January 12, 2025 • 23 mins
Mike Benton sets up the Jan. 12 matchup at Little Caesars Arena between the Seattle Kraken and Detroit Red Wings, joined by Red Wings radio play-by-play voice Ken Kal.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the Krack
and Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Here's Mike Benton.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Crack and breaking one spell on Saturday, Can they
break another on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Welcome to Cracking this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The second game coming up, but back to back as
a Cracking take on the Detroit Red Wings on a Sunday,
January twelfth noon face off going down at Little Caesar's Arena.
We'll have on air coverage for you, opening up at
eleven thirty in the morning on ninety three to three KJRFNN,
all across the twenty six station Strong Emerald Queen Casino
Kraken Audio Network. The Crack and looking for back to
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back wins now on the road here for the first
time since November fifth, but also are looking for their
first victory in a back to back situation tail end
of that, after dropping the previous six occasions here for
this regular season, The Crack and though facing a team
that is playing like a buzzsobby days and we'll talk
more about it with Ken Cal Red Wings radio play
(01:04):
by play. Plus listen back into Dan Bilsma's reaction from
a big Saturday win in Buffalo without further ado, let's
flashback to Saturday and the cracking down two nothing entering
the latest ages of period two, but ready to explode in.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Back to the point for a blast from Rasmus da Lei.
The court makes the same now Brandon tanneb hit off
the puck Neers side. That was a high hit to
the helmet. Here we go, Mitchell Stevens into the frame.
Tyd Karshay's got a piece of how in power as well.
Brandon Tannev needing to be separated. Montor's inting there as well.
All five White Jerseys locked up with the Buffalo Sabers
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right below us. Here there's the fire and fight that
we've been talking about. As Tannev took a very high
hit along the wall near.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
So takes it.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Stevenson, Ryker Evans down the slot, scores, Ryker Evans. Fine
the puck in the high slot and we'll slip one
in pass lou Go Pack. I'll look it in let
cracking on the board. They're down two one, seventeen twelve.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
To play in the second well, Seattle putting some offensive
pressure in the Buffalo in and it was extended this
time coming up with a puck in the corner. It
gets back to Chandler Stevenson, who finds Evans on the
far side.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
He puts it home. Now it's two to one by
Berakowski right wing corner. Stevenson comes into help out. He'll
punch it up top. Mahur off fires right on rebound.
Hurakovski scores. Andre Burakowski off the same on the left
pad of lucan In puts the loose puck in and
the Crackhead have tied the game too, to forty seven
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point seven left at period number two.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Well again, great offensive zone extended time for Seattle, and
that puck got back to Mahura.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
He lets not a big or snap flap shot go.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Put a quick wristshot on net and uh Burukovski in
front finds the rebound, goes back in, puts a top shelf.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
This game's time Andrey Burakowski two on two.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Berrekowski drops it off, dont back to Burrekowski left circle
shot turned away, the rebound deflected, scoos, the puck batted
in the air and pinballs off a saber in behind.
Looking in and the Kraken have taken the lead. It's
a three to two edge. Oliver york Strand the last
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kracking to get the touch on it.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Yeah, oliverd gyork Strand with a chop of that puck
right above the blue paint, and as you said, off
the Sabers player in the back of the net, so
the goal will be his.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
The krack and take the leaf in the near side.
James Schwartz skits it out three on two back Bhura
for Coppo Cocko right side, finds a laid scor Copo
Cocko down the right side, snaps it in past Uko
Peca looking in and the Kraken from down two two
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up two, four to two, sixteen fourteen to play in
the third.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Yeah, Cocko down that right side, get the feed from
Mahura coming down the middle, cracking half numbers. Coco gets
his head up, finds the back.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Ol Burrikowski sends it ahead. Goppo Goto keeps it on side,
puck to the corner. Ale's tough, leaving it for Bowen Byrum,
but he's beat to the pump, setting a fat in
front Scoos Gofo. Cocko's got two and the Kraken go
up by three. It's a five two lead four Seattle.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
First power play goal of the game for the Kracking
as they get control on the offensive end of the ice.
Man if Jared mccannon gets his head up after digging
that puck out of the corner. Great work by Shane Bright,
feeds cocko in front. He's all alone. One time, we're
into the back of the dead.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Five after the Cracking, bouncing it up the glass, Jared
mccannon out to center down the Tannem he scores empty
net goal from Brandon Tannem. He'll put the exclamation point
on this game. Six two, three thirty five left in Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Well, Seattle making sure that when they got a chance
to clear, the pucket was around the glass and out
it got out to Brendon Tanne who quickly shot in
on net and found its way dead center into the
empty cage.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Six thirds out in Buffalo as the visitors respond with
six straight to take down the Sabers by a six
to two score. What a final forty minutes to this
one out the Kraken, extending their lead now six multi
goal comebacks this season.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Yeah, fantastic effort by them after the first period, as
I said, making adjustments and slowly working through that second
period to chip away at things and then obviously a
big push in the third period getting four separate goals.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Ever, it fits you, Al Kaniski with the call for
the six to two Krack and win over Buffalo. The
Kraken scoring six unanswered goals, improved a six and one
all time against the Sabers.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
As far as as a spark, you can begin.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
With Oliver b Yorkstrand, who got two thirds of the
way to a Gordy Hawe hat trick. He had a
fight with Dennis Gilbert late in the first period and
then buried his twelfth goal of the season to put
the Crack in a head for good at three to
zero eight of period number three. Joey Decourd you can't
overlook him. He had thirty three saves for a second
star effort, while Coppocaco picked up his first two goal
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efforts of the season and in a Crack in Jersey,
collecting first Star of the Game honors. Before we get
to Ken Cal, here's more postgame reaction from Cracking head
coach Dan Bilsma.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
You know it was a guy like Oliver Borgstrand getting
in a fisticuffs. You know he did it in response
to the to the you know, obviously the play there,
but him being physical on the wall and then responding.
But I think we tiptoed into the game a little bit.
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And uh think the when you see Oliver Borgs fan
a do the physicality and get in a fight that
it jump starts the team a little bit and is
right after they get their second goal, and it's at
the end of the at the end of the period,
and we maybe didn't get a chance to respond until
the second period when we came out in the second
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period and you know, it just i'll stick got in
the match, we you know, and that was from from
all the guys. Was gotten the match and got in
the game and had to kill off some penalties there
and against the dangerous power play, and you know, got
some got goals and got momentum from from just playing
the right way. Montour gets a puck deep in the
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offensive zone and and gives us a chance to establish
some offenses own presence.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
We score a goal and we followed it up with.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
The uh that was Andre at the net from the
play from Chandler back to the point and just kind
of kept the momentum going from.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
There any game like this where you've got eleven players
with points, you know, scoring contributions coming from all over.
Were there any players that kind of stood out to
you that you felt like really stepped it up today?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I think Andre a lot of strong plays. You see
him skating up the ice. He's a dangerous player, but
a lot of good puck plays as well. Warks Rand goal,
he's a big part of it. It's an own goal,
but but he was. He was attached to that one
as well, to.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Really start to building kick in as they started to
get back.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Into this one, I think, uh, you know, I think
just was stepping out in the second period. You know,
repeated plays from your teammate, pleted continued pucks to the
offensive zone has built the momentum. And you know said
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the Montors play is evidence of that, both how we
broke puck out, his speed up the ice, him getting
it deep, and then it's us getting to the offensive zone.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
The Coco's second goal is great defense, a wall play,
and our defenseman are jumping up into the play.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Muzz there It gets to Coco. Why did.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Plays like that continue to grow the confidence and in
our group?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
And I thought, you know, you can't deny the penalty
kill at the third period.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
You know, we get that game back to squared and
they have to step over the boards in the third
period kill penalty, and I.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Think that that kill.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Sprung boardists into you know, the rest of the third period.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
How did the work of the defense pairing of ryk
er Evans and Josh Moha whether on both sides of
the game, How important were they to the results in
this one?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (09:50):
They were. It's muzz At a great game.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I mean, muzz had a great game physicality, mus At
a great game defending. You know, he makes the two
plays that lead to the goal as well, getting the
puck off the wall, shooting the puck in the cage
and but uh, you know the the play getting up ice,
part of that breakout and kicking it out to Coco
middle aane drive and he was he had a he
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had a great game tonight.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
And to that point, for a couple of games, we've
had to keep asking about defensive details.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
How was that side of the game for your team overall?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I think, uh, you know, I think it was a
lot better. You know, have a disappointing you know, how
the first one went in just a redracted puck in
a kind of a.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
You know, oh shoot moment.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
And uh, but I in the second period, it's a
dangerous team. They have got a lot of skill, but
their d are real dangerous. And he saw the defensive
details and the d zel and the willingness to a
do the right thing, have the good details and block
shots and and eat pucks.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
And they said it.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Each game is each game is a different game, and
each game you have, you're gonna have to be able
to defend to to win hockey games. And I thought
the probably the best part of our game was in
the second period, was how we defended in there, because
you know, they did have some they did have some chances.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
They're guys, they're good guys, did have time with the puck.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
And our guys, you know, did a great job playing
as a unit and defending and also want willingness to
block shots and and uh, you.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Know, and defend.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
And I thought the second period, you know, I it's
the stick. I can't recall the player right now, but
a couple of sticks or block shots and in the
second period were key for us.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The league in multiple comebacks.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
When what's led to that.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
Success, I I think, well, my one of two thinks, it's, uh,
we we gotta get We got to.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Get kicked in the teeth to get our game going.
But it's just the response of being able to believe
in each other, believe in the group, believe if you
keep playing the right way, you can you can come
back in games. And you know, we've seen it multiple
times from our group, but we didn't want to see
it in tonight's game. They came out and obviously they
they had their way in the first period. But you know,
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the confidence in each other in the and and the ability.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
To stick with it has.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Led us to be able to get back in games
and win hockey games.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
And Coppocaco two goals again, what has he meant to
this team coming in getting more and more comfortable.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
He's uh, he's got some different attributes than than you know,
a lot of us don't have.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
He's a big body.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
I think it's it's it's great to see how he
can skate and get up the ice and you know,
he's a big body in and around the net, has
a has a great shot as well as a goal scorer,
you know, shot and ability he uh, you know, the
the rush goal is a little different than the net
front kind of quick play and the power play that
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you know, Jerry mccamm made a great played home in
the slot there off of recovery and snaps in the
back of the net.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
But he's just he's got.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
A adding that presence, adding that ability, the big body
and the ability to hold on the pucks is just
makes has made that line and and made our team
all that much better.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
The guys take away from this game tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
The the feeling, the feeling of digging in, the feeling
of competing and winning a hockey game. And that's you know,
how we played in the second how we played in
the third period is is uh, you know, yes, we
got the result, but that's that's how you have to
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play each and every night to try to have success.
And and you build that with a second and third
period you get the win, and well, the guys after
the game and just want to carry it into tomorrow
night's game.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
All right, look at it, head, you're to the end
of back to bad joining us now. A great friend
of these airwaves and a legendary voice in Detroit. He's
Ken Cal play by play for the Red Wings on
radio WXYT ninety seven point one. The ticket is their
flagship Ken first off, Happy New Year, looking like that
way here for the Red Wings as well, who began
the calendar year flat out burning rubbers. So I guess
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new Coast, new Year, new you. That's the mantra. What's
changed under Tom McClellan.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
Well, they're winning, and that's the big thing. After losing
his first game against the Toronto Maple Leaf, you know,
they've been playing some pretty solid hockey of late. In
four of the five games they've allowed two goals or
less and they just continue to roll. And one of
the big things about Todd McClellan is that he's a
very hands on guy. He teaches well and there are
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several areas that the Red Wings needed to improve upon,
one of them the penalty kills, and certainly the Red
Wings have been improved on that. So it seems like
the players are buying into what he's teaching and so
far resulting in wins.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Funny enough, al hockey works out here. I remember the
last time he was on the Red Wings bench, they
hoisted the Stanley Cup in Pittsburgh. Nicholas Ledstrum, Chris Draper,
Thomas Holmestrum Chris Osgood were still in that room. San
Jose then goes and hires him, and what felt like
the very next day, and they couldn't stop talking about
his coaching education helping oversee the Red Wings dynasty which
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was in their last days at that point. Do you
ken what's evolved you think about Todd McClellan to the
last roughly seventeen years ever since, Well, he's.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Got a good pedigree. And I remember when he was
here as an assistant coach under Mike Babcock. Everyone kept
saying in the organization, Hey, one day he's going to
be a fantastic coach in the National Hockey League and
wants you know what goes over to San Jose and
I think he had two or three fifty win seasons,
took them into the playoffs and really turned that team
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and that, you know, the whole organization around. So you
could tell that. You know, he's a guy that demands
a lot from his players, but he's also a teaching
type of coach and everything that he teaches his players
he expects them to learn and play within the system.
So he's been really good, and you know, again it's
really difficult for a coach to come in halfway through
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the season not knowing anything about the organization since he's
been here, but it seems like everything that he's been
teaching his players, you know, they responded and to win
in hockey games.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Right now, well, times have certainly changed him. Back then
he had one of the greatest of all time on
that blue line in Nicholas Listrom. Now he's got a
pretty good guy, a lot of miles ahead still, but
still very much off to a good started Marine Cider
with forty two points in each of the last two
seasons as well, and he's pushing already halfway to thirty
by the halfway poll here of the season, Ken, how
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likely you think he breaks his career high and how
long are we going to see him.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
On highs today as well?
Speaker 9 (17:06):
You think, Well, here's the thing about most Cighter is
he's only twenty three years old and he's already playing
twenty five twenty six minutes a game, and he's playing
against the National Hockey League's best players. He's in every game,
so that tells you a lot about how much trust
they have in most Cider. And the thing about Mo
is he's never missed a National Hockey League game since
he came into the NHL, and you know, he's a
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horse back there. You look at all these other guys
back there on the blue line popping up all these points,
Guys like cal mccarr and Quinn Hughes. These are great
offensive players. But the thing about most Cider is he
had the physical element to his game that those other
two players don't have. So not only is he offensive
minded and gifted, but he can also play that physical
brand of hockey, which I think every team needs back
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there on the blue line.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You think for that kind of durability, is it more
about what goes into is mind to prepare him for that,
or is it more about the way that he has
been trained to embrace the ruggedness of this league to
be able to withstand that kind of punishment.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
I just think he goes out there and plays, and
he blocks a lot of shots too. It's just amazing
how he doesn't get hurt, to be honest with you,
because he'll deliver hard body checks the wingers that are
coming down into the offensive zone. And you know the
other thing too, is he'll block shot, sacrifice the body.
Yet somehow he comes out of it unscathed, which is great,
and I'd hate to see what this Redleau team would
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be like without him in the lineup because he's just
a valuable part of this Red Wing team. And again
he's our number one blue liner and he's only twenty
three years old. He's just playing great. He's only going
to get better.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Ken cal Radio play by play voice here for the
Red Wings, joining us on cracking this morning ahead of
the Sunday pod drop at Little Caesars Arena. Part of
what I love about NHL rosters Ken is seeing who's
pushing forty and who's part of the young pop group
here and to think where they were in life when
the Vets just began their NHL careers. I take Patrick
kin and Lucas Raymond for example, the former alt time
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great in USA hockey.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
He's going to go to the Hall.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Of Fame, the latter part of the next Group, part
of the next wave here in Detroit, and he's leading
score for much of the season. Where have you seen
each of their influences make the biggest impact on this team.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Well, Patrick Kane started off a little bit slow this year.
He's like a point per game player. When he came
into the lineup. Last year for Detroit, started off a
little bit slow, was injured, missed about six games. But
recently he's been on a chair for the Red Wings
and you know him and Raymond, as you mentioned Lark
and to brink it, all these guys are putting up
big numbers right now over since Tom McClelland has become
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the head coach. Lucas Raymond signed a big deal, and
a lot of times when players signed big deals, they
don't live up to that expectation right away, but not
so with Lucas Raymond. I mean, he signed a long
term deal to stay here in Detroit and he's one
of the best players point wise on this team right now.
I mean, Lucas started off the season I couldn't buy
a goal really, but he was tipping in with all
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kinds of assists. But then after that he was on
a chair and start scoring some goals. So you look
at his numbers, Raymond and forty games played sixteen goals,
twenty six assists for forty two points. The plus minus
number is minus seventy. He'd like to improve upon that,
but certainly he's been one of the leaders offensively on
this Red lingue team along with Tila Market.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Finally look at a hat here Ken. The Red Wings
are playing in a schedule that's basically every other day
here to this point, and that's what you get with
the break coming up next month here for the Four Nations.
As we said, they're making a run for it right now.
But what more do you think they need to be
in this playoff? Necks here for good as we get
closer and closer to March.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
Well, idalistically, I think they would like to have another
center iceman, somebody that could play on the second line.
And the bad part about that is good luck trying
to find one. Right, You're gonna have to make a
deal if you want to get somebody like that, because
teams just don't give up center ceman or you have
to develop one, and that takes four or five years
once you draft the player, and then hopefully you're crossing
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your fingers that he'll come in and make an impact
with your club. But I think that's where the Red Wings.
They need to be strong down the middle. And if
they could ever land a number two center iceman and
you'd have to give up somebody for that, I think
that would put them in pretty good shape, but just
like everybody else in the Eastern Conference right now, it's
such a logjam, and teams that win four or five
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in a row, they move up the ladder pretty quick.
But you start losing three, four or five games in
a row, you're down at the bottom. So you know,
it's the teams that are going that win and win
consistently are the ones that are eventually going to make
the playoffs. But it's so hard, as you know, when
you've got five or six teams ahead of you and
they're all they all have the same goal, and that's
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trying to get a wild card spot, it's very hard
you send every game. So just to give you an example,
the Red Wings won their last game against Ottawa and
they were two points out and they didn't play the
next day. The next thing you know, Columbus is four
points ahead of them. Now the Wings are four points out.
So that's how quick it contained, especially the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Ken certainly appreciate your time. We're into busy times now
in this league. But you do great work as always,
legendary work, if I may say, and looking forward to
chatting with you once again.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Have every re call today, all right, Thank you very
much appreciate I Ken, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The Krack and certainly have their work cutout for them,
facing a Red Wings team that has won six in
a row entering today and in the first matchup of
two between the two teams this season. They'll go at
it one more time coming up next month February fourth
at Climate Pledge Arena the Crack and once more four
to zero and two all time against the Red Wings.
They have gone unbeaten in regulation and three meetings on
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the road at a two to zero to one record,
and they're going to push. Also some individual streaks a
little further Chandler Stevenson's scott points in five consecutive games,
Jared McCann and Shane Wright also on three game point
streaks as well. We mentioned the young up and coming
talent on the Red Wings, but you all so had
to look at one of the greatest players of all time,
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especially on the US born side, Patrick Kaine, who could
be a big focal point for this game coming up.
He's got a six game point streak including four multipoint
efforts as well to twenty five points in thirty six.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Games right now.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Fourth on the Red Wings and he is still ticking
offensively at thirty six years of age.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
So we got more afternoon hockey coming your way.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
In Game three of the five game road trip, we'll
have all the action for you, opening up a little
past noon Pacific time. Airtime coverage also opening up at
eleven thirty in the morning Pacific. Ever it fits you,
Al Koniski on the call from Detroit, I'll join you
once again for pregame, intermission and postgame coverage at Network Central.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
We certainly hope that you can join us.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Big thank you once again to Ken Cal for being
with us and for krakeen this morning. I'm Mike Benton,
Happy Sunday, You're home for
Speaker 1 (23:52):
The KRAK Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM
Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the Krack
and Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Here's Mike Benton.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Crack and breaking one spell on Saturday, Can they
break another on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Welcome to Cracking this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The second game coming up, but back to back as
a Cracking take on the Detroit Red Wings on a Sunday,
January twelfth noon face off going down at Little Caesar's Arena.
We'll have on air coverage for you, opening up at
eleven thirty in the morning on ninety three to three KJRFNN,
all across the twenty six station Strong Emerald Queen Casino
Kraken Audio Network. The Crack and looking for back to
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back wins now on the road here for the first
time since November fifth, but also are looking for their
first victory in a back to back situation tail end
of that, after dropping the previous six occasions here for
this regular season, The Crack and though facing a team
that is playing like a buzzsobby days and we'll talk
more about it with Ken Cal Red Wings radio play
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by play. Plus listen back into Dan Bilsma's reaction from
a big Saturday win in Buffalo without further ado, let's
flashback to Saturday and the cracking down two nothing entering
the latest ages of period two, but ready to explode in.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Back to the point for a blast from Rasmus da Lei.
The court makes the same now Brandon tanneb hit off
the puck Neers side. That was a high hit to
the helmet. Here we go, Mitchell Stevens into the frame.
Tyd Karshay's got a piece of how in power as well.
Brandon Tannev needing to be separated. Montor's inting there as well.
All five White Jerseys locked up with the Buffalo Sabers
(01:44):
right below us. Here there's the fire and fight that
we've been talking about. As Tannev took a very high
hit along the wall near.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
So takes it.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Stevenson, Ryker Evans down the slot, scores, Ryker Evans. Fine
the puck in the high slot and we'll slip one
in pass lou Go Pack. I'll look it in let
cracking on the board. They're down two one, seventeen twelve.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
To play in the second well, Seattle putting some offensive
pressure in the Buffalo in and it was extended this
time coming up with a puck in the corner. It
gets back to Chandler Stevenson, who finds Evans on the
far side.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
He puts it home. Now it's two to one by
Berakowski right wing corner. Stevenson comes into help out. He'll
punch it up top. Mahur off fires right on rebound.
Hurakovski scores. Andre Burakowski off the same on the left
pad of lucan In puts the loose puck in and
the Crackhead have tied the game too, to forty seven
(02:42):
point seven left at period number two.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Well again, great offensive zone extended time for Seattle, and
that puck got back to Mahura.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
He lets not a big or snap flap shot go.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Put a quick wristshot on net and uh Burukovski in
front finds the rebound, goes back in, puts a top shelf.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
This game's time Andrey Burakowski two on two.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Berrekowski drops it off, dont back to Burrekowski left circle
shot turned away, the rebound deflected, scoos, the puck batted
in the air and pinballs off a saber in behind.
Looking in and the Kraken have taken the lead. It's
a three to two edge. Oliver york Strand the last
(03:25):
kracking to get the touch on it.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Yeah, oliverd gyork Strand with a chop of that puck
right above the blue paint, and as you said, off
the Sabers player in the back of the net, so
the goal will be his.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
The krack and take the leaf in the near side.
James Schwartz skits it out three on two back Bhura
for Coppo Cocko right side, finds a laid scor Copo
Cocko down the right side, snaps it in past Uko
Peca looking in and the Kraken from down two two
(03:57):
up two, four to two, sixteen fourteen to play in
the third.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Yeah, Cocko down that right side, get the feed from
Mahura coming down the middle, cracking half numbers. Coco gets
his head up, finds the back.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Ol Burrikowski sends it ahead. Goppo Goto keeps it on side,
puck to the corner. Ale's tough, leaving it for Bowen Byrum,
but he's beat to the pump, setting a fat in
front Scoos Gofo. Cocko's got two and the Kraken go
up by three. It's a five two lead four Seattle.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
First power play goal of the game for the Kracking
as they get control on the offensive end of the ice.
Man if Jared mccannon gets his head up after digging
that puck out of the corner. Great work by Shane Bright,
feeds cocko in front. He's all alone. One time, we're
into the back of the dead.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Five after the Cracking, bouncing it up the glass, Jared
mccannon out to center down the Tannem he scores empty
net goal from Brandon Tannem. He'll put the exclamation point
on this game. Six two, three thirty five left in Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Well, Seattle making sure that when they got a chance
to clear, the pucket was around the glass and out
it got out to Brendon Tanne who quickly shot in
on net and found its way dead center into the
empty cage.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Six thirds out in Buffalo as the visitors respond with
six straight to take down the Sabers by a six
to two score. What a final forty minutes to this
one out the Kraken, extending their lead now six multi
goal comebacks this season.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Yeah, fantastic effort by them after the first period, as
I said, making adjustments and slowly working through that second
period to chip away at things and then obviously a
big push in the third period getting four separate goals.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Ever, it fits you, Al Kaniski with the call for
the six to two Krack and win over Buffalo. The
Kraken scoring six unanswered goals, improved a six and one
all time against the Sabers.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
As far as as a spark, you can begin.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
With Oliver b Yorkstrand, who got two thirds of the
way to a Gordy Hawe hat trick. He had a
fight with Dennis Gilbert late in the first period and
then buried his twelfth goal of the season to put
the Crack in a head for good at three to
zero eight of period number three. Joey Decourd you can't
overlook him. He had thirty three saves for a second
star effort, while Coppocaco picked up his first two goal
(06:23):
efforts of the season and in a Crack in Jersey,
collecting first Star of the Game honors. Before we get
to Ken Cal, here's more postgame reaction from Cracking head
coach Dan Bilsma.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
You know it was a guy like Oliver Borgstrand getting
in a fisticuffs. You know he did it in response
to the to the you know, obviously the play there,
but him being physical on the wall and then responding.
But I think we tiptoed into the game a little bit.
(06:57):
And uh think the when you see Oliver Borgs fan
a do the physicality and get in a fight that
it jump starts the team a little bit and is
right after they get their second goal, and it's at
the end of the at the end of the period,
and we maybe didn't get a chance to respond until
the second period when we came out in the second
(07:18):
period and you know, it just i'll stick got in
the match, we you know, and that was from from
all the guys. Was gotten the match and got in
the game and had to kill off some penalties there
and against the dangerous power play, and you know, got
some got goals and got momentum from from just playing
the right way. Montour gets a puck deep in the
(07:40):
offensive zone and and gives us a chance to establish
some offenses own presence.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
We score a goal and we followed it up with.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
The uh that was Andre at the net from the
play from Chandler back to the point and just kind
of kept the momentum going from.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
There any game like this where you've got eleven players
with points, you know, scoring contributions coming from all over.
Were there any players that kind of stood out to
you that you felt like really stepped it up today?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I think Andre a lot of strong plays. You see
him skating up the ice. He's a dangerous player, but
a lot of good puck plays as well. Warks Rand goal,
he's a big part of it. It's an own goal,
but but he was. He was attached to that one
as well, to.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Really start to building kick in as they started to
get back.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Into this one, I think, uh, you know, I think
just was stepping out in the second period. You know,
repeated plays from your teammate, pleted continued pucks to the
offensive zone has built the momentum. And you know said
(08:53):
the Montors play is evidence of that, both how we
broke puck out, his speed up the ice, him getting
it deep, and then it's us getting to the offensive zone.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
The Coco's second goal is great defense, a wall play,
and our defenseman are jumping up into the play.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Muzz there It gets to Coco. Why did.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Plays like that continue to grow the confidence and in
our group?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
And I thought, you know, you can't deny the penalty
kill at the third period.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
You know, we get that game back to squared and
they have to step over the boards in the third
period kill penalty, and I.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Think that that kill.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Sprung boardists into you know, the rest of the third period.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
How did the work of the defense pairing of ryk
er Evans and Josh Moha whether on both sides of
the game, How important were they to the results in
this one?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (09:50):
They were. It's muzz At a great game.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I mean, muzz had a great game physicality, mus At
a great game defending. You know, he makes the two
plays that lead to the goal as well, getting the
puck off the wall, shooting the puck in the cage
and but uh, you know the the play getting up ice,
part of that breakout and kicking it out to Coco
middle aane drive and he was he had a he
(10:16):
had a great game tonight.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
And to that point, for a couple of games, we've
had to keep asking about defensive details.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
How was that side of the game for your team overall?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I think, uh, you know, I think it was a
lot better. You know, have a disappointing you know, how
the first one went in just a redracted puck in
a kind of a.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
You know, oh shoot moment.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
And uh, but I in the second period, it's a
dangerous team. They have got a lot of skill, but
their d are real dangerous. And he saw the defensive
details and the d zel and the willingness to a
do the right thing, have the good details and block
shots and and eat pucks.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
And they said it.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Each game is each game is a different game, and
each game you have, you're gonna have to be able
to defend to to win hockey games. And I thought
the probably the best part of our game was in
the second period, was how we defended in there, because
you know, they did have some they did have some chances.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
They're guys, they're good guys, did have time with the puck.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
And our guys, you know, did a great job playing
as a unit and defending and also want willingness to
block shots and and uh, you.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Know, and defend.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
And I thought the second period, you know, I it's
the stick. I can't recall the player right now, but
a couple of sticks or block shots and in the
second period were key for us.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The league in multiple comebacks.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
When what's led to that.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
Success, I I think, well, my one of two thinks, it's, uh,
we we gotta get We got to.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Get kicked in the teeth to get our game going.
But it's just the response of being able to believe
in each other, believe in the group, believe if you
keep playing the right way, you can you can come
back in games. And you know, we've seen it multiple
times from our group, but we didn't want to see
it in tonight's game. They came out and obviously they
they had their way in the first period. But you know,
(12:26):
the confidence in each other in the and and the ability.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
To stick with it has.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Led us to be able to get back in games
and win hockey games.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
And Coppocaco two goals again, what has he meant to
this team coming in getting more and more comfortable.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
He's uh, he's got some different attributes than than you know,
a lot of us don't have.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
He's a big body.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
I think it's it's it's great to see how he
can skate and get up the ice and you know,
he's a big body in and around the net, has
a has a great shot as well as a goal scorer,
you know, shot and ability he uh, you know, the
the rush goal is a little different than the net
front kind of quick play and the power play that
(13:10):
you know, Jerry mccamm made a great played home in
the slot there off of recovery and snaps in the
back of the net.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
But he's just he's got.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
A adding that presence, adding that ability, the big body
and the ability to hold on the pucks is just
makes has made that line and and made our team
all that much better.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
The guys take away from this game tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
The the feeling, the feeling of digging in, the feeling
of competing and winning a hockey game. And that's you know,
how we played in the second how we played in
the third period is is uh, you know, yes, we
got the result, but that's that's how you have to
(13:53):
play each and every night to try to have success.
And and you build that with a second and third
period you get the win, and well, the guys after
the game and just want to carry it into tomorrow
night's game.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
All right, look at it, head, you're to the end
of back to bad joining us now. A great friend
of these airwaves and a legendary voice in Detroit. He's
Ken Cal play by play for the Red Wings on
radio WXYT ninety seven point one. The ticket is their
flagship Ken first off, Happy New Year, looking like that
way here for the Red Wings as well, who began
the calendar year flat out burning rubbers. So I guess
(14:28):
new Coast, new Year, new you. That's the mantra. What's
changed under Tom McClellan.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
Well, they're winning, and that's the big thing. After losing
his first game against the Toronto Maple Leaf, you know,
they've been playing some pretty solid hockey of late. In
four of the five games they've allowed two goals or
less and they just continue to roll. And one of
the big things about Todd McClellan is that he's a
very hands on guy. He teaches well and there are
(14:56):
several areas that the Red Wings needed to improve upon,
one of them the penalty kills, and certainly the Red
Wings have been improved on that. So it seems like
the players are buying into what he's teaching and so
far resulting in wins.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Funny enough, al hockey works out here. I remember the
last time he was on the Red Wings bench, they
hoisted the Stanley Cup in Pittsburgh. Nicholas Ledstrum, Chris Draper,
Thomas Holmestrum Chris Osgood were still in that room. San
Jose then goes and hires him, and what felt like
the very next day, and they couldn't stop talking about
his coaching education helping oversee the Red Wings dynasty which
(15:33):
was in their last days at that point. Do you
ken what's evolved you think about Todd McClellan to the
last roughly seventeen years ever since, Well, he's.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Got a good pedigree. And I remember when he was
here as an assistant coach under Mike Babcock. Everyone kept
saying in the organization, Hey, one day he's going to
be a fantastic coach in the National Hockey League and
wants you know what goes over to San Jose and
I think he had two or three fifty win seasons,
took them into the playoffs and really turned that team
(16:04):
and that, you know, the whole organization around. So you
could tell that. You know, he's a guy that demands
a lot from his players, but he's also a teaching
type of coach and everything that he teaches his players
he expects them to learn and play within the system.
So he's been really good, and you know, again it's
really difficult for a coach to come in halfway through
(16:26):
the season not knowing anything about the organization since he's
been here, but it seems like everything that he's been
teaching his players, you know, they responded and to win
in hockey games.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Right now, well, times have certainly changed him. Back then
he had one of the greatest of all time on
that blue line in Nicholas Listrom. Now he's got a
pretty good guy, a lot of miles ahead still, but
still very much off to a good started Marine Cider
with forty two points in each of the last two
seasons as well, and he's pushing already halfway to thirty
by the halfway poll here of the season, Ken, how
(16:59):
likely you think he breaks his career high and how
long are we going to see him.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
On highs today as well?
Speaker 9 (17:06):
You think, Well, here's the thing about most Cighter is
he's only twenty three years old and he's already playing
twenty five twenty six minutes a game, and he's playing
against the National Hockey League's best players. He's in every game,
so that tells you a lot about how much trust
they have in most Cider. And the thing about Mo
is he's never missed a National Hockey League game since
he came into the NHL, and you know, he's a
(17:28):
horse back there. You look at all these other guys
back there on the blue line popping up all these points,
Guys like cal mccarr and Quinn Hughes. These are great
offensive players. But the thing about most Cider is he
had the physical element to his game that those other
two players don't have. So not only is he offensive
minded and gifted, but he can also play that physical
brand of hockey, which I think every team needs back
(17:50):
there on the blue line.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You think for that kind of durability, is it more
about what goes into is mind to prepare him for that,
or is it more about the way that he has
been trained to embrace the ruggedness of this league to
be able to withstand that kind of punishment.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
I just think he goes out there and plays, and
he blocks a lot of shots too. It's just amazing
how he doesn't get hurt, to be honest with you,
because he'll deliver hard body checks the wingers that are
coming down into the offensive zone. And you know the
other thing too, is he'll block shot, sacrifice the body.
Yet somehow he comes out of it unscathed, which is great,
and I'd hate to see what this Redleau team would
(18:26):
be like without him in the lineup because he's just
a valuable part of this Red Wing team. And again
he's our number one blue liner and he's only twenty
three years old. He's just playing great. He's only going
to get better.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Ken cal Radio play by play voice here for the
Red Wings, joining us on cracking this morning ahead of
the Sunday pod drop at Little Caesars Arena. Part of
what I love about NHL rosters Ken is seeing who's
pushing forty and who's part of the young pop group
here and to think where they were in life when
the Vets just began their NHL careers. I take Patrick
kin and Lucas Raymond for example, the former alt time
(19:00):
great in USA hockey.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
He's going to go to the Hall.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Of Fame, the latter part of the next Group, part
of the next wave here in Detroit, and he's leading
score for much of the season. Where have you seen
each of their influences make the biggest impact on this team.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Well, Patrick Kane started off a little bit slow this year.
He's like a point per game player. When he came
into the lineup. Last year for Detroit, started off a
little bit slow, was injured, missed about six games. But
recently he's been on a chair for the Red Wings
and you know him and Raymond, as you mentioned Lark
and to brink it, all these guys are putting up
big numbers right now over since Tom McClelland has become
(19:36):
the head coach. Lucas Raymond signed a big deal, and
a lot of times when players signed big deals, they
don't live up to that expectation right away, but not
so with Lucas Raymond. I mean, he signed a long
term deal to stay here in Detroit and he's one
of the best players point wise on this team right now.
I mean, Lucas started off the season I couldn't buy
a goal really, but he was tipping in with all
(19:58):
kinds of assists. But then after that he was on
a chair and start scoring some goals. So you look
at his numbers, Raymond and forty games played sixteen goals,
twenty six assists for forty two points. The plus minus
number is minus seventy. He'd like to improve upon that,
but certainly he's been one of the leaders offensively on
this Red lingue team along with Tila Market.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Finally look at a hat here Ken. The Red Wings
are playing in a schedule that's basically every other day
here to this point, and that's what you get with
the break coming up next month here for the Four Nations.
As we said, they're making a run for it right now.
But what more do you think they need to be
in this playoff? Necks here for good as we get
closer and closer to March.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
Well, idalistically, I think they would like to have another
center iceman, somebody that could play on the second line.
And the bad part about that is good luck trying
to find one. Right, You're gonna have to make a
deal if you want to get somebody like that, because
teams just don't give up center ceman or you have
to develop one, and that takes four or five years
once you draft the player, and then hopefully you're crossing
(20:58):
your fingers that he'll come in and make an impact
with your club. But I think that's where the Red Wings.
They need to be strong down the middle. And if
they could ever land a number two center iceman and
you'd have to give up somebody for that, I think
that would put them in pretty good shape, but just
like everybody else in the Eastern Conference right now, it's
such a logjam, and teams that win four or five
(21:20):
in a row, they move up the ladder pretty quick.
But you start losing three, four or five games in
a row, you're down at the bottom. So you know,
it's the teams that are going that win and win
consistently are the ones that are eventually going to make
the playoffs. But it's so hard, as you know, when
you've got five or six teams ahead of you and
they're all they all have the same goal, and that's
(21:41):
trying to get a wild card spot, it's very hard
you send every game. So just to give you an example,
the Red Wings won their last game against Ottawa and
they were two points out and they didn't play the
next day. The next thing you know, Columbus is four
points ahead of them. Now the Wings are four points out.
So that's how quick it contained, especially the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Ken certainly appreciate your time. We're into busy times now
in this league. But you do great work as always,
legendary work, if I may say, and looking forward to
chatting with you once again.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Have every re call today, all right, Thank you very
much appreciate I Ken, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The Krack and certainly have their work cutout for them,
facing a Red Wings team that has won six in
a row entering today and in the first matchup of
two between the two teams this season. They'll go at
it one more time coming up next month February fourth
at Climate Pledge Arena the Crack and once more four
to zero and two all time against the Red Wings.
They have gone unbeaten in regulation and three meetings on
(22:41):
the road at a two to zero to one record,
and they're going to push. Also some individual streaks a
little further Chandler Stevenson's scott points in five consecutive games,
Jared McCann and Shane Wright also on three game point
streaks as well. We mentioned the young up and coming
talent on the Red Wings, but you all so had
to look at one of the greatest players of all time,
(23:03):
especially on the US born side, Patrick Kaine, who could
be a big focal point for this game coming up.
He's got a six game point streak including four multipoint
efforts as well to twenty five points in thirty six.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Games right now.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Fourth on the Red Wings and he is still ticking
offensively at thirty six years of age.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
So we got more afternoon hockey coming your way.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
In Game three of the five game road trip, we'll
have all the action for you, opening up a little
past noon Pacific time. Airtime coverage also opening up at
eleven thirty in the morning Pacific. Ever it fits you,
Al Koniski on the call from Detroit, I'll join you
once again for pregame, intermission and postgame coverage at Network Central.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
We certainly hope that you can join us.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Big thank you once again to Ken Cal for being
with us and for krakeen this morning. I'm Mike Benton,
Happy Sunday, You're home for
Speaker 1 (23:52):
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