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

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

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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton. All right, here come the Capitals. We

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Speaker 1: welcome you to Cracking this morning. On a Tuesday, January twenty.

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Speaker 2: Seventh, Mike Benton with you with the Crack and trying

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Speaker 2: to finish the regular season series in a one to

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Speaker 2: one split with Washington and also improved a three and

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Speaker 2: two on this six game homestand still with plenty of

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Speaker 2: points the Krack and need to stay in the playoff

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Speaker 2: mix coming off a victory over the New Jersey Devils.

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Speaker 3: Nonetheless, plenty of folks.

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Speaker 2: In this town in a pretty good mood, and I

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Speaker 2: think you might know why here From Sunday appropriately Ian

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Speaker 2: Forness will be joining us here in just a bit

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Speaker 2: on some cracking Seahawks crossover, Matty Beniers's growth, Joey to

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Speaker 2: court as well, how big was the game he had

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Speaker 2: on Sunday, Plus a look here for the Kraken and

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Speaker 2: what they got to get after here with the Capitals

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Speaker 2: coming into ten after an absolute barn burner of a game,

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Speaker 2: though they lost six to five in overtime last Saturday

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Speaker 2: to Edmonton, the Kraken getting a well deserved day off

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Speaker 2: after they beat New Jersey Sunday, which set the table

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Speaker 2: for an unforgettable sports day in the Emerald City, the Seahawks,

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Speaker 2: of course, capping off the day with an NFC Championship

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Speaker 2: victory over the Los Angeles Rams on their way.

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Speaker 3: To the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: So certainly the mood is pretty sky high right now

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Speaker 2: in this town. Before we get to Ian, here's the

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Speaker 2: look back of what you may have missed from Sunday,

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Speaker 2: with the Kraken again trying to climb out of the

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Speaker 2: first period deficit with a bit of a spark on

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Speaker 2: the physical side.

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Speaker 4: Knocked it down, Devil's try to clearing a big hit

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Speaker 3: Lindren on Poli.

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Speaker 4: Now it's gonna be Mercer and Lingern in a fight

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Speaker 4: against an airboard of the neutral zone.

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Speaker 3: Dawson Mercer pickned against the Lords. Brian Lingern two strong.

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Speaker 4: Right hands to the side of the head of Mercer.

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Speaker 4: Dawson Mercer trying to get his head answered Lyndren wrestles

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Speaker 4: him against the penalty boxed door and now the line's

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Speaker 4: been get in there to break up the fight.

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Speaker 3: But it was Ryan Lingern, a quick one to two.

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Speaker 4: Combo that got Mercer off his game a little bit, and.

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Speaker 3: Then Lingerd just wrestled him against the boards. Now Lingering shoots,

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Speaker 3: that's a lot of the net. Evans keeps it on side.

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Speaker 3: Lack your evidence, center point turns.

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Speaker 4: Fires, rolls in stars a point shot from Riker. Evans

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Speaker 4: hits some sticks in front. It trickles in five hole.

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Speaker 3: Par rat bar circle. Everybody gets it back.

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Speaker 4: Baniers starts, My goodness, Maddy Vaniers takes the pass. He

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Speaker 4: and he quits a.

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Speaker 3: Backhand by Mark Strump.

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Speaker 4: The cracket take a two on lead, twelve fifty six

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Speaker 4: to go on the third.

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Speaker 5: Might even hears with a big smile in his face

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Speaker 5: as he goes to the bench. It was Jordan every

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Speaker 5: the captain who feeds into him on his forehead in

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Speaker 5: the slot. He goes forehead, backhead, right under the bar.

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Speaker 6: Two one cracks off one here by the cracket, long.

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Speaker 3: Shot a backhand and thrown off. Oh my goodness, nice goal.

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Speaker 4: Markley cat on the back side.

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Speaker 3: Tanner Steven said, with the.

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Speaker 4: Pass from below the right circle sends it through the

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Speaker 4: gold mouth Catton on the back door taps it home.

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Speaker 4: It's a two doll cracket lead, a far sign for racetoor.

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Speaker 4: The puck Jordan Everly picks up the disc walks it

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Speaker 4: start short it Everly, we'll seal it for Seattle one

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Speaker 4: twelve to play the it's.

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Speaker 3: Up four two cracket lead.

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Speaker 5: A fairly easy clear that comes around the offensive end

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Speaker 5: of the ice for the Devils that Dougie Hamilton just

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Speaker 5: doesn't handle coming off the boards. Everly's applaing pressure, but

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: Coming out of all of that, the Krack and have

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Speaker 2: a chance to make it a three and two home

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Speaker 2: stand in their second and final matchup with the Washington Capitals.

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Speaker 2: Only time the Caps will visit Climate Pledgerina for this

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Speaker 2: regular season. The Mayor joins us Ian Furness aka Mayor

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Speaker 2: of Maple Valley aka your host one to three pm

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Speaker 2: ninety three three kJ RFM aka TV Desk Coast as

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Speaker 2: well for the crack at Hockey Network. He's busy anyway,

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Speaker 2: but now kind to join us here for kracking this

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Speaker 2: morning and Mayor, I'm not sure I ever saw a

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Speaker 2: fas I've seen split into wearing NHL and NFL gear combined.

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Speaker 3: Like that game on Sunday, how about you?

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Speaker 6: That was fun. It was a great atmosphere, and you know,

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Speaker 6: the Seahawks chant at times they climate played to arena

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Speaker 6: were fun, and you know, they were treated to a

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Speaker 6: really entertaining hockey game as well, And of course that's

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Speaker 6: that preceedon would end up being a very entertaining NFL

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Speaker 6: football game later on that day, So good day.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Olympic break kind of comes the right time, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, the NHL takes a breather, and then the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl and coming, and I mean, hey, Mike McDonald

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Speaker 2: could be days away from hoisting the Lombardi Trophy and

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Speaker 2: we're right back out of it again. Not until later on

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Speaker 2: next month.

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Speaker 6: Right, yeah, exactly, the NFL will have about a month

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Speaker 6: off like the NHL. It feels like before they start

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Speaker 6: talking about NFL Draft, we've got a big, a big

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Speaker 6: football game to That big football game comes after the

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Speaker 6: Olympic break starts for the craft and so a Big

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Speaker 2: What a treat here for people living in this town

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Speaker 2: for a long long time. I know that that for you,

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Speaker 2: for Softy, for Dick Fane, for my dad even who

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Speaker 2: was a Federal Way High grad class of seventy one.

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Speaker 2: They've seen a lot of hard times here and this

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Speaker 2: is fun stuff, not just for the Super Bowl run,

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Speaker 2: but the baseball team doing well now, the NHL becoming

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Speaker 2: a reality here. Certainly it's all encompassing here for this.

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Speaker 2: If I can kind of marry the two sports, he

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Speaker 2: and to be kind of begin things. There's the expired

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Speaker 2: Sam Darnold narrative that's in the past. He can't get

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Speaker 2: it done. He's a QB. Now, that's one went away

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Speaker 2: busting a narrative the most right now to you, who

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Speaker 6: Probably Matt Eveniers, right, I mean just in terms of

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Speaker 6: there's a lot of people that have doubted Maddie, and

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Speaker 6: you know, the production, frankly hasn't always been there offensively,

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Speaker 6: But if you just watched the games, you see how

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Speaker 6: of a sudden, the offensive numbers are coming and we're

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Speaker 6: starting to see, you know, why he was the number

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Speaker 2: Say this, and I'll let you kind of add on

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Speaker 2: to this if you need to, but I go back

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Speaker 2: to not just the play that he made on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: I mean, my goodness, that backhander was delicious to look

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Speaker 2: took off about mid December. He's got sixteen points now

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Speaker 2: in eighteen games. Overall for this regular season, he's on

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Speaker 2: add into the fact that he's supposed to play a

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Speaker 2: two hundred foot game, I remember watching back. I know,

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Speaker 2: I know that you called this game on the TV

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Speaker 2: side when the Penguins were here Ian but at times

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Speaker 2: when he was matched up with Sidney Crosby, he was

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Speaker 3: But if you can.

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Speaker 2: Find a way to get plays like he made against

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Speaker 2: one possibility here to look at where he develops into

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Speaker 2: a great number two center on a Stanley Cup contending team.

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Speaker 2: This team still has a long ways to go of

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Speaker 2: Matty Benier's this season as far as what he can.

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Speaker 6: Be right and and the thing that is reality is

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Speaker 6: So you know, I would say, why limit him to

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Speaker 6: You know, he's still fairly he's still young, you know.

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Speaker 6: And even though it feels I mean because he was

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Speaker 6: more responsibilities. There's a lot of high end players in

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Speaker 6: is who you are, right, I think there's still room

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Speaker 3: How big was Sunday's game? Ian From the Joey to

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Speaker 6: a consistency that he was last season. We'll see flashes

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Speaker 6: this team has to have e leite goal canding. It

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Speaker 6: just does the way. It's the way they're structured. Until

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Speaker 6: they go out and find elite goal scorers or point producers.

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Speaker 6: They they need to be great inside their own the

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Speaker 6: think that's that Philip Brubauer has fulfilled that. I mean,

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Speaker 6: team last you know, last year, he's already surpassed that

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Speaker 6: Gruby's been and all of his numbers screen you know,

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Speaker 2: And this is something that we weren't talking about a

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Speaker 2: here for tonight Washington Capitals. They come in and I

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Speaker 2: right now. Cabs have lost five of their last six games.

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Speaker 2: I mean, different ballgame, I think compared to October when

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Speaker 2: I mean, this Caps team can play, but they're having

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that was an interesting game that they had. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Well, just forget about the last ten seconds of what

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Speaker 2: you said. Okay, sound goods like that like the audio

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Speaker 3: I mean, Yeah, thank you, thank you, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Mayor, You're awesome. Have a good show, all right, Mayor,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much. Appreciate shit Ian for neess once

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Speaker 2: Great to have the in finess along with us here

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Speaker 2: for a few minutes. Well, the focus of this evening's

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Speaker 2: But it's kind of an illusion because the Capitols just

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Speaker 3: The Kracking had a day off here to rest their bodies.

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Speaker 2: By the way Leeds, the Kraken was seventeen points in

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Speaker 2: just nineteen games against the Capitols alex olvech Gould no surprise,

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Speaker 2: bit a handful against them, just like virtually any other

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Speaker 2: team twelve points and nine had to have games against

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Speaker 2: the Kraken.

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Speaker 3: Looking forward to having you once again.

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Speaker 2: We're on air six thirty for your pregame show, served

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Speaker 2: up by Frost Brewed cors Light Shoes Chill Pop Drop

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Speaker 2: coming a little after seven o'clock Pacific time. Ever, right

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Speaker 2: now in the booth, I'll join you once again back

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Speaker 2: by the cors Light, landing in section twenty, beginning in

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Speaker 2: pregame and then postgamer right back at Tom's watchbar up

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

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

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Speaker 2: Ian Furness. Enjoy the game and for kracking this morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm Mike Benton. Have a happy Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: You're home for the Kraken Sports Radio ninety three point

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Speaker 1: three kjr FM,