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Microresonator based Kerr combs open the way for novel compact photonic devices. This promise is supported by predicted and recently experimentally demonstrated controlled transition from chaotic to phase locked combs associated with temporal solitons. We studied experimentally and in systematic numerical simulation the correlation between mode structure and comb dynamics. We found that solitons may appear in presence of mode coupling induced avoided crossings, only if affected modes are sufficiently far from the pump frequency.