00:03all right three o'clock um we're gonna get to a college football thing later in the day
00:08but i want to bring this up you know patrick kane going to chicago again sentimental reasons fine
00:15he's trading in he doesn't want to win any games but he wasn't going to stay here that was blatantly
00:21obvious thought for a second maybe he'd go home to buffalo where he's originally from
00:25he's going where it all started all right cool um but here's the question are we are we sure this
00:33is
00:33still a good job when you really dig into it because i know it's easy for all heads like me
00:39to say it's original six it's hockey town it's the detroit red wings that really doesn't play in
00:45today's nhl and what i mean by that is this hasn't been a free agent destination in 15 years
00:54this is not a zero tax state tax state right um this team does not win then you go to
01:02the farm
01:02system this ballyhooed red wing system here's your problem you have six top 100 prospects but only one
01:08of them resides inside the top 50 so you've got a collection of stuff but you don't have any premium
01:17your best player hates you and wants out you're reading reports today that the organization may
01:23have made this iserman move to woo larkin which good luck because i don't think people are going to
01:30forgive you'll have people upset at larkin if that's the case because look what they did to stevie uh and
01:36there's no indication larkin will rescind his demands and come back like is this a good job you have a
01:45ton of
01:45cap space but nobody will take it you do not have a top six you have one amazing player in
01:53mo sider i'm not
01:55a lucas raymond guy in the way others are but he's a good player and he's on a a very
01:59good deal but beyond
02:01that are we sure because we're sitting here on july 23rd and by the way if you inherit this job
02:11you've done
02:12nothing to get better this offseason of a substantial level it's in the atlantic you're
02:20probably finishing second to last or dead last in the atlantic can i can i just ask the question of
02:27how good is this red wing job not very okay then that settles no no it's it's michael it's it's
02:34not
02:35when you look at everything that's going on the whole larkin thing well let me address that
02:41because i have yet to really hear anybody else talk about any of his teammates
02:46my conspiracy my conspiracy my tinfoil hat okay it's me i wonder if he was the leader of the quiet
02:55revolt we need to move on and it's possible that if the rest of the locker room accepts him
03:04i could easily see okay he's back he's our captain again never should have had to see remove it removed
03:12if it was but i do wonder what did he lead a quiet revolt and it ended up it with
03:18stevie being gone
03:20now for the next gym good luck because this team i told david this i don't think i've ever seen
03:27a team for lack of better words not try for an entire summer they are writing off a year and
03:37it's
03:37it's at least you could be like oh well you're going to see the kids and we're going to bring
03:42up
03:42up who are you bringing up who are you bringing up that i want to see like what excitement would
03:48you
03:48have so no i don't think that this is a good job anymore this is no longer the destination city
03:53you know the the 90s and early 2000s those days are long gone as you say this isn't one where
04:00you
04:00could say well you can come to michigan and not play pay state tax i don't see why anybody would
04:05want
04:05to come here and if you're the next general manager you're looking at at least what at least if you
04:15hit
04:15everything right two years before this team is in the playoffs but probably longer than that so no
04:21i don't see this as a good job well not anymore i don't i don't know about assigning a year
04:26to it
04:27i'd need to see who the guy is how does he how does he run his operation is there a
04:31a boldness i mean
04:33that's what i'm saying if everything falls into line as it sits here right now here's here's where
04:37we could leave it you're not making the playoffs this year no you have the second worst odds in the
04:41atlantic winning the atlantic you have the third worst odds in the east to make the playoff like
04:46you're not making the playoffs so you're i just would love to know where people are at with this
04:50because i it's interesting when you read pieces like this and you're like oh so the organization
04:56chose larkin over steve yikes the town hates larkin what are we doing here now go ahead corbin
05:03i think this job as of right now it's not appealing but it is appealing in terms of the long
05:09-term gain
05:10because whoever the next gm is when they step in and put their imprint on the team because i agree
05:16with you mike this team's not making the playoffs next season or maybe not even the season after that
05:19but if the new gm comes in puts their imprint on it and let's say in i don't know four
05:25or five years
05:26or so then they're the true contender that we know it as then you will be remembered as the gm
05:31who took
05:32a once storied franchise and now a dark period and you did a 180 you finally i don't know how
05:38you get
05:38the players necessary corbin they don't have the prospect pool steve all that ballyhooed you know
05:44people touching their beanbag over his drafting i don't have anything premium that's why i think
05:48it's more long it's more long-term game you you know if any gm is coming into this job thinking
05:54oh
05:54i'm going to make things like that i'm going to change things in a moment you're fooling yourself
05:58then you're setting yourself up for failure shows how bad it is here jason robertson took a one-year
06:02deal he took a qualifying offer he left a hundred million dollars on the table he didn't want to come
06:07here think about that i was telling you that from rip yeah because you talk to certain people
06:14robertson made it pretty well known i ain't going home i don't want to be there yeah so it is
06:20rock
06:21bottom to me oh and by the way you just took the job let's say larkin still wants out the
06:26next
06:26conversation you have to have is with alex to bring it and whether you want to pay him 13 or
06:3014 a year
06:31or are you trading him plus what is to bring it what is any winger on this team where this
06:38is
06:38arguably the single worst team in hockey if you took the center position if you just said center
06:45quality depth of the center position down the middle of the lineup first line second line third line
06:51fourth line power play might be the worst in the league no you're right that's what this is
06:58mike when you're looking at this you're about to walk into historic territory where you're looking
07:04at maybe the 2003 tiger no rico don't say that the owen 16 he has to walk that back the
07:122023 pistons
07:14where they lost 28 in a row i i i come on don't i say you're you're staring at it
07:20because oh my
07:22you haven't really made any moves you're kind of doa right now really is it is it is it that
07:30far
07:30to say that you could belong in that category i think that's far because nobody think about this
07:36before all of those seasons started nobody thought that they were going to be that bad this team is not
07:42showing you anything i don't even have i mean david i i get what he's saying i just i guess
07:47i don't want
07:47to think that way on a 75 and sunny day okay no you're not crazy no they're gonna be bad
07:53i just
07:53it's hard to predict that bad to predict historically bad from a team that let's be real
07:59they were in the fight to make the playoffs but to rico's point if if you're trading larkin and
08:04getting nothing that helps you now kane left the first thing i'm doing is the new gm is i'm probably
08:12trading to brink it so then you would arrive at an interesting point so okay that was uplifting
08:19up next rico predicts when we're all gonna die
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