00:04that's the lasting image of the weekend
00:06you got a local team
00:08booed off the ice
00:10as the season comes
00:12to a close
00:15the most Red Wings way to do it on
00:18fan appreciation day
00:19you're booed off the ice
00:23thank you fans
00:24for your support 100 years
00:26of historic hockey
00:29loud
00:30fed up over it
00:33John
00:34I know you're not a big booer
00:36but I'd imagine even you're on board
00:38with that crowd reaction
00:40I don't know that I would have
00:42I probably would have just
00:44thrown my hands up
00:45I probably wouldn't even have been there
00:47by the end of the game
00:49because it was
00:53especially if you take
00:54the context of the last three years
00:56into account
00:58and what has gone on this year
01:00you go from
01:02first
01:02in your division
01:05what two months ago
01:06January 24th
01:08first place
01:09in the Eastern Conference
01:10and then
01:11you are
01:13out
01:13and
01:15in the game
01:16you have a lead
01:17you lose a lead
01:18you have the lead
01:18you lose a lead
01:19you have it again
01:21and you lose it
01:23it just
01:24it was an agonizing way
01:26to end
01:27an agonizing season
01:29and
01:29they still have two more to play
01:33yes
01:34they have to play two more hockey games
01:35you don't have to watch or care
01:37I think that was fans
01:38venting a lot of frustration
01:40that's been built up over years
01:41and while
01:42I'm exhausted
01:43and you may feel exhausted
01:45today is a day for you
01:46you guys are fed up
01:47you booed this team off the ice
01:49so there's a lot to discuss
01:52why it happened
01:53and where you go from here
01:54but I actually think
01:55we should play some
01:56Todd McClellan audio
01:57because here's a guy
01:58who's not making excuses
01:59and a guy who
02:00understands why the fans did it
02:02and I think
02:18and I think
02:31you
02:44he's right that's what they earned i will forever use inside noise i love that so much
02:51it's inside noise it's people who love you and paid money to show up and watch you in spite of
02:58your repeated failures that's not outside noise that's inside noise and if you can't handle it
03:04that says more about you because you've earned it if you don't want to be called soft chokers
03:10don't play soft and don't choke you know what i'm saying if you don't want to be known as a
03:15team
03:15that collapses when the pressure's on here's the theory don't don't so look when you go from first
03:23placed in the eastern conference to out of the playoffs in a span of called 25 games when you
03:30lose two-thirds of your games from late january on and you're talking about outside noise
03:36um you got some big problems uh and mcclellan probably understands more the questions he was
03:43getting throughout the month of march more so now than he did at the beginning and he may handle it
03:49if he's back the same way next year in regards to just the disgust that he kind of had of
03:56always
03:56getting those questions but i do think when you're talking about that inside noise that's all part of
04:01it those questions were part of that inside noise what happened on saturday was part of that inside
04:07noise it's a disgust for 10 years and you nailed it at the beginning of the season the double digits
04:15of not being in the postseason and being in a position for the last let's just say three years
04:23where they they very well should have and could have been in the postseason
04:32first text cookies finally predicted a disco congratulations jimmy that's from roy and clarkson
04:38somebody finally made you right the only time i'm right is when my favorite team goes on a decade
04:43dormant stretch of playoff hockey and look a proud historic juggernaut 11 stanley cups
04:49and they are the laughing stock of the league this is 10 straight years longest active drought and for
04:55anybody who's tried to play that this is just how it works in hockey this is the fourth longest drought
04:59in the history of the sport do you think the other teams all won stanley cups one did florida
05:05right but it's not a gimme it doesn't have to take this long how many other cup teams
05:09won without a 10 year drought the vast majority of them so this isn't normal this isn't acceptable
05:16i'm proud of the fans you know i wasn't there i was out of town i love that those fans
05:20rained down angry booze not not for a second or two john it felt like damn near 30 seconds of
05:26just
05:27booze and then they came out late to you know honor paul woods and the fans don't know what they're
05:31doing they want to boo him again yeah because they're so upset at this hockey team because they care
05:37and because they they feel like they're let down repeatedly so as we transition into where we go
05:42from here and why this happened like i really hope the diagnosis isn't we just need to get better in
05:47the bottom six because i've seen some of that hey if they just get a little tougher in their bottom
05:51six
05:52and they're a deeper hockey team you don't blow two-thirds of your games from late january
05:57and have it just be a question of if we had a third line winger who could you know finish
06:01some checks
06:02we'd be in the playoffs you got bigger issues between the ears and if you want to talk talent
06:06they need they need some upgrades in the top two lines they need a real number two center they could
06:12use someone to play the left side on the top line and john how are they going to address it
06:16well those
06:17guys aren't in free agency right so you're going to have to trade prospects to get those kind of
06:22players well i think that leads you to the next question is is this the last year what are they
06:31going
06:31to do this off season we have no idea right um because this technically this regular season is
06:37still not done we won't know or hear much of anything about plans until the end of the week
06:42maybe even next week i would guess friday i don't have any intel um but it's it's the lack of
06:48faith
06:49that i think this fan base now has that they're going to be able to do anything to to to
06:57address any
06:58of the issues that you talked about yeah so let's let's say it i mean the eiser plan you can't
07:02tell
07:02me it's worked so at 10 year playoff drought he's been here for seven do you trust that he's going
07:07to
07:07uproot his prospects to get star contributors this off season and if not the alternative is just keep
07:14banking on the development of young people and and just fingers crossed that they become a stanley cup
07:20team i mean that's the other thing mcclellan said we're not even talking about a stanley cup
07:23you can't even get the playoffs and it's again you go back to the faith that you have in any
07:30part
07:30of the franchise the guys that are on the ice the guys that are making decisions and are they going
07:36to be able to say hey drafting developing it's not getting it done for us we're not getting there are
07:44we going to deviate from the plan that was originally in place and make some moves that are impactful if
07:54their thought is well danielson will be up next year in a full year of pelica and emmett finney was
08:00a
08:00you know appealing piece as a seventh rounder and these guys will get better and we'll have nbn up on
08:05the roster next season he's going to get a couple games here to close the year and coso will be
08:09our
08:09number two goalie and our solution is simply to just backfill with our guys this same motley crew
08:16running back with more youngsters i don't have any faith that they're going to break through
08:20i don't know how you can look a fan in the eye and tell them that so look if you
08:24want to upgrade
08:25down the middle because they were terrible five on five team you want to upgrade down the middle
08:29those guys aren't available in free agency and teams aren't giving them up and they know you're
08:34desperate so we'll take all those young people you're excited about for you to roll the dice on a number
08:38two c that's the position the red wings have put themselves in i think one of the big things
08:43that's happened here too in the last two years is that you've had three divisional teams pass you
08:47ottawa montreal and now buffalo yep why is it working for them and it's not here
08:57seriously that's very indicting there's no defending what's happened here there aren't any defenders by
09:03the way there used to be some good spirited like eiser bots versus you know the the people who
09:08were critical i don't really see anybody sticking up for him anymore no it's a tough situation you
09:14know i i maintain and it's hard to defend i i go back to the harbaugh thing i i thought
09:20he should
09:20have got that chance and it paid off however you want to critique how that all went down and i
09:26feel
09:26the same way about eiserman that the right guy got hired but significant changes have to happen much
09:33like jim harbaugh this is longer though than harbaugh it is inherited a probably a worse
09:39situation and it takes a little longer in hockey but even if you add years of grace this is seven
09:45yeah how many years of grace does a guy get
09:49i don't envision they're gonna make a change i don't
09:54which i'm sure is going to sit well with people 248-539-9797 we'll get some phone calls some
10:00feedback you boot this team off the ice we want to hear from you why did it go wrong and
10:04where do
10:04they go from here it's 97-1
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