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

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Speaker 1: and Audio network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.

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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton with.

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Speaker 2: The Seattle Sports landscape experiencing a sonic boom type of

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Speaker 2: newsday on Wednesday. Can the Crack and respond now with

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Speaker 2: a super turnaround in Game four? Other six game road trip?

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cracking this morning. On a Thursday, March twenty six,

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Speaker 2: Mike Benton with you the Crack and take on the

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Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Lightning in the second and final matchup of

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Speaker 2: the regular season, and by the accounts from the previous matchup,

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Speaker 2: this could certainly pose a challenge the Cracking though going

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Speaker 2: head on into it for a four pm faceoff three

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Speaker 2: point thirty airtime. Once again, we've got you, by the way,

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Speaker 2: all across the global Credit Union Cracking Audio Network, and

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Speaker 2: we certainly hope that you can join us. We have

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Speaker 2: a quick Hitter episode for you Tuesday. Reaction from Matty

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Speaker 2: Beniers in Florida coming up in just a bit, plus

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Speaker 2: comments from Cracking head coach Lane Lamberts on a Wednesday

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Speaker 2: off day in between battles with Florida and Tampa Bay

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Speaker 2: coming up in just a bit as the Crack and

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Speaker 2: again still hanging around in this playoff mix, but still

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Speaker 2: have a bit of a substantial hill to climb five

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Speaker 2: points out of the cut line. With just twelve games

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Speaker 2: to play, they will need to stack wins and stack

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Speaker 2: them very very quickly. On Tuesday against Florida, a game

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Speaker 2: that appeared to be stuck in the mud for the

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Speaker 2: first couple of periods, then hit the gas in period

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Speaker 2: three the Crack and fell behind one nothing on Nolan

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Speaker 2: Foot's goal of two thirty two, and then fell behind

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Speaker 2: as deep as a three to nothing hole by the

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Speaker 2: seven to thirty seven mark period three on back to

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Speaker 2: back goals by E two Lusterenan and Carter ver Hagy,

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Speaker 2: with less than two minutes apart score between those two goals.

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Speaker 2: Ryker Evans though got the Kracking on the board at

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Speaker 2: a ten Noah Gregor though appeared to put the game

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Speaker 2: out of reach at twelve twenty one one of period three,

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Speaker 2: fresh off a call up from Ahl Charlotte's. It was

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Speaker 2: at that point where the Kraken had different ideas.

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Speaker 3: Brandon Montour back in Maddy Vaneers cuts in front water

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Speaker 3: move he scares oh Maddie b right side around Mabrovski.

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Speaker 3: The Kraken cut it back to.

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Speaker 4: Two on the nineteenth goal of the season for Maddy Vandeers.

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Speaker 5: It was a great feed by Brandon Montour who waited

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Speaker 5: for Manny Beaneers to move down the wall away from

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Speaker 5: the Panthers defense and put it back onto his tape,

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Speaker 5: and Maddy Vaneers, being a lieutenant shot coming down that

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Speaker 5: right side, was able to step across. Bbbroski tried to

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Speaker 5: pope check him and curl his wrists around and put

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Speaker 5: it behind him. Four two Penny Kulakov.

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Speaker 4: Stolen by every the captain on a breakaway. Every suits

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Speaker 4: scoreds shorted, every being hooked and held the entire way.

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Speaker 2: He pulls the.

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Speaker 4: Cracking two within a goal three thirty six to play

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Speaker 4: in the third. It's a four to three Panther lead.

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Speaker 5: Well, every picks this pock off read the cracking blue

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Speaker 5: line after doing a great job defensively to block a shot,

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Speaker 5: and gets himself a breakaway, and as you said, he's

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Speaker 5: getting hooked. In hell, there's a delayed penalty coming. But

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Speaker 4: Now Folk Fish near side, stolen by McMahon. He's on

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Speaker 4: a breakaway.

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Speaker 4: Bobby McMahon ties the game for Seattle four four three

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Speaker 4: twenty two to play in regulation. Back to back breakaways,

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Speaker 5: But Biby McMahon has speed and we just saw off

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Speaker 5: there on that breakaway. He created that breakaway with his

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Speaker 2: So you talk about back from the brink. The Kracken

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Speaker 2: forcing overtime on three goals in the span of two

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Speaker 2: not three, but four goals in that final period, harkening

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Speaker 2: deficit in period three. All season long, they were so

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Speaker 2: Eberley in round number three against Sergei Bobrovski, the.

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Speaker 4: Captain over the line left side, back to the middle,

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Speaker 5: Four to shoot out.

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Speaker 2: Here's more from the guy who got that comeback started,

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Speaker 2: Maddy Benier's reaching one goal shy of twenty for the

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Speaker 6: We're trying to push, trying to get the momentum. Obviously

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Speaker 6: we got that gold Raker and that kind of you know,

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Speaker 6: try to build some momentum now going forward.

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Speaker 5: Rather than coming away with nothing.

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Speaker 6: Hope, So hope, So absolutely, you know it's good. There's

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Speaker 6: no quit at any point in that game. So, you know,

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Speaker 6: better situations going into the third period. You know, we're

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Speaker 6: chasing a lot of games right now. It's not a

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Speaker 6: recipe for success, and you know, hopefully we can build

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Speaker 7: I think it was the fourth goal against that went

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Speaker 7: the net and looked up like, you know, devastated that

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Speaker 7: good to kind of pick him up after after something

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean every everybody has, you know, things

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Speaker 6: like that that happened. You know, I can think of

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Speaker 6: I remember pretty clearly on my mistakes. So you know,

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Speaker 6: everyone makes mistakes. It's a game of mistakes. He did

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Speaker 6: a good job of, you know, brushing it off and

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Speaker 6: playing his game. And that's a really hard thing to do,

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Speaker 6: especially when you you know, you know, it goes off

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Speaker 5: It sucks.

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Speaker 6: You know, he knows we got him, and you know

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Speaker 6: it's obviously we get we get the point and can

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Speaker 8: On your goal.

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Speaker 7: At what point do you decide that you're going to

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Speaker 7: try to wrap it around him in the way that

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Speaker 7: you did, Like, do you have to make a split

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Speaker 6: I think it was. I think I just saw that

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Speaker 2: So a valiant and near historic comeback falling short, And

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Speaker 2: that's only a footnote in a five four shootout loss

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Speaker 2: for the Kraken against Florida, salvaging a point but losing

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Speaker 2: ground by one after Nashville beats San Jose, leaving the

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Speaker 2: Kraken five points out of the playoffs entering Thursday. Roster

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Speaker 2: movement also going down the Coachella Valley shuttle in full

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Speaker 2: effect on Wednesday, the Kraken sending Yannie Newman back to

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Speaker 2: the Firebirds this season, putting up four goals and six

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Speaker 2: points in twenty six games in his spot, Oscar Fisker

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Speaker 2: Mouleguard recalled one assist in three NHL games. Fisker Moleguard

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Speaker 2: all so putting up ten goals and thirty two points

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Speaker 2: in forty six games with Coachella Valley with a Krake

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Speaker 2: head coach, met with the media the day before the

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Speaker 8: I thought we did a lot of good things offensively.

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Speaker 8: I thought we did some things that we talked about,

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Speaker 8: you know, and have been talking about since the beginning

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Speaker 8: of the year. We played a lot faster. I thought

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Speaker 8: we made some plays. Thought we had some good opportunities

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Speaker 8: for sure, and I thought we were better in our

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Speaker 8: defensive zone. We spent less time in our defensive zone obviously,

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Speaker 8: which meant that we had a little more energy for offense.

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Speaker 8: So there was a lot of positives to that game.

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Speaker 8: And obviously the comeback was huge. The point was huge.

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Speaker 8: It's unfortunate we didn't get two, but to be down

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Speaker 8: like that, and you know, to mount a comeback like that,

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Speaker 8: you know, hopefully that catapults us here there. I kind

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Speaker 8: of always say there has to be some sort of

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Speaker 8: an event that happens. Maybe that was our event.

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Speaker 7: Well, and does that point kind of keep some optimism

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Speaker 7: that you guys can still it because I think if

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Speaker 7: you came up empty last night, you're looking at a

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Speaker 7: six point deficit more kind of bad feelings, right, Like,

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Speaker 7: how much does that keep you guys alive?

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Speaker 8: Yeah? It definitely you know, you're you're not wrong there.

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Speaker 8: There's some some optimism obviously, but there was some optimism

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Speaker 8: in our game from that standpoint, you know, So that

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Speaker 8: was good, and you know, we focus on our game

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Speaker 8: and how we're playing. Uh, you know, our problem right

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Speaker 8: now is defensively, we're leaky than have been, you know

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Speaker 8: trying to clean it up. And again I thought the

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Speaker 8: guys did a better job at that last night. But

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Speaker 8: at the same time, we still go up four goals. Now,

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Speaker 8: you know, I don't think that, you know, I thought

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Speaker 8: there was a couple of maybe that could have been

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Speaker 8: not goals, but certainly, you know, we have to be

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Speaker 7: Oscar Fisker Molgard coming up beyond him and going back down.

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Speaker 7: What's the thinking on that one.

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Speaker 8: Well, we you know, we've been running with four penalty

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Speaker 8: penalty killer. He's playing well down there, you know, I

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Speaker 8: think as it stands right now, you know, the game

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Speaker 8: So we'll see where we go.

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Speaker 7: I want to ask you more about Berkeley too. You

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Speaker 7: had him on the top line last night. You said

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Speaker 7: something along the lines of you wanting to cycle him

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Speaker 7: in a little bit more. What have you liked about

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Speaker 7: his game that led to putting him in that position

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Speaker 7: last night in such a critical game for you guys.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you know, if you watch Berkeley play,

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Speaker 8: you know, obviously the production side of it, we love

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Speaker 8: to have more. But at the same time, he's making plays.

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Speaker 8: He made a couple of extremely elite plays last night,

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Speaker 8: and you know, for me, you know, from an offensive standpoint,

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Speaker 8: we need him certainly with mccannby and out, with Schwartz

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Speaker 8: got some elite vision, elite talent from you know, in

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Speaker 8: played a very good game last night. I thought he

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Speaker 8: I thought he did a big job of creating.

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Speaker 7: And his linemate Maddie. I think he's he stood out

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Speaker 5: I do.

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Speaker 8: Actually, I think that he's his leadership qualities. You know,

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Speaker 8: There's different things that he's doing that maybe you know,

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Speaker 8: people don't see from that standpoint, and you know, he's

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Speaker 8: bringing his he's bringing his a game, he's bringing his

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Speaker 8: desperation level. I thought he played a good game last night.

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Speaker 7: Separate topic, but news came out of about Jacob Winterton

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Speaker 7: and what happened there that went public today. Anything you

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Speaker 7: with the Winterton family.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, obviously it's an extremely difficult time for

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Speaker 8: we're obviously and always very very supportive, supportive, of him,

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Speaker 8: you know, can't imagine and certainly, uh, you know, we

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Speaker 8: just want we want everyone from their family to be

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Speaker 8: as good as it can possibly be. And certainly, uh

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Speaker 8: you know, in terms of his game when he comes back,

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Speaker 8: we we miss him and we can use him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, many hearts are certainly heavy with Ryan Winterton and family,

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Speaker 2: as Winterton right now away from the team mourning the

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Speaker 2: death of his brother Jacob, certainly those surrounding the Kraken

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Speaker 2: and many across the Pacific Northwest and the regis of

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Speaker 2: during this time, the Crack and facing Tampa Bay coming

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Speaker 2: up for their second and final matchup of the regular season,

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Speaker 2: they aim for a splits in the two game season series.

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Speaker 2: Tampa Bay beat them six to two back in Seattle

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Speaker 2: earlier this month, pushing the Kraken record to one seven

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Speaker 2: and aiming for Juster's second win in the head to

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Speaker 2: back in the thirtieth of October in the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: roster matters on their side. Captain Victor Headman also taking

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Speaker 2: a temporary leave of absence that due to personal reasons.

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Speaker 2: The Lightning reportedly not sharing any further details and asking

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Speaker 2: for Headman's privacy to be respected. He is in his

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Speaker 2: seventeenth NHL season, all with Tampa Bay, and a part

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Speaker 2: of that back to back Stanley Cup championships in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty and twenty twenty one. Tampa Bay, though, is still

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Speaker 2: moving along at a swift pay, staying two points back

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Speaker 2: at Buffalo for first place in the Atlantic Division. They

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Speaker 2: are six to three to one in their previous ten games.

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Speaker 2: They come off a six to three victory over Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: boosting a dominant season right now third best in the

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Speaker 2: NHL at two point seven goals per game, second best

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Speaker 2: and led by a favorite to win the Art Ross

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Speaker 2: and potentially the Hard Trophies, Nikita Kucharov, leading the NHL

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Speaker 2: with one hundred and twenty points, and in case you forgot,

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Speaker 2: he had a five point game at Climate Pledgerina earlier

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Speaker 2: this month, picking up his seventh career hat trick. Containing

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Speaker 2: him certainly we'll have its set of challenges the Kracking

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Speaker 2: though ready here to take him on this evening at

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Speaker 2: four pm Pacific time, officially on the West Coast three

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Speaker 2: thirty airtime, EVERA fits you, Al Koniski with you for

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Speaker 2: the call. I'll join you once again for your pregame show,

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Speaker 2: usual for Cracking this morning, I Mike Betton

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