00:00all right so obviously red wings won last night was that just like a super frustrating game
00:06because philly's a team playing for something and here's detroit going out and looking great
00:13now just do it now this team it's i got a text thread going with uh with friends of mine
00:23from
00:23all over the country um there's washington dc i've got the south carolina north carolina border
00:31i've got los angeles and then we added in another california and uh somewhere rhode island he's all
00:40what detroit expats yes all right and everybody's commenting on it and we're all in a dark place
00:46and my friend in california has been in a dark place for a while now yeah and the text that
00:54he
00:54starts with are just they're just horrible but he does it partly because it's he thinks it's it's
01:00part of a jinx a reverse jinx if he starts talking ill of the team before it begins then it
01:05changes
01:06so they'll score a goal and he'll he'll even double down on how it's not gonna matter that kind of
01:11yeah uh and then you love those guys i do yeah well with him i know what he's doing it
01:16for an
01:16effect to hopefully you know he thinks it in some weird cosmic way it affects the game um but of
01:22course it doesn't so we're going all back and forth about it last night and you know they end up
01:27winning
01:27the game and nobody really texted during the game like i texted right away when i saw the to bring
01:32it
01:32backhand i'm like that is a sick backhand that goal that he scored to start things off was just it
01:37was awesome and i got no response after that um and then at the end of the game people started
01:45responding whatever and then i said you know what it's just it's just too little too late it doesn't
01:50matter i i love that they won i love that they scored six goals i love that offensively they
01:55dominated they dominated on the power play and then they added a couple even strength goals later
01:59which was nice to see and the defense in front of the goaltender was pretty good last night i like
02:04what i saw and they they they beat a team that wants to play in the postseason and now they're
02:09not going to play in the postseason that's great and then look at the scoreboard 5-1 ottawa it doesn't
02:14matter it just doesn't matter and if you look at the the schedule the rest of the way here it's
02:21it's brutal because they had their chances they had their chances this is the same story we've gone
02:26through over the last four years all these opportunities years ago was well you had those two games
02:32against ottawa at the trade deadline no didn't get it done you had a game against washington at the
02:36end of the season got to get didn't get it done and they had a chance against ottawa uh you
02:42know
02:42earlier this year if you want to look at that or or to to put them away and they just
02:46haven't been
02:47able to do it and now here ottawa is sitting with a three-point lead with three games to go
02:53and all they need to do is get one regulation win and one other point out of these three games
03:01so
03:01if they win two of their three games or they they have it if they win one of the and
03:04this is by the
03:05way the red wings have to have to win out in order for them to even have a chance but
03:10ottawa plays
03:10at the islanders at new jersey and home against toronto well you got two bad teams with new jersey
03:16and toronto and then you got the islanders who not sure what they are don't they just need one
03:21regulation win well one regulation win gets them to 96 points
03:27right so the red wings have a chance to get to 97 sweet if the red wings sweet yeah okay
03:33gotcha
03:33my bad yeah they're playing two teams that are eliminated two of the three games yeah uh two of
03:38the three games are against teams that are eliminated now the their next game is against team is not
03:44eliminated yet correct islanders yeah so this could be a very challenging game for for ottawa and
03:51yet i don't just keeps winning they won their last three they won four of the last five games
03:56against good teams they've beaten buffalo they've beaten carolina they've beaten tampa bay i mean
04:01that's who they've beaten recently i will tell you that it feels like they need a red wing-esque
04:06collapse yeah ottawa needs to assume the personality of the detroit red wings on a very temporary basis
04:14just the next what is it six days and collapse and i'll keep watching right to the end but you
04:23know
04:23last night last night just had a too little too late feeling to it you know like they need too
04:28much
04:29help too much heavy lifting needs to be done by other people exactly and that's what that's the
04:33position that they're in they put themselves in that position by not closing things out i mean they're
04:38going to be kicking themselves all offseason you know having uh big leads late in games and not
04:43being able to close it out or just having a lead late and just go back to the columbus game
04:47the other
04:47night i mean those are the ones that really sting it really stings you can't have that so it's great
04:54to see that dylan larkin had a hat trick last night love it okay dylan larkin is he's not a
04:59problem on
05:00this team and what do you expect like it you and for people i know people get very cynical but
05:05they're in it and they are trying yes it's not like they're not trying and until the until the
05:12the reaper appears they should be giving everything they have yeah they better be and i wouldn't you
05:19want them to yeah and my issue with the game last night was it it kind of typifies what what
05:24the
05:24problem is with the red wings is that all the scoring was done by the top two lines that's it
05:29they
05:30got nothing from the other two lines uh on the score sheet and then mo cider was was brilliant
05:36cider had a goal in four assists most points uh for red wings defenseman since like reed larson
05:41um back in the in the in the day in the early late 70s early 80s um great performance from
05:48from mo
05:48but it just doesn't matter because you're you have this daunting task now i don't i i hope that
05:55they're not listening because they just had the tunnel vision red wings just got to do what they can do
05:58keep winning games right they've got three games left they need to win all three of them if they
06:02higher world right now is the devils yes they're done if they don't win their chances are done if
06:07they don't win a single game if they don't win the next game here but me as a fan i'm
06:11watching it i'm
06:12like it it's just too little too late it's frustrating and then gibson goes out again with an injury
06:18gets uh there's a collision that the net and he leaves doesn't come back talbot does a nice job and
06:24i'm thinking okay well if the season's not done i know they're not going to but they may have to
06:29call up one of these goaltenders in grand rapids uh just as a backup if gibson's not going to be
06:34able to to finish up here and then my head's going do i even give them a start i mean
06:40if they get
06:41eliminated of course i'm going to give them a start but like cosa yeah cosa or or post of a
06:45one of those goaltenders so they've got tomorrow they play new jersey they got tampa monday and
06:54florida wednesday if there is going to be changes made and people fired does it come after the
07:03season's done and does it come before i mean does it come thursday does it come the day after
07:10do they just cut bait and move on and say we're making a change at the top either with eisenman
07:15or mcclellan or both obviously i would think that there would be an announcement made either way you
07:24have to do it right after the season you have to say either you know we're staying the course with
07:29steve eisenman or we're moving on um you know if you're going to move on you got to start your
07:35your search and and identify who the next guy is is going to lead it um if you're going to
07:44stick with eisenman then i think publicly chris illich needs to come out and explain why he wants
07:48to and i'm not against it i i'm not look i don't think steve eisenman's earned his job here as
07:53gm
07:54but there's a big part of me that thinks that they're i'm against it because i'm not for it
07:59because i'm not for it it's been too long it's the same thing every year yeah and and i can't
08:04like i don't yell at people anymore who want to go the other way i sit down and go i
08:08don't have
08:08an argument build a case for steve eisenman and you know i like building cases yeah i i really can't
08:15it's so hard to build the case it's really hard to build the case and the only thing i i
08:20hang on to
08:21left is that okay i want to see his players i want to see him lose with his players or
08:27win with his
08:28players so i need to see danielson and branzic knee guard and i need to see one of these goaltenders
08:33please god let's see one of these goaltenders play i want to see carter bear play i want to
08:38see max plant play and it comes at the expense of a lot of players who are on this roster
08:43right now
08:43that i've just kind of had enough of yeah but it's that's just a it's just well one last vestige
08:51that that i can argue with and i don't think it's a strong argument i think it's a terrible argument
08:55we've we've done that we've done this with with the with the tigers and the pistons where we're
09:02hey hats off to the previous gm you've done some good work and the next guy's reaping the benefits
09:09and that that very well may be the case long term with what's going on but as you just said
09:16it's a terrible argument you can't it's not good i'd love to build a case for stevie but i don't
09:21know
09:22i i would i don't know what i'm missing i'm having a very difficult time separating my fandom
09:29from what reality should be and i admit that i admit that fully i'm not an eiser bot but i
09:36really
09:37like the gm and i want him desperately to succeed and see this thing through and and i do think
09:43that
09:43there are whether he's going to be here or not i think some of these players are going to end
09:47up
09:47being good players and then i think they're going to end up spending big next off season to get a
09:54player on this roster that's better than any player that's on the roster well which could be a whole
09:59different kind of lift it could and it'll be a lot they'll have some money and it'll be but it'll
10:03be
10:04convincing him to come here i mean i remember years ago talking to an agent who's like young like good
10:10young players don't want to come to detroit now is that going to change when the pistons got kate
10:15cunningham people are excited about playing with him i thought captain america uh dylan larkin would
10:20excite some people for the way he plays in the olympics and maybe he will um i know the arena
10:25helps i was told the arena helps but yeah it's amazing when you look at this team that they've
10:31only scored 234 goals this season and i think they rank in the bottom five in the nhl in scoring
10:36and yet they have a 40 goal score and then dylan larkin's got like 36 you know and lucas raymond's
10:43got
10:43done on 24 goals 25 goals or whatever that's all they have though they have two lines of scoring
10:48period this has been some fun blanking hockey talk to open the show 248-539-9797 uh we're going to
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