00:08now aside from the fun of just having kenny comb through some of the proposals the the real
00:13meat on the bone here before rico puts another name out there is just simple
00:18there is no team in the east that should have a higher level of urgency to take a step forward
00:25at the deadline than the red wings and i want to explain something too this isn't radio hyperbole
00:31unlike most teams you have your first round pick a lot of these contenders that are gunning for things
00:37don't have their first round pick second of all you have cap space where the words salary retention
00:43don't play a role you're one of the very few teams that can do deals even steven i'll trade you
00:49my
00:49bike for a ham sandwich there's no salary retention and third lord knows we've had to hear about it
00:57and i'm convinced some of you wear jam jams with pictures of the prospects on them you have a farm
01:03system that is overrun you are the only team in the playoff picture with a negative goal differential
01:09you have the worst record of any team the last 10 games in the playoff picture in the east
01:14and you have a playoff drought that is amongst the worst if not the worst in franchise history
01:19i i just if not now when so that's just the backdrop to this i leave the who hey go
01:26go for
01:27it with kenny certain guys i know certain guys profile fits like i i mentioned wrist align it i
01:32mean that's again you're talking about a physical presence you pair somebody on that second pairing
01:37mix and match playoff hockey is going to require a little bit more physicality but i'm not going to
01:43sit here and go yelling and screaming about rob thomas okay never was a matchbox 20 guy kenny um
01:49am i wrong to say it before rico throws a name at you no team should have more urgency than
01:54the
01:54wings true or false uh absolutely accurate especially considering where this team in the
01:59context of the quote-unquote rebuild or whatever you want to call what this has been uh yeah this
02:04is a team that desperately needs to make the playoffs a but b we need to tack playoff games on
02:10guys like
02:10lucas raymond mo cider even dylan larkin we need to tack playoff games on guys that need to learn how
02:16to
02:16play playoff games if we even have any hope of winning a stanley cup because here's the other
02:20problem you know we talked about brad holmes yesterday how the longer it goes where he's
02:26not participating in the same way that less need or john schneider or howie roseman are where it feels
02:33like he's a scout steve has a little bit of a tell here too he doesn't like bidding wars and
02:38it's
02:39like he only wants it his way he thinks it's burger king well guess what other people want the
02:44things you want i mean go go to free agency what free agent bidding wars he won he hasn't what
02:49trade
02:50war is he won he hasn't and what do we always hear about the cost was too high the term
02:55was too long
02:56i i just think you get to a point where it's like look man this is where the league is
03:00right now
03:01and you either participate with that or you're going to be left on the sidelines and that's how
03:05you end up with a craig smith peter mora isaac trade deadline like last year well we're we're thankful
03:10they got craig smith because now he's doing overnights uh over on uh 1270 overnight board up
03:16craig smith overnight board up on betql um rico you had a name to throw out there please
03:22kenny what would you say for blake coleman calgary flames yeah i would like it but the problem is that
03:29calgary flames are notoriously that tease team that has a guy that you might want to trade for
03:34that and they're like we're gonna we're gonna trade him and then they just don't end up doing
03:38a heck of a lot of anything but yes i'm in on that yeah but again remember guys sticker shock
03:45it will
03:45happen regardless of whether you're talking blake coleman or even a name like rob thomas or even a
03:50name like vincent trocek any level of these trades they're going to cost you more than you want to trade
03:55but that's business of course absolutely as long as it's not for an expiring player i'm not going to
04:01get upset by i mean to me if i get somebody who's here for a playoff drive now and in
04:082027 you got
04:10to come off of a first round pick because think of the teams that you're bidding against though
04:14the colorado giving up a first for their fourth liner what are we talking about that's a crazy
04:19trade to make in a vacuum if you just look at it on a trade value basis you'd think man
04:24that's a
04:24crazy trade but no it's not because these teams are trying to win now and these are who you're
04:29bidding against is my point tax communications david i want to see if people can behave themselves
04:38to start the wings need defense cider evanson and charat are only are our only nhld man everyone else
04:46sucks we need someone else including asp he's awful as well trocek grab a trojan and chew it and do
04:54it
04:54get him now in detroit just turn on the radio and the first thing i hear is kenny's popping a
05:00boner
05:01it really is march isn't it listen we're we're 24 hours from the deadline the wings blew a two goal
05:07lead by turtling last night oh once again the captain just gets launched into space and thrown in a garbage
05:14can and nothing happens and kenny's upset and we we you know factually speaking they have the worst
05:21record over the last 10 of anybody in the east who's in contention and they have a negative goal
05:26differential they've got to do something because the question i'll own it i don't care two things
05:33could be true i could be a deflator but also spot bang on these are facts facts don't care about
05:40your
05:40feelings here's a fact your team stinks okay you haven't made the playoffs in damn near a decade deep
05:47breakdown your team stinks no i mean the wings are fine but they feel like the fakest of the playoff
05:55teams that's true the negative goal differential is something i have a hard time working around
06:01feels a lot of smoke and mirror can this really last or somebody pulls on that one thread and it
06:07all falls apart and by the way what happened to larkin is a microcosm of why this team can't win
06:12playoff games is because he gets cross-checked in the kidneys in the in the in the ribs in the
06:18back
06:18whatever you want to call it upper body upper body injury and uh in detroit and it's crazy that nobody
06:25if if you're a playoff team do you think brady could chuck would have allowed you to do that i
06:29know
06:29absolutely not he's running you he's running your show it's over that's every reason so when people
06:36say we got to get tougher we need a bob probert we don't need a bob probert we just need
06:40a little
06:41bit more sandpaper that's great why don't we get rob ray while we're at it 248 mick vocoda 248 539
06:4897 97 let's go ahead david finish these out and then we'll get to the callers i don't know prove
06:53me
06:54wrong steve but it seems like if it costs anything he won't do it newsflash good players cost something
07:00when the price goes up this is what happens this is a result of which is why i said what
07:04i said
07:05he this ain't burger king you don't get to have it your way the market dictates the value not you
07:11and all he's done is recoil in these moments and i just don't see how you get to do that
07:17here
07:19now and again i'm not panicked that they're gonna miss the playoffs it's more seven years in if they
07:27make it get butchered is anyone celebrating that i mean i'm sure there'll be a couple of goofballs
07:33celebrating it but don't you want more it's taken longer it just feels when you look at the
07:42standings that you mentioned is mike they are four four and one and everyone else in the picture when
07:47you look at that picture is winning they're like eight and two and six like we've seen teams get
07:53it's happening again we've seen teams get worse and then get better and then get worse and then get
07:57better in the amount of times it's taken for us to you know get to where we are now and
08:02the other
08:02thing look let's be clear when you have four right-handed right-hand shot defenseman move
08:06yesterday that that is a need for the wings and it's not like they're out here looking for a top
08:12pairing player you need a second pairing guy preferably with a level of physicality because
08:19evanson's the only guy you got back there anybody gives a damn about physically right so okay hey steve
08:25around the clock the needs are there like for me i i just i i like where kenny's at well
08:31it's
08:31you acquire a second line center and a second pairing guy all of a sudden i don't think the
08:35wings are anybody you you you're excited to face they have five on five problems and god forbid one
08:42of them have has any monicum of toughness that would be kind of cool oh no no when you were
08:46saying
08:46that steve doesn't like the bidding war i'm like you know what yeah that's you're two for two
08:52brad was a scout and steve doesn't like bidding war no it's like he's a he's a trade bully
08:57he wants it his way only and it's like well great then that's why that's why we're here he makes
09:02you
09:03the offer you can't refuse until you refuse it there are reports out that he was notoriously
09:07difficult to deal with i'm starting to believe it more and more each passing trade deadline yeah but
09:11he's got 24 hours to show us otherwise and i swear to god if it's some d-list garbage that
09:16that's
09:17gonna be very upsetting because then it's gonna be another person we got to make room for over at am
09:201270
09:23absolutely ridiculous greg show up at work last night 248-539-9797
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