November 15, 2025 • 28 mins
Mike Benton recaps the Thursday night victory over Winnipeg with reaction from defenseman Vince Dunn, and is joined by San Jose Sharks radio voice Dan Rusanowsky ahead of a Nov. 15 rematch between the Kraken and Sharks at Climate Pledge Arena.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the Cracking
Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.
Here's Mike Benton, final game of the homestand coming up.
Welcome to Cracking this morning. On a Saturday, November fifteenth,
the cracking taking on the San Jose Sharks feels just
like yesterday the crack and face them almost kind of
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was in a way. But they'll face off this evening
at seven o'clock Pacific from Climate Pledge Arena, airtime six
point thirty for your pregame show is served up by
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
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we'll be here for you all across of course, on
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the course, trying to add the salme stand with a
win also in a game that has extra meaning because
this evening is Hockey Fights Cancer Night, presented by Virginia
Mason Franciscan Health and a reminder for you. Throughout the
month of November, the Kraken joined the NHL to support
cancer patients and survivors in recognition of the Hockey Fights
Cancer campaign year round. In partnership with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health,
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the Crack can promote early detection as they prevented a
measure to save lives cancer screening. By the way, going
on the Northwest Concourse, men forty and older can receive
a free prostate cancer screening from Virginia Mason Franciscan Health.
Walk ups welcome through the first intermission. Of course, tributes
also coming for this game throughout the entire evening. As
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far as game matters, the Crack in facing San Jose
and their second matchup of the season and the Sharks
back in matchup one showing they mean business. The Kraken
fell six to one in that game on November fifth,
back at Climbate Pledge Arena, but the Crack and bouncing
back after that, going two to zero and two. Ever
since that game, setting third right now in the Pacific
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Division and amidst a very very compact Western Conference. The
point gap right now, well, let's put it this way.
Unless you're the Colorado Avalanche, it is tight quarters right now.
There are ten teams within six points of each other,
beginning with second place Dallas in the West. So with
Thanksgiving coming up, which typically serves as a benchmark for
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teams separating themselves from the pack for the playoffs, there
are still a lot to be decided here in a
very very tight Western Conference. We'll hear more from defenseman
Vince Dunn in just a bit in his reaction from
Thursday night and where his game's aff from a three
point output which also included plenty of depth up and
down the Craken lineup. Additionally, Dan Rousanowski joins us here
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on Cracking this morning, his reaction from this start to
the Sharks season Dan Rusanowski and his words on the
Sharks coming up in just a bit. Well, the Kraken
taking on the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night and facing
a pretty stiff challenge after the Kraken offense nearly went
dry in a two to one shootout loss to a
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very very tired Blue Jackets team that was also under
the weather. The Kraken, though, facing Winnipeg with ailments of
their own. No Joey Decord, no Jared McCann, no Freddie Gudreaux,
and even after a first period goal, no Coppocco exiting
with a lower body injury. But the Kraken trying to
fight for their lives. In period three, down by a goal,
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they found an extra gear which told them they were
down but not out.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Now.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
It's Tolbanant back to the point bits dunt straightaway tolban.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
It suits stood.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Helly Tolbanan with a rocket from the right side. It's
a power play goal. Fifteen to forty nine to play
the we're tied at three.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
But much like the same goal Elliethoven scored the other day,
it's on a power play, top of the circles, cracking
and moving the puck around the perimeter, but it gets
back to Vincetonne at the point he sends it down
to tobd In on that right circle. He puts everything
into it, beating hill of black blocker side down low.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
This gave a tight an earies back to Marshman in
the circle. It's a hip check in the the master.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Call down black.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Star.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Maddy vaneers top of the right circle. He fights every
down low tick tag goal not captain, let's stop cracking.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
On top by a four to three score. Well, this
one starts with a Mason Marshman down that right side.
He turns his body to protect the puck, gets it
back to Matty Veneers. As Jordan Niberley is swinging around
the back side of the dead we had a great
angle for him. From up here you can see Maddie
waiting for Jordan Nibley to get into position. As soon
as he was there, boom on a stick, tap of
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the neck.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Board three cracker, three Seattle extra attacker off for Winnipeg,
Ryan Ling.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
GrITT, he'll push it up the boards.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Winnipeg, not a little hold.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
The line not even.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Ears near side.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
The captain walks in stood back to back goals.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
For the captain. He's got two. The tracking ahead by
two five, three, one thirty five left at Seattle.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
One of the ways the cracker we're gonna have to
win this game was puck battles.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
In that time.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
There not even ears with a puck bottle win along
the boards, pokes it forward, finds differently over the far
side of the ice all by himself, imfidit goal for
seven second.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
A goal for.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Seven is into by man engineers.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Five three crack seconds on the clock, shifely right side centers,
a pass.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
In front that dies by everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Five seconds left, puck tight off on.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
An airboards, Horassey down low, Kyle Cutter, China pumping in,
He'll go it.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Fuck's hard.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
The Seattle Cracket survive a late flurry from the Winnipeg
Jets to pick up their second win up a season
over Winnipeg five three here at home.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So we're not even at Thanksgiving yet, and the Kracking
have already claimed the head to head season series in
a five to three win over Winnipeg with one more
matchup to go, and that's not until April. But yet
the Kracking bouncing back from that Columbus loss in a
shootout that really wasn't the most impressive part of it
when they hung up five goals on Winnipeg, and that
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bounced back type of effort impressive as it was, the
Kraken still made plenty of mistakes against Winnipeg and found
a way to hang four goals on Connor Hellibuck plus
and empty net Goldi claim their first comeback win of
the season when trailing after two periods, handing Winnipeg their
first loss when leading after two periods, as well the
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krack and surviving wild swings with special teams, eventually coming
out one for three on the power play, holding Winnipeg
to one for three on the man advantage, plus Matt
Eveaneers in his line finding the extra gear in that
victory after being put together with him, Jordan Eberley and
Mason march Men Everley the captain with two goals, Matty
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Baneers to assist, Mason march Mint to assist, but no
one had a bigger night offensively then Vince Done three
point game on his side. He owns twelve points in
seventeen games, and that three point outing was a new
season high. Here's Done's reaction after the game, meeting with
the media.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Pretty emotional out there. What do you think of the
third period?
Speaker 9 (07:50):
It's pretty good. I think just a lot of character
to close the game out, and we knew the game
was close and we.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Fought the start of the game.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
I think that both teams were battling pretty well out there,
and we didn't panic when we were down or when
we made little mistakes on the power play or to
get us onto the penalty killer, just five on five breakdowns.
So I think it's just good for us to know
that things happen in games and we can adapt to
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them and pick each other up and close games out
when we need to.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
To be able to come back from a goal down
three different times tonight, What does that kind of say
about your guys and way you were able to battle
for it.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yeah, it's been a lot of the opposite.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
We're usually up and then letting teams back, So we
know we have both of those situations in us and
we need to be able to handle both. So it's
good to see our character in those times and guys
show up and just slowly chip away at the game.
It wasn't we didn't chase the game when we were down.
I think it's a good feeling when guys are buying
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into each other and rolling over with four lines. I
thought everyone contribute a lot tonight, and it wasn't just
one certain player one certain line to get us that win.
Everyone was dialed in all the way to the end.
A lot of big plays when it was six on five,
and just a lot of different special teams and situations
to get us through that game.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
It's a it's a character win on your goal.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
What made you kind of circle to the front of
the net there instead of just going straight back to
the point.
Speaker 9 (09:23):
Was there something that happened that made you think that
it was gonna pop out there for you. Usually when
you go down, the forward replaces the chandler was really
screaming go So I just kind of took my shot there.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I got a fortunate balance.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
I think right now, we've been trying to make a
lot of plays, and I think today we dummied it
down a little bit. We were throwing pucks at the net,
slinging pucks and hoping to get better chances. I don't
think wins was necessarily trying to make that play to me,
but I respect what he did.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
It was it was a great.
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Play by him taking it to the net, and that's
how we're going to have to create goals. It's it's
not easy to score in this league, and it was
a great play by him to just try to get
it there and hope that good things would happen.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Vince on Capo's goal, is that the first time you
ever recorded and assist and a hit at the same time.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Maybe, to be honest, yeah, I really didn't. I kind
of like Blanko when the guy came at me. I
was just kind of didn't want to dive in.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
Because sometimes, you know, you get too active and the
puck turns over, it can shoot back, and they're pretty
good off the rush and transition.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
So I guess. So, I don't know. I wouldn't know
that answer. Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So for the krack end, it's time to move on
to San Jose and naming for payback. In the second
matchup of the year, San Jose took their lumps two
nights ago in a two nothing lost to Calgary at
the Saddle Dome, but not indicative of their recent run,
exploding for an a three and one burst in the
last twelve games and all part of this macln Celebrini
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already going next level and hovering around the NHL scoring
lead right now with twenty six points in eighteen games.
Joe Thornton is also a part of helping lead the
San Jose youth. He's now part of the Hockey Hall
of Fame, of course, but he's been a new home
in San Jose post career with a purpose We spoke
more on that, plus more on the Sharks this week
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with Sharks radio play by play voice and Hall of
Famer Dan Rusanowski in this cut from Cracking Weekly. Dan,
good to see you a few days ago, back here
in Seattle, looking forward to the next one already here,
But I want to first begin just from the first
time that these two teams met. What surprised you most
may be about the Sharks start here to this season.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Well, I think that it's taken a little while for
all things to start to piece together. I think that
that's been part of the story, and we have to
keep reminding ourselves how many different players are on the roster,
and that probably led to the somewhat slow beginning. It
was getting a little bit tiresome in San Jose, simply
because the last three years it's been really tough in
the month of ock, and so there was a kind
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of a feeling of, oh no, here we go again.
But very very quickly things started to dissipate in that direction.
The Sharks started to, you know, show what they are
made of. And I think that they're only right now
beginning to really feel that they're in a position to
have a home iice advantage to make sure that they
can compete against anybody, and with recent results, I think
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they've done a really good job against top teams, and
I think all of that is lent to the confidence
of the team. But then you throw on what Macklin
Celebrini's doing at age nineteen. You know, you usually look
at players and you say, Okay, he's a young guy,
and he's scoring a lot of points. All right, great, well,
most of the time, if you take a look at
it and you break it down between home and road,
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usually that you know the young guy will get a
lot of points at home, won't score as much on
the road because they don't have the matchups, you don't
have the last change, and a whole variety of other factors.
Macklin Celebrini's leading the National Hockey League and scoring on
the road at age nineteen, and that's just sort of
testimony to what he's meant to the team and how
things are clicking for him and how we're looking at
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the development of a next great era of unbelievable superstar
in the league.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I remember having a conversation with you with Randy Han
when you guys were here, and I think it just
kind of shed more light as far as just the
potential he's got, but already how special of to start
that he is up to. So before we touch more
on that, I can't help but think after the winless streak,
you guys go into New York and get a game
into overtime, win, a Celebrini hat trick, five point game,
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and then the win for instance against New Jersey, a
team that is rolling right now under Sheldon Keith. Was
there a specific game that you really began to see
the pieces begin to really fall into places for this team.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I'd say probably that road trip. I'd say probably that
gaming reference at Madison Square Garden is probably the best example,
because in that amazing atmosphere, with that spotlight on the team,
the Sharks rose to the occasion and it wasn't just
Celebrini and I and we shouldn't, you know, we do
need to sing his praises and talk about what he's
meant to the club and what he's going to mean
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in the future, not only to this club but to
the game of hockey, but also you know, the players
like Will Smith and Mario Ferrero and Colin Grath and
you know, I can go through the entire roster. Both
goaltenders started to play quite well. That was another thing too.
It took a while for both goaltenders to start to
really really click. And I think that game Madison Square
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Garden was a big one because it was in the
big spotlight that they performed and after that they had
some confidence and they said, okay, we can do this.
They had a few other challenges. I think that you
know that that has developed and you know that sort
of is blossomed really with the first meeting in Seattle
where you know, the Sharks. The morning of that of
that game, we're not expecting to play seven defensemen and
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eleven forwards. They were expecting to play a standard six
d and twelve forwards. Michael Misa got dinged up in
the morning skate, so they called Vinnie deharn and after
you know, they started really bag skating him and they said, well,
you're gonna have to You're gonna have to come in
a little earlier because you think you might have to play.
He ends up playing really well in the penalty kill.
And I think that they were very prepared special teams
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against that team, so every time they had something thrown
at them, they seem to respond to it and do
it with enthusiasm and accept that challenge instead of letting
the challenges get to them. And I think that's sort
of a description of the way the season is going.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Dan, talk a little bit about the culture of this team,
the personality, if you will. You know, from the outside
looking in, it seems like a bunch of guys that
obviously take their jobs very seriously, but don't take themselves
very seriously. They keep things light. At a chance to
be between the benches last night, and you know, it
wasn't just towards the end of the game when it
was certainly out of hand for the cracking, but you
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could see it throughout the game, a lot of smiles
on the bench, you know. Talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Well, I think that that's a big part of it.
You know, Larry Robinson used to always tell us back
in the day that one of the keys to all
of the Stanley Cup championships that he won, not only
as a player but later on as a coach or
a member of management, was because they remember that it
was just a game and that they have to have
fun playing the game. And you know, Igor larryanoff used
to always tell us, you don't work hockey, you play hockey.
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And that's the side of it that you have to
remember about this game that's really important. So you probably
saw that. On the bench, they've got an element of that.
Of course, they've got prodigious talent to be able to
back it all up. But then again, behind the bench,
you've also got Ryan Warsowski who understands this generation quite well.
He's a very young coach in the National Hockey League
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and he seems to get the best out of out
of that group of people. And you know, we saw
what he's already done with Team USA and the World Championships,
winning a gold medal too, So you know that's another
another factor that's important.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Dan touching on Maclin celebrating more, we've heard a lot
of the supplaieratives already about the comparisons his game. But
what do you see right now with where he's at
in just his nineteen year old season versus say, when
he could be, you know, peaking topping out at say
twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven years of age.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Sky's a limit for the kid. He can do everything,
he does it in all three zones and he does
it with a joy about the game that's very infectious.
He gets people to follow him as he drives the
energy and the level of the team. When things aren't
going well, he plays with a great competitiveness to try
to get things back under control. And all of these
things are things that are just starting to develop. I
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think just before we played, you know, we had we
played the game between the Sharks and the Kraken. There
was a back to back set of games against Colorado
against Detroit where the Sharks beat Colorado in overtime. Next
game they were playing against the Red Wings, and through
that entire game, he and Maurit Sider had an unbelievable
back and forth Batleary going intensely at it, and he
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just put his arms around that and it absolutely loved it,
and his teammates loved it too, And of course he
was doing that with the knowledge that if things ever
really did get out of hand. Number one, he was
showing Detroit that he wasn't going to put up with that.
But number two, he showed confidence that his teammates would
would be right there to back him up, which of
course they would be. So I think it's infectious. I
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think it's I think it's fun and it's spectacular.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
When it comes to Will Smith, who has been you know,
along his side basically here for the last couple of
years and a big part of this score. I mean,
we've seen a lot of the skill that was on
display here for the first game between these two teams
in Seattle.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Again.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
But you know, I kind of asked a similar question
previously with Mattlan celebrating, But is there anybody you've seen prior,
whether it might be on the Sharks or in the
NHL that kind of reminds you of Will Smith in
his game.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Not really, He's got a combination of a lot of
different types of players. I think the biggest thing that
he has is an incredibly high hy iq. He knows
where the puck is going. I don't know how he does.
He has sort of a premonition as to where things
are going to happen. He puts himself into a position
because he's able to buy more time for himself. He
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makes himself appear faster than perhaps the actual reality is,
and I think that that's really important. But there's another
factor about Will Smith too that has nothing to do
about hockey, and that has to do with the fun
part we were just talking about. I think that Macklin
is just very serious, very driven, very into it, and
yes he's got a great personality, but Will brings out
the lighter side in Macklin. And I think Macklin brings
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out a more serious side and Will. So it's really
an interesting combination. You know, when you're trying to put
together a great team, every club needs a Batman and
a Robin, and it looks like the Sharks have both
of those superheroes on their roster.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Talk a little bit about and I've read this, I've
got to believe it's true, But talk a little bit
about the living situation with Macklin celebrity.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
I understand he might have a roommate from a former Shark.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Well, it's not just Macklin, it's a whole group of
him now. So Macklin Celebrini lives with Joe Thornton, hall
of famer, somebody that also knew exactly how to approach
day to day life and knew how to enjoy the game.
Will Smith lives with Patrick Marlowe, which I think is
an interesting combination. Joe Thornton was number one overall, so
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he knows exactly what Maclin is going through. He understands
all the pressures. He played in Boston, played for the Sharks,
always had the weight of the world and his shoulders
and on the other side of it, Patrick Marlow was
always kind of that second guy, even though he was
a superstar. He's likely going in the Hockey Hall of
Fame too. He was always sort of in the shadow
of Joe Thornton is the second overall guy, and Will
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Smith is sort of in that area right now too,
so it's really interesting to see how those guys have
combined together. The third kind of leg of that appears
to be Michael Misa, who now was eighteen years of age.
I guess is spending a lot of time with the
Tyler Tiffoli family. So you know, another veteran player who's
been through everything. He's won a Stanley Cup, and these
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kids are really benefiting from the fact that their living
situations are like that. Think about it when you know,
if I were nineteen years old and I were out
in the NHL and you gave me a million dollars,
I'd probably be dead right now. But these guys are so,
you know, such great shape. Pardon me, and and they're
they're they're really uh, they're really amazingly qualified. But they
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have that balance with these players.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I can't imagine what I would want to do at
nineteen years of age with a million dollars in anywhere
I would want to live or anywhere i'd want to go.
It'd be a scary combination here. But that's what but
surety is for when you grow up. Here a little
bit more, Dan, I want to ask you about remember this.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Remember this one thing too that it's really important to
add to that is that, you know, we joke about
a little of that, but the truth is they are
still kids and part of them they are you know,
you see that off the ice, but on the ice
they're total pros. But you have to remember that, you know,
the process of becoming a full fledged adult is a
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is a sometimes like a stock market art. You have
some moments where things go right and they don't. So
it's great to have people around you that show you
the right way. I mean, the biggest thing for me
is that number one to Bee of Thornton, Joe's wife
is an awesome cook. Christina Marlow makes the food like
nobody else. So they're getting proper nutrition, and they're getting
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proper guidance with sleep. And they're also getting guidance between
with men that have their own families, that care about
their kids, that spend a lot of time away from
the rink with their children and take that responsibility. And
I think that that's just a great example for any
of these people.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
It sounds like there's a lot of focus on the
off ice stuff. What about the on ice stuff.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Like Jumbo and Marlow reviewing tape with them at home
or they leave that stuff alone.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
No, they probably do spend a little bit of time
talking about things like that with them, but I think
it's a little bit less organized when it comes to that.
You know, maybe if these guys ask them the question.
You know, both Joe Thornton and Patrick Martle were part
of the Sharks development staff and that's official as this year.
With Joe Thornton, once he got into the Hall of
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Fame and so forth, we used to call him the
Director of Vibes with the Sharks. I'm not sure if
he still has that sort of unofficial title, but he's
part of the development staff. Patrick Mardl is a development
coach and they spend a lot of time with a
lot of the young prospects in the organization. And you
know the way it's worked is, you know, they go
back and they might even talk to a kid that's
playing junior and watch him play a little bit. And
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we've got another group of people Tommy Wingles, Lucas Spiek's,
people that have had long careers that spend a lot
of time with these young players. And even in the
goaltending department. You again, you to back office, the director
of goaltending, but they've got Ryan Miller out there scouting
future goaltender prospects for the Sharks. And I think that
it's very organized to make sure that they have the
tools that are necessary for these kids to succeeds. Yeah,
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they are, and they you know, if I had somebody
like that to be like Yoda, you know, I'm saying
that these guys really understand what needs to be done,
and uh, you know, they are also there for when
things don't go well. I think that might even be
the most important thing, because you know, they have to
be reminded that yes, they're gonna have great careers, yes
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that you know, they need to feel really good about themselves.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
We have a star Wars reference now checked, and we
can also can say Patrick Marlow I've mentioned here on
this conversation with Al Koniski to former Seattle Thunderbirds check
as well for that reference. Andrew Zanowski joining us here
on the Beacon Plumbing hotline, and Dan, last couple of
things before wet you go here.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Yeah, check.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I mean, once upon a time the San Jose Sharks,
an infant organization coming out of the cal Palace looking
to grow the game in San Jose, and the ninety
two massive playoff runs. And now you have players like
Joe Thornton from London, Ontario is ticking around, Patrick Marlow
as well, and the Baka that you mentioned, Tommy Wingles.
What's the What's what's the common uniting theme here with
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what has now attracted players to stay and build a
greater foundation in San Jose, kind of like what the
Kraken want to be, you know, years upon years down
the road.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It takes a long time to do that. And of
course you also have the added factor. You have two
things going on here. Number one, no offense to any
place else, but we really believe Northern California is the
best place to live in the world. There are the
cost of living issues certainly that get involved the cost
of housing, so forth and so on. But the facilities
are great, the weather is beautiful, and the one thing
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that we've always said is that the guy's wives and
girlfriends really love it in Northern California. So that's all
check marks in favor. But what you're talking about, too
is the development of the game. Scott Hannon, who's another
former Shark, another former Western Hockey leaguer, ended up. He's
run now running the junior Sharks program, and so that's
a real upgrade in terms of the total overview of
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the coaching and working with the kids. I think that
the goal is to make the Sharks junior program here
stronger as time goes on. What's happened over years, and
what happens oftentimes with young kids is they get to
be about fifteen. This was the tradition in the Northern
California area. You become really good and then you leave. Well,
now they want to make it so that they can
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stay and you've got more people sticking around.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
You know.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
You remember a few years ago, I think it was
one year, I can't remember the exact year, but four
people were drafted in the first round and they were
all from the Saint Louis area. Well, that's because of
all of those guys that's stuck around to Saint Louis
and now are coaching all these kids. And I think
that that's the kind of direction we like to see
things going here. Most of it still is with the
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you know, the the NHL team's development staff and so forth.
But you know, Mark Smith lives here. He's involved in
coaching girls and guys in the Junior Sharks program. Scott
Hannon is here. There are a number of other people
that have stuck around, and I think it creates a
great atmosphere for.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
The all right, great to hear from the Hall of
Fame voice Dan Rosanowski for the radio side of the
San Jose Sharks, a part of them since expansion back
in nineteen ninety one. Dan Rusanowski, that conversation, by the way,
more in full all a part of Crack and Weekly,
dropped here of course via the Crack and Audio Network
on the iHeartRadio app. So matchup number two coming up
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with the Crack and trying to end their homestand with
a win and with a bang. After this four straight
opening on the road this next week in Detroit. Special
night coming here for Hockey Fights Cancer, presented by Virginia
Mason Franciscan Health and a part of this includes their
table at the Modelo Cantina BI section seven to eight
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a Climate Pledge Arena. So well invite you to stop
on bye to ring the bell in celebration of cancer survivors.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Take a photo.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
At the lavender crack and Hockey Fights Cancer backdrop, grab
temporary tattoos, knit a gloves and fill out and I
find four card to join the in game tribute Throughout
the entire evening at Climate Pledge Arena. We'll talk to
you at six thirty. Once again, pop dropped little past
seven o'clock Pacific, All Lacrosse, the Global Credit Union, Kraken
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Audio Network. Big thank you to Dan Rosanowski and for
kracking this morning. I'm Mike Benton. Enjoy the game.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
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Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.
Here's Mike Benton, final game of the homestand coming up.
Welcome to Cracking this morning. On a Saturday, November fifteenth,
the cracking taking on the San Jose Sharks feels just
like yesterday the crack and face them almost kind of
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was in a way. But they'll face off this evening
at seven o'clock Pacific from Climate Pledge Arena, airtime six
point thirty for your pregame show is served up by
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
Alkiniski will be with you with coverage opening up on
the flagship side. Take note on Sports Radio nine point
fifty KJAR post game will be at Tom's Watchbar once
again Alkiniski and myself, So come on down to hang
out with us here if you're around the area, and
we'll be here for you all across of course, on
the Global Credit Union Cracking Audio Network, the crack of
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the course, trying to add the salme stand with a
win also in a game that has extra meaning because
this evening is Hockey Fights Cancer Night, presented by Virginia
Mason Franciscan Health and a reminder for you. Throughout the
month of November, the Kraken joined the NHL to support
cancer patients and survivors in recognition of the Hockey Fights
Cancer campaign year round. In partnership with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health,
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the Crack can promote early detection as they prevented a
measure to save lives cancer screening. By the way, going
on the Northwest Concourse, men forty and older can receive
a free prostate cancer screening from Virginia Mason Franciscan Health.
Walk ups welcome through the first intermission. Of course, tributes
also coming for this game throughout the entire evening. As
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far as game matters, the Crack in facing San Jose
and their second matchup of the season and the Sharks
back in matchup one showing they mean business. The Kraken
fell six to one in that game on November fifth,
back at Climbate Pledge Arena, but the Crack and bouncing
back after that, going two to zero and two. Ever
since that game, setting third right now in the Pacific
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Division and amidst a very very compact Western Conference. The
point gap right now, well, let's put it this way.
Unless you're the Colorado Avalanche, it is tight quarters right now.
There are ten teams within six points of each other,
beginning with second place Dallas in the West. So with
Thanksgiving coming up, which typically serves as a benchmark for
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teams separating themselves from the pack for the playoffs, there
are still a lot to be decided here in a
very very tight Western Conference. We'll hear more from defenseman
Vince Dunn in just a bit in his reaction from
Thursday night and where his game's aff from a three
point output which also included plenty of depth up and
down the Craken lineup. Additionally, Dan Rousanowski joins us here
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on Cracking this morning, his reaction from this start to
the Sharks season Dan Rusanowski and his words on the
Sharks coming up in just a bit. Well, the Kraken
taking on the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night and facing
a pretty stiff challenge after the Kraken offense nearly went
dry in a two to one shootout loss to a
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very very tired Blue Jackets team that was also under
the weather. The Kraken, though, facing Winnipeg with ailments of
their own. No Joey Decord, no Jared McCann, no Freddie Gudreaux,
and even after a first period goal, no Coppocco exiting
with a lower body injury. But the Kraken trying to
fight for their lives. In period three, down by a goal,
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they found an extra gear which told them they were
down but not out.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Now.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
It's Tolbanant back to the point bits dunt straightaway tolban.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
It suits stood.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Helly Tolbanan with a rocket from the right side. It's
a power play goal. Fifteen to forty nine to play
the we're tied at three.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
But much like the same goal Elliethoven scored the other day,
it's on a power play, top of the circles, cracking
and moving the puck around the perimeter, but it gets
back to Vincetonne at the point he sends it down
to tobd In on that right circle. He puts everything
into it, beating hill of black blocker side down low.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
This gave a tight an earies back to Marshman in
the circle. It's a hip check in the the master.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Call down black.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Star.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Maddy vaneers top of the right circle. He fights every
down low tick tag goal not captain, let's stop cracking.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
On top by a four to three score. Well, this
one starts with a Mason Marshman down that right side.
He turns his body to protect the puck, gets it
back to Matty Veneers. As Jordan Niberley is swinging around
the back side of the dead we had a great
angle for him. From up here you can see Maddie
waiting for Jordan Nibley to get into position. As soon
as he was there, boom on a stick, tap of
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the neck.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Board three cracker, three Seattle extra attacker off for Winnipeg,
Ryan Ling.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
GrITT, he'll push it up the boards.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Winnipeg, not a little hold.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
The line not even.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Ears near side.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
The captain walks in stood back to back goals.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
For the captain. He's got two. The tracking ahead by
two five, three, one thirty five left at Seattle.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
One of the ways the cracker we're gonna have to
win this game was puck battles.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
In that time.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
There not even ears with a puck bottle win along
the boards, pokes it forward, finds differently over the far
side of the ice all by himself, imfidit goal for
seven second.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
A goal for.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Seven is into by man engineers.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Five three crack seconds on the clock, shifely right side centers,
a pass.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
In front that dies by everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Five seconds left, puck tight off on.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
An airboards, Horassey down low, Kyle Cutter, China pumping in,
He'll go it.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Fuck's hard.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
The Seattle Cracket survive a late flurry from the Winnipeg
Jets to pick up their second win up a season
over Winnipeg five three here at home.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So we're not even at Thanksgiving yet, and the Kracking
have already claimed the head to head season series in
a five to three win over Winnipeg with one more
matchup to go, and that's not until April. But yet
the Kracking bouncing back from that Columbus loss in a
shootout that really wasn't the most impressive part of it
when they hung up five goals on Winnipeg, and that
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bounced back type of effort impressive as it was, the
Kraken still made plenty of mistakes against Winnipeg and found
a way to hang four goals on Connor Hellibuck plus
and empty net Goldi claim their first comeback win of
the season when trailing after two periods, handing Winnipeg their
first loss when leading after two periods, as well the
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krack and surviving wild swings with special teams, eventually coming
out one for three on the power play, holding Winnipeg
to one for three on the man advantage, plus Matt
Eveaneers in his line finding the extra gear in that
victory after being put together with him, Jordan Eberley and
Mason march Men Everley the captain with two goals, Matty
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Baneers to assist, Mason march Mint to assist, but no
one had a bigger night offensively then Vince Done three
point game on his side. He owns twelve points in
seventeen games, and that three point outing was a new
season high. Here's Done's reaction after the game, meeting with
the media.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Pretty emotional out there. What do you think of the
third period?
Speaker 9 (07:50):
It's pretty good. I think just a lot of character
to close the game out, and we knew the game
was close and we.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Fought the start of the game.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
I think that both teams were battling pretty well out there,
and we didn't panic when we were down or when
we made little mistakes on the power play or to
get us onto the penalty killer, just five on five breakdowns.
So I think it's just good for us to know
that things happen in games and we can adapt to
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them and pick each other up and close games out
when we need to.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
To be able to come back from a goal down
three different times tonight, What does that kind of say
about your guys and way you were able to battle
for it.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yeah, it's been a lot of the opposite.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
We're usually up and then letting teams back, So we
know we have both of those situations in us and
we need to be able to handle both. So it's
good to see our character in those times and guys
show up and just slowly chip away at the game.
It wasn't we didn't chase the game when we were down.
I think it's a good feeling when guys are buying
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into each other and rolling over with four lines. I
thought everyone contribute a lot tonight, and it wasn't just
one certain player one certain line to get us that win.
Everyone was dialed in all the way to the end.
A lot of big plays when it was six on five,
and just a lot of different special teams and situations
to get us through that game.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
It's a it's a character win on your goal.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
What made you kind of circle to the front of
the net there instead of just going straight back to
the point.
Speaker 9 (09:23):
Was there something that happened that made you think that
it was gonna pop out there for you. Usually when
you go down, the forward replaces the chandler was really
screaming go So I just kind of took my shot there.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I got a fortunate balance.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
I think right now, we've been trying to make a
lot of plays, and I think today we dummied it
down a little bit. We were throwing pucks at the net,
slinging pucks and hoping to get better chances. I don't
think wins was necessarily trying to make that play to me,
but I respect what he did.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
It was it was a great.
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Play by him taking it to the net, and that's
how we're going to have to create goals. It's it's
not easy to score in this league, and it was
a great play by him to just try to get
it there and hope that good things would happen.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Vince on Capo's goal, is that the first time you
ever recorded and assist and a hit at the same time.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Maybe, to be honest, yeah, I really didn't. I kind
of like Blanko when the guy came at me. I
was just kind of didn't want to dive in.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
Because sometimes, you know, you get too active and the
puck turns over, it can shoot back, and they're pretty
good off the rush and transition.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
So I guess. So, I don't know. I wouldn't know
that answer. Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So for the krack end, it's time to move on
to San Jose and naming for payback. In the second
matchup of the year, San Jose took their lumps two
nights ago in a two nothing lost to Calgary at
the Saddle Dome, but not indicative of their recent run,
exploding for an a three and one burst in the
last twelve games and all part of this macln Celebrini
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already going next level and hovering around the NHL scoring
lead right now with twenty six points in eighteen games.
Joe Thornton is also a part of helping lead the
San Jose youth. He's now part of the Hockey Hall
of Fame, of course, but he's been a new home
in San Jose post career with a purpose We spoke
more on that, plus more on the Sharks this week
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with Sharks radio play by play voice and Hall of
Famer Dan Rusanowski in this cut from Cracking Weekly. Dan,
good to see you a few days ago, back here
in Seattle, looking forward to the next one already here,
But I want to first begin just from the first
time that these two teams met. What surprised you most
may be about the Sharks start here to this season.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Well, I think that it's taken a little while for
all things to start to piece together. I think that
that's been part of the story, and we have to
keep reminding ourselves how many different players are on the roster,
and that probably led to the somewhat slow beginning. It
was getting a little bit tiresome in San Jose, simply
because the last three years it's been really tough in
the month of ock, and so there was a kind
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of a feeling of, oh no, here we go again.
But very very quickly things started to dissipate in that direction.
The Sharks started to, you know, show what they are
made of. And I think that they're only right now
beginning to really feel that they're in a position to
have a home iice advantage to make sure that they
can compete against anybody, and with recent results, I think
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they've done a really good job against top teams, and
I think all of that is lent to the confidence
of the team. But then you throw on what Macklin
Celebrini's doing at age nineteen. You know, you usually look
at players and you say, Okay, he's a young guy,
and he's scoring a lot of points. All right, great, well,
most of the time, if you take a look at
it and you break it down between home and road,
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usually that you know the young guy will get a
lot of points at home, won't score as much on
the road because they don't have the matchups, you don't
have the last change, and a whole variety of other factors.
Macklin Celebrini's leading the National Hockey League and scoring on
the road at age nineteen, and that's just sort of
testimony to what he's meant to the team and how
things are clicking for him and how we're looking at
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the development of a next great era of unbelievable superstar
in the league.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I remember having a conversation with you with Randy Han
when you guys were here, and I think it just
kind of shed more light as far as just the
potential he's got, but already how special of to start
that he is up to. So before we touch more
on that, I can't help but think after the winless streak,
you guys go into New York and get a game
into overtime, win, a Celebrini hat trick, five point game,
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and then the win for instance against New Jersey, a
team that is rolling right now under Sheldon Keith. Was
there a specific game that you really began to see
the pieces begin to really fall into places for this team.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I'd say probably that road trip. I'd say probably that
gaming reference at Madison Square Garden is probably the best example,
because in that amazing atmosphere, with that spotlight on the team,
the Sharks rose to the occasion and it wasn't just
Celebrini and I and we shouldn't, you know, we do
need to sing his praises and talk about what he's
meant to the club and what he's going to mean
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in the future, not only to this club but to
the game of hockey, but also you know, the players
like Will Smith and Mario Ferrero and Colin Grath and
you know, I can go through the entire roster. Both
goaltenders started to play quite well. That was another thing too.
It took a while for both goaltenders to start to
really really click. And I think that game Madison Square
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Garden was a big one because it was in the
big spotlight that they performed and after that they had
some confidence and they said, okay, we can do this.
They had a few other challenges. I think that you
know that that has developed and you know that sort
of is blossomed really with the first meeting in Seattle
where you know, the Sharks. The morning of that of
that game, we're not expecting to play seven defensemen and
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eleven forwards. They were expecting to play a standard six
d and twelve forwards. Michael Misa got dinged up in
the morning skate, so they called Vinnie deharn and after
you know, they started really bag skating him and they said, well,
you're gonna have to You're gonna have to come in
a little earlier because you think you might have to play.
He ends up playing really well in the penalty kill.
And I think that they were very prepared special teams
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against that team, so every time they had something thrown
at them, they seem to respond to it and do
it with enthusiasm and accept that challenge instead of letting
the challenges get to them. And I think that's sort
of a description of the way the season is going.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Dan, talk a little bit about the culture of this team,
the personality, if you will. You know, from the outside
looking in, it seems like a bunch of guys that
obviously take their jobs very seriously, but don't take themselves
very seriously. They keep things light. At a chance to
be between the benches last night, and you know, it
wasn't just towards the end of the game when it
was certainly out of hand for the cracking, but you
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could see it throughout the game, a lot of smiles
on the bench, you know. Talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Well, I think that that's a big part of it.
You know, Larry Robinson used to always tell us back
in the day that one of the keys to all
of the Stanley Cup championships that he won, not only
as a player but later on as a coach or
a member of management, was because they remember that it
was just a game and that they have to have
fun playing the game. And you know, Igor larryanoff used
to always tell us, you don't work hockey, you play hockey.
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And that's the side of it that you have to
remember about this game that's really important. So you probably
saw that. On the bench, they've got an element of that.
Of course, they've got prodigious talent to be able to
back it all up. But then again, behind the bench,
you've also got Ryan Warsowski who understands this generation quite well.
He's a very young coach in the National Hockey League
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and he seems to get the best out of out
of that group of people. And you know, we saw
what he's already done with Team USA and the World Championships,
winning a gold medal too, So you know that's another
another factor that's important.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Dan touching on Maclin celebrating more, we've heard a lot
of the supplaieratives already about the comparisons his game. But
what do you see right now with where he's at
in just his nineteen year old season versus say, when
he could be, you know, peaking topping out at say
twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven years of age.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Sky's a limit for the kid. He can do everything,
he does it in all three zones and he does
it with a joy about the game that's very infectious.
He gets people to follow him as he drives the
energy and the level of the team. When things aren't
going well, he plays with a great competitiveness to try
to get things back under control. And all of these
things are things that are just starting to develop. I
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think just before we played, you know, we had we
played the game between the Sharks and the Kraken. There
was a back to back set of games against Colorado
against Detroit where the Sharks beat Colorado in overtime. Next
game they were playing against the Red Wings, and through
that entire game, he and Maurit Sider had an unbelievable
back and forth Batleary going intensely at it, and he
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just put his arms around that and it absolutely loved it,
and his teammates loved it too, And of course he
was doing that with the knowledge that if things ever
really did get out of hand. Number one, he was
showing Detroit that he wasn't going to put up with that.
But number two, he showed confidence that his teammates would
would be right there to back him up, which of
course they would be. So I think it's infectious. I
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think it's I think it's fun and it's spectacular.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
When it comes to Will Smith, who has been you know,
along his side basically here for the last couple of
years and a big part of this score. I mean,
we've seen a lot of the skill that was on
display here for the first game between these two teams
in Seattle.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Again.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
But you know, I kind of asked a similar question
previously with Mattlan celebrating, But is there anybody you've seen prior,
whether it might be on the Sharks or in the
NHL that kind of reminds you of Will Smith in
his game.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Not really, He's got a combination of a lot of
different types of players. I think the biggest thing that
he has is an incredibly high hy iq. He knows
where the puck is going. I don't know how he does.
He has sort of a premonition as to where things
are going to happen. He puts himself into a position
because he's able to buy more time for himself. He
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makes himself appear faster than perhaps the actual reality is,
and I think that that's really important. But there's another
factor about Will Smith too that has nothing to do
about hockey, and that has to do with the fun
part we were just talking about. I think that Macklin
is just very serious, very driven, very into it, and
yes he's got a great personality, but Will brings out
the lighter side in Macklin. And I think Macklin brings
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out a more serious side and Will. So it's really
an interesting combination. You know, when you're trying to put
together a great team, every club needs a Batman and
a Robin, and it looks like the Sharks have both
of those superheroes on their roster.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Talk a little bit about and I've read this, I've
got to believe it's true, But talk a little bit
about the living situation with Macklin celebrity.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
I understand he might have a roommate from a former Shark.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Well, it's not just Macklin, it's a whole group of
him now. So Macklin Celebrini lives with Joe Thornton, hall
of famer, somebody that also knew exactly how to approach
day to day life and knew how to enjoy the game.
Will Smith lives with Patrick Marlowe, which I think is
an interesting combination. Joe Thornton was number one overall, so
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he knows exactly what Maclin is going through. He understands
all the pressures. He played in Boston, played for the Sharks,
always had the weight of the world and his shoulders
and on the other side of it, Patrick Marlow was
always kind of that second guy, even though he was
a superstar. He's likely going in the Hockey Hall of
Fame too. He was always sort of in the shadow
of Joe Thornton is the second overall guy, and Will
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Smith is sort of in that area right now too,
so it's really interesting to see how those guys have
combined together. The third kind of leg of that appears
to be Michael Misa, who now was eighteen years of age.
I guess is spending a lot of time with the
Tyler Tiffoli family. So you know, another veteran player who's
been through everything. He's won a Stanley Cup, and these
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kids are really benefiting from the fact that their living
situations are like that. Think about it when you know,
if I were nineteen years old and I were out
in the NHL and you gave me a million dollars,
I'd probably be dead right now. But these guys are so,
you know, such great shape. Pardon me, and and they're
they're they're really uh, they're really amazingly qualified. But they
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have that balance with these players.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I can't imagine what I would want to do at
nineteen years of age with a million dollars in anywhere
I would want to live or anywhere i'd want to go.
It'd be a scary combination here. But that's what but
surety is for when you grow up. Here a little
bit more, Dan, I want to ask you about remember this.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Remember this one thing too that it's really important to
add to that is that, you know, we joke about
a little of that, but the truth is they are
still kids and part of them they are you know,
you see that off the ice, but on the ice
they're total pros. But you have to remember that, you know,
the process of becoming a full fledged adult is a
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is a sometimes like a stock market art. You have
some moments where things go right and they don't. So
it's great to have people around you that show you
the right way. I mean, the biggest thing for me
is that number one to Bee of Thornton, Joe's wife
is an awesome cook. Christina Marlow makes the food like
nobody else. So they're getting proper nutrition, and they're getting
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proper guidance with sleep. And they're also getting guidance between
with men that have their own families, that care about
their kids, that spend a lot of time away from
the rink with their children and take that responsibility. And
I think that that's just a great example for any
of these people.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
It sounds like there's a lot of focus on the
off ice stuff. What about the on ice stuff.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Like Jumbo and Marlow reviewing tape with them at home
or they leave that stuff alone.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
No, they probably do spend a little bit of time
talking about things like that with them, but I think
it's a little bit less organized when it comes to that.
You know, maybe if these guys ask them the question.
You know, both Joe Thornton and Patrick Martle were part
of the Sharks development staff and that's official as this year.
With Joe Thornton, once he got into the Hall of
(23:08):
Fame and so forth, we used to call him the
Director of Vibes with the Sharks. I'm not sure if
he still has that sort of unofficial title, but he's
part of the development staff. Patrick Mardl is a development
coach and they spend a lot of time with a
lot of the young prospects in the organization. And you
know the way it's worked is, you know, they go
back and they might even talk to a kid that's
playing junior and watch him play a little bit. And
(23:30):
we've got another group of people Tommy Wingles, Lucas Spiek's,
people that have had long careers that spend a lot
of time with these young players. And even in the
goaltending department. You again, you to back office, the director
of goaltending, but they've got Ryan Miller out there scouting
future goaltender prospects for the Sharks. And I think that
it's very organized to make sure that they have the
tools that are necessary for these kids to succeeds. Yeah,
(23:54):
they are, and they you know, if I had somebody
like that to be like Yoda, you know, I'm saying
that these guys really understand what needs to be done,
and uh, you know, they are also there for when
things don't go well. I think that might even be
the most important thing, because you know, they have to
be reminded that yes, they're gonna have great careers, yes
(24:16):
that you know, they need to feel really good about themselves.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
We have a star Wars reference now checked, and we
can also can say Patrick Marlow I've mentioned here on
this conversation with Al Koniski to former Seattle Thunderbirds check
as well for that reference. Andrew Zanowski joining us here
on the Beacon Plumbing hotline, and Dan, last couple of
things before wet you go here.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Yeah, check.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I mean, once upon a time the San Jose Sharks,
an infant organization coming out of the cal Palace looking
to grow the game in San Jose, and the ninety
two massive playoff runs. And now you have players like
Joe Thornton from London, Ontario is ticking around, Patrick Marlow
as well, and the Baka that you mentioned, Tommy Wingles.
What's the What's what's the common uniting theme here with
(24:59):
what has now attracted players to stay and build a
greater foundation in San Jose, kind of like what the
Kraken want to be, you know, years upon years down
the road.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It takes a long time to do that. And of
course you also have the added factor. You have two
things going on here. Number one, no offense to any
place else, but we really believe Northern California is the
best place to live in the world. There are the
cost of living issues certainly that get involved the cost
of housing, so forth and so on. But the facilities
are great, the weather is beautiful, and the one thing
(25:34):
that we've always said is that the guy's wives and
girlfriends really love it in Northern California. So that's all
check marks in favor. But what you're talking about, too
is the development of the game. Scott Hannon, who's another
former Shark, another former Western Hockey leaguer, ended up. He's
run now running the junior Sharks program, and so that's
a real upgrade in terms of the total overview of
(25:57):
the coaching and working with the kids. I think that
the goal is to make the Sharks junior program here
stronger as time goes on. What's happened over years, and
what happens oftentimes with young kids is they get to
be about fifteen. This was the tradition in the Northern
California area. You become really good and then you leave. Well,
now they want to make it so that they can
(26:18):
stay and you've got more people sticking around.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
You know.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
You remember a few years ago, I think it was
one year, I can't remember the exact year, but four
people were drafted in the first round and they were
all from the Saint Louis area. Well, that's because of
all of those guys that's stuck around to Saint Louis
and now are coaching all these kids. And I think
that that's the kind of direction we like to see
things going here. Most of it still is with the
(26:42):
you know, the the NHL team's development staff and so forth.
But you know, Mark Smith lives here. He's involved in
coaching girls and guys in the Junior Sharks program. Scott
Hannon is here. There are a number of other people
that have stuck around, and I think it creates a
great atmosphere for.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
The all right, great to hear from the Hall of
Fame voice Dan Rosanowski for the radio side of the
San Jose Sharks, a part of them since expansion back
in nineteen ninety one. Dan Rusanowski, that conversation, by the way,
more in full all a part of Crack and Weekly,
dropped here of course via the Crack and Audio Network
on the iHeartRadio app. So matchup number two coming up
(27:22):
with the Crack and trying to end their homestand with
a win and with a bang. After this four straight
opening on the road this next week in Detroit. Special
night coming here for Hockey Fights Cancer, presented by Virginia
Mason Franciscan Health and a part of this includes their
table at the Modelo Cantina BI section seven to eight
(27:44):
a Climate Pledge Arena. So well invite you to stop
on bye to ring the bell in celebration of cancer survivors.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Take a photo.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
At the lavender crack and Hockey Fights Cancer backdrop, grab
temporary tattoos, knit a gloves and fill out and I
find four card to join the in game tribute Throughout
the entire evening at Climate Pledge Arena. We'll talk to
you at six thirty. Once again, pop dropped little past
seven o'clock Pacific, All Lacrosse, the Global Credit Union, Kraken
(28:13):
Audio Network. Big thank you to Dan Rosanowski and for
kracking this morning. I'm Mike Benton. Enjoy the game.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
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