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If the Red Wings lose to Ottawa on Tuesday night, are their playoff hopes out the window?
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00:00John, you asked a question.
00:03How are you handling it?
00:04Gas price is up.
00:05Everybody's dealing with it their own way.
00:07You got sticker shock on the way in today.
00:09And I've talked to the kids about how they drive.
00:14And I do this.
00:15And I can do this because I'm coming in at 4.30 in the morning.
00:19There's nobody on the road.
00:20But I know, Greg, we've talked about this before.
00:24I always hit the reset on my gas mileage
00:28so that I can gauge every single time.
00:32And I'm trying to beat the last time.
00:33But if I go between 65 and 67,
00:37and trust me, I stay in the right lane,
00:39I get the best mileage out of my truck.
00:44And so if I'm going to go on a four-hour trip,
00:47obviously I'm going to go 70.
00:48But if I'm just coming in here to work
00:50or I'm going home today
00:51and I have two or three minutes to spare,
00:54because that's all you're going to save anyway.
00:56That's what people don't understand.
00:58Then I'm going to see how much
01:01I can get that number to rise.
01:03That MPGs, you compete.
01:05Yes.
01:06This text says,
01:07Yeah, you know what?
01:08You'll know prices are too high
01:09when people stop driving 85 on the highway.
01:11Slow down and your drive becomes cheaper.
01:13Yes.
01:15With gas on the rise
01:16and I drive 450 miles a week for work,
01:19I am definitely eating out less
01:21from an unnamed texter.
01:23I sold my car
01:25and I'm taking the bus,
01:26Rick, in a cabinet shop.
01:28Wow.
01:30Just got an email from the airline,
01:32I frequently fly,
01:33immediately adding a fuel surcharge
01:35to ticket fare sucks.
01:38John in Lake Orion.
01:39Fortunately for us,
01:40I've heard that there are,
01:42that is happening
01:43and we have some trips coming up
01:45that are pre-planned
01:45and we bought our tickets.
01:47Same.
01:47You know, long ago.
01:49It doesn't stop you
01:51if you want to take a trip
01:51in late summer
01:53and you haven't booked it yet.
01:54I mean, yeah.
01:55And do you wait?
01:57Do you hope, you know, like,
02:00if you're doing a trip late summer,
02:01like, you pay now with the surcharge
02:03or do you roll the dice
02:04and say, hey, clean this thing up?
02:06Yeah.
02:08Text coming in,
02:09248-539-9797.
02:11I drive a diesel,
02:12ram, 35 miles,
02:13one way to work every day.
02:15Diesel's up over $5 a gallon.
02:17It's hurting.
02:19That'll sting.
02:20Says less bourbon.
02:22It doesn't make me happy either.
02:23That's Scott in Sterling Heights.
02:25Let's get to the phones.
02:27Let's go to Doug.
02:28You're on 97.1.
02:32Morning, Costa.
02:32How are you?
02:33Good.
02:33What's up?
02:35All right.
02:35So we're about the same age.
02:37So I'm on John's side with this.
02:39Every Sunday morning,
02:40I wake up.
02:41I take my wife's vehicle.
02:43I go fill it up.
02:44I pick up her coffee.
02:47And then the rest of the day,
02:48I can do whatever I want.
02:50And your wife knows that you love her,
02:53doesn't she?
02:55Oh, yeah.
02:56If I don't do it,
02:57like if I'm sick
02:58or I got something going on,
02:59she'll be like,
03:00did you forget something this morning?
03:04Yeah.
03:05So is it once a week
03:07that she needs to fill up?
03:08So if you fill her up on Sunday,
03:09she's good all week long?
03:11I guess that's pretty much through it.
03:13We might have to stop one time
03:15to fill up a little bit more,
03:16but she knows like
03:17she doesn't have to fill up much
03:18because Sunday mornings
03:19she's getting a full tank of gas.
03:21It's actually something
03:22I learned from my dad
03:23and he told all of us.
03:24I have three brothers.
03:25He told all four of us boys,
03:27like you do this for your wife,
03:29it goes a long way.
03:30There you go.
03:31Doing some nice things.
03:33Good man.
03:33Good man.
03:36Getting a lot of looks.
03:38Look, it's as simple as this.
03:39The most efficient way
03:40is the driver of the car
03:41realizes when it's running low
03:42and they stop
03:43right off of the side of the road
03:45while they're behind the wheel
03:46and they fill it up.
03:47Right, which they can.
03:48Oh yeah.
03:49You should just go
03:50and do it one day
03:50so that when she gets in the car,
03:52what, what, what?
03:54She's going to be,
03:55oh, he did something nice for me.
03:57And then you never know
03:58what you'll get in return.
03:59Oh boy.
04:00What are you saying?
04:00I'm just saying
04:01she's going to be so happy
04:03that she doesn't have
04:03to stop for gas.
04:05She's just going to be
04:05in a great mood.
04:07I don't know.
04:08Uh-huh.
04:10Let's get to Eric in Waterford.
04:11Eric, good morning.
04:13Good morning, guys.
04:15I found that the Costco location
04:18in Livonia
04:20is usually like 10, 15 cents cheaper
04:23than a lot of the surrounding Costco locations.
04:26I thought my drink up yesterday,
04:29it was $2.6,
04:32what, it was $3.69.
04:33Yeah, I was going to say,
04:34you start with a $2.
04:35We're going off air.
04:37We're going to fill up.
04:38Yeah, right.
04:40Yeah, yeah.
04:41But, yeah,
04:42I found that to be
04:43a great location, you know.
04:46There you go.
04:47Well, thanks, Eric.
04:48Appreciate you sharing.
04:48You're welcome.
04:49You're welcome.
04:50Have a great day.
04:51Thanks, Eric.
04:51You too.
04:53I'm mad.
04:54Heather, I don't know,
04:55maybe you don't
04:57notice these things.
04:58I know I nerd out
05:00on this a little bit,
05:00but have you ever filled up
05:02and then all of a sudden
05:03you drive past
05:04to the next gas station
05:05and it's like,
05:05you know,
05:0615 cents cheaper
05:07and you're like,
05:07damn it.
05:08Sure, of course,
05:09but you just,
05:10you don't think about it.
05:11I mean, you try not to.
05:12I do.
05:13Because then you,
05:14you just have to say,
05:15nope,
05:16just go to where I'm going.
05:17Forget about it.
05:18It's done.
05:19It's over.
05:20A lot of people
05:21putting Costco
05:22into the text saying,
05:23not only do you get
05:24the 20 cents cheaper,
05:25but if you use their credit card,
05:27you can save another 5%.
05:28Yeah.
05:29Just got to make sure
05:30they have the right gas
05:31in the right tank.
05:32That was Meijer.
05:33That was not Costco.
05:35Oh, sorry.
05:35Yeah, Costco.
05:36I thought you were
05:36talking about Meijer.
05:37No, but wherever you go,
05:38I mean,
05:38all these places
05:39have different levels
05:39of perks.
05:41Sure.
05:41Yeah.
05:43No problem
05:44when gas prices go up.
05:45I've totally hedged
05:46and have several
05:47oil company stocks.
05:48The price increase
05:49in dividends of the stocks
05:50often exceeds
05:51the gas increase.
05:52That's Glenn
05:52in Lake Orion.
05:53There you go.
05:55Dr. Strange.
05:56He's got all the scenarios
05:57played out.
05:58Can't lose.
05:59Sure.
06:00Typical cat owner.
06:02She can fill the tank
06:02up herself.
06:03Wow.
06:03What a lucky lady.
06:04Uh-huh.
06:05Yeah, I know.
06:06She's counting her lucky stars
06:08this morning.
06:10Stopping at the gas station
06:11with it 21 degrees outside.
06:14Mm-hmm.
06:15Wind whipping.
06:17Cookies doesn't fill her up.
06:19Shocker.
06:19The cruises make even more.
06:21Oh, no.
06:23We gotta screen these texts better.
06:36Dan says,
06:37I'll fill her up
06:37any day that ends in a Y.
06:43See,
06:44you didn't want to get political.
06:45This is what comes with it.
06:46I'd rather go this side.
06:47by the way i can't print 70 of the text thanks john fill her up first thing you say when
06:54you
06:54stop at the gas station right fill her up jeff in windsor good morning how are you you're on 97
06:59.1
07:01hi good morning how you doing uh good good thanks uh just hearing about the gas uh gas price talk
07:09we're in windsor obviously in canada we're paying by the leader um so i just i just did a google
07:16search or google uh comparison and we're paying about five dollars and 40 cents a liter for regular
07:24fuel right now we're at uh we're averaging about a dollar 79 a liter uh so it works out what
07:32you
07:32guys are paying at 410 it works out to about a buck eight i have a buddy that's paying the
07:38fare
07:38the tolls and the uh um the exchange on the dollar and he's still saving by going over to the
07:45u.s i
07:46mean it's ridiculous all over the place all over north america but my god we're getting robbed and
07:52went in canada wow i mean yeah hey come on over here buddy oh yeah i i hear you groceries
08:01and gas and
08:02beer the three gotta have figured it out yeah you're right okay man have a great day thanks jeff
08:12i love the conversion from leaders to gallons yes yes when i go on my fishing trip uh we'll be
08:18up in
08:19canada so i'll be doing the uh the math which my math never mats right along with the conversion rate
08:26it's just fill it up all right nine o'clock hour we're talking some hockey okay you got the ottawa
08:33senators in town and by the way tonight everybody's playing like all of the teams on the bubble
08:38the stat is what eight teams between 80 and 86 points they're all playing tonight including some
08:44head-to-head matchups none bigger than detroit and ottawa will we see dylan larkin skating tonight
08:51your heart says yes he's gotta right well i mean the simple answer to that is no he doesn't have
08:59to
08:59bob comes back early perron comes back early your gm trades for a player at the trade deadline
09:05you're the captain of the detroit red wings you've been on skates you will be on the ice tonight
09:09it feels like he will be but injuries are i mean they are what they are if he can't go
09:16but even limited is he better than drives like ahl centers and then you bump everybody down a line
09:24even if he can't go the 20 minutes he normally goes can he win a big face off can he
09:27contribute on
09:28a power play because they rely a lot on their power play as long as when he comes back it's
09:31not
09:32it's not hey you're back for one and you're out for two or three like you got to make sure
09:37when
09:37you're back you're back yeah so a lot of factors there will not be many games the rest of the
09:42way
09:42bigger than this hockey game and we're going to talk about it to start uh there's not many left to
09:46begin with right but you talk about the games head-to-head against teams on the bubble the two teams
09:51currently out right now are detroit and ottawa ottawa played last night they're going to be down a couple
09:56blue liners tonight's the night we'll talk confidence level next 97-1
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10:22pistons improved to 52 and 19 on the season that gives them the best record in the eastern conference
10:27and the third best record in basketball jaylen durin said the team has been able to perform so well
10:32this year due to their confidence and desire to be the best team in the league
10:58with 11 games left in the season the pistons are the only team in the east who have clinched a
11:02playoff spot yet they're now trying to hold on to the number one seed as they currently have a five
11:06game lead on boston of detroit's next 11 seven are against teams with records above 500 including four
11:13games in total against the thunder timberwolves and hawks meanwhile nine of boston's last 11 are
11:18against plus 500 teams with the nicks thunder hawks and hornets all on their docket also the wings will
11:24hit the ice at lca tonight for what will be another game with playoff vibes and implications for both
11:30teams tom mcclellan said yesterday dylan larkin could return tonight after missing the last seven
11:35games with a lower body injury he said larkin will be a game time decision that game time is seven
11:39o'clock
11:40our pre-game coverage here on 97 one at 6 45 at the carlwell health sports desk i'm brett and
11:44shabath
11:44for more go to 97 one the ticket or odyssey.com
11:55spotted in the wild right around the time we got the news larkin would be a game time decision
12:00a car flag sitting in the grocery store parking lot waving in the wind one solo car flag no it
12:09wasn't
12:09on mine but there are believers out there uh-huh as there should be and our question is a very
12:15simple
12:16one do you believe
12:20as share would ask do you believe 248-539-9797
12:28do i believe they will win tonight i do i really do they played well at home on this stand
12:34without
12:35dylan larkin they should have won all three games on this home stand they got goal leads saturday
12:40night swayman was a man possessed he saved over 40 shots they had great chances they hit posts they
12:45buried a power play goal i hate that they lose that game in the third period but they have played
12:51well at home and they will get ottawa tonight on a back-to-back ottawa is already missing one key
12:58defenseman in jake sanderson he was on team usa last night they had a couple injuries on the blue line
13:03including to their next best defenseman shabbat they're going to play their better goalie but
13:08all mark has not been boston all mark i say knocking on every wood surface in the room
13:12his safe percentage 885 is entirely beatable they played better hockey at home they've they've taken
13:20on this challenge while their captain's been gone and tonight he's going to be out there i'm convinced
13:27of it perron came back early cop came back early larkin could come back early tonight even if he's
13:33only 85 win a face-off help bury a power play chance emotional lift crowd's going to be excited
13:40tonight crowd's been great on this homestand john i believe they've been good on this homestand
13:45they've matched it i believe they win tonight now don't ask me beyond that because this team has been
13:50entirely inconsistent and i am i've said it in the prove it stage as a red wing fan i gotta
13:55have it
13:56proven over the next dozen games but this is when you gotta win because if you lose you go from
14:01being
14:02first of all you're already outside the playoffs but now you're not even the top team outside the
14:06playoffs ottawa has valuable tiebreakers ottawa has a positive goal differential ottawa will be
14:13closer they ottawa may be in the playoffs detroit cannot take on losses head-to-head against other
14:19teams on the bubble this game and columbus and maybe a couple flyer games are the biggest games
14:24remaining on the schedule right because and this one is so critical one because every single point is
14:30going to be vital at this point especially if you're going to be required to get to 99 100 points
14:35like you're running out of opportunity running out of chances but on the heels of this one on friday
14:41you're in buffalo and so you you anticipate you expect them to win tonight what do you anticipate
14:48or expect on friday night against one of the best teams in hockey right now and i don't know how
14:52they'll
14:52do the goalie situation but you know does gibson play friday and then they go talbot the very next day
14:56could they lose both again that's why i'm not taking anything beyond tonight but tonight's got to be a win
15:03tonight keeps you on the path tonight may put them not only in the playoffs but in one of those
15:08top
15:08three spots in the division based on how all the other stuff sorts out right these games we did this
15:13a couple years ago when they fell just short i've emotionally and financially invested a lot in this
15:18team i'm going to be there tonight i'm going to root like hell i think they're going to win tonight
15:22i really do beyond that i don't know and and it's and you look at it and you go okay
15:26well where are
15:27they how how does this match up what is it if they win you mentioned they could be in one
15:31of the top
15:32three spots they could just simply be in a wild card spot they also the it's it's the consequences
15:38of a loss may be worse than the benefits of a win well can i throw out some numbers money
15:45puck is one
15:46of these sites that uh tracks probabilities and how big games are they have a post up from the last
15:52hour giving you some percentages okay if the wings beat the senators in regulation their chances of
15:58making the playoffs go up 12 it would be at 68 to make the playoffs okay if they lose it
16:06drops 15
16:08more costly to lose their chances of making the playoffs would be 40 that's i mean it just it shows
16:16how vital tonight is and i don't know how much they like the the computer generated you know whatever
16:25formula they're using are they taking into account the teams that they have to play
16:30their win percentage and how does that affect them moving forward because it is buffalo on friday
16:35they've got some tough matchups coming but they also have those matchups where it's like versus like
16:41and you've got they're gotta have it games tonight is a gotta have it
16:45game i can't build it up enough for people the question is do you believe two four eight five
16:49three nine ninety seven ninety seven if you want you can look at the 12 games to go i would
16:53make
16:53the case this is as big as any you know i don't know what will be on the line the
16:57last couple games
16:57of the season they still have to play tampa in there too by the way so tampa and buffalo are
17:02a couple
17:02heavy hitters flyers three times columbus and ottawa ottawa with a damn brady kachuck that drives us
17:10crazy yeah plus he's on team usa yeah then then you know then new jersey stars and stripes eagle
17:16screech all the good stuff let's get to kyle and troy kyle good morning you're on 97 one
17:21hey guys how's it going love this show thank you um so this is this i'm gonna get straight to
17:28the
17:28point um listen biggest seed i was a fan in the world i were 19 growing up because of him
17:35um but like
17:38if we don't make the playoffs this year like what are we doing what are we doing you know like
17:46i i
17:46want to have a little banter with you guys like can you guys rebound off that look if they don't
17:53make
17:53the playoffs it's 10 years for the franchise it's the longest streak in their history and one of the
17:58longest droughts in nhl history this is not normal for anybody that wants to lecture you about this is
18:02what's supposed to happen in hockey or that this is normal it's not normal the other part of this
18:07though kyle go ahead no no like i'm with you guys like listen man seven year rebuild like what are
18:16we
18:16doing here yeah you know it's seven for steve ten for the team uh yeah the worst team from nba
18:24like historically bad so all of a sudden like we're like a real team in like two years hopefully
18:33kyle what do you ultimately think happens do you think that they make the playoffs this year
18:40i'm i'm doubtful man like i'm i'm pessimistic um i'll admit that you know but like you know i'm a
18:48huge hockey fan play since a youth you know so i was young um but like listen you know we
18:57can't
18:57just keep giving this excuse always larkin got injured or whatever no kyle i'm with you they
19:04have been one of the healthiest if not the healthiest team in all of hockey you talk man games missed
19:09they have had very few guys go down with injury if over a two-week stretch your season is derailed
19:16by
19:17the first real injury uh rash of injuries you have then that says so much more about how you weren't
19:23ready for this that you weren't good enough i don't feel like you can use the injuries as an
19:28excuse not when you've been as healthy as they've been all year no really it's it's whether or not
19:33this this flawed roster can get over the hump because they have flaws sure and eiserman tried
19:38to address some of it he finally burned a first round pick like he thinks this is the year they
19:41should get in the playoffs for me this is about the core though this is about the core changing the
19:45narrative larkin's back they did go get a player this year i know it was an offensive player but
19:50they added a decent player that's improved their team he's a good player yeah so it's time for them
19:57to change the narrative it's time for them to just go down this world where we have the last three
20:02years and where they failed to get this done it's if it's going to change it needs to change now
20:08well
20:08how about on this homestand kane and the brinkett have been on the top line and have put big time
20:14scoring chances and buried a bunch of goals the brinkett's part of this core he grew up here he wanted
20:20to
20:20be here he worked his way into the motor city and he's playing well if you're dylan larkin and last
20:26year at the deadline you said well the room was down because we didn't make a move they go make
20:30a move
20:30you got to get this team over the hump yep follow suit this team though every are they for the
20:36fourth
20:36straight year gonna not get in again sit somewhere in the low 90s and points in the same things and
20:43you're gonna bring back the core i don't know how you do that i i at some point a core
20:47has to grow and
20:47they they i do think if they can break through that's why i i dismiss the people who say what's
20:53the point of making a playoffs if they lose in five i think they need to get this off their
20:56back
20:59there's a world where you need a hundred points to make the playoffs and that sounds outrageous but
21:05in 2022 it took a hundred points and washington was the last team to make the playoffs it may be
21:11a
21:11hundred if it's a hundred that means the wings need to pick up do some quick math on this 14
21:18points
21:1914 points
21:24so it's at seven and five if if you don't get any regulation or you know
21:31you're the best way to go about it is just a win win seven games get you your 14 points
21:37and if you take an ot loss then you you pick up a point
21:43well the wings are at 84 points right 84 86 i'm they're 84 yeah so actually get to 100 points
21:49they'd have to win our math is really i don't think it's going to take 100 we'll call it 98
21:54then it's what john said yeah but if i think it's going to be 98 to 100 points which means
21:57you got to
21:58pick up seven to eight wins or some overtime losses in there to make the playoffs these just team
22:04these teams cross over so much and play each other that i mean points it depends on if you're
22:10gonna have overtime losses which feels like like we talked about last week of course boston and
22:15montreal go to overtime yeah if you just want to set the scene for tonight i mean there are games
22:20that
22:20you know you're going to want to have notifications on the first and most important thing is detroit's
22:24got a win but detroit's not in right now like even a win tonight doesn't mean like this is going
22:28to
22:28be a playoff team some of the other games tonight you've got montreal is hosting carolina
22:34and you would think carolina wins but who the hell knows it's in montreal and feels like they
22:38never lose and then you start going up and down the sheet and
22:45the bruins get the maple leafs games in boston they've been unbelievable at home in the new year
22:51islanders get the blackhawks well that's got to be a win for new york right blue jackets and flyers
22:57are two of the teams that are in or on the bubble the penguins they've got crosby back and and
23:03they're
23:04playing the abs tonight who they they actually had success against recently so in terms of getting
23:09a reprieve or getting a break that was two years ago the bubble was soft two years ago when it
23:13was
23:1391 points and they just weren't good enough so like sorry this is just the world you're in if you
23:17want
23:17to be a playoff team the number is probably 98 to 100 right but you mentioned the penguins playing
23:22the abs tonight odds are they lose the game right probably getting in like an ot loss would be bad
23:26we're talking about the penguins yeah they're in third right now their division
23:29but they will are only 85 points right like they could slide out of the playoffs tonight
23:35if things go a certain way that's just how crazy this is it is let's get to dave and water
23:40for dave
23:41you're on 97 one how you doing fellas good good yeah it's a big game tonight you know i predicted
23:48that boston loss really hurt i predicted they'd uh they'd be boston and and uh ottawa tonight um
23:57yeah and then as far as you know people saying oh if they don't make it uh you know eiserman's
24:03out
24:04eiserman's like harbaugh he's not going anywhere who else is going to lead this team better than he
24:09can yeah it's taking a lot of time granted but uh yeah i'm behind him it's taking longer than he
24:15thought for sure and uh they'll get there though and then uh lastly uh i'm going down to tampa to
24:21see
24:21my daughter on the night so i'll i'll say i always go down for that they always play tampa near
24:27the end
24:27so i'm hoping it's a meaningful game still by that point but yeah uh i think they'll skid in but
24:34uh
24:34it's dicey they definitely need to win tonight and they just got to finish like that boston game
24:39you know they had that game it's on the players now it's not on oh we need a superstar you
24:45don't need a
24:45superstar to win you need guys playing together and getting it done and i think they have enough
24:50personnel to make the playoffs and as far as what does it matter just to make the playoffs
24:56to get these young guys experience of being in the playoffs hey dave they're playing the uh the final
25:01two down there in florida if if you're there for that tampa game they get a win they might need
25:06to
25:06win florida you're gonna you're gonna drive down there for that one too no i'm taking four days off
25:12and it's the only time i can see my daughter she only comes home uh at christmas so i go
25:17down there
25:17thanksgiving and and uh and the tampa game is always near the end so all right be a good time
25:24but yeah i i think they'll make it but god it's gonna be close yeah look the point on eiserman
25:30this
25:31will likely be the best season they've had under his watch and yet if it's not in the playoffs you're
25:36going to have those conversations he's not going to go anywhere but you'll have those conversations
25:39it's 97 one
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