00:08that can only mean one thing we finish the week in style oh yeah with the godfather of sports
00:15radio that's mike stone hello how are you he's also promised to flap his arms like the saint
00:21joe hawk all show long that's right all right we've got a lot to do uh we will have a
00:26blind
00:27rank later which is mental torment for me oh it will be but i i like the game it's just
00:34difficult
00:34because i try i i'm gonna open with something i don't know if this is going to resonate or not
00:41and it borders on repetitive and it's not lion stuff because i have nothing but apathy you can
00:47do whatever you like well there's no lion stuff to talk about apathy i i kenny i have to bring
00:54up the
00:54wings and i've no no no i do because i'm going to say something and i i want to have
01:02you and stony
01:03and hopefully our audience grade out the level of bad of this take because i can only be me i
01:12can't
01:13be anybody else in my heart i believe what i'm about to say i have to know if that belief
01:20is valid
01:20or i'm just a horse's ass so here's the thing watched every second last night i thought it was
01:28the game of the year i understood they were shorthanded you're against the tampa team that's
01:32got blood in their mouth because they've played like crap lately and and watching the whole game
01:38hockey is such a weird sport because you could be getting your ass kicked but it's still scoreless
01:43it's very much like soccer so yes soccer with scoring chances yes so early on i mean the wings
01:52had a picnic table in their own end yet the game is scoreless and i understand it was 2-1
01:57until late
01:58and 4-1 doesn't tell the whole story but on the whole here's what i walked away with
02:05you have 19 nameless faceless players you could take the names off the back of the jersey you just
02:14have 19 randos wearing the winged wheel and what do i mean when i say that i mean is no
02:21one jumps off
02:22the screen no like when you're watching brayden point last night he jumps off the screen i'm not only
02:29when he tormented the islanders in a series a couple of years ago but like you have if i i
02:34have
02:34to continue to hear about lucas raymond then where are you on a night you are desperately needed oh you
02:40know casper casper at a big goal where are you what are you like the whole team the logo they
02:48should
02:48have an alternate logo it should be an empty corn husk because that that's all this is seven years in
02:54no it should be their helmet should be sponsored by some company called meh because they're meh but
03:00okay so we're saying the same thing is that like on a night when you don't have dylan larkin who
03:04by
03:05the way isn't even a first line player on a stanley cup type team correct and you don't have andrew
03:09copp the idea that i watched that last night and you could strip the names off the jerseys the
03:15de brinkets the canes the raymonds the the casper whomever it's it's like this kenny here's what it is
03:23you ready this is red wings hockey
03:30what i mean by that is they're all the same it's the slim shady music video you're just printing
03:36red wing players off of off of an assembly line and none of them are any different than the other
03:41white t-shirt blue jeans shaved head here's the here's the deal with this team and you know we
03:47always mocked you know ken holland for things that he said he used to say when he used to come
03:52on and
03:53argue on the air so and um stony you gotta have stars you gotta have stars this team has none
04:00they
04:00don't have stars they don't have any they don't have any they don't so my my whole point is a
04:05few
04:05really good players but they don't have stars we did a show yesterday and we talked about seven years
04:11into this if they don't make the playoffs and i don't know if they will or won't they won't okay
04:17they're not all right bear with me the point i'm making is at the end of this can't we just
04:26say
04:27what's in front of us like you have to strip down like i'm not going to make any more excuses
04:31how well
04:32the east is tough why they're terrible five on five they they are not they have no punch in the
04:39top six
04:40and they are just a sea of nameless faceless average like the rebuild failed it failed they
04:48are they're like a husband who wants to get pregnant but they just shoot blanks all the time
04:53they don't score okay i not sure that's where we're going six minutes into the show but all right
05:00but you understand taking the lead in the pencil argument they've been averaging less than two goals
05:06a game basically for the last month it seems i want because they don't have stars grade the take
05:12tell me how bad that take is because it's how i feel i just feel like you know what at
05:18the end of it
05:19at the end of the game the only thing i could mutter to myself was just f this like honestly
05:24take this
05:25team take the whole rebuild just take it away just wheel wheel nona away she needs a nap here's the
05:33here's the problem with the red wings okay and it's blame eisenman blame whoever the hell you want
05:39it's under his watch the red wings are in this perpetual abyss where they every year kenny mike
05:51they're two years away from being two years away right it failed that's what it is because even the
05:59really good young players a lot of them are going to be good but they're not going to be stars
06:05well
06:06that's my whole point all all of this that steve has drafted we we did this yesterday and i know
06:10i
06:10nerded out a little bit and kenny helped me through it i took multiple prospect prospect lists that kind
06:17of future cast what a guy's gonna be is it an exact science hell no but none of these guys
06:22were listed
06:23as future star first line play oh top nine gritty bottom you know bottom six forward what the hell
06:30did we wait all these years for then look chances chances are part of that is because of they didn't
06:34have an opportunity to draft a celebrini or draft a mcdavid or draft you know at the top of the
06:41heap
06:41okay you know so but yet when you've had chances to trade for a quinn hughes or trade for potentially
06:49an elliott patterson or trade for a rantanen or trade for the and again these are not none none
06:54are perfect fits i'm just naming some of the stars yes that have been on the market we're sitting
07:02around because we're too worried about trading what boring ass nate danielson who's probably a
07:06defensive forward more than anything else what's interesting the fact that you brought him up is i was
07:11talking to some hockey people last week at little sears arena before the deadline and uh the word
07:19around the national hockey league is nobody wanted nate danielson oh can he grade the take
07:27i grade that take empty husk as the hockey elite on the show i will grade the take as an
07:34a minus
07:35oh my lanta it's a great take i say i will die in the hill of most cider being a
07:41star
07:41because he's a norris candidate right now he's having a fantastic year other than that though
07:47they they lack exactly what stoney nailed it stoney a plus thank you that they lack stars so seven years
07:54in and unless you have some kind of mystical summer what is it i mean it's just i like we
08:01talk about this
08:02well i mean they're really good they've never been really good they've defied math yes they've defied
08:09analytics that doesn't make you good look at that look at the gold differential look at all that
08:15stuff look at five on five i mean yes statistically like the brinkett's having a good year it was a
08:20nice pickup but he's not a star anymore if he ever was a star i just watching last night i
08:26just i felt
08:27like the grandmother from wedding crashers i was just muttering obscenities at the tv i didn't want to
08:32watch it anymore well part of that's because i gave him credit for saying that ken holland but you
08:38know he had two chances to draft uh kucherov in the second round and didn't so i mean if you're
08:44gonna screw up your draft you know the only thing that angers me what same thing they've been the
08:49healthiest team in hockey all year by about a hundred man games do you realize they have the
08:54least the fewest man games missed and it's by like a hundred games so now what i'm my heart's
09:02supposed to bleed because larkin's out you've been operating a cheat code all year and if you were
09:08that healthy by the way why is your goal differential so mid if you have that much of
09:12an advantage i don't want to hear about injuries if that if that stats true mike i actually hadn't
09:16heard that stat until you said because todd mcclellan was right how could you let this doorknob guido
09:21hockey idiot teach you something mama mia after one of the games last week when he talked about this
09:30team looked like they're just guys wearing jerseys that's that's all they are that's all but that's
09:36icerman i look with all due respect he's had an amazing career i don't need to see patrick kane
09:43on this team next year i you know the problem great you're already bereft of top six talent
09:50i know let's lose another one but he's not even top six talent anymore he's just gonna get older and
09:56slower there's no reason i've heard that happens that does happen yes it does can i just ask the
10:01question if you watch that game last night right we we all talked about the injuries and i i i
10:07know
10:07i just part of it is i don't want to write them off because i do want playoff hockey back
10:11but i'm
10:13trying and i watched every second again and i get angry watching it because it's such crap it's empty
10:21husk it's almost like a video game that didn't pay for the licensing so you get c19 or lw
10:31you 43 like it doesn't even matter the names or players it's just non-licensed mid and i i'm i'm
10:40i hate it
10:41just wait till tomorrow night when they play dallas who's on fire yes yeah great thanks mike real real treat
10:52well being realistic two four eight five three nine 97 97 we're gonna have some fun today but we have
10:59to just a segment or two on this i don't want to bemoan the lions crap because nothing is nothing
11:06they're not doing anything there's nothing to talk about at least the wings played
11:10i went and saw a team play last night i can't believe you did that league team yeah against the
11:17g league sixers yeah the philadelphia liberty or whatever the hell they're called i mean t i mean
11:21i wanted to see v vj max and of course max he didn't even play no the answer is no
11:26you don't get
11:27to see players i know two four eight five three nine 97 97 we'll check the text we'll welcome david
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