00:00NHL Network, Sportsnet, etc., etc.
00:03Talking about the Red Wings and Dylan Larkin.
00:06And the fact that Dylan Larkin's price tag is not going down.
00:35Okay, Gator, good.
00:37Yes.
00:37Good.
00:38If you take a look at the top three Red Wing contracts, Larkin, Sider, and Raymond,
00:43all making between $8.7 and $8.075 million.
00:47Considering the money that's getting thrown around, these contracts,
00:51which are all for a long time, at least five years, they seem like bargains.
00:56Well, they are bargains.
00:58In the Larkin situation, he's flat out a bargain.
01:01Not only is he a bargain on the salary cap, he's an even bigger bargain in real money
01:05because the team takes him on.
01:07Part of the contract was already front-loaded.
01:09So you're actually not paying him $8.75 a year.
01:13You're paying him far less.
01:15But for cap purposes, it's $8.75.
01:17Real money purposes, it's less.
01:19Something the Red Wings we're going to have to monitor in this offseason here
01:24is Simon Edmondson.
01:26He's a restricted free agent.
01:28And now that Philadelphia has gone out and thrown that restricted free agent contract
01:34at Leo Carlson for $18 million a season,
01:38you've got to start looking at your own restricted free agents to make sure they don't get poached.
01:41I think there's a sense of urgency to get a deal done with Simon Edmondson.
01:45But as far as Dylan Larkin's concerned, I think this is great news.
01:48Well, and it brings up something that I've been talking about since day one,
01:52and that is I'm still not 100% convinced that anybody is going to meet Iserman's asking price.
02:01And I feel like the possibility of Larkin coming back as uncomfortable as it might be
02:05and with all the fence mending in the world that would need to take place,
02:08I still think it's a possibility Elliot Friedman talked about it.
02:20I don't know.
02:23I don't know.
02:25I don't know.
02:29I don't know.
02:31I don't know.
02:33I don't know.
02:37I don't know.
02:45I completely agree with him.
02:47No trade is better than a bad trade.
02:50And sort it out, man.
02:51It's going to be uncomfortable.
02:52But you know what, Gator?
02:54Have you ever seen a couple get divorced and then get remarried?
02:58Yes.
02:59It happens.
03:00It happens.
03:02Doesn't mean it sticks the second time around, but I've seen it happen.
03:07And then poorly right after that.
03:09But yeah.
03:12Yes, I am.
03:13Just saying.
03:15I have always been of the belief that I think this gets done and he gets traded.
03:22However, in my heart, I don't want Dylan Larkin to go.
03:25I want there to be a reconciliation.
03:27And I want there to be a reconciliation because Iserman is working on everything else
03:31to make this team better.
03:32And he's found a way to lure or find a trade with some other team to get a big player
03:38back
03:39without having to move Larkin in the first place.
03:41And then he can present that to, or at least Dylan in his camp might come back to Iserman
03:47or vice versa and try to find a way to make this work.
03:50And craft this speech and a statement that's going to make both sides look good.
03:56Like the Wierenski situation last week, where both Columbus and Zach's camp came together.
04:01They crafted out a statement and it actually made me feel like, oh, I can deal with that.
04:07Right?
04:08There was a misunderstanding.
04:09Look, I love being here.
04:11I love the fans.
04:12I love the team, the organization.
04:14Something like that.
04:15Whatever happens, happens.
04:17I don't think that's going to happen, but there is room for it to happen.
04:21But I would like to see the Red Wings get aggressive and bring somebody else here that has nothing
04:25to do with Dylan Larkin to make this team look good and look even better if you keep
04:31doing upgrade the roster to make Larkin happy.
04:33I mean, and who would be against that?
04:35Right.
04:36I mean, I think some people have burned the bridge and say, I don't want any part of
04:39Dylan Larkin.
04:40I've gone from 20% to 45% to 50%.
04:43I think it's a flip of the coin that he is back.
04:45Now, what do these percentages mean that I'm putting on this?
04:48They mean nothing, but I think I am open to the idea that this is just the reality that
04:53they may have to navigate a player that asked the captain that asked for a trade that he
04:58couldn't trade because nobody would meet the asking price.
05:01And by nobody, I mean anybody on what appears to be a four to five team list that Larkin has
05:06approved.
05:08And no, I agree firmly.
05:10And I think everybody would.
05:11No trade is better than a bad trade.
05:16More from Elliot Freeman.
05:17All right.
05:17So given recent developments, what is the asking price now for Dylan Larkin?
05:38I find it actually kind of amusing, Scott, when I see on social media that when the report
05:45got out there that the Red Wings were interested in Matt Boldy from the wild, that the wild side
05:52was scoffing at that.
05:53And I'm like, okay, dude, we're not asking you for Boldy.
05:58You're asking us for Larkin.
06:00Right.
06:00Exactly.
06:01Like if you have to find some way where the players work.
06:05And I think 100% of you're Steve Eisenman, you're trying to get the best player or player as you
06:11can for this giant trade chip that you have.
06:15And in some ways, you know, if you just look player by player, if you look at Larkin to
06:19Robertson, for instance, Jason Robertson from Dallas is a restricted free agent and looks
06:24like they're going to arbitration there.
06:26If you look at those players straight up, Robertson has had a nicer career.
06:30He's had a hundred point season.
06:31This guy scored 40 goals in a year.
06:33And those are things Larkin hasn't done, but he's going to cost nearly twice as much.
06:40Does that kind of even things out?
06:42I mean, like initially you're probably thinking, oh, well, to get Robertson, if you're in trade
06:46Larkin, do you have to get Larkin on a first round pick to get Robertson?
06:49Well, wait a minute.
06:49Not necessarily because you have to take the money into account.
06:53You can get another player because you traded for Dylan Larkin because he's half the cost.
06:58So yeah, the Red Wings are going to be out there looking for a stud player in return as
07:04they should.
07:06All right.
07:06And finally, what does all this mean for Alex to bring it?
07:10Is there any impact on his impact on his future in Detroit going into the final year of
07:14his contract?
07:31Okay.
07:48Okay.
07:49With him under contract for one more year, I'm not sure I see a possibility of them moving
07:55to Brinkett and also keeping Larkin happy.
07:58Like if they, if they are moving towards, we're not getting the offers and they're just,
08:04I don't think the Brinkett is even should be on the market in any way whatsoever, just
08:09because you're going to have to, one of the reasons nobody's met, if Larkin's full motivation
08:14is he just wants the Red Wings to be competitors and he doesn't think they're going to get there.
08:18And then all of this, at the end of all this, it forces Eisenman to get it, make an aggressive
08:22move that makes him better.
08:24We can all get over it and just be happy with a better hockey team.
08:27Yeah.
08:27I don't want to move Alex to Brinkett.
08:29I think he is everything that, that fans love about hockey.
08:33And this guy is, he's, it's, it's, he's the underdog, right?
08:37He's undersized, but plays way bigger than what he is.
08:39He puts the puck in the net.
08:41He is gritty.
08:42He is determined.
08:42He does all the little things.
08:44Love Alex to Brinkett.
08:45I don't want to see this guy go.
08:48Um, I think the Red Wings need to do something bold.
08:53We've said it for a while that Jason Robertson stuff that was out there would love to see
08:56that make an effort to try to get Jason Robertson.
08:59And maybe they have made that effort.
09:00Who knows?
09:01Is that all tied only to money?
09:03We'll find out.
09:05But this move that the Flyers made over the weekend to acquire Leo Carlson from the Ducks
09:10and Leo Carlson, young player in this league had just finished the season point of game
09:15season with, with Anaheim and they've signed him to an offer sheet for $18 million a season.
09:22Leo Carlson now will be the highest paid player in the NHL.
09:27There are other restricted free agents out there where the, the prize going the other way
09:33ends up being four first round draft picks.
09:35If you sign one of these top restricted free agents.
09:38Well, remember the name Connor Bedard, number one player taking the draft a few years ago
09:43to Chicago play right away as an 18 year old.
09:46Everyone was saying, Oh, he's the next big thing.
09:48The next big thing.
09:48And it looks like he's going to be the next big thing.
09:51Last year, he had a little bit of a breakout in his third season in the league.
09:55He had a 30 goal season.
09:56This high, he had 45 assists, 75 points in 69 games, all highs.
10:02Would you give up four first round picks to sign Connor Bedard to a deal?
10:06That's going to pay him say $15 million or $14 million a season.
10:10Now would Chicago match it?
10:11They damn well should, but I'd love to see the Red Wings get aggressive in that form and
10:17go get a guy, a young center.
10:21Much like what Philadelphia is trying to do here.
10:23I do the same thing with five of the Red Wings.
10:25It's Connor Bedard.
10:26He's got nobody to play with there.
10:28He's playing with Tyler Bertuzzi and that's it.
10:32He comes to Detroit and plays with a couple of the young wingers we have here or plays
10:36with Alex DeBrinckit.
10:38Good God.
10:39Let's watch the points go up.
10:41I'd love to have Connor Bedard.
10:42Give up four first round picks.
10:43Wouldn't think twice about it.
10:45And again, all that thanks to Elliot Freeman and the 32 Thoughts podcast, the latest Dylan
10:49Larkin Trade Center news, aggregate blitz thingy news desk.
10:52It is Carson Anderson here on 97.1.
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