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Speaker 1: Welcome to Kracking this morning, a presentation of the Krack

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Speaker 1: and Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three

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Speaker 1: KJR FM. Here's Mike Benton.

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Speaker 2: Cracking this morning, coming your way from Winnipeg on a Monday,

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Speaker 2: April sixth, the Crack and take on the Winnipeg Jets

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Speaker 2: in the final match up this evening four pm. Airtime

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Speaker 2: based office at little past four thirty pm, once again

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Speaker 2: on the Global Credit Union Crack and Audio Network. Mike

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Speaker 2: Benton with you ever, if it's you joining me. Fitz

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Speaker 2: is going to TV Land here for tonight. I'll be

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Speaker 2: with you and al Kiniski as well, along with andrews

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Speaker 2: hurstback at Network Central.

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Speaker 3: Coming up, we will.

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Speaker 2: Have more here from the Krack and their reaction from

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Speaker 2: two nights ago in a lost to Chicago and how

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Speaker 2: they can get this rope bat together with seven games

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Speaker 2: left in the regular season.

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Speaker 3: Everest conversation with me coming.

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Speaker 2: Up in just a bit against Chicago, they were down

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Speaker 2: two nothing until the bloodgates nearly opened in.

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Speaker 3: Period three eight.

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Speaker 4: Schwartz of the Corner and Fuck Bertley cat right on down,

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Speaker 4: rebound Taco score Coppo Cocko, right place, right time, The

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Speaker 4: Krack and.

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Speaker 2: Back down one five forty two.

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Speaker 3: Left in regulation.

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Speaker 4: All the best opportunities come below the dots on the

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Speaker 4: offensive end of the ice.

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Speaker 3: That's where this one starts.

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Speaker 4: Montor in the corner feet.

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Speaker 3: Catting with a great spot pass out to the top

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Speaker 3: of the circles.

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Speaker 5: He gets a shot on net and uh and Coco's

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Speaker 5: there to pick up the rebound.

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Speaker 3: He goes blocker side unto the bar.

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Speaker 2: Three two Chicago dowten, close but not close enough the

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Speaker 2: crack and fallow Chicago forward two the Crack and taking

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Speaker 2: two out of three meetings against the Blackhawks this season,

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Speaker 2: and yet see this climb up hill get a bit

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Speaker 2: steeper as they are six points out with seven games

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Speaker 2: to play in this regular season. Reaction here from after

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Speaker 2: the game with crackhet head coach Lane Lamber before we

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Speaker 2: get to ever.

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Speaker 5: Apitz not enough desperation. Uh didn't start the game well,

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Speaker 5: and our goaltender played fantastic for us. Too many quality

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Speaker 5: chances from them, and power play didn't give us anything,

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Speaker 5: and our penalty kill got scored on. So really not

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Speaker 5: a really really great assessment of the game, you know,

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Speaker 5: in a game that we needed, just wasn't good enough.

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Speaker 2: Brandon Montour used the word flat to describe kind of

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Speaker 2: how the team looked and felt.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how do you wrap your head around that.

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Speaker 5: I can't.

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Speaker 1: I can't.

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Speaker 5: A game of that magnitude to come out flat. Clearly,

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Speaker 5: the there's you know, there's something that has to change.

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Speaker 6: Even with the context of them just kind of coming

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Speaker 6: out flat. Why do you think it's been such a

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Speaker 6: struggle offensively for so many of the guys. Is it

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Speaker 6: a hesitation thing, Is it like a commitment thing? Like

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Speaker 6: what do you kind of see that.

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Speaker 5: I don't think there's a lot of confidence right now

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Speaker 5: in them, And so you know the old adages squeezing

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Speaker 5: your stick not really feeling it. Sometimes. I think it's

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Speaker 5: a situation where we're maybe trying too hard, you know.

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Speaker 5: But at the same time, I thought there was sometimes

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Speaker 5: tonight when we could have used a break here or there.

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Speaker 5: We had some opportunities we're just not getting. We're not

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Speaker 5: getting the timely goals right now to sort of turn

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Speaker 5: things around for us. But I just don't think it's

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Speaker 5: a lot of confidence with our hockey team right now. Obviously,

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Speaker 5: when you lose all these games, and certainly you know

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Speaker 5: it's inexcusable to lose all these games at home.

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Speaker 6: Obviously the players need to take some ownership of this,

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Speaker 6: and I think that they have. But how like, what

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Speaker 6: can be done to change that, to change that shift,

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Speaker 6: whether that's.

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Speaker 5: In the room or something else, You just got to

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Speaker 5: keep just got to keep harping on the right message.

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Speaker 5: There's a message there, it's a it's not the wrong message.

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Speaker 5: And you know, we've we've tried a few different things

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Speaker 5: some point the message has to resonate completely. We're making

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Speaker 5: mistakes that we we shouldn't make. We're not moving pucks

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Speaker 5: and then it doesn't allow us to establish our fuor check.

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Speaker 5: So you know, from a coaching standpoint, I got to

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Speaker 7: I'm solorius do it lane. From an excellent and O standpoint,

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Speaker 7: this late in the season, what what can you change

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Speaker 5: I think for me right now, it's not even about

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Speaker 5: we're not the ones coming out with Buck, and it

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Speaker 5: happens over and over again. So I don't think it's

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Speaker 5: an x's and ose things thing. Necessarily. We are making

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Speaker 5: some mistakes, we're having some breakdowns, there's no question about it.

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Speaker 5: So you call that x's and o's, But I think

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Speaker 5: there's you know, there's a level of commitment and a

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Speaker 5: level of battle that we have to you know, we

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Speaker 5: have to we have to think about here and and

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Speaker 5: talk about moving forward.

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Speaker 7: Are you knowing the circumstances of what, especially these last

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Speaker 7: two games meant. Are you surprised by that lack of

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Speaker 7: fire or juice or or battle. I would just use

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Speaker 7: one word, I'm disappointed.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: So here we are seven games to go in the

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Speaker 2: regular season, and it's back on the road as we

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Speaker 2: are in the Great White North.

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Speaker 3: Evera joins me once again, Fitch, you're ready for TV land.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, TV's always fun. It's I'll miss you guys

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Speaker 4: over on radio, but it's it's a different challenge, but

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Speaker 4: just hoping that I can hold down the fort. It's

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Speaker 4: kind of a rarity because you're on radio. I'm on

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Speaker 4: KHN and then Johnny is over right next door doing

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Speaker 4: the Amazon game. So it's a cracking broadcast.

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Speaker 2: Takeover broadcasting that as three of a kinder. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a fun one here. But matters are getting more

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Speaker 2: serious for this hockey team with seven games to play

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Speaker 2: after losing to Chicago four two and a bit of

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Speaker 2: a different feel, I think. And Andrews and I talked

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Speaker 2: about this as compared to Thursday night where the Cracking

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Speaker 2: geared it up early and then just slipped way off

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Speaker 2: too long to get it going before the third period.

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Speaker 2: You saw signs of light, but unfortunately too little and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we talked about that during the game too, Alan

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Speaker 4: I did, and I feel like I've said this quite

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Speaker 4: a bit on the air. In the last handful of games,

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Speaker 4: the Kracking they had something, but it just wasn't enough.

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Speaker 4: In the last couple of weeks for this hockey team.

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Speaker 4: It just hasn't been enough enough execution, enough shot volume,

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Speaker 4: back to a couple of weeks ago, Brandon Montour, I

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Speaker 4: think it was the Tampa game, the Tampa game here

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Speaker 4: And to hear, you know, your vets and your players

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Speaker 4: at game seventy at game seventy five, you know, you

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Speaker 4: commend the guys I think for ownership and for taking

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Speaker 2: And well, also I think goes along with that is

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Speaker 2: that Lane Lambert was the first among the first two

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Speaker 2: where he said, as a coach, I've got to be better.

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Speaker 2: But also essentially he is setting an example.

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Speaker 4: He really is, And I think, you know, this is

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Speaker 4: the coaching isn't the issue. You know. A couple of

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Speaker 4: our one on one and he said, we need to

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Speaker 4: be better at the team, at the things that don't

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Speaker 4: require talent, It doesn't require talent to work hard. It

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Speaker 4: the wall in the corners. Those are things that I

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Speaker 4: think the Crack can have been beat to a lot,

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Speaker 4: and Layl Lambert even alluded to as much. You know,

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Speaker 4: I think it was Darren Brown who asked him, you know,

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Speaker 4: how do you reconcile this game? What you know, how

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Speaker 4: that frustration because the way this team played from three

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Speaker 4: and everyone's owning it, from the coach all the way

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Speaker 4: something that you know, it needs to be studied. You

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Speaker 2: We'll see how the lines shake out here for today

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Speaker 2: in this final matchup against the Jets. But one thing's

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Speaker 2: for certain this matchup. Favorite Copocaco, playing some great hockey,

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Speaker 2: five goals away from a career high, has got to

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Speaker 3: That's topster for the cracking and road scoring.

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Speaker 4: Yeah it is. And I think a guy like Coppocaco

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Speaker 4: you're seeing. You know what the Kraken got from the Rangers.

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Speaker 4: And I think he is one of the guys that

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Speaker 4: Lambert has said it multiple times. You know the fourth

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Speaker 4: Coppocaco finding the offense, but you're also looking elsewhere to

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Speaker 4: pick up the offense as well. So for Copocaco, this

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Speaker 4: has been a great end of the season for him,

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Speaker 4: and I think, you know, if the Kraken can't make

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Speaker 2: Winnepegas fought their way back into this playoff that's coming

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Speaker 2: connor and Mark Steifelee out of our mouths. They have

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Speaker 2: No other duo has done that in the NHL this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this game is always one of my favorites of

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Speaker 4: Crack and got a couple of empty netters. These team,

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Speaker 4: these games against the Winnipeg Jets have always been a battle,

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Speaker 4: and I think if you're the Kracking, We've said this

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Speaker 4: if you want this room to stay a little bit

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Speaker 4: more drafty, you gotta win this game against Winnipeg here today.

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Speaker 4: And I mean there's no excuses, and you can't afford

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Speaker 4: needed to be the Vancouver game from a couple of

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Speaker 4: the Kraken didn't get that. So tonight against a team

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Speaker 4: that year, you're gonna have to leap frog, you know.

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Speaker 4: The Cracketer now in play and pray territory where they

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Speaker 4: you don't win this game, I mean, then you're you're

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Speaker 4: out of it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, port of seeing get after it.

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Speaker 2: Winter is on and Slash stand here in Winnipeg fitzme

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Speaker 3: I can't wait, everet fits you joining us.

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Speaker 2: This is all the time we got here once again,

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Speaker 2: face offs at four thirty airtime ZIP four. Talk to

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Speaker 2: you later on today Big banking it Everet fits you.

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Speaker 2: I'm Mike Betting for Kracking this morning. Enjoy the game.

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