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After the loss to the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night. are their playoff chances cooked?
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00:0297.1 Jim Costa, John Jansen, Heather Park, Gov and Greg behind the glass.
00:08We will be talking Kevin McGonigal today.
00:11Officially makes the big league club.
00:12All right.
00:13We got 50 minutes of Brad Holmes to dissect.
00:16He was on a podcast.
00:17He had a lot to say, but we need to start with last night's hockey game.
00:23We have to address what happened last night.
00:26I know.
00:27John, how was your night?
00:28Well, mine was great.
00:30I mean, it was filled with high school baseball and high school softball.
00:35And then listening to Mr. Holmes in my breaks and then watching hockey last night.
00:43I didn't have to be there and endure it in person.
00:47I could change the channel.
00:49I could turn it off.
00:51I could scream and shout, which I know you could as well.
00:54But I could do it in the safety and comfort of distractions of my own home and life.
01:01Yet, you were there.
01:03What was it like?
01:04Yeah.
01:04Look, we're not going to do four hours on it.
01:06So now's your chance to call and invent.
01:08248-539-9797.
01:11And they were venting last night.
01:12The Boo Birds were out down 3-0 in the second period.
01:15That's pathetic.
01:18Game's on a silver platter.
01:20The other team's missing five defensemen.
01:22They've got dudes making their NHL debut.
01:25You have to win this game.
01:27Gotta have it at home.
01:29Pretty damn healthy yourself.
01:30And it's 3-0.
01:33So yeah, boo away.
01:36Let it out today.
01:38Because that, nobody's happy right now.
01:42Honestly, the players can be mad after the game, but...
01:44At themselves?
01:46Yeah, be mad at yourself and that we're doing this again.
01:49Well, and if you heard the update there with Todd McClellan, he said, yeah, they've earned
01:53the right to be frustrated because they did it to themselves.
01:58They've only got themselves to be frustrated with because it...
02:01I'm not going to sit there and say it was on a silver platter.
02:04No, it was.
02:04It was served up as much as you possibly could.
02:09We talked about the Wings keeping their head above water while Dylan Larkin was out.
02:13You're playing a team, as you mentioned, down five defensemen.
02:17And you can't score until the third period?
02:19Look, they may...
02:22They may have opened the game well enough, shooting twice as many times as Ottawa in the
02:26opening period, and you get a goal taken away with the offside, right call.
02:30But then you spiral.
02:32It's like it didn't go your way, and then you spiral.
02:34You play sloppy loser hockey again.
02:38John, guess what their record is this month?
02:41Well, I looked it up.
02:42I think I can't...
02:43Four and seven.
02:44Yeah.
02:45We're doing this again.
02:46I said to you, familiar feeling as we get in here.
02:49And look, it's just not good enough.
02:52Not when the race is like this.
02:55I've been very skeptical that this team would make the playoffs.
02:57I've been out more than I've been in.
03:00And look, if you wanted to say things were going to be different, last night was the
03:03night to prove it.
03:04I don't care about some effort late, too little, too late to come back in the hockey game.
03:09I'll tell you another thing that bothered me last night.
03:12Oh, we're going to fight with eight seconds to go?
03:15And then fans, let's go!
03:19Oh, yeah, let's take our best scorer off the ice and our captain off the ice and fight
03:22when the game's over.
03:24And let's clap for it.
03:25Yeah, let's get them, boys!
03:27Let's get them!
03:32It drives me up a wall.
03:34Like, yeah, let's fight now.
03:36Yeah, I agree.
03:37It's where was that energy end of the first period going into the second?
03:42Finney gets crunched and has to be helped off the ice.
03:45No, no, fight then.
03:46Wait till there's eight seconds to go in the game.
03:47Yeah.
03:48Game's over.
03:51It's unbelievably frustrating.
03:53And we talked about the consequences of losing that game.
03:55And they did drop another spot, you know, behind it.
04:02I feel like I've got to say it because I still feel they're not out of it.
04:08Now, they may not be able to.
04:09We talked about yesterday.
04:10They were two points away from Montreal for being in one of the top three spots in their
04:15division.
04:16All right, now they're four back.
04:17I think maybe that ship has sailed, but they're literally only one point back of that last
04:26wildcard spot.
04:28They've got plenty of opportunity in front of them.
04:30Now, losing that game last night, they didn't take advantage of a moment.
04:34They lost ground because then all of a sudden the Islanders hop in front of you.
04:38They don't get a chance.
04:40That's the one one of the teams that they don't get a chance to play and have a direct
04:43hand in for the rest of this season.
04:46But they're one point back.
04:50Sure.
04:50Do anything for you?
04:51No, it doesn't do anything for me.
04:52I don't even know what I'm looking at right now.
04:54I'm looking at you saying mathematically they're they're in the fight.
04:59Right.
04:59But emotionally, I don't know how you watch this hockey team and feel like they're in
05:02anything.
05:03A playoff spot, a race, the game that you're staring at.
05:06Like, I don't know how you feel like they're in anything right now.
05:09Well, the water officially found its level last night.
05:12If you look at the NHL standings now in the east, it's pretty much by goal
05:16differential.
05:17Right.
05:17All the positives are ahead of the negatives.
05:19You could only be the gaps.
05:22Yeah, sure.
05:23But you can only be phony for so long.
05:24If you're not going to score five on five, if you're going to rely on your goalie to
05:28carry you all season, if your power play is going to dry up eventually, so is your
05:32hockey team.
05:33And it's dried up in March.
05:35And that's why the swoon is happening.
05:36So remember when they had a seven, eight point cushion?
05:39Yeah.
05:40What year was I talking about?
05:41Last year, they had a eight point cushion before they had a nine point cushion.
05:46Here we go again.
05:48John, you said you think there's still a chance until they are.
05:53OK, here's where I come from.
05:55And you all know this until they are mathematically eliminated.
05:58I believe they're going to have a chance.
06:01Now, do I believe that they take advantage of that chance?
06:05Probably not.
06:07Yeah.
06:07And look, I'm not in the mathematical crowd because, look, they could be five points out
06:11with six points left.
06:12And right in your world, you're still alive.
06:15That's not going to happen in my world.
06:17I will agree with you that I still think because they're only one point back.
06:22This is this is it.
06:24I said yesterday, this is the test of changing the narrative.
06:27All right.
06:27Now you got you got two days off and then you got back to backs with Buffalo and Philly.
06:31Get at least three points.
06:32And maybe we're still talking about.
06:34But that's the problem.
06:35When when I when I talk about, hey, they're mathematically still in it, which still gives me hope.
06:41Do we have any hope that they're going to perform against Buffalo in Buffalo?
06:46No, no, no.
06:47So you lose another one.
06:48You lost last night.
06:49Then you lose another one.
06:51And now those odds start to become a little bit longer.
06:54But it also depends on what other teams are doing.
06:57But again, it feels like it doesn't feel like it's been a year where the bubble is is as high
07:01as it's been in a few seasons.
07:03I mean, this is a 98 to 100 point pace.
07:06So let's let's use 100 point pace, which it took in 2022.
07:09It's totally possible.
07:11It takes 100 again this year to get to 100 points.
07:13Guys, let's start doing the quick math.
07:15This team's got to win.
07:18Eight more hockey games, eight more hockey games, Tom, you on 100.
07:21I don't.
07:22The bottom team is not going to have 100 points.
07:25It happened in 2022.
07:26And I got to hear about math today.
07:28The math says it's 100 right now.
07:31I just disagree with you.
07:32I think the bottom team is 85 right now.
07:34You're talking about that team getting more than a point per game.
07:37That's what they've been doing since January.
07:39All these teams.
07:41Somebody's not going to get a point per game besides the.
07:44You know what?
07:45At least two teams can miss in this pod.
07:47The wings and and right now what?
07:49The Islanders.
07:50Islanders.
07:50Yeah.
07:51So great.
07:51The wings and the Islanders won't get their point per game.
07:53You know who will be Ottawa and Montreal teams in this division that have missed the
07:57playoffs, did a rebuild and are successfully playing postseason hockey.
08:00This is the reason why I won't bail yet is it's still 40 percent.
08:04Right.
08:05That's that's four out of 10 times they would make the playoffs.
08:08That's not the worst odds in the world.
08:10Is it favorable odds?
08:11No.
08:12Right.
08:12Am I saying they're going to make it?
08:14No.
08:14But I don't know.
08:16I'm a very competitive person.
08:17Listen, and if I'm this team showing up today, we're going to all look each other in the
08:22mirror and we're going to say, are we going to do something about this or not?
08:26You hear what everybody's saying about us?
08:27They're saying the same things.
08:28You're questioning their competitiveness.
08:31You're almost questioning their manhood.
08:35Like, to me, that is something that could galvanize a room, but it never has.
08:42So I'm talking about something happening that's never had.
08:44But, John, wouldn't you agree with me in terms of, I don't know, you're sitting there and
08:48you're six and six in an NFL season.
08:51You know, I've seen it happen.
08:53Like, I'll go to a team that made a run and got to a Super Bowl and got whacked.
08:57It was the Jim Fossil Giants.
09:00They were six and six.
09:01They were on the table.
09:02Yeah.
09:03One of those wins was against us.
09:05Oh, really?
09:06Oh, yeah.
09:06So trust me, you know, so that's part of why I think you could take average teams and then
09:15all of a sudden, hey, for whatever reason, I don't even care, you make up a reason, they
09:20put a little run together.
09:22Now, is the reputation of this team, is the track record of this team, say that they're
09:28going to put a run together?
09:29No.
09:30The track record, the reputation says it goes the other way.
09:33When you say you're a competitive person, can I get you skates?
09:36I mean, seriously, like the idea of, now they're really going to care.
09:40Now they're really going to take this on the chin.
09:43Because last year and the year before and the year before weren't enough humiliation publicly
09:47for this hockey team.
09:48And that's why I feel like I'm sounding like an asshat a little bit here this morning and probably
09:52getting shredded on text.
09:54Because I'm saying these things that have never been proven to happen with this team
09:58in their DNA.
09:59It's the same room with the same players for the most part.
10:02I don't think Justin Falk's going to come in and say, listen here, guys.
10:06This is how we do it.
10:08Bring it in, boys.
10:09Yeah.
10:09You think you would have heard that from Kane already?
10:12You think you would have heard that from some other guys already?
10:15Right.
10:18Biggest game of the season so far.
10:21At home.
10:23Captain back.
10:25Depleted team.
10:26Gotta have it.
10:28Three nothing.
10:29Boo birds raining down.
10:31Let it out.
10:31Alex in White Lake.
10:32You're on 97.1.
10:35Hey, guys.
10:36How you guys doing?
10:36Good morning.
10:37Good morning.
10:40So, my big thought is on Justin Falk, actually.
10:43Okay.
10:44I was super excited about the trade, but I feel like he looks lost out there.
10:49And he's very lazy.
10:55I watched him last night.
10:57Kind of one of the breakaways that luckily they didn't score on.
11:00I feel like he just slowed up and let the guy go.
11:03Are you talking about the power play?
11:05Yeah.
11:06Yeah.
11:06So, they have the goal taken away.
11:08They bring the second unit out.
11:10They get a bounce that doesn't go their way.
11:12And they're like gliding, watching the shorthanded breakaway.
11:15Yep.
11:17And now, Gibby bailed them out.
11:18But, like, come on.
11:20This is what we're doing in the opening period?
11:23Yeah.
11:23Especially, like, big game.
11:25Big game.
11:27I need you to lay it out, man.
11:31I also, I feel like Detroit felt like they were in their white jerseys last night with
11:37all their passes going straight to Ottawa.
11:39Yeah.
11:40Oh, yeah.
11:40Very sloppy.
11:42I mean, they had stuff for, like, they're leaving the puck for a fellow Red Wing and no
11:48one's there to pick it up.
11:49Guys are slipping and falling.
11:51Like, I'm sorry, is this Bantam hockey?
11:53I mean, John, you said you watched youth sports last night with your kids.
11:56Was I watching, like, might hockey last night at LCA?
12:01Was this a preseason game as they get geared up for the start of the year?
12:05Because it certainly wasn't a, hey, season's on the line tonight kind of fight.
12:10How about the first text?
12:11We used this word recently.
12:13Soft.
12:16Text says it's a soft hockey team.
12:18Softest team I can remember watching in a long time.
12:20I watch our captain get put in a headlock final straw.
12:23Red Wing fans are mad, frustrated, makes me feel better.
12:26What a joke.
12:28Yeah, no, I don't think anyone cares that the locker room's upset after the game.
12:32No.
12:32The entire roster is nothing more than one ply gas station toilet paper.
12:37Ooh.
12:38Fragile, soft.
12:39And this is Iserman's baby seven years in the making.
12:46I said, hey, we got room for you to vent, and then we'll do McGonagall at 635.
12:49It's 97-1.
12:49I said, hey, we got room for you to vent, and then we'll do it, and then we'll do it,
12:50and then we'll do it, and then we'll do it, and then we'll do it, and then we'll do it,
12:50and then we'll do it, and then we'll do it, and then we'll do it, and then we'll do it,
12:50and then we'll do it, and then we'll do it.
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