00:00They made one deal yesterday, and Tom keeps bringing them up as a Dylan Larkin destination.
00:07So, John, I'd like to present a who says no trade for you and for the people.
00:14Then we'll get to you fixing one of our Detroit athletes who's getting a raw deal.
00:17We'll do that at 9.02.
00:20A who says no Dylan Larkin trade involving the Red Wings and the San Jose Sharks.
00:26Okay.
00:27Sharks made a move yesterday to acquire the ninth overall pick.
00:31I'm not quite sure why they did that, unless they have another move in mind.
00:35They currently have two and nine.
00:40John, my trade would be the Detroit Red Wings send Dylan Larkin and Justin Falk to San Jose for Michael
00:49Misa,
00:50their 19-year-old center who they took in the 2025 draft, who's just starting to sniff the NHL,
00:55playing 12 minutes of ice time a game a year ago.
00:57And he was number two overall.
00:58Number two overall pick.
00:59So, we're getting a guy with one C upside who's not there yet.
01:02Might be the best player we could hope to get in a Larkin trade.
01:06And we'll take Misa and nine.
01:09Misa and nine for Larkin and Falk.
01:10It's a move that elevates the Sharks from playoff bubble, mushy middle, to definite playoff team.
01:16It gives the Red Wings a centerpiece back who could be a future number one center.
01:22And you get the number nine pick to kick around to.
01:26Who says no?
01:29Is that it?
01:31We could add some flowery pieces around it.
01:33Is there anything else that they could throw on top?
01:36Because if you look at what else, like just take a look at the Brady Kachuk trade.
01:41Now, okay, it's not going to be the number nine overall pick.
01:43It's not going to be last year's number two overall pick.
01:45But I feel like...
01:47I think that's a better haul than what Brady went for.
01:49Okay.
01:49To me.
01:52Larkin may say no.
01:53San Jose might say no.
01:54But I think this is a great win for Detroit.
01:56And I think it makes sense for San Jose.
01:58Okay.
02:01Now, what is...
02:03Looking at this from Larkin's perspective.
02:05Because I think we've got to take into account, is this a destination that he would want to go to?
02:14Are they poised to make a playoff run and a substantial run in the next year or two at the
02:23Stanley Cup?
02:25Probably not next year.
02:27Okay.
02:28But with Celebrini anchoring their top line, he gets to be the 2C everybody thinks he would be on a
02:33cup team.
02:34Right.
02:34They're in the West, which is a far easier path to the postseason than any of these juggernauts in the
02:39East.
02:41And it would be a little bit like what Quinn Hughes did, where he left Vancouver, understandably, to go to
02:46a place in Minnesota that hadn't broken through.
02:48Right.
02:49But now is much better having added him.
02:55Where's the hang-up in that potential deal?
02:57The only hang-up I see in it, so from the Wings' perspective, from San Jose's perspective, I think it
03:02all works.
03:03As long as they're willing to give up the No. 2 overall pick of last year in Mesa.
03:08And they get to keep the No. 2 this year to put the winger to pair with...
03:11Right.
03:11So they get a jump start.
03:13They're basically taking what they believe Mesa will be in maybe three years.
03:18Take a sure thing now to compete with Celebrini.
03:20Like, yes.
03:24So just out of the playoffs last year, I would think that in the West, it puts him in the
03:33playoffs.
03:33Yes.
03:34And then in a couple of years, Celebrini keeps doing what he's doing.
03:37Larkin does what he does.
03:38They add some more pieces along the way.
03:41They've got the No. 2 pick this year.
03:43Yeah, of course.
03:44And so I would think that they would be interested in doing this.
03:48Because the biggest question is going to be, would Dylan Larkin go to a team that just
03:54missed out on the playoffs that was, I don't want to say a...
04:02They had a worse record than the Wings did this year.
04:07The Pistons ended up with 92 points, and they were at 86.
04:11Both teams out of the playoffs.
04:14And so that's going to be the big question.
04:15Yeah.
04:16So from San Jose, from an organizational standpoint, yeah.
04:20Yeah.
04:20Look, Larkin can kill any deal, which is why it's hard to get too wrapped up in any one
04:25team that's not Minnesota or Vegas, the teams that we know he wants to go to.
04:30Tech says, Larkin says no.
04:32San Jose says no.
04:33Another text, can we include Jemai Jones in the deal as well?
04:36If they can get Mesa back, it's what they absolutely need to do.
04:39I watched him play in Saginaw last year.
04:41When you watch him skate, he's on a different level.
04:44A text says, Larkin is a whiny bitch.
04:47No teams are coveting him, and that's why you see him, everyone else moving and not him.
04:52Nobody wants his drama.
04:53He's a second line center at tops, more of a third line.
04:56He's not a third line center.
04:58No.
04:59And I do think teams want him.
05:03Larkin is Will Ferrell from Wedding Crashers.
05:06Never had to leave mommy's basement.
05:07She probably still laces his skates for him.
05:09He should ask to brink it if the grass is really greener out there.
05:11There's no place like home, Dylan.
05:13You could have been a legend.
05:13Now you're Kevin Durant, Joe, and Fenton.
05:16Yeah.
05:18Well, the difference is Durant was playing for an NBA title in OKC.
05:22Dylan Larkin doesn't even get to play in the postseason in Detroit.
05:25I get why Dylan wants out.
05:26It's his entire career.
05:27It's his fault.
05:28Yeah.
05:29If Dylan Larkin was Kevin Durant, we wouldn't be saying he's a third line center.
05:35Correct.
05:38It would be, I think from San Jose, it would be an interesting question, though.
05:42Yeah.
05:43Would you be willing to give up a player that they know a lot about in Mesa?
05:47Because they've had a chance to have him in the organization for a year.
05:50They obviously took him number two overall for the potential that he could be.
05:54Or are they willing to sit there and be patient, let him continue to develop along with Celebrini,
06:00and then add the number two and number nine overall pick this year to that combination?
06:06Something to chew on.
06:09Because, I mean, we always look at it from, well, yeah, we would do that deal.
06:17But if you look at it from the perspectives of Dylan Larkin, would he do it and go to a
06:22team that was not in the playoffs last year,
06:25not in the postseason?
06:26They're still waiting to get over the hump.
06:27And it was in a Western Conference that was easier to make the playoffs.
06:31Also, would San Jose look at it and say, you know, from their perspective, are they winning the trade?
06:40Or are they at least breaking even?
06:42I'm really curious what they're going to do with this nine pick.
06:44Why did they trade an NHL winger to get the number nine pick?
06:50This number nine has traded hands a couple times already.
06:52It was Florida's.
06:54Yeah.
06:54Then it was Ottawa's.
06:55Now at San Jose, if they could work a deal to go from a team that's just kind of hovering
07:01on the playoff bubble
07:02to actually being a playoff team that can challenge, that's a better use.
07:05Along with taking that number two pick?
07:06And they get to keep, yeah, the two pick in this scenario.
07:10Anyway, we'll get to Soresby.
07:12I know there was a big headline yesterday.
07:13We followed this saga, the supplemental draft.
07:15If teams could pick it, well, they won't be able to pick them now.
07:18The NFL has said we will not hold a supplemental draft.
07:21Interesting.
07:22Taking the easy way out.
07:23What does it mean for Soresby?
07:24We'll get to it next.
07:2497.1.
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