Manmoth. Then, not

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Speaker 2: to mention as well, three more teams within four points

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Speaker 2: or less of the Kraken, including Nashville, Saint Louis, and Chicago.

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Speaker 2: So there is still plenty to be decided right now

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Speaker 2: and what is very much a wild and chaotic Western

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Speaker 2: Conference playoff picture with the Crack and hitting the halfway

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Speaker 2: point of the season by the end of this evening

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Speaker 2: last night, Let's take back here to milestones. The Kraken

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Speaker 2: crossed in a matchup against Calgary looking for redemption after

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Speaker 2: a loss in December, and Captain Jordan every playing in

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Speaker 2: his eleven hundredth career National.

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Speaker 3: Hockey League game.

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Speaker 2: Here we go the left team going right to left

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Speaker 2: across your dial, picks up the puck and swings wide

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Speaker 2: left side, moving in rest shut blockers, say by Philip Grubauer,

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Speaker 2: and the Kraken bench reacting with an emotional way, give

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Speaker 2: it right back. Here comes Winterton right wing, flame zone,

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Speaker 2: low shots save Wolf has it from Malonzen. He's gons

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Speaker 2: there's that fourth line once again.

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Speaker 3: Sjacob A.

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Speaker 2: Wonson at the blocker side post up Dustin Wold bangs

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Speaker 2: it in with seventeen forty three to go in period one.

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Speaker 2: It is his first and the Kraken have tied this

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Speaker 2: game at one to one.

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Speaker 4: Well right Wincherdon down that right side, puts a shot

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Speaker 2: He will save that puck for a lifetime. It is

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Speaker 2: his first career National Hockey League goal, and the reaction

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Speaker 2: told the entire story of Ruman left wing Myers unto

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Speaker 2: the zone, passing front to Ryde. He's gones eighteen oh

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Speaker 2: three laughs and period three birthday boy on the spot.

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Speaker 2: Shane Wright driving the front of that picks up his

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Speaker 2: seven gold this season and the Kraken have taken the

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Speaker 4: What Ben Myers done that left side? He's got a

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Speaker 3: You can hear his.

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Speaker 4: Linemates going, go, go go, and he flies down that

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Speaker 2: Two to one, Crown to Larsen leads it right wing

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Speaker 2: parking one right past Dustin Wolf. With fourteen minutes and

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Speaker 4: Coppococco doing a great job coming down the right side.

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Speaker 2: five unanswered from the Kraken, who laid a five to

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Speaker 2: and that tie the franchise record for most goals in

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Speaker 2: a third period of any kind, last set January eleventh

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Speaker 2: reaction after the game with krakeenead coach Lane Lambert Well.

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Speaker 5: The third period, I thought we did a really good

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Speaker 6: So we you know, used everybody tonight.

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Speaker 5: Everybody contributed, and I thought our third period was outstanding.

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Speaker 6: We limited their scoring chances and we capitalizing on ours.

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Speaker 5: There was a time not too long ago with third

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Speaker 5: And what do you feel the turnaround has been.

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Speaker 5: Well, I just think that we're playing a little bit more, uh,

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Speaker 6: And it's just a mindset thing.

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Speaker 5: And we've talked a lot about it over the last

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Speaker 2: And and you get a feel good for getting rewarded for.

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Speaker 5: What did you do?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's great.

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Speaker 5: Uh, you know, you'll always uh you know, always remember

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Speaker 5: a lot of good things for our hockey team, and

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Speaker 6: Well. Shane's playing uh well right now.

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Speaker 6: His ice time indicates that he's being rewarded for it.

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Speaker 6: Like you say, get rewarded. He's had a lot of.

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Speaker 5: Situations here over the last maybe ten games where he's

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Speaker 7: You mentioned this morning that changes how did you kill it?

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Speaker 5: Always have come through and made great saves, saves philbus forty.

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Speaker 2: Tonight, but how did a lot of shots felt?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought in the first two periods, I thought

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Speaker 6: Been right you know all that.

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Speaker 5: So the third period we were much better defensively from

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Speaker 5: the biggest turnaround in terms of grouper.

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Speaker 3: What have you seen him his game that's allowed him.

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Speaker 6: To have such a redound from last year this year.

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Speaker 5: I think he's reading the game real well. You know,

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Speaker 5: his focus has been really solid. I think Golden and

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Speaker 6: Good job with him.

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Speaker 5: And I just think his professionalism. You know, we've you know,

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Speaker 5: we've had three goalies here. Matt Murray's injured, but you know,

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Speaker 6: And that's what he's doing. Is a veteran in your

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Speaker 6: he's been He's been great, you know, and I think.

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Speaker 6: And that speaks volumes.

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Speaker 2: All right, and back to back, coming up here the

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Speaker 3: Right back home.

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Speaker 3: Jeff seven oh and one in eight games. I repeat,

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Speaker 3: seven oh and one in eight games.

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Speaker 2: It's still it feels surreal to wrap your head around

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Speaker 2: this based on where it matters were about roughly a

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Speaker 7: The thing that's making it plausible is the defense. And

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Speaker 7: it's been that way all year, right even when they

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Speaker 7: were losing games during that that streak where they lost

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Speaker 7: ten of eleven, they were still getting, you know, decent

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Speaker 7: The problem was that they weren't scoring enough goals. And

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Speaker 7: nights out, you know, and sometimes those will come by

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Speaker 7: empty nets, but but they're putting at least three goals

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Speaker 7: the goaltending particularly is so good that that that's usually

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Speaker 7: always win. And so you know, it's it begins and

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Speaker 7: ends with the defense. And I think the defense made

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Speaker 7: the defensive play all around by forwards end defenseman has

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Speaker 7: the court and Philip Grubauer in particular, And we've seen

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Speaker 7: during this streak, the same game point streak that the

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Speaker 7: goaltending has just been phenomenal, so that part of it's working.

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Speaker 7: So they get they got to score a minimum three

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Speaker 2: So whether it comes to Philip Greenbauer, who had a

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Speaker 3: Look forward to having you once again this evening.

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Speaker 2: Six point thirty on air seven o'clock puck drop Ever

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Speaker 2: once again beginning at six point thirty right by the

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Speaker 2: course light landing in section twenty. Anders Hurst joins me

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Speaker 2: once again live for coverage at Tom's Watchbar. Up to

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Speaker 2: an hour after the final horn. We certainly hope that

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Speaker 2: you can join us. Big thank you again to Jeff

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Speaker 2: Baker and for kracking this morning. I'm Mike Benton. Have

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Speaker 2: a happy Tuesday.

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