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00:00Let's get to business, because we have the last stand at the Rebuild Corral tonight,
00:08people.
00:08We're jumping, oh yeah.
00:16That's it.
00:18That's all.
00:21This is it for me.
00:23Me.
00:24Me.
00:25All right?
00:26The horse's ass.
00:27Me.
00:28I have maintained positivity.
00:30Unlike Kenny.
00:32Unlike Cookies, I haven't written the team off.
00:34Tonight, this is it.
00:36This is the last stand at the Rebuild Corral.
00:40So tonight, they lose.
00:41The car flag comes off the car.
00:43If they lose tonight, it's over.
00:47I'm done.
00:48You have Ottawa on a back-to-back.
00:51Down three defensemen.
00:52Listen, the captain, if Dylan Larkin has two legs, you play tonight.
00:58Period.
01:00You want to be the captain of the Red Wings?
01:02I don't care if you're out there like Lieutenant Dan with two carbon fiber legs.
01:06You play.
01:08Don't make me invoke the greats.
01:11Delvecchio would play.
01:13Listen, Ted Lindsey would play.
01:15You play tonight.
01:16He's an Olympian, okay?
01:17Show some respect.
01:18Gordy would play.
01:19You play tonight.
01:21You can't lose tonight.
01:23No.
01:24This is it.
01:25Especially with Ottawa one point behind you.
01:28Yes, they won last night because the Rangers are flaccid penis.
01:31Look, just I want to hear from the hockey elite, and I want to know if we are all aligned
01:39because this truly is the last stop at the rebuild corral.
01:43I want to update you with the playoff odds because the playoff odds since the last time
01:48we saw Lord of the Shacket, it was minus 300.
01:52They were making the playoffs.
01:53As we sit here today, the Red Wings are minus 150.
01:59The Senators are minus 130.
02:02The Islanders have moved ahead of you at minus 190.
02:05The odds, if they win in regulation tonight, you have a 68% chance of making the playoffs.
02:10If you lose in regulation tonight, your odds get cut to 40% flat.
02:16If this rebuild has any way of working, if this rebuild has any validity to it, you win tonight.
02:26You make the playoff.
02:28Rico, I am not overstating it.
02:31This, to me, tonight is a game seven.
02:34This is set up for you to win.
02:36You are at home.
02:37You did not play last night.
02:40Come on.
02:42Shacket, talk to me.
02:44I thought playoff hockey, but yeah, okay, game seven.
02:47This is a game seven because if they lose, I'm joining Kenny in the sad boat.
02:51But if it's, no, it's more playoff hockey.
02:53Game seven means if you lose, your season's over.
02:57It's not over.
02:57If they lose tonight, I want everybody fired.
02:59I've had it.
03:00Okay, I've had it.
03:02I just.
03:03You want me to get your paintball gun ready?
03:04No, it's just, you can't.
03:06There comes a point in time.
03:08You're in late March.
03:09You're in the stretch drive.
03:11You have to win this game.
03:12Right.
03:12You can't just play the barnacles of the league.
03:16You had Boston.
03:17You got goalied and Gibson fell apart.
03:20Yeah.
03:20How about this?
03:21If you don't want people talking about March and what happens in March, don't lose in March.
03:25Detroit.
03:26You know what this would be tonight to the Grim Reaper senators?
03:30This would be history repeating itself.
03:33I want to hear from the hockey elite.
03:35I need to know what the pulse of the people is tonight.
03:38And Newsflash, paying customer Costa's in the crowd tonight, and he's fresh off of writing
03:47a check for playoff tickets.
03:49Oh.
03:50Costa may get violent.
03:51Kenny, are you confident now with Costa in the house?
03:54Even less than I was before, now that you mentioned that.
03:57I didn't know he was in attendance tonight.
03:59Is the Lord of the Shacket in attendance tonight?
04:01I am not.
04:02Lord Shackelford?
04:03No.
04:04I didn't realize this was a bit yesterday.
04:06That was the name of a great horse, Shackelford.
04:07Carry on.
04:09Kenny?
04:10I didn't realize the Shacket thing was a bit.
04:12It's a big bit.
04:13I didn't know that.
04:14So, yeah, no, I'm not going to be in attendance.
04:16I've already watched.
04:17Because I've watched what it looked like when the Pistons got eliminated from the playoffs.
04:21We need you there.
04:22I can't counteract whatever Costa's about to do, Don.
04:25We need you there.
04:25There's no amount of damage that I could do to reverse that cycle.
04:28If I can get you a ticket for tonight's game, will you go?
04:30Sure.
04:31Hold on, hold on, hold on.
04:32Let's rewind the tape.
04:34Costa's put money down on playoff tickets?
04:36Well, the deadline was yesterday.
04:38Oh.
04:39You know how that works.
04:40He's gambling.
04:41And then if they miss the playoffs, he'll get his money back the next day, right?
04:45We'll be happy to apply it to next year's membership.
04:47In other words, you'll never see this money again.
04:49I don't know.
04:50I don't know.
04:51I don't care.
04:51But I'm telling you, Cookies is down there.
04:53He's going to be like Dalton from Roadhouse.
04:56So, Cookies still believes.
04:57I don't think he has a choice.
04:59I think it's something him and his wife enjoy.
05:01And I don't know that he gets a choice in this.
05:03I just think this is, he has to do this.
05:06Gotcha.
05:06I need hockey elite.
05:08And I just dare you to tell me it's not all on the line tonight.
05:11Their playoff odds drop to 40% with a loss.
05:14You're playing a team off of back-to-back.
05:16You're playing a team you're better than.
05:18You're playing a team that's down three defensemen.
05:20You're at home.
05:22And if the captain don't play tonight, somebody else wears a seat.
05:26That's it.
05:27You play tonight.
05:28I don't care if you're 10%.
05:30You could be Gordie Howe for the Whalers.
05:32Take one shift for four minutes.
05:34Symbolic.
05:34Get out there.
05:36But it's all on the line tonight.
05:39And Kenny is writing them off because guess what?
05:42Let me surprise you.
05:43I think they're winning.
05:45I think they will win tonight.
05:46I mean, they had every advantage.
05:48So I think they will win.
05:50Yeah.
05:50You just need your captain to be that game time decision.
05:53Kenny is saying they won't win.
05:55And it's very disappointing.
05:56See, I think Kenny's the reverse of the reverse.
05:59Like, if you set the bar low, you can't be disappointed.
06:02See, I told you.
06:04I told you.
06:06But if they win, he rips off the shacket and goes naked through the streets.
06:10Rico, I don't know why you keep saying things like this.
06:12Because every time at every turn with this team, I've had numbers and data to support me saying they're not
06:18making the playoffs.
06:19And a game like this is not a game that they typically win.
06:21Is it data or data?
06:23It's whatever Kenny says it is.
06:25I thought data was the character on Star Trek.
06:27Detroit?
06:28He was.
06:29Still is.
06:29I just, I don't get it.
06:31Because, like, Mike, you said that they're clearly better than Ottawa.
06:34You said this.
06:35Yes.
06:35Ottawa has, like, a plus 22.
06:3721 goal differential.
06:38Yeah, something like that.
06:39The Wings minus three.
06:41They've been five on five, arguably much, much worse than Ottawa.
06:46Ottawa's just lacking goaltending.
06:48If they had that, they'd be arguably much, much, much, much better in the standings than the Wings are.
06:52I can't say definitively, like you can, that Ottawa is a worse team than the Wings.
06:57Okay, I'll walk it back.
06:59Kenny, I just don't know what the last seven years are for if you don't win tonight.
07:03No, that I agree with.
07:04I don't think you're wrong.
07:05I think two things can be true.
07:07What were the last seven years for?
07:08I have no godly clue what the last seven years were for if they can't win a game like tonight.
07:13And guess what?
07:13If they lose tonight, it's kind of the opposite of a bogo.
07:17It's a no-go.
07:18Because you're going to Buffalo after this, and I'm sorry.
07:21You haven't earned the right for me to believe you're winning that game.
07:24So you just get to a point.
07:27They need, you know what I want to see?
07:29I'll tell you what I want to see.
07:29And this is going to sound cliche.
07:32I need the Red Wings to look in the mirror and be the Red Wings we remember.
07:38They need to show up to the rink with some pendulous balls and actually play with an urgency and an
07:45anger and a fire and a desperation.
07:48As if, if they lose, everybody dies.
07:51This was, is not now.
07:53This was a very proud organization.
07:56This was a place that we viewed as one of the great organizations in the league and the best North
08:01American Original Six team.
08:03Like, please.
08:04So in other words, turn this back to Hockey Town.
08:07Just something.
08:08Yeah, man.
08:08And Mike, this is the part that's going to actually.
08:10This is the part that will upset you is what about this roster construction, this eyes are planned, whatever you
08:15want to call it.
08:16What about this convinces you that this team is capable of that?
08:21I don't know, man.
08:22I don't know.
08:23Because I'm not convinced.
08:24That's my point the whole time.
08:25I don't have anything.
08:26Okay.
08:27I don't know.
08:27I had to listen to you for the last three years about how Sandeen Pelica was untouchable.
08:31Good.
08:32Go drive to Grand Rapids and watch him play now.
08:40I don't have any reasons.
08:42At a certain point, you get paid to play this game.
08:45Drop your nuts.
08:47Come on.
08:49This isn't the avalanche in town tonight.
08:51Let's go beat these idiots.
08:54Ottawa.
08:55I mean, none of the players even like playing in Ottawa.
08:58They're there because they're hostages.
09:00Just beat this team.
09:01Like, Kenny, if they lose tonight, is it over?
09:03That's how I feel.
09:05I felt like that before tonight.
09:07So, absolutely, yes.
09:08You were being emotional.
09:10But this is the last stand at the OK Corral tonight.
09:13They have got to win.
09:13If they don't win tonight, put me with Costa and put me with Kenny.
09:17I'm done.
09:23Go play.
09:25You went from, wow, you went from, they're winning tonight.
09:28I know they're going to F you.
09:31Because they just, all the wings, the wings are agents of chaos.
09:35All the wings do is hurt you.
09:38That's it.
09:38They get your hopes up.
09:40They have hot streaks.
09:41You get to March.
09:42They turn into a pumpkin.
09:43And then they lose.
09:45And then I got to listen.
09:46Like, you know there's a collection of people tonight who have the Iserman laser beam picture loaded.
09:54And it's like, they're mad at you because you're mad at the team.
09:58Like, winning tonight is not a celebration.
10:01It's a minimum.
10:04No.
10:05Fair enough.
10:05No, no, no.
10:07Jump out early.
10:08And for God's sake, don't lose this thing in regulation.
10:12With a lead, like you did on Saturday.
10:15Way to really raise the bar.
10:17Losing overtime, Rico.
10:19That's what you're saying.
10:20No, win.
10:21Win game regulation like an adult.
10:24Mike, you're welcome to pull the parachute with me.
10:26We can just do it together.
10:28I got to let tonight play out.
10:30I have to let tonight play out.
10:32You want to do a desk pop?
10:33Yes.
10:34What was your last desk pop?
10:35This is 2018.
10:38When I threw a chair, that's my version of a desk pop.
10:42I just, I want to hear from the hockey elite.
10:45Because ultimately it comes down to them, Rico.
10:48I just, I get tired.
10:49I'm tired.
10:50I'm tired of all of it.
10:51I'm tired of this team.
10:52I'm tired of Iserman.
10:53I'm tired of all of it.
10:55Seven years in, and look at us.
10:58Rico and I are on a corner in thigh highs ready to turn a trick to see this team beat
11:02the Ottawa Senators.
11:04That's what we've been reduced to.
11:08Rico's got his glitter on.
11:09I mean, like, are you kidding me?
11:11Like, this is so pathetic.
11:15This is the winged wheel.
11:17This is the, what are the teams?
11:19I've been upgraded from yesterday.
11:21Wow.
11:22I can't stand this.
11:24Look what they've reduced us to.
11:25We're sitting here begging to beat Ottawa.
11:29That's what a seven-year rebuild has given us.
11:33We're out here begging.
11:36And then we're all going to do what?
11:38Do some sensual dance because they beat a team on a back-to-back down three defenseman at home
11:43to just stay the course to creeping into the playoffs.
11:48Yeah.
11:48That's what they've reduced us to.
11:51Can you survive March?
11:53Unfortunately, that's where we are.
11:55That's why, if you get to overtime and you get a point, Mike, you take it.
11:59I need the hockey elite, and I need them in numbers.
12:02If you think you know an effing thing about hockey, I need you to call the number.
12:06Pick up the phone and start dialing.
12:082-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
12:11Is tonight the last stand at the Rebuild Corral?
12:13If they lose tonight, is it over?
12:15If Larkin doesn't play tonight, do you change your opinion of the guy?
12:18I've got to be honest.
12:19There's an old-school element to this.
12:21It's March 24th.
12:22If you're not in a wheelchair, get out there.
12:24If you play in a Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, you play tonight.
12:29Period.
12:29He plays tonight.
12:31Or else I'm looking for a new captain.
12:33You play.
12:34I don't even care.
12:35You could be 50%.
12:36In fact, you could be Bernie Lomax.
12:38They'll tape Dylan Larkin to a chair and have Mo Sider push him around the ice.
12:43They'll treat it like, what is the idiot Canadian sport?
12:47With the tea kettles.
12:49What the hell is that?
12:50Yeah, it'll be like curling.
12:51Let's send Larkin down the ice.
12:54Hurry!
12:55Send him.
12:55With the tea kettles.
12:57Whatever.
12:58It's an idiotic sport.
12:59They totally ripped off bocce.
13:01Losers.
13:022, 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 97, 97.
13:05Let's get into it.
13:09So pissed.
13:11In fact, we have to sit here and beg for them to win this game tonight.
13:14What is this?
13:16I blame Kenny.
13:18Hey, hey, hockey town.
13:19Oh, you blowed out your ass with that.
13:21Oh, this is my fault.
13:22You and your shacket.
13:24Get your ass to that game tonight.
13:27Kenny, 14 minutes ago, he was excited.
13:30Now he's broken.
13:32Because I'm angry.
13:33It's pathetic.
13:34This is almost like the wings are Michigan State.
13:37We're out here begging to win eight games.
13:39How you've talked yourself out of this in 14 minutes.
13:43If only somebody would have warned everybody about this named Kenny.
13:48Oh, wait.
13:48I did do that already.
13:49You left us.
13:51Mm-hmm.
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