Lane Lambert

They've got 60 blocked shots already this year, to go along with 13 goals.

Listen, Lane Lambert is a defense first coach, and when he sees 60 blocks on the ledger, you have to imagine he's pretty happy with that performance.

Yeah, he absolutely is.

And you know, you love that part of the Kraken game, and I think it's a key part.

Leading scorer last season off a 90-point campaign, and he has been tough to handle on the Kraken side with 21 points, 15 games head-to-head.

He'll play with Ivan Barbashev and Mark Stone.

Second storyline is pupil versus teacher, and that means Mitch Marner is pupil against Lane Lambert, the teacher.

The two were, of course, on the same bench back in Toronto a couple of years ago, and Marner has also given the Kraken a tough time as well, with 18 points in 12 games head-to-head.

And so this is something that I don't think is just like randomness or happenstance, but rather a function of what the Kraken are trying to do.

This is what they have been talking about and what the Lane Lambert system wants to do.

And we saw that a little bit last year, but last year really felt like, okay, let's figure out what's going on with this team.

How do people integrate into the system? How does the system work? Where do the players go? What is the detail? Especially because the previous season under Dan Bilesma, it did not seem like there was a lot of detail, a lot of instruction given to the players.

And I don't think the players wanted that.

They didn't seem to like that very much.

And they really do seem to like Lane Lambert a lot more

because he is very detail-oriented.

And I don't know if that's true.

I asked Lane Lambert about this last night and his, you know, like, what is the difference? And it really just it sounded like it was like, well, you know, it's kind of.

Man, partially it's systems, but partially it's puck luck.

And so, you know, there were three different stretches where the Kraken scored 13 goals or more last season.

I mean, they, they're such, like, low expectations.

I saw Lambert was, um, around 100 to 1 is, is why I wanna watch, see if they actually got some juice-

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So, um, like my guy there, maybe just brings a juice to the, to the Kraken.

And, um, yeah, so that's the main reason, uh, main actionable info for the Kraken there.

Can Lane Lambert win a, uh, Jack Adams?

The Kraken, uh, but they buy another guy who, who needs to work on his finishing.

But then at practice on Friday, he wasn't on the ice.

Lane Lambert at that time said he was being evaluated and the next day he was on IR.

So

I didn't see anything either.

And it really took, you know, it's as one of those games go, you know, it's kind of a lucky bounce at the end.

One way or the other is going to be what decides it.

But I do think that second and third period is kind of how Lane Lambert, a Lane Lambert coach team would want to play Edmonton.

Right.

you know, you've gone down the line and all of a sudden, you know, this team, when they play the Edmonton Oilers, they all of a sudden don't look so slow because, you know, suddenly we can keep up to them offensively and defensively.

You know, one of the things Lane Lambert wants to do with this year's team is use the speed to get in guys' faces.

He wants to use the speed to track down guys and knock them off the puck before they can get uh you know possession started in your offensive end and transfer from defense to offense and that that's what speed does so we saw the raw speed uh on sunday with danis gavich basically going you know blue line to blue line to track down a puck that was about to bounce and then you know you saw the defender ball he started to panic because he kind of i think he sensed what was happening and he tried to reverse course and ends up tripping over his own two feet, and Travis Davis just burns by them.

We saw Stevenson do that in Calgary on the first night.