00:10the first of eight goals for the Florida Panthers last night against the Red Wings
00:16hung their goalie out to dry showed their ass embarrassed themselves
00:20Todd McClellan after the game what did he have to say
00:30so
01:09i'm glad that he didn't take the bait of oh what went well this year
01:16i mean i understand the question it's not a bad question but i could certainly appreciate his
01:21answer and i think a lot of red wings fans can as well like we don't want to gloss over
01:26how this season ended we don't want to gloss over any of this stuff and and and we're hope that
01:32we're
01:32not fed a pile of you know what when all of the postseason press conferences are held and oh well
01:39we had more points than we have we you know this and that well if we were in the west
01:43like none of
01:44that matters the fact of the matter is like you showed your ass last night i actually think it
01:51was a bad question and that that's you know it happens i don't have any issue from time to time
01:57to know the time to ask that is that they postseason press conference not after an eight to one game
02:02but it gave it gave me the the sound that i wanted to hear from todd mcclellan no no no
02:08i'm not going
02:09there yeah and it's it's he said a lot without saying a lot yeah you know hey that that's a
02:15team
02:16with championship pedigree pride it it's it oozes throughout their organization it matters to them
02:22even if the score is irrelevant they're going to play hard what does that say about us you know and
02:29they'll do more of a debrief when they clean out lockers and everything but i think he said a lot
02:33without saying a lot yeah uh and i mean throughout the course of the last six weeks we've heard him
02:41be as hard as we've heard a coach on a team in the press and there was no response i'm
02:49sure he's
02:50furious you could hear it in his voice last night and part of that is it's the competitor right he
02:56wants to be in the postseason he wants the guys that he's coaching to play well he wants he wants
03:02success but it but along with a way he also knows if i can't get these guys to play at
03:10a certain level
03:11my job my livelihood my family everything that i'm trying to build is also on the line yep for those
03:20that uh want to be painfully reminded they went 9 and 20 to close the season um
03:29i've said if they were to fire him it would send the wrong message at the same time john if
03:35they
03:35don't feel like he can get to these players and get through to these players do you think this is
03:39his last game as the red wing head coach i don't think it is um because i agree with you
03:44it's it's
03:45the wrong message like okay they went they went they had blashel who you know okay okay that's what
03:51four or five years ago not in a position to make any runs or make any jumps then they go
03:56with
03:56quote unquote the nice guy in derrick lalone that didn't work then they went with the hard ass
04:02in tom mcclellan that's not working like what type of coach what type of personality are you going to
04:10get to coach these guys when does it become about the guys and not the coach so i've been speculating
04:15because of feel and just watching this team and how they've fallen apart the last years that they
04:19have chemistry and locker room issues if you don't think they do last night confirmed it we got this
04:24text that jim said he's not going to talk about the wings until after steve talks when you go out
04:30and do what you did last night and do a complete no show where's the pride where where's the pride
04:38and you know we got an awesome text here i'm sorry jim i'm just gonna go for it comparing that
04:44to how
04:45the lions finished a season in chicago and sure there were a few fans that were upset that they screwed
04:50up their draft pick a little bit by winning that game or how the lions won in green bay a
04:54few years
04:54ago when they knew they were eliminated if you you don't see the night and day difference and this
04:59is from a texter roman made the point i'm stealing his thunder it's a good point that's they've got
05:06significant issues and this thing has got to really be shaken up regardless of mcclellan and eiserman
05:14these this locker room needs to be rocked big time you can't bring back 90 of this room
05:21well that's a no no no that's gonna be misinterpreted i'm not saying you have to
05:24remove 90 okay i'm not saying i'm saying you can't bring back right all but 10 of the roster
05:30right and it only make you know it changes on the margin that's what i'm saying yeah and i don't
05:33mean
05:34you got to remove everybody but two dudes right because you just can't do that in an offseason but
05:38you also can't just swap out one or two guys and say we removed the culture problem and now
05:44we're a tough hard-nosed mentally tough team i've said this for a couple months now i think their
05:48problems are as much if not more so about between the ears so that requires a deeper cleansing this
05:55offseason you know what they played like last night they went into tampa on monday and played a
06:00hard fought game they tried to come back and win they lost an ot they look like they went to
06:05south
06:05beach well hit the links boys your season's over last day of school yeah let's get to heather with
06:13the news
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