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Larkin needs to step up the most for the Detroit Red Wings.
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00:03all right i have someone left to do a wellness check i'm brendan shabath not sure what happened
00:08there man things are going great all right let's get to business we hit the rag now stuff so let's
00:20get to the red wings not because i want to but because we kind of have to and um man
00:26it's been
00:26a quotable week in detroit and todd mcclellan basically hit his team with a bus they play
00:33pittsburgh tonight penguins overcome two different two gold deficits last night to dump truck the
00:39islanders i think it was eight three final um again you're playing another team on a back-to-back this
00:46is very similar to the ottawa game except this time this team isn't missing five defensemen but todd
00:51mcclellan um hey not happy and look we can we can talk about who to blame and all this stuff
00:59basically he didn't walk back his earlier comments when he referred to some players as just
01:04jerseys he also talked about we shouldn't have to implore guys to perform he was talking about like
01:13we shouldn't have to be able to extract effort and and and from players this time of year but this
01:18is
01:18where we are look here are all your silos all right we we hey hey farmer mcdonald right i know
01:25that the eiserman silo i know it and i'm tired of it all right nothing i can say now that's
01:30going to
01:31change because i'm done we move on and go okay fine then you got the coaching silo hey todd you
01:37didn't
01:37want to talk about march things and stop doing march things so then the coach wants to pass the blame
01:44onto the player silo and it's well these guys aren't working hard enough these guys aren't
01:50playing hard enough even the other night oh now you're down for nothing to philly now you're going
01:55to try now you're going to play with urgency they did the same damn crap against ottawa right so
02:00here's where i want to do something different for a moment because i i'm completely disgusted with the
02:07whole thing this is a captain issue because ultimately your best players are your best
02:16leaders now you can lie to yourself and talk about the david perron's of the world i mean it's
02:22equivalent what my team used to do with casey sezikis like he was the emotional jesus of the locker room
02:28shut up he's a scrub the whole idea is your captain your first line center your member of team usa
02:36who by
02:36the way looks like a decent leader with team usa but here's the difference with team usa they're all
02:43leaders it's easy they're all leaders here you got to be the guy and i talked about it yesterday with
02:52the lucas raymond stuff that over the last 20 games you haven't performed dylan larkin has been the
02:59captain he has been partisan to these collapses he's been the captain for how long he is not a kid
03:06anymore he is about to be 30 years old tonight is a captain's game okay this is like that uppity
03:14garbage they do at augusta national we're at amen cabin put on your green blazer or be a founder
03:22tonight dylan larkin needs to be a founder tonight crested blazer otherwise i'm taking your crest
03:28and if this team misses the playoffs i'm done with him as captain you can't have it see i i'm
03:36more of
03:36the crest no i'm not just the the larkin i'm more of this is the team mike because the coaches
03:43called
03:44you out multiple times and started with kenny earlier it's now boiling down to just the jimmies
03:49and the joes on the ice the the dillons and the lucases and the mo's like guys go out there
03:55and play
03:56your coach can only give you so much motivation you have to do the rest you have to want this
04:03and you
04:03have to want it in every period not just the third period not just when you're down how about
04:09you come out and you just bury people and then you do it again and you start stacking victories like
04:14it's what every other team is doing around you that's the problem yes rico that's the whole point
04:19like at what point does it become about your captain at what point does it become you know what
04:24we have questions to ask it's not about dylan larkin being bad that's not it but if you're going to
04:28wear the c for an organization like the detroit red wings you have to lead well if todd mcclone
04:34is saying i have to literally bludgeon these guys to play hard am i wrong laying at that at the
04:41feet
04:41no you're not mike because it's this late nine games ago he's saying there's 18 points out there
04:47to be had will you please just go freaking do your job and win some games so you know you're
04:54not wrong
04:54he's pushed every button i think he's tried being good cop and bad cop and it's just not working
05:00now kenny go ahead i think the reason i put this more on larkin than i do mcclellan to begin
05:07with is
05:08mcclellan has a proven track record of being a respected and a decent head coach throughout the
05:13league this isn't a derrick lalone situation where you haven't seen what he's capable of
05:17or a blashel situation where you don't know what he's capable of mcclellan's a well-respected coach
05:22so he's tried the good cop he's tried the bad cop larkin it's it's up to you at this point
05:27to be able
05:27to motivate this team during the most important part of the season every game for the last i'd call it
05:34week or so has seemed like a must win game tonight is no different so that's that's why i said
05:39i'm
05:39done calling it a big game they're all big 100 they are all big games but if larkin can't get
05:44his
05:44team wearing the c the crest to get up for a game like this that speaks to a much much
05:50bigger issue
05:51and that starts with dill marken if now you're taking the crest off his quarter zip i'm tired of
05:56it no i just look man whether it's other teams firing gms whether it's whether it's vegas firing a
06:02stanley cup winning coach with nine games to go and i know the pacific's crap and they wouldn't be
06:07a playoff team in these all these other teams do drastic things how many more years are you going
06:12to just go all right well dylan larkin's our captain is he is he because i'd argue on a real
06:18stanley cup
06:19team he's not a first line center i was about to say the better question is why how many not
06:23he's not
06:23he's not a one c okay so how many collapses for a non-one c guy on a stanley cup
06:29team am i going to
06:30endure before i think we need to make a captaincy change and maybe outright a change of scenery oh
06:36you can't say that why why the problem is is there's a lot of captains throughout the history
06:43of this league that have not been number one players on their own team and that's fine so long
06:49as you can be the locker room guy you can motivate you can show it with your play on the
06:53ice you don't
06:53need to be the best player on the ice you just have to show it you just have to be
06:57able to a motivate
06:58but be lead by example on the ice you might not be the most talent right but this isn't a
07:03lot of
07:03other teams this is the detroit red wings this is one of the greatest organizations shout out our
07:10canadian listeners in in the history of this sport do you want to go down the list of people who
07:15have
07:15worn the sea for this organization the standards the standards much much as they say with clemson
07:21football the standard is the standard and he's not living up to it just call it tonight's a
07:28detroit tonight is a captain's game just like there's founders bars tonight is a game for
07:34captains only if their effort is fugazi again then i don't know what to say man like at a certain
07:42point you got to blame the guy wearing the sea forget fugazi just talk about how this team is
07:48also playing a team on a back-to-back again again second time in a must-have-it type of
07:54a game
07:55with major playoff implications yeah if you can't get your team up to play a hockey game tonight
08:00then maybe you shouldn't be wearing the sea so go ahead let me hear all the unhinged maple syrup
08:06infused hockey nerds be mad at me uh because i offer to take that they can't really argue
08:12this should be split oh i'm sorry you're right we can't talk to them kenny
08:19there's uh the the first of these maple the the the the first of the maple syrup drinking takes
08:27is who is gonna be the next captain so who are you gonna put here i'll tell you mo cider
08:32i agree
08:33how about that anything else nerd i'm tired of larkin he is not a leader you are correct
08:42someone needs to give mcclellan the chair drop audio so he can just use that in press conferences
08:47that's from tony and look he he has if he has the ability to course correct and help this team
08:54and
08:54i just i don't know how we can just whistle by the graveyard when dylan larkin has been partisan
09:02to all of the collapses hell you can be a leader even if you're injured it is part of who
09:09you are and
09:10the culture you build that locker room begins and ends with the captain of the team so all i'm saying
09:18is i'm i'm done if they miss the playoffs i'm done with sacred cows i'm done acting like dylan's above
09:25it all is he no you're right it's easy to be that guy when you're amongst all the other captains
09:31on the
09:31olympic team but when you have to come into and establish something in your own locker room and get
09:37the team motivated and get the team to go out there that's a little bit of work but then again
09:41that's why you wear the seat when you start off by going down four to nothing in these very important
09:46games i mean it shouldn't take two and a half periods for you to play your best hockey at least
09:52mix in a good period once in a while it seems like they're not capable of it and i think
09:57that falls at
09:57the feet of dylan and i mean i blame mcclellan a little bit more i don't love his comments but
10:02he's right and i i think he's been the good cop and the bad cop here kenny i think mcclellan
10:07he's
10:08pulling his hair like i don't i don't understand what do i need to say to you guys to get
10:13you to
10:13understand the ramifications we're not in the playoffs right now we must win games you're not
10:20coming out it doesn't look focused you're falling behind like what else do i need to do but my question
10:26is why do people keep why do fans keep defending guys like dylan market because he's your guy because it's
10:32very scary to admit it's all been a lie it's very scary to admit that the guy you believe it's
10:38just
10:38it's easier to just deny the truth and make excuses like it's it's that it sucks to do that because
10:46right if you admit that it was a lie then it means that you've wasted your time for the last
10:50few years
10:50not just that it means you've wasted your time but also it means that man we got a longer road
10:55ahead
10:55of us than we thought to begin with oh i think that's clear i think that's very clear listen this
11:01team
11:02talent wise they're nowhere close nowhere close so then you go okay well what's our out
11:11i don't know i mean what are you gonna do we just talked about dylan larkin's not a top line
11:17center
11:17all right what are you gonna do they don't grow on trees another sentiment coming in through the text
11:22is if they miss the playoffs just burn it to the ground which i mean i can't i have a
11:27hard time
11:27disagreeing with i wouldn't care at this point i don't think that's realistic i don't think that's
11:32what will happen so therefore i'm not going to waste a lot of energy on it i can't get mad
11:35at it
11:36no no no that's the difference i'm not angry at any fan for saying i've just kind of had enough
11:40let's spin the wheel again i don't know what to say hell you know what's going to send me over
11:45the
11:45edge if because i'm not i'm still not convinced they're missing the playoffs i just i'm not i feel
11:50like okay well i thought they'd win the ottawa game they didn't i thought they'd lose the buffalo
11:54game they didn't that then they got pounded on by the flyers until that comeback all right so like
12:00if they win tonight you're in a three-way tie like they're i know it's not going to be easy
12:06the problem is what just i i i you know i don't care whatever todd is that you i just
12:15don't i'm just
12:17it's you because i just see him in his office saying the same thing like because it's year seven and
12:22it's like all all the times i get yelled at well just wait for this guy to come up wait
12:26for this
12:26guy to come up wait for this guy wait for this wait for this i mean what was it all
12:32for brother
12:33wait till augustine gets here
12:34you
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