PREGAME: PREGAME: Head Coach Lane Lambert joins Everett Fitzhugh before the Kraken matchup against the Sharks (11/15)

Everett Fitzhugh's conversation with Kraken head coach Lane Lambert ahead of the Nov. 15th matchup between the Seattle Kraken and San Jose Sharks at Climate Pledge Arena.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks Mike Lane. Coaches in this league love to have
short memories, and having just played San Jose a few
games ago, what still sticks out about that game? What
can you take from that game and apply here tonight
Or is that something that truly because of the result
you just flush it and move on.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
No, No, there's a reason there was a result like that.
You know, again, I really emphasize that they played well.
They're well coached, and they're fast. They don't give you
much time and space. You know, they've averaged one and
a half goals against in their last eight games, so

(00:41):
they've given up twelve goals in eight games. They're playing
solid defensively, and their goaltending has been good for them.
We didn't play our best game, so we didn't really
combat their style of play very well. I'm expecting we
played better tonight, and I'm expecting this to be a

(01:02):
hard fought hockey game. You know, it's not the old
San Jose Sharks anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Five to three win over Winnipeg and after two games
back to back of I guess three of your previous
four games is scoring one goal being patient with stressed
The offense will come with stressed. We saw it last
night or our last game out rather with five goals.
What did you make of that performance and what went
right for your group?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, I mean we it was nice to score, obviously,
and it was nice for our guys to get some
some goals and get rewarded for what they've been doing. So,
you know, the game in itself, it was a hard
fought game. You know, we know Winnipeg's a good team,
so you know, I thought we checked well. I thought
we did a really good job of you know, being

(01:47):
in position and being you know, fast onto pucks, I guess,
so to speak. And then we transitioned pretty well. You know,
we we made some misstakes, some critical mistakes that ended
up in the back of our net that we shouldn't
have made, but we did. And you know, the good

(02:09):
news was we were resilient and we found a way
to come back.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
In those instances when you see those mistakes being made
and the guys on the bench lift each other up,
Vince Dunn saying the other night, even when we're down,
we don't feel like we're down because we lift each
other up. What's it like to see your group largely
take that upon themselves to dig themselves out of some
holes they put themselves into. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Good, they have to, you know, they're the guys that
are out on the ice, and you know, those are
the guys that you know, that have to do the
work and put in the effort to you know, to
keep fighting. So good on them, you know, and that's
that's something that we want. We want them to take ownership.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Another strong performance and goal for Seattle from Philip Grubauer.
You were asked this morning about the consistency of that position,
even with Joey Decord out. Where does that credit and
where does that success lie with that position this season?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, well, I think that, you know, you know it,
the credit lies with the goalies. And there, you know,
I've said it. I've used the word professionalism, you know,
over and over again with these guys, you know, And
and they've stuck together, and they have good relationships, you know,
and and if one guy's planning the other tour supporting them,

(03:25):
you know. And so that's been good. And then the
other part of it is is our goalie coach, Colin Ziliano,
has done a great job. You know. It's not easy
to manage three goalies, especially in the National Hockey League.
And he's done a great job of balancing you know,
the work race, ratio, rest ratio, who's doing what on
on on any particular day. It's a full time job

(03:47):
just for him to coordinate or organize the schedule to
make sure that everybody's you know, in good in good forms.
So you know, really, uh, between the four of them
have done a great job.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I know, the crack and have hads injury issues. This season,
we're starting to see Freddie gadrou back on the ice,
Jared mccannon back on the ice, jo with the court
on the ice. Can you share some updates on when
we may see them next, how they're progressing, and then
of course couple of Coco going out last game as well.
It has to be frustrating, not only for him obviously,
but for you to see the success he's had and
now right back on the shelf. As you called week

(04:20):
to week earlier today.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, well, these players are players we need, you know,
and Cocko like like you said, he's week to week
disappointing for him. I'm disappointed for him. You know, it's
not fun when you're not playing, and it's not fun
when you're hurt, and you know, we need him. He
provides offense for us. He's a big, big body. We

(04:41):
loved having him back because he can control Bucks down
low in the offensive zone. So, you know, losing him
right after he scores a beautiful goal is really, really
a disappointing thing. But you know, we have other guys
that have to step up to the plate in those
in those manners. Freddy's getting real close, you know, seems
to be a game time decision tonight. You know he's

(05:03):
still on our ir. Joey is day to day and
McCann is. You know, he's on the ice again today
and you know he had mornings Gate with us, So
that's progression.